Are You Ready To Author Online?
By Jeanette S Cates, PhD - 1/4/2008
One of the most frequent questions we get is "what does it take to put my course online?"
In an effort to give you more information, this is the first in a series of articles on just that topic. In this article, we?ll look at the three components that need to be in place before you start to...
Make Money with Your Own Blog
By Joan Masterson - 1/4/2008
Well, basically, setting up a blog means that you are creating a little space of your own on the Internet where you can make posts about anything that interests you. Of course, if you are going to be blogging on a variety of topics, the best way to make money with it would be to have different blogs...
Unlocking the Power of Your Website!
By Charlene Rashkow - 1/4/2008
Why do some web sites reap huge benefits while others just get lost in the shuffle? Do some web masters have a secret that most of us have overlooked? Actually, there is a secret to unlocking the power of your web site and it has to do with words. When communicating via the web, words truly make al...
Writing Articles: Yes You Can!
By Jeff Herring - 1/4/2008
Next time you are at the circus, check out the elephants. These are huge animals. I know this because I rode one last year with my oldest son. Have you ever been in the middle of a situation that seemed like a good idea at the time and then in the middle of it you realizw what you are doing and wond...
Just What Is `The Internet`? An Introduction for Student Researchers
By Kelly Garbato - 1/4/2008
Just as students are confounded by online library resources, so are they confused by "The Internet" (also commonly referred to as "The Web"). In fact, these terms are often used interchangeably, even though both refer to different tools; in fact, the World Wide Web is actually one portion of the In...
4 Ways Branded Sales Pages Increase Your Conversion Rates When Accepting Payments Online
By Tinu AbayomiPaul - 1/4/2008
If you`re a consultant with a growing business, you may find that you`re out-growing the standard options for processing payments online, and yet are not producing the volume level of a particular service to justify the extra costs that a merchant account would require. This is one of the reasons wh...
Building Link Popularity As Easy As 123
By Matt Colyer - 1/4/2008
The most difficult area of SEO is building link popularity. You may be thinking why? Because there are no easy ways to build link popularity. In this article I will tell you how to get links and how to find them. First thing you must do is find a web site that you would like to trade links with. How...
What Hosting Companies Don`t Tell You, Could Hurt You?
By Dave Young - 1/4/2008
Did you know that hosting companies overcrowd their servers despite all the issues caused by servers running hundreds of accounts? Are you aware of what happens if your website is hosted on a server that?s overcrowded? You?re probably thinking to yourself, ?what do you mean overcrowd their servers??...
Building An Effective Furniture Sales Web Site
By Jim Ray - 1/4/2008
Web sites that feature products ? especially furniture or other large items ? require a careful balance of text and images to convey the value of each product. Let?s face it. Consumers like to see, feel, and ?experience? a product before they make a purchase decision. If you can elicit the senses ...
Smart File Names For High Rankings
By Yaro Starak - 1/4/2008
One of the simplest methods to improve your search engine optimization is to look at the way you name your files. Keywords in file names are a good thing. Don`t call your webpages names like "services.html" or "products.html" actually use your keywords. Here is an example for you. Let`s say you sell...
SEO Copywriting is a Waste of Time for Blogs
By Brian Clark - 1/4/2008
Good copywriting skills can help you sell with your blog. But if you think by ?copywriting? I mean ?SEO copywriting,? you?d be wrong. In fact, you?re probably wasting your time even worrying about traditional SEO techniques when it comes to blogs. Here?s why. Writing for Search Engines Search engi...
The Blog Factor: Everything You Need to Know to Start Blogging - Today!
By Penny C. Sansevieri - 1/4/2008
So what is this "blog factor"? Well, what a few thought was a novel idea some years ago has now morphed into something no one expected. There are currently nine million blogs out there with 40,000 new ones being added everyday. Some are informative and some are just downright a waste of your time. A...
What IS and WHY Have a Content-rich Website?
By Hege Crowton - 1/4/2008
A content-rich site is one that has lots of informative articles up at it, usually centered around a theme. Most sites can not quite pull off being WikiPedia, so they specialize. For instance, you could do a site for dog owners. Possible articles on that site would cover: WHERE TO GET A DOG
HOW ...
Avoid a Summer Sales Slump
By Marty Dickinson - 1/4/2008
Did you ever see the movie "Terminator 3" by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Remember when the machines took over the controls and began to
terminate society as we know it? This is exactly how it feels every Summer for many business owners. As if your computer somehow sneaks in during the middle
of the night...
Recommended Tools When You Put On The SEO Cap For Your Web Site
By Vinodh Pushparaj - 1/4/2008
The name of the game is search engine optimization and there are 20 winners and a million losers. It is a massive game that is conducted each and every minute by the top search engines. The fun is the referee of the game tries to modify the format each minute, to make the game useful for the spectat...
Autoresponders Make You Look Like A Pro
By Bob Power - 1/4/2008
People like to get immediate responses to requests. Autoresponders are great for letting people know you are on the job and that their requests are being taken care of. These are much better than thank you pages. Below is one example of how you can use an autoresponder to save time and make your cus...
Accepting Credit Card Payments Online
By Nancy P Redford - 1/4/2008
Being able to accept credit cards and other online payments is crucial to the success of your business and profits. Your customers are more likely to buy from you if you offer them a secure and convenient way to order goods and services online at your site. This is more preferable than relying solel...
Save Promotion Money: Attract the Right Audience to your Web Site
By Judy Cullins - 1/4/2008
To attract your targeted audience to your Web site, you need to know your preferred audience. Then you`ll spend less promotion time and money.
In everything you send out, think about your audience before you write. If you write an ezine to stay in touch with future customers you want to give...
Free Ecards For Any Ocassion
By Christian N - 1/4/2008
A free ecard is an electronic greeting card that can be sent to friends, family, or anyone who owns a computer and has an Internet connection. Free ecards are sent over the Internet from one computer to another. Free ecards are quickly becoming a new, popular, and innovative way to promote business ...
Keyword Selection- The Dark Horse of Search Engines Optimization
By Craige Stacey - 1/4/2008
Below are what I call the ?10 Commandments? for Keywords. To start with select ?keyword phrases? NOT keywords. This is very important. After all, the keyword itself is included in the keyword phrase. Consider select different endings for your keywords, (ing, ed, s and es). Rack your brain and brains...
Content Syndication Through RSS Feeds
By John Doetsch - 1/4/2008
Delivering regularly updated content to website visitors is easier through RSS resources. RSS, also known as Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, has been used for years by online visitors. However, it has only recently begun to gain popularity among webmasters as a means of providing vis...
Internet Marketing and Public Speaking: The Murder Board Practice
By Larry Tracy - 1/4/2008
I recently posted an article titled ?Internet Marketing and Public Speaking: Ten Tips for When the Twain Shall Meet.? One of the tips concerned a means to practice your sales presentation with a ?Murder Board.? I received several emails requesting a fuller explanation of this practice method. I deci...
Global Economy Creates Need For International Business Pros
By Terry McDermott - 1/4/2008
The increasing globalization of business has created a demand for MBA graduates with a specialization in the international management of business. Many institutions, including several accredited universities, offer the opportunity to earn an international MBA online. Online International MBA program...
Five Steps To Successful Web Marketing And Sales Process!
By Abe Cherian - 1/4/2008
The basic principles used successfully by brick and mortar storefronts in moving your potential clients through a successful sales process is also the most effective way on the web. But how? You do this by following the five step process in your marketing strategy by attracting potential clients, bu...
Social Software? Check Out Google Map Mash-ups
By Jesse Somer - 1/4/2008
I asked a colleague from work today if he had any news about new Internet phenomena that would be cool to check out. He told me about the concept of social software. Social software is where someone takes an existing computer program and combines it with another idea to make it more personalized for...
SEO = Search Engine Optimization, tips on successful page ranking
By Shawn DesRochers - 1/4/2008
One of the key things to remember when developing your web-site presence is to always evaluate your competition. See what?s working for them; how they market their products and services, and even evaluate their KEYWORD and DISCRIPTION tags. The key points of using these two Meta Tags, is optimizatio...
The Single Biggest Marketing Mistake Online
By John Reese - 1/4/2008
I have been marketing online since 1990.
Long before the Web came about. I have
been actively marketing on the Internet as
we know it today since 1994. Yes, I`m an Internet Marketing old geezer. I have pretty much tried it all and seen it
all online when it comes to marketing tactics. Certainly, the...
Top Ten Ways to Increase Web Sales - Part 2
By Judy Cullins - 1/4/2008
You have only 10 seconds to impress your potential buyer.
Your Web site visitors don`t care about you. They care what you can do for them. Give them a reason to buy. If you haven`t reaped the sales you deserve apply these ten tips:
Part one of this article is available at SEO Duplicate Web Content Penalty Myth Exploded
By Joel Walsh - 2/14/2007 The "duplicate content penalty" myth is one of the biggest obstacles I face in getting web professionals to embrace reprint content. The myth is that search engines will penalize a site if much of its content is also on other websites.
Clarification: there is a real duplicate content penalty for ... Repay The Webmaster With A ClickBy Vulcan999 - 2/12/2007 This little piece is intended for web-surfers (aka visitors/traffic). These web-surfers include webmasters.
A lot of effort and time has been put into every website you visit, regardless of its size and/or content. Some websites have specific content, others general. But the fact remains: they wan... 14 Ways To Persuade Your Web Site Visitors To Give You Their Email AddressesBy Keith Gloster - 2/11/2007 In order to persuade your web site visitors to give you their email addresses, you must first make it easy for them to subscribe. Then find creative ways to keep them coming back again and again.
To help get your creative juices flowing, here are 14 tips you should consider:
1. Ask visitors to s... Getting Content for Your Site Free and EasyBy Andre Best - 2/8/2007 Any avid website owner knows how critical it is to have a website that contains large amounts of genuine `content`. These days a website pretty much lives or dies by the amount of content it has on it. A simple and brutal truth of today`s Internet is that a site without increasing amounts of frequen... Finding An Internet Access Provider That Will Meet Your NeedsBy Mark Woodcock - 2/7/2007 Your internet access provider can make you happy or sad. They can also save you time or cost you precious time. How do you make sure that you are satisfied and feel good about your internet access provider? You can ensure that you have made the correct choice for you and your family by researching a... Spyware Stats To Pay Attention ToBy Mitch Johnson - 2/6/2007 In early 2005 Webroot Software released its State of Spyware Report which was conducted by Webroot and Earthlink. In the survey over 4.6 million computer systems were scanned during 2004 and the results have shown how threatening spyware has become.
It was suggested that more than 90 percent of... AOL Browser BETA - A Major Contender?By Pete Crewdson - 1/29/2007 To me, AOL Browser .68 Beta is what a browser should be. Relatively lightweight, easy to install, and most of all, it works how I want it to. I`ve been using for one day, and I`m already converted.
Based on Internet Explorer 6 technology, the new AOL Browser has taken what is good with browsers su... Growing Your Site With Content!By Anthony Jewell - 1/27/2007 I think alot of people still miss out why you have a website. Depending on what your site is about usually depends on how you tackle the subject of your site. If you are reading this article you are probably wanting to or already have aimed your site in the direction of commerce. Which simply means ... Making Sure You Are Ready For Pre-PressBy Paul Hood - 1/25/2007 Nobody wants to be caught with his pants down. Aside from the great inconvenience, you will be put in a very awkward position and you?ll have a tough time making a rebound. So how do you keep those pants on?
A key factor in every successful undertaking is a sound plan. Making an outline of the ste... Inside the Mind of a Super AffiliateBy Bob Mobino - 1/20/2007 I only know one risk-free way to retire early, while being lazy.
It`s all about being a Super Affiliate.
Using other peoples` resources via a systematic strategy, here`s your elixir to maneuver your way to Internet riches.
While other entrepreneurs kept massacring their time with endless ... Take The ?Small? Out Of Small Town Business!By Michele Schermerhorn - 2/12/2006 Small towns are wonderful! I live in one with a population of 600 people. You can stroll down the boardwalk and people greet you every step of the way. The pace of the town is slow and it?s just really comfortable to live here. But, for many of the small businesses in town, it is a problem making a ... How Web Masters Can Start a Home Based Business Using Credit CardsBy Claire Bowes - 2/4/2006 If you?re a webmaster who has been itching to start a home based business and you are experiencing some cash flow problems and are considering leaving your dreams by the wayside, don?t. Credit cards may be your answer. Now before you start feeling guilty about using your credit cards for some much n... Coping with a Serious Data Loss from your Computer Hard DriveBy Darryl Peddle - 2/3/2006 Data loss is an expensive reality. It`s a hard fact that it happens more often then users like to admit. A recent study by the accounting firm McGladrey and Pullen estimates that one out of every 500 data centers will experience a severe computer disaster this year. As a result, almost half of those... 8 Tips for Choosing a Domain NameBy David Cooper - 1/31/2006 If you`re just starting out on the Internet, choosing a domain name is one of the first major decisions you will have to make. I won`t say that choosing a name for your site will determine the overall success or failure of your online business. It will, however, affect almost every aspect of your b... High Earning Affiliate Is It Possible?By Michel Richer - 1/30/2006 Affiliate Program have exploded on the internet. Thousand of people join them every day. Amazon.com is probably the best example of such phenomenal success.If the affiliate program is so popular and so widely available and booming like mushroom...Why do mos... By Stephen Currier - 1/24/2006 Talent alone won`t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are you ready?"
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Have you thought about starting your business? Do you know that 90% of Americans have thought about it, but only 10... Adware - Should I be Afraid?By Sharon Housley - 1/23/2006 Developers offering downloads are paying the price for the malformed truths that have been put forth regarding downloads. While not a political campaign the smears are ever present in the adware arena.
Years ago developers saw they could monetize freeware that was becoming expensive to host. Deve... How Improve Conversion RatesBy Salihu Ibrahim - 1/20/2006 Do you know your conversion rates? Conversion rate is the number of visitors to your site that take the desired action against the total number of visitors in a particular period or time. Research has shown that 60% of websites do not know their conversion rates. Then how do you improve your site... Target Practice And The Internet EntrepreneurBy Elizabeth Piotrowski - 2/7/2005 Internet marketing, a lot of the time really is hit and miss. Always keep in mind that when you promote your site you are, in effect trying to get the word out to the whole world. Not an easy task! How can there NOT be variables when you are advertising to billions? It isn`t always where you adverti... A Look at Ask Jeeves and Teoma, an interview with Jim Lanzone with Ask JeevesBy Robin Nobles - 2/8/2004 Recently, Jim Lanzone, Vice President of Product Management with Ask Jeeves, attended a chat session with students from the Academy, and he answered a lot of very interesting questions about Ask Jeeves` Web properties.
So, let`s look at this interview with Jim, and learn more about Ask Jeeves and... Taking Email Marketing To The Next LevelBy Karen Fegarty - 2/4/2004 How to use the latest e-messaging strategies to increase profits.
Many types of Internet advertising don`t work as well as they once did. People have gotten used to banners and don`t click on them. Some ezines have failed to keep their readers` interest and ads sometimes get less response. Search ... Affiliate Programs... A Not THAT Easy Start To Your Own Online BusinessBy Elena Fawkner - 2/4/2004 "Where is all the help I`m supposed to get. I have been buying ezine and classified ad builders and signing up for Echecks and Virtual credit cards. In the meantime I have no business and no ads set up. When does all this happen? Let`s go here. I spent all day on this. I`m running out of time.&...
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