Message Board Advertising

I have been talking about ways to advertise your business but staying very clear of making your message look like spam.

Let, look our last advertising method, message boards. Message boards provide an excellent opportunity for business owners to obtain some free advertising where it will be noticed by members of the target audience. If the products and services you offer appeal to a specific niche, it is worthwhile to join message boards and online forums related to your industry of choice.

Here you will find a large population of Internet users who may have an interest in your products. You might consider including a link to your business in your signature or posting the link when it is applicable to the conversation.

However, care should be taken to carefully review the message board guidelines to ensure you are not doing anything inappropriate. This technique is smart marketing. Conversely, replying to every message with a link to your website when it is not relevant to the conversation is likely to be construed as spam by other members. Once they begin to view your posts as spam, they are not likely to visit your website via the links you post and may even boot you out of their message boards.

Email Advertising Campaign

Yesterday I talked about how advertising can be a good thing or can go way over board and then be considered as spamming by your clientle. Let’s look today at how to keep your email campaign healthy without turning it into spam.

Email campaigns can be very useful tools in the industry of Internet marketing. These campaigns may involve sending periodic e-newsletters filled with information as well as advertisements, short, informative email courses or emails offering discounts on products and services.

Loyal customers who opt into your email list will likely not view these emails as spam and may purchase additional products and services from your business as a result of this marketing strategy. Additionally, potential customers who have specifically requested additional information on your products and services will also find this type of marketing to be useful.

However, email recipients who did not request information are likely to view your emails as spam. Harvesting email addresses in a deceptive manner and using these addresses to send out mass emails will likely always be considered to be spam.

Many affiliate programs will ban you from their programs if they learn that you are sending spam email as a marketing techinique, so, to keep you affiliate business alive stay clear of anything that might be considered spamming.

Tomorrow we will look at advertising on message boards. Yes, there is a right way and a wrong way!

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Advertise, Don't Spam

There is a fine line between advertising and spam and unfortunately many business owners do not understand the difference between the two. This is important because while a cleaver, well planted Internet marketing campaign can help to attract new customers and keep existing customers loyal, spam is likely to alienate both new customers and existing customers. This can be extremely damaging to profit margins for the business owners.

Let’s take a look at a few basic Internet marketing strategies such as banner ads, email campaign and message board posts and describe how each can quickly cross the line from cleaver advertising to spam. Banner ads are one of the most popular strategies which accompany an Internet marketing plan.

These ads are usually ads which appear at the top of websites and span the width of the website. It is from this appearance that they earned the name banner ads but actually banner ads can refer to ads of a variety of different sizes and shapes which appear in an array of different locations on a website. In many cases the business owner purchases advertising space on these websites but the banner ad may also be placed as part of an exchange or an affiliate marketing campaign.

Banner ad exchanges are situations in which one business owner posts a banner ad on his website in exchange for another business owner posting his banner ad on the other website. These agreements may be made individually between business owners with complementary businesses or as part of exchanges facilitated by a third party.

In the case of affiliate marketing, an affiliate posts and advertisement for your business in exchange for compensation when the banner ad produces a desired effect such as generating website traffic or generating a sale. The terms of these agreements are determined beforehand and are generally based on a scale of pay per impression, pay per click or pay per sale or lead.

Now that you understand what banner ads are, it is also important to understand how they can be overused and appear to be spam. Carefully placing your banner ad on a few websites which are likely to attract an audience similar to your target audience is smart marketing, placing your banner ad on any website which will display the ad regardless of the target audience can be construed as spam. Internet users who feel as though your banner ads are everywhere they turn will not likely take your business seriously and are not likely to purchase products or services from you as a result of your banner ads.

Tommorrow we will look at advertising using email. If you want more great tips like this please sign up for my newsletter or go to my website at www.pinkrenegade.com

Good Website Design Means Everything

Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the brick and mortar building of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.
Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into separate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Do not use splash pages, Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

Do not use excessive banner advertisements, even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

Background music unless you are running a site which promotes a band, a CD or anything related to music, I would really advise you to stay away from putting looping background music onto your site. It might sound pleasant to you at first, but imagine if you ran a big site with hundreds of pages and everytime a visitor browses to another page on your site, the background music starts playing again. If I were your visitor, I’d just turn off my speakers or leave your site. Moreover, they just add to the visitors burden when viewing your site — users on dial up connections will have to wait longer just to view your site as it is meant to be viewed.

Let me remind you that as the webmaster of your website, your job is to make sure your website does what it’s meant to do effectively. Don’t let some minor mistakes stop your site from functioning optimally and sending you customers looking somewhere else!

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Leadership

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

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Evaluating Your Website Traffic

Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals. If you don’t know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and monitoring your website, all your site will be is an online announcement that you are in business.

If you expect your site to stimulate some form of action, whether it is visitors filling out a form so a representative can contact them, or purchasing a product, there are steps you can take to insure that your website is functioning at peak efficiency. One of the first indicatorsof how well your site is working for you is finding out the number of visitors in a given period of time. A good baseline measurement is a month in which you haven’t been doing any unusual offline promotional activities.

However, just because hoards of people have passed through your gates does not mean your site is successful. Usually, you want those visitors to actually do something there. It is equally important to monitor the number of visitors to your site who made a purchase. This figure is called the site conversion rate, and it is an essential element of the efficacy of your website.

To find the site conversion rate, take the number of visitors per month and figure out the percentage of them that actually performed the action your site is set up for. For example, if you had 2,000 visitors to your site, but only 25 of them purchased your product, your site conversion rate equals 1.25%. To get this figure, take your number of visitors and divide that figure by the number of visitors who made a purchase. Then multiply that result by 100 (25/2000 X 100).

If your website is set-up to get visitors to fill out a form, make sure to then figure out what the difference is between your site conversion rate and your sales conversion rate. This is because not everyone who fills out your form will actually become your customer. However, whether your site is set-up to sell a service or product, or to get the visitor to fill out a form, the site conversion rate will measure the success or failure of your website whenever you make changes to the site.

You may find that you need to implement some additional marketing strategies if you find that traffic to your site is extremely low. There are several effective methods to improve the flow of traffic to your website, particularly launching a search engine optimization campaign.

This campaign is targeted at increasing your position in search engine results so that consumers can find your pages faster and easier. You can either research the steps you need to take to improve your search engine rankings, or employ a search engine optimization company to do the work for you.

In either case, after your have improved your search engine positions, make sure you keep on top of them by regular monitoring and adjusting of your efforts to maintain high positions.
Another factor to examine is how easy it is for a visitor to your website to accomplish the action the site is set-up for. For example, if your goal is for the visitor to fill out a form, is this form easily accessible, or does the visitor have to go through four levels to get to it? If it’s too difficult to get to, the customer may just throw in the towel and move on to another site. Make sure your buttons are highly visible, and the path to your form or ordering page quickly accessible.

Finally, have a professional evaluate the copy on your website. The goal is, of course, to get your visitor to make a purchase or fill out your form. Website copy must be specifically geared to your online campaign and not just a cut and paste job from your company brochure. The right copy can make the difference between profit and loss in your online campaign.

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Direct Sales Stats

Some interesting facts I just read today. According to the Direct Selling Association, there are nearly 15.2 million direct sellers in the United States and over 57 million worldwide doing an estimated 97 billion dollars in sales. 85.2% of all direct sellers are women.

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7 Keys To Weightloss.

If you work from home like many people in the home party plan industry, then you know one of our hardest daily tasks is eating right!

Latest Scientific research says there are 7 surefire things you need to do to lose weight;

1) Use a food diary. Write down what your eating each day is reported to help women lose up to double the amount of weight they would if they did not keep a food journal.

2) Cut Fructose. This form of sugar can turn to fat in your body very quickly. This means limit processed foods and beverages sweetened with fructose. Fruit of course is okay.

3) Have soup. Studies show girls ages 5 to 10 who regularly eat vegetable soup are at less risk of being overweight, reported a Portuguese study. Also at Penn State they did a similar test and found that adults who at vegetable soup before a meal at 20% fewer calories at the meal. Simply, soup makes you feel full.

4) Eat slowly. Women who eat slowly are shown to consume 70 fewer calories per meal and feel more satisfied after eating a meals.

5) Beware of Saturdays. Most people who overeat do so on Saturdays says researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

6) Drink Water. Tests have shown that drinking 2 cups of water before breakfast will help you cut your caloric intake by 13%. German researchers say that water burns calories! Drinking 2 cups of water revved metabolism 24% in overweight subjects in just an hour.

7) Grab Breakfast. They have been saying it for years but Greek researchers are saying kids who eat breakfast cereal daily are less apt to be overweight. Go for high-fiber, whole grain cereals. Also, research done at St. Louis University showed that overweight dieters who at two eggs a day lost 65% more weight than those who ate equal calories in bagels.

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Webhostingpad Troubles Continue

Day 8 of not being able to get on my websites. Now RVsitebuilder is involved as it is their software that Webhostingpad uses. Nobody wants any responsibility for this problem. Lots of finger pointing but the fact of the matter is…. I can’t edit my websites!!! AND NOBODY CARES!!!!

I am on about email 40 or so back and forth with these two companies. RVsitebuilder just did some huge upgrades but, they are sure that could have nothing to do with it…. but…. suddenly I can’t edit my sites??? Hmmmm… does anyone else see where there might be some stinkin thinkin here??

I have asked for people to call me but they are in China or Thailand and won’t do it. I have asked for my money back on my service, hell they won’t even give me credit for downtime because Webhostingpad says it is not their fault~!!! Of course, once again, I have to say to them, you hired RVsitebuilder as your software company, doesn’t that make Webhostingpad responsible for whatever RVsitebuilder does?

Well the saga contines and will continue to write about the horrible service I am getting from both Webhostingpad and Rvsitebuilder for as long as this fiasco continues! Hope you are having a better day than me!

Difference Between Marketing and Advertising

Marketing and Advertising, although they sound similar but in reality they are not.

Advertising is only a part of the bigger game called Marketing. Marketing encompasses everything from conceptualization of a brand right through to research, to designing, to advertising, to sale.

Advertising, on the other hand is a component of the marketing process which is nothing but conveying the message through variety of mediums to promote the product.

Advertising is one of the most important component of a marketing strategy and also the most expensive. Advertising basically is sending the message across to the public about your company, product or services. It also has a lot of behind the scenes work like the process of coming up with various strategies that will target the right viewers you are trying to capture.

The strategies should consist of planning things like placing ads, deciding what media to use, what time, frequency etc. The advertisements are generally placed via mediums like television, snail mail, newspapers, internet, emails, radio, magazines, mobile messaging, flyers, billboards etc. The most popular one is of course television although advertising on internet is becoming increasingly popular too.

Easiest way to differentiate advertising from marketing is to consider marketing as a pizza and if you slice the pizza, advertising would be one of the slices of that pizza. The other slices of pizza are market research of the product, product designing, media planning, PR, product pricing, customer satisfaction, customer support, sales and many more.

All these components or slices of pizz should work independently but collectively in achieving the bigger goal i.e. sell product and build company’s reputation in the market.

Marketing is a ongoing process involving many tasks that involve hours sometimes days of research. The research part of marketing takes the longest duration as it involves thoroughly understanding the behavior of people towards a product. Designing the product and developing advertising strategies are also very time consuming processes.

Many companies often make the mistake of confusing advertising with marketing. They try to copy big companies like Coke and Pepsi in advertising but they simply ignore the work that goes into making those companies who they are.

The classical example of this is, take the case of logo for instance. Many business owners are so hysterical about the logo of their company in their advertisements that they think that it will simply bring in the sales. But what makes a logo work is the reputation of the company and the trust people put into that company.

One should also remember that these companies spend fortunes on advertising which a new start up business can’t. Rather than spending unnecessary money on branding your product one should invest money and time in communicating to the consumers that you can address their expectations and that you are going to be a reliable company they can trust.

Smart marketers are aggressive in approach rather than passive. They provoke reader’s minds by prompting them to do something rather than just making them knowledgeable of the product.

Thus having a good marketing campaign speaks a lot about the company and their products and advertising gives that finishing touch to the hard work done by the marketing people in selling a product.

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How To Write A Killer Sales Letter

Anyone who has every worked in sales knows, that it is a tough field to be in. Writing a sales letter is also a difficult thing to do for the most adept of sales people, but writing a Killer sales letter is even tougher. Many sales directors spend hours marveling why they can’t get their sales letter just right.

It actually isn't that difficult if you think about this way, "put yourself in your customers shoes and ask what benefit would I get by reading this sales letter?" Remember that word “benefit” which ought to be the focal point of your letter. Many sales people adopt bits and pieces of information from here and there and produce a sales letter that is just that "a sales letter". They literally hurl every sales pitch they ever picked up, onto people and then they get what they deserve, instant rejection.

A sales letter should not be an presentation of your product or company. Every word is crucial in the sales letter so do not waste a single one, which might deflect your potential customer’s attention. They are not concerned with the features of you product but in how your offer could be a "benefit" (there is that word again) to them. Consider your customer’s point of view and ask yourself why should I read the letter? Is there any "benefit" or offer to me which cannot be refused? Can you convince me that it is actually an offer I can't live without?

The header or headline is very important to any sales letter. It should be aimed directly at the customer, it should present a question that commands further investigation. Your header should not pose questions that can be answered with a "yes" or "no" answer, they should command further studying to identify which mistakes the author is pertaining to. Titles that promise solutions to your customers needs are the best. Such as "How To..." or "10 Keys to ..." are usually a dependable and effective.

The headline shouldn't be more than a line, thus try to be as particular as possible but with greatest affect. Nobody has time to read each and every letter in these fast paced times of instant gratification. If you are not able to convey your message to the audience in the first few seconds, then you have lost those customers.

Now, having made a sound effort with the heading, it’s time to work on the body of the letter. You need to keep up the level of enthusiasm that you created in the customer’s mind with the heading. Once again it is crucial to remember not to focus on features of the product you are trying to sell but on the "benefits" it has for your customer. Things like how much money it is going to save them and how it would impact their lives should be mentioned.

Make them recognise how they can't live without your product. 90% of sales is emotional, people buy because they want to make their life better, want an answer to that long standing problem they have had. They want to gain more time in the day, and make their lives easier. If you can show them how your product can achieve these things, you have a good chance of making the sale.

Remember, a individual reading your sales letter will perpetually have doubts in mind as to how this will benefit them, So be ready to clear those doubts and answer their conerns. Have testimonials that talk about the questions others had and how your product solved those problems for them.

Do not forget to prompt your customer to take action. If it is an email, prompt your reader to click on a link to act now or provide a contact number if it is a direct mail. Likewise remind them that if they don’t act now they will forfeit the offer as the offer is for limited time only or only 100 more available. Make them sense a need for urgency to buy now!

Once you are done with the body of the letter, one of the important parts of the sales letter is the P.S.. Many people merely scan the beginning and end of the letter. So, try to convey something that will motivate them to go back to the letter and read it. It will be a perfect end to your killer sales letter.

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How Do You See Life?

Are you a "glass half full" kind of person or "the glass is half empty" kind of person?

If you placed second in a track and field event, would you be jumping up and down in joy and work harder to get first place next time? Or, would you be discouraged and quit the track team?
In life, we are always given choices. You can choose to see life as a beautiful ride filled with wonderful challenges or view your life as just another day to bring you down, always setting yourself up for failure, and then pointing out to everyone how life is just not fair for you? Nothing good ever happens to you!

Why not try to change your point of view, to make your life more meaningful?

Optimism has been linked to good morale,a positive mood and better health. Optimist do better in academics, athletics, military, in the work place and politically. Optimism is link to popularity; to good health and even to long life and freedom from trauma.

On the other hand, the rates of depression and pessimism have never been higher. Depression affects middle-aged adults the same way it affects younger people. The mean age of onset depression has gone from 30 years old to 15. It is no longer a middle-aged housewife’s disorder but also a teen-ager’s disorder’ as well.

Let's look at some characteristic of an optimist:

Optimists expect the best, they create conditions for success, constructive attitude, empowering, and refraines from complaining.

The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time and undermine everything they do, and there is nothing they can do to change their situation.

The truth is optimists are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world as th pessimist. The difference between the two is the way they view their misfortune---their views are totally opposite. Optimist tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, the pessimist might see it as a lifetime of disappointment.

Optimists see the self as a process and seek continual improvement. Their drive to improve is not pushed by fear but pulled by a inspiring self-image. Believing they are worthy of success and happiness.

You will never hear an optimist say “things will never get better,” “If I failed once, it will happen again” and “I lost this race so I am going to quit this team!"

People respond positively to optimists. Optimist are attracted to positive people and situations. Seeking out those who will support and inspire, not discourage, distract, and undermine.

Optimists are proactive and less dependent on others for their happiness. They find no need to control or manipulate people. They usually draw people towards them. Their optimistic view of the world can be contagious and influence those they are with.

In life, these people often win elections; get voted most congenial and are sought out for their advice. When the going gets tough, optimists get tougher Optimists typically maintain higher levels of subjective well-being during times of stress than do people who are less optimistic. In contrast, pessimists are likely to react to stressful events by denying that they exist or by avoiding dealing with problems.

Pessimists are more likely to quit trying when difficulties arise. Optimist persevere, They just don’t know the words "quit or give up." They are willing to work towards their dreams no matter what life throws at them.

Optimists are healthier and live longer Medical research has shown that simple pleasures and a positive outlook can cause a measurable increase in the body's ability to fight disease. Optimists' age well, much freer than most people from the usual physical ills of middle age. And often outlive their pessimist counterparts who are prone to negative thoughts.

So why not try to think like an optimist today? Think positively towards a more rewarding and fulfilling life. Why not look forward to success in all your endeavors? Why not be resilient? Like all people you are bound to hit lows sometimes but don’t let them last forever. Pick yourself up and dust yourself off and improve your chances of getting back on the right track. And why not inspire others to remove the dark cloud from their lives and see life on the sunny side?

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Don't Go There Webhostingpad

Well the saga continues with my web server, Webhostingpad. I have just spent all day sending emails back and forth with them. They keep telling me there is nothing wrong with my websites and yet I can not get on them. Hmmm…. that seems to be a problem with me.

This has been going on for 3-4 days now and I can not get into my websites to do any work. I am getting just a little aggravated!!!!!!!

Oh, for sure I will let you know how things go. I am not done with them yet.

How To Get Your Customers To Visit Frequently

For your website to be truly successful you have to depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of your traffic. Returning visitors tend to already trust you and thus are easier to convert into paying customers. The more trust they have in that you and your site the more likely they will purchase from you when they have a need for your products. Keep your customers coming back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, or chatroom

When you start a forum, or chatroom, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions, review your products and interact with others who are there for the same reason they are -- all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously.

2) Start a blog

Keep blog on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself and your products. People are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should absolutely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold contests, have games or other forms of entertainment

How many office workers do you think take a little time each day to play a favorite game at work? How many people will keep visiting your site if you provide them with a very interesting or addicting form of entertainment? You can also hold competitions to award the high score winners a product of yours or free consulting time, to keep people continuously coming back to your site to earn the prize.

5) Update your site frequently

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something new to read. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the sheerlaziness of some webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same every time they visit.
If you truly want to keep your customers coming back, make your website fun and interesting. Give them a place to take their break to from their job. Make your website the place to be for everything they are looking for.

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Webhostingpad sucks!

I have been a huge fan of Webhostingpad as my own webserve for over a year now. I have a number of websites and have always been very pleased with their service. I have even recommended their service to my clientele.

But suddenly, not so much a fan any more. I am not sure what is going on with them, maybe they are growing too fast and can’t keep up with the growth, but, their service sucks as of late.

My websites are up and running, but I have not been able to get into them for days to do any work on them.

I have contact customer service several times and no one has gotten back to me. This is not the Webhostingpad that I had come to love. Usually I would contact them and within the hour someone would be back to me with an answer that always worked.

I am very disappointed in Webhostingpad and at this point would no longer recommend them to any of my clientele. I will let you know how things go in the coming days and weeks, but right now stay clear of Webhostingpad.

Magents For Improved Health

I have been using magnets for about a month now and have seen some marked improvements in my carpal tunnel and in my neck pains and headaches.


I have a necklace and two bracelets, so you know just what I have been doing. I don’t know about you, but, I do not like modern medicine all the pills they like to dispense on a whim. I think society is getting sicker (I mean ill here, not the mental sickness that runs rampant also) because they have killed off their immune systems.


I am a teacher and have been for almost 20 years and have probably never had more then a handful of colds in my life time. How do I accomplish that? I never take medication for anything. The cold will run it’s course and I will not die because of it.


Now, I am not saying that you do not need medication sometimes! I actually had a bout with a very bad cold that had gone to my lungs once and I knew it was time to help. But, medication once in a blue moon will not destroy your immune systems ability to fight colds.


If I can be around sniffling, sneezing, cough, and bugger ridden kids all day everyday and not get sick, maybe my theory holds some water!


I digress, I was going to tell you about my use of magnets. I think they are amazing and can really help with some of life’s little pains. You should give them a try if you have little aches and pains. One place I love to get my jewelry from is Energetix magnetic jewelry they really have some beautiful pieces of jewelry.


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Actor Anthony Hopkins, who had for years suffered from shoulder pains, started experiencing relief after only two weeks of magnetic therapy.


Retired Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino, who can’t say enough about the difference Energetix magnetic jewelry has made in his life. Comedian Dick Van Dyke had tried every available pill and treatment in an effort to cure his arthritis and did not experience relief until magnets came into his life. Perhaps one of the strongest endorsements of all comes from retired home run king Hank Aaron, who said, “Magnets make me feel like playing baseball again!”

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Tips for Incorporating Twitter into Your Daily Business RoutineOne of the most highly touted social networking sites on the Internet right now is Twitter. One of the reasons it’s so highly touted is that to incorporate Twitter into your daily business is almost too easy. The following ideas will help you to incorporate this service into the marketing efforts of your business on a daily basis.

If you’ve used Twitter before you probably already know that it’s a great tool for chatting amongst friends and fellow online business owners. For those who haven’t let’s start out with how to get started with Twitter.
First, you must sign up for your own Twitter account or page. The service is free to use and takes just a few minutes to get going. Simply go to www.twitter.com and sign up. When you set up your account don’t forget to fill in your website’s URL and a tid-bit about yourself or your business in the profile.

The next step is to begin following other Twitter users. There are a few ways you can do this. You can either save their pages to your web browser bookmarks or, and this way is easier, once you’ve found their page simply click the “Follow” button under their name. This will allow you to see their posts, or tweets. Now you’ll need to let others know that you have joined Twitter so that they can follow your updates as well. You can do this by telling your list subscribers, posting about Twitter on your blog, and more. There are even scripts you can add to your blog or website that will retrieve your most recent tweets and post them for your visitors to see.

You have the ability to use your Twitter page to see what’s happening with others or you can even download applications such as Twhirl that will allow you to have instant messaging style software on your computer to see all your posts and the posts of those you follow.

Now that you’re all set up simply login to your Twitter page or open up your Twhirl software and start sending messages. Just as with any social networking site such as forums or message boards, Twitter can easily take big chunks of your time if not monitored carefully. This is one reason it would be wise to devote a set amount of time per day to network with it. A good starting point would be around 15 minutes each day. You can easily plan this with your morning email check and cup of coffee or at the end of the day.

Anytime something interesting is going on in your business, whether it’s a site change, a product launch or even a special post to your blog, use Twitter to let your followers know. As with any marketing tool, don’t just bombard Twitter with your links. Be personable and establish your expertise in your niche. Be friendly and observant to others as well and you’ll go far with Twitter.

You may not see results from your twittering efforts immediately and that’s ok. The important thing is to begin to get your name recognized and be a regular contributor. The more post and incorporate the service into your daily business routine, the more recognized you’ll become. People will want to know what’s going on with you and your business and in time, you’ll be linked to over and over again by other users.

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Dreams Come True

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

Family Feud Home Party Game

This one is taken from the Family Feud, which by the way is back on the air these days….With Al Roacker at the the new host. (Is that how you spell his name? I am not sure.)

Family Feud It’s the old favorite family game! Give everybody a sheet of paper and have them fill out their answers.

The person with the most correct answers wins! Answers are at the bottom!

1. Name a vegetable that makes a lot of noise
2. Name a cartoon character
3. Name something a clown wears
4. Name something that you use to clean your teeth
5. Name a magazine with one title
6. Name a color for boys
7. Name something a kid wears in the winter
8. Name a popular month for a vacation
9. Name a type of cookie
10. Name something people do on a plane
11. Name a type of pizza
12. Name an actor whose first name is Tom
13. Name a woman comedian
14. Name an expensive car
15. Name an animal in the zoo

Answers
1. Carrot
2. Mickey Mouse
3. Red Nose
4. Toothpaste
5. People
6. Blue
7. Mittens
8. July
9. Chocolate Chip
10. Read
11. Pepperoni
12. Cruise
13. Whoopi Goldberg
14. Mercedes Benz
15. Monkey

Twitter, Tweeps, and Tweets oh my!

Getting to Know Twitter & Your Fellow Tweeps

If you find yourself in a position that you need to understand your target customer as well as keep up with various ways of marketing to those potential customers, Twitter is one of the most powerful and popular tools out there right now! This new type of network communication has been taken up by companies and individuals alike in recent months and for good reason.

To get a better understanding of Twitter, let’s first take a look at the format. Essentially, Twitter is a program that allows you to make very small, public posts. Because these posts are so limited (they max out at 140 characters) they can easily be sent to a number of different locations all at once. When you have written a Twitter, it can appear on the twitter website, on short message services, instant messaging sites or even on third-party applications like Facebook or Twitterific. Folks can even add a script to their blog or website to show their most recent posts and the posts of others! Your Twitter messages, also known tweets, will appear to anyone who has chosen to follow your updates.

There are several advantages to this type of communication. The first thing that you will discover is that it allows for a much more immediate relay of information. The shortness of the message forces you to be very brief, and this alone can create interest in those reading. Because tweets are so short, they often lead to frequent posting, which is excellent when you are looking to communicate with people and to get to know them. While Twitter is, by default, public, you can restrict the people who see your material with the ease of checking a box in your profile.

You will find that not only can you post tweets, you can also receive them. Once again, the immediate nature of this service lends greatly to its appeal. Want to follow someone’s updates and see what they are up to with their business or life in general? Simply sign into your Twitter account, type in their Twitter address or username and click the “Follow” button. That’s all there is to it.

The amount of time that spent reading the messages is very short, and you can be in contact with people a great deal more than you otherwise might be. In essence, you can get to know each other much more quickly than if you were just reading each others blogs or profiles. The look and feel of an instant messaging service helps add to this ability. Think about it for a minute, do you feel more connected to those on your messenger list than the blogs you read? Twitter is the same way.

For many, whether they are looking for friends, clients, or someone to help them out with a problem or workload, getting in touch with others is important. With Twitter it has never been easier!

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Detours

“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

Mary Kay Ash

What Is Twitter And How Do I Use It?

Whether you are just getting started with an online business or you have been around for a while and looking for a new way to network, have a look at what Twitter. Part chat program and part tiny blog, you will find that the Twitter interface is one that can change the way you interact with your current customers and potential customers worldwide. Here are 5 reasons Twitter is a powerful marketing tool for online business owners like you.

1. It’s Short, Sweet & To the Point

Have you ever heard the phrase, less is more? You’ll find that one of the best things about Twitter is that it keeps all messages very short and sweet. You’ll have to give your customers and clients the gist of what is going on in short tweets (messages similar to instant messages) that allow their interest to be piqued in such a way as to make them investigate further. You won’t bother them with long-winded messages that make them yawn and move on. Instead, you will be able to catch their attention quickly and make them want to know more.

2. Immediacy

Much like a blog or an RSS feed, you can get access to the people that use Twitter regularly. In some ways, this is like making sure that you can reach them no matter where they are, and you will find that this is very important when you want to make marketing one of your biggest priorities. You are making sure that they have all of the latest updates to what you are doing and what’s going on by simply sending a tweet their way.

3. Everyone’s Doing It

In many ways, Twitter is a social program more than it is a marketing one, and you’ll find that using Twitter can help you feel a great deal closer to your client base and other’s in your online community. If you are looking to make sure that they see you as a person rather than as simply a company or service, you’ll find that Twitter encourages them to think of you as someone they can get to know. This can be very important when it comes to establishing a customer base and customer loyalty.

4. You Get to Hear a Lot

Remember that it goes both ways; you can put information out on Twitter and you can also learn a lot too. By following other’s Twitter accounts, especially if it looks like they have a lot to offer, you can keep in the know about various products, services, and other happenings online. This can be a great way to keep an eye on what is going on in order to keep yourself in the know of your industry.

5. Make Them Laugh

You can also use Twitter to tease people a little bit, in a fun way, of course! When you use Twitter, you have to keep your messages short, and in many ways, a little mysterious. Pique their interest, joke around, and you’ll find that you gain a lot more followers and hopefully website traffic and customers as a result.

Be warned, just as with any other social networking site, Twitter can quickly become addicting if you let it. Don’t go overboard and get so involved in all the tweeting that it takes away from your intended purpose. Used wisely Twitter can be a great and powerful marketing tool to help create online business success.

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Left Right Home Party Game

More home party games, that help to break the ice. I use this one all the time, I think it is an all time favorite of anyone in the home party plan business.

It is called the left, right game; Wrap a small gift of some sort. Nothing expensive. Hand it to the hostess and tell everyone your playing the left and right game. Each time they hear the WORDS left or right they must pass that gift to the person on their left…or to the person… on their right. and the one holding the gift in the end wins.

Here it is:
I left the house right on time to get to _____________’s house. I had everything I needed to set up my display the right way, and place our wonderful products right before your eyes. My first turn was to the right, and then I turned left. Then I had to turn right, right again, and then left. I hoped that I remembered the right way to get to here. After I made the lefts and the rights, I found that my memory was right on target. I was right where I needed to be, here at __________’s house. As I unloaded the car, I checked to make sure nothing was left behind. Putting one bag on my left shoulder and holding another with my right hand, I approached the door. Knocking with my right hand, I waited for ___________ to answer. After I set my samples down on the left of the room and my display items on the right, I was ready to start passing the samples. I say, “Please sample these products on your left hand and arm.” As each item was introduced, I handed it to the person on my right, who passed it to the right and so on. Once you have sampled the high quality products, please open your catalogs right away. There are so many awesome products on each page….make sure you look on the left side AND the right so you don’t miss a single one! I am going to begin passing around products to sample right now. Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have at any time. Now, let’s congratulate the winner. She is patiently waiting to the left of whoever is holding the prize. I know you are all envious, because YOU wanted to win that prize, right? RIGHT! (the game does not stop till they do the last two right, rights)

Great fun!

Increase Sales By 200%!

I am here to try and make your home party plan business easier to run and give you ideas, so, when I saw this article I said “well, someone might find this interesting” and so….. I decided to reprint it for you all. Here it is hope someone finds it of use.

How to Increase Your Home Business Party Sales By 200%By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Earl_Taylor]Earl Taylor

Many home businesses depend on home parties to sell their products and their business.
If you are in one of these businesses, then you know that it is frustrating to have a home party where you do not make any sales. Because of this, you are constantly looking for ways to increase home business party sales so that you can make your business successful.

First, make sure that you believe in your product. Most of the home business party sales you make are due almost entirely to your enthusiasm about your product line. If you cannot convey this enthusiasm in a sincere manner, you are going to struggle to bring in sales.

Another way to increase home business party sales is through building relationships with the people at the party. If they learn to like you as a person, instead of viewing you simply as a salesperson, they are more likely to buy something from you.

Also, if they feel a kinship with you as the business owner, they will be more likely to make a repeat sale after the party is over. These are the customers you really like, so work at building those relationships while you are giving your party.

Don’t ignore the hostess at her home party! Remember, the hostess gets free items for having the party, but she probably will spend more money on top of this as well. Make sure that you make her feel important as your hostess, as this will encourage her to continue to spend money with your business.

With these tips, you can quickly and easily increase your home business party sales!
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So…. did you think that article will increase your home party sales by 200% ? Wow, neither did I! And this person has 8 years experience in this field…. wow!!! My advice is, take bits and pieces from everybody and see what works for you.

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Convert Every Visitor Into A Customer

If a person visits your website and leaves, chances are that he or she will not come back, especially if there are no compelling reasons to do so. After all, we all behave rather impulsively on the Internet, so much so that we can easily forget where we were 10 web pages ago.

But the bottom line is that your visitor may not come back to your website again. If 1,000 visitors visit your website, leave and never come back again, you can imagine the amount of potential revenue lost, simply because they do not come back. You could have converted a fraction of the visitors into your customers.

Some may say that creating unique content can keep some of the visitors coming back, but very often, unique content is not the solution. The real, long-term solution lies in converting your visitors into subscribers of your mailing list.

Before your visitor leaves your website, you want to convert him or her into your subscriber via a simple opt-in to your mailing list. You do this by asking for your visitor’s name and email address through your opt-in form.

And if your visitor signs up to be on your mailing list, you can still follow up with him via email. You can get your subscriber to consider your offer, or endorse another offer to him or her.
All in all, you want to convert as many visitors into subscribers as possible and obtain the potential revenue you rightfully deserve – the easy, wise way. To capture these visitor you will need an autoresponder. I have said it before and I will say it again, one of the best businesses in the autoresponder business is aWeber. They are the best you will ever find at customer service, it just doesn’t get any better.

So, if you want to start an opt-in list I would say go check out aWeber now, they even let you try their service for 30 days Free, just to see if you will love it!

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Booking Idea

Everyone in the home party plan business, or direct sales, knows that without books your business is over. Here is a great idea for getting more books from your next home party.

Hand out door prize slips to each guest, asking for their info and if they would like to book a show or join your business. While they are filling out your slips suggest that anyone who said yes or maybe to booking a show can get a free gift with their order tonight if you date your show tonight. This really helps getting guests booked and often, a guest who said “no” will change their mind to get a free gift (everybody loves something for free). Even if she still says no, you have her information and can call her when you have a great special to offer!

Home Party Plan Business

Here is a great article on starting a home based party plan business by Charles Fuchs.

Home Based Party BusinessBy [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Charles_Fuchs]Charles Fuchs

Starting your own home based party business begins with determining your niche. Take a look at what types of parties you like to throw or what aspects of parties you like to plan in order to choose a home based party business. You want your home based party business to be something you enjoy, so look closely at why you like parties.

For instance, if you love to plan large parties, consider starting a home based party business that focuses on reunions, weddings, or other large events. If large parties are not your thing, you can focus on organizing small get-togethers or cocktail functions for your home based party business. Many people who love parties can create a home based party business that makes specialized party favors, cakes, or other items for parties.

A home based party business does take some specific skills. In order to plan events effectively, you need to learn time management for both your business and your events. Many vendors and clients that you will work with in your home based party business will need specific timelines. You will also need to be very detail oriented in your home based party business. Many of your clients will want specific items or results from their events, so you need to be able to produce those results in your home based party business.

Creativity is also a major part of your home based party business. While one client may be inspired by another client’s theme party, you will need to give each of them a unique experience. Also, you will need to think quickly on your feet and be patient. Running a home based party business usually means that you will be relying on other vendors to supply you with party related items, and sometimes they are late or do not deliver. For instance, if your home based party business plans weddings, what will you do if the cake never shows up or the bride’s dress rips?

Running a home based party business means planning ahead and seeing the big picture.
Still, while you are focusing on pleasing everyone else in your home based party business, you need to make sure you take some time out just for you. Make sure you schedule time for you to live your life, or your home based party business might just turn out to be a big party pooper for you rather than the ball of fun you wanted it to be. If you find yourself getting caught up in the planning, make sure you force yourself to take some time off. You’ll appreciate it later, and your friends and family will appreciate it more, too.

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Inspiration

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran

Great Idea For A Blog, No Longer Enough

Because there are so many blogs and web sites about blogs on the internet, it can be tough to distinguish your blogging web site from all of the others. Whether you are starting up a new web site aimed at bloggers or whether you are looking to make your existing blogging site more distinctive, the key to building and maintaining a site that will capture the interest and attention of the blogging community is finding your niche.

If you can fill a unique need in a way that no other web site does, you’ll be able to build a lasting readership among web surfers. Once you have discovered a niche, you will still have a lot to do, but finding your place in the blogosphere is the place to begin.

Every great blogging web site starts with a great idea, and you can’t build a successful site that will last without one. There are many great sites aimed at today’s bloggers, and competition for the attention of this growing demographic is fierce. To make your blogging web site stand out from the pack, you will need to offer something that no other site is currently offering, or you will need to do the same thing that an already popular site does but in a more impressive or valuable way.

One way to discover an ideal model for your blogging web site is to look at the sites that have successfully captured a blogging audience already to determine if you can appropriate some of their strategies to help realize your vision. Of course, you will also need to add a unique flair to your project in order to stand apart from your competition.

Many people agree that the web sites that do the best in today’s market are the sites that have the most personality. The fiercely individual surfers who are bloggers are a demographic that responds especially strongly to personality, so consider how you can give your site a unique and attractive feeling by lending your own voice and sensibility to your site’s design and content.

Once you have a great idea for your site, have pinpointed a special niche that you are well equipped to fill, and have infused the site with personality, the next step is figuring out how to get the word out to bloggers. In the long run, a great idea just isn’t enough to propel your blogging web site to success. You will need to draft a smart and realistic marketing plan in order to draw readers to your site. Once you hook a blogger, your great content will keep them coming back, but it is
vital to get that first glance or your site won’t have a chance to shine.

Home Party Plan Game

I have seen the wording changed in several different versions of this game, and you can change it too, you just want it to ryhme.

It is called Pass That Gift; It is an easy and fun game to play. Pick a gift and wrap it (you could use a discount on a product to, just put a card in a box and wrap it). Take a minute to introduce yourself then hand the gift to 1 person. Now have them follow the directions that follow. The last one with the gift in hand wins.

Usually the gift makes it through many different hands and this gives everybody a chance to get to know each other a little better.


You thought all the gifts were meant for you. But I have other items too.
So hold up this gift and look around, and give it to the one with eyes of brown.

You think you are the lucky one, but let us all share in the fun!
Look around with eyes discreet, and give it to the one with the smallest feet.

Your feet are tiny and very small. Now hand it to someone very tall.

Please, take your time and don't be harried. Give it to the one who is longest married.

You must be proud of your married life, now pass this on to the newest wife.

Of this parcel you are bereft, give it to the one on your left.

The largest earring I'm looking for now, if you're wearing them, step up with a bow.

Now to the person with buttons-- big or small, any kind, the most you can find gets the gift at this time.

Now don't get cross and please don't fight, but pass it to the lady third on the right.

We should stop now, don't you agree? The gift is yours to open and see.

This game is just so much fun and so many people get to have the gift, and of course want the game to end while they have the gift in their hand!

Cons Of Publishing Your Own Ezine

As with any other types of businesses, publishing your own online newsletter or eZine has its share of drawbacks, in spite of the several benefits it offer.

I am not here to scare you away from publishing your own home party plan newsletter, jut to inform. The benefits of publishing your own ezine far out way the disadvantages. What I will you here, is how you can easily tackle the cons.

One obvious challenge most beginning eZine publishers face is the creation of eZine content. Creating your own content can be tiresome, especially if you don’t consider yourself a writer and you run out of ideas every so often for your ezine.

This really is the easiest of all the cons to overcome as there are numerous Private Label Rights companies out there that sell quality articles, that will not break the bank.

I can name two right off the top of my head that I use and would recommend to anyone. 1. EasyPLR.com by Nicole Dean has some of the best article topics and quality articles around, the price for her packets are very reasonable and she only sells a small number of the same packet, so, you won’t see the same article plastered all over the Internet. 2. All Private Label Content is another great site. This site is run by two great ladies who know how to write articles that grab people’s attention. Their articles are also very reasonably priced.

Also, you always want to create your content in advance. You can compile 7 days worth of content in one day, for example. Alternatively, you can republish articles from article directories such as http://ezinearticles.com. This is a free method you can use in making content, provided you include the resource box of the original author and that the article has republishing rights conveyed.

So you see, you can easily tackle the content creation challenge using the above methods and they do not require writing on your part, so, if you don’t see yourself as or writer or you run out of ideas for your ezine this should not stop you from putting out your own ezine for you home party plan business.

Pros To Publishing an Ezine

There are several advantages publishing your own eZine for your home party plan business can offer to you.

The most obvious reason publishing an eZine can be the most ideal business to you is that it is so easy to start that any individual can do. There is no need to invest in starting a brick and mortar business or even staff and heavy machines for that matter.

In fact, you can do this from the comfort of your home as the most important thing you will need is an auto responder equipped with broadcast feature. Auto responders such as GetResponse.com and aWeber.com are highly recommended when it comes to publishing your own eZine.

In spite of the low start up cost and monthly fees, you can make money from several profit centers within the spaces of your eZine issues. You can make money from selling advertising space, just to name one.

Most importantly, you get to build your own personal media and spread your marketing influence, making you more valuable to product and service owners thus do not be surprised if you receive Joint Venture proposals every so often.

Given some of the best reasons in the world of Internet Marketing, publishing your own periodical eZine can one of the best money vehicles you will ever acquire or even build. This is just one other way to make money in your home party plan business, if you would like more ideas or help building your home party plan business, please visit my website at www.pinkrenegade.com

Churning Out Content For Your Ezine

Creating your own content can be a challenge if you publish your own online newsletter or eZine for your home party plan business.

However, regardless of any topic you are publishing on, types of contents can be generally divided into four categories, namely; factual content, short tips, mini stories and case studies.

Other than writing your own content, you can get your own unique content the quick and easy way by organizing an interview with an expert or leader in the topic you are writing about. Very often, this can be done for free and since the interviewee is giving you the content, there is nothing else for you to do other than giving the interviewee something of value in exchange (maybe a meal!).

Now if you have money to spare, you can hire a ghostwriter to write your content for you without taking any credit. I can recommend professional marketplaces where you can seek ghostwriters include http://www.elance.com/ and http://www.rentacoder.com/.

Another little known and underused method in getting your own content is via public domains. If you are not familiar with the term “public domain”, “public domain” simply means anything that is NOT protected under US copyright law. This includes ALL works published before 1923 and, under certain conditions, works published up to 1978. And in this case, we are referring “works” to written materials such as reports, articles and books. Republishing and repackaging public domain information can help you save time and effort from creating new ideas and content as they are readily available. On top of that, you do not have to pay royalties or copyright fees on that work.

If you fancy the idea of publishing content without any writing on your part, this method is for you. For more ideas on how to start or run your own home party plan business visit my website at www.pinkrenegade.com

Bare Minimum Needed To Start An Ezine!

Starting your own home party plan eZine can be a lot easier than you may think. This is because in the most basic necessity, all you really need to get started publishing your own newsletter is some content, an auto responder, and a website (which actually is optional).

Content. You can compile weeks of content in advance and slowly dispense them to your subscribers. For example, you can compile 100 short tips in one day and dispense 10 tips once a week. In other words, you can compile 10 weeks worth of content in just one day! Simple enough right?

Auto responder. Your auto responder is your asset. You need an auto responder to send your emails and eZine issues to your subscribers and store your data base of people subscribed to your newsletter. Some recommended auto responders include GetResponse.com and aWeber.com.

Website. You may be surprised that this is actually an optional component. In short, there are eZine publishers publishing their newsletters without a website! But of course, having your own website can offer you tremendous advantages, such as the ability to bring in more subscribers and having your newsletter indexed in the top Search Engines.

These are the things you need to get started on publishing your own home party plan eZine at its bare minimum. I know of several eZine publishers today who are succeeding quite well with only an auto responder and content, without a website. And you can, too!

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Happy Holidays

To all your work at home moms and dad, to everybody who has a job that wants to work at home, take some time this weekend with your family, as this is the last hooray of the season!

Kids go back to school, we pack up the beach wear and camping gear. Weather starts to turn colder and we start to hunker down in our houses for the winter. Do something fun, enjoy and be safe. It is at least 6 months till we get back into warm weather mentality.... enjoy what is left of this summer.

Sell Advertising Space On Your Ezine

Continuing with our lesson on why you should have your own ezine for your business.

For a moment I would like you to imagine a newspaper business. This business delivers the daily paper to your doorstep everyday. How is the newspaper able to do this day in and day out? First the newspaper publisher hires reporters, writers and other important staff to create the contents and deliver the papers to their readers.

In addition to the above mention, the publisher has to invest regularly in heavy duty machineries and tons of paper in printing the thousands or of newspapers they print on a daily basis.

So, how does the newspaper company make money? It is obvious that selling a copy of the paper at less than a dollar, they would not even be able to break even in their operation.

The answer? Simply, they sell advertising spaces! You have definitely seen lots of advertisements in the newspaper. The publisher simply sells advertising space in the papers to advertisers who want to leverage their advertising efforts on the paper’s high readership.

In the same way a newspaper makes its money, you can make money the exact same way from your newsletter: simply by selling advertising space to prospective advertisers!

If your mailing list size exceeds 1,000 (5,000 is recommended) subscribers and beyond, you can start selling advertising space for say, $10 per sponsor ad.

In other words, you turn every issue you send out to your subscribers into a profit-pulling device. And since there is virtually no end to the stream of new businesses cropping up everyday on the internet, so are your money making opportunities.


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Why You Should Publish A Ezine

Why you should publish an ezine on the internet is simple. It is very possible for you to make money on the internet without selling any product. One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine.

Basically, you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your subscribers. The best way for you to send out a regular ezine is with an autoresponder. An autoresponder, simply sends out your eamils, ezines, reports when ever you schedule them to go out. You can manually send them on a periodical basis but this requires a whole lot more work.

As an eZine publisher, not only can you easily achieve the benefits a conventional newsletter publisher enjoys without having to chop down several trees in the process. Sending an ezine over the Internet is convenient and can be delivered exactly when you want it to show up in your customers email box.

Ezines are rather inexpensive to run as you don't have to purchase any expensive printing equipment, brick and mortar business, and no staff to hire just to run your newsletter publication, resulting in a lot of time, money and effort saved.

Basically, all you need to start your own eZine are an auto responder and a computer. Enabling you to reach out to your subscribers whom you can regard as your prospects, too.

All in all, if you do not have the desire or knowledge how to create your own product for sale, then publishing your own online newsletter can be one of the wisest decisions you will ever make, given the benefits of impressive marketing power and influence it can offer to you.


If you don't have materials to publish an ezine you can always buy it. This is a common practice for the big time marketers. A coupld of places that I can recommend to buy your articles from and won't cost you an arm and a leg are EasyPLR.com, and Allprivatelabelcontent.com. Both have great stuff, you don't have buy a membership (big savings) and they have well written material. Check them out when you need new materials for you website or blog.

Remember, keeping your name in front of your customer and prospects is huge. Publishing an ezine will help you to do that. If you would like more information on running a home party plan busines, or starting your own business, visit my website at www.pinkrenegade.com

How To Make Money With Your Blog

Blogging for Profit

Blogging is becoming an increasingly popular way for entrepreneurs to earn a living online while doing something they really enjoy. In many cases bloggers can profit with very little effort. There may be quite a bit of work involved in the beginning with designing a method of gaining revenue and promoting the website but once this is established simply maintaining the blog with regular postings may be enough to keep the revenue rolling in. Two of the most popular methods for generating a profit from blogging include advertising methods. This includes advertising with AdSense and securing independent advertisers. This article will discuss these two methods of advertising on a blog.

Using AdSense to Generate Revenue

Using AdSense is one of the most popular ways for bloggers to generate revenue from their blog. This method is so popular because it is also very simple. AdSense is a program offered by Google where bloggers agree to have advertisements on their website and are compensated when users click on these advertisements.

Bloggers simply have to create a blog and submit the website address of the blog as well as some other information to apply for participation in AdSense. Once a blog is approved the owner is given code they can simply copy and paste to have advertisements displayed on their blog. Google then serves appropriate advertisements each time the blog is accessed.

Whenever possible, the advertisements served on the blog are closely related to the content of the blog because Google crawls the website ahead of time to determine which advertisements are relevant to the content. Blog owners do have some ability to place restrictions on the types of advertisements which may appear on the blog. For example the blog owner can specify adult advertisements are not to appear on the blog and Google will filter these out.

How Advertisements on a Blog Generates Revenue

Many bloggers use advertisements on their blogs to generate a profit. This method of advertising is more difficult than using AdSense but it can be significantly more financially beneficial to the blogger. This method of advertising is similar to the type of targeted advertising often seen in magazines. For example magazines for parents often feature advertisements which will appeal to parents such as advertisements for toys, children’s clothing or foods popular with children.

Likewise a magazine for runners may feature advertisements for shoes, athletic clothing, races or training equipment. In these cases the advertisers pay for advertising space in the magazine in the hopes that the magazine’s audience will be enticed to purchase products or services after seeing these advertisements.

Blog owners can use this type of advertising but it can be hard to find willing advertisers. However, there are some factors which may make an advertiser more willing to have an advertisement appear on a blog. One of the most important factors for advertisers is the amount of traffic the blog receives. This is important because advertisers who are paying for ad space are more likely to invest in a blog with high traffic than one with very little traffic.

Another important factor for advertisers is the focus of the blog. Advertisers are more likely to purchase advertising space from a blog with a specific focus of interest to the advertiser’s target audience. Like the examples listed previously of magazines for parents and runners, advertisers want to advertise on a blog which is already reaching the same target audience.

Bloggers who utilize advertising on their website may be compensated in a number of different ways. Some advertisers may pay a set fee for the advertisement to run on the website for either a set amount of time or for a set number of page views. This means the advertiser may purchase space for a set number of days, weeks or months or may purchase space for a set number of times the advertisement is served to website visitors.

Alternately the advertiser may choose to compensate the blogger according to the number of times specific actions occur. This may include users clicking through the advertisement or users making a purchase after clicking through the advertisement. The type of compensation offered will have to be worked out between the blogger and advertiser beforehand to determine a fair method of payment.

An Interesting Report You Have To Read

There is an interesting report out called “The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing” and it is ruffling a few feathers in the network marketing business world and for very good reason. Ann Sieg has put together a short easy to read 35 page report aimed at the 95% of MLM’ers struggling to build their businesses. I would have to say that I was a little turned off by her title, and almost did not read the report, The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing. I thought for sure this has to be an attack on or slam on my network marketing business.

Network marketing is a tough business and as with any other business, it has it’s flaws but it is hard to argue with the fact it is still one of the best avenues for many to build a home based business and be able to work for themselves.

Now, that I have read the report I know that I was completely wrong, this was not a slam on Network Marketing, it was in fact a “right on the mark” report on why so many do fail in the business and how to fix that problem. In the opening section of Ann’s report “The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing” she mentions how she too had attended countless meetings, setting up appointment after appointment, following the advice of her upline and still being in debt after two years and how all of that made her think there had to be a better way. She knew too many others just like herself in the business also.

You know, many of us know some thing is not working yet we continue to listen to our uplines in hopes of finally figuring out what “we” are doing wrong. We certainly don’t want to admit that we are just spinning our wheels doing the same thing over and over again and still failing. There is an old saying that the definition of insanity, is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome. Hmm, do you think most MLMer’s are insane?

No, I don’t think most MLMer’s are not insane but as Ann finally also figured out, there definitely is a better way to run your Network Marketing businesses. Most of what we are taught on how to run our businesses is way off the mark.

Your upline keeps telling you to do things the way she or he has been doing it. It has been working for years, why reinvent the wheel? Seems most uplines are still riding around with stone wheels!
Here are some interesting stats that you might to know about your network marketing business opportunity: - between 80-90% of distributors will “give up on their dream” in the first three months
- over 95% never make it past the 12 month mark
- almost 80% will never sponsor anyone into their business

With statistics like this, why would anyone consider MLM? Are we being lied too, who is telling us the truth?

I got my answers by reading Ann Sieg’s great report “The 7 Great Lies Of Network Marketing”. There definitely where things I needed to do differently if I wanted to be successful in my Network Marketing business.

If you want to learn more about running your own home party plan business, or running any network marketing business please visit my website at www.pinkrenegade.com

Marketing Your Small Home Business

Marketing a Small Home Business
By: Zach Thompson |

Operating and owning a small home business web skin care store can be extremely profitable. The key to a successful web store in the wellness industry is to market your entire web store. Knowing the tricks and tips for marketing will help you be the most successful that you can with your new small home business web skin care store. Here are a few tips to get you started with successful marketing.

One factor that many entrepreneurs overlook is marketing. Make certain you write your business plan and do your business budget that you allow weekly and monthly money in the budget for marketing and advertising. Locating funds to market and advertise will help you in the long run. Additionally, if you don’t use all of the funds set aside each week and month, you can roll them over to the following month for when you are ready to launch a large marketing and advertising campaign.

No-one can buy your skin care products if they have no idea that you have a web store on the Internet. It is imperative to get the word out. One way that is relatively inexpensive to market and advertise your new web store is through links on the Internet. The more large sites on the Internet that are linked to your web store will help your over-all listing in search engine rankings. Basically, the search engines pick up that a ton of sites have linked to you and this tells the search engines that your site is good and popular. Go to people’s blogs, internet forums, chat rooms and even guest books and leave a non-spam message and link back to your small home business web store.

Sub-domains are counted as regular domains in the search engines. A sub-domain is a like a branch on a tree. You want to be certain to add links back to your web store from sub-domains as well. This will further ensure that the search engines think that your site is popular. Not only that but with sub-domains and domain linking, it lets others know that you are on the Internet and that you have a popular product that is in high demand.

Offer rebates for your products with a rebate code. You can have people put in the code and automatically take off the amount that they’re getting for a discount. Another method is to have a rebate coupon they can snail mail to you. The money will already have been made when they purchase the product. People love sales and rebates and this is a very effective marketing tool.

Advertise with an inexpensive paid to click email company. You can reach a lot of real people that could potentially buy from your small home business web skin care store. These are people that are interested in your products and will more than likely buy. Skin care is unisex and men are as likely to purchase as women if your product line is extremely varied.

Purchase Google Awards and market your new web store through them. Google has a strong reputation for helping companies market and advertise. There is also a company called Bidvertiser that operates similar to Google and you can make money through advertising with them as well. Plus, you can really market your profit if you set up your web store to accept affiliates through a program such as Click Bank or through a good programmer to set up the store for direct affiliates.

About the Author:
Zach Thompson is a 23 year-old network marketer & marketing consultant. Why Starting a Small Home Business?

What is RSS?

Are you still wondering what RSS feeders are all about? Here is a short explaination of what RSS is and why you might want to sign up for an RSS Feed.

What is RSS?

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

Why RSS?

Benefits and reasons for using RSS. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You automatically have information from your favorite sites sent to you.

You also ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site’s email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News.

What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed?

RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use.

A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed
readers.

Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.

I hope this has given you a little bit of insite into what RSS feeds are and how they can really expand your online business by having one.

For more information on running your own business or even starting a homebased internet business, please visit my website at http://www.pinkrenegade.com or email me if you have questions you would like me to answer, at pinkrenegade@pinkrenegade.com

Trip From Hell Part 3, You Won't Believe This..

I told you last time, this story could only get better, I knew it wasn’t over and there had to be more fun in store for me. I was right again. Hang on, this part of the Trip From Hell is going to be unbelievable.

When we last looked, our heroine was still looking for a way to get home from AR to WA. Was she going to have drive 7 hours to Illinois to catch a flight to Chicago and then on to Seattle or pay a huge amount of money to change her flight and fly out of another city then where she was supposed to take off from?

Here is how my day started, looking for a way home because I was not of right body and mind when I purchased my airline tickets to what I thought was Springfield MO, and turned out I bought tickets to Springfield IL. Now I need to find an easier way to get home, then what it took me to get here, which turned out to be a 25 hour trip from Seattle WA to Mountain Home, AR.

First, I tried clicking my heels together and repeating “There’s no place like home, etc” that did not go well for me. So, I decided to try and change my airline ticket online to fly out of Springfield MO, instead of Springfield IL. They won’t let you do that online. Okay, next, I call United Airlines and talk to a young man who’s name I could not understand or even pronounce. I explain that I want to change my airline ticket. He says no problem how would I like to change it?

I tell him I want to change the city I am flying out of from Springfield IL, to Springfield MO. He says he will look up flights and see what he can do. He comes back on the line and tells me he can do it, no problem, there are three flights I can choose from. I say great, how much will it cost? Now, I know there is going to be at least a $150 change of ticket fee, I am prepared for that, now I just need to see what the difference will be flying out of Springfield MO is. It is a 45 minute flight difference from Springfield IL, you wouldn’t think it could be that big a deal right? He puts me on hold and tells me will be a minute or two.

After about 6 minutes he comes back and tells me no problem he can book me a flight from Springfield MO to Chicago and then on to Seattle and it would only be $925! No problem for him I am sure! I tell him, he has to be kidding me, I have already paid for part of this trip and you want 925 dollars MORE for me to fly an extra 200 miles from where I was originally supposed to fly from? He says yes. I say “NO”, of course.

He says, he will see if he can find a lower a fair. I am not holding my breath at this point. He leaves me on hold for another 10 minutes. They play that stupid little clip of United’s Theme song over and over and over while you are hold, again another little Chinese water torture tactic that I have learned all airlines try on you to see if they can break you down to a quivering ball of mush. (they know you will not be able to yell at them after you are turn into a bowl of oatmeal!)

He comes back several times to tell me it will be another minute, then another minute. I now find myself talking to myself and repeating what I believe he will say next when he gets back on the line, “please bare with me as this will take another minute while I wait for the computer.” I have guessed very close this time, when he comes back on the phone.

Suddenly he comes back and tells me he has a flight out of Springfield MO at 6 am that will only cost me the $150 change of flight fee! “What? Say it again;” I am sure I heard him wrong. He says that it is correct, if he can book a flight under the same booking number then the only cost is the penalty fee they charged for changing a flight. I say, great I will take it, even if it means I will have to start my trip at about 3am to drive to Springfield MO and get there for a 6 am flight, at this point that seems like an easy sacrifice!

I check with him to make sure the flight he is talking about, is in fact leaving from Springfield MO not Illinois, he says yes, it is leaving from Missouri. He asks me if I booked through a travel agency, I say I did book through Expedia and he says, “oh, oh”! I of course stop breathing. He tells me it will cost me another $25 for Expedia’s fee for re-booking. Phew! Fine book it I said. He repeats everything, what the flight is, when it leaves, cities it will stop in, and that it will now cost me $175 for the change. I say yes I agree to everything and he asks me if I want to book the flight. I tell him yes I do and now I finally breath a sigh of relief, this is finally done and over with. I am once again on hold while he finalizes everything.

I am on hold for another 10 minutes at least, listening to the Chinese water torture theme song! It is okay, I have finally taken care of my trip home and it is all going to be okay. You can’t believe how relieved I am at this point. I start to hum the theme song from the Chinese water torture tactic!

The young man comes back on the phone and says, “I am so sorry.” My stomach hits the floor and my head starts to spin. What could he possibly tell me now? He says, “I am so sorry, I made a small mistake.” He tells me some how he didn’t remember that I was changing the airport I was going to be flying out of. He says matter of factly, “So, there will be an add on cost of $925.” I tell him “No there will not!” He says, “Well, that is the problem, I have already booked your flight and so you will have to pay the $925!”

It is a really good thing that man is on the other end of the world and I am sure he is glad he was on the other side of the world. I laid into that young man like a 350 lb southern boy on a slab of ribs! After several expletives (okay, there might have been more then several %%*$*#^%&##) I told him to get me a supervisor immediately, he stumbled over his words and said , “please hold, I will get supervisor.”

I think my phone call just became a test of my will power. He put me on hold with the wonderful Chinese torture music, now after 10 minutes on hold this really does become a torture tactic, but after 20 minutes of Chinese torture music and your own thoughts of what I am going to say to this supervisor the minute he comes on the phone, it really is a maddening experience.

Mom now says dinner is ready, I tell everybody to go eat I am going to stay on the phone. Another 5 minutes and I figure why don’t I just eat dinner while I am on hold. So, I eat dinner with a phone attached to my head and the Chinese torture music still playing.

I have now finished dinner and am still on the phone. Shortly after dinner the superviser does pick up the phone, he has me tell him what the problem is, “like he doesn’t know what it was?” I am calm now, probably numb from listening to the same little ditty playing over and over and over again on the stupid phone that is now grown roots and is holding itself to my ear.

I tell the superviser the whole story again, he says, “Well, there really is nothing he can do, If I want the flight I will have to pay the $925!” I tell him of course I do not want the flight for $925, and I want him to cancel it and make sure I am not charged. He says he can do that and I will have to stick with my original flight then, I say fine! I want to make sure I have a flight at this point and I ask him to tell me what flight I will be taken, he is able to tell me that I will be flying out of Springfield IL and going to Chicago and then on to Seattle. Okay fine then, good bye and good ridance!

Back to square one and it only took me about 6 hours to get back to where I started with my travel plans! Not bad considering the rest of the trips timing.

Stay tuned as our heroine receives an email from Expedia and “The Trip From Hell” continues.