March 2009


Uncategorized31 Mar 2009 01:03 am

The best way to make money on the Internet is to build an opt-in email list and then promote one product after another to your list.

The purpose of your web site is to build a list. If you’re doing anything else first then you could be missing out on long term success.

Focus on building your list…and then selling the products once the people get to know, respect and trust you. Give great content to your list first, so they are rewarded for giving you their details.

Then sell to them about every fourth or fifth time you contact them.

Your web site should be telling people the benefit’s of joining your list.

Then, after someone joins it, you can take them over to the main product you want to promote.

It’s a good idea to offer a smaller value product first to your new prospects. It’s their first chance to buy from you. So you only want to show potential customers one purchasing option at a time (So they don’t get confused).

Pick a product which gives you a good amount of commission with a low cost product because the first sale is usually the most difficult.

The purpose of this first product is NOT to make a profit. That would be a bonus! The aim is to gain the customers trust and get them into a buying pattern.

The only purpose of this first product offer is to try to break even on generating leads.

Once you know the lifetime profit value of your customer then you can bank on making money from later sales.

You can place more ads to building a list and plan on profiting later. Just be clear on what your outcome is.

To make a profit later all you have to do is offer the extra products you have or find and keep finding new offers or even package products up to sell at a discount.

Remember sending out emails to your list won’t cost you any extra money so maximize your initial advertising investment by marketing to your existing
list!

As the old saying goes…Most businesses don’t plan to fail, they just fail to plan!”

Look at your online business as a long term venture and plan for the future not just for the now!

Scott Wilson - Internet Business Opportunity Creator and owner of http://www.InternetSalesMentors.com and http://www.TheGoldsInHere.com

Uncategorized31 Mar 2009 12:44 am

A few months into the job and Sabrina’s cold calling sales prospecting techniques were getting her almost nowhere. She would call CIO’s and CTO’s all day, and speak to maybe one sales prospect if she was lucky. The gatekeepers and voicemail were screening her out. Sabrina was “following up” her calls with emails, but she rarely if ever heard anything back.


Sabrina asked for help to improve her sales prospecting skills. A salesperson for a silicon valley software company, Sabrina was tasked with calling on CIO’s in Fortune 1000 companies. Her cold calling skills were a bit rusty, and she was under serious pressure from sales management to produce.


After a few weeks of working on these together, I got the following email from Sabrina:


“My email script has gotten another F1000 appointment! I sent it to an admin who forwarded it to a Senior Director who had his admin respond in 5 minutes that he wanted an appointment. They are right in our sweet spot so this is a very good thing.”

If you’ve done any sales prospecting to big corporations, then you know how great Sabrina felt when she got this appointment. Sabrina has secured numerous VP level appointments using her new email technique.


How did Sabrina improve her sales prospecting?


First she asked for help.


Upon working together, I coached Sabrina to sell only to the sales prospects that were most likely to buy. Sabrina developed a customer profile to guide her sales prospecting efforts. She determined what type of sales prospect would be most likely to buy her product.


Next she worked on identifying the pains that motivate her ideal sales prospect to want to buy her product. This took some research. She spoke to other sales reps, marketing management, and most importantly customers to figure out why people buy her product.


Sabrina used this to craft a short but specific email message to her best sales prospects. It was real-world due to all of her research and her prospects responded to it. The likely buyers were ones who could feel the pain that the email talked about. Those sales prospects jumped up and asked for an appointment.


What can you do to improve your sales prospecting?



  1. Develop an Ideal Customer Profile to guide your selling.
  2. Identify the Buying Pains of your Ideal Customer.
  3. Craft Email Messages, Phone & Voicemail Scripts showing you can eliminate your Ideal Customer’s pain.
  4. Proactively call and email your Ideal Sales Prospects to find the likely buyers.

© 1999-2004 Shamus Brown, All Rights Reserved.

Shamus Brown is a Professional Sales Coach and former high-tech sales pro who began his career selling for IBM. Shamus has written more than 50 articles on selling and is the creator of the popular Persuasive Selling Skills CD Audio Program. You can read more of Shamus Brown’s sales tips at http://Sales-Tips.industrialEGO.com/ and you can learn more about his persuasive sales skills training at http://www.Persuasive-Sales-Skills.com/

Uncategorized29 Mar 2009 11:32 am

When you are an expert, you sometimes forget that others don’t know as much as you do. Not only do you understand your topic at a higher level, but you also know what’s important for a novice to know. By providing your insight to those at a basic level, you can save them time in learning and applying their newly acquired knowledge.


So how do you share your expert information with prospects and clients in order to showcase your expertise while providing them with desired knowledge? Why not offer a course via email?


Your course will consist of several lessons, delivered at pre-set intervals. You’ll compose the lessons once so that you’re ready to deliver them to anyone who signs up for the course.


Now won’t that be a bear to administer, you ask? Not if you use one of the online services that is designed to do this. This category of service is called a sequential autoresponder. There are several services to choose from.


In using one of the popular autoresponder services, for example, you have up to 52 lessons. Your first lesson is set to go out immediately after your new ’student’ sends an email to the course address (you set this address!). Then each lesson goes out automatically on the day you prescribe. It may be daily for the first 3 days, then every 3d day thereafter. Or it may be weekly.


Regardless of the interval, you enter each lesson as you want it to appear to the enrollees. Since you don’t know when someone will sign up, the system tracks each enrollee individually so that they receive their emails on schedule, regardless of when other people sign up. It’s like having a private secretary to track all of the enrollments and
mailouts!


You can opt to receive a notification each time someone signs up to take the course (fun at first, but overwhelming in the long run). At any time you can log into your control panel and see who is enrolled in your course, which email they have received and when they last heard from you.


Why would you want to offer an email course?


Maybe you have a complex subject on which you need to educate prospects. Why not create a course - with a small commercial in each lesson?


Maybe you delivered a great seminar and you now want to keep in touch with audience members. Why not create a series of reminder emails to be sent at regular intervals?


Or maybe you want to offer an online course, but you’re not sure how well it will go over. Why not pilot some of the content with an email course to test the market?


Or perhaps you sell a product or service online and you want to entice more people to share their name and email with you. You can offer the free course as the incentive to share their information.


What’s a course like this cost? Fees vary, but you can offer an email course for less than $20 per month. In some cases you may already have the sequential autoresponders you need built into another feature of your website.


So go ahead and add an email course to your online strategy on an ongoing basis. You won’t be sorry. You’ll probably find yourself back starting a new course shortly! And each time you do, you’ll enhance your credibility.


For an example of an email course, send an email to elearning@techtamers.com

EzineArticles Expert Author Jeanette S Cates, PhD

Dr. Jeanette Cates is an Internet strategist who works with experts who are ready to turn their knowledge and their websites into Gold. Her reputation as a speaker and trainer has earned her the title of The Technology Tamer. With more than 20 years in instructional design and elearning, Jeanette shares her news and views in OnlineSuccessNews.com

Web Of Traffic Builders26 Mar 2009 05:58 pm

There are, as we know, dozens of different ways of getting traffic to your site(s); some of these methods yield high quality, targeted traffic whilst others deliver junk traffic and ensure that the only thing that you’ve achieved is throwing money down the pan.

With this in mind I’m going to take a look at a couple of the different methods of getting free traffic to your site(s) and then I’m going to have a look at how to get paid for getting free traffic to your site(s) - yes, you can get money for doing it.

Lets start by having a look at three traditional methods of getting some traffic:

1. Articles
2. Solo ads
3. Traffic exchange

These three methods are the preferred methods of most webmasters as they encompass a wide target audience.

Articles.

All of us at some point or another write tutorials of one form or another (this for example) or perhaps we write a review of something. Even better, when you’re at university you write lots of reports as part of your course.

These documents can all be used to bring you some much loved traffic.

This is achieved by submitting your article to a site such as iSnare.Com or GoArticles.Com.

How does this work?

Quite simply and without any effort from you.

When you enter your article into these services you also have opportunity to enter a biography section. This section tells the reader a little about you and also allows you to list a url (or two).

The article sites then provide the articles in their database to other sites - your biography always go with them.

This means that suddenly you have a LOT more sites linking to your site and it also means that you have a lot more people (who perhaps wouldn’t normally find your site) visiting via your biography. You should however ensure that the subject of the article has some relevancy to your site (if you write about dogs and your site is about tanks most people who read the article are not going to be interested in your site).

Solo Ads.

A solo ad is an advertisement that is sent out via email by a list owner. The price of this service can vary radically and so can the quality.

Anyone offering a solo ad service will never EVER promise a response rate (unless it’s a paid to read service).

If you do decide to go down this route there are a few things you should remember/ask:

a. What is the demographic of the list (who are they? Male, 23 - 34, IT professionals, etc)
b. How big is the list
c. How old is the list
d. How responsive is the list (best and worst cases)
e. Will the owner do a 2 for 1 deal (pay for one mailing, deliver two)
f. Is there a way of the list owner splitting the delivery (thus allowing you to test your sales copy)

If you do go this route you should remember that you are effectively only picking up the customers/subscribers once - so make sure your copy is good.

You should also remember one golden rule - do not make the sale, get a subscriber. What a stupid thing to say - I’m trying to sell something not make friends! Yep, that’s right - but - it is widely acknowledged that it takes a user 7 views of the same advert in order to act upon it (this is why some marketers will send you the same thing rehashed repeatedly for a couple of weeks). So with this in mind if you send a mailing and don’t get subscribers you’re effectively blowing your money.

You should also be aware that the size of list has no direct correlation as to its quality or responsiveness.

Traffic Exchanges.

As the title suggests you’re swapping traffic, this usually means that you surf a selection of other members sites and in return you get your site added to the rotation so that some of them see your site.

The quality of traffic is sometimes quite poor from this source as a number of people are not really interested in seeing your site - they just want you to see theirs.

So where does the making money from traffic exchanges come in?

Well, simply put, there are a new type of traffic exchange services starting who offer both a free and paid membership, the free service allows you to surf and acquire credits which you can use to buy visitors and then there’s the paid member option (normally referred to as ‘pro membership’). With both the free and pro membership levels you still need to surf the site daily but there are a couple of things different:

a. Both membership types display a slide show of other sites for you to surf
b. Both membership types require no intervention (no clicking - just watching)
c. The pro membership pays you money!

Yep, as promised there it is - you can get paid to surf a small selection of sites a day with no action required on your part.

So how does that work and are we talking about pennies here?

Most important question first, no we are not talking about pennies (unless that’s all you’ve paid for). These sites normally pay you a percentage of your membership fee as your daily surfing fee, so my favourite site pays me 12% per day over 12 days (this means I make a profit of 44% every 12 days).

So in real terms, I can choose my investment level, so here’s what it looks like:

Pro membership $120 $6 $500 $1000
Percent per day 12% 12% 12% 12%
Cash per day $14.40 $.72 $60 $120
Membership term 12 days 12 days 12 days 12 days
Total Cash back $172.80 $8.64 $720 $1440

As I said the membership level is completely at your taste. But there’s more. You not only earn your own money and surfing credits but that of affiliates - so for example if you have a couple of affiliates then potentially you’re earning 10% or everything they pay in/surf and also 2.5% of whatever their affiliates do (so a two tier affiliate system).

The affiliate commissions vary but usually they are at least two tiers. The one I recommend is 12Daily, the url is http://www.12dailypro.com/?ref=62998 - complete with my affiliate ID (quid pro quo!).

Paul Foley is a well known webmaster whos expertise lies in Adsense sites - www.Cash-Sense.com/cashsense.html Pauls other interest is getting real rich, by sometime soon so he uses www.12dailypro.com/?ref=62998 - and they are slowly making him happy (very happy) www.MortgageHelp4u.com - for mortgage info and help. www.HelpmeBuilda.Com

Apparel& Education + Training23 Mar 2009 11:35 pm


A Good Quality Diploma Cover

Graduation ceremonies are once in a lifetime events and every thing pertaining to them should be perfect .Whether it is the gowns, hoods, or stoles they should be of high quality. The diploma, the mark of a student’s achievement must be placed in a good quality diploma cover. The cover should be able to protect the diploma from dirt and any other material that may destroy it.

Most of the graduates are given their diploma together with the cover. However, they can be able to choose and buy their own personalized covers. To cut on costs, most schools order custom-made diploma covers in large quantities, with either the name of the school and the student engraved on the diploma cover or both. However, one can decide not to have anything written on it.

The diploma cover is not limited to schools only, but students who have received and graduated from home schooling, can also be able to have their own personalized covers with any writing of their choice. The materials used in making the covers differ but the most widely used is leatherette. The material is soft and has a good lining interior, with a partition used to hold the diploma securely.

Uncategorized21 Mar 2009 04:52 am

The prevalence of low budget flight tickets - occasionally lower than a domestic rail ticket - has facilitated to make purchasing a house overseas a simpler option; even in this time of universal fiscal uncertainty. Without mentioning the fact that a estate abroad has vast investment possibilities - be that through redecoration and sale or renting your property as a vacation home.

However, several people are unaware or ill informed regarding the hidden dangers concerned with purchasing home out of the country. On the contrary there are a little simple approaches you can undergo to make certain you accumulate capital, acquire a vast home and avoid future stress, nervousness and financial hardship.

Firstly certify to carefully monitor money exchange; this not purely applies to the stage while you are buying the estate, but additionally any phase when you’ll be executing restorations or even taking extensive vacations. This action is mostly common in today’s contemporary economic climate.

You ought investigate country real estate law - some times individuals face trouble since they did not appropriately look into their human rights. This is appropriate to both buying a house and doing up it. You also need to check that the assets in the neighbourhood your asset will not be put on the market on and houses developed on it.

You have to also make enquiries about the companies you are purchasing from - most of the time if there is any negative publicity surrounding them, that is should be online. A simple Google search can frequently correct this - folks like to be verbal as regards things that have bothered them; but be sure to look past page one - or dig through authority forums… that is where you will come across the existent information and not just the company spiel. Properties in Bulgaria are a great investment for you and your family, especially in today’s economic climate.

Finance + Capital& Four-Wheelers& Insurance Management17 Mar 2009 03:54 am

Georgia Indemnity Insurance Laws

GA is a 25/50/25 type of state when it comes to car insurance. For Georgia car insurance, 25/50/25 is simple short form meaning $25,000 coverage per individual involved in an automobile accident, $50,000 coverage per accident for two or more people, and $25,000 coverage for any property damaged during a collision. Georgians that do not uphold this nominal amount of car insurance can be fined $200 or worse.

GA runs under the Tort system, meaning that, unlike a No Fault state, one of the motorists must be found at fault in any given car accident. Obligation for paying monetary damages lies in the hands of the individual found at fault as well as their insurance firm. GA car insurance laws do not obligate car owners or motorists to carry personal injury protection coverage, nor do they require the purchase of underinsured car insurance coverage. Just because the state does not mandate these policies doesn’t mean that they are not valuable picks for additional coverage. There are many people in Georgia who decide that they want to add PIP and underinsured/uninsured coverage to their car insurance. These rules were established to protect individuals and their cars on the GA roads. Administrating these regulations, the Georgia Department of Revenue has a statewide database that insurance underwriters are mandated to keep up to date with a motorist’s insurance information. drivers are advocated to carry proof of automobile insurance at all times. If you are not equipped with an actual card from your car insurance company, you should maintain a copy of your policy’s declaration page in your vehicle. You will be asked to present this evidence of coverage if you are stopped for a traffic violation, involved in an accident or stopped at a roadblock.

Being a no-fault state, all accidents in Georgia must have someone determined to be answerable to be at fault and their car insurance company is also answerable for damages.

Personal Injury Protection - This type of incremental coverage covers additional medical damages and other expenses that are not covered under a standard policy.

uninsured/underinsured Coverage - This elective insurance policy covers you in the event you are in an automobile accident with an uninsured driver. Since the individual doesn’t have an insurance underwriter to pay for damages, this car insurance will help to pay for them.

To guarantee compliance with the law, GA insurance companies are called for to provide details of your car insurance to a statewide database sustained by the State of Georgia Department of Revenue. It is also urged to carry proof of insurance policy with you everytime you drive. You may be asked to show this proof if you are involved in a collision or are stopped by the police.

Uncategorized16 Mar 2009 01:58 am

My mentor, a brilliant Ph.D, with a powerful
marriage counseling ministry recently shared 2
shocking statistics with me:

1. Out of every 10 Christians, 7 of them
have been sexually abused in the dream.

2. 10 out of 10 women whose marriages are not
working regularly have sex in the dream.

(He should know. He handled 21,000 cases in
his ministry last year).

This is a rather difficult topic to discuss,
but the good news is that a few obscure
scriptures in the Bible hold the key to
total freedom, so you can sleep better
at night with your spouse.

What To Do

Because of these revelations, his prayer
team has created 6 earthquake prayer points.
Those who have prayed them confirm:

- it’s effective in pulling back marriages
from the brink of disaster

- it mends broken marriages

- it brings back honey, love and joy
into relationships

Caution

My mentor cautions that anyone who wants to pray
them must be genuinely born again, and must NOT
be cheating on their spouse.

He also advises that best result comes if
you fast during the prayers. To go full
throttle, you start the prayers around midnight

(There’s a strong biblical reason for this, which
is explained in detail in the latest version of
my popular ebook, “Prayer Cookbook for Busy People.”)

The scripture to stand on is Matt.19:6.

Spread The Joy

If you happen to know any Christian friend whose
marriage is not all that it could be, do them a favor -
give them these 3 prayer points for a start.

1. Every marine witchcraft that has introduced
spirit wife/husband in my dreams, be roasted
by fire in the name of Jesus.

2. Every agent of marine witchcraft posing as my
husband/wife in the dream, be consumed by
fire in the name of Jesus.

3. Every agent of marine witchcraft physically
attached to my marriage to frustrate it,
die by fire in the name of Jesus.

The others (over 40 of them) are in the prayer
book. Go check it out at:

http://www.firesprings.com

Not sure how to pray this kind of prayer?
Get the instruction manual FREE at:

http://www.firesprings.com

Be blessed!

Prayer coach Elisha Goodman helps busy people get quick results
through prayer. Learn more about his two golden key secrets that guarantee answers to your prayers at http://www.firesprings.com.

Check out his ebook packed with tips and strategies on how to attract a car, house, spouse or anything else you desire through prayer - almost everytime you pray at http://www.firesprings.com/prayer.htm

Gambling Parlor& Recreation Portal& Wagers12 Mar 2009 01:44 pm

On the assumption you haven’t quite grasped gaming establishment card-playing, then feel free to read on…

gambling net

In the name of clarity, a betting house is a structure that features gambling. Here, clients may take chances at one armed bandits or alternative wagers. Gaming hall games most often have logically derived likelihoods constituting them which maintain that the company preserves an advantage versus the betting devotees. More often than not, gaming room games can instigate you to get obsessed very speedily. By way of example, consider the classic one-armed bandit, a cash operated machine with 3 or more drums that rotate if a knob connected to it is pushed. The appliance usually pays out in accordance with a sequence of emblems displayed on the panel of the appliance. Regrettably, gambling saloon pastimes encourage an appearance of ascendancy, thus tricking the client — the victim is provided with choices, but in reality they can not really level the gamer’s long-term odds. This is due to the gambling saloongambling house not repaying the entire wager as expected. This scheme is often seen at work in well known casino games like Texas hold’em poker, craps, roulette or blackjack.

Five card stud is definitely a very trendy casino pastime. The gamers, religiously guarding their fully screened cards, make bets in a principal pot which is finally bestowed onto the prevailing player owning the highest hand. (And as eveyone knows, the best bluffer may well prevail as well.) Resembling straight poker, blackjack too is a highly popular casino game. A lavish amount of its approval is caused by its particular mix of luck and talent & decision making, not to forget a routine tagged “card counting”. The aforementioned is a skill through which gamblers may actually skew the winning odds of the game to their gain both by betting & strategic actions in correlation to the hands shown. “Craps” is yet another extremely popular gambling hall pastime based on the throw of two dice. Craps buffs must place money on the score of 1 spin, or on a succession of cycles on two dice. Dissimilar to blackjack, there isn’t any viable bona fide winner betting system players could employ to boost the chances. Roulette is another immensely popular casino based pastime. A croupier spins a roulette wheel containing a set of 37 (as in classical roulette) or thirty eight (Vegas roulette) distinctively tagged cells in which a tossed pellet must settle, which determines the winning number and its attached sequences. Supposing that a gamer bets on a specific number and actually hits it i.e. they’ve got a lucky hand, the remuneration will be thirty-five to one, the original wager itself being repaid. Ergo in total it’s multiplied by thirty six.

Do make a point of being emphatically watchful under all circumstances as these gaming hall games may well be highly habituating. Certainly far too many lives may have been damaged thru addictive gambling + even though it feels entertaining, do your best to practise moderation.

Uncategorized11 Mar 2009 01:45 pm

Your wedding day may include a beautiful dinner reception. An elegant dinner later in the evening with or without a dance is a high class way to celebrate this very important day. There is a wide array of food selections available to meet all tastes. You will want to choose a caterer to fit in with your wedding theme, as well as the proper facilities to host your dinner reception. There are different caterers available to meet all your catering needs, and the choice is yours.

Catering your wedding can be very enjoyable and exciting. You will need to plan your meal according to the theme of your wedding, the style, number of guests, and of course, your budget. For a formal dinner and reception, you will need to choose the right caterer. They should be very professional, carry a good reputation, and be willing to meet with your expectations. Two top choices for receptions are a sit down meal, or a buffet style meal. Find out about the caterers meals, how they present them, their particular style, making sure it matches with yours. Will they provide specialty meals, such as vegetarian and others? Always ask for the cost per person. Make sure this is understood within a written contract. Drinks served at your wedding, can be served at an all expense paid open bar, or a regular bar where guests pay for the drinks. Wine can be provided by the caterer, which is of course more costly, or you can provide the wine yourself, paying a wine opening fee to the facility. Keep in mind that champagne is also a nice touch, and is usually used for the wedding toast.

Your wedding reception will be beautiful and elegant. Choosing the perfect caterer for your evening meal is a very important part of planning your day. They will need to provide excellent and professional service, meeting with all of your expectations. Make sure to keep track of all costs involved, including catering fees for food, alcohol and gratuities. Search our sites for all your catering needs.

Ken and Deidre are successful authors and publishers of Wedding information for you. http://www.weddingdresses-gifts-flowers.com

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