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What Do Chutes And Ladders Teach Us About Running a Home Internet Business Opportunity?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

The simple act of playing a board game as a child could teach us tremendous concepts about running your home internet business opportunity.  One of my favorite game as a child was Chutes and Ladders where your goal was to reach the top of the board.  The person who got to the top first was the winner.  There were certain pitfalls or rewards that you could receive or be penalized.  You could either land on a square that took you closer to your goal as you traveled up the board.  The alternative was landing on a square that made you slide down the chutes or further away from your goal.  You either moved towards your goal very rapidly or very slowly.  The speed that we get closer to our goals in our home internet business opportunity is determined by a number of different factors.  The amount of targeted traffic that you generate to your website or blog is critical to your growth.

Google is always watching your website or blog and the activity of your blog or website to rank it appropriately.  SEO marketing is a method that is more towards slowly ranking your website while PPC marketing is for getting a more rapidly ranked website or blog.  The method that you use is dependent on your preference.  Chutes and Ladders can bring you very close to giving up and starting all over when you slide down a chute.  The actual throwing of the die determines whether you go up or down. Google can knock you back with a slap and the way you respond determine whether your home internet business opportunity will succeed or not.  Pitfalls versus rewards are evenly distributed on the Chutes and Ladders game board, but in real life you might encounter more pitfalls.  Rewards might come more few and far between so being persistence is very important in being successful in your home internet business opportunity.

The risk of not continuing for some people outweighs the possible rewards of succeeding in their home internet business opportunity.  Real life dictates that sometimes the risk is overwhelming while the reward is few and far between.  Chutes and Ladders does teach us about goal setting and achieving our objectives no matter the pitfalls.  The other alternative is reaching the top where you neither went up the ladder nor slide down the chute.  Does this make your journey less valid?

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Web Marketing Strategy #8: Pay Per Click Marketing For Your Home Internet Business Opportunity

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Pay Per Click (PPC) is the most popular lead generation method used by most internet marketer. The goal of PPC marketing is to capture your prospect contact information initially.  Once a prospect opts in to your marketing list then you may start to build a relationship through personal contact or auto responder. The way you set up your PPC campaign is the single most determining factor in whether your results are futile or not.

PPC may also be the most expensive marketing strategy if done incorrectly. Google can go through a $5,000 credit card in about one hour whether it is a good or bad campaign.  Google is not concern with whether your campaign works as long as the information seeker clicks on your ads.  The amazing part is that your $5,000 might not net you any leads at all.  The effectiveness of your PPC campaign to produce targeted leads is dependent on a number of factors.

Google’s campaigns tend to be more expensive while campaigns on Yahoo and MSN tend to be more inexpensive.  The most critical initial step is determining your target market. Your target market will determine all of your web marketing strategies whether you are using PPC, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or any other marketing tactics. Research the keywords that you will bid on for your campaign.

You must think carefully about your marketing budget and how much you are willing to pay for a click.  The minimum is always the easier to figure because everyone would love to pay the least amount as possible for a click.  Your maximum that you would be willing to pay is critical especially the more competitive the keyword.  The ultimate goal is to be on page one of Google, Yahoo or MSN.    Impressions are how many times your ad is seen which is determined by a number of factors such as bidding the right amount, writing a good ad that is relevant to your keywords and page.

The foundation of your marketing is built on your target market and knowing what they are looking for. The better you are at getting into the mind set of your target market the greater chance that your campaign will succeed.  PPC as a web marketing strategy will help you generate some targeted leads to your website.  It is an art to getting the right people to click your ad, one of the best resources to learn advance PPC is Perry Marshall’s Definitive Guide to
Google Adwords.

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Web Marketing Strategy #7: Outsourcing Your Content For Your Home Internet Business Opportunity

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Outsourcing is a viable web marketing strategy that is very necessary when your home internet business opportunity get to the point where you can’t do everything effectively and efficiently.  You may outsource almost every aspect of your home internet business opportunity, things as Writing, Linking, Accounting, Customer Support, Programming, Graphic Design etc.

For example you may write your “money” article and outsource the other articles that you need for your other keywords while linking back to the “money” article for SEO marketing.  You can therefore be more effective in writing and researching the “money” article for the main keyword that you are trying to rank on Google.

Outsource projects that you are not the best at and concentrate on the income generating activities that you are very proficient.  When I was growing up the teachers always told me to focus on my weakness to make them stronger.  What I really needed to do was focus on my strength to make them even stronger because I became mediocre at best for my weaknesses.

If everyone else was given the same advice then many of us have focused on the wrong thing.  The basic strategies for growing your home internet business opportunity have been to master one concept, and then move on to the next. When these strategies become numerous then how do we manage our priorities?  We have a limited amount of hours in any given day that we may market our home internet business opportunity.

We all have many different reasons that motivate us. Time freedom and spending time with my sons are my motivating factors.  My sons will have 23 basketball games this season not counting playoff games and I will attend at least 20 of them.  I have also committed to working in the concession stand for at least 5 games. Time management is very important after I add the other facets of my life.  Outsourcing is a great way to help you be more productive without having to be part of every step of your marketing strategies.

Listed below are a number of different websites that you may hire people for your

Outsourcing needs:

Elance.com

Scriptlance.com

Freelance.com

Rentacoder.com

Getafreelancer.com

The number of web marketing strategies that you use for your home internet business opportunity may be very overwhelming.  Article Marketing, Social Media, SEO Marketing, PPC, Keyword Research, Market Research, and the numerous other things that you have to do for your home internet business opportunity may leave you paralyzed.  Outsourcing some of these assignments may help you operate your business at a greater operating efficiency level.  Leveraging your time by outsourcing projects may be the web marketing strategy that will take your business to the next level.

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Web Marketing Strategy #3: Article Marketing For Targeted Keywords With Greater Competition For Your Home Internet Business Opportunity

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Web Marketing Strategy using Article Marketing to generate free leads for your targeted keywords that have greater competition for your home internet business opportunity is very aggressive.  Article writing is one of the most natural ways to generate traffic to your website or blog.  When you are competing against 100,000+ websites for your targeted keywords, then the strategies are the same but on a larger scale.  It is like you have to get your back links to become viral to break into a market that is so highly competitive.

You must use an auto submitter that allows you to spin your article into original content.  If instance, you wrote10 articles on your targeted keywords and submitted to over 100 Article directories you would have just placed 1000 back links leading back to your blog or website. You may use a service like Ping.fm to syndicate your content to over 20 Social Media sites for 200+ back links.  The search engines must know that you have new content on your blog so ping it on Pingomatic.com or some other directory.  Onlywire is great free or low cost service to social bookmark your articles on sites such Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon etc.  Squidoo and Hubpages because of their respective page rank are great places to put your original content also.

Leads are the bloodline of your home internet business opportunity so the more targeted leads that you generate the better.  The search engines rewards original content and originality and your articles may be re-published by publishers with your signature resource box intact. Article writing creates back-links to your website/blog for your home internet business opportunity. Article writing may be time consuming so the option to outsource your article writing is a great alternative.

You could write your money articles and outsource the rest of the articles that you require to rank on the search engine for your targeted keywords. The relationship that you have between the people who writes your articles with is very important.  You would want to give them the headline, targeted keywords and a little insight into your philosophy about said topic.  The strategies discussed above will help you penetrate into the highly competitive keywords arena.  The prime objective is to generate traffic and getting into your sales funnel for your home internet business opportunity. Highly trafficked keywords will put your blog or website in front of many more eyes as long as you know the web marketing strategies required.

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Web Marketing StrategyTip#5: Most Effective Ways To Get Backlinks To Your Blog or Website?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

The main goal of a Web Marketing Strategy is generating traffic to your blog or website.  Google is one the main platform to generate traffic using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or PPC.  SEO is based on a number of factors, such as your targeted keywords, content and back links.  A back links is an anchored text leading back to your blog or website from another blog or website.  For example:  Steady Wins the Race with Back links

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Back links are like power juice to your site the more links the better chance that your blog or website will rank on Google. Each back links represent that people like your content and are sharing it. The only problem is that not all back links are created equal, Google evaluate the strength of the link based on where it originate.

A forum posts on Betternetworker.com would carry more weight than one from a forum that is spammer’s paradise.  The more stringent the forum “police” is on spammers the better chance that your back links in the form of your signature file would rank better in Google’s eyes.

There are many different strategies to generate back links some of the ways are listed below in no particular order:

1. Buying Links
* irrelevancy possible locations that your links will be placed on, ice cream next to oil for example

2. Directories

* More relevant than buying links because links are placed in your targeted categories

3. Forum posts
* good link juice but poor link quality in spammy forums

4. Blog commenting
* good link juice same issue as Forums

5. Content Swaps
* excellent link juice

6. Article and Content publishing
* good link juice and loses link strength because of blog roll

7. RSS & Social Book Marking

8. Profile pages

9. Web 2.0 properties

The 9 listed methods listed above have different good and bad points about them.  The best method is content swaps with another blogger for instance.  You appear as a guest blogger on his blog and he does the same thing on yours.  The blog posts will have your anchor text in bound links in each of them respectively.  This is truly the truest form of link juice that you can receive.

RSS, Social book marking, profile pages and Web 2.0 properties are probably the weakest right now.  It remains to be seen how Google will change the rules regarding Social Media.  Facebook, Twitter and others are growing in leap and bound.  Google can not ignore this trend so empty profiles pages might start effecting your page rank while active participation in these communities will increase your page rank.

The ultimate prize is to generate traffic to your blog or website, but the next task at hand is to convert them to subscribers or business partners.  The next aspect of your Web Marketing Strategy and S.E.O is your on page organization.  The building of back links are more of the off page activities.  The way you have your blog or website set up is the next phase in converting traffic.  The next tip will focus on the on page activities.  Google ranks pages and not website so having the right blend of relevancy is very important.

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Web Marketing Strategy Tip #4: Blogging to Generate Free Leads For Your Home Internet Business Opportunity

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Blogging is an excellent way to develop a win-win relationship with your subscribers.  A win-win relationship is one where all the parties involved are benefiting.  The strategy of this type of blog is not to sell a specific product or service, but to develop relationships with the subscribers.  The premise is that you provide valuable content to your readers.

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Your blog must truly provide an outstanding resource for your target market.  You could do a blog on sports, trivial, jokes or anything that you feel would be of interest to other people.  The main reason to make a great blog is the independence of owning and being in charge of your marketing list. The leads coming into your auto responder are not yours so if the company terminate the relationship. You would be temporarily without that stream of income until you find another home internet business opportunity.

The home internet business opportunity company that you are working with may be very restrictive at times. Your rights to market the product or service may be taken away at any time. A self hosted blog with a subscription list is the best way to prevent your income from being interrupted.  The majority of home internet business opportunity set you up with a replicated site and generic auto responder system. These tools are great for branding the company and do nothing for You Inc.

You may set up You Inc. very easily especially since the expenses required to set up your blog is minimal.  You will need a domain name, hosting company and an auto responder.  These costs are minimal in comparison to the value derived from owning your blog.  Your blog is your real piece of real estate on the web.  Your list is your only asset that is portable and the more your list grows the more valuable your asset becomes.

Attraction Marketing is based on the premise that if people trust you they would be more prone to business with you.  Your blog is a passive way to convert subscribers to sales.  The actual content of the blog must not be sale driven. The premise of the blog is to provide valuable content and if your blog becomes more sales oriented, then people might opt out of your list.

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Web Marketing Strategy Tip #2: Video Marketing Basics

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Video marketing dictates that you know your target market.  When you have done the necessary research to figure out what keywords you would like to get on the first page of Google with. The keyword that is entered into a Google search by a seeker of information is a possible market. Invest some time into figuring out at least 10 keywords that you would like to be on page one of Google.

Let take a look at a keyword like dogs which is a very general keyword.  German shepherd dogs would be a better long tail keyword.  A long tail keyword is normally 2 or more words that are more targeted.  A person who owns a German shepherd dog would be a niche because the products or services that they require would pertains to the needs of a German shepherd (another possible keyword).  When you have your keywords, then it is time to get the video started.

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You may format your video as if you telling a story that should last about 2 to 6 minutes. You have about 10 to 15 seconds to grab the viewer attention. You may introduce a problem or issue that a person who owns a German shepherd dog might face.  The solution is then presented with a strong call to action is required.  You either direct them to a blog or website that would present the solution in more detail.

Video marketing is a great way to Market your business, but if you don’t live up to your claims, then you will be instantly viewed in a negative light. If you say you are going to reveal an amazing secret, make sure you reveal it.  The second that the viewer does not trust you, your credibility is out the window. You might have a great video, but if you are missing one key ingredient you will not be able to generate leads.

Wow your video has 10,000 views but only one person opt into your list.  Your content must absolutely match the title of your video.  I have watched many videos where the content had nothing to do with the title.   If your title says that it is training German shepherd how to walk on their hind legs, then your videos better pertains to that.  If your views are not translating into generate traffic and leads, then your message might be kinked somewhere.

Video marketing is an easy way to generate traffic and free leads for you business.  Your video will do this for an indefinite amount of time.  It is best to do a great job at the onset then to have to go back and make changes later.  Any changes made normally put you back to the bottom of the ranking for Google.  It is better to live the ounce of pain of discipline then the heavy weigh of regret.

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Web Marketing Strategy Tip #1: How To Make Your Video Marketing Explode?

Friday, October 9th, 2009

The web marketing strategies tip that we will discussed is how to effectively explode your video marketing.   Your video alone is excellent but when coupled with other web marketing strategies your video marketing could explode.  Your video may be use to help to you optimize your keywords for the Search Engines.  The objective is to get on the first page of the search with your keywords.  The traffic potential is even greater when you are on page one of the search.  This revised video marketing strategy could make it easier to convert the increased traffic into a lead.  The following strategies are recommended to fully optimize your video:

1.  Blog

2.  Article writing

3.  Squidoo lens

4.  Hub pages

5.  Social Book marking

6.  Syndicate

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The techniques above would allow your video to rank high in the Search Engines.  When you perform a Google (or other search engines) keywords search of anything on the internet.   There is a great possibility that at least one video will be above the fold for any keyword entered on the organic (free side) of the page.  Google likes videos so expanding your web marketing strategies to your video marketing will fully optimized your marketing research on your keywords.  The odds are that you did some keywords research before producing your video.  When your have a completed product, then it is time to follow the steps outlined above.

You want to write keyword rich articles preferably on ezinearticles.com because Google also loves them.  When Google loves a certain media it tends to get rank higher.   Ezinearticles will also have articles on that first page with the video.  Ezinearticles edits every article before it is published and since Google is always looking for relevant content the Google bots frequently visit ezinearticles.  Check out my article on Articlewriting .

You have a choice whether you want to do a blog post or the article first.  You may use the same article on your blog that you post on Ezinearticle.com.  If you decide to post your article in another directory then you would want to rewrite the original.  I find that a Dictionary with a Thesaurus is very helpful here.  Ping it on Pingomatic.com to let the search engines know that you have new content on your blog.

Google loves Squidoo.com, which is a free service that allows you to make an unlimited number of web pages on any subject you want.  The rules of using self serving links are very flexible, unlike that for Article writing.   Squidoo lenses appear on the organic side of first page of a keyword search.  Also Make a Hub on HubPages.com for the same reasons given for Squidoo lenses.

Social Bookmark everything your have on Digg, Delicious and other social book marking site.

Syndicating to all the social networks that you are associated would be the capping of a job well done.  You may set up the entire process automatically on Facebook, Twitter etc.  You may also use onlywire.com which will syndicate to all your Web 2.0 Medias automatically.

Keep a look out for my post that I will break down each direct marketing strategy in depth.

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Web Marketing Strategies: 13 WP Blog PlugIns That You Absolutely Need

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

The 13 wp blog plugins that you need to add to your direct marketing strategies.  They are all critical for the overall operation of your blog.  These13 wp blog plug-ins makes your blog more user friendly. The 13 wp blog plug-ins listed below aren’t even the tip of the iceberg with the multitudes of plug-ins available.

1. Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”

2. CommentLuv

Plugin to show a link to the last post from the person leaving the comment‘s blog by parsing the feed at their given URL when they leave a comment. Rewards your readers and encourage more comments.

3. Google Analytics for Word Press

This plug-in makes it simple to add Google Analytics with extra search engines and automatic click out and download tracking to your Word Press blog.

4. One Click Plugin Updater

Upgrade plug-in with a single click, install new plug-in or themes from an URL or by uploading a file, see which plug-in have update notifications enabled, control how often Word Press checks for updates, and more.

5. Popularity Contest

This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plug-in, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Widgets and Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.

6. Sociable

Automatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social book marking sites.

7. Subscribe To Comments

Allows the readers to receive notifications of any new comments that are posted to the blog post.

8. TweetMeme Retweet Button

Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts to your network.

9. What Would Seth Godin Do

Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.

10. WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your Word Press blog.

11. P Super Cache

Very fast caching plug-in for Word Press.

12. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Returns a list of related entries based on a unique algorithm for display on your blog and RSS feeds. A templating feature allows customization of the display.

13. Viper’s Video Quicktags

Easily embed videos from various video websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo into your posts.

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Does The Angel Bra by Ardyss International Give Women The Support That They Need?

Friday, September 25th, 2009

It supports Your Back and Lifts Your Breasts

It supports Your Back and Lifts Your Breasts

The Angel Bra by Ardyss International gives women the support that they are missing from all other bras.  The bra has been worn as a fashion statement by Madonna back in the eighties, but the fundamental function of the bra is to provide support.  The vast majority of bras are very beautiful and sensual.   The bra manufacturers have focused on the aesthetics as oppose to functionality of the bra.  What is the main reason that a woman wears a bra?  For the smaller breasted woman this might not be as much of a concern as their larger breasted counterparts.

The average bra is designed where the shoulders support 100% of the weight of the breast.  Ardyss International designed the Angel Bra with the needs of women in mind.  Imagine a bra that support 75% of the weight of a woman breasts while the shoulders support the rest.  It also helps alleviates back pains and aches. This Bra also reshapes the breast and improves the natural beauty.  It also preserves the spinal column in the back by helping a woman maintains the correct posture.

The Angel Bra by Ardyss International is made with the highest quality standards and does what most bras do not do.  The suspension system supports the breasts so a larger breasted woman will have some relief from the pain involved with supporting 100% of her breast weight.  The smaller breasted woman will see an increased breast size due to the inner working of the suspension system.  They are many other benefits of  The Angel Bra, but the most important benefit is the fact that it supports 75% of the weight of the breasts.

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