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My Experience in Online Marketing
During two years working in marketing I present, according to my opinion, the best forms to gain money in the Internet:Some credible forms of being able to win some money in online business on the Internet.- Reading email - programs that send some emails in exchange for some dollars centimes (Note: very difficult win money, but no impossible if you have affiliates) - Autosurfs - programs difficult to win but not impossible. There are programs where we can surf some pages - Hipys - very high Profits, but of High risk. Difficult to gain but not impossible, I do not recommend if you do not have experience.- MLM - Marketing multilevel - where we earn for introducing people (affiliates) and you win too with the people introduced by ours affiliates.I recommend some: MWP - My World Plus;PWS - Pro Wealth SOLUTIONS;Important: Attention of the projects type: to become rich fast or to gain $2000,00 in one week, $200 for day and others that promise very fast profits. It does not want to say that it is not possible but it is difficult.According to my experience, if you don't have experience, the best of all and following the teachings of this great Guru that is Ewen Chia (Auto Pilot Profits), a simple form to win some money in t

a paid version that gives you more traffic. Note: I would recommend that you do not use 'autosurf' exchanges - even though you will build up credits quickly, you will rarely get conversions from this traffic. For a list of good manual traffic exchanges, search 'manual traffic exchange' or visit The Internet Income System website (see resource box). You will earn credits when your referrals surf, so promote the exchanges as well. In time, you may be able to stop surfing and still get plenty of traffic from traffic exchanges!

- Exchange links! This is important for your search engine rankings, but most people forget that the links themselves will also bring you traffic. Don't exchange links with irrelevant sites - make sure the links you ask your visitors to follow will give them something of value. This will ensure that the reciprocal link to you will also bring visitors that are interested in seeing what you offer!

Comcast Tech Catches 40 Winks, Then Unemployment
After reading a news post listed near my business on Merchant Circle, I can only shake my head in wonder. According to the information hot on the blogs, a Comcast employee not only wandered into a house to do some work but managed to take a nap - and was filmed doing so. That video wound up on the 'net and generated a great deal of bad press for Comcast. It leaves me to wonder, however, what type of avenues this might open up for the small business owner.I'd like to take you quickly through the text of the video (sorry to spoil it for you, you can still go and watch!):"A Comcast technician came to replace my modem He spent over an hour on hold with Comcast. He fell asleep on my couch. Thanks Comcast for: Two broken routers, four hour appointment blocks, weeklong internet outages, long hold times, high prices, three missed appointments, promising to call back and then not calling, Thanks Comcast for everything."Now, in the interest of honesty, I will confess that I have not had problems like this with Comcast. I have, however, had similar problems with BellSouth. Granted, no techs have fallen asleep on my couch. But I've suffered through insane appointment blocks, missed appointments, and ridiculous hold and wait times.Several blogs have asked the question, why was the tech so poorly trained as to have to wait on

There are two things you should always be doing:

- Improving your content

and

- Improving your traffic

These two are similar, as your content is what brings your visitors back for more, but you will also have to focus on promotion methods - otherwise you will have a great site with very few visitors.

How to improve web content:

You might already have perfectly optimized, search engine friendly content. If that is the case, move on to the section on web promotion. But if you are like most webmasters, you will be continuously trying to improve your content - not just for the search engines, but for your visitors.

The content of your site depends on many factors, and some of the ideas I will present are not necessarily appropriate for your site - decide what improvements to your content will be most appreciated by your visitors, and begin applying those changes today.

If you have a content page (as opposed to a 'mini-site' or a sales page), an up-to-date article or two related to your keywords can go a long way. Your users will appreciate useful information, and the search engines love keyword-rich articles. There are two ways you can use articles on your page:

- Manually find 1-2 good articles several times a week, change your webpage, and re-upload every few days with your new articles in place,

- Use an 'article-of-the-day' script. These are great for your users and search engines - every day, you will have a new article related to your topic. You can get free scripts (just search "article of the day script" without the quotes), use a paid script with more features, or you may get 'content management' scripts with your hosting. You might pull articles from other sites (make sure they allow this), collect articles into a database on your site, or even build your own article directory filled with content.

This is very useful in improving your search engine rank, and will also have your visitors coming back daily! Good results for 15 minutes of work (if you use a script). Check your articles to make sure they are relevant to your topic, to ensure that you will get better rankings, and so you get targeted visitors.

If you cannot find articles for your industry, you can try adding mainstream news articles to your site (unless this would be entirely irrelevant). This could bring some traffic, and ensures that your site is updated frequently.

Another way to improve your content is to continuously look for new products, services, special deals, or anything else that will provide value to your visitors. If you aren't sure who your visitors are, take a step back, search for "finding your target market" and "free keyword analysis" to find tools that will help you determine your target market (if you need advanced information about your market, there are several paid tools available to help - search "niche marketing" or "targeted advertising"). Example - if you have a site about traffic generation techniques, you could add a "free traffic tip of the day", a new daily marketing article, and a new product to help generate traffic each week. That should give your page more value to your visitors and search engines.

As you can see, improving your content will bring you more traffic, but you probably know that content is not enough. If you have the best content on the web, but do absolutely no advertising, you will not get any traffic (other than your own visits).

So, how to advertise your site - this is not as difficult as most 'gurus' would have you believe. If you have a marketing plan, and you know your target market, you will not have a problem getting traffic. There are two ways to advertise your site:

- Advertise for free

- Pay for advertising

Free hits to your site are great, because there is almost no way to lose money this way (you can lose money if you get millions of 'hits' that have no interest in what you offer - you might pay bandwidth overuse charges).

How to effectively advertise without spending a dime:

- Test your ads! This is the most important part of using free or paid advertising. Some things will work for one of your sites; the same strategy may fail to get one visitor for another site. Test and refine, figure out what advertising strategy works best for each site, and watch the money start coming in!

- Use forums! Go to discussion boards related to your site. Post questions, answers, special offers, or good information. Always read the rules of the forums, and don't spam (post something useless just to get your link on the site). If you have something useful to say, people will click your link to see what other valuable things you offer.

- Post to classifieds! Especially if you are selling something. Post classifieds in your category to get more free targeted advertising. There are also programs that let you submit one ad to many sites. If you find that classifieds work for you, consider getting a submitter to automate your classified advertising and bring you more traffic!

- Use traffic exchanges! These are programs where you earn advertising credit for viewing other member sites. You may have to view 2, 3, or 4 sites for each visit to yours, or there may be a paid version that gives you more traffic. Note: I would recommend that you do not use 'autosurf' exchanges - even though you will build up credits quickly, you will rarely get conversions from this traffic. For a list of good manual traffic exchanges, search 'manual traffic exchange' or visit The Internet Income System website (see resource box). You will earn credits when your referrals surf, so promote the exchanges as well. In time, you may be able to stop surfing and still get plenty of traffic from traffic exchanges!

When Mistakes Happen - Do What You Are Trained To Do
Mistakes happen and they often occur when you can not afford them. I remember one painful mistake many years ago. I was managing a print shop and an important customer came in for their business card order. The business cards were printed, but needed to be cut down to size. I went to the drying rack and took them to the paper cutter. I placed the cards in the cutter for the first cut, pushed the button and *$%&. I watched the powerful cutting blade slice through the logo of the cards. I wanted to run out the door and hide. Apparently, someone had placed the top card upside down and I didn't check the stack of cards for position. It was clearly my mistake and the customer would not be leaving with their finished business cards.I took the cards to the front counter and showed my mistake to the customer and admitted that it was my error. The customer was upset, but understanding. In this situation the only solution was to ask the customer what they wanted us to do. I remember vividly how the customer handled the situation. He stood there for a minute and I waited for him to tell me to quit my job and drive off a cliff. He was very understanding and asked if we would deliver the order when it was finished. I was both shocked and pleased the customer took it easy on me. The Customer is Always Right and Often ForgivingIn my story, we admitted our mistake and were able to show the resu

ew days with your new articles in place,

- Advertise for free

- Pay for advertising

How to effectively advertise without spending a dime:

Famous Fertilizer Salesmen
There are many famous salesmen in the world and most of the greatest salesmen make a lot of money. In fact they make a much more money than the average citizen by a factor of three. Every industry has famous salespeople and it; including the fertilizer industry. It is hard to imagine why people get a bad rap who are salesmen? And then again you need to look no further and Scott Peterson the famous fertilizer sales person in Central Valley California who killed his wife and then dumped her in the San Francisco Bay.Perhaps this particular salesperson does give all salespeople a bad name. Not only did he cheat on his wife with that good-looking blonde gal, but then he killed his wife and went to go golf in San Diego and perhaps go to Mexico to escape in case her body was found.What makes people think they can get away with such things in our modern era with all the forensic evidence available? Apparently this fertilizer salesman was so guilty he never took the stand. But I assume like the trial lawyers, who are selling to the jury to get guilty criminals off, he might have done much better if he had taken the stand. Unfortunately his lawyers thought they were better salesmen than Scott Peterson, who seemed to have everyone fooled, including his family, wife, cute blonde and half the media on TV. Please consider this in 2006.

isitors are, take a step back, search for "finding your target market" and "free keyword analysis" to find tools that will help you determine your target market (if you need advanced information about your market, there are several paid tools available to help - search "niche marketing" or "targeted advertising"). Example - if you have a site about traffic generation techniques, you could add a "free traffic tip of the day", a new daily marketing article, and a new product to help generate traffic each week. That should give your page more value to your visitors and search engines.

- Advertise for free

- Pay for advertising

How to effectively advertise without spending a dime:

How to Avoid the Curse of Complacency
I understand the concept of complacency. Been there and done that. Complacency, according to the dictionary, is being pleased with oneself or one’s merits, advantages, and situation, often without awareness of potential danger. Have you ever been complacent? Have you ever been very happy with a situation, only to realize later that things weren’t really so great? It’s been my experience in almost 20 years of business that at one time or another, all businesses fall into the complacency trap and as the song goes, you never realize what you have until it’s gone.For many years I was the President and Owner of my family’s chain of wine stores. I remember times when things were great, and could hardly imagine things could be different. Only, things were slowly changing, unbeknownst to me For starters, Costco arrived with a flourish on the wine and spirit scene. As the number one seller of wine in the U.S., Costco has had a profound impact on the fortunes of independent retailers. At the same time, costs were going up across the board. For example, our insurance premiums (post 9/11) went through the roof. Other expense categories like real estate taxes, health insurance and workers compensation premiums were all rising. It became more difficult to run the business the way we had in the past.We fought through our “complacency” stage. You can also, but you have to ask the right questions and seek

hat you offer - you might pay bandwidth overuse charges).

How to effectively advertise without spending a dime:

3 Ways Meetings Make Your Business Better
1) Effective meetings make moneyEffective meetings make a business smart by producing creative strategies, solid plans, and workable solutions. And smart businesses always outperform others. Bad meetings produce nothing, except maybe a decision to call another meeting.A smart business attracts customers because they know that smart companies provide reliable products and services. Thus, your proposal meetings, sales presentations, and operational effectiveness tell customers what to expect. For example, consider the opposite: how reliable a product would you expect from a company that ran bad meetings?A profit-driven business must obtain a positive return on every activity that it undertakes. And that includes meetings. Wise leaders design their meetings so that they earn money for the business.2) Effective meetings save moneyGood meetings produce results that people support. And that represents a major operational efficiency because such results cost less to implement. Results (if any) from a bad meeting seldom have everyone's support. Implementation is then hindered by broken commitments, competing activities, and sabotage. In turn, the business wastes huge amounts of money on duplicate efforts and dead-end projects.Smart companies get full value for money spent. And that includes salaries. In an effective meeting, people are paid to work, not lounge around eating donuts,

- Here's one the masters never mention: Newsgroups. Yes, good old Usenet. Post articles, questions, or answers related to your website topic. You can't use HTML, so no live links, but there's no reason you can't put your URL in your post (again, don't spam). You can also get responses via e-mail, and build valuable relationships with other members who frequent your topics. This is a great way to get customers, business partners, link partners, and even free advertising! Your Usenet posts can remain on the 'Net for years, so make sure your post is useful - read any posting guidelines and tips for the newsgroup before posting.

- Submit to directories! Directories list sites by category, so you will get targeted traffic this way. Some directories are free, including dmoz.org - The Open Directory project. It will likely take a few weeks before your site is included (if at all) but you should still submit it for free. Some sites charge a fee to be included in their directory. You may decide to buy a paid submission if you want a one-way link from a high-traffic page, or if you feel that you will get a lot of quality traffic. The main advantage of paid inclusion is that your site can be active in the directory within hours, so you may start receiving traffic immediately.

- Other free techniques: submit to smaller search engines, write articles, use viral pages, give away free reports with your links (make sure the report is useful and has value), give away free software, build your mailing list, and more.

If you spend 2 hours per day focusing on the of the above techniques, you will:

- Quickly get indexed in the search engines - Begin seeing more traffic - Improve your search engine rankings - Get quality backlinks

I would suggest splitting up your time as follows:

Each day, spend 1 hour surfing for traffic credits on at least 2 or 3 exchanges at once (if you want to learn how to maximize your surfing credits, check out my site in the resource box and sign up for my newsletter). This alone should get you at least 20 hits per day (usually much more).

Spend at least 1 hour on only one of the above techniques. Example - Post to 50 newsgroups on Monday, submit to 20 directories on Tuesday, make 10 forum posts on Wednesday, etc.

If you keep up this technique, within one week you should see significant results, and within several months your traffic should be through the roof!

Sometimes, you need to get visitors to your site immediately after it goes live (maybe you have a limited time offer, or cutting edge information that won't be relevant in a month). If this is the case, consider adding paid ads to your marketing arsenal. There are many ways you can buy traffic to your site:

- Pay-per-click advertising! This has become one of the most popular ways to advertise on the 'net. You have seen PPC ads everywhere (they are probably all around this article). Why? Because they work - context targeted ads ensure that visitors are offered sites related to the one they are on, so you get targeted visitors. Unfortunately, PPC ads are based on bidding on keywords, and there are ways you can lose thousands of dollars a month if you are not careful. If you wish to use PPC ads, make sure you do the research - know how much it will cost and how much you will gain. It is important to test frequently with PPC ads. Use the free keyword tools available to optimize your ad campaigns, try to buy keywords that are frequently searched and seldom advertised. Set your limits carefully, and know how much you can realistically afford to spend each day on clicks.

- Expired domains! Amazing idea, here's how it works: You either buy up domains as soon as they expire and redirect their traffic to your site, or you can pay companies that resell expired domain traffic as a number of hits per month. Either way works great, here's the difference:

- If you buy your own domains, it will only cost about $6/year per domain. But, if you pay for monthly traffic, you will not have to do all of the research to ensure that the domains you get will bring you quality, targeted traffic. Also, most of these companies bring you traffic from hundreds of related domains, so you are more likely to get interested visitors.

- Other paid advertising options: solo e-mail ads, newsletter/eZine ads, banners, text, image, and video ads. These have varied costs, and it would be difficult to tell you how to use these methods for your website, so if you would like to try some of these forms of advertising, make sure you research how to write ads for that tool.

Always analyze your spending when you use paid advertising. Improve your ad copy, ad placement, and visitor targeting - you are spending the money, make sure you get the best possible ROI.

That should get you well on your way to a profitable, valuable website. Remember to stick with it, but don't put all your eggs in one basket. If an advertisement is not working for you, stop using it. If something is working well, keep doing it. Try to improve your overall marketing strategy slightly every single day, and you will soon have a wonderful website generating tons of quality traffic!

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