So you got your website up and running. You hired an excellent web designer to craft a perfect home page and satellite pages that will really draw in the visitors and inspire them to buy. You have a beautiful catalog of products with detailed descriptions. You have a section dedicated to the services you provide with praises from past customers. And you have the best online shopping cart service out there so that you customers can buy from you with no hassles and next day shipping. That’s great! Now where are your customers?

Driving traffic to your website is a much discussed and much misunderstood venture. There are a million theories out there that claim to drive tons of new visitors to your site daily. There are services that say they will increase your traffic by an enormous percentage if you will only pay them their small fee over a period of fifty years. There are so-called experts who will place your pages on all the best search engines on the net. They claim that with this kind of blanket exposure, your traffic numbers will explode within days.

But the only sure-fire way to draw productive traffic to your website is through targeted marketing. The important word to notice here is “productive.” You can draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to your site every year by hosting a giveaway of some kind. Services that search the internet for freebies will have people clicking a link to your site like crazy. But these people are not there to buy anything from you … quite the opposite. They are empty clicks. There is nothing productive about this kind of traffic. People looking for free stuff will rarely make you any kind of money. And that’s what you’re after, right?

So target your marketing to the people who really want to buy what you have to offer. How? Start by trying these basic steps…

* Hire an experienced copywriter. The copy that is on your site makes a world of difference in the sales you garner from the internet. Most important to targeted marketing are the keywords found in your title and the metatags in the website’s code. An experienced copywriter will know how to determine the most effective keywords and place them strategically in your site’s copy. If you cannot afford a copywriter, do some research and talk to your web designer about inserting metatags.

* You can enroll in pay per click search engines. Obviously, google.com is one of these, but most of the most popular keywords are already taken. If you can think of some original phrases that people use to search for your products or services, you can post your ad next to the text that comes up when people search for that phrase. Every time someone clicks on your ad to go to your site, you pay google.com a nominal fee.

* Submit articles to free ezine sites. This is especially helpful if you are a service provider. You can write, or hire someone to write, an article for you about your area of expertise. Give some free tips, offer your experience, and be accessible in the text. Then at the bottom of the article, you get a link to your website advertising your services. Every time someone publishes your article in their ezine or newsletter, they must use your web address at the bottom.

These are just a few of the many ways to ensure you get “productive” traffic. Empty clicks are just that … empty… and your wallet will stay that way, too!

Angel’s thoughts: Don”t forget to hire a good SEO ! Cause even if you hire someone to write if your website/blog is not optimized your goind to waste your money!!

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Many people ask us whats the best way to get into social media marketing – What shall I do first? Is Twitter relevant to us? How can I do it?… and so on. Of course there are many answers and roads to travel depending on the type of business and where you are now with your internet presence.

However – there is one approach which works well for most companies, and provides a bridge to enable you to evolve into Social Media and at the same time act as a hub and focus for your other online marketing activities.

It involves building a blog. I’m a much bigger fan nowadays of blogs and I really do see them as the epicentre of all your web marketing – even more so than your website. Your website is still essential as the ultimate destination for visitors and a means to convert them to buyers or enquiries, but the blog can be the driving force.

What will your Blog do

Below there’s a summary of the way you can use your blog to drive your social media and other web marketing activities. To set one up is easy – as we’ve discussed before using wordpress or typepad and integrating the blog within your domain is a straightforward process. The bigger issue most people have is deciding what to blog about – but actually there’s no shortage if you consider the volume of information your company publishes:-

-new product information

-industry specific information – new legislation, new trends

-lessons and ‘how to do’s’

-’hints and tips’

-case studies

-press releases

…and so on. In fact everytime your produce any communication content consider your blog a receptacle for it – even your video footage.

The crucial thing of course is to make sure there’s some value added content there – so a ‘good’ blog is really what we should be talking about. You can include all the other stuff but make sure (as we do on this blog) you are giving some valuable information away like lessons and ‘how to do’ guides. This will ensure people link to you (which of course helps with SEO) and sign up to receive info from you automatically – as illustrated on Seth’s blog above.

Your Blog and SEO

You will capture the ‘long tail’ as you blog – further, as we discussed above, you’ll develop backlinks naturally.

Your Blog and Email Marketin

As we do, send a regular newsletter to people with links back to the blog where the detailed relevent content is stored

Your Blog and Social Bookmarking

Give people the opportunity of bookmarking your site to increase your visibility and backlinks – also you might proactively bookmark your own posts in the major sites (Digg, delicious etc) – there’s a full list of around 125 of them here.

Your Blog and your PR

Any press releases you send out can be stored on your blog and linked to via emails and social bookmarking sites. Again this will help increase the value of your blog and the SEO

Your Blog and Social Media

The two everone’s concerned about are Twitter and Facebook. If you dont have time to frequent these phenomena then do as we do and link your blog directly to them. What happens when I blog is that it gets fed directly into Twitter and then to Facebook – saves loads of time.

Your Blog and your Videos

Upload your videos to your blog for greater impact and also to help visibility via search engines – courtesy of Google Universal Search these should show up in search engine results – post them on YouTube too

So, the key message is integrate your blog with your website then use it as the springboard to evolve your online marketing and engage social media. Over time this will increase your visibility via search engines as well as all the important social media sites.

Angel’s thoughts: Good advices in general, but never forget one thing, you must keep your blog alive!! Never stop to add stuff and new posts, to tweet, to comment etc or else your blog will die slowly but surely!

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Many of us want to make money online. But, unfortunately many people get scammed and lose money instead of making it. I have been in the online money making filed for about 7 years now, and in my experience i have found some things that are common amongst online money making scammers. I hope this will help you avoid scams. Remember, these are just from my own personal experience, they are not facts. But i am sure they will come in handy when trying to avoid scammers.

Big Payout
This is the biggest sign that should raise your red flag. I mean if a site is promising you $5 for a click on a link, or a program promising you make thousands of dollars in a week or while you sleep, of course its a scam. If it was the case why aren’t they doing it themselves, instead of trying to make money selling you this information?..

No Reliable Contact Information
If you can’t find any information as to how and who to contact or who is responsible for the site, turn around and don’t look back. An established business always have its contact info up to date and easy to find, because they are not afraid of people knowing who they are and/or authorities coming after them.

Are They Responding
Before signing up, contact the site/company and ask a question or two. Usually scammers don’t even bother to answer or respond to any email. Even if they do, it takes them a very long time to respond. Ask yourself if they take that long to respond to a question, how long is going take them to pay you (if they are going to pay you at all)?

Too Flashy
Scam sites for some reason tend to use a lot of flashy signs and big bold text (i know i make many internet marketers angry by saying this since they all have those flashy sites, but i believe if you have real information that will help someone make money or what have you, you don’t need to pull people in with over sized and colorful text. If there is big and colorful text about the amount of money you will make, rather than detailed explanation about how you will make that money, there is a good chance its a scam. Legitimate companies usually use a simple but elegant design for their site.

Fake Testimonial
Most businesses use testimonial which is a good way to promote. But, if you pay close attention, you can easily spot the fake ones. For example, a testimonial about a product that helps you make more money with your site says “…with the help of the x program i have made that much money on my site. Regards, X Y xy.com …”. If you check the mentioned site, 9 out of 10 times, either it doesn’t exist or if it does, no body by that name is responsible or have anything to do with the site. Although many scammers try to have everything in place, most scam artistes (if you can call them artists) don’t even take the time to at least make sure the testimonial information is right.

Too Easy
If its telling you “Make $2000 A Week, No experience Required, No Work Involved”, ask your self, what kind of job you can make that much money without any experience or putting any time and effort into it? While there are legitimate ways to make that much money in short amount of time, most of them require some experience and hard work, unless you have millions of dollars to put in bank and make money with its interest.

Ignore Those Emails
If you receive an email from someone you don’t know and its start with “dear friend” or something like that, and starts telling you how he/she knows this is the perfect opportunity for you to make money…. Do i need to say anything about this?.. Most people always look for ways to make more money, but i mean how could a stranger know you are looking for a way to make more money at this time, and how would he even know you? Sometimes email comes from Nigeria and other places as well.

Paying A Fee And Keeping It A Secret
What legitimate company that you have worked for before, required you to pay a fee in order for them to give you more detailed information on how to make money? And why would they be afraid if you told someone about this transaction?…

Your Gut Instinct
The best way to recognize an online money making scam is your ‘gut instinct’. 99% of the time, what your instinct tells you is the truth. Most of us tend to ignore our instinct, but i have found in my experience that most of the time, my initial instinct was right.

There are many ways to make money online, and many great programs and methods, but always make sure you find out about ins and outs of it, before you get into it, after all you want to make money, not lose money. I hope the points made in this article will help you avoid online money making scams.

Angel’s thoughts: If you want a sure way to get money online become an Affiliate on Clickbank, it’s free! ClickBank let you sell other peoples stuff for a commission. You can find digital products like e-books and short reports to promote. And/Or become an Amazon Affiliate, but you’ll win a lot less!

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Why does saving money feel like such a difficult thing to do? Every bit of professional advice you read about achieving financial freedom includes saving 4-9 months of your monthly salary to have on hand as a cushion for emergencies and difficult times, and yet, less than 23% of the population has been able to achieve this goal. There are numerous, personal reasons for the inability to save money—underlying most of those reasons are fears.

Oftentimes, we use fear as a motivator to begin a goal:  Fear of failing health, of being laid off, of having to turn to others for help, or of the unknown future. The problem with that is fear may encourage you to start saving money; however, once you’ve got a good amount saved—more than you’ve been able to stock away in your savings account previously—you are no longer afraid. So fear, then, is no longer a motivator and you are more likely to tap into that savings account for non-emergencies.

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The best strategies for saving money is to have a positive, inspirational goal in mind—something you really want to strive toward. Maybe it’s taking a long-desired vacation to Fiji or Alaska or Japan. Perhaps it’s an item you’ve always wanted like a house or a luxury car. Or maybe security in hard times is motivation enough. When the target is something you truly value, you’re more likely to sustain energy and the motivation to keep moving toward your goal. When you know what’s important to you, you’re better able to focus and stay on track. Here are five great to start saving money:

1. Stop spending. Every time you turn on a television or radio, or even go online, you’re bombarded with advertising that is designed to do one thing:  get you to part with your money. Don’t buy on impulse. Take time to decide whether or not having that cute $24 purse or $22 watch outweighs your goal to own your own car at the end of the year.

2. Clip coupons. There are dozens of coupon websites. Take advantage of them. Saving money on items like hand soap, groceries, tissues, etc. saves you mere pennies in the moment, but those little copper coins add up to real savings over time. Coupon-clipping is a discipline that pays in the end. So get your scissors out and start paying less for everyday items.

3. Skip the movies and play games at home. Just taking two children to the movies today can cost you $50—that’s $5 for their tickets, $20 for you and your spouse, and $20 worth of food purchased at the theatre. The cost doesn’t even include gas for the car. When you’re saving money, fifty dollars is the occasional treat, not a childhood rite of passage. Save that for the must-see children’s movie of the year, and opt to stay in most weekends playing a board or card game that’s fun for everyone.

4. Stop using credit cards. Credit card debt is at an all-time high. Yes, it’s convenient to purchase items on credit, but if you really want to pay the $33 sale price for that designer sweater use cash. By the time you pay off credit card debt, you will on average have paid 35% above the full price. That’s $116 for an $86 sweater. Not much of a bargain now, is it? Save your credit cards for purchases you know you’ll have to pay over time, like big ticket items you can’t do without (a refrigerator, a water heater, a dehumidifier, etc.). If you’re enrolled in a rewards program through a credit card, strive to keep purchases under control and pay your balance every month. That’s how you really benefit from those point programs.

5. Teach your child to identify birthdays with presence not presents. Children under the age of five don’t care whether or not they get twelve birthday gifts when the one present they do receive is having the people who love them gathered around to fuss and fawn over them. We teach our children to start valuing things instead of people by having them tear the wrappers off a dozen packages at the age of one when the paper is far more interesting than the actual gifts inside.

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Take time to re-evaluate the way you look at money. We’ve all developed habits from childhood about spending. Maybe you grew up with very little and are determined to avoid those feelings of inadequacy as an adult. Or maybe you got everything you ever wanted and don’t see why that ever has to end even though you and your spouse don’t make near the amount your parents made. Revisit your past. Know what’s been motivating you to spend money, and then decide whether instant gratification is more valuable than being able to achieve your future goals.

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About the Author: Delores Mason is a writer and life coach. She has over 14 years of experience in human resources and leadership development consulting. Her coaching practice, 2YourWell-Being, helps individuals focus on nurturing the self and finding balance in their lives. http://www.2YourWell-Being.com

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Here are several ways to expand your own business operations with ebooks.

Marketing – An ebook offers an inexpensive means of producing full-color marketing materials complete with graphics and audio components. Find good software or hire someone to help create your ebooks. Grab a digital camera and start snapping shots of your products, people using your products and services, your workers, etc. Then show off your shots, your products and describe your services with awesome power-packed presentations; web pages with interactive links for sound, visual presentations, communications (emails or forum posts) and more.

Education – When your products or services need explained, educate your prospects and clients with ebooks. Have sample or short versions available for trial offers or free downloads. Then include full-fledged detailed editions with product / service purchases. Educate with visual, sound and interactive point-and-click methods. Invite questions and feedback from recipients for improvements on future product and service development.

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Communications – How many times do you get an email you with a question – the same question over and over gain it seems – that requires a book-length answer? Maybe questions like, “How do you create a basic website?” or “How can you market on a tight budget?” inspire lengthy replies. Well, now you can write one long reply, turn it into an ebook and send it out – over and over again and free up more time for other things. AND include your own marketing information inside so that readers can look you up on the Internet, pass your information along and give others the opportunity to find you, too.

New Product – Use surveys and take polls for new product creation. Include a link to a web page with a questionnaire and free download for recipients upon completion.

Sales Reps – Arm your sales representatives with professional, top-notch full-color media / product / service information kits presented via your ebooks to share with local newspaper, radio, television and other media reps, visitors and potential clients at trade shows and other events. Set up an introductory page in your ebook, then an index where people can click and quickly find your History, Mission Statement, product and service descriptions and images, Contact information, Testimonials, etc. Then copy the ebooks to disks and CDs to distribute at events. This gives people the opportunity to learn much more about you when they have more time afterwards.

So grab your cyber-pencil or keypad and start writing! Ebooks can definitely enlarge your operations.

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Do you want to trade in Forex, but you’re not sure where to begin? That’s okay; you’re not alone. Literally everyone who trades in Forex was a beginner at some point, and you will need help to get started in this most potentially lucrative and exciting market.

Become Educated in Forex

When you begin in Forex, the first thing you’ll need to know is how Forex works. The Internet is a great place to find resources on Forex, so that you can get educated in Forex before you try to trade in it.

Start by finding some resources online, such as free or paid Forex courses, so that you can learn about the market, and how to trade in it. Ideally, you will want these courses to have at least some video demonstration in them, so that you can see exactly what happens, in real time.

The second thing these courses should have written material you can refer back to at a glance as well, when you have questions.

Finally, the course you use (or you can use several) should get good customer reviews, so that you know the information you’re receiving from the course is indeed useful and valuable.

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Practice

Most online Forex brokers will let you practice with a demo account before you actually trade with real money. This is very, very important, because it gets you used to the fast pace of the Forex market, and it also lets you test out what you’ve learned without actually having to risk real money.

You can learn how to get in and out of trades seamlessly, and you can learn how to get in and out of trades based upon the data that your system tells you to do, rather than being emotional about your trades.

Here’s the thing; one of the potential (and big) downfalls with Forex trading is that if you get emotional about a particular trade, such that you stay in when it’s time to get out because you’re winning on a trade and you think it’s going to continue even though your data tells you it’s time to get out, you’re going to lose money.

The same holds true if you’re staying in a losing trade in hopes that you’ll make your money back, when you should get out. Practicing in Forex before you trade with real money helps you get your “ducks in a row” both psychologically and practically, so that you have the best chance of success.

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Develop your strategy

As you practice with Forex, you’re going to develop your own strategy. What’s your entry and exit point for a particular trade? Learn the basics of both fundamental and technical analysis, so that you can use this most important information to decide how “healthy” the currencies in your currency pairs are.

When you have established your strategy, of course you’ll need to tweak it as you go along and as you become more knowledgeable, but don’t make drastic changes based upon emotion. Again, remember that emotion needs to stay out of your trades.

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Start small

When you begin, make sure you start small. For example, most Forex online brokers will let you trade with very small amounts of money. While it’s true that your gains will also be small when you first begin, the idea here is to learn to psychologically handle losses as well as gains, so that you profit overall.

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Make sure you use stops

A stop is going to let you protect yourself against massive loss in the event a trade is going south. Decide when you want to get in and out of trades, and especially make sure that you get out of a trade if it’s tanking.

Never trade with more than you can afford to lose

Finally, never, ever trade with money you can’t afford to lose. The Forex market has significant risks, and you will experience some losses. Every successful Forex trader knows this; you will have some, too. The idea is to make sure you profit overall.

If you follow these steps, though, you can experience success in the Forex market, just as others do.

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Eva Iles is a Forex trader who operates www.Forex-Trading-Beginner.com and there regularly writes about Forex trading tips, Forex trading platforms and help on how to read Forex charts. For more Forex trading tips please visit her site

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1. Work for other internet businesses as a virtual assistant. This can be something as simple as answering the phone as though you are at the office of the company you are answering the phone for. It could also include other things such as typing, providing customer service, handling emails, and so on.

2. Write blog articles for over 1 million bloggers. There are millions of blogs right now that need articles written for them.

If you’d like to stay at home and provide a service that is in high demand writing blog articles is definitely one way to do it. You can make good money and you will never be bored because of the wide variety of blogs on the Internet today.

3. Start a membership site offering tips on what you are an expert at. People are willing to pay for information and if it is something you can help them with on an ongoing basis you could start a membership site.

One I came across recently was a membership site offering information on celebrities. You got contact information for thousands of celebrities once you join their membership site.

You also see membership sites on various things including small business training, affiliate marketing, home improvements, and so on.

4. Sell other people’s products as an affiliate marketer. This is an excellent way to begin earning money on the Internet and you can get rich if you treat it like a business.

The products are already developed and you are also given your own website and marketing materials. Your job is to get visitors to your affiliate site and make money when they purchase from you.

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5. Start your own blog and sell advertising spots on it. Initially you might want to put Google ads on your blog by joining the Google Adsense program.

As your traffic increases you can sell advertising in the form of banner ads, text Link ads, and so on. This actually can become very profitable for you long term because you can pick up corporate sponsors as well.

These are five online business ideas you can quickly make money with. They all can turn into very lucrative businesses and are things you can do right from the comfort of your own home. If you stop and think about it you can probably come up with a few more great ideas.

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You can start multiple streams of income such as running an online business… And the easiest  type to start is the affiliate home-based business. As a matter of fact there are some i know that cost less than $35 to start and little or no money to keep running. Just remember this when joining an affiliate home based business, WHO OWNS THE COMPANY?

A person who is willing to put their name on the site allows you to see their past efforts online and it shows how creditable they are as opposed to a site that has a lot of hype but no one taking responsiblity for owning the program. I would stay clear of any affiliation to sites like this. People get burned on a daily basis on the internet so if you do some checking on the owner of the site like running his or her name on a google search you will see different listings that that person works with.

Choose your affiliate business with caution,do your research homework and you will have a safer more secure business than just falling for the hype of any site.

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Face Your Brand! Save/make Money: Create Your Own Brandmark/logo.

Developing Business Logos:
When developing business logos, it is important to remember certain basic principles like font and color usage. You also need to keep the following in mind:
·         Choose those colors which represent your business most effectively.
·         Logos should be developed considering the nature of business and something related to the business should be represented in the logo.
·         Use only easily identifiable logos; make sure not to use distorted pictures in your logo design.
·         Business logos can include the name of the company but just make sure to use it appropriately. If the company has a long name, it might be better to only include the initials. If you want the full name in your logos, you are left with smaller fonts.
·         Developing logos requires the use of logo creation software. The software comes with predesigned logos with a customization facility that enables you to create one according to your business needs.
·         It is always good to place business logos on transparent backgrounds for better visibility and clarity.
·         Business logos can be available at zero cost. Don’t think these logos are not of great standard. You can easily find the right business logo to suit your needs.

Need for Business Logos:
The need for business logos arises due to the following:
·         Sustainability and recognition in the market.
·         Easy identification of the company and the services provided
·         Logos are generally considered a mark of trust for existing and prospective customers
·         Logos can be easily related to the kind of services and nature of product offered
·         With the help of business logo graphics, you can develop one of the most realistic and appealing logos that are easily remembered
·         New business logos can be developed with the latest logo development software
·         Business card logos are among the most effective advertisement tools in any business promotion, whether it is about launching a product or expanding your current business

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