Aug
17

Facebook Marketing

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

What to Know About Marketing on Facebook

Being successful on Facebook is about putting some effort into bringing people to your page.

Advertise on Facebook: Contrary to the popular belief, advertising on Facebook is not difficult, especially when compared to other pay per click platforms such as Google AdWords. If you don’t have a big budget for this yet, start small and increase what you contribute once you see that it’s working. Just ask other internet marketers what they have seen when it comes to people being successful at great investments in using Facebook. Although it’s easy to jump in head first, you need to be aware of how this PPC program works. By doing some outside homework you will prevent any potential downfalls in your game plan. Losses will be normal from time to time, but if you work hard at understanding it all, you will see less of them in the future. Facebook advertising is a great option for you if you know what you are getting into before you start investing your money.

Polls: You can gather some really pertinent information from polls on Facebook. Since there are so many people on Facebook, you won’t have to look very far to get some people to give you their opinions. There are many people that have experienced a viral poll after it started in ‘Facebook Questions’. It’s always a good thing to have a pulse on what your target audience is thinking, and these polls are a great way of doing that. Another side benefit that comes with running polls is that your audience will actually respond to your questions, which will raise your value in the eyes of Facebook. It sounds very technical, but this will change the algorithm that ranks you on your fans news feeds, which will increase their awareness of you. Not many people know this, which is why you can actually take advantage of it.

Utilize Surveys: You want to know what people want, so ask them about it. Launch a new service or product and see how people like it. You can make it a voting or opinion survey and just ask what people think. You want marketers to speak to you through their product, so you can help them just by taking surveys and giving them your opinion.

Eventually, what you do with Facebook will depend on you. So, make sure that you make it count.

Aug
01

iPhone 4 Review

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

iPhone 4-Popular Functions

You and other people have heard of the Apple iPhone 4 or have looked at one. This product is worth the hype in getting one. The value of the apps that have many features is a great deal. The following is a look at the iPhone 4 to give you a better idea of what it can do.

A lot of people may have a device that fits them, but I love my iPhone 4. The iPhone had its original purpose, but it does more that answer and receive phone calls. An iPhone has many features like, watching movies and taking pictures. Do you enjoy a device that has many capabilities? The iPhone 4 is an iPod as well as an iPhone 4. If you are not aware of the features of an iPod, you can listen to songs, watch videos and download a lot of different things you want from iTunes. If you’re listening to music and the phone rings, the music will fade. So you do not have to worry about missed calls. The good quality screen is very good for viewing videos. These can either be ones that you have gotten from the internet or movies that have been downloaded. You can have your own personal playlist with your most liked songs loaded onto your iPhone 4. So your phone is actually a complete entertainment center.

Since the iPhones have arrived on the market, they have been very well liked for the tons of apps that are utilized with them. The amount of apps that are available these days is enormous and continues to grow every day. At last count, there were more than 300,000 apps available for the iPhone. Quite naturally, this will make it hard for you to keep up with all of the ones that you have. But it is not really that difficult to find ones that are practical for you. you can go through the Apple store or just conduct a search for whatever thing that you want with the word app. Many of the often times free apps that you can presently download to your iPhone 4 can provide your phones with even more functions. Quite naturally, you will only have time to use just a small number of the apps that can be downloaded onto your phone. But this could be enough.

Apple products have had a large spike in popularity within the last few years. IPhones have the most well liked products. The iPhone 4 is without a doubt their most advanced model. The majority of people who own them are quite satisfied with them. One of the key issues that people were experiencing with the iPhone involved AT&T as the service provider, but with Verizon as the provider, this should no longer be an issue. So basically, if you are happy about utilizing the latest and greatest apps, then you will love the iPhone 4.

May
16

Be Creative With Your Marketing

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

Finding Creative Answers for Your Online Marketing Efforts

Each and every internet marketer knows how essential enhanced creativity is and how it can help your brand and product. No longer is it that easy to sell online products. Your strategy has to be more creative if you plan to find success. Below are a few simple suggestions that will help you to become more innovative with your techniques.

Make an Outline: It might look like a silly thing to come up with an outline because you really don’t have to have restrictions for being creative, do you? Aren’t you just putting limitations on what you are capable of, if you do things in this manner? Well, yes you are but in a way that is very pertinent as well. The last thing that you’d want is losing your focus from your project and getting overwhelmed with random ideas. It is essential that you realize that in order to learn about your creative abilities, you have to provide direction. As an online marketer, this will help you in many ways, whether it is when you write content or make up a new marketing technique. Ensure that your job is easier by producing an outline that will pull out the creativity in you. Own a Journal: It is so easy to miss out on your best creative thoughts if you do not monitor them. You must achieve this by placing all of your creative thoughts in a journal. Ensure that you always have your journal at all times. This is because sometimes even a casual observation may spark an idea that you didn’t know about. As an internet marketer, you have to become very observant because you must put a lot of creativity into producing your products and also coming up with plans for your marketing. If not a journal, then have a pile of sticky notes where you can save anything creative that comes to mind.

Re-evaluate the Problem:

Many times it happens that we are looking in the wrong direction to solve a particular problem. As a result, the creative answer appears to be in the distance. Wonder to yourself if you are getting answers for the right problem. Rename this issue and figure out if this will really make a difference. You must give your mind more information to deal with. This is because if you know exactly what problem you are dealing with, then you will know exactly what type of creative solution is needed to solve it. This might not seem like this is noteworthy, but it is. You should question the problems you’re attempting to solve. Keep redefining them until you find a creative idea to help you out.

All in all, creativity is a skill that can be learned. As an online marketer, it is crucial that you know how to tune into your creative abilities so that you can use this to your advantage in your online business.

May
09

Extracting High Profits from Your PLR Content

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Are you looking for unique ideas to make your PLR content profitable? Then you’re definitely in the right place as this article is about finding new ways to breathe new life into your PLR content profit margin.

 

One of the most effective ways to leverage your PLR content is to turn it into blog posts. That’s right; you can actually use the PLR content to fuel your blog and give targeted information to your readers on a regular basis. Just remember that it’s important to include a few of your own ideas as well to make the content truly your own and unique. Blogs require some degree of individuality and are very personal so you really can’t afford to skip this important step. PLR content should serve as a springboard for your ideas or to give you inspiration for your own blog.

It’s a great idea to use sites like Yahoo! Answers to get more traffic to your site and to establish yourself as an authority in your niche. Many people are looking for answers to questions that apply to your specific niche. PLR content can be used to answer the questions they have and provide relevant additional information too. If you want, you can modify your PLR content and make it more suitable, but ultimately, if you can leverage Yahoo! Answers the right way, it can prove to be an untapped source for high quality visitors to your site.

Don’t forget you can simply give your PLR content away to subscribers as an award for loyalty. It is so easy to go through an extreme case of information overload when working online that may leave you feeling a little dazed and confused. Your e-course can be used to give your audience bite-sized bits of information one small lesson at a time so that they have plenty of time to absorb the information in pieces (not to mention great reasons to come back for the next few weeks). Finally, if you’re ready to really roll up your sleeves and put forth some effort you can take a PLR eBook and break it down into smaller parts that can be delivered to your audience in parts that you’ve turned into small reports. Give the reports away for free and see how much you can really help others. Or you could sell the reports for a small fee. When you do this you can build your list and make a little bit of money in the process.

Finally, reach out into other markets by translating the PLR into different languages and selling it in eBook formats. This type of “outside the box” type of thinking will get you even more profit from your PLR. Popular languages like French and German are excellent targets for this purpose. Be careful not to limit yourself when dealing with PLR because your greatest strengths are going to be the way you use it that is different from your competition. Now you know why it’s so important to use PLR effectively to grow your business. Use these ideas well as they are not at all difficult to get going.

May
04

Blogging For Business Owners

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If you run a small company, you may find that the world of blogging for business owners is a world that you want to be a part of. Blogging is a great way to get theword out to consumers about your product or service,and it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty and helping you keep your workers at peak morale. If you are looking for a way to take your business to the next level, consider what starting a blog might be ableto do for you.
Blogging for business owners has a lot in common with all other types of blogging, but it has its own unique pitfalls and strengths. The key to having a successful blog as a business owner is keeping your goals clear and concrete at every step of your blogging adventure.

It can be all to easy to get sidetracked, especially if you are just learning about the exciting possibilities of blogging technology, but if you want your blog to succeed you need to stay focused. Write up a plan forhow often you will update, how you will promote your blog and retain readers, whether you will feature photographs or video, and other aspects of your blog, and then stick to it with the same kind of determination that you used when you built your company.

Apr
27

Easy Click Commissions Review

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

Well, I wouldn’t normally post a review of a product here, but I’m so disgusted by Easy Click Commissions that I feel I must warn my readers.

To put it bluntly, it’s nothing but a scam! Mark Hardy is the bloke behind this (apparently).

Ok, I’ll go into more detail, but please read this before you consider buying it.

I purchased this rubbish 2 days ago for $49. The first thing I noticed was rather than them using Clickbank or Paypal as their payment processor, they use Plimus. Now I’m not too familiar with Plimus so will reserve judgement until I get (or fail to get) a refund for this crap.

Payment made, then off to the Easy Click Commissions members area. But, it wouldn’t let me log in as I hadn’t yet received the welcome email from the scammers, so after an hour of waiting patiently, I contacted their support. What’s the point in buying something then you cannot access it?

The following day, support answered (in broken English) and said I could now log in to the members area as the problem they had was now fixed.

Off I go to the members area once more, but didn’t even have to log in. It just gave me access anyway. Not very secure in my opinion. Anyone can access it whether they’ve paid or not. Try it yourself.

So what is the magical product which drives millions of highly targeted buyers to your product using a secret ‘black river’ source?

Well it’s nothing more than a keyword research tool, a rather awful article spinner, and a FAKE article submitter. The top secret ‘black river’ source of highly targeted traffic is nothing more than…. Google!

Since when has Google been top secret? This is unbelievable stuff.

So, now I suppose you want me to prove this is a scam? Ok, we’ll start with the keyword tool. How this works is you type in a selected keyword ie: lose belly fat, and the software goes out and finds all relevant keywords and ranks them into low, medium and high competition. The idea is you select keywords with high traffic numbers and low competition. All it does is link to the Google Keywords Tool which is free to use anyway.

When you hit search it takes ages to come up with any results and always crashes on me needing several software re-starts before it finally finds any keywords. In the meantime, I’ve been over to the free Google tool and found my own keywords anyway!

So part of my $49 payment was for a keyword selection tool which does nothing more than link to the Google tool… which as I said before is free for anyone to use.

The next thing this software does is go out and find existing articles based on the keywords you’ve selected, then spins them so they become unique. Hmmm, great in theory, but unfortunately the articles not only become unique, they also become poorly written and not very inviting for the reader.

Next you go over to Clickbank, select a ‘hot’ product in a niche such as weight loss, or business opportunities, then grab your hop- link to paste into the resource box (about the author).

So now the exciting bit.. we submit our badly spun articles to these top secret directories which no-one else is using, but Google love them.

So, I’ve created 6 articles and now it’s submitting to 6 different websites. One article to each. But hold on there… all 6 have failed. Now this cannot be right, why have they failed? I must have done something wrong, so maybe we’ll try again. Nope, failed again. And again, and again.

3 have error messages saying ‘failed (site down)’ and 3 have ‘failed (invalid form)’. And this happens every single time and strangely, to the exact same 6 article sites.

So, maybe it’s time we took a closer look at these article sites. Here’s the first one ‘americanarticlesarchive.com’

Go and check it out. Does this seem like an article website where I can put my lose belly fat article! No way.

Or this one ‘articlecellar.com’ which doesnt actually have any articles listed at all, just a home page with fake links which don’t work.

I could go on, but I can assure you, this software does NOTHING… period! None of the article websites are actual article websites. Most have been set up just to scam you. They are no more than parked domains cashing in on visitor clicks.

I’ve already requested a refund from these scammers and if I don’t hear back from them by tomorrow, I’ll escalate it to Plimus. These people want putting out of business NOW!

In all the years I’ve been selling online, I have never come across any product such as this. I’m totally disgusted by the software and the blatant lies told on their website.

I’ll update this post with more info as and when. Please avoid Easy Click Commissions or you’ll be very sorry.

Ok, it’s now 2 days since I asked support for my money back and they have completely ignored my email, so I’ve escalated the refund request to Plimus, but nothing has happened yet.

Look out for the websites promoting this rubbish. If you type any of the following keyword phrases, you’ll soon find the affiliates:

Easy Click Commissions

Easy Click Commissions Review

Easy Click Commissions Reviews

Easy Click Commissions Bonus

Easy Click Commissions Scam

Update 29th April.. got a full refund from Plimus today so I can now safely delete this rubbish software from my pc forever!

Apr
19

Who Else Wants To Make Money With Adsense?

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

Fact number 1: Kids in high school are making thousands of dollars every month with Adsense.
Fact number 2: Housewives, retirees, mom and dads, who are just staying at home and have never made a dime on the internet have created full-time incomes by simply placing Adsense ads on their web site or blog.
These are just some of the “super Adsense earners”. You may have already heard about their story for they are among the few who are on their way to making millions worth of cash just by promoting Adsense sites.
Anyone, any age and gender can become money generating Adsense publishers as long as they what it takes. How does one go about this Internet advertising?
Writing articles for Adsense is the way to do it. Using the right keywords in your articles and having Google ads on a certain site has become the most profitable way of marketing that anybody can get into. No experience and level of education needed. If you are not using this strategy, or may not be aware of it in the first place, chances are you may be losing thousands of dollars worth of extra income and still do not know it yet.
This is one of the many reasons why writing original quality content articles is now the latest in marketing buzz. Content and links. When combined together becomes a really powerful tool to a successful web site and richer individuals. Many internet marketing professionals are already aware of the value of an original quality content and how using keywords can drive targeted traffic into their sites from the search engines.
So why don’t all these web site owners write and submit their own articles if that is what is important?
The simple and understandable answer is that it takes time to write articles, submit them and get targeted traffic to their websites. That is why they get the services of those who can spares sometime to write the articles that would cater to their site purpose but still turn out as a good quality and unique piece of work.
To get into the Adsense marketing business and start earning some good cash, ask yourself. Did you enjoy writing when you were in school? If you answer yes to this question, you already have an initial advantage over most internet marketing business owners that wants to make money online and doing it at home.
With the boom in the Adsense market comes the need for sites to want fresh, quality and original keyword rich content. This way, web site owners can have a steady supply of articles with the proper keywords that they relate to their site contents. The result of this is seen in the sites page rank when indexed by the search engines. Which, in turn, gets moreAdsense ads to show above, below or next to the article on their website with targeted traffic.
What do people have to do?
Write quality and original content, keyword or phrase rich articles with links to your website in the resource box. Then build a website or web page with targeted keyword or phrase rich original content for the targeted traffic that originates from the articles you wrote. Finally, you will have a Google Adsense ads that are targeted to your keyword or phrase rich original content site where visitors will get to visit when they come looking for information.
A win-win situation if you think more about it. A favor for persons looking for quality content and information. For the persons writing the original content articles. And the person with the quality original content rich website. Of course, the search engines and its advertisers are getting targeted traffic and sales but so what? As long as you are getting something in your favor, it does not really matter what the others are getting for themselves.
So who else wants to start earning money with Adsense. You. Everyone. Anybody. Internet marketing has many opportunities wide open for this people. Writing articles and using Adsense for your kind of internet marketing strategy is one sure way of getting a piece of that action and cash.
Better not be left behind the many making millions already.

 

Apr
18

What’s Your eBay Reputation Really Worth?

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

Your eBay reputation is everything you are on eBay – without it, you’re nothing. Your reputation is worth as much as every sale you will ever make.
If you’ve ever bought anything on eBay (and the chances are you have), then think about your own behaviour. Buying from a seller with a low feedback rating makes you feel a little nervous and insecure, while buying from a PowerSeller with their reputation in the thousands doesn’t require any thought or fear – it feels just like buying from a shop.
A Bad Reputation Will Lose You Sales.
In fact, a bad reputation will lose you almost all your sales. If someone leaves you negative feedback, you will feel the pain straight away, as that rating will go right at the top of your user page for everyone to see. Who’s going to want to do business with you when they’ve just read that you “took a month to deliver the item”, or that you had “bad communication and sent a damaged item”? The answer is no-one.
Your next few items will need to be very cheap things, just to push that negative down the page. You might have to spend days or even weeks selling cheap stuff to get enough positive feedback to make anyone deal with you again.
It’s even worse if you consistently let buyers leave negative feedback – once you get below 90% positive ratings, you might as well be invisible.
You Can’t Just Open a New Account.
Besides eBay’s rules about only having one account, there are far more downsides than that to getting a new account. You literally have to start all over again from scratch.
You won’t be able to use all the different eBay features. Your existing customers won’t be able to find you any more. Your auctions will finish at a lower price because of your low feedback rating. Opening a new account is like moving to a new town to get away from a few people who are spreading rumours about you: it’s throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
A Good Reputation Will Get You Sales.
When a PowerSeller tells me something, I tend to believe them. They can be selling a pretty unlikely item, but if they guarantee it is what they say it is, then I trust them – they’re not going to risk their reputation, after all. This is the power of a reputation: people know you want to keep it, and they know you’ll go to almost any lengths to do so.
This is true even to the point that I would sooner buy something for $20 from a seller I know I can trust than for $15 from someone with average feedback. It’s worth the extra money to feel like the seller knows what they’re doing, has all their systems in place and will get me the item quickly and efficiently.
You really will find selling on eBay so much easier, and there’s only way to get a good reputation: make sure you please your customers every time. But some customers can be, well, just a little difficult to please. In the next email, we ask: is the eBay customer always right?

Apr
15

An eBay Seller’s Checklist

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

Continuing our look into selling on eBay as requested by my blog readers.

Being a seller is a lot of responsibility, and sometimes you might feel like you’re not doing everything you should be. This simple checklist will help you keep on top of things.
Have you found out everything you possibly could about your items? Try typing their names into a search engine – you might find out something you didn’t know. If someone else is selling the same thing as you, then always try to provide more information about it than they do. Do you monitor the competition? Always keep an eye on how much other items the same as or similar to yours are selling, and what prices they’re being offered at. There’s usually little point in starting a fixed price auction for $100 when someone else is selling the item for $90.
Have you got pictures of the items? It’s worth taking the time to photograph your items, especially if you have a digital camera. If you get serious about eBay but don’t have a camera, then you will probably want to invest in one at some point.
Are you emailing your sellers? It’s worth sending a brief email when transactions go through: something like a simple “Thank you for buying my item, please let me know when you have sent the payment”. Follow this up with “Thanks for your payment, I have posted your [item name] today”. You will be surprised how many problems you will avoid just by communicating this way.
Also, are you checking your emails? Remember that potential buyers can send you email about anything at any time, and not answering these emails will just make them go somewhere else instead of buying from you.
Do your item description pages have everything that buyers need to know? If you’re planning to offer international delivery, then it’s good to make a list of the charges to different counties and display it on each auction. If you have any special terms and conditions (for example, if you will give a refund on any item as long as it hasn’t been opened), then you should make sure these are displayed too.
Have you been wrapping your items correctly? Your wrapping should be professional for the best impression: use appropriately sized envelopes or parcels, wrap the item in bubble wrap to stop it from getting damaged, and print labels instead of hand-writing addresses. Oh, and always use first class post – don’t be cheap.
Do you follow up? It is worth sending out an email a few days after you post an item, saying “Is everything alright with your purchase? I hope you received it and it was as you expected.” This might sound like giving the customer an opportunity to complain, but you should be trying to help your customers, not take their money and run.
Being a really good eBay seller, more than anything else, is about providing genuinely good and honest customer service. That’s the only foolproof way to protect your reputation. Of course, you might be wondering by now whether it’s really worth all the hassle to get a good reputation on eBay. Won’t people buy from you anyway, and couldn’t you just open a new account if it really comes down to that? Our next email will set you straight.

Apr
11

Computer Viruses Explained

By Paul Posted in Home Business | No Comments »

Every day new computer viruses are created to annoy us and to wreck havoc on our computer systems. Below are ten viruses currently cited as being the most prevalent in terms of being seen the most or in their ability to potentially cause damage.   New viruses are created daily.  This is by no means an all inclusive list. The best thing you can do is to remain vigilant, keep your anti-virus software updated, and stay aware of the current computer virus threats.

Virus:  Trojan.Lodear
A Trojan horse that attempts to download remote files. It will inject a .dll file into the EXPLORER.EXE process causing system instability.

Virus:  W32.Beagle.CO@mm
A mass-mailing worm that lowers security settings.  It can delete security-related registry sub keys and may block access to security-related websites.

Virus:  Backdoor.Zagaban

A Trojan horse that allows the compromised computer to be used as a covert proxy and which may degrade network performance.

Virus: W32/Netsky-P
A mass-mailing worm which spreads by emailing itself to addresses produced from files on the local drives.

 

Virus:  W32/Mytob-GH
A mass-mailing worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.  Messages sent by this worm will have the subject chosen randomly from a list including titles such as:  Notice of account limitation, Email Account Suspension, Security measures, Members Support, Important Notification.

 

Virus:  W32/Mytob-EX
A mass-mailing worm and IRC backdoor Trojan similar in nature to W32-Mytob-GH.  W32/Mytob-EX runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.  This virus spreads by sending itself to email attachments harvested from your email addresses.

 

Virus:  W32/Mytob-AS, Mytob-BE, Mytob-C, and Mytob-ER

This family of worm variations possesses similar characteristics in terms of what they can do.   They are mass-mailing worms with backdoor functionality that can be controlled through the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network.   Additionally, they can spread through email and through various operating system vulnerabilities such as the LSASS (MS04-011).
Virus:  Zafi-D
A mass mailing worm and a peer-to-peer worm which copies itself to the Windows system folder with the filename Norton Update.exe.  It can then create a number of files in the Windows system folder with filenames consisting of 8 random characters and a DLL extension.  W32/Zafi-D copies itself to folders with names containing share, upload, or music as ICQ 2005a new!.exe or winamp 5.7 new!.exe. W32/Zafi-D will also display a fake error message box with the caption “CRC: 04F6Bh” and the text “Error in packed file!”.

Virus:  W32/Netsky-D
A mass-mailing worm with IRC backdoor functionality which can also infect computers vulnerable to the LSASS (MS04-011) exploit.

Virus: W32/Zafi-B

A peer-to-peer (P2P) and email worm that will copy itself to the Windows system folder as a randomly named EXE file. This worm will test for the presence of an internet connection by attempting to connect to www.google.com or www.microsoft.com.  A bilingual, worm with an attached Hungarian political text message box which translates to “We demand that the government accommodates the homeless, tightens up the penal code and VOTES FOR THE DEATH PENALTY to cut down the increasing crime.

 

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