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Pro Blogging Using Humorous E-Mails
I say pro blogging because whenever you are blogging it is usually for some kind of profit, or monetary return in some way from your blog. What I am about to reveal here takes a twist from the scientific way of doing things. A study by Sharpe Partners, an interactive marketing agency, revealed that 89% of adult Internet users in America share content with others via e-mail, which is excellent news for those companies who use self-propelling word-of-mouse e-mail techniques to sell their products.
The study generated some interesting results regarding the type of content that is most often forwarded, as well. The most popular content is humorous material.
The second most popular category is news, followed by healthcare and medical information, religious and spiritual material, games, business and personal finance information and sports/hobbies… in that order. So it is easy to see that humor is the best content for your viral e-mail campaign.
Cartoons, jokes and funny video clips are among the things that can be added to an e-mail to insure that it will go viral. People will want to pass along something that makes them laugh.
They are a lot more likely to hit the forward button and send your email to their friends and relatives if it is an “advertainment” rather than an advertisement.
Not long ago, about 35 million people got an e-mail containing a picture taken in Disneyland. It took a minute to see it but there was Donald Duck lying prone in front of the famous Cinderella Castle. The title of the picture was “Bird Flu has hit Disneyland”. It was a viral e-mail advertising Disneyland and used the edgy strategy of making light of what’s serious… and it works.
I’d guess that most people who own a computer have seen that picture… and thus the advertisement for Disneyland. The bird flu epidemic is newsworthy and has the potential to attract an enormous amount of attention to any brand that might, for whatever reason, associate itself with it.
Remember that people are much more likely to share a joke or a funny picture than anything else so you would be well advised to include humor in your e-mail campaign. If you truly want to be entertained then let me rummage through my picture pile and come up a picture of myself from the day.
After diggin deep I came up with this picture of myself when I was about 10 years old; now that is what I call humorous . . . but seriously this is just a funny picture I found, and is not me at all . . . Really! it isn’t me.
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Videoblogging is the next generation of posting ideas and products over the internet. Everybody knows about textblogging. Now they use videos for a better way of expression. This form of communication may entail a lot of resources, but it is all worth it. If pictures say a thousand words, videoblogging exceeds that by far.
A videoblog requires larger disk spaces on websites, a faster server, and a whole new set of programs to support it. Videoblogs can be fed through RSS. This is technology of syndicating your website to other RSS aggregators.
Videoblogging works with people on the internet expressing their selves. Now if you put this on a business prospective, you are up to a lot of benefits. Think of it as a powerful tool in making showing your prospective customers your line of products or your services. It’s just like showing a commercial all for free. And if you videoblog through RSS, then most probably you are getting your target market.
People like to see what they are going to buy. Some would like to see proof and be sure that they are getting their money’s worth before shelving their dimes on it. All of us know the influence of a thirty second commercial. The effect of videoblogging is similar to that. You show your product, people watch it. If they like it, they buy it. If you present it good enough, they’ll buy the product even if they don’t need it.
Now on the web, things are pretty much static, unlike in television in which all are moving. If you post something that is mobile, it would most likely catch attention. Now imaging your product parading in all it’s royalty through videoblog. You’ll get phone call orders in no time.
If your business is just starting up, you can create a videoblog right at your own home. All you need is your web camera, microphone, video software, and lights. For as long as you know how to use your camera, then you can create a videoblog.
Invest in a good web camera. The higher its resolution is the better the output. And you like to present your goods in the optimum way so get the best one possible. Make a short story, or just capture your goods in one go. Just make sure you are getting the best profile for each. Get those creativity juices flowing.
Lights are important in a production. Make sure you illuminate entirely the area you are going to use to create videoblog. The brighter the area, the crispier the images will be. You can also use lighting effects for added appeal to the presentation.
Should you require sounds for your videoblog, you need a microphone. Record you voice as a voice over for promoting the product and its benefit to consumers. Sounds are as important as videos on a videoblog. It is advisable to make your sound effects as enticing as the video.
Your video editing software can be any program. You need this to finalize your work. You can add sounds, delete some bad angles, or insert some still pictures in there too. Some programs are user-friendly and can be used even with zero knowledge on video editing. Even simple video editing programs should do the trick. Select your background carefully too. The light affects the presentation so make sure that the background and the light complements each other.
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My name is Simon and I am a Blogger. My purpose with this blog is to inform the internet marketing community and those unaware, that you can make money doing a great number of things on the internet. I want to educate you to some degree as what to do and what is available to do it with. I ask that If you do read an article, that you would take a moment and comment saying good job, alright! or that it just sucked. Let me know, for it is important. Most of all, if you do enjoy my articles, please subscribe to my articles through the RSS feed by clicking on the RSS button on the blog page. Thank You for visiting and, Good Day!
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When running your own business, a blog can really help to make your website successful.
It can give readers information about your product and can also actually be the thing that
brings new visitors to your site. It is a business tool that can help you update your site
with informative content to keep readers coming back for more.
There are two main reasons that you should include content on your website. Content
can help visitors develop trust in your product and your knowledge. Also, it will help to
increase your site’s appearance in internet search engine ranks.
First of all, having content that is relevant can help to increase the credibility of your
business. It can do so by providing important information to your clients and potential
clients. If your blog is full of interesting and relevant information, people naturally
assume that your company is interesting and relevant to them. This improves your
chance of adding these readers as future customers. Once they realize that you are
providing an informative service to them, they will gain trust in your and your product,
thus producing sales in the future.
Secondly, the only way to increase your site’s chances of being ranked high with search
engines is to include that good content. With optimized content you are able to keep your
site in the top picks. Search engines will locate and rank your site based on the content
provided there. If they determine that the content is good, unique, and relevant to people,
your ratings will improve. Higher rankings mean potential customers can more easily
search and find your company, and that, in turn, means higher profit for you!
So, you have decided that you are ready to try blogs. You are confident that you can
write good, relevant articles to promote your business and product. However, you just
are not sure how to get started? You need to figure out how to publish your articles and
make sure search engines are aware of the content available on your site. To do this, you
should employ the use of blogging software, blog directories, and article directories.
Let’s consider your choice of blogging software.
Blogging software can help you to manage the articles that you write. Most will provide
features such as word processing, database storage, archiving, search options, and RSS
newsfeed. Each of these, along with others offered, can help make using a blog more
effective and time efficient for you.
In many cases, you can order customizable blog software. This means you can choose
which features to use, adding or deleting various features at any time. For example, some
bloggers choose to turn off the comments feature to discourage spammers from leaving
unrelated comments just to leave their own link.
You can choose between two main types of blogging software. You can choose hosted or
integrated, depending on your needs. Both can help you manage articles, and there are
even some free options available.
Hosted blog versions are those such as WordPress and Blogger. They are websites that
host individuals’ blogs for free. Any articles published on a company’s blog are actually
held or stored on the website that is provided by the software company. You will not use
your own website as the address of your blog but instead will use the company’s website
with an extension that is personal to you. This option is good for those with limited
funds, but it also can be less beneficial to your website since your content is not available
on your site itself.
An integrated version of blogging software means that articles and software used to
manage them are all set up live on your own website. Your site will increase due to the
blog being hosted there and the new visitors that are attracted by that content. It also
helps to increase your site’s rankings with search engines and helps to make your
business seem professional and credible.
When setting up a blog to use in your marketing plans, consider your options carefully.
There are number of ways you can go with blogs, but be sure to use the one that is right
for you. Consider your needs and take some time to research your options before making
a final selection.
About The Author:
My name is Simon and I am a Blogger. My purpose with this blog is to inform the internet marketing community and those unaware, that you can make money doing a great number of things on the internet. I want to educate you to some degree as what to do and what is available to do it with. I ask that If you do read an article, that you would take a moment and comment saying good job, alright! or that it just sucked. Let me know, for it is important. Most of all, if you do enjoy my articles, please subscribe to my articles through the RSS feed by clicking on the RSS button on the blog page. Thank You for visiting and, Good Day!
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No. 3 in Web Design Series – Generating Revenue With Good Planning
For anything to work well, care must be taken to make firm, workable plans to execute it and the same goes for website designs. With a well thought out website design, you will be able to create a site that generates multiple streams of revenue for you. In fact, may websites turn into online wasteland because they are not well planned and do not get a single visitor. Gradually, the webmaster will not be motivated to update it anymore and it turns into wasted cyberspace.
The crucial point of planning your site is optimizing it for revenue if you want to gain any income from the site. Divide your site into major blocks, ordered by themes, and start building new pages and subsections in those blocks. For example, you might have a “food” section, an “accommodation” section and an “entertainment” section for a tourism site. You can then write and publish relevant articles in the respective sections to attract a stream of traffic that comes looking for further information.
When you have a broader, better-defined scope of themes for your website, you can sell space on your pages to people interested in advertising on your page. You can also earn from programs like Google’s Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing if people surf to those themed pages and click on the ads. For this very reason, the advertisement blocks on your pages need to be relevant to the content, so a themed page fits that criteria perfectly.
As Internet becomes more widespread, advertising on the Internet will bear more results than on magazines or offline media. Hence, start tapping in on this lucrative stream of profit right away!
About The Author:
My name is Simon and I am a Blogger. My purpose with this blog is to inform the internet marketing community and those unaware, that you can make money doing a great number of things on the internet. I want to educate you to some degree as what to do and what is available to do it with. I ask that If you do read an article, that you would take a moment and comment saying good job, alright! or that it just sucked. Let me know, for it is important. Most of all, if you do enjoy my articles, please subscribe to my articles through the RSS feed by clicking on the RSS button on the blog page. Thank You for visiting and,
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How to Blog
In recent years, blogging has become a new sort of art form. In the sense that all writing is art, blogging is just another branch of that. Many who spend the time creating and maintaining a blog are those who choose to use the internet as their means of sharing their thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, and everything about life in between.
Many people use these blogs to share themselves with others all over the world. Those who choose to do so can easily set up an account with a blog provider and create their own personal journals. This is a great avenue of expression for many.
Recently, however, trends have also shifted towards the use of business blogs. These are used to promote companies or products. Bloggers generally post articles that are relevant to the company or product and are intended to draw attention from potential customers. This can help to increase sales, thus becoming a profitable venture.
For those interested in creating a blog, consider the following tips to insure that your blog does exactly what you want it to do.
First of all, it is important to take into consideration the audience to whom you will be addressing. No matter what your purpose, you have to generate a blog that will be interesting to them. A blog is your voice, but you have to “speak” in a way that others can understand and will want to return in order to be successful.
Secondly, remember the importance of pictures. Often, a good picture can say more than pages of writing. Not only does it say what you cannot many times, but it also helps to make your blog more entertaining to browse. This does not mean you have to post personal pictures of yourself. Remember to be safe and also to protect the privacy of others, but you can post any photo that does not insult those who would be reading your
blog.
Next, consider being constructive in your writing. You blog can be on any topic, or lack thereof, that you wish, but consider using that avenue to be of some benefit to others. Sure, you can write about anything you want, but it is often nice to include some articles that would be helpful to those reading your blog. Provide some useful information instead of just entertainment.
Along the lines of keeping the interest of your readers, do not make a blog that is too technical or formal. Using complicated techniques or extremely highly-educated language may turn off readers instead of welcoming them. Remember that you can make quick factual statements and shorter blog comments instead of feeling that you have to make a lot of long entries. You are generally not writing to an audience made up solely of scholars.
In addition, remember that most people who read blogs typically enjoy the internet by scanning for information. You would be best advised to offer shorter statements and colorful pictures with article links than to offer long articles that readers may find too overwhelming. As mentioned earlier, remember who your audience is.
Finally, if possible, add some sort of interactive function to your blog. You can include videos or audio segments. You can also have a guestbook or comments area where readers can post their own thoughts in relation to what you have said. You will be able to see how others react to your reactions about life.
Yes, even those blogs that are created for fun serve a purpose. Whether you create a blog to sell a product or just sell your sense of humor to the rest of the world, a blog is a great avenue for creative writing.
About The Author:
My name is Simon and I am a Blogger. My purpose with this blog is to inform the internet marketing community and those unaware, that you can make money doing a great number of things on the internet. I want to educate you to some degree as what to do and what is available to do it with. I ask that If you do read an article, that you would take a moment and comment saying good job, alright! or that it just sucked. Let me know, for it is important. Most of all, if you do enjoy my articles, please subscribe to my articles through the RSS feed by clicking on the RSS button on the blog page. Thank You for visiting and,
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No.1 in Web Design Series – 5 Important Rules in Website Design
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.
1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.
2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements
Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.
3) Have a simple and clear navigation
You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.
4) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!
5) Avoid using audio on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they’re not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it — volume or muting controls would work fine.
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No. 1 in Viral Marketing Series – 3 Steps to Find “Freebies” to Add to Your E-book
Those of us who regularly shop on line are familiar with the array of free gifts, free bonuses and just plain freebies that are offered to a visitor to a website to encourage them to buy. How could you collect, select and offer free gifts, which will be valued as much as the original merchandise that is being purchased, put these gifts together and add them to your E-book? There are just three steps to do that very thing. They are:
1. Identify your key words in each chapter of your E-book. Now, type those words into your favorite search engine. You are looking for free E-books on the same subject in more depth, by a greater expert than you are, or by someone who gives a new and fresh angle to the topic. Add a link to the free E-book in each chapter of your E-book.
2. Research the Internet for related free gifts. Now you are looking for things that you could give as free gifts in your E-book that will make it more appealing and give it more pass-along appeal to your readers. For example: If you are selling gardening supplies, find a planting guide on the web that can be downloaded and include that as a gift in your E-book.
3. Download the freebies. Visit the freebies pages on those web sites. Most sites have freebies and encourage you to distribute them.
Other key words I searched for are freebies, free E-books, and free reports and then gave the key word that I wanted the free stuff for. Like… “freebies for gardeners”.
Give your reader the vest that you can offer. Give them your book, additional reading material and free gifts to boot. Everybody loves a bargain!
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No.1 of eBay Series: The First 10 Years.
Yes, you read that correctly: ten years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site – then called ‘AuctionWeb’ – to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The name ‘eBay’ comes from the domain Omidyar used for his site. His company’s name was Echo Bay, and the ‘eBay AuctionWeb’ was originally just one part of Echo Bay’s website at ebay.com. The first thing ever sold on the site was Omidyar’s broken laser pointer, which he got $14 for.
The site quickly became massively popular, as sellers came to list all sorts of odd things and buyers actually bought them. Relying on trust seemed to work remarkably well, and meant that the site could almost be left alone to run itself. The site had been designed from the start to collect a small fee on each sale, and it was this money that Omidyar used to pay for AuctionWeb’s expansion. The fees quickly added up to more than his current salary, and so he decided to quit his job and work on the site full-time. It was at this point, in 1996, that he added the feedback facilities, to let buyers and sellers rate each other and make buying and selling safer.
In 1997, Omidyar changed AuctionWeb’s – and his company’s – name to ‘eBay’, which is what people had been calling the site for a long time. He began to spend a lot of money on advertising, and had the eBay logo designed. It was in this year that the one-millionth item was sold (it was a toy version of Big Bird from Sesame Street).
Then, in 1998 – the peak of the dotcom boom – eBay became big business, and the investment in Internet businesses at the time allowed it to bring in senior managers and business strategists, who took in public on the stock market. It started to encourage people to sell more than just collectibles, and quickly became a massive site where you could sell anything, large or small. Unlike other sites, though, eBay survived the end of the boom, and is still going strong today.
1999 saw eBay go worldwide, launching sites in the UK, Australia and Germany. eBay bought half.com, an Amazon-like online retailer, in the year 2000 – the same year it introduced Buy it Now – and bought PayPal, an online payment service, in 2002.
Pierre Omidyar has now earned an estimated $3 billion from eBay, and still serves as Chairman of the Board. Oddly enough, he keeps a personal weblog at http://pierre.typepad.com. There are now literally millions of items bought and sold every day on eBay, all over the world. For every $100 spent online worldwide, it is estimated that $14 is spent on eBay – that’s a lot of laser pointers.
Now that you know the history of eBay, perhaps you’d like to know how it could work for you? Our next blog will give you an idea of the possibilities.
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Building Your List with Articles
You can build your list simply by writing articles, whether you have thought of it or not.
Quite simply, you write and submit your articles on your topic of expertise or business nature to popular article directories where eZine publishers and readers are looking for the information you provide.
Leveraging your viral marketing efforts on article writing can be rewarding, if done right. In the real sense, you are actually proving your worth and demonstrating your expertise about your business through the articles you write.
So, how can this method in effect build your mailing list? The answer: the resource box you attach to your articles. In your resource box (also known as bio box), you include a brief detail about yourself and your business site together with its URL.
It is strongly suggested that your resource box URL links to your mailing list’s landing page where you can get your visitor’s name and email address, which will in turn help you build your mailing list at no cost.
If your articles are found worth sharing, eZine publishers will republish your articles together with your resource box for their readers and subscribers. The wonderful result: viral marketing without effort on your part!
You can start by writing and submitting your articles to trusted article submitter sites such as http://www.articlemarketer.com/ and begin your article marketing journey today.
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Tips for Achieving Your Goals
Do you have long-term projects with short-term expectations? If you do, that is a sure path to frustration and failure.
Lifestyle goals such as exercise and healthy diet have to become habits in order to be effective. Career change also takes time and planning, and it doesn’t happen overnight.
Your world has shifted. There’s voice mail, e-mail, pagers, and faxes that have made a “waiting” period unacceptable and almost obsolete. With information immediately available, we expect relationships and goal achievement to be done the same. As you read this you know that it is unreasonable to expect that, don’t you? We’ve been led by advertisers to believe that we deserve immediate gratification, and that it is readily and effortlessly available!
When you want to train a puppy, you know that it’s going to take time and consistent reinforcement. You’re ready for that, because you want your puppy to behave in an acceptable way. Why then, are you so patient with the puppy and so hard on yourself?
When you plant seeds in the garden, you tend them, water them, hope for sunlight and nurture them. Are you nurturing yourself?
The best way to move gently and effectively towards your goals is to take a reasonable approach. Break your long-term project goal into sub-goals. Break it into doable, short-term chunks. Today prepare the soil; tomorrow plant the seeds.
Each action you take and each step is satisfying because you know that it is contributing to the completion of your goal. You cannot rush Mother Nature with your garden, and the same is true for your goals.
This process is much more than “bloom where you’re planted”, because when you’re the gardener you choose what to plant and how to nurture it. Do the same for yourself, and grow yourself beautifully. Your goals will be accomplished in due time, and you won’t end up up-tight and frazzled.
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