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		<title>Starting the Right Way in Internet Marketing (pt 6)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As WordPress Bloggers we probably want to generate traffic. In this article from infogoround we will pass on some of those ways. If you recall, part 2 of this series was about finding long tail keywords keywords related to your niche. Using the methods outlined there, you would have a list of such keywords. Now [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As WordPress Bloggers we probably want to generate traffic. In this article from <a href="http://www.infogoround.com/cgi-bin/click.cgi?id=movingon" >infogoround</a> we will pass on some of those ways. If you recall, part 2 of this series was about finding long tail keywords keywords related to your niche. Using the methods outlined there, you would have a list of such keywords. Now is the time to use them. Also, if you had done paid traffic generation methods in the last part (part 5) of this series, you would also know which keywords made you money. These are also the keywords to use in today&#8217;s traffic generation methods.</p>
<p>This article will focus on the free traffic generation methods. Everyone likes free stuff but as mentioned in the last article, there are pros and cons to free traffic generation methods. The most important and crucial part about using free traffic generation methods is getting the right keywords. If you target wrong keywords, you are dead in the water even before starting. It&#8217;s that important.</p>
<p>So please review part 2 of this series to make sure you get your keywords right. In essence, right (or good) keywords are those which fulfill these criteria:</p>
<p>1. They are used by people (searchers in search engines) who want to buy something in your niche. Obviously, a keyword phrase with the word &#8216;free&#8217; in it is not what you want to target.<br />
2. They are precise in meaning. That&#8217;s why Internet Marketers go for long tail keywords (those that have at least three words in the phrase). Long tail keywords are very precise. You know exactly what the searcher is looking for and therefore can provide it to him.<br />
3. They must be words that are connected to a compelling need. Everyone has needs but not every need is compelling. Compelling needs are those which have to do with relieving pain or enhancing pleasure. For example, &#8216;get rid of head lice&#8217; is a good keyword phrase that is about a compelling need.<br />
4. They must have a high search count and low SERP count (defined in part 2). How high and how low is a matter of choice. Obviously, the higher the search count and the lower the SERP count, the better the keyword.<br />
5. Page 1 of Google for the keyword phrase must not have too many exact matches or be full of websites with a high page rank (PR). There are 10 results on page 1. If a majority of these are websites with exact matches in their descriptions or titles, that is a bad sign. Likewise, if a majority of the page 1 websites have a PR of 4 or higher, that&#8217;s a bad sign, too.</p>
<p>You can find out the page rank of any webpage by using Firefox&#8217;s page rank plugin.</p>
<p>Once you have a list of keywords that fulfill these 5 criteria, then it is possible to generate some massive traffic (depending on the niche). And the good thing is that all the traffic is free.</p>
<p>The next article will focus on the actual free traffic generation methods to use.</p>
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		<title>Legitimate Ways to Make Money from Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet has developed  into an extension of our everyday lives, legitimate work from home jobs have flourished; and each of them can serve as a fantastic income stream of its own.
If you enjoy using the Internet socially there is certainly nothing stopping you from also starting a blog and using it to produce income. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Internet has developed  into an extension of our everyday lives, legitimate work from home jobs have flourished; and each of them can serve as a fantastic income stream of its own.</p>
<p>If you enjoy using the Internet socially there is certainly nothing stopping you from also starting a blog and using it to produce income.  The great thing is that there are several legitimate work from home jobs that are worth considering and it cost little to nothing to put them to use.</p>
<p>Best of all, you can use WordPress along with free or some great low cost premium themes such as some of my favored themes offered by <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?cl=10214&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=36745" target="_blank">StudioPress</a>, <a href="https://secure.avangate.com/affiliate.php?ACCOUNT=MARKFAIL&amp;AFFILIATE=10787&amp;PATH=http%3A%2F%2Fshopperpress.com" target="_blank">ShopperPress</a> and <a href="https://secure.avangate.com/affiliate.php?ACCOUNT=MARKFAIL&amp;AFFILIATE=10787&amp;PATH=http%3A%2F%2Fshopperpress.com" target="_blank">DirectoryPress</a>, all quality themes that can be used to help you develop a stream of income.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at a few of these legitimate work from home job opportunities:</p>
<p>1. Auctioning products. You can earn some profit as early as tonight with highly popular auction sites like eBay and Yahoo! Auctions. Just look for an item you can sell, prepare a sales page, and wait for any of the 12 million people who visit auction sites on a daily basis to view and purchase what you have to offer. Do this on a grander scale and you will be able to discover the full earning potential of auction sites.</p>
<p>2. Become an affiliate. As an affiliate, you will be tasked to sell a merchant&#8217;s products. There are no membership fees or upfront costs required. Online affiliate programs will allow you to sell – and earn – based on your own ability to market products and services. You then earn a commission based on the sale of the product that was sold through your referral link. There are many companies offering affiliate programs. Just do an Internet search to find out your options.</p>
<p>3. Freelancing. Got a special skill you can extend to other people through the Internet? For example, can you ghostwrite for another person? Can you create software programs in accordance with their specifications? Can you prepare web graphics that they are sure to love? Render your service for a fee. You can try out Website like Rentacoder.com, Elance.com and Scriptlance.com to find an abundance of potential clients ready to pay you for assisting them with their projects.</p>
<p>4. Create Website and monetize them. You can develop niche-focused Website and enroll them under pay per click (PPC) programs like Google AdSense. PPC programs will send contextually-relevant ads to your web pages and you will get paid every time a visitor clicks on the link. If your Website becomes popular, you can sell advertising space as well.</p>
<p>These are just a fraction of the many Internet earning opportunities you can pursue. There are definitely more, and such is testament to how viable the web has become in being an earning avenue for people who wish to find legitimate work from home jobs.</p>
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		<title>You Can Have an Internet Based Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People make money on the Internet by selling their own products and services, or by selling other peoples through affiliate marketing programs or via drop-shippers.
Despite the attractions of affiliate marketing, selling physical goods on the Internet is actually one of the easiest ways to actually turn a profit if you have the right kind of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People make money on the Internet by selling their own products and services, or by selling other peoples through affiliate marketing programs or via drop-shippers.</p>
<p>Despite the attractions of affiliate marketing, selling physical goods on the Internet is actually one of the easiest ways to actually turn a profit if you have the right kind of product.</p>
<p>Some people will make and sell their own products thru on online auctions &#8211; products such as clothes, fashion goods, jewelry and accessories, hand crafted cards, woodcraft items, toys, games, handy inventions and so on.  If you are already making a product and looking for a source for marketing it an Internet business will be one of the quickest and easiest ways for you to find an outlet for your products.</p>
<p>If you want to escape from your day job or simply want to earn some extra cash without having to leave the comfort of your home then setting up a home based business on the Internet might be the answer for you.</p>
<p>There are several options for setting up a home based Internet business. When you are just getting started it is probably wisest to choose just one option and work on it until you are making money from it. Once you are in profit, expand your field of activities by adding more products or by finding a different way to promote your business that will complement what you are already doing.</p>
<p>If you do not have a product of your own to sell, don&#8217;t despair. If you live in a place that has special or regional products unavailable elsewhere then you could offer those on the Internet. In this case, you would buy either from local shops or from the manufacturers and resell the goods online.</p>
<p>When you have something to sell, the quickest way to get it online is to offer it on an auction site such as EBay. This is also a useful way to test the market. If the item sells quickly and if you can make a good profit then you will want to repeat the process and also set up a website of your own to sell from.</p>
<p>Setting up a WordPress blog or website is not expensive nowadays. Web hosting costs less than $10 a month, and a domain name costs around $10 a year. With WordPress and the many free and premium themes such as <a href="https://secure.avangate.com/affiliate.php?ACCOUNT=MARKFAIL&amp;AFFILIATE=10787&amp;PATH=http%3A%2F%2Fshopperpress.com" target="_blank">ShoppersPress</a> available that enable a techless person such as me to build a very professional site of their own.</p>
<p>Finally, set up an account with an online transaction service such as PayPal, AlertPay or MoneyBookers so that you will be able to add &#8220;Buy Now&#8221; buttons to your site.</p>
<p>The next step will be to start marketing your goods. The good news here is that on the Internet this can be done either free of charge or on a shoestring budget.</p>
<p>You can promote your website by setting up a blog and posting articles about your products and related topics on it. Write articles and post them to online article directories. A fast way to bring traffic to your website is to spend some money on Google&#8217;s Adwords program and set up some pay per click ads.</p>
<p>When orders start to come in you will of course have to fulfill them promptly. You may find yourself getting very busy as you will need to contact your customers to update them on their order status, pack and post the orders, and either make or purchase new stocks of items and packaging materials.</p>
<p>In short, you will have set up a successful home based business on the Internet. Good luck!</p>
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		<title>Getting Started in Internet Marketing (part 2) &#8211; Market Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to make a living online. But no matter which route you choose, it all begins with market research. You have to find a group of buyers who have a common problem or need. Then all you need to do is sell them things that solve the problem or meet the need.
Market [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many ways to make a living online. But no matter which route you choose, it all begins with market research. You have to find a group of buyers who have a common problem or need. Then all you need to do is sell them things that solve the problem or meet the need.</p>
<p>Market research can be divided into two parts &#8211; finding a profitable niche and finding long tail keywords within that niche. The good news is that there are many free tools available to do this. Some of the best tools are provided by Google itself. So the first thing to do is sign up for an account with Google. Once you have done that, go to Google&#8217;s search-based keyword tool at www.google.com/sktool. Type in the words &#8216;buy, purchase, order, get&#8217; (without quotation marks) into the search field. The sktool will list out 800 words or terms that contain these buying keywords together with other useful data like level of competition, searches per month etc. All you have to do is choose the term that you feel is most suitable for yourself, preferably one that has at least 2,500 searches per month.</p>
<p>Next, click on the icon that looks like a magnifying glass next to the search term that you have chosen. This will take you to Google Insights for Search, another free tool from Google at www.google.com/insights. It will automatically search the term that you have chosen and produce the relevant data at Google insights. Scroll down to the bottom part of the page and you will see other related search terms. Take note of all the related search terms that you find.</p>
<p>Now you would have about 10 buying keyword terms in a particular niche. This basically indicates that there are people searching for information to solve a problem or meet a need in this niche. Next, you should investigate further into how big a market this niche is and get more keyword ideas.</p>
<p>Go to amazon.com, ebay.com, magazines.com and clickbank.com. Put the main keyword of the niche into the search field and see if there are products that are listed in these websites within this niche. Chances are you will find products in all these websites pertaining to your niche. Briefly review some of the products for ideas &#8211; both keyword ideas and product ideas. The next step is to find long tail keywords.</p>
<p>To do this, go to Google&#8217;s external keyword tool at <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_new">https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal</a>. Type in your 10 keywords and it will generate a list of related keywords. Take note of the keyword phrases with at least 3 words in them (long tail keywords) and that produce at least 2,500 searches per month.</p>
<p>Now go to the Google search engine at www.google.com and type in the main keyword in quotation marks. As you are typing, Google will give you related search terms. Take note of the long tail keywords. Once you hit the search button, Google will list out all the websites related to your keyword (this is called the SERP or Search Engine Results Page). Take note of the number of websites listed (it is listed at the top right hand corner of the page). You are aiming for keywords with a maximum of 1,000,000 websites. If it is significantly higher than 1 million, then the keyword is too competitive. Do the same thing with each of the keywords that you have and choose those which have less than 1 million competing websites.</p>
<p>For each of the keywords you type into Google, look at the bottom of the SERP and you will find more suggested related keywords. Click on them and you will find even more keywords. Drill down into the keywords as deeply as you can until you find long tail keywords with less than 1 million competing websites.</p>
<p>If you have done your market research well enough, you will now have identified a niche with ready buyers and the long tail keywords (about 10 will do) they use to search in the search engine for information on a product to buy. The next step would be Product Research and Creation which will be covered in the next article.</p>
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		<title>How to Promote a Blog Raising Search Engine Ranking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raising search engine ranking is a very import part of searc engine optimization (SEO. This is an area I continue to learn more about every day and while certainly not a great expert in it I am willing to listen to others that are. If you want to start a blog or promote your blog [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Raising search engine ranking is a very import part of searc engine optimization (SEO. This is an area I continue to learn more about every day and while certainly not a great expert in it I am willing to listen to others that are. If you want to start a blog or promote your blog by raising search engine optimization here are a few methods that other are using successfully.<span id="more-542"></span></p>
<p>If you are new to blogging you need to know that the way a search engine ranks your site, and the methods it uses to compare one site to another is a closely held secret in the industry. Experts have been trying to decipher this mysterious algorithm for years and even though certain aspects of it are constantly updated and adjusted, some basic criteria are core to the way a site is ranked. Knowing what the basic ranking criteria are is essential to improving your ranking, and ultimately your traffic.</p>
<p>One of the main considerations most search engines have for a particular site is the concept of keywords such as the long tail key words how do I start a blog or how to promote a blog.  Search engines look at how many times a keyword is used on a site, and where on the site it appears is important to the search engine in it&#8217;s ranking of the site. Very little you can do to improve the ranking on the site will have as big an impact as this simple fact. So when you are setting up the site initially, think carefully about the name you choose and be sure to include the keyword in the site address (domain name).</p>
<p>Even if you have to set up several &#8220;sister sites&#8221; with keyword specific web addresses that highlight a keyword you care about, you can always redirect these to your main sites landing page. You must be sure to have your site indexed or &#8220;crawled&#8221; by search engines you care about on a regular basis. This can happen naturally, or you can make it happen by submitting your site to the search engines directly. This will cause them to index your site faster and initially improve your rating.</p>
<p>Because the search engines care about sites that update their content regularly, and will rank them higher, be sure not to force this indexing too often. If you do update your content, it is a good idea to re-submit after the update and you should see an improvement in your ranking. Also, if you update regularly, the search engine will notice this and will normally index your site more frequently as well. This index frequency is another key factor in your search ranking, so is a great idea to keep your site fresh.</p>
<p>Another major factor in search engine rankings is the number and quality of links that exist for your site. Having a lot of these links, especially from other sites that are ranked high is very important. The more links you can establish the better. There are a few easy ways to get these links created and most of them are free, but it takes a little effort on your part. Next to having the perfect website name, getting a lot of links for your site is the single most important factor in improving your search rankings.</p>
<p>There are a lot of techniques for getting  links established for your site and some work better than others. One easy way is to submit your site to website directories. These website directories are a sure way to get some links established, but it can be tricky. Over the years the search engines have caught onto this technique and if you submit to too many of these directories too quickly, you could be penalized, so spread out your submissions. There are a few of these directories that have been flagged by the search engines and will actually hurt your ranking, so be sure to research them all and pick the right ones.</p>
<p>Another great place to get links started is by visiting and posting comments on a group of blogs covering the keyword you are trying to target. Usually if you post on these blogs, you can add a link back to your site and have it counted in your favor. You could easily post on several blogs a day and establish an impressive collection of links as a result. You could start a blog yourself on the keyword of interest and pepper this with links back to your site as well. This would help with your ranking, but could be a little less effective since all of the links originate from a single site. It is better to have these links back to your site start from a lot of different sites.</p>
<p>The other advantage to having a blog is that you can publish articles on it about your keyword and have your link in these as well. You could also submit these articles to other blogs or article directories to expand on the impact of these links. All of these techniques are fairly easy to implement and will have a very positive impact on your search rankings quickly. Some of these are more effective than others and take a little time to work. The trick with improving your search engine rankings and traffic is to use a variety of techniques to help your site rise in the ranking.</p>
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		<title>Starting a Blog? Consider the Role of Personas in Your Blog Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are preparing to start a new WordPress or other blog or website, personas can play a key role in the decision making.  I was reminded of this when reading articles at InfoGoRound an article sharing service that I am a member of.  For those wanting to know how to start a blog or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are preparing to start a new WordPress or other blog or website, personas can play a key role in the decision making.  I was reminded of this when reading articles at <a href="http://www.infogoround.com/cgi-bin/click.cgi?id=movingon" >InfoGoRound</a> an article sharing service that I am a member of.  For those wanting to know how to start a blog or improve their existing blog or website you should find this article on the importance of persona very helpful.<span id="more-540"></span></p>
<p>A persona is a representation of a web site&#8217;s intended user. These are also known as; user profiles, user definitions and audience profiles.  Personas should describe a blog or web site&#8217;s target users and help give a picture of those who will most likely use the site. They are used to help design teams capture information relevant to the users&#8217; needs, goals, scenarios and tasks.</p>
<p>Personas can be developed with varying degrees of detail, but they should have a couple of things in common. They should express what users need and what they expect.</p>
<p>There are three layers of detail in creating personas.</p>
<p><strong>Layer 1: Minimum Information </strong></p>
<p>Name  Personas are a summary representation of people: Since people have names then personas should have names. This detail helps designers remember they are designing a web site that real people will be using.</p>
<p>Motivations and Need: Motivations are expressed as what a user wants to get out of interacting with the blog or the organization. The designer needs to put themselves in the position of the user.  Each persona must express the users&#8217; needs. The level of detail that is required is the amount that is needed for the designer to understand why the user is on the web site.</p>
<p>Scenarios:  Scenarios are realistic scenes that set the stage for an interaction between the blog and a user. They allow project designers to picture the use of the web site by the end user.  One part of the scenario should include how people use the information they get from the blog/website.</p>
<p><strong>Layer 2: </strong></p>
<p>More Details:   Adding more detailed information will solidify the relationship between the end user and the web site.</p>
<p>Behaviors:  What does the end user need to do to make use of or find particular content or functionality? What decisions are they asked to make?</p>
<p>Quotes:  Use quotes to add a personal touch. This will help make the persona appear to be more real.</p>
<p><strong>Layer 3: </strong></p>
<p>Personas as real people  Include demographic information: This will help describe the behaviors of a specific person who represents a group of needs and goals.</p>
<p>Technology comfort level can play a role: Some people are not comfortable getting or giving information online. How does this impact design?  A photograph of an individual can help decision makers think about the end users as individuals instead of as an anonymous mass.</p>
<p>Personas should be developed at the beginning of the project. Personas help capture user needs and create a framework for making decisions about design.</p>
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		<title>10 Great Reasons to Start a Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As those of you that keep asking how do I start a blog? Or how do I promote a blog? Blogging is very popular and becoming more popular every day. This does not mean it is right for you but for me and many others we have found it an excellent way to promote our [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As those of you that keep asking how do I start a blog? Or how do I promote a blog? Blogging is very popular and becoming more popular every day. This does not mean it is right for you but for me and many others we have found it an excellent way to promote our offline business and/or make money online.  If you are thinking about starting a WordPress or other blog or website here are 10 really good reasons to start a blog:<span id="more-533"></span></p>
<p>If you are still wondering what blog is, a blog is simply a special type of website. It has features that set it apart from other websites such as: the content entries (posts) are generally arranged in chronological order with the newest content at the top; reader comments are usually an important part of a blog; a subscription system called RSS is usually offered so readers know when the blog has been updated; and the posts are arranged into some type of archive system so readers can find information easily.  You can also set up a blog that looks like a typical website should you choose!</p>
<p>1. You don&#8217;t need any programming skills. You can use a free blogging platform like Blogger.com or Wordpress.com, or a self-hosted blogging platform like WordPress.org/. With any of these you can have your first site up and running in a few hours and future blogs up within minutes and at no to little costs. Simply select a theme and start entering your information. If you want to make money with your blog it is not necessary to but you might want to get your own domain name, decide on a market niche, and focus your content to match that audience.</p>
<p>2. With a blog you can add content easily and often updating your site yourself is a cinch. Adding content to a blog is no more difficult that typing a Word document and hitting save. In the case of a blog, though, when you hit publish your information is immediately available to the whole internet community.</p>
<p>3. Search engines love blogs because they are looking for fresh content everyday. If you work at adding new content on a consistent basis Google and other search engines will reward you with free traffic.<br />
4. Blogs can be used to build communities. Blogs are a great way to interact with your visitors. In fact you can do so many cool things with a blog that the really good ones make the visit so enjoyable people actually want to come back again. You can interact with your visitors by adding a place for them to post comments on your blog articles.<br />
5. You can monetize blogs easily. Whether through Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher, or affiliate links, monetizing a blog is one of the easiest ways to begin making money online.<br />
6. You can easily add free things such as polls that make it fun for others to see what people are voting on.</p>
<p>7. Do you like videos? You can add those that you make and relate directly to your business or the theme of your blog. If you do not know how to create a video you can go to You Tube and copy some simple code for free and place it in your blog.<br />
8. You can sell products on your blog. This is so easy that anyone can do it as well. Start by placing a banner for your favorite affiliate program on the sidebar. Then add text link ads for more products you sell in the content of the blog articles themselves.</p>
<p>9. Do you operate an off line business? You can promote that business on the internet either locally or globally a great free way to advertise.</p>
<p>10. You can sell advertising to others promoting their business or products for them. Another huge revenue stream for top bloggers is selling advertising. Did you know you could earn from a few to thousands of dollars a month with pay per click advertising such as Google Adsense ads on your blog or promoting products and services listed on free sites such as Click Bank?<br />
These are 10 top reasons to start a blog and there are many others!</p>
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		<title>Getting Screwed by WildBlue  or is it WildScrew Fair Access Policy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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I live and operate my business in an area where cable and DSL high speed services are not available. Actually Qwest DSL stops a couple hundred yards from my house but they have tried but been unable to get a strong enough signal for it to work at my house. The cable company offers television [...]]]></description>
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<p>I live and operate my business in an area where cable and DSL high speed services are not available. Actually Qwest DSL stops a couple hundred yards from my house but they have tried but been unable to get a strong enough signal for it to work at my house. The cable company offers television programming in our area but they say that the lines are too old to offer high speed Internet service.  Without high speed service operating a consulting business and my internet business using WordPress or any other format would be very difficult.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>For the almost 4 years now I have had Wildblue Satellite “high speed” service. You notice that I put “high speed” in quotes for while it is quicker than dial up when working it is much slower than DSL. With WildBlue or WildScrew which ever it is, I pay for one of their premium plans and not the basic.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>One year ago I upgraded to an even more expensive plan when WildBlue cut back on the speed of my service for a month when the bandwidth was exceeded by backing up my computer to an offsite service. This exceeded what they refer to as their usage threshold. My instructions at that time were basically to grab the Vaseline and bend over. Now don’t get me wrong, the employees at WildBlue are very polite and very nice but unfortunately not in a position to do anything for you.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>A couple of weeks ago my main computer had to be replaced. This required that I upload all of the information stored off site on to the new computer. The result was that I once again was required to grab the Vaseline and bend over.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now here is another place WildBlue really screws you. If you do not decrease you Usage Total to 79% or less of the Usage Threshold within the following 30 days this is a second violation and the penalty continues for another month while the charge you the full price.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Here’s another kicker. For the first couple of years that I had the WildBlue service it was regularly down when it rained, snowed, cloudy or windy. I live in Oregon a green but wet state. Did they give me any credit for all the time that I was down? Hell no!!! They kept saying they would issue a credit after they got the satellite working properly.  The truth is they never do get it working and I am still waiting for that credit, so be warned.</p>
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<p>When one of these so called high speed satellite companies screws you like this and your business depends on the Internet it makes it nearly impossible to operate.  Presently I am operating on dial up for it is quicker than the so-called “high speed” service of WildBlue. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I have called Wildblue and told them that if they were unable to restore my service I would be changing companies as they were putting me out of business with this Fair Access Policy. The reaction of the WildBlue “no service department” was polite yet a firm “I am sorry there is nothing I can do about it.” I let them know that while they can do nothing about it I can and I would be looking for the service of another provider. </p>
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<p>I feel that I have received the royal screw and for me WildBlue is now WildScrew. If you are in the same position that I am in and unable to get DSL or cable I would suggest that you do the same thing I am in the process of doing and check out Hughes and the other providers first. You will also find that the other providers do have a Fair Access Policy the difference is that some of them are for a short period of time such as 24 hours.  While these policies can still be unfair for they do not credit you for all the months or years that you use a lot less than your allotted service or the times when their service did not work, they screw you when you do exceed the usage.</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is a great for promoting your traditional business, internet marketing, setting up a personal blog or even setting up a website for an club or other organization. Another use that one might consider WordPress for is the development of a paid membership site.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is a great for promoting your traditional business, internet marketing, setting up a personal blog or even setting up a website for an club or other organization. Another use that one might consider WordPress for is the development of a paid membership site.</p>
<p><strong>What are the Benefits of a Paid Membership Site Anyway? </strong><br />
First of all a paid membership site provides recurring income. A small amount paid monthly by every member can quickly add up to either valuable extra income or even a full-time work from home income. If you were to have several membership sites and if you have a higher priced membership fee, you can quickly earn a very substantial annual income.</p>
<p><strong>Why Would a Person Use a Paid Membership Site?</strong><br />
People will buy information that they could probably find on the Internet themselves if they had time and knew where to look, but often there is a higher perceived value when they have paid for it.</p>
<p><strong>How Do You Attract Members to a Paid Membership Site?</strong><br />
The challenge then is to find customers and then provide them with such good value that they will retain their membership month after month and hopefully also recommend your site to others because you pay them a generous affiliate fee.</p>
<p>There are four main criteria you need to consider to achieve this and they are:</p>
<p>1. Your site must be in an established membership type market.</p>
<p>2. You must provide excellent value content or service</p>
<p>3. You need to use software that will password-protect your site so that non-paying members cannot get the content for free.</p>
<p>4. A marketing system to attract new subscribers and retain them once they sign up.</p>
<p><strong>Criteria 1 &#8211; Your Membership-Site Market</strong></p>
<p>In assessing your potential membership-site market, consider both online and off-line habits. Ask yourself whether people with an interest in this subject would buy monthly magazines, belong to a club or organization about it and perhaps whether there are books on the subject on Amazon&#8217;s best popular seller lists. Online, check if there are eBooks that sell well, blogs, forums or other on-line communities about this subject.</p>
<p>The topic must be popular enough to have many potential subscribers or you will be wasting your time. It is worth offering some free material, perhaps an ebook on your subject to see how many people have an interest it it. Another strategy to test your market is to set up a simple survey, asking what issues people have. You can offer free membership to your new site as an incentive for people to reply; the answers you receive will guide you as to what kind of concerns people have on this subject.</p>
<p>The information most in demand on-line is that which solves someone&#8217;s immediate problem, so it is worth considering whether your content or service solves just a one-time problem or whether there could be an ongoing or related issues that you can address.</p>
<p>An example of a one-off problem would perhaps be a remedy for snoring and for an ongoing problem, think of new parents, who have many worries and sleepless nights when their baby cries, perhaps in the middle of the night and there is no-one they can ask for advice. A membership site that contains suggested solutions for the numerous problems new parents face would be a valuable resource for them.</p>
<p><strong>Criteria 2 &#8211; Quality Content</strong></p>
<p>The four main types of content are: written, audio, video and web-based software solutions. Naturally, the media type you use will depend on your site topic as some will be more relevant that others. Most sites will include a significant percentage of written material as this is still the primary method of sharing information on the Internet, but audio recordings are increasing popular because people can download them and listen when they are walking, driving, exercising or away from their computer for any other reason.</p>
<p>Video content is preferred when the information you are providing is instructional; &#8220;how-to&#8221; in pictures or a video can make a process very easy to understand compared with following a written list of instructions.</p>
<p>Another situation where pictures are helpful is showing symptoms of something. For example, for the new parent site mentioned above, there could be photos of the types of spots or rashes a small child might have on their body if they have caught any of the various common childhood complaints such as measles, chickenpox or have been bitten by an insect.</p>
<p>There are many sources of good content apart from writing your own if you are qualified to do so. Your own material is obviously the cheapest, but will take the longest to prepare and you need to know enough about your topic to keep providing fresh material on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Use other people&#8217;s material by utilizing royalty free articles from article directories such as ezinearticles.com and free content sites, free to use videos from YouTube, metacafe.com or ehow.com or good quality PLR (private label rights).</p>
<p>Outsourcing is another option that will be less time-consuming although you will have costs for the ghost-writer or freelancer you contract to produce your work. Apart from the well-known elance.com &amp; rentacoder.com, there are hundreds of other sources as a simple web search on &#8220;outsourcing&#8221; will reveal. If you plan to outsource on a regular basis, it is worth the time and effort to find a freelancer and develop a relationship with them, rather than going through a ghost-writing service provider.</p>
<p>Interviews with experts are something you can do yourself with basic equipment. Prepare a list of open-ended questions before the interview and send a copy to the person you will be interviewing two or three days beforehand. Any sooner and they might forget about it and any later doesn&#8217;t give them time to prepare.</p>
<p>The following are some suggestions for interview questions that will give an expert the opportunity to give you excellent material for your membership site:<br />
1. What is so good about &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;?<br />
2. How did you get involved in &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;?<br />
3. What do you consider the top 3 things someone should know about &#8230;&#8230;?<br />
4. What would you suggest would be the best way to get started?<br />
5. How long would it take to be proficient at &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.?</p>
<p>An hour is a good length for a value interview but you may want to go longer and edit the script later. This is easily done even with a free audio editor such as audacity.</p>
<p><strong>Criteria 3 &#8211; membership site software to protect your subscriber&#8217;s investment and save you time</strong></p>
<p>If you can, invest in a specialized memberships-site software package or script. There are quite a number of good choices of varying prices, for example Membergate, Memberspeed, &amp; Wordpress plugins like Wordpress Wishlist, Digital Access Pass (DAP), YourMember &amp; aMember. The advantages of using one of these is that so many of the member functions are done automatically, for example:</p>
<p>1. Membership levels<br />
2. Membership types<br />
3. RSS Feed encryption so that non-paying members cannot access your content through the RSS feed<br />
4. Sequential delivery so that someone cannot sign up and download all the material &amp; then unsubscribe &#8211; the longer a person is a member, the more content they have access to<br />
5. Payment gateways &#8211; preferably more than just Paypal<br />
6. Training and Support<br />
7. A good strong guarantee</p>
<p><strong>Criteria 4 &#8211; Strategies for Recruiting &amp; retaining members</strong></p>
<p>1. Instead of focusing on trying to sell memberships, focus on how how one particular article of your content can solve a specific problem a person might have so that you are providing a solution to that problem and also giving one month&#8217;s membership to the site for free.</p>
<p>2. Use free advertising by writing &amp; submitting articles &amp; reports, posting on blogs &amp; forums, make squidoo lenses, hubs &amp; other web pages.</p>
<p>3. Buy Pay per Click advertising and banner ads etc</p>
<p>4. List your membership site on Clickbank, Paydotcom etc</p>
<p>5. Email your list &amp; if you don&#8217;t have one, form a joint venture partnership with someone who does &amp; pay them a generous affiliate commission.</p>
<p>There are many other marketing tactics that have been written about at great length and can be found in a web search.</p>
<p>In summary, if you can address the four main criteria of using an established membership type market, providing premium value content, using appropriate membership software and attracting subscribers, a paid membership site can become a very profitable business model.</p>
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		<title>Money Making Blog Ideas with PPC Kahuna</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps you have now started to build one or more WordPress blogs and like me  you want to make money online.  You have heard that some people are getting rich on line but it just hasn&#8217;t happened to you yet and to be honest it has not happened to me yet either but I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps you have now started to build one or more WordPress blogs and like me  you want to make money online.  You have heard that some people are getting rich on line but it just hasn&#8217;t happened to you yet and to be honest it has not happened to me yet either but I have really been learning a lot of new blog tips and tricks and money making ideas since becoming a member of PPCKahuna Elite. <span id="more-472"></span> With all of the ways there are to make money online why is it that we all can&#8217;t seem to do it?  One reason is that those that  succeed are remaining focused.  As affiliate marketers who are trying to make money online, you need to remember at all times what you’re trying to accomplish.  Those who are struggling to make money have lost their focus, and have become distracted from the core of their online business plan.</p>
<p>For two years I was throwing spaghetti at the wall trying to figure out what would stick. Unfortunately this is not the best way to make money. Fortunately I became a PPCKahuna Elite member and learned the truth and what the truth was is that what I was doing is a guaranteed way to fail.</p>
<p>In short, you can lose sight of your goals.  If you’ve decided that the best way to sell your products and earn you money is through PPC advertising, then what are you doing buying software to help you with list building?  You’re splitting your focus, and your business is hurting as a result.</p>
<p>If you’ve decided that PPC advertising is the way to go for your online business, then concentrate on that.  Learn as much as you can about PPC advertising, buy products to maximize your PPC campaign.  Don’t get distracted by all the other forms of advertising out there until you’ve given your PPC advertising campaign the attention it deserves.</p>
<p>I like most affiliate marketers was distracted by the sheer amount of advertising vehicles available.  List building one day, SEO the next, on to PPC and so forth.  We start out trying to understand our niche, get distracted by membership sites, and then that gets put on the back burner when we get this great email about how you can make a mint on Ebay.</p>
<p>All of this discussion begs the question:  what is your plan to make money online?   Out of all the different methods available, what do you think will work best for you?  If you do decide that PPC advertising is the way to go, then make a commitment to do it as thoroughly as possible.  Then, when the next interesting news about a great new product comes your way, you need to stop, and evaluate whether or not it will help you meet the goals that you’ve set for yourself.  If it doesn’t, then no matter how interesting it is, walk away, because it will just distract you from your goals.</p>
<p>So How Does PPC Kahuna Come Into All of This?  Once you’ve decided what your goals are, and if you’ve decided that PPC advertising is the way to go, then you need to find tools to help accomplish that goal.  And PPC Kahuna has a whole offering of tools to make your PPC advertising turn clicks in to money for you. I am not going to pull the wool over your eyes. The truth is if I can get you to make money by checking out PPC Kahuna and you like what you see and become a member we will both be making money. Sure sounds like a win-win proposition to me!</p>
<p>PPC Kahuna has all of the resources to take you through the ins and outs of PPC advertising.  It helps you get started by finding your niche, picking your products, and setting up your sites.  Then you’ll also have access to the resources you need to market to your niche, develop your PPC campaign, and how to manage that campaign once it starts.  And once you’re established online and making money, PPC Kahuna can show you how to maximize your campaigns to increase your profit even more.</p>
<p>PPC Kahuna is unlike anything else available. It is an easy and comprehensive system that anyone can use including Techless Terry.  It is about making real money online.  PPC Kahuna provides you with the tools and resources you need to make money online.  All you need to do is stay focused, and only spend time on things that will help you accomplish your goals.</p>
<p>As a user of PPCKahuna I strongly urge you to check it out for yourself. To check out PPC Kahuna <a href="http://www.ppckahuna.com/invite/112755/" target="_blank">Click Here</a>. And the greatest thing is it is free to click and get some great ideas while you are doing it!</p>
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