Jam Band Writing Journals – Track Your Shows

 

Jam Band Writing Journals – Track Your Shows

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Following jam bands is a blast because of the music, places you see and cool people you meet. Jam band journals are great ways to keep track of your shows.

Keywords:
jam bands, grateful dead, string cheese incident, shows, writing journals, set lists,

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Following jam bands is a blast because of the music, places you see and cool people you meet. Jam band journals are great ways to keep track of your shows.

Jam Band Journals

Undoubtedly, the Grateful Dead was the greatest jam band in history, but others such as String Cheese Incident have carried on the tradition. Whatever your favorite band is, think back to the last show you saw. What sticks out in your mind? Now think about the first time you ever saw the band. Do you remember the set, people you met and so on? Probably not. The experiences you've forgotten are lost to time. If you had kept a jam band journal, this wouldn't be the case.

There are famous instances of people keeping journals throughout time. Of course, Anne Frank's Diary is the best example. In her diary, Anne kept a running commentary of the two years her family spent hiding from the Nazis. While your show experiences better be more lighthearted, keeping a journal will let you remember them as the years pass.

A good jam band journal combines a number of characteristics. First, it should be compact so you don't have to take up unnecessary space for other things. Second, it should have a case to protect it from the elements. Third, the journal should contain blank areas to write email address, phone numbers and set lists. Fourth, the journal should contain cue spaces to remind you to keep notes on specific things. Cues should include:

1. Set list,

2. Location and directions,

3. Accommodations and camping information, if any,

4. People you met, email addresses and phone numbers,

5. Grub and grog,

6. High points of the show, and

7. Any unique things that occurred.

As the shows add up, you'll be able to look back through your journal to past shows, find information to locate people and generally laugh yourself silly about things that happened. Don't lose your experiences to time.

 

A Simple Plan For Weight Loss

A Simple Plan For Weight Loss

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The math is pretty simple. One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Want to lose a pound a week? Then you need to consume 3500 calories less per week than you use. That's about 500 calories a day. By cutting out 500 calories a day from your normal daily diet, while keeping your activity level the same, you can lose approximately one pound a week.

All right - that doesn't sound like much, especially if you're more than 25 pounds overweight. Study after study has shown, thoug...

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The math is pretty simple. One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Want to lose a pound a week? Then you need to consume 3500 calories less per week than you use. That's about 500 calories a day. By cutting out 500 calories a day from your normal daily diet, while keeping your activity level the same, you can lose approximately one pound a week.

All right - that doesn't sound like much, especially if you're more than 25 pounds overweight. Study after study has shown, though, that those people who lose weight gradually - at a rate of 1-2 pounds per week -are far more likely to keep the weight off and maintain a normal weight for a lifetime.

So how much exactly IS 500 calories? If you're going to reduce your daily intake by 500 calories, it helps to know what you need to cut out, right? Here's how easy it is to lose 500 calories a day:

* Use milk instead of cream in your coffee. Savings? 50 calories per cup.

* Skip the butter on your baked potato. Savings? 100 calories

* Drink fruit-flavored water instead of a 16 ounce soda. Savings? 200 calories

* Skip the Big Mac and have a salad instead. A Big Mac weighs in at a whopping 460 calories. A fresh salad with a light dressing? Less than 100! Savings? 360 calories

* Pass by the bag of potato chips. An average snack size bag of chips has over 300 calories. Savings? 300 calories

* Eat your corn on the ear. A 1 cup serving of canned corn has 165 calories. An ear of corn has 85. Savings? 80 calories.

* Switch to low-fat cream cheese on your bagel. Savings? 90 calories per ounce.

* Love those fries and can't give them up? Swap the skinny fries out for thick steak-cut ones. Thin French fries absorb more oil than the thicker, meatier ones. Savings? 50 calories per 4 ounce serving

If you'd rather look at losing weight from an exercise perspective, you can also lose one pound a week by upping your activity level by 500 calories a day. How easy is that to do? Take a look:

* Take a half-hour walk around the park. Aim for a pace that's a little faster than a stroll, but not fast enough to be breathless. Burn: 160 calories.

* Get out your bike and take a ride. Tackle a few moderate hills and aim for about five miles total. Burn: 250 calories

* Go dancing - and really DANCE. The longer you're out on the floor instead of at the table drinking up high-calorie drinks, the more you'll get out of it. Dancing that makes you breathless and warms up your body will net you a nice calorie savings. Burn: 400 calories for one hour

* Swimming is great for you, and a lot of fun, too. The water resistance means you burn more calories, and you avoid the stress impact on joints from aerobics, dancing or walking. Do a few laps at a slow crawl - if you can get up to an hour you'll be doing great! Burn: 510 calories

* Get out into your garden. An hour of gardening tasks that includes bending and stretching can burn up to as many calories as a brisk walk. Burn: 250 calories.

* Play a game of tennis. Hook up with a friend for a weekly tennis game and you'll be amazed at the difference. One hour of vigorous tennis is one of the best calorie burners around. Burn: 800 calories

It's important to keep in mind that all exercise/calorie numbers are based on a woman weighing 130 pounds. If you weigh more, you'll burn more. Want an added bonus to burning calories through exercise? When you exercise, you build muscle by converting it from fat. Three guesses which kind of body tissue burns more calories - even when you're not exercising. You got it - your body uses more energy to maintain and feed muscle than it does fat.

For best results, mix and match food savings with exercises that burn calories. Do keep in mind that eating less than 1000 calories a day for more than a few days will convince your body that it's starving and slow your metabolism. Keep calorie ranges reasonable, and consult a doctor if you want a quicker, more drastic weight loss.

 

Microsoft Word 2007 review

 

Microsoft Word 2007 review

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Summary:
This article will give in depth review of Microsoft Office Word 2007.

Keywords:
microsoft word 2007, office word 2007 review, microsoft reivew

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Microsoft Word 2007

Microsoft office 2007 a great upgrade from office 2003. The whole look is changed to more user friendly interface with clearly distinct sections such as Insert tables, clipart, page layout, references, mailing, review content and view content. So it is very useful to users as they don't have to find them in all in one tool box as in office 2003.

There are many more useful upgrades. Whenever you make a change in current configuration it shows preview and you can easily select whether it is looking good or not for example if you want to change the font then just highlight words and as you move your mouse arrow over different font sizes it shows the changes that will be made immediately.

Insert tab contains almost everything that you may need to insert in word file

1)      Tables of custom size columns and rows

2)      Picture

3)      Clipart, shapes, smart art ( It contains lot of collection of symbols which you can use to make project reports, analysis reports etc) charts, and page brakes

4)      You get option to insert hyperlink, bookmarks, cross reference

5)      Header, footer and page numbers

6)      And many more features such as word art, date and time, signature line, equations, symbols

All the things are sorted and it is very easy to locate and use them

Page Layout tab contains everything about page layout, settings, margins, spacing between the lines position of picture etc. This section is similar to word 2003 with extra options for page background setting and themes

References Tab helps you mostly to make a report where you require to create table of content, footnotes, citation and bibliography, captions, Index and table of Authorities. It has following features that are good for users

1)      One touch Table of content with option of 1,2, and ever 3 layer Index

2)      Option of Updating table created earlier.

3)      Inserting footnotes to explain certain words and terms in your report or document is very simple with auto numbering and auto font selection for foot note. You also have option of watching all notes you write together for review.

4)      One click Bibilography will save lot of time of author

5)      Inserting captions for figures on page with numbering is important feature.

6)      Preparing Index is very good tool which will save lot of time of author you can just select words and mark them in Index

 

Mailing Tab provides tools about mailing containing both email and normal postal mail

1)      Clear distinct tab for envelops and labels will make it easy to print rather than making setting changes and making correction in fonts as in office 2003

2)      Direct emailing using mail client such outlook or Thunderbird

3)      And many other options for merging email, writing and inserting fields, previewing results

Review Tab helps to review the document

1)      Contains spell check, research option, translator which can translate to other languages, word count to keep track of how many words you have written.

2)      Comments, you can comment on certain section of line and that will be shown as balloons means that will come out when line is selected.

3)      Protecting your document is important and you can do all type of protecting here.

View tab helps us to see how our document will look like in different formats , web layout, draft, print layout, and even amazing option of full screen reading that will turn you screen in page of book so it will certainly make reading e books little fun and There are zooming option too.

Saving The files

It is important to note that word 2007 saves file in .dox extension and not .doc extension so if you want that your file should be readable by office 2003 or lower versions then you have to set your default file type for saving as word document 97-2003. .dox extension saves lot of space than .doc it nearly take only half the space as .doc file takes.

 

My ratings

Appearance : ****

Ease of working: *****

Working tools: *****

Overall : ****

 

 

     Install and use the Publish as PDF or XPS add-in from Microsoft

To save or export a file to PDF or XPS, you must first install the Publish as PDF or XPS add-in for the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

1.     Go to the Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office programs and follow the instructions on that page.

2.     After you install the Publish as PDF or XPS add-in, you can export your file to PDF or XPS. Find links to more information about how to do this in the See Also section.

 

Making The Most Of Article Marketing

Making The Most Of Article Marketing

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If you've been in online business long at all, you have probably heard a great deal about article marketing and how much it can do to build your business. It may sound like hype, but there are definitely benefits to be had from writing articles to drive traffic to your website.

There are two basic things you can do with articles. The first is to post them on your website as a way to give the search engines more reason to refer people to your website. The second is to use t...

Keywords:
article marketing,article submission,backlinks

Article Body:
If you've been in online business long at all, you have probably heard a great deal about article marketing and how much it can do to build your business. It may sound like hype, but there are definitely benefits to be had from writing articles to drive traffic to your website.

There are two basic things you can do with articles. The first is to post them on your website as a way to give the search engines more reason to refer people to your website. The second is to use them as a way to build backlinks to your site without having to reciprocate.

Posting articles on your site works quite well as a tactic. I recommend keeping things as unique as possible. There is a place for private label articles or articles from article directories, but you will do best with unique content. If you use private label articles, do at least a minor rewrite. If you use articles from article directories, comment on the article or create a summary of it, so that your page is not identical to every other one that has published that article.

However, without links to your site, it doesn't matter how great your content is. The search engines need to be able to find your website in order to index the content. Backlinks are one of the great ways to do this.

Reciprocal links have been used for a long time, and they can be pretty effective. However, they are also quite tedious to get. A well-written article, submitted to the article directories, however, may be posted on many sites, all with the link of your choice in the resource box. Yet all it costs is the effort of getting the article written.

Don't be intimidated by the prospect of having to write. Who said you had to be the one to do it? You can always hire someone to write for you. However, this requires that you be very careful to check over their work. This article is going to represent your business after all. Since not all of us can write well this is a great way to get quality articles created.

When it comes time to submit your articles, you will want to hire someone to do it, use a software that lets you select appropriate categories or use an article submission service. If you don't use something to make your life easier, you can take hours to submit a single article.

Are your results immediate? You can see some results relatively quickly, but as with anything else online, it does take some time get the full benefit. You can be seen as a great resource or an expert on the topic of your choice. You might make more sales or have a busier website. But there are no promises. You have to do a good job with your articles to improve your chances.

 

Making Money with Articles: The Importance of Keywords

Making Money with Articles: The Importance of Keywords

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NOT available to public

Keywords:
advertising, marketing, online business, promotion, ecommerce, SEO

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The following paragraphs summarize the work of Keyword Density experts who are completely familiar with all the aspects of Keyword Density. Heed their advice to avoid any Keyword Density surprises.

Keyword density and placement are important parts of optimizing your articles for search engines. Search engine spiders scan a page in a way that makes it important to place your keywords where they will be detected and recognized as a keyword, so that your article will come up when someone searches for that keyword.

What is a Keyword?

A keyword is a word that is going to be placed in your article several times, not just once as that would make every word a keyword. When a spider sees that you have a word placed several times in an article, it will determine that your page may be useful to users that search for such a keyword.

Over Optimizing Your Articles

I trust that what you've read so far has been informative. The following section should go a long way toward clearing up any uncertainty that may remain.

It is important to note that there is also such a thing as over optimizing your articles for particular words, this is known as "keyword stuffing". When you stuff keywords in an article a spider will detect that you are trying to trick it into placing your article high in the search engine results for that word, and will instead penalize your site and your page for doing such. This may even affect the rankings of your other pages or get your site blacklisted from a particular search engine if you are found keyword stuffing too many times.

What is Keyword Density?

Keyword density is how many times your keyword is placed in your article. Most use a percentage to determine how many times they will put a keyword in an article. For instance, if you have a 500 word article and want to achieve a keyword density of 5%, then you will need to have the keyword in your article exactly 25 times. You can find hundreds of resources and guides recommending one keyword density over another and the reasons behind the logic, however, in the end you will have to determine which density is more profitable for your articles. Each webmaster as their own density that they like to achieve based on past results. As long as you don't over optimize and you are making sufficient profit from your rankings, then you can choose whatever keyword density you like.

The Right Density

No matter what exact density you choose, it is important to place keywords so that there are more at the beginning and end to produce an hour glass effect. Having the right keyword density in your article makes it more likely that you will make money off of that article because it will rise in the search engine results and be seen by more people.

Now you can be a confident expert on Keyword Density. OK, maybe not an expert. But you should have something to bring to the table next time you join a discussion on Keyword Density.

 

Making Money with Articles - Article Directories

Making Money with Articles - Article Directories

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Article directories are websites that house free articles. These articles are usually put there by whoever owns the copyright to them as a promotion method. Each article has the owners byline placed under it so that those who eventually read the article will know who wrote it (or at least who owns it) and will be able to get in contact with or visit their website for further information.

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Making Money with Articles - Article Directories

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Articles directories are a great place to put your articles so that they will make you money. By using this method, people who are interested in your product or service will see your article, view you as an expert in the subject, and will visit your website. Even if you cannot write or do not have any knowledge on the subject on which you are promoting (for example for you run an affiliate website), you can always hire a writer to do the work for you. Getting quality articles written will be expensive up front, but they will pay for themselves in no time, either through affiliate sales or selling your own services, and everything from then on is pure profit.

Let's take a real life example. Imagine that you are an accountant working from home. You write an article on an accounting topic and place it on various article directories. Those who are looking for the subject you wrote about will read your article, see that you have the knowledge and skill that is needed to do a job for them, and visit your website or contact you via e-mail. Your article just gained you a new client who may use your services regularly, but will definitely give you a nice profit at least once.

Furthermore, since you have posted it on a free article directory, others who have affiliate websites about accounting will inevitably use your article for their website. Since they must attach your byline to it, this will bring you even more exposure for every website that re-posts your article. This because you will be benefiting of off the traffic that they get to their website.

There are numerous article directories out there for you to utilize. Your bet best is to put a copy of each of your articles on every one for maximum exposure. It will eventually help to bring more traffic and customers to your website, which will lead to new orders and more profit.

 

Making Money From Content Rich Sites

Making Money From Content Rich Sites

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Making money from a content rich niche marketing website can be very easy, very difficult or impossible. First let's define and describe what a content rich niche market website is and how it works. You won't find a list for "Niche Markets" anywhere. There isn't one.

Keywords:
internet business plan, small business advertising, business newsletter, business location, business competitors, business website, search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, business marketing tips

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Making money from a content rich niche marketing website can be very easy, very difficult or impossible. First let's define and describe what a content rich niche market website is and how it works. You won't find a list for "Niche Markets" anywhere. There isn't one.

A person will find niche marketers when he types words into his favorite search engine and hits search. Let's say he types in "Improving my golf score". He will get many hits that will provide links that take him to niche marketing sites. On these sites, he will be asked to enter his email address and opt-in to receiving a newsletter. Since he is in need of learning how to improve his golf score, he willingly does that. On the content rich site he will find articles and other information about improving his golf score and advertisements for products and services designed to help him improve his golf score.  In the future he will receive a newsletter, about every two weeks usually, and he will have become a niche market customer.

If you are the niche marketer, the opt-in email address supplied is pure gold because you will have a customer or a potential customer. When he buys the products and/or services that you are advertising on your site, you will make money. Having a content rich site enhances the possibility of sales.

The trick to making money from a content rich niche marketing website is to have a topic that helps people solve their problems, makes them feel better or look better, or supplies them with information that they need. You will need to have related products and services advertised on your site since that is where the income actually comes from. The website content is what makes people visit your site again and again. The more content rich it is will determine how often they visit and how long they stay. The longer they stay the more opportunities you have to sell to them.

 

Make your resource box an ICBM and explode your clicks.

Make your resource box an ICBM and explode your clicks.

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Article writng is an art form, then why do so many people overlook the most important part of the article submission, the resource box? A properly thought out resource box can dramatically increase your click throught rate. So, are you doing it right? Here are some useful tips from an article directory owner.

Keywords:
articles,article writing,writing good articles,article resource box,how to write good articles,free resources,article submission,article content

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Over recent years many people have learned the secrets of Search Engine Optimization. More and more sites have seen the effects article submissions have done for the traffic flow to their sites. Some have even created sites devoted entirely to providing articles that could be read by their website visitors and have links that could lead to many sites that are related to the topics and subjects of the articles.

For example, the sites may feature many articles about a whole range of topics. As a website visitor reads the articles they have searched for, they can find at the end of the article a resource box that can be clicked on to link them to the site that has submitted that article. Of course the article would be in relation to the site. Lets say if the article is about rotating the tyres of your car, the resource box may lead to a link to a site that sells tyres or car parts.

A resource box is what you usually find at the end of an article. This should contain the name of the author, a brief description of the author, a brief description of the sponsoring site and a link. If a reader likes what they read, they might have the desire to find out where the article came from, and to read more about the subject. The resource box will be their link to the source of the article, and this will entice them to go to the site and do some more reading or research for the subject or topic they are interested in.

But like the article itself, the article resource box must also be eye-catching to grab the attention and interest of the reader. While the resource bow encompasses only a small space, providing the right keywords and content for your resource box will provide more encouragement for the reader to visit your site.

Now we know what article resource boxes are, what are the benefits of having a good resource box? Mainly its driving traffic to your site. Many sites would allow articles to be placed in their sites because they can make use of the articles to fill their pages. They also get affiliation with other sites that can be beneficial for them as well. For the sponsoring site, when you get people to click on your resource box, you generate traffic that can be counted upon as potential customers.

So what would be deemed good content for your resource box? Basically it is keywords, learning about the proper keywords that people are mainly searching for. There are many tools you can find free on the internet that can help you in determining what keywords to use.

Resource boxes can also make use of all the creativity you can manage. You only get a small space for your resource box, so you should make the most of it. Try to catch the attention of your reader with resource box content that can make them take a second look. Unlike TV ads, you don't have visual aids to drive your point home. But you do have the power of the imagination of your reader. With the right content, you can make them think, be intrigued and visit your site.

Another tip is to use keywords that should be related to your site. Do not mislead your potential website visitors. Build your credibility so that more people will be enticed to visit your site and browse what you have to offer. Make the people click your resource box by providing resource box content that makes a lasting impression. You only get one chance to 'wow' them and hundreds of chances to repulse them.

Never underestimate the power of the resource box. It may be small in size but they will provide a significant aid in driving traffic to your site. A boring resource box, like a boring article, will never get the job done of enticing your readers to visit your site. Make it fun and be creative, but at the same time show that you have a great deal to offer. Is that too much to ask for something that couldn't fit a paragraph? Yes and no, there are many tips and guides that can help you in doing this, the first step is realizing how important a resource box is in making people decide to click your link and be directed to your site.

And finally, a very important point. As an article directory owner, it saddens me that so many authors write good articles, and then fail to add a correctly formatted link in their resource box. I envisage them spending hours producing an A+ article, and then 2 minutes on the resource box. ALWAYS make sure the link in your resource box works. If you don't, and the link doesn't work, you are unlikely to ever get any visitors from that article, and all your time and effort will have been
wasted.

 

Make Your Articles Work Harder For You

Make Your Articles Work Harder For You

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You probably already know how effective article marketing can be to drive traffic to your site and to improve your search engine rankings. You spend some time each month or even each week to write and submit articles. Now you can make them work even harder for you by reusing them. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Start out by combining several related articles into a free report. You can make this report available to your visitors and invite them to pass it on to ...

Keywords:
article marketing, free e-course, free ecourse, ebook

Article Body:
You probably already know how effective article marketing can be to drive traffic to your site and to improve your search engine rankings. You spend some time each month or even each week to write and submit articles. Now you can make them work even harder for you by reusing them. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Start out by combining several related articles into a free report. You can make this report available to your visitors and invite them to pass it on to friends and family. Of course you will have your resource box and several links to your site within the report. This can bring you a lot of traffic as the report is passed on from person to person.

You can also mention a free e-course within your report and create an e-course that expands on the idea you discussed in the free report or build the e-course around a related topic. Load your e-course into an auto-responder and start building your subscriber list.

You are creating a valuable list of people that you can keep coming back to your site. You can also sell your own products and affiliate products to the people on this list.

Take all the content you have compiled in your report and your e-course. Add some worksheets and flesh it out with some additional examples, tips and idea. Write an introduction to the topic and add a table of content. You know have an e-book that you can sell.

Take the content from your e-book and teach a teleclass on the subject. This could be either a free teleclass or teleseminar, or a paid one. Make sure you record the seminar. You can combine your e-book along with the recording of the teleseminar, a transcript of the call and a workbook. You know have a multi-media e-course that you can sell as well.

The basic idea is to reuse your content as many times and in as many ways as possible to make the most out of the time you spend writing articles. It all starts with writing a few related articles.

 

Make Money Online without a Single Product on your Hand

Make Money Online without a Single Product on your Hand

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Many online businesses never get off ground because they do not have a good product to sell. Many people have planned and dreamt of working at home or earn few extra dollars to augment their income by working or making money online. The problem is that they don't have anything to offer or sell.

Keywords:
make money on line

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Many online businesses never get off ground because they do not have a good product to sell. Many people have planned and dreamt of working at home or earn few extra dollars to augment their income by working or making money online. The problem is that they don't have anything to offer or sell.

There is really no need to have a product to offer but still make money online, the best way is to sell other peoples products, this is called affiliate marketing.

In affiliate marketing, you can make money online by featuring in your website the products of other websites and sell them for a commission. Your sole concentration is on how to create a huge traffic flow to your ecommerce business.

Each product you sell will provide you with a sales commission, so the greater number of traffic flow will result to a higher rate of buyers which sums up to more sales.

Choose wisely the products and the affiliate-marketing partner you choose. You need to have a partner that has products you yourself believe in to effectively sell them. In addition, their products must have the same niche as your product. You will come out to be more credible if you have a fishing website and sell fishing products, rather than selling make up for example.

Some people sell information. You don't need to have a product in this as well. If you know a whole lot about something, you can offer your expertise for a certain fee. Post them in your site and put them in an area where members only can view. The fee can come in the form of the membership fee.

 

Make Money on Internet: Promote the product not the program

Make Money on Internet: Promote the product not the program

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Allan Gardyne a well-known affiliate marketers on the Web, gives various pieces of advice in order to earn money online. Promote the product and not the program is one of these ones. However, some people seem to have not listened to this uttermost advice of one of the successful men on the net.

Keywords:
make money,internet money

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Allan Gardyne a well-known affiliate marketers on the Web, gives various pieces of advice in order to earn money online. Promote the product and not the program is one of these ones. However, some people seem to have not listened to this uttermost advice of one of the successful men on the net.

For Gardyne there are thousands of ways to promote affiliate products, but the worst way of doing it is promoting the programs, since the important thing to do is to assess your own skills and interests, using your strengths.

He explains that he wrote and launched a newsletter. He also contributed to online forums and spent a lot of time answering emails at the beginning. Things that work for him but that have not to work for others.

For example, to earn money online he recommends to create ezine ads if you are good on that and then link them to a free report, that you divide into a series of articles in order to promote and place them on an auto responder.

But there exist other key points you have to look for before choosing an affiliate program to promote and make money online such as: a site that has a high conversion rate or looks as though it has, an excellent product that will appeal to your niche market, a high commission (40%-50%), programs that pay residual incomes or lifetime commissions.

Gardyne suggests also earn money online to try the product before promote it. He likes to study and use the products he is promoting, because if you like the product you will talk about it with more enthusiasm and your writing will show that, increasing your sales.

Despite other experts consider that is better to offer your own products by the Web to make money online, you don't need to do that to succeed online, according to Gardyne though it's an excellent idea, if you want to get ahead fast.

 

Make Marketing a Priority

Make Marketing a Priority

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Summary:
When you're busy operating your business-making sure employees are doing their jobs, ensuring your products and services are delivered on time, striving toward goals and so on-it's tempting to think to yourself that you just don't have time for marketing.

Keywords:
marketing your business new business newsletter increasing  increasing  products

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If, in fact, that thought has crossed your mind, you're not alone. However, neglecting your marketing efforts is one of the biggest mistakes you can make as an entrepreneur.

You may be concerned with hundreds of business ownership details, but you still need marketing to achieve the visibility you require to get noticed in the marketplace. This visibility leads to more prospects converted, to more customers converted, to more profits-which is the formula for staying in business. So, by deduction, entrepreneurs need marketing to stay in business.

In the world of guerrilla marketing, there's a general rule of thumb that 60 percent of your marketing should be spent on current and past customers. After all, they represent your best prospects. These people already know you, trust you and, hopefully, have confidence in your company, products and services. They've already had a good experience with your business, which increases the probability they'll buy from you, especially when compared to a new prospect who doesn't know you and hasn't yet had a positive experience with you.

The remaining 40 percent of your marketing budget should be split up this way: 30 percent should be spent on prospects, and 10 percent should be spent universally. And all this spending should happen simultaneously: You need to keep your prospect funnel full while continuing to convert prospects into paying customers. You can start by using marketing to:

1. Replace former customers with new ones. Customers come and customers go. Sometimes they leave because of us, sometimes because of them and sometimes because of factors beyond the control of either. This can't always be predicted or forecasted. To safeguard against this, you must use marketing to replace former customers with new ones. Obviously, not everyone you market to will become a customer. But to increase your chances of getting those all-important new customers, you must continually put your message in places where they'll see it.

Successful marketing is made up of many, many things done over and over. Without a consistent, repeated effort, there'll be no new customers to replace the old ones, and you'll soon enter what's known as the "death spiral" for your business. You can't allow this to happen!

2. Pay attention to your customers. Imagine for a moment that you've secured new business from more customers than you ever dreamed. The good news is, you'll be busy fulfilling their every need. The bad news is that lack of attention is the number-one reason customers abandon a business.

So if you get busy, how can you stay in touch with your most valuable customers on a regular basis? The answer is marketing. Different marketing vehicles can reach out to them and show that you're paying attention to them. You can send thank-you cards, special offers, tips and techniques, newsletters and more. The type of marketing activities let you stay in touch without being there in person.

3. Keep customers informed. Now let's say that your business is growing, and you've decided to introduce new services and products. Who will buy them? Current customers will, as well as new ones-but they won't buy unless they know about your new offerings. Product announcements, press releases, newsletter ads and advertising are just a few of the marketing vehicles that can be used to alert prospects and customers to your new products and services. Marketing once again saves the day, pays attention to your customers, informs and educates them, and causes them to eventually empty their wallets into yours.

Effective use of these guerrilla marketing tactics will let you keep your marketing costs down while increasing your return on the dollars you do spend.

 

Looking for Problems to Solve via Forums

Looking for Problems to Solve via Forums

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Niche marketing as its best helps to solve real problems that real people live with everyday. If you can come up with a product or service to promote in a niche market that will help people solve their problems then you will have a money making niche market website and can quickly build a long list of potential customers.

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internet business plan, small business advertising, business newsletter, business location, business competitors, business website, search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, business marketing tips

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Niche marketing as its best helps to solve real problems that real people live with everyday. If you can come up with a product or service to promote in a niche market that will help people solve their problems then you will have a money making niche market website and can quickly build a long list of potential customers.

The things that people view as 'problems' run the gauntlet of possibilities... everything from a hang nail to a golf swing to a chronic disease are people problems that they are looking for help to solve.

A good way to find out what people consider a problem is to visit the online forums. People talk about anything and everything online. They discuss subjects that they wouldn't talk about with their best friends for the simple reason that they can remain anonymous. They look for solutions online for the very same reason. By visiting forums and taking note of what people are most concerned about you can search the Internet for products and services that will help them solve those problems. Gather the information about the topic. Write or have written for you articles about the topic. In this way you can find a topic and build a content-rich website for niche marketing that helps with the problem you have identified and that will serve the needs of people.

An additional way to use forums to help you build a niche market website is to join a forum, identify the problem being most often discussed, post a question that will produce many responses and use those responses to write an e-book on the topic. The fact is that many people will buy an e-book that is filled with information they could actually gather for themselves. They will also purchase e-books that will tell them what other people with the same problem they have think about or are doing about their common problem.

 

Live chat support, most excellent approach to get in touch with customers

Live chat support, most excellent approach to get in touch with customers

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Live chat support is the easiest way to communicate with customers and to keep updated on their overall satisfaction or complaints if any. The live chat feature helps the organization to get instant feedback and have direct link to the customer clarifying their doubts on the products then and there and hence higher rate of customer satisfaction and better services are enabled.

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What is live chat support and how can it benefit customers? Live chat support is the easiest way to communicate with customers and to keep updated on their overall satisfaction or complaints if any. It is just like giving a human touch to the otherwise virtual world. A positive impression is created in the minds of the customer about the services and this feel good factor helps in increasing the sales and thereby customer base. The satisfied customers will definitely act as indirect marketing personal bringing in more traffic to your site.

How can you make the customer use the live support feature? Not all people are ready to chat because of their time constraint. Knowing the customer's mood and trying to offer a very friendly and casual chat is what is needed to keep the customer online.  Great communication skill is needed to keep the conversation going in a very interesting and friendly manner. Basic netiquette and clean mannerism counts a lot when it comes to dealing with angry or irritated customers.

Not all customers might turn up with a smiley, there might be some unsatisfied customer or someone who is very confused. It is the job of the live support personal to patiently listen to the complaint and offer a very satisfying answer. Rude or harsh words can only make things worse which might end up in a customer loss. So every possible threat should be faced and tried to be rectified then and there. Words like, 'I don't know', or 'am not sure' should be avoided at all cost as the customer might turn off without another question.

Always keep yourself informed and politely listen first to what the customer has to say. Then in a very relaxed and polite manner sought out the problem and help them to find the right solutions. When the customer report is not given proper attention then there is high chance of misunderstanding the statement and hence they might be confusion. Do not ever follow the blame game of abusing the customer for a problem. Patiently and very decently point out where and what went wrong.

When to contact the customer for a live chat depends on the utility of the site. If the site deals with any travel or tour related subject the live chat personal can immediately offer his help to find the right travel plan for the customer. In other cases the customer must be given time to browse through the various products or services offered by the site. Due to lack of searching skills or the sites complex design customers might ignore the shopping cart and thus live chat can offer instant and timely help to hold the customer from migrating from the site.

The live chat feature helps the organization to get instant feedback and have direct link to the customer clarifying their doubts on the products then and there and hence higher rate of customer satisfaction and better services are enabled. Thus a dedicated, patient and polite live support helps in redefining and rebuilding a strong customer base thereby increasing the revenue