Mar 21 2006
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Take a look at this video and get a glimpse of the next few years.
Fact or fiction? Only time will tell. I for one am very, very curious.
How will you and your business play a part in this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AkFGsNtTFRI
Mar 14 2006
7 Ways To Make Money With Articles
by Melanie Mendelson
http://www.WriteArticles-GetWebsiteTraffic.com
If you write and submit articles on the Internet, you need to make sure you are getting the most money out of each article. Here are the 7 different ways to make money with articles:
1. Promote Your Website
Add your author bio at the end of each article with a short ad for your products or services and a link to your website. People who like your article and click on your link will be more ready to buy from you than a cold prospect.
2. Promote Affiliate Products
You can promote affiliate products in your author bio, and make commissions on all the sales you refer. Just register a domain name (so your link at the end of the article looks professional), and redirect it to your affiliate link.
3. Content Sites With Adsense
Use your articles to build content websites packed with useful information. Content websites are likely to get lots of free traffic from search engines. Place the Google Adsense advertisements on your pages, and get paid for each click.
4. Blogs
Start publishing a blog. Search engines love blogs because they are regularly updated with fresh content. Blogs tend to get a lot of traffic from search engines. Break-up your articles into smaller chunks and turn them into blog entries.
5. Mailing List
Collect your website visitors names and e-mail addresses – ask them to sign up for your newsletter. Regularly e-mail your articles to your newsletter subscribers, along with promotions for your website.
6. Information Products
When you accumulate enough articles, compile them into an e-book. Turn your articles into book chapters. Change a fewthings here and there, and you will have a new information product to sell.
7. Viral E-Books
Instead of selling the e-book that you made from your articles, you can also use a viral marketing approach. Addpromotional copy to your e-book along with links to your website and affiliate links, and give it away. It will spread around the Internet like a virus, advertising your products and services and putting more money in your pocket.
About The Author:
Melanie Mendelson will show you how to write money-making articles in 30 minutes – even if you can’t write! Learn more about her 30 Minute Article Writing System at http://www.WriteArticles-GetWebsiteTraffic.com
Mar 05 2006
We have been looking for a relatively easy way to build websites quickly. The forums have all been abuzz about two different products. Well, we now own both products, and let me tell you…there is no comparison between the them as I was lead to believe.
XSitePro is a pleasure to use. It’s intuitive, comes with a 101 page tutorial, a 461 page manual and several videos – all of which walk you through the program with ease. If you have your content all together, you can have a site up and running in less than 2 hours (if you are green like me) and that’s right out of the box.
The other program we bought, while it makes nice sites, actually ended up having a steeper learning curve as the instruction manual left much to be desired, not to mention the frustration that we experienced. While it makes nice sites, it is not as flexible, nor is it as robust.
While it’s a breeze to build your pages, XSP also tells you what you need to do in order to optimize your pages. In addition:
I just know I’m going to be so much more productive with this software…I already am. And while much of this stuff is rather new. I recently heard from a hard core dreamweaver user that this program is unbelievable.
This is one program I cannot recommend highly enough. If you are trying to make a decision between XSP and another program, let me tell you, XSP is a no brainer.
Now if I could just find a graphics program that was as easy!
Mar 05 2006
As promised, OlderWiserWomen will be hosting a free tele-class on Blogging for Beginners.
You can get further details at Blogging For Beginners.
Mar 02 2006
What a novel idea! Sorry if I am being sarcastic, but this is something I’ve been saying for a long time. If you are sick, please stay home instead of sharing your viruses with others. This is especially true when you work in health care - the people you expose your viruses too often already have a weakened immune system. Instead what happens often happens is ones misplaced sense of duty kicks in and we must go to work, OR the boss says that you must come in.
While Washington is warning businesses that they need to prepare for bird flu, perhaps they should remind businesses that employees need to stay home with any contagious virus.
WASHINGTON - Businesses need to plan on having 40 percent of their workforces out if a flu pandemic strikes and need to start rewarding employees for staying home when they are sick, government advisers told a conference Tuesday. You can read the full article here.
