Thursday, May 31, 2012

Building Traffic To Your Site Is How To Make Money Online

Web Words by the Bulk

Building traffic for your online business site is paramount if you have a dream to make money online. Your Web-based business must have traffic, and traffic comes primarily from Internet marketing.

Content is crucial to a successful business Web site, whether you work from home at your own online business or you’re the head of a large brick and mortar global enterprise. People come to the Web to get something for nothing, and most of the time what they want and expect is information. Writing articles or publishing articles written by others are two key factors in how to make money online.

If you find that your online business Internet marketing thrives from the free articles you offer and you want to buy them in large quantities over an extended period of time without paying a hefty per-article fee you might want to look into article memberships. What these companies offer are hundreds of articles each month for a set fee. They all limit the number of members allowed in the club, thus assuring that the article you publish to your business Web site won’t appear a couple of thousand other places as well. Your work is not done when you pay the fee and choose the articles however. What’s very important with these article memberships, if they are to get you the best Internet marketing results and help you in building your site’s traffic, is that you alter them enough to give them your own flavor and your own branding.

You’ll have the right to rewrite these articles any way you see fit, and generally you can even resell them to others if you wish. The point, however, beyond offering free content to consumers, is that you put yourself forward as the expert, and that you grow your brand through these articles. It doesn’t take a lot of alteration, either. A change of a few words here and there, the injection of some ideas specific to your industry and even your firm, and a few key words specific to what you offer and you’ve branded the article to your online business and helped your marketing via the Internet.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Seo - Copywriting For Results

In order for a website to have good results in the search engine results it needs to have a number of key elements.

The first element is copy, without much copy your website will never rank anywhere.

This is because search engines have programs called spiders which go out and scour the web – they read and index text.

The spiders cannot read pictures, flash or pretty designs. Many website owners or website designers are obsessed with creating sites that look good. Unfortunately, a great looking website with no visitors is worse than a bad looking website with lots of visitors.

As previously mentioned search engine spiders recognise certain text, this text is called “Keywords”.

Keywords are individual words or phrases that you would like your website to rank for.

Now everyone wants their website to rank for single words like: “Watches”. However, this is not suggested because single word phrases are too generic and competition is fierce for single word search terms.

So, apart from not being able to rank for the word, you won’t get the right type of customers ringing you.

Instead of people wanting to buy a cheap watch, you will get people ringing you wanting to buy a Rolex.

The best advice is to go after two or three word search terms that are specific to your business.

Now chose as many keywords as possible and spread them throughout your website text. I would suggest repeating your primary keyword phrase at least five times throughout your copy. The ideal number should be between ten and twenty times.

Your website should be content rich, you need it to have many pages with text that has your keywords spread throughout your website.

There is one last formula that you need to consider and that is keyword density.

This is how many times your keywords appear on a page.

For example: If you have 300 words on a page, and your keywords appear 50 times your keyword density of 15%. I would not suggest having a keyword density of more than 20%.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Joining A Forum- What Does It Really Mean For Businesses?

I can’t say enough about forums. When you are working from home the feeling of isolation can be lethal. It can dampen your drive towards success. It can promote a sense of incompetence that can be crippling. If you are like me and don’t care for those online conversations and marketers calling your house then isolation can be a real trap. You wil find yourself doubting for no good reason. You have all the skills and abilities to succeed but are working in an environment that does not pat you on the back. There is no one there to say “Great Job!” when you’ve just gotten a new contact or written a top notch article. Forums are one way to beat the isolation.

Doubt is the biggest business killer there is. People start to doubt themselves their programs and quit just before the turning point. Forums are a way to beat the doubt and meet business owners like yourself who have wisdom and experience on their side. People who offer advice freely for you to take or leave, no strings attached.

Forums help build relationships and relationships are key to any business. No one wants to buy from someone they don’t know. They want to buy from people they now and trust, people who they can contact if they need help with the product. People want guarantees and relationships can forge that bridge.

Forums are also one way to get your business some advertising and exposure. When you join a forum you have the opportunity to attach a signature to each of the posts you make. When your post appears on the site so will a link to your business. This is a fantastic advertising opportunity. Not only will these people be getting to know you and you them but they can also check out your business through your link. Talk about multiple benefits!

I have been meeting fascinating people with some of the same problems, doubts and experiences. I have been building relationships and making friends. I have been building my business and making money. All this from a forum- who knew? Now you do! I recommend free forums like Conquer Your Niche and Warrior Forum.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Great Tips To Help You Find Products To Sell

Finding products to sell is fundamental to those who have Internet stores, auction sites, or sell through stores such as Amazon or Ebay. However, it may be difficult to determine where you will find those products to sell.

There are a number of different ways to find products to sell as well as many scam artists who like nothing more than to prey upon unsuspecting but well-meaning storeowners. Whether selling online or in your hometown, you need to check out every wholesale company or drop shipper with the Better Business Bureau and Rip Off Report to make sure you are only dealing with reputable companies.

Drop shippers are invaluable to those who sell products over the Internet. Drop shippers are companies that store product inventory and then mail them to your customers, without you needing to first purchase and store the products. To make sure that the drop shipping company you are dealing with is legitimate, sends products on time, and hasn’t been accused of unscrupulous tactics, double check their record with the BBB. Many times, dropshipping companies will charge a yearly fee before allowing you access to their products. You can find dropshipping companies that won’t charge you this fee, but you must be diligent in your search. Also, you should never have to pay for a list of drop shipping or wholesale companies. You can find them on your own and not pay anyone a dime.

One way to find dropshipping and wholesale companies is to check in your local area. Having contact with a company that you can talk to in person can bring great peace to your online business. Look in your local yellow pages for various wholesale companies and contact them about their dropshipping practices. You can also purchase items from them at wholesale costs and ship them yourself, bypassing the need for a dropshipper completely. However, if you feel that your company is best served by a dropshipper, then you should find a reputable company that distributes the products you are interested in selling and then inquire about a dropshipping program.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Die Casting: The Process And The Techniques, Part 2

There are several secondary steps which may need to be taken once the casting is removed, such as removing excess metal and smoothing rough surfaces. However, die casting can create pieces of metal as thin as 1mm wide in these four simple steps, which makes it a more economic process than using stamping presses or machine tools that require the operation of multiple pieces of large machinery for metalwork.

The Life of a Die

A die casting die is built to do several things, each of equal importance, and quite often the die itself cannot produce a completed final product. While a die holds the liquid metal inside itself to create a cast, there also must be a place for the metal to enter the die and reach the inside. This means that when the metal cools, there will be small pieces of unwanted metal attached to the final cast called flash, which will need to be removed by hand or secondary machine.

Hydraulic presses can be used to remove the flash or scrap, while an older technique is to just saw off the flash by hand. A casting may need to be sanded or ground down to remove mold lines, and if any extra holes for screws or undercutting is necessary, this must be done outside of the die as well.

Die casting machines can apply a clamping force that ranges from 100 to 4,000 psi, and are typically divided into categories according to the type of metals they can cast. Hot chamber dies can cast metals with lower melting points, such as zinc, while cold chamber dies cast metals with higher melting points like aluminum.

Die casting dies typically have a lengthy lifespan, however over the course of several hundred thousand heatings and coolings, the dies' properties may begin to shift and weaken. Dies which make castings from aluminum and its alloys tend to have a shorter lifespan, simply due to the temperature required to make aluminum casts, while cold chamber dies tend to last almost indefinitely. Die sets for casting brass objects are extremely short-lived, and need to be replaced frequently, regardless of the strength of the cast.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

2007 And Content Is Still King

Now that you have created your website, there is still one very important element that has to be added. To put it simply, the visitors to your website are looking for one thing - information. There may be some people on this Information Superhighway that are strictly shoppers. However, for the most part, people are seeking information.

If you happen to be selling a certain product, you need to have content that is relevant to it. You need to concentrate on building a large audience for your articles. This will translate into more sales, which means more profit for you. However, if your content is not written correctly or really has no meaning, then your potential customer will simply try to find another site that meets his or her needs.

If you have a flair for writing, then writing your own content may be something for you to think about. It will definitely save you money but probably not time. It takes time to write a very good and convincing article. If you find that you are not cut out for writing your own content or that you just do not have the time, you may want to think about hiring a freelance writer to work for you. You may also want to think about purchasing speech recognition software. This will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to complete an article.

You may also want to consider purchasing Private Label Rights' or PLR articles. They can greatly enhance your website with excellent content. You can purchase these articles and then change them around to suit you and put your name to it. This is becoming a very hot selling item today.

You must also know that the content on your website has to be updated on a regular basis. You can write many articles all at once, but you just have to make sure that they are released on a regular basis. No one likes to see a website with stale content.

You must have good content to keep your visitors coming back to your website. Whether you write the content yourself or outsource the task fresh content is very important. As you can see, content is still King!

Friday, May 25, 2012

Top 10 FREE Traffic Generation Tips

The reason that most people fail online is that they simply can not attract enough traffic to their web site and as we all know, No Traffic = No Sales.

So just how can you get more traffic to your web site and how much is it going to cost you? The answer is zero, zilch, nada, nothing, also known as “Free”. So here they are, my Top 10 FREE Traffic Generation Tips:

1. Write and submit articles. Write quality unique new articles, not articles that are rehashed or provide no insight to readers.

2. Write and submit press releases. This is nearly as good as publishing articles.

3. Write and ping blogs. Always link back to your website with your blog posts. Make multiple blogs and have them all link back to one primary site.

4. Make sure that your web site is listed in DMOZ: http://dmoz.org

5. Advertise your web site in the appropriate categories on http://craigslist.org. Post your ads in the largest most populated cities in the world.

6. Use your signature (with your web site URL) in niche related discussion boards and forums that you frequently visit if they allow signatures.

7. Review related products on http://Amazon.com. You can try and direct some customers to your web site from your competitors by providing your own web site URL if the product is similar.

8. Review websites in your niche on http://Alexa.com to try to direct some of their traffic to your web site by including a reference back to your site.

9. Review some related products on http://epinion.com

10. If you buy a product that you actually like, then leave a testimonial (with your web site URL). You should get some traffic from that web site if your testimonial is left with a URL.

These traffic generation tips are provided to you courtesy of John Spohr, M.S.M. of The Wealth Formula and EDC Gold.

Also see “8 Ways to Promote Your Business or Website”.

This upcoming article will additional offer tips on the best way to promote your site free or very inexpensively.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Retail Business Can Boost Their Profits!

A retail business is hard word. You have to open and shut the business at predefined times and always make sure that you have the right number of staff present so that the customer gets great service. How do you boost your profits?

I ran a retail business for five years over 15 years ago. Then I sold it and started supplying packaging to manufacturers. Now I run an internet based business. The following is how I boosted the business in my retail outlet.

One of the best ways to boost profits is by having the right technology and software in place. I find it staggering that many small business owners do not even know how much stock they have at any one time.

By linking your till to the right computer and software package you will know:

1) How much stock you have any one time
2) How much dead stock you need to get rid of
3) The exact margins you are making

By buying cameras and anti theft equipment you will greatly reduce the amount of pilfering that normally goes in the retail trade and remember to cover your storage area where goods are delivered. It is estimated that half of all stolen goods go out the back door! Now that technology is so cheap, it does not make sense not to have a decent system.

Have you considered expanding your sales area by reducing the size of your stock room? Once you have the right technology in place you will not need so much stock. Your high street premises are far too expensive to use for stock anyway. Renting a cheap lock up and keeping slow moving lines there will mean that you have now got a much larger sales area!

Moving location can also work wonders to the bottom line. We all have heard of location, location, location… but how many businesses do you know that once they have started never move?

Keep your eye out for your ideal location and if it comes up for sale / rent make sure you get it.

By making the right changes now it is possible to enhance the profitability of your retail outlet.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Make Your Web with Extra Affection

India has been buzzing with a number of such IT projects that have been Buzzing with a number of such IT projects that have been outsourced to the country since the past few years. And comparing with other web site organization Web Design Delhi plays a vital role for develops the web site.

Web Design Delhi Company (e-Fuzion) too has seen several such projects being outsourced to it from various countries around the globe. Often wondering web design needs on your own hire someone else to do it, or use a blend of both? Simply put, the need for outsourcing arises when it makes better business sense to do so. This implies getting the same work done by professionals based in Delhi. Web Design Delhi Company (e-Fuzion) is fully equipped to handle your needs. Before we even draw up the first design on the board, l we try to understand your requirements, specifications, the environment your company works in and the communication needs. That’s how we tailor make solutions that suit your needs and that too at a fraction of the cost. This way you can concentrate on your core competencies leaving the web designing solutions from e-Fuzion. Web Design Delhi Company (e-Fuzion) qualifies offshore web design solutions that suit your website business requirements in a cost-effective manner. Partnering with the clients to understand their needs, transparency operations, emphasis on communication, high degree of commitment to the project and timely delivery ensures that the Web Design Delhi Company (e-Fuzion) solution needs through your viewpoint. We always combine the best of the technologies available with your needs to deliver a solution that suits your requirement best. E-Fuzion provides all the facilities with very low cost of amount, regarding the costing projects Web Design Delhi Company (e-Fuzion) differs its type of costing as per our clientele needs. The web designing Delhi Company suits for web development. E-Fuzion has array of web development work and want to outsource web design and development work can hire a dedicated web designers and programmers at a fraction of cost what you might be paying to your employees.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Product Manufacturing In China - Friend Or Foe?

Do you think that Henry Ford would have imagined that in a few decades from revolutionizing industry, we will have a global economy with a global workforce?

Perhaps one of his most valuable visions was his understanding of industry, but today in our world of manufacturing so much of our products are manufactured with parts from all over the globe. It is difficult to purchase a single product today that was manufactured 100% in the USA - or solely in any other country for that matter.

Manufacturing in China has taken the manufacturing industry by force. With low cost labor and world class factories it is a very viable country to consider when thinking of manufacturing your product. Large corporations have taken advantage of this for many years but with the right contacts and infrastructure smaller firms can now also reap the rewards of manufacturing in China.

Dallas-based manufacturing consulting firm, Global Manufacturing Services works with small-to-mid size firms in the USA who desires to take their product to China for manufacturing. They have a pre-established network of factories in China in a multitude of industries. They work with US-based business from Design-to-Delivery and make it possible for the everyday-USA smaller firm to also get their product manufactured in China with great cost savings.

China is a very appealing country for international manufacturing of all industries, while some countries in the Asian region have found a more niche market. India and Pakistan are more powerful into textiles at this point of time, but still a viable options for global manufacturers.

Although globalization has brought American countries lower wages and lower cost to their manufacturing needs, we have to consider the impact it has to our local economy. More manufacturing needs are being shifted offshore and less manufacturing jobs are being filled on the mainland USA. But when businesses save cost, they can now pass those savings onto their customers in a win-win situation.

Monday, May 21, 2012

How To Get Targeted Traffic

The key to succeeding online is traffic. Every online business will fail if they cannot get visitors to their site. There are thousands of opportunities to start your own business online but if you don't know the first thing about getting traffic you are doomed from the word go.

The first thing you need to know about getting targeted traffic is that it is not as easy as everyone says it will be. there are free traffic exchanges, pay per click advertising opportunities, blogging, article writing, and press releases to name a few. None of these will make much of a difference is you don not understand the basics of how to get targeted traffic.

What not everyone knows is that in order to be successful online you need to have a website that is attractive to search engine. Why? Because if it does not attract enough attention to itself it will end up buried at the bottom of literally millions of more attractive (at least to search engines) sites.

You want search engines to like your site because when they do they put you at the top of a search that is related to your site thus bringing your site to the attention of the online public and bringing you the most targeted traffic. How does your site become attractive to search engines? Backlinks. And not just any backlinks, relevant backlinks. The more related backlinks your site has the more popular your site will be and the higher it will rank in searches.

To get quality targeted people to your sites you need to build your backlinks. You need backlinks that tell the search engine that your site has the most information on a particular subject to offer the online searcher.

If you have a website that is selling fishing lure and you include backlinks from sites that offer products or information on a completely irrelevant topic, the search engine will conclude that you really aren't the most relevant site for the searcher. You aren't the expert and so they will offer a site that has more targeted information than yours. Therefore the site with the most targeted backlinks will get the most targeted traffic.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Adsense Arbitrage Competition: Beating Top Adsense Arbitragers At The Game!

Yes, Adsense Arbitrage Is Popular..

There are no numbers available as to how many Adsense Arbitrage people are getting this kick in the gonads from everyone's favorite monopoly. The majority of those claiming to earn in excess of $500 per month per web site from adsense were running just a simple one-page Adsense Arbitrage website!. Yet you can train in the use of the most powerful online marketing tool known to man which also happens to be free.

Avoiding the Ads Phobia!

Because of this "AdPhobia" you have to get a little crafty. These Adsense Arbitrage tips along with the systems in my e-book helped me increase my AdSense income by 560%. Like everyone else I want a bigger share of the Adsense Arbitrage pie.

Adsense Arbitrage: Here to Stay!

Online business opportunities will come and go. But Google AdSense Arbitrage looks promising as a strong investment of very little of your time in exchange for financial rewards that - if used on a good number of sites - can add up to big profits. That area is close to the browser scrollbar. This is double gain. Unless a photo or other graphical element pulls their eyes to the side there is no reason for them to look beyond those margins. Adsense Arbitrage did not change in a vacuum. While it lumbered toward smart pricing web access technology and user expectations were also in a state of flux.

Making Money With Adsense Arbitrage

There is literally an endless amount of money to be made with Adsense websites for the person that takes the time to learn about the trade and utilizes the tools and tips needed to bring home big profits from Adsense websites. What is Adsense? Adsense is a PPC Advertising system (Pay Per Click) launched by the web's now biggest search engine Google.

Knowing A Few Key Adsense Arbitrage Principles

Never place AdSense Arbitrage ads on pages that you display in Traffic or surfing/hit exchanges. You will need to know some key Adsense Arbitrage principles.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Why Article Marketing Establishes A Continuous Stream Of Prospects And Web Traffic

Writing articles and using them to promote your website is one of the most effective strategies in internet marketing today. Here are the reasons why.

1) You’ll attract visitors immediately

Publishing your articles on websites and directories can instantly attract thousands of visitors to your website. These people click through links in your author signature – the space provided after your article to promote your business. It is not uncommon for articles to exceed one thousand views in one directory alone. When submitted to multiple directories, the result is even more remarkable.

2) You’ll exponentially increase your reach

Submitting your articles to directories and ezine resource sites increases the chances that your article will be reprinted by hundreds of website and ezine owners. Each of these publishers could have audiences of thousands of readers, exposing you to many more people than you would have reached alone.

3) You’ll position yourself as an expert in your field

Writing articles establishes you and your company as knowledgeable about your industry. By educating prospects, you’ll earn their trust as a professional that knows what you’re doing. People buy from people they trust.

4) You’ll improve your search engine position

Search engines such as Google place great importance on the number and quality of links pointing to the websites they list. By creating quality, educational content and syndicating it across hundreds of websites, you’ll notice an improvement in your search engine ranking within weeks of publishing your first articles.

5) You’ll earn long-term traffic

When you run an ad campaign, you only receive visitors during the time your ads are running. By writing and promoting articles, you place permanent links on dozens of websites that will refer visitors to you for years in the future. Article writing is a long-term investment in the success of your company.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Tips On How To Really Fully Customize Your Own Silicone Wristband: A Must Read Before Ordering

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Tips On How To Really Fully Customize Your Own Silicone Wristband: A Must Read Before Ordering

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What are highly customizable rubber wristbands? These highly customizable wristbands are rubber wristbands made from 100% silicone. These rubber wristbands are an effective medium for promoting your event fundraisers.

But how do we really customize these rubber wristbands? These rubber wristbands are easy to customize and order. We don’t call them highly customizable for nothing. What you do is you first contact the manufacturer and tell them what design you would like to ...


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What are highly customizable rubber wristbands? These highly customizable wristbands are rubber wristbands made from 100% silicone. These rubber wristbands are an effective medium for promoting your event fundraisers.

But how do we really customize these rubber wristbands? These rubber wristbands are easy to customize and order. We don’t call them highly customizable for nothing. What you do is you first contact the manufacturer and tell them what design you would like to put on your bracelets. You tell them what message, color, process, design, and logo or image (if there is any) that you would like to be placed on your rubber wristbands.

There are three processes to choose from, imprinted, debossed, and embossed bracelets. Imprinted wristbands’ message will be imprinted on the silicone bracelets while the debossed and embossed bracelets basically use the same method. The only difference between the two is that the debossed wristbands’ message will be engraved onto the wristbands (more like the LIVESTRONG bracelets), while the embossed wristbands’ message will be raised.

Once you have requested the artwork, the customer representative will send you a quote. The artwork will be sent to you within the day or the next day at most. Once you receive the artwork and you are already confident with the design, you can move to the next step which is producing your rubber wristbands.

The production process of your rubber wristbands will start when the receipt of the payment has been verified. Turnaround time for your rubber wristbands will depend on the number of rubber wristbands you order. Usual turnaround for 200 wristbands is 14 days. Manufacturers require 10 days for production and 4 days to ship.

After this, all you have to do is wait for the bracelets. The Manufacturers will ship the bracelets will ship the rubber wristbands to the shipping address you will give them prior to production.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Outsourcing Your Call Center To India

Over the last ten years many companies have decided to outsource their contact center operations to India in order to make cost savings through lower operational expenses.

However, in recent times we have noticed a reverse trend taking place. Customer complaints about poor service have led many businesses to bring back their call center service to their home country. It seems that the low quality of customer service has far outweighed the anticipated cost savings and is actually having a negative affect on the business. Is the climate of outsourcing to India changing?

Well it all comes down to choosing the right provider. Ensuring that staff are properly trained and well looked after is key to making outsourcing a viable alternative. You need to dig deep and investigate the various outsourced offerings.

As in most things you must look for credentials. That is to say a call center outsourcing business that has a great track record of providing similar businesses to yours with a high level of professional service. Whether it's insurance claims processing, banking or selling mobile telephones. There are some pretty fantastic outsourcing business models in India. Staff are generally graduates, speak very good English and receive a high standard of initial and ongoing training.

Where possible you should visit the facilities and experience the everyday working environment for yourself. A number of Indian outsourcing businesses will offer a trial period for you to assess the the service. This is a great way of dipping your toe in the water without making a huge commitment.

Outsourcing your operation to India can indeed be very cost effective if you choose wisely and spend time reviewing the offering yourself. At the end of the day it's all about people and the perception your customers have of your business. The staff, wherever they are based and if they are outsourced or not, are all representatives of your business and customers will believe they are your business.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Winning Is Easier Than You Believe

It's Easier To Win! It is just as easy to be a winner as it is to be a whiner. Winning is a choice. The Secret explained. Success in business and life is a choice that people make whether they are aware of it or not. Why do only five people out of one hundred people actually achieve financial independence by the time they retire?

Are you one of the five? Or are you making the same choices of the ninety five percent? You will attract into your life exactly what you think about.If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets. Do you feel boxed in? Stuck? Just going through the maze of life without a vision of the future? What is your vision of the future? What worthy goals are you pursuing?

Have you ever thought of the environment that you have created, that is giving you the results that you're getting? Human beings have the ability to create anything that they set their mind to. Look around you, everything that was created by man was first just and idea. That should be proof enough. These ideas were focused and manifested into the object that you see. Have you seen The Secret?

Using this same technique to your advantage will be a powerful tool for your success. Think about what it is that you want and focus on that idea. Putting all your energy towards this ideal will create that very thing. Sports champions use this method all the time, they focus in on their goal and then put everything the got to the achievement of that goal. Just like in The Secret. Create the very success of your dreams.

Are you focused on your goal? You should be! If not get the help that you need to focus on what is important. You will win.

Winning is easy when you have your goals and you focus your energies to the accomplishment of those goals. Do what ever it takes! You will surprise yourself with your success!

"Success is the pursuit of a worthy goal!" Earl Nightingale

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Understanding Asset Management

Asset management is a form of investment management. The term asset management is sometimes used to refer to the management of all investments, including assets, or it may be used to refer to assets that don't fall under the more standard categories of investment management, fund management or portfolio management.

Asset management is one facet of the vast global investment management industry. Large financial institutions manage billions of dollars in assets for businesses and individuals all over the world.

Many insiders feel that independent firms are more successful and more dynamic in investment management than are large banks and insurance companies.

Asset management helps to protect and grow investments. The assets under management may be a large company's pension fund, or an individual's retirement savings. Institutions that manage assets have great weight in the financial markets because of the amount of funds under their control. The decisions these companies make as to how to invest and move around the money they control can affect the overall rise and fall of financial markets.

Pension funds accounted for more than $15 trillion of funds that were under asset management in 2004. In comparison, more than $30 trillion of private wealth was in investments in 2004, about one third of which was being managed by investment management firms. Asset managers in the United States account for almost half of all funds under management globally.

Understanding asset management is a complicated topic. If you have large investments, you want to make sure your assets are properly managed. Various financial advisors can provide information about the best fund managers, the institutions with the best track records, and in general the type of management that may be right for you or your business. Different types of financial management are indicated, depending upon the size of the investment capital, the form of the assets, and many other individual factors.

Monday, May 14, 2012

SEO - Why Use Niche Language?

Niche language is a buzzword you will often see tossed about by experts in SEO (search engine optimization. All niche language is are the terms and phrases in that are most commonly used by people when they type what they are looking for into a search engine. These are exactly the keywords and phrases that you need to incorporate into your blogs, web pages, index titles and in context and out of context titles (descriptions for the search engines) to increase business.

Niche language is important as it is noted and collected by the search engine spiders that play such an important part in determining your search page rankings. The more rich with niche keywords your online copy is to the search engine spiders, the more likely you will be indexed and the more likely people are to find you (which of course increases your sales.)

Employing niche language doesn’t have to be as technical as it sounds. Sure you can buy lots of e-books, e-courses and programs around the subject but nothing works as well as your intuition and plain ordinary common sense when it comes to determining what your customers are looking for when they type search phrases into a popular engine like Google. You might need to learn a bit about html and where to take a gander at popular keywords as is available on the overture inventory keyword site. It means knowing how to phrase things so that computers understand the language of what it is you are trying to convey or sell and combine that knowledge of what linguistics that your customers are likely to use when they go searching for things on the Internet.

Sometimes coming up with niche language is so specialized, as would be the case with skateboarding, and has so much lingo that there is nobody more expert in the world than someone who actually uses the product. This in fact is one of the best ways to research niche language – get the lingo down from a true consumer even if (as is the case with skateboarder) the user is only ten years old!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Earn Good Money With A Computer Home Based Business

Personal computers and the internet have revolutionized how people see a home based business. There are many options today in computer home based business that allow for almost anyone to begin making money from the comfort of their own home.

To begin with, a person needs a home computer and internet access. It is important to choose a computer that is running a new operating system and that is not too old. The internet service should, ideally, be a high speed service. If a person wants to start out with a dial up connection it is a good idea to take advantage of those free trial offers as each service’s speed varies. By trying free trials a person can find the fastest dial up connection possible.

After getting connected to the internet, a person should start searching for information on computer home based business. It is very important to understand, though, that there are scams out there that can be costly and very time consuming. That is why, before signing up for any opportunity, a person should carefully check it out. Doing a search with a business name and the word ‘scam’ will usually do the trick.

There are plenty of legitimate computer home based business choices though. It is important not to get discouraged by scams, which is easy to do when starting out. Through some careful research a person should be able to easily find a good computer home based business.

Some of the perks of a computer home based business are that they allow a person to work completely online. In many cases this means that they will not have any inventory or any other responsibilities such as shipping to handle. Additionally, a computer home based business means a person can sell even when they are not at their computer or even at home.

A computer home based business is something that can allow a person to start making a living right from their home. They can begin to build up a business that could possibly allow them to leave behind their full time job outside the home and reap the rewards of working at home forever.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Practical Advice For Starting A Home Based Business

Many people dream of starting a home based business. After all, having a home based business makes it possible for you to be your own boss and to work on your own terms. If you hope to make your business a success, however, there are some steps you will need to take before getting started.

The first step you will need to take when starting a home based business is to decide what your business will be. For example, will you be providing goods or services? Will you be creating the goods yourself or will you act as a distributor for another company? Will your business be based primarily on line or in a brick and mortar establishment?

Considering your hobbies and interests is an important aspect of planning a home based business. After all, if you can find a business opportunity that ties into something that you enjoy doing, you will likely enjoy the business more. At the same time, you need to consider the available market for the goods or services you will offer in order to make sure there is a need for your business.

Just because you have a love for tuna fish and peanut butter sandwiches, it doesn’t mean there is a market for it. At the same time, while there may be plenty of people interested in the services of a housecleaner in your area, there may already be more available housecleaning business in your area than there is demand.

Looking into the potential success of the home based business is essential. You do not want to start a business that is doomed to failure before it ever begins. At the same time, if you truly believe in an idea, you just might be able to get it to succeed even if the odds do not look quite so favorable.

If you have a family, you will also need to discuss your business with them before getting started. They need to understand and realize that, just because you are at home, it doesn’t mean you are available to do all of the household chores. You still have a full time job as a home based business owner and your family will need to be supportive in order for it to be a success.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Identity Theft: Watch Where You’re Going

Don’t download anything when you don’t trust the source. Even if you are emailed or given a link in a chat room or forum you should be cautious. Look at the URL. Some links will directly download programs – including viruses – without your consent.

While using anti-virus and anti-spyware programs will help avoid problems they can’t catch everything. Know where you’re going and who is sending you. What can you do to prevent identity theft? Get free adware download and protect your online privacy.

When You Need Help…

If you need help dealing with online security issues including harassment or fraud you can contact the Cyber Law Enforcement

While these organizations have connections to legal or volunteer assistance you should contact your local police if you suspect your identity has been stolen or fear for your safety.

Even if you are dealing with a private chat room you should exercise caution if you are not personally familiar with the individual(s) you are speaking too. Misrepresentation happens often enough to make it a real danger even for adults. Never send personal or financial information to individuals in a chat room or on a forum.

The anonyminity of the internet can cause people to say things online that they would never say in person. It is wise to avoid getting involved in heated debates (also called “flame wars” or “flaming” when directed to a particular individual). People online are just as real as those you meet in the flesh and saying something to incite another person can be just as dangerous online as offline.

Protect Your Computer

Set your browser security settings to Medium or higher. Install a firewall to prevent unwanted access from hackers and install anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. Never download software when you don’t know where it’s from and never click on pop-ups or spam email. What can you do to prevent identity theft? Get your free $97 PC Security book at http://www.pc-tool.info/

You Need Ebay Auction Software To Make Money Through Ebay

There is not much that is needed for starting an eBay online auction business. Besides the right eBay auction software, you also need to have a computer, an internet access and of course, an eBay account. You also need to have a PayPal account as many buyers prefer making payments in credit cards. And if you have PayPal with you, you are sure to find an increased demand for the products on your eBay auction site.

EBay has revolutionized the concept of online auctions. And to help you hold auctions much more easily and conveniently, eBay programmers have come up with various eBay software. You find eBay auction software like accounting auction eBay software, eBay checkout, eBay listing software, eBay api and eBay etailsolution software.

EBay etailsolution software are available from many eBay certified developers and companies. Channel Advisor is a great source for eBay etailsolution software which is used by many powersellers. You find lots of ecommerce applications offered here like listing automation, inventory management and customer service management. With Andale, you find many email management and listing management tools.

Infopia is an eBay certified developer that is a listing automation and inventory management software solution. In Marketworks, you find a new eBay etailsolution software that includes international listing and sales automation software to be used in eBay and other marketplaces.

In Wholesale Marketer, you find an eBay certified wholesale drop ship leader where you are offered access to over 90,000 wholesale products for auction. Here you find a reliable source of drop shippers where you can first try out their services, and then subscribe to it as a paid member. As the name implies, the eBay certified developer Drop Ship Source Directory is a directory of wholesalers and drop shippers. You also find a market research tool here with lots of free informational products on online businesses.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

5 Steps To A Great Business Plan

You probably already know that a business plan can be a great asset to any business or company, particularly if you are just starting up. But have you ever written one before and do you know how to create a proper business plan? If you want to create a business plan that really get results, you need to follow some certain steps.

Taking your time and following these steps can ensure you have a successful business plan that actually works for you. There are some questions about your business you are going to need to answer first. Ask yourself why you are creating the business plan in the first place. Every business plan needs a purpose and a set of goals. When you know what purpose you are creating it for, you can be sure to meet those goals and needs in the plan itself.

Who are your major competitors?

How does your business compare to competitors? What do you have to offer that these other companies do not? You need to put yourself into the mind of the consumer and think about why they would want to use your company over another.

Take your business plan seriously

It can give you real insight into your business, the market and also your current knowledge of how successful you will be. Your business plan should actually be usable and workable and you should refer to it often, especially in the early stages of your business.

If you look at the business plans of some other successful companies then you might be motivated to do a better job on yours. It can show you examples of the steps to take to make a great business plan that gets results whether you are doing it to seek money from investors or lenders or just for your own business needs and goal setting.

Below are some steps to creating a great business plan that will work for you. Follow these as you are creating your plan and you will be more successful.

1. Put some time and thought into it.
2. Take your business plan seriously.
3. Do your research.
4. Investigate similar companies.
5. Take your time.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Snowball Effect

In my occupation as a business advisor, I see many business owners who struggle to make ends meet, try to do everything themselves, and ultimately they either lose business to the point they finally seek guidance or they end up out of business. Part of the problem is the inability to delegate but also lacking the knowledge to be aware that an investment now will reap greater rewards in the future if guidance is accepted and followed.

My husband and I have a friend who is in the automotive business. The rates are very good and the work ethic is great. We have been utilizing these services over two years and I promote it to all of our friends and business acquaintances. In the last few months, the business is very busy and they are having employee problems. Unfortunately, part of the outcome to the situation is the service has diminished to the point of no call backs on customer inquiries. This business is now affecting my credibility from a referral process. It has become a snowball effect:

Lack of service from business ~ Loss of customers
Complaints to me as the person referring ~ Affects my credibility
No more referrals from me ~ Loss of customers
Word of mouth on poor service ~ Loss of customers

From my point of view this business cycle is due to a lack of poor planning. At this point the business owner is grasping at anything possible to put a band-aid on the problem. With proper guidance and a plan for vision and goals, the steps to achieve success will become clearer.

The planning process is not easy but it is essential. There are several sources for business planning tools:

Internet
Small Business Development Centers
Books
Computer software
Business advisor

There are numerous sources so choose the one that fits your needs best.

Do not become a statistic. The time and investment in your business today could mean greater success in the future if applied effectively. Seek the guidance you need to write a plan that will be your roadmap to a successful future.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

It’s Crucial for Your Site

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Are You A Formal Or Casual Host?

If you enjoy planning and preparing for elegant parties with elegant floral arrangements, gourmet food, elaborate décor that makes your guests feel like they have just arrived at a five star hotel, you are a formal host. If you feel more comfortable preparing a barbeque feast for your guests’ comfortable sitting amongst your friends in your backyard, you are a casual host. If you are neither, you may be somewhere in between. If you feel comfortable either way, consider yourself lucky.

Regardless of what kind of event you are planning, make sure you know exactly how much time and effort you are willing to put into the process. What kind of party you throw has a lot to do with how much money you can afford to spend. As a rule of thumb, casual affairs usually cost significantly less than formal affairs.

A good example of a formal party is a wedding. If you feel comfortable organizing such an event, so be it. If you felt uncomfortable by the constraints of such a formal event, you probably want to stick with the more casual route.

If you felt more comfortable at a casual party, try to remember why? What were the things that made you feel good at the party? Was it the food? Was it the location? Was it the guests you have met, or the games you have played? Whatever it is that makes you feel good, be sure to include in your plans.

It is possible you have equally enjoyed both the formal and casual party. You may be able to find both experiences fun.

If you would like to host a formal party, make sure you set your budget early. Your budget is going to have a lot to do with how many guests you can invite and what kind of food and drinks you will serve. Even if you have small budget you could still have a formal party, but you need to invite less guests. For example a party of four-to-six people would be a great small party. Just because you have less people at your party it doesn’t mean you will have less fun. The number of guests you have at your party has nothing to do with how much fun you have.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Save & Earn Money With Marketworks

Are you looking for a great special eBay checkout program? If so, you have definitely come to the right please. Through this informative article, you will learn more information about Marketworks might be the best choice for you if you are a seller who resides in Australia.

There are not too many eBay checkout programs which will allow you to pay only when you make a sale. Even eBay itself requires you to pay a listing fee. If you are looking for a great solution which will give you the opportunity to avoid paying for items which you have not sold, then Marketworks is a great choice for you.

No matter what the product is that you are selling, chances are that there is one thing which you have in common with all other types of sellers. This is that you are looking to increase the amount of products that you sell. Well, with Marketworks, you will be given the opportunity to do so. Marketworks will provide you with the marketing services which you need in order to be successful selling your product. All of these marketing services will drive potential customers to your product which will let them know that your product is out there and, ultimately, increasing the amount of sales that you make.

One of the main ways which Marketworks can help increase the sale of your product is through its store branding and design techniques. You will be given the ability to have a home page which will best represent the products that you are trying to sell, ultimately making your services more reputable. You will also be given the ability to have creative designs or professional designs, all of which may help how effective the sales of your products are.

You will be able to save the money which you are looking to save with the eBay checkout program. This is because you will not need to pay a fee every time that you have listed a product, but instead only when you have actually made a sale. You will also get to earn money, with the higher amount of sales which you will gain through Marketworks.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

SEO - How Search Engine Spiders Work

A search engine spider is actually just a server based software application that is designed to compile and maintain search engine databases. They are also known as robots. These applications were nicknamed spiders because they craw the “web” looking for information to add to the search engine’s database.

In theory a search engine spider does it s job by following networks of links to find and then grab information from your web site pages. Each search engine (such as Google, Excite, Alta Vista, Lycos etc.) has its own criteria for how it spiders information. This criterion is put together into a specific algorithm that helps the search engine determine where your site fits in its ranking system. The problem of second guessing search engine spiders is that they are always changing the requirements of this algorithm so web masters are always second guessing how to get their URLs listed in the top web site positions. Also the different search engines have different criteria for how they rank information and might have to do with their database’s needs. One search engine may rank your site in terms of its content and yet another may be more interested in the number of links you have and yet another may be interested in how many hits you are getting.

In theory a search engine spider could do any one of several things when it visits your web page. Some spiders simply confirm the existence of the page without indexing it. Some spiders index the page content. Yet others will identify all of the hyperlinks you have on a page to other web resources and also other pages on your site. A spider may visit your pages once or it may visit it several times.

One of the latest trends is to keep your index pages lively by adding up to 50 to 70 new bytes of information regularly. This is because the Alta Vista pages love fresh content. This is what makes SEO techniques so interesting to follow. The rules change along with the changing needs of the spiders.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Dropshipping: Salehoo vs World Wide Brands

The best we found Worldwide Brands is eBay acknowledged and operated by Chris Malta Product Sourcing Editor of eBay Radio. The company has a team of researchers on constant lookout for new dropshipping and wholesale suppliers to add to their directory. There are three distinct secrets used by prominent eBay Powersellers. eBay Dropshippers Know What's HOT! The top income producers or Powersellers on eBay do their homework. They find out what is selling. Dropshipping on the Internet is a virtual matter involving digital images of goods a retailer is selling. Before you should start selling these jumped up java makers you should find out if there is a market of people who will by them from you.

With the right product at the right price dropshipping will be a useful addition to any eBay seller's armoury. You don't have to buy your stock in bulk store it or even post it. The focus of your online business will be advertising and promotion. Almost everything else will be taken care of by your chosen dropshipping company. This will ensure that you get the best deals. If you can't meat them in person then at least correspond over the phone rather than email.

For you as the eBay seller this means that you can sell the product for $175 -- enough to make a profit but still below the retail price. But it gets better - you do not actually need to own the clock when you setup the eBay auction!. Don't go overboard with obscure products for your first venture select high volume everyday products and you too could have your very own dropshipping business. People using these companies can take advantage of having thousands of products to sell in their online auction campaign or for use in flea markets. http://www.salehooreviewed.info/salehoo-basic/is-salehoo-a-scam.php

On this basis there is always a risk to get a wrong item supplying a faulty product or when the dropshipper downright sends an incorrect one. If overseas firms sell similar products but not internationally consider selling in other countries.

Top Three Tips For Communicating With Your VA

You've hired a Virtual Assistant and you have a great plan of action - great! Now all you need to do is hand the work over to your Virtual Assistant. How you communicate with your VA at the beginning of a project and throughout that project can have a big effect on how productive she is.

It doesn't matter how great your plans are if your Virtual Assistant never really understands what you want from a project. Of course a good VA will know which questions to ask to get the information she needs to do the job right but it will save you time (and money) to know how to effectively communicate with your VA from the beginning.

Tip 1 - Project Objective:
When you start a new project it is important to explain what you want completed in terms of your objective. What do you want to accomplish by doing this project? What is your overall goal - more money? more prospects? more publicity? For example, if your VA is creating an opt-in page for you she'll need to know what the reason behind it is, why you want these visitors to sign up with your newsletter.

Tip 2 - Personal Communication
In this world of emails and instant messages it is entirely possible for you to hire a virtual assistant without ever actually hearing her voice at all! However, something seems to get lost in written communications and I find it very helpful to touch base by telephone at least once a month. It doesn't have to be a long call, 15 minutes even to do a quick review of your goals and changes, etc.

Tip 3 - Emails
When sending email communications to a VA keep each email to one specific focus. If you are sending work it is a good idea to attach it as a notepad, word or even a zip file so it doesn't get lost in the stack of emails a VA can get each week.

Good communication is so important to a productive relationship with you VA so please don't overlook it or it could end up costing you money! It may take some time to find what works best with your virtual assistant but the rewards will be well worth the effort.

How To Earn Money Online With A Home Business Income Opportunity

Looking for tips on how to earn money online with a home based business income opportunity? If so, then this is for you. In this brief article, I’m going to reveal 3 important things that you absolutely must have in order to make money on the Internet with a home based business idea. Hopefully by the time you’ve finished reading this, you’ll have a better idea of exactly what it takes to be successful and how to go about getting there.

Starting a home business is one of the most rewarding things you’ll probably ever get involved with. So if that’s true, why do so many people fail? Actually, it’s quite simple... most entrepreneurs who try to start a home base Internet business fail because they don’t have 3 things in place:

1. A knowledge of how to generate traffic

2. A proven system in place that they can plug into to see results quickly

3. Access to successful mentors who have already become successful

Let’s face it. If you don’t know how to generate traffic to your websites, you’ll never make a dime online. Knowing how to drive targeted visitors to your sites is one of the most important skills you can possibly learn and this is something that you should devote a great deal of your time to.

Having a proven system in place is also very important. With the ability to tap into a proven system for success is worth it’s weight in gold and allows you to dramatically lessen the learning curve associated with your new business.

Lastly, it’s important to have access to successful mentors who have gone before you and paved the way so to speak. Solid mentorship is a very valuable thing to have and it can often be the deciding factor in whether or not someone becomes successful with their home based business.

Hopefully this article has given you some good ideas on how to earn money online with a home based business income opportunity. Thousands of people are leaving the 9 to 5 lifestyle to enjoy the freedom that working from home can bring and I encourage you to do the same!

Friday, May 4, 2012

It’s Time To Set Up A Direct Mail Strategy For Your Business

Small businesses are very tightly squeezed for cash flow, but we know that we need to get our messages out there if we want to grow and find new customers. As each of our businesses grow, we know that most of our customers and clients will come as a results of word of mouth advertising. However, we also know that we need to implement a direct mail strategy to help us expand our reach.

Word of mouth advertising is a great way to grow our businesses, mainly because a happy customer will spread the word about your great product or service. They will likely tell a friend. That’s why we must keep on advertising. But how do you do it effectively when you have a limited budget and you have to worry about cash flow, payroll, inventory, rent, etc.?

I want to show you that you need to implement a direct mail strategy and I will share with you what I have learned in the process of developing one for my own companies.

We started out as a small company. We were operating in a few cities only and grew the company to the point where we were operating in 394 cities, 81 markets, 19 states and 3 countries. All this took quite a long time to achieve, so in no way was it a overnight success. Sometimes we had some of our locations that were short on capital and we had to help them find ways to advertise to get the most for their advertising dollar. The most effective method we found very helpful in reaching our goals was direct mail, we implemented a direct mail strategy.

I would like for you to start thinking how you can develop a direct mail strategy for your business. You should think of the options you have to gain publicity, advertising, marketing, PR, and how your direct mail strategy can come together with all of that. You need to keep an open mind and consider all the options when using a direct mail strategy.

My point in writing this is not to get you to spend all your money following a direct mail strategy; rather it’s to get you to consider how it could benefit your company, business or non-profit organization.

Wikipedia And The Nofollow Controversy

If you are not involved in the search engine optimization community, January 21st, 2007 probably held no significance for you. However, if you are a search engine marketer or SEO, you probably remember January 21st as the day that Wikipedia died. To the untrained eye, Wikipedia is exactly the same today as it was six months ago. But, once you dig below the surface and take a look, you can see one difference that has had an impact on the world of search engine optimization: NOFOLLOW.

In the words of Matt Cutts, "rel="nofollow" attribute is an easy way for a web site to tell search engines that the web site can’t or doesn’t want to vouch for a link." Before January 21st, NOFOLLOW was mainly used for blog comments. This helped blog owners cut down on comment spam. NOFOLLOW was also used in some situations to denote a paid link, but this is a whole other controversy that will have to be saved for a different article.

The reason that Wikipedia’s adoption of NOFOLLOW on every single outgoing link caused such a stir is because many people viewed it as the most hypocritical decision that Wikipedia could have made. The reason that Wikipedia has become so popular and performs so well in the SERPs is that bloggers and web site owners commonly reference Wikipedia. When they do this, they provide a link back to Wikipedia. Every time that this process occurs, Wikipedia gains a little more popularity in the search engines. When Wikipedia decided to implement the NOFOLLOW tag, they are telling the search engines that although we reference a web site and may use content from it in our article, we do not want you to give it any credit. It is for this reason that many have started to view Wikipedia as a massive hypocrisy.

Although NOFOLLOW has probably cut down on the amount of spam Wikipedia has to combat, but as many others have stated, Wikipedia could have chosen a different method for fighting spam that did not punish quality web sites which deserve to be recognized by Wikipedia.

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Business Dos & Don'ts -- Funny Business Humour

Whenever walking at your place of employment… always carry a clipboard and walk fast. This will make you look extremely busy and your boss will not give you further tasks!

If you are going to the loo and like to read a newspaper whilst… well you know what… carry it in a folder marked "Urgent"… and again walk briskly.

Have huge piles of documents on your desk and whenever the boss walks past… wipe your brow and mutter under your breath… as you rummage through the paperwork trying to find that important piece of work.

If somebody leaves a voicemail for you and it sounds urgent make sure you call them back when you know that they are at lunch and leave a voicemail in return. This means that you have fulfilled your duty in returning their call and the ball is back in their court.

Make sure your computer screen is facing away from everybody else's… this will give you plenty of time to catch up on your personal email, make arrangements for the weekend and still look busy…

Always have the latest and most complicated piece of business software open and minimised so that if your boss happens to walk over to your desk you can maximise it and ask for help! The boss usually doesn't have a clue and will quickly scurry away leaving you plenty of time to sort your next holiday.

Do you want a promotion? Find out what time the boss arrives for work. Make sure you beat him to it by a few minutes every day and leave a couple of minutes after him. Always look busy when he arrives and as he is leaving.

Find out what his hobbies are, his birthday and his favourite treats. By making him feel special you are more likely to be in his mind when he is handing out wage rises.

If you work for a large company make sure you take your holidays at the same time as your boss. This is also the right time to extend your weekends by calling in sick on either Friday or Monday!

The above applies just as well if your boss is female. Can you suggest any other business dos and don'ts?

Working From Home Doesn't Always Work

Working at home is supposed to be the way forward, reducing fuel pollution and avoiding the traffic jams. We can sit in our home office, drinking lots of tea & listening to music while we work without interruptions.

With fuel prices rising daily, high speed internet & office real estate soaring, many companies decide to become leaner by allowing some staff to work from their office at home.

But does working from home work for everyone?

For many people, working from home is the ideal solution in creating a balance between work and life. The problems associated with working from home include:

- Lack of daily interaction with work colleagues
- Self discipline is required as there is no one to monitor your work
- Finding time to have a shower!

I have a friend who works with a large firm of lawyers. I met him for lunch and he gave me some interesting insights. "Initially everything went smoothly" he said. But as time passed he noticed that other people were being promoted within the company and he wasn’t even on the list for consideration

He complained about being given all the "rubbish jobs" whilst his colleagues got the better cases. He was invited to fewer meetings and didn’t get as many memos about the company as he used to.

Although he was able to network with his colleagues by email and phone, he felt that it wasn’t the same as when he used to meet them every day.

His relationships with the key people in charge the company declined, as his more visible colleagues made inroads with the managers.

He has now decided to move back into the firm's city centre office.

If you decide to start working from home, then do a trial run first. Keep notes, analyze the problems that you faced and analyse the solutions. Working at home can work for some lucky people, but is not necessarily right for everyone!

Do you work from home? Is it more productive? What are the issues that you face? Once you have the answer to these questions then you will know if it is right for you.

Cashing In On The Web

There are several people who wish to have an easier life, to make it big. Some play the lottery, some just work really hard; others try the World Wide Web.

It can be simple, but like everything else, making money online can be difficult and tricky.

Online stores are popping up all over the place. If you have a talent and would like to receive royalties for it, develop an online store. Customers can shop all hours of the day, and payment seems to be almost immediate, coming from e checks and credit or debit cards. You will want to charge for shipping the product, and unfortunately, some online stores overcharge grossly. However, it can still be a fairly profitable business.

Whatever “IT” is… you can sell it online. People across the globe are cleaning out their garages and attics full of useless and sometime priceless stuff and selling it or auctioning it off. The most popular site isn’t the only one out there, but it’s the most widely known. This is relatively easy to do, just set up an account with the website and then another one with an online banking system and voila, you can start selling anything (and that does mean anything from dirty socks to a pop star’s hair) to anyone around the world. Trust that there are some crazy things being sold and worse yet, being bought online.

Another way to make money online and perhaps to some a less lucrative way, is to do something like medical transcriptions or even writing articles for various websites. Becoming a medical transcriptionist is fairly easy, pay a little money and take some courses (it’s a two year degree). One has to be well versed in medical terminology and be able to hear quiet, rushed, and often foreign voices. Writing articles online is a little trickier. You need to be able write, work under a deadline, and be extremely creative because there is no plagiarism tolerated. No matter your specialty, there is a way to make money off of it online. For more info, visit these sites: http://www.wealthyinternetaffiliates.com/pips.html , as well as http://www.wealthyinternetaffiliates.com

A Free List Of Immediately Useful Top Paying Keywords

Which keyword will you create content for? A $0.20 ( twenty cent) housepainting keyword or a $2.00 (two dollar) home improvement keyword. Many people will obviously go for the $2.00 keyword. A closer look however will show you are better off combining the two for a richer fuller presentation about home improvement. Additionally you can use $0.20 (cents) to launch a pay per click Adwords campaign to drive traffic to your site which will be displaying $2.00 ads. That obviously make for a lucrative spread.

As internet marketers our livelihood very much depends on how well the revenue streams we set up perform and unless you have a massive flow of traffic on a consistent basis, you don't want to mess with those $0.20 keywords. Personally I don't think sacrificing good content for the benefit of having higher paying keywords is useful. It can be beneficial in the short term. You however want to build a more sustainable business that will serve you for many years to come and that means being able to provide quality content that is useful for your readers. People come to your site expecting that they will be informed and leave having added some value to their lives. It is not easy when you are constantly being told to write in such a manner that helps your page rank and in a way search engines will love. Whatever approach we take should have a bearing on our site’s capacity to be a worthy information resource. The challenge therefore is about striking the right balance between the need to make some good income and being useful. Finding the right keyword combinations at both ends of pricing, mixed in with a meaningful content on a regular basis that ensures a spread like this is definitely the goal we all strive for.

There are many tools out there and one I find remarkably useful tracks keywords dynamically to ensure the latest values are available for your adsense/adwords campaign. Check it out for the latest free listing. It's an eye opener. Don't leave money on the table.

Social Bookmarking Is The New Tag Superweapon!

I'm sure you have heard much Social Bookmarking. What is it exactly? When you list a site in your bookmark list, anyone looking for that same type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the trash.

For all intents and purposes- Social Bookmarking sites are not that much different to Search Engines but they offer users so much more than the traditional Search Engine site. In any social bookmarking site -your screen will show a range of tags which are in different colors size and intensity which marks the popularity of the tag. Social Bookmarking is FAST becoming 'THE Way' to generate hordes of FREE and super laser targeted traffic to your websites!.

There were (and still are) lots of bookmark managers and browser tools to help keep track of the hundreds and thousands of links people amassed. Finding other people with the same interests via bookmarked tags as you is always a good way to meet interesting friends. Some of the best known sites include Blinklist/ Blogmarks/del.icio.us/ Furl/ Kaboodle/ ma.gnolia/ Simpy/ Spurl and Wink to name just a few. How To Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!

post those!. About 6% of my referrers this month are http://del.icio.us related including .8% off the home page meaning that people click on my link when they see it pop up in their RSS feed. Check out http://www.trafficwebsecrets.com/socialbookmarking/bookmarking_demon.html.

But by organizing your bookmarks online; you can help yourself (getting organized/ getting my content exposed) and help others at the same time to finding great content. There's usually a list of related social bookmarked tags as well so you might find a few things you'd forgotten about. Social bookmarking is all about sharing and exposure and if done properly- you can be as aggressive as you want to be about sharing information. Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!

SEO - Google's Sandbox Is A Myth

The “Google Sandbox” argument has been around for a very long time; it is much loved and loathed by many people trying to do Search Engine Optimisation.

The truth of the matter is Google’s Sandbox does not exist.

People doing SEO who refer back to the “sandbox” as a reason for websites not performing as they should are either naive or are dishonest.

I have recently tested the alleged “sandbox” theory on a number of sites and at every hurdle the sandbox theory failed.

In one particular test I registered a car insurance domain and slapped up a bunch of content. Now, anyone who has been in SEO circles for any amount of time will tell you that car insurance is a highly competitive industry and Google would have most certainly “sandboxed” the site.

However, four months later, the site is on the first page of Google’s search results for a highly competitive search term.

The site is also moving very quickly on an ultra competitive search term that should appear on the first page within a month or two.

Search Engine Optimisers who believe in the sandbox theory all too often blame their own poor performance for why the website is not ranking highly on Google.

Getting a site’s on-page optimisation right as well as building a sufficient quantity of relevant backlinks will get any site to rank well.

Google’s search algorithm can detect if a site has been selling links, this obviously will nullify the effect of the link.

Therefore, if you buy a whole lot of links, there is a chance that the majority of the links will not be passing page rank to your site and the links will probably be wasted.

Google’s also algorithm detects a number of other techniques that search engine spammers use to manipulate the results.

If you want to create a website that performs well in Google’s search engine results, create a site with lots of quality content and get relevant sites with a high page rank to back link to your site. It’s that easy.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

3 Criteria For Ranking Article Directory Sites

Article marketing is becoming more popular as webmasters realize the value in their content. Because of article marketing's popularity, there are literally thousands of article directories all over the internet, with new ones being launched every day. Today, finding the right article directory can seem to be a daunting task.

So, the question becomes, how do you determine which article directories are the best?

Though there are several websites where you could find hundreds of article directories ranked according to popularity, it is best that you make your own evaluation based on your niche as well as your personal preference. Here are a few factors for you to consider when ranking article directory sites.

1) How old is the site?

With the launch of the Wayback Machine, it is now possible for anyone to check web pages that have been archived since 1996. Enter the names of the article directories you are considering and find out how old they are. In this case, the older the better. Google looks at site age for trustworthiness.

If you can't find a site in the Wayback Machine, try doing a whois search. This will give you the date the domain was first registered.

2) Find Google and Yahoo backlinks

If you have already submitted articles to various article directories, enter the title of a few of your older articles and do a Yahoo as well as a Google search.

See where your article is ranked in the search. The articles that are in the top few spots would have been submitted to well-established directories or what Google considers to be the best content display.

The higher up an article directory is listed on Yahoo and Google, the more effective it is.

3) Look at PageRank

PageRank is the numeric value that Google assigns to every web page and is an indication of the importance of a website. The numbers range from 0- 10, with 10 being the most important. Submitting your articles to directories with higher PageRanks can increase your exposure manifold.

Scams Do Exist But You Can Find A Free Home Based Business Opportunity

Finding a free home based Internet business opportunity is not as easy as it sounds. Sure, you might think you can just go ahead and Google the term, and out of the wealth of information displayed on your screen you will be able to pick the one that is most likely to spell success for you, right? Not necessarily! Sadly, there are many scam artists on the Net who are just waiting for someone to come by and subscribe to their get-rich-quick scheme. Get-rich-quick schemes are now on the Internet by the hundreds. If you are not careful you can fall victim to one of these scams.

For example, how often have you searched for avenues to supplement your income with a free home based Internet business that would provide a little something extra every month. Maybe you would like to save up for a wonderful family vacation, or find a home based Internet business to take the place of a part time job that is taking you away from your children several times a week. Then you discover that many of the of websites that talk about these wonderful opportunities forget to mention what the product or service is? The next thing you know you will have a mailbox filled with all kinds of unwanted and less than desirable spam mail. Other times the goal is to get you to talk to a personal phone representative and suddenly the free opportunity turns out to not be free at all.

If you do not want to be taken in by a scam artist and these false get-rich-quick schemes but you want to find a genuine free home based Internet business opportunity, it is important that you know how much money you need to make – bottom line – and how much time you are able to devote to the business. When you have this information you will be able to find different avenues of success. Perhaps your free home based Internet business could be that of an affiliate, a sales rep, a freelance writer, a survey taker, or a host of other occupations.

There are scams but there are also legitimate ways to find honest home based Internet business possibilities.

How To Choose A Good Web Host (When They All Look Alike)

Choosing a web host is never easy. There are just so many unknowns when it comes to finding a host. It's hardly ever possible to walk into a web host's office, look around, meet the owners, and get a feel for whether or not you'd like to do business with these people.

It's important, though, that you bend over backwards to establish whether your prospective web host is a credible provider - or a fly by night artist.

The webmaster industry is awash with horror stories about signing up with a web hosting company, onlty to find out later that this 'business' is run by a 14 year old who lives at home.

For the most part, you'll make your decision using whatever information you can find online.

Start out with the website of the web host you are considering.

Is it professionally designed and written? Typo's and spelling errors may signal that this is a company ran by kids or amateurs.

Is the website easy to use? Is it designed with a view towards helping people? Are help materials available online? This should give you a flavor for whether the company is client oriented.

Where is the company located? Is there an address? Can you email them?

Look at the Terms of Service. Does your prospective web host clearly spell out what may be expected of them and what is expected of you? Every deal is different, but both parties should clearly know what the deal is.

Next, do a search for the company on Google. Are you finding any negative statements? Try different searching techniques, like typing the company name followed by the word "scam", or by the words "poor support".

Now, try emailing their customer support department. Do you get a fast reply? What about their sales department? Do they answer enquiries quickly? Let's face it...if they won't pay any attention to you when they're trying to get your business, how much more will you be neglected after you sign up?

If you follow these simple suggestions, your chances of signing up with an excellent web host increase substantially.

How To Design Business Cards

The love of my life is a graphic designer and there is never a day that goes by that he does not appear to be designing business cards for people. He is a really creative kind of guy and I could not believe how good his work was recently. Basically, there is a local builder called Jack. He does building but also a lot of other stuff like plumbing, welding and other practical trades. Anyway, I am sure you get the picture. Basically, he wanted business cards and his little slogan is “Jack-Of-All-Trades”. So my husband designed him cards that looked like playing cards and got them printed in a way that made them look like this as well.

My husband also made business cards for a friend of mine who really needed them for networking. She is always busy out meeting people and said that she was quite embarrassed because her current cards were just not up to scratch. She went for a hot pink and purple diva from the choices my husband presented her with. She is in the music industry so it just seemed really appropriate.

Another cool design that my husband done were actually for another musician. His remit was to design something contemporary and abstract. He really got to work on this job, and he used a really nice lavender color that had to tell him to use in future because it just looked so good!

What my husband does is run a small part-time graphic design business. And yes, he has his own cards that he used the grain of a tambourine for a photograph. I like his the best, and keep one in my purse because I am so proud of him!

Another thing that I have to tell you is how stupid it is to just go out their and do a DIY job with business cards. It really is very silly indeed. What you have to do is think about what you would think of as business that handed out business cards they had just made at home. Would you think they would be ultra professional when they would not even invest in business cards? That is why you have to go out their and get some really good cards which will reflect well on your business.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Role Of The Ebay Software Developers

You may find many different types of eBay auction software on the internet which is of great help in creating effective auction sites for the selling and buying of your products. The people responsible for the creation of the various eBay software you find on the internet are the eBay software developer, eBay programmer, eBay certified developer and the eBay solutions provider.

The eBay software developer and eBay programmer have designed software where you can find out the habits of people who buy these products from eBay. Besides such software, these eBay programmers and software developers have also created some software tools like auction listing and management software for eBay and eBay auction management software where you learn which the most effective descriptions for products to be sold are. You also learn the best means of displaying products on eBay wherein you get maximum sales for your products.

Pricing of the products on the eBay too is an important point of eBay auction. This is why you find eBay software created by eBay solutions providers and eBay certified developers that help you learn tricks and tips on setting the right price structure for the products. With this knowledge, you learn to know which prices are the best for certain products at certain periods of the year. This is possible through extensive research on the part of the eBay software developers and it is with this software that you can automate most of the processes required in the selling of items online and make you a professional auctioneer.

All you have to do to access any of these eBay auction software is to access the internet, and to type the name of the eBay software you are interested in in one of the many internet search engines. You will then be produced many sites offering different eBay auction software, where you just have to choose the right software, and download it. The eBay software is now ready for you to use whenever needed.

Finding The Niche Web Hosting In 2007

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Why Every Smart Marketer Should Have Their Own Information Product:

There are lots of reasons why you should be selling your own information products online. If you sell standard products but don’t have a lot of money to invest in new stock or inventory then Information products allow you to add a new product with little expense.

Now you may be thinking, "But I sell candles how can I write an information product about candles?" Well you don’t necessarily have to write about candles, people interested in candles may also be interested in home organization or aroma therapy. Talk to your customers and readers and find out what information they are craving.

If you sell personalized candy wrappers you may be able to write about how to throw the perfect kids party. Or you might even give them ideas on how to start their own candy-wrapping business...and show them how they can buy all their supplies from you!

You can write information products in just about any market. People go on the net to search for information and often times they’re quite happy to pay for the information rather than spend their valuable time surfing through a ton of sites to find the freebies. Huge sellers like ClickBank.com are testament to this fact.

Here are a few more reasons why every online business owner should have their own information product:

- They add great value to your customers and readers and they’re relatively easy to put together.

- You do the work once and you'll have a product that will keep producing for you over and over again.

- You can create an affiliate program and get others to promote your product.

- You can take a short portion of the product, turn it into a free report and use it to build your mailing list (and of course promote your paid product).

- It's an extra passive income stream for your business, especially when everything is downloaded right off the Internet. There's no need to go to the post office.

Information products can be a great added income in your online business.

The Hottest Trend In Promoting Your Company Or Organization

Custom silicone bracelets have been labeled as short-live fashion by most people. But these custom silicone bracelets have proved these people otherwise. These custom silicone bracelets were popularized by the Lance Armstrong foundation and have taken the world by storm. They alone have sold more than 40 million bracelets worldwide! Imaging how many that is! That is already about 6 percent of the total population of just the United States.

These custom rubber bracelets are now the hottest trend in promoting your cause, company or promoting your products. Now, you can have these rubber bracelets produced for your own purpose and for all occasions. They are very customizable from the message, to the colors, to the fonts you'll be using. You definintely will be standing out of the crowd with these customized silicone bracelets.

So, you are asking what’s the best way of promoting your foundation. These custom rubber silicone bracelets of course. These custom silicone bracelets are highly customizable, and most of all they are cheap. That is why bulk orders are no longer exclusive to large organizations only. Now, even small organizations can purchase as many as 10,000 custom silicone bracelets or as little as 50 bracelets with their own design.

Custom silicone bracelets are a great way to promote your message to the general public because these custom silicone bracelets are very stylish and eye-catching. You can get the people’s attention easily by wearing or selling one of these. That is why if you use these for fundraising, you don’t have to worry because you know that your message will definitely be heard.

In conclusion, if you really want to promote your cause but don’t have enough funds, then maybe these custom silicone bracelets are the right promotional medium for you. These custom silicone bracelets are cheap, highly customizable and colorful so that you can catch the general public’s attention easily.