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<title>5 Secrets to Compelling Headlines: The Fish of 10,000 Casts</title>
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by Caroline Melberg<br />
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If you are an avid reader of Blue Chip Tips, you’ll know that I spend a good deal of time on the water, and a portion of that time on the water is spent fishing.<br />
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Living in The Land of 10,000 Lakes makes this not too difficult to do, but I also enjoy fishing everywhere our travels take us (hence our recent fishing and photographic expedition to Alaska).<br />
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Over the course of my lifetime, I am pretty sure I’ve reeled in just about every type of freshwater fish available in our northern lakes – except one. The Musky.<br />
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Walleye and bass and northern pike – all day long. Sunfish and crappie and bluegill – no problem. But muskies? Not one.<br />
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I’ve had what is referred to in fishing parlance as "a follow" – where you look down at your lure as you reel it toward the boat just in time to catch a splash and hear the water ripple as a giant musky is tempted by your lure – only to turn and swim away at the last minute.<br />
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But I’ve never reeled one in.<br />
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Muskies are a sport fish – they can grow to be huge – the world record muskie, caught in Hayward, Wisconsin, was 63-1/2” long and weighed 69 lbs. – and just in case you aren’t into fishing - that’s a big freshwater fish. But you wouldn’t want to eat one.<br />
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Muskies don’t just bite at anything you throw at them – they take work. While you can go out and catch walleye with little effort, the musky is the fish of 10,000 casts. If you haven’t put in your time on the water, you won’t catch one. Muskies take sweat equity.<br />
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Advertising headlines are a lot like the elusive musky. While writing body copy comes fairly easily, the most important element of your ad or direct mail piece – the headline – takes hard work. You’ve got to put your time in "on the water" to nail one – and even the experts consistently write over 100 unique headlines for each promotion before they settle on the most compelling choice.<br />
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Fortunately – just like fishing pros use all sorts of "special tricks" to improve their musky-catching odds – copywriters use secrets of their own to consistently craft powerful, arresting headlines.<br />
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That said, here are 5 secrets you can use immediately to improve your headlines and improve your odds of reeling in your prospect:<br />
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1. Keep it Simple!<br />
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The best headlines are difficult to write because you must eliminate every unnecessary word and focus on one compelling idea – one and only one. Too many ideas will confuse your reader and you’ll lose your prospect.<br />
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2. Focus on Now<br />
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Your headline needs to create a sense of urgency to break through the clutter and get your prospect to focus on what you have to say. Something isn’t going to happen – it IS happening.<br />
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3. Benefits<br />
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By reading your ad or direct mail piece, your prospect should learn something they didn’t know before. By providing an inherent benefit in your headline, you build trust with your prospect which encourages them to read further.<br />
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4. Useful<br />
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Make sure the information conveyed in your headline is useful to your prospect – implying or referring to information that they need or want to know.<br />
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5. Specific<br />
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Tell your reader what you are talking about – what will your product or service specifically do for your prospect that your competitor’s product or service will not? Tell your prospect and watch your sales grow!<br />
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Entrepreneur and outdoor photography adventurer Caroline Melberg is President and CEO of Small Business Mavericks, a division of Melberg Marketing. She has over 20 years of experience creating marketing communications materials and writing copy for some of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Her small business columns are syndicated online, and she publishes the popular eZine, "Small Business Maverick Secrets." Learn insider Maverick Marketing secrets you can use immediately to find new customers and increase your sales. When you subscribe, you'll also get a FREE copy of her e-Book, "Local Small Business Internet Marketing Secrets" - learn insider secrets to marketing your local small business on the Web today! Get your FREE subscription at www.SmallBusinessMavericks.com.<br />
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<title>Writing Killer Ads: 5 Tips To Help You Stand From The Crowd</title>
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by Maria Markella<br />
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One thing is certain in this cruel Internet marketing world: Competition is huge. Especially when trying to write that classified ad to promote a sale, or that adwords ad. Here are some things to keep in mind when writing ads. Follow these rules and make your ad stand from the rest.<br />
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Before I begin, I'm sure you've heard that you've only got a few seconds to capture a prospects' attention and make the sale.<br />
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Is that enough time to convince someone that your product or ad has something special about it? It's not. That's why you should be extra careful when writing those small ads. Not only do you have to capture your reader's attention, but you have to convince them that your ad will lead them to what they're looking for.<br />
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Here are some tips:<br />
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Writing killer ads tip#1: The headline.<br />
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Maybe you've heard that when it comes to small ads, the headline is the most important part of your ad. Try to keep your headline to 6-8 words. Try to present what your product will help the customer do in a clear and concise way.<br />
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Do not capitalize your headline or you'll scare your customer. Many people will even think you yell at them. Instead, capitalize the first letter of every word. Also, use descriptive words to make a clever call to action through the rest of your ad.<br />
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Writing killer ads tip#2: Do you have something free to offer?<br />
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Maybe a report or an ebook to help you grow your prospect list. This is important. Try to use this free offer to grab your reader's attention. Mention the free offer when writing your ad.<br />
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We all like free stuff. I don't know about you, but when I see a small ad with a free offer, I could easily click on it. That's also the case for most Internet users.<br />
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Writing killer ads tip#3: Unless you are a successful copywriter or Internet marketer or someone who is otherwise exceptionally talented at writing ads, you need to imitate the successful players.<br />
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There are thousands of ads all over the Web. Almost any Website utilizes Google adsense. Those ads are Google adwords ads and they have been approved by the Google staff. Take some time to look at what others are writing and how they choose to promote their products. Pay attention to those ads that are pointing to popular Websites or big companies. How do they write their ads?<br />
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Writing killer ads tip#4: Always test the results of your ads. Over and over again.<br />
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Don't just write an ad and wait for customers to click and purchase the product. Sometimes, ads needs revising. Try to make small changes and re-test. If you get better results, then use that change you've made to revise your other ads, too.<br />
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It's a good idea to test and make changes to one ad at a time. That way you'll easily spot the magic change that made the difference.<br />
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Writing killer ads tip#5: Always proof-read what you write. Also, make sure the links are working correctly.<br />
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We all hate careless spelling mistakes and non-working links. Even if your ad is really eye-catching and convincing, there's no way to disappoint a reader more than to send him to a "Page Not Found" link and, even more, to the wrong address. Always pay attention to those small details.<br />
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Detail matters.<br />
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Happy ad writing! I hope you write the killer ad that will make you stand from the rest of the millions of ads out there.<br />
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Here's an unusual way to create and test your ads without going through the pain of proof-reading, revising and testing over and over again. This unique ad writing software (http://www.digitalstarproducts.com/star/-detail-60.html) will help you write killer ads and instantly test their effectiveness. It will help you proof-read your ads and allow you to compare them in milliseconds with thousands of other similar ads written by others. It will then tell how much your ad scored. That way you'll know how your ads will perform before you even publish them!<br />
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<title>Reflecting On My First Year With A Home Based Business</title>
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by Kirk Bannerman<br />
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For reasons that I no longer remember, I kept sort of a diary during my first full year of working at a home-based business. It was nothing close to being a complete daily diary. It was more just a collection of scribbles about things that I felt were worthy of note at the time.<br />
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Since several years have passed since I wrote that diary, I decided to revisit these notes, out of curiosity.<br />
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In no particular order, here are some of the things that I made note of:<br />
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Choosing the path...<br />
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in the beginning, my enthusiasm was very high (perhaps too high?) and I was chasing off on several different home-based business opportunities at the same time (exhibiting the "dog in a meat market" syndrome, I suppose) and not focusing my efforts enough to be successful at any one of them.<br />
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I finally reigned myself in and focused on a single work at home business opportunity.<br />
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In other notes, I find reference to emotional and/or psychological issues that I experienced and are probably typical for most people when starting a home based business. When working at home a person can, at times, experience a feeling of isolation which is probably brought on by the lack of interaction of a work force environment.<br />
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There were also periods of doubt in the early going ... did I pick a viable business opportunity? ... am I doing the right things to develop my business? ... when will I start making a profit?, and<br />
so on.<br />
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Many of the entries in my so-called diary had to do with the proverbial "two steps forward and one step backward" thing and the ever-looming temptation to become discouraged. Although I<br />
didn't appreciate it at the time, it is now obvious that as long as you have more steps forward than backward, you will eventually get ahead!<br />
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Isn't hindsight wonderful?<br />
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Other entries reflect the fact that relatively minor events can seem huge in the early stages of developing a work at home business and can really contribute to an emotional roller coaster ride. For example, if you are just starting out and you have two customers/clients and you lose one ... that's a 50% drop! However, if you fast-forward in time to the point where you have hundreds of customers/clients and you lose one ... that's just a mere fraction of 1%! Same event, just at a different point in time.<br />
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Looking back on it now, some of the stuff I recorded now seems humorous, but I'm pretty sure that was not the case at the time I made the notations.<br />
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Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and coaches others seeking to start their own home based business.  Visit his Website at http://www.business-at-home.us for more details.<br />
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<title>What Is The Big 'R' For Marketing Your Business?</title>
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by Chad McDonald<br />
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Successful businesses have many things in common. Let's look at the big 'R' of recognition and how a digital advertising network may help.<br />
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Recognition can be illustrated by two individuals entering a crowded room at a party. Both walk to the far side of the room. One of them slips through the crowd easily and unnoticed as they reach the far side. The second person takes much longer to reach the far side, because they are engaged in conversations along the way as they continue to meet acquaintances and friends down the path.<br />
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Which type of person would you like to model your business after?<br />
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Your business is in a continual battle for your customers' recognition, whether you know it or not. If you happen to be fortunate enough to be in a marketplace with very few competitors, that will not last for long. You need your business to be at the forefront of your client's minds so, that when they require your products or services, you are the go-to people.<br />
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Marketing your business is a necessity. Putting your name and logo out there and keeping it there is a must. This lets clients know that you are "still around" and in business. Frequency is a good way to achieve the "stand-out factor" in recognition.<br />
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I'm reminded of television and radio ads I've heard or seen in the past. They run continually, with a catch phrase or musical jingle, over and over again on the radio or television, until you are absolutely sick of hearing it. You also cannot get it out of your head.<br />
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Although this type of advertising is expensive, it can be very effective, and the recognition factor is quite high. Television and radio can reach a large audience, and they are broad in their appeal. In a brief sentence, you are paying to market to both those that are your potential customers and to a large segment of those who are not now and probably never will be your customers.<br />
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There are more economical ways to pursue frequency. The point is to define your target market demographic, and invest your marketing funds into the locations that will best be seen by them.<br />
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Another factor to consider: "Can I market myself in a place where I will stand out from my competition, or where my competition does not have a presence?" Why would you market yourself in a flyer or newspaper right beside your competition and risk blending into a crowd, and ultimately being ignored?<br />
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Another issue to look at is diversification. As the saying goes, "don't put all your eggs in one basket."<br />
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When you look at your advertising budget for the year, try to find the affordable solutions that will continue to reap during the full year of your advertising budget. An expensive radio or television promotion may give short-term gains for that weekend sale, but what about the rest of the year? Your clients may end up wondering, "Where did they go, I haven't seen or heard anything about them for so long."<br />
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Don't always look for the old stand-bys in marketing, but keep your eyes and ears open for the latest and greatest ways to market your business. With the costs of technology coming down dramatically, new options such as digital advertising on LCD and Plasma screens are becoming more and more affordable, and the paper billboards and posters are becoming a thing of the past.<br />
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With the flexibility, and curb appeal of full color and motion video footage with computer-generated graphics available to you, this is an option you don't want to pass by without a good look.<br />
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Ultimately, recognition is required if you want to get people "in the door" of your business (or on your Website for the new E-businesses). This is going to cost you money, time and effort up-front, any way you look at it. But, if you have successfully reached your target market, the payoff will be worth it.<br />
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Chad McDonald of ETA, a Canadian dynamic signage business with a digital signage advertising network (www.procontentsite.com/Digital_Advertising_Network.html) of LCD and Plasma screens.<br />
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<title>Ezine Advertising - Simple Techniques to Drive Traffic to Your Site</title>
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by Dave Starner<br />
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The beauty of E-zine advertising is that it's the most targeted form of advertising on the Internet. If, for example, someone has subscribed to an E-zine about fishing, then they are expressing a strong interest in fishing equipment, tips on improving their skills, travel packages, and an endless list of other possibilities.<br />
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This is why E-zines are such a good choice. As long as your ad relates closely to the theme of the E-zine, the person reading your ad is already halfway toward buying what you have to offer.<br />
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There are three types of ads that you can place in your chosen E-zine: a classified ad, a sponsor ad, and/or a solo ad.<br />
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The classified ad is the smallest and least expensive. This three- to five-line ad is often run in a block with other classified ads, one on top of another, similar to a page of classified ads in your local newspaper. These ads contain just a brief description with an E-mail or link to your Web site. They cost a few dollars, generally about half the cost of a sponsor ad.<br />
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A sponsor ad is placed at the top of the E-zine, often under a heading like: "Please support our sponsor." This ten- to fifteen-line ad will draw more attention since it is the first thing the reader sees when the E-mail is opened.<br />
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Sponsor ads are generally priced around twenty dollars.<br />
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The most effective, and naturally the most expensive, is the solo ad. This is not part of the E-zine, but instead goes out as an E-mail to everyone on the E-zine mailing list. The message is all about you and your product or service. This ad can be as long as 700 words, allowing you to go into great detail, and will cost in the neighborhood of forty to fifty dollars -- about twice the cost of a sponsor ad.<br />
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Some of the larger E-zines may ask for hundreds or even several thousand dollars for a solo ad.<br />
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Once you've written your ad and chosen an E-zine, the best way to proceed is to think like an educator. The most effective teaching method is repetition. Experienced teachers will cover the same information in several different ways. They might lecture one day, followed by a reading assignment and discussion, and then an essay, all on the same topic.<br />
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Very few people learn something thoroughly the first time they see it. And few people respond to an ad the first time they see it. Since you are trying to educate and motivate your target audience, you want them to see your ad more than once.<br />
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This is best done by first running a solo ad, then running a sponsor ad in the next two or three issues of the same E-zine. Finally, for the next five to seven issues, run a classified ad. The readers will see your ad for many weeks and begin to understand the message and warm up to your offer. They need time to mull it over, compare products and prices, and decide if they really need it.<br />
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Give them time, educate them, and they will buy.<br />
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Dave Starner is a former teacher and coach who markets E-books and software. Visit the Internet's #1 infoproduct site at www.ebooksnet.com and instantly download great E-books and software on Internet advertising and hundreds of other topics.<br />
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<title>Social Bookmarking & SEO</title>
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by Amit Kothiyal<br />
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Social bookmarking is a new trend in search engine optimization, which has gained recognition as part of a new type of Website optimization, termed "social media optimization (SMO)."<br />
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Social Bookmarking, also referred to sometimes as "social bookmarketing," is the term used for bookmarking sites on the Web and sharing them with friends. It is similar to bookmarking a site on your pc, in the "favorites" of your Web browser.<br />
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There are an increasing number of Websites available that provide this as a free service for bookmarking your favorite sites or blogs on the Web. These sites are known as social bookmarking sites. Once you have created a free account, you may begin adding bookmarks to your account.<br />
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The advantage is that, once you have bookmarked any site, then you can access them from anywhere on the Web -- and also share them with friends.<br />
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These are some popular social bookmarking sites:<br />
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del.icio.us, Digg.com, Simpy.com, blogmarks.net, feedmarker.com, myweb2.search.yahoo.com, lookmarks.com, bluedot.com, furl.net.<br />
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So -- how is social bookmarking useful for SEO?<br />
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Social bookmarking sites are "tag based" - which means you can "tag" them with keywords, so your visitors that bookmark your site can find them easily later. Search engines index these tags, as well as the link, so you are essentially getting free one-way links from high-traffic sites, with all of your keywords attached to them!<br />
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It's a great way to get your Website visitors working for you. However, choosing proper tag names is critical and plays a very important role, if you want to truly get social bookmarking to work for you in your search engine optimization process.<br />
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The interesting thing is that there are no limitations for the number of tags you can attach to your link. The extent to which you declare tags will allow for your site’s information to be stored. Additionally, when someone bookmarks your site, the bookmarking site checks the tags to see if the link already exists.<br />
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By periodically changing your bookmark tags, you can get multiple links with different tags on the same site. In other words, your site will be stored in different pages and you will get links from the different pages of the same sites.<br />
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Because these sites are regularly crawled by search engines, your site will most likely also be crawled more often by having bookmarked links on these Websites.<br />
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Amit Kothiyal is a Website marketing executive for Phoenix- and Las Vegas-based Web design & marketing firm Vision Media Corporation. Vision Media specializes  in rich Web application development (http://www.vizmarketing.com/), search engine optimization (http://www.vizmarketing.com/web-marketing-and-search-engine-optimization-i-8.html), custom Website design, multimedia production and other rich Web applications.<br />
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<title>Create An Expert Showcase Website The Media Will Love</title>
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By Annie Jennings PR<br />
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If you are a book author, expert, or wish to brand yourself to the media and are in pursuit of media placements, Annie Jennings PR recommends you develop a media site, or author/expert showcase site developed especially for the media.<br />
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Choose a website name that is easy to type and contains no unusual spellings. You want to keep the site simple and easy to use.  Limit or eliminate any challenges the media might have.  The first step is to name the site in a way that makes it easy and obvious.<br />
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The name of your media website, for example, could be: www.YourName.com, www.YourNameCredentials.com, www.yournamePHD.com, or if www.yourname.com is not available, buy the .TV extension meaning you would buy the www.yourname.tv.<br />
By naming your website after yourself, the media assumes they are going to the site to find out about you, the expert or author, and of course, they are right.<br />
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It is certainly OK to have more than one website; in fact, I recommend it. Each site should have a specific strategy, that is, what do you want the visitor to do? This is also called a conversion strategy.<br />
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With a media site, you want the media to be able to obtain all the information they need to book you for the media opportunity.<br />
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With a business site, you want the visitor to find out all about your business and hire your business.<br />
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With an e-commerce site, you want the visitor to find out all about your products or services and buy them.<br />
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Observe, all three types of sites have a unique strategy.  The media website should not be combined with any other type of site; especially, with an e-commerce or sales site. It seems odd that you would want the media to buy your products or services, right?<br />
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CONTACT INFO<br />
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Each page should have a header area containing the essential information about you. This should include a short list of topics or a broad category name such as &quot;Relationships&quot; and your contact information.<br />
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I advise against using email as the only way to get in touch with you. Why? It is not instant and does not leave the media with certainty that you will respond. How do they know you will even get the email?  So they must continue their search for the perfect expert and you will most likely lose the media placement.<br />
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Certainly, never use info@, as that seems like it goes to an unmanned inbox. You can use your real email address. It will sound more convincing.  Be sure the email goes directly to your blackberry. You can even let the media know that the email goes directly to your blackberry and you will respond shortly.<br />
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But ALWAYS give out a telephone number if you want media placements. You can use a cell phone or even an answering service that contacts you the second the media calls them. The best choice is the most direct route to you!<br />
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YOUR BIO PAGE<br />
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If you have credentials, let the media know right away. The more credentials and accomplishments you have in your area of expertise, the better your chances are of being chosen by the media for the placement.<br />
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Also include all of the topics you can discuss, as well.<br />
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Be sure to lead with a great color picture of you &ndash; one that is engaging, well groomed, and offers the viewers a glimpse of your personality.<br />
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Do not use your driver's license picture!<br />
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Your bio page should be conversational in nature and not a copy and paste of your C.V. or resume. The idea is that you want you bio to tell a story about you, your expertise, who you are, and in the end, answer the one question the media has, which is, are you the perfect expert for them?<br />
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YOUR MEDIA APPEARANCES PAGE<br />
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A Demo: Short video of previous author or expert media appearances. Sending your demo DVD overnight just takes too long! No kidding. Create a short DVD as a starter demo with clips of your BEST MOMENTS. Don't have the long version of each segment as the first demo the media sees. They can always look at the rest if they like the first starter demo enough to want to know more about you.<br />
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An Audio Clip: Let the media hear you in action, but first, be sure to map out what they are going to hear. Start fast, engage fast and deliver some awesome talking points.<br />
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I highly recommend hiring a pro to help you develop and record a high-powered, blockbuster, short audio; especially for the media, packed with what they need to hear to choose you from a great engaging personality, to an action-packed pace, to lots of great information.<br />
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Your Print And Online Placements: Include a list of your most prestigious placements; including, the month and issue date of the article. If the original article is online, then by all means, link to the article.<br />
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Your Topics &amp; Areas Of Expertise Page<br />
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Your topic page should include a list of the topics you can discuss along with titles of tips, sheets, or links to tips, sheets, or articles you have written.<br />
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The reason why you want to actually link to tips, sheets, and articles (such as Ten Smart Career Moves or Why You Should Never Ask Your Boss For A Raise On A Business Trip) is because this gives you the chance to showcase your knowledge in a variety of areas.<br />
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The idea is to present yourself and your experience in the most powerful way possible, creating certainty for the media that they are making an excellent choice in choosing you!<br />
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Annie Jennings PR has booked thousands of media placements with over 20,000 authors and experts. Annie is the creator of advanced publicity strategy, media websites, online press kits, platforms, advanced branding, HOT 35! BIG CITY &amp; national shows radio campaigns. Free &quot;How To Create An Online Media Kit&quot; at http://www.anniejenningspr.com/onlinemediakit.htm Free Website Consults Audio at http://www.anniejenningspr.com/publicitypro.htm.<br />]]></description>
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<title>Problem Solving Techniques For Your Business</title>
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By Mario Churchill<br />
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It is an unavoidable fact that businesses will encounter problems once in a while. It may be a problem in marketing, in sales, or in personnel. Whatever it is, you need to solve it fast in order to keep your business on track and avoid losing a lot of money.<br />
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Having problems in your business may seem very frustrating.  With simple problem solving techniques, you can solve your problems in no time at all.<br />
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For example, if your competition is selling more than you, you need to analyze all the related factors of the problem with your company, or why your company isn't selling like it used to. Determining the problem is the first step in all kinds of problems that you need to solve.<br />
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With big business problems, face the facts; you will need help in order to solve it faster. Here is a guide you can use in your problem solving techniques to know how to solve problems more efficiently:<br />
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-The first thing you need to consider is identifying what problems you are facing. Whether it is about marketing or about sales, you first need to know what the problem is in a specific department. It may be lack of sales or it may even be problems with inefficient employees. Whatever it is, try to know what is causing it.<br />
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-Once you identify the problem, you need to set up a meeting with the people who are responsible.  Then, you can ask them about their opinions on the problem. Try to ask them what is wrong with their respective departments and try to let them list the things they think need to be improved.<br />
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-After they write all the things they think have a problem, discuss it one by one. Ask them how and why they arrived at that particular problem, and what their opinions are to properly solve the problem.<br />
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-Now that you have their opinions, you can now decide what to do about that particular problem. Knowing what is causing the problem will enable you to arrive at the right decision in solving the problem.<br />
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These are the things you should consider when solving a problem in your company. You will know how you can solve the problem by making the right decision.<br />
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If you still need information to arrive at a good decision, then you should look for it. One way to solve the problem is by imagining how you can cause the problem. For example, if you think you need customers, imagine how you can scare them away. By doing this, you can determine why you don't have enough customers and solve it.<br />
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These are some of the things you should keep in mind in order to solve the problem in your business more effectively.<br />
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By getting the right information about a particular problem, you will be able to solve it at a much faster rate.  You can really improve how your business is running and also improve the way you deal with problems.<br />
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Mario Churchill is a freelance author and has written over 200 articles on various subjects. For more information checkout http://www.ideacenter.com and http://my-updates.info.<br />]]></description>
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The world of online business currently sits on a foundation that was originally contrived of techniques utilized in an Internet-free world. If it weren't for those (at the time) cutting edge networkers and mass marketers, the possibility of the concept of a world-wide web might possibly have never come about. Consider, if you will, the concept of taking those old techniques and merging them with today's Internet marketing outlines.<br />
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There was a time, well before the establishment of the Internet, that networking was not done by cross-site linking and back-links, and middle men hired to do your linking for you. It was done by simply making contacts via whatever manner possible, usually through a friend or an associate. Alas, the day of the meeting over lunch and the call forwarding is done. Now is the time of the technological guru. However, before we put the old-school tactics in marketing behind us, let's inspect them closely to see if they may still have some small bit of usefulness in today's world of cyber-networking.<br />
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Webster's Dictionary defines a "Network" as "an interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system."<br />
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What most fail to realize is that originally, pre-web, the network was already there. For example, Jim knew Tom. Tom knew Sam. Sam knew Martha. In this case, Martha was in Jim's network, regardless if Martha or Jim knew it or not. The network is already in place. Corporately speaking, it only became an active and effective network once Jim had Tom introduce him to Sam who introduced him to Martha. How was this long range down-line connected at the end? A few phone calls, a lunch or two, perhaps a golf game, and then another lunch or two. Each individual between Jim and Martha became a part of Jim's network. There was a time when it was a tedious task to build an active network.<br />
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Today, all you need is a website, an email address, and a text-ad broker. Networking now requires very little time, hardly any effort, and no one-on-one contact. Do you suppose this is progress? Yes, it is, but still, what if we combined the two?<br />
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Let us say, for example, that you are the head of an online venture called BizBiz. Now, BizBiz is a conglomerate of five hundred websites. Somewhere else, a half-continent away, is another online venture called Radlimited. Radlimited also has a network covering five hundred websites. Both the companies are doing exceptionally well and are confident that their future holds another two hundred websites.<br />
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How would it be if the owner of BizBiz were to locate an error at the Radlimited website? Nothing major, merely a grammatical error? What if he were to email the owner of Radlimited with the following message:<br />
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"Mr. Rad: My name is John Biz. I am the director of BizBiz Internet Marketing. I spend a considerable amount of time reading the articles on your site and have always held it in high regards. It is very informational and helpful to me. Regardless, I noticed a spelling error on your site today. It does not bother me, but I would hate for it to do any harm to the professional status of your site. This is a little note to let you know about it. Drop me an email or a call sometime. I would be honored to speak with you. Sincerely John Biz BizBiz Marketing.<br />
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Unheard of!, an actual communication between two major online presences, over something so trivial? What in the world would be the good of it? It was just a spelling error and it doesn't matter!<br />
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Of course, it does not matter and no one would have really ever noticed. However, Mr. Rad would notice the email. He would be thankful that Mr. Biz actually reads his articles and frequents his site. He would email or call Mr. Biz and thank him.<br />
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Now, during this conversation, eventually, one or the other of the two will possibly mention trading a couple of links. Once this goes well, it will likely lead to more. In the end, both of these men will end up with 1000 websites linked instead of 500, all from a simple spelling error and an email.<br />
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Bear in mind that the initial strategies, thought they may be old, are not really outdated. We can learn from the successful corporates that have been here and gone before us. Their tactics are the ones that eventually evolved into the techniques that work so well today.<br />
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Those old networking techniques have gradually changed for so long that they are all but forgotten and hardly ever used. It is the same for most of the old marketing and business growth processes and plans from pre-web times. If we go back and take a close look at them, and then, using creativity, find a way to apply them to building a more effective internet business today, we might find that our methods may soon be referred to as, "cutting-edge."<br />
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Althaf Ahmed is a Web enthusiast and Entrepeneur from Bangalore India. He has had considerable experience in online business ventures.. Visit Althaf's Website at <a href="http://www.halomark.biz" target="_blank">http://www.halomark.biz</a>.]]></description>
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