Posted by Mary
Work From Home - Creating Your Future
By: Wanda Grindstaff
It is a fact, the Home Based Business arena is the fastest growing segment of our economy. Being an entrepreneur and a Home Business Owner, funny how when people ask what I do, they immediately think I am going to recruit them into "one of those" things. I have to laugh.
There was a time when I thought the same thing. That was before I realized the majority of new millionaires in the USA were from Home Based Businesses. And now, I know many of them myself. People who "got it". People who understand about free enterprise and how to create their future.
But this is not something we are taught. We are taught, go to school, get good grades, get a good job, do as you are told and retire with a good pension. Yeah, Right! First of all, I tried that only to be fired with 28 years on the good job and no benefits or income. So what did I do, I got real mad. Mad at myself, for not taking control of the situation earlier in my life and creating my own future.
So now, looking back over the past few years, comparing where I was to where I am, it is mind boggling how far I, we have come. Now we live where we want to live, we travel when we want, we sleep in if we choose (cold winter days), or get up early just to play on the beach any day we choose. We are free. Our phone does not ring in the middle of the night any longer and I do not have to plan my vacation based on when my boss wants me to go. Life is wonderful.
But getting to this point in life takes a few things.
1) It takes a decisionThings don't just happen, they are created. You must decide what you are going to create
2) It takes actionYou have to move forward and action is what creates results
3) It takes knowing WhyYou must know why you do what you do. You must have something driving you, something all consuming, something bigger than yourself
4) It takes clarity on your goalsIf you do not know where you are going, you will never get there. Be crystal clear on your goals.
5) And it takes a vehicleTo live free, you must have an excellent income. Make sure you have a business model which supports your goals. If your goal is to make $50k per month, make sure you have a business capable of producing that level of income very quickly.
6) It takes commitmentTo yourself, to your why and to your goals
7) And it takes good mentoringFind people who have accomplished what you are looking for and follow them. Stay close, observe and take on their habits and their posture.
So just go for it. Anyone can be free to work from home and create an amazing and abundant life. But you have to put all the pieces together. If you miss any of the pieces listed above, you will never completely reach your goal, you will end up settling. Never settle, never give up and remember.
If you are not on the right path now, change the course and go another path. But YOU have to do it, no one will do it for you.
I Love This Website! - http://www.amazinghomebusinessonline.com/
SOURCE
Monday, 18 January 2010
10 Mind Busting Ways To Gain More Orders
Posted by Mary
10 Mind Busting Ways To Gain More Orders
http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-19755
1. Automate your online business to save extra time
for marketing and advertising. You could use auto-
responders, time saving software, etc.
2. Host a free hall of fame or museum on your web
site. It should be related to your target audience. It
should attract people just like offline ones do.
3. Write your ideas on paper; bad and good ones.
Don't get an idea and take the risk of forgetting it;
it could be your future income or success.
4. Design your ad copy to target your visitors goals,
dreams and desires. Allow your product to attract
their emotional and physical needs.
5. Create a small treasure hunt. Allow people to get
a discount on a product you sell if they find a certain
graphic somewhere on your site.
6. Have visitors sign-up to receive free promotional
merchandise. It can be hats, bumper stickers, cups,
or anything with your web site print on it.
7. Increase your traffic by creating other web sites
that relate to the latest new fad. You just advertise
your main web site on your fad web sites.
8. Load your site with a wide variety of content.
Your site will become known as an area of regular
reference for many of your visitors.
9. Interview famous people that your visitors want
to know more about. Publish the interview in article
or audio format on your web site.
10. Tell people the purpose of your web site. When
they visit a web site and have to figure out what it's
about, they may get frustrated and leave soon.
Quote of the Day:
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." -- from the
Apocrypha
I Love This Websites! - www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
10 Mind Busting Ways To Gain More Orders
http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-19755
1. Automate your online business to save extra time
for marketing and advertising. You could use auto-
responders, time saving software, etc.
2. Host a free hall of fame or museum on your web
site. It should be related to your target audience. It
should attract people just like offline ones do.
3. Write your ideas on paper; bad and good ones.
Don't get an idea and take the risk of forgetting it;
it could be your future income or success.
4. Design your ad copy to target your visitors goals,
dreams and desires. Allow your product to attract
their emotional and physical needs.
5. Create a small treasure hunt. Allow people to get
a discount on a product you sell if they find a certain
graphic somewhere on your site.
6. Have visitors sign-up to receive free promotional
merchandise. It can be hats, bumper stickers, cups,
or anything with your web site print on it.
7. Increase your traffic by creating other web sites
that relate to the latest new fad. You just advertise
your main web site on your fad web sites.
8. Load your site with a wide variety of content.
Your site will become known as an area of regular
reference for many of your visitors.
9. Interview famous people that your visitors want
to know more about. Publish the interview in article
or audio format on your web site.
10. Tell people the purpose of your web site. When
they visit a web site and have to figure out what it's
about, they may get frustrated and leave soon.
Quote of the Day:
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." -- from the
Apocrypha
I Love This Websites! - www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
10 Mind Blowing Ways To Increase Your Sales
Posted by Mary
Today's feature article is:
10 Mind Blowing Ways To Increase Your Sales
http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-19755
1. Show your prospects how much enthusiasm
you have for your product and business. If you're
convincing enough, they will be enthusiastic too.
2. End your sales letter or ad copy with a strong
closing. It could be a free bonus, a discount price,
a benefit reminder, an ordering deadline, etc.
3. Please your complaining customers. You can
refund their money, give them a discount, give
them a free gift, solve the problem quickly, etc.
4. Make your customers get excited about your
business and they will tell their friends. Give
them a free vacation certificate, a coupon, etc.
5. Give your prospects extra confidence so they
will order. Use endorsements, testimonials, a
strong guarantee or warranty, etc.
6. Build your opt-in list by allowing your visitors
to sign up for a free e-zine, ebooks, software,
contests, sweepstakes, etc.
7. Give your prospects or customers a breath of
fresh air. Don't be afraid to design your web site
and ad copies different from everyone else.
8. Allow your customers to get part of your total
offer right after they order. If you have to ship the
item, make one of your bonuses available online.
9. Write and submit articles to e-zine publishers
or webmasters. If you want it to be published, it
should be like an article and not like an ad.
10. Show your prospects that you are an expert,
because authority can persuade people to buy.
You could publish an article, write an ebook, etc.
Quote of the Day:
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was
important to them; there ought to be as many for love." --
Margaret Atwood
I Love This Website!
www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
Today's feature article is:
10 Mind Blowing Ways To Increase Your Sales
http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-19755
1. Show your prospects how much enthusiasm
you have for your product and business. If you're
convincing enough, they will be enthusiastic too.
2. End your sales letter or ad copy with a strong
closing. It could be a free bonus, a discount price,
a benefit reminder, an ordering deadline, etc.
3. Please your complaining customers. You can
refund their money, give them a discount, give
them a free gift, solve the problem quickly, etc.
4. Make your customers get excited about your
business and they will tell their friends. Give
them a free vacation certificate, a coupon, etc.
5. Give your prospects extra confidence so they
will order. Use endorsements, testimonials, a
strong guarantee or warranty, etc.
6. Build your opt-in list by allowing your visitors
to sign up for a free e-zine, ebooks, software,
contests, sweepstakes, etc.
7. Give your prospects or customers a breath of
fresh air. Don't be afraid to design your web site
and ad copies different from everyone else.
8. Allow your customers to get part of your total
offer right after they order. If you have to ship the
item, make one of your bonuses available online.
9. Write and submit articles to e-zine publishers
or webmasters. If you want it to be published, it
should be like an article and not like an ad.
10. Show your prospects that you are an expert,
because authority can persuade people to buy.
You could publish an article, write an ebook, etc.
Quote of the Day:
"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was
important to them; there ought to be as many for love." --
Margaret Atwood
I Love This Website!
www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
10 Mind Altering Words That Make People Buy
Posted by Mary
10 Mind Altering Words That Make People Buy
http://www.JaimeParmis.com/pips.html
1. Use the word "fast" in your ad. People want fast
results, fast delivery, fast ordering, etc. Nowadays,
we usually value our time more than our money.
2. Use the word "guaranteed" in your ad. People
want to be assured they are not risking their hard
earned money buying your product.
3. Use the word "limited" in your ad. People want
to own or receive things that are exclusive or rare
because they are considered to be more valuable.
4. Use the word "easy/simple" in your ad. People
want easy ordering, easy instructions, easy to use,
easy payments, etc.
5. Use the word "testimonial" in your ad. People
want to see believable proof before they buy your
product. It should be reputable and specific proof.
6. Use the word "discount/sale " in your ad. People
want to find bargains. They could be rebates, one
time sales, percentage offers, get one free offers, etc.
7. Use the word "free" in your ad. People want free
incentives before they do business with you. They
could be free books, accessories, services, etc.
8. Use the word "you/your" in your ad. People want
to know that you are talking them. This'll make them
feel important and attract them to read the whole ad.
9. Use the word "important" in your ad. People do
not want to miss important information that could
effect their life. People will stop and take notice.
10. Use the word "new" in your ad. People want
new products or services that will improve their life
like new information, tastes, technology, results, etc.
Quote of the Day:
"What is wrong with our world is that love is in short
supply." -- Christopher Bryant
James Parmis
www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
10 Mind Altering Words That Make People Buy
http://www.JaimeParmis.com/pips.html
1. Use the word "fast" in your ad. People want fast
results, fast delivery, fast ordering, etc. Nowadays,
we usually value our time more than our money.
2. Use the word "guaranteed" in your ad. People
want to be assured they are not risking their hard
earned money buying your product.
3. Use the word "limited" in your ad. People want
to own or receive things that are exclusive or rare
because they are considered to be more valuable.
4. Use the word "easy/simple" in your ad. People
want easy ordering, easy instructions, easy to use,
easy payments, etc.
5. Use the word "testimonial" in your ad. People
want to see believable proof before they buy your
product. It should be reputable and specific proof.
6. Use the word "discount/sale " in your ad. People
want to find bargains. They could be rebates, one
time sales, percentage offers, get one free offers, etc.
7. Use the word "free" in your ad. People want free
incentives before they do business with you. They
could be free books, accessories, services, etc.
8. Use the word "you/your" in your ad. People want
to know that you are talking them. This'll make them
feel important and attract them to read the whole ad.
9. Use the word "important" in your ad. People do
not want to miss important information that could
effect their life. People will stop and take notice.
10. Use the word "new" in your ad. People want
new products or services that will improve their life
like new information, tastes, technology, results, etc.
Quote of the Day:
"What is wrong with our world is that love is in short
supply." -- Christopher Bryant
James Parmis
www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
42 Killer Domain Secrets Exposed!
Posted by Mary
42 Killer Domain Secrets Exposed!
Copyright © 2004 Jim Symonds
Every website needs a domain name. Example "WebBootCamp.com" is a domain name. Your domain is your website address, a.k.a. URL (universal resource locator). Should you use your company name for your domain? Maybe, maybe not. Is it memorable? Easy to spell? Does it contain keywords that relate to your business? For more considerations on choosing a domain, I've put together the following checklist.
Pick a memorable name. How catchy is it? Would the average person be able to remember just your website name, without looking through their bookmarks (if they have even bothered to bookmark it, that is)? Make it easy to spell! Face it, most people can't spell. Try to target for the masses when you pick your name. Think of everyone having a 7th grade education.
Make it short, try for a two or three word domain. When possible, name your company the same as your domain name. Whether you actually add .com to your company's name makes little difference.
Use keywords in your domain. Try services like http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/, https://adwords.google.com/select/tools.html, and wordtracker.com to see what people are searching for, in BIG NUMBERS, related to your subject.
Don't use numbers or hyphens. These are easily overlooked or forgotten when people type in your domain. Unless you're using a stand out combination like 911alert or 123homerepair, don't go numeric. If you use hyphens, then every time you tell someone your domain, you have to say "it's blah-blah-blah.com - with the hyphens". This is not impressive, and you risk losing traffic to blahblahblah.com. You're asking your potential customers to work harder, to remember tedious details about your name. Simplicity is important, because you want them to find you. You're building a brand here.
Don't buy any other extension except a ".com" This is the best branded domain extension, highly known and trusted. Any other extension is practically worthless, in my book. In addition to being first in the minds of the public, remember also that most people trying to find a company will put a .com after that company's name in their browser. It's second nature to most of us. A .org can bring attention for non profits, but even most of those companies will try to purchase a .com as well.
Avoid running names together that end in a vowel and begin in a vowel. EXAMPLE: freeebook.com Also try to avoid having the second word start with the same letter as the last letter of the last word. These combinations can look weird, and are often likely to be misread or simply forgotten. By avoiding these two combinations, along with numbers and hyphens, we make sure our words (and our brand) will stand out.
EXAMPLE: WebmasterNow.com
Good For Starting Sentences, Not Domains Avoid starting your name with THE, or A, if being used as the word A. EXAMPLE asimplehome.com - "a" is likely to be forgotten. While it is true that directory listings usually list alphabetically, search engines do not.
If you can come up with a catchy name starting with "a", by all means, do so. You may find yourself first in the yellow page listings. Have a look there first, and see what the competition looks like. What are their names, how do they rank?
Now, here's where it gets interesting. You'll see that names starting with numbers get displayed first (for non paid listings). So the big question becomes, is yours the type of product or service that will do well from yellow page traffic? You must carefully weigh this against overall branding of your company.
You could of course, have more than one domain, and more than one brand for your company, but be careful about promoting the same sites with different names to the same search engines. You could find yourself banned from those search engines altogether.
Brand New?
Don't pick your name as your domain name, unless you're famous. Names aren't keywords (won't help your search engine rankings), and usually easily forgotten. Unless you've built a big brand around your name already, stick to a good key phrase! It is much easier to brand.
Who's who, and is my name taken?
To search available domains, and to find out who owns registered ones, use the whois function at http://www.internic.net/. If you come across a registered domain, it will show you where it was registered. The next step to detecting the identity of the actual owner, is to visit the registrar (this is where the domain was registered) site listed, and use their whois search. This should provide you with name, address, phone number and email of the rightful owner. Unfortunately, this information is not always available, but it is most of the time.
A Common Myth Equals Missed Opportunities All the great domains are taken. Hogwash! The dirty little secret is, thousands of great domains expire every day! Here's a handy resource for finding great expired and expiring domains - http://deleteddomains.com/ - I've found some real gems here, like webbootcamp.com, webmastertoolset.com, customoilpainting.com and customoilpaintings.com - all formerly owned and let go, just to name a few.
When applicable, do try to get the singular and plural versions of your domain like we just saw with customoilpainting(s). When one could be easily be mistaken for the other, it helps to be covered this way. You're also protecting your brand.
Another expiring domain service to check out is snapcheck.com. They have some interesting statistics for expiring domains, such as google page rank and yahoo and dmoz listed domains. Bear in mind that any "perceived value" on a domain put there by a search engine listing or page rank is inherently fleeting. That's because the content that was responsible for that listing is now gone, and it is simply a matter of time before the search engine's spiders crawl the site again, and re-evaluate it's content. In other words, the search engine ranking is very likely going to disappear soon, unless you quickly repopulate the site with compelling content, worthy of the rank the original site had.
Roads To Nowhere, No Stops Ahead
One tasty bonus that accompanies a popular site is link popularity. This is how many other websites link to the domain in question. Think of a link as a road into your website. Quite often, webmasters do not update their links when the site they're linking to changes or disappears altogether. So if you find an expired (or soon to be expired) domain with high link popularity (many links to the domain), it may well stay that way for some time to come.
Case in point: special-report-network.net was once a very successful ad network run by online marketing guru Allen Says. For reasons unknown, he shut down the site and let the domain expire. The domain had over 14,000 links pointing to it! The weird part is, it still does! Want proof? Go to alltheweb.com and search for "link:http://www.special-report-network.net/", without the quotation marks. This will show all the sites linking to it. The domain got snatched up by Ultimate Search, a hong kong company that registers thousands of domains, and makes money from paid search results. The site has nothing to do with the original ad network site that Allen built and made successful, yet the links remain, and links equal traffic.
Bear in mind not all links are created equal. Link farms (A.K.A. FFA or "free for all" links pages), and seldom visited by real people. Instead, automated programs add people's URLs when they submit to a mass submission service, hoping to generate big traffic. Instead, all they get is a bunch of spam, which they've agreed to receive, in order for using the service. How can I snag that expiring hottie? When you find a name that is pending deletion (the owner hasn't renewed it), the next step is to try to secure it, the moment it becomes available.
Strangely, domains do not fall back into the pool of availability the day they expire. It can take up to 60 days or more in some cases for them to "drop", and the times are not announced. Thankfully, there are automated services to perform this task for us, such as Namewinner.com, Snapnames.com, Expirefish.com, and Pool.com. Prices vary, and none can guarantee success. Namewinner lets users bid against each other for expiring domains and only the winner pays, while Snapnames and Expirefish are first come, first served, meaning only one user has a shot at grabbing a particular domain. Snapnames also has the most registrar partners, (including Network Solutions), which may give them an edge for securing expiring domains that are currently registered with their partners. They also have the highest price tag, and you pay whether or not they secure your name. Pool.com is a newcomer that seems to rival the services of Snapnames, with better prices.
One more method you might try, is going directly to the current owner. Let's say your desired dropping domain is already "back ordered" on Snapnames.com, and Expirefish.com. Now you can still bid for it at Namewinner.com, and Pool.com, but you feel the odds are against you. If you're really hot on the name, and willing to pay a premium, you may be able to bypass the solutions above, simply by cutting a deal with the current owner. This can be a bit risky however, because once the owner realizes your interest, they may decide to ask for a unreasonable sum of money, or simply see value in the domain again (generated from your interest), and renew it as an investment.
Assuming you can make a deal, you may want to suggest using escrow.com, which eliminates the possibility of fraud for both of you. The owner will need to renew the domain before they can transfer it to you. The Website Graveyard - Visit Those Spooky Remains! Once you've found a deleted or soon to be deleted domain you fancy, you might want to take a trip into the past, to see what that site used to be! Now bear in mind most domains that are registered are never developed, so there may be nothing at all to see. But for those domains with a tangible history, we can often peek at their ghost, courtesy of the wayback machine at http://www.archive.org/.
One Owner, Driven Only On Sundays Another way to check the history of a domain, is simply to search for it. Try searching google, and groups.google.com, to see what people may have said about the site. You may think twice about purchasing a domain with a sketchy history. Speculators Beware! Don't go overboard and buy every known extension for your brand - (.net, .org, .biz, .info, etc.). Big corporations like google can afford to buy all the country domains. When you're starting out, remember, domain fees are yearly, and you need to consider the lifelong cost of each domain.
For most people, one domain is just fine. You may think snatching up good domains and reselling them would be a lucrative business. The problem is, finding a buyer is not easy. In fact, that's an understatement. Don't register domains containing trademarks. You will likely here from that company's legal department if you do, and will be forced to relinquish the name by The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), or a lawsuit, or both. Who's in charge? Icann (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) oversees the domain registration business. Their URL is http://www.icann.org/. If you ever have trouble with your registrar, it may be worth reporting to Icann. Case in point: A client of mine tried to switch his domain to another registrar (at my suggestion), to get added free features (free URL forwarding), and save money. His current registrar denied the transfer, and tried to charge him a fee for leaving! Once we threatened to take up the matter with Icann, and publicly expose them at Icann's forum (http://forum.icann.org/regxfer), they immediately backed down, and released the domain.
If you believe someone has registered a domain that infringes on your trademark (or has infringed on your intellectual property), the authority to see is The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), at http://wipo.org/ Brand Awareness Capitalize each word of your domain in your sig files and letterhead, and anywhere else you advertise your domain. It helps your brand stand out. EXAMPLE: http://www.webbootcamp.com/ looks better than http://www.webbootcamp.com/ Also, only add in http://www. when you're creating links back to your site (i.e., email, websites, and online forms).
In all your offline advertising, such as signs, business cards and letterhead, you should definitely skip http://www and just use "YourDomain.com". You only have a second or two of people's attention when they see your URL, so make it count. Brand that name! Just make sure your web host has your site set up to show without WWW. Most sites are correctly set up to display when a person types in "YourDomain.com", or "www.YourDomain.com" but a handful, maybe 10% or so will show page not found, if you skip "www". That could be devastating, so check with your host, and demand that your site come up either way! Ready To Buy Your .com? Don't overpay! I'm still surprised that many people don't know they can buy domains for under $10 these days. Shop around.
Currently I recommend http://www.tosdomains.net/. They offer a lot of extras like URL and email forwarding, free. Keep Your Registration Current! Don't let your domain expire! You cannot afford to be even a day late in payment. If it falls into the redemption period, you may find yourself high jacked by your registrar for an outrageous renewal fee. See this illuminating article for more about the redemption period - "Domain Redemption Period Farce Exposed!" here: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1034. If your expired domain falls back into the available pool, it may be registered by anyone, and you may have little recourse trying to recover it.
The easiest way to ensure you are sent renewal notices for your domain is to keep your email contact current for your domain. Perhaps the most common reason for people losing their domains, is simply that they switch ISPs, and subsequently, their email address changes, and they forget to update that information with their domain registrar. If you own a lot of domains, keeping up with administration can be tedious. One trick I rely on, is to use one domain for my primary business email address, and on that registration "admin" contact, I use my ISP email. For all my other domain registrations, I use my primary business email address (based on my primary domain, which I will never let go). Now, if I should switch ISPs, all I need to concern myself with is changing that one domain record, to reflect my new ISP email. All my other domain records have that primary domain email as the admin contact, so as long as I keep the one record current (and keep the email account active), all will be current, and all domain renewal notices will be sent to me.
In the end, it's not so much about the name, as it is what you make of it. Just look at all the big successful internet companies out there with strange names! Yahoo!
To learn how to set up your domain to point to your hosting account, I recommend the reading materials in Web Boot Camp, an all inclusive "how to" guide for web business. Get web savvy today! http://www.WebBootCamp.com/r.cgi?main
Jim Symonds publishes Web Secrets Exposed! Eye popping, and jaw dropping, sneaky little web design tricks & web marketing secrets revealed. How did they do that? We show you! Subscribe Now FREE! Just Go To: http://www.websecretsexposed.com/
SOURCE
42 Killer Domain Secrets Exposed!
Copyright © 2004 Jim Symonds
Every website needs a domain name. Example "WebBootCamp.com" is a domain name. Your domain is your website address, a.k.a. URL (universal resource locator). Should you use your company name for your domain? Maybe, maybe not. Is it memorable? Easy to spell? Does it contain keywords that relate to your business? For more considerations on choosing a domain, I've put together the following checklist.
Pick a memorable name. How catchy is it? Would the average person be able to remember just your website name, without looking through their bookmarks (if they have even bothered to bookmark it, that is)? Make it easy to spell! Face it, most people can't spell. Try to target for the masses when you pick your name. Think of everyone having a 7th grade education.
Make it short, try for a two or three word domain. When possible, name your company the same as your domain name. Whether you actually add .com to your company's name makes little difference.
Use keywords in your domain. Try services like http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/, https://adwords.google.com/select/tools.html, and wordtracker.com to see what people are searching for, in BIG NUMBERS, related to your subject.
Don't use numbers or hyphens. These are easily overlooked or forgotten when people type in your domain. Unless you're using a stand out combination like 911alert or 123homerepair, don't go numeric. If you use hyphens, then every time you tell someone your domain, you have to say "it's blah-blah-blah.com - with the hyphens". This is not impressive, and you risk losing traffic to blahblahblah.com. You're asking your potential customers to work harder, to remember tedious details about your name. Simplicity is important, because you want them to find you. You're building a brand here.
Don't buy any other extension except a ".com" This is the best branded domain extension, highly known and trusted. Any other extension is practically worthless, in my book. In addition to being first in the minds of the public, remember also that most people trying to find a company will put a .com after that company's name in their browser. It's second nature to most of us. A .org can bring attention for non profits, but even most of those companies will try to purchase a .com as well.
Avoid running names together that end in a vowel and begin in a vowel. EXAMPLE: freeebook.com Also try to avoid having the second word start with the same letter as the last letter of the last word. These combinations can look weird, and are often likely to be misread or simply forgotten. By avoiding these two combinations, along with numbers and hyphens, we make sure our words (and our brand) will stand out.
EXAMPLE: WebmasterNow.com
Good For Starting Sentences, Not Domains Avoid starting your name with THE, or A, if being used as the word A. EXAMPLE asimplehome.com - "a" is likely to be forgotten. While it is true that directory listings usually list alphabetically, search engines do not.
If you can come up with a catchy name starting with "a", by all means, do so. You may find yourself first in the yellow page listings. Have a look there first, and see what the competition looks like. What are their names, how do they rank?
Now, here's where it gets interesting. You'll see that names starting with numbers get displayed first (for non paid listings). So the big question becomes, is yours the type of product or service that will do well from yellow page traffic? You must carefully weigh this against overall branding of your company.
You could of course, have more than one domain, and more than one brand for your company, but be careful about promoting the same sites with different names to the same search engines. You could find yourself banned from those search engines altogether.
Brand New?
Don't pick your name as your domain name, unless you're famous. Names aren't keywords (won't help your search engine rankings), and usually easily forgotten. Unless you've built a big brand around your name already, stick to a good key phrase! It is much easier to brand.
Who's who, and is my name taken?
To search available domains, and to find out who owns registered ones, use the whois function at http://www.internic.net/. If you come across a registered domain, it will show you where it was registered. The next step to detecting the identity of the actual owner, is to visit the registrar (this is where the domain was registered) site listed, and use their whois search. This should provide you with name, address, phone number and email of the rightful owner. Unfortunately, this information is not always available, but it is most of the time.
A Common Myth Equals Missed Opportunities All the great domains are taken. Hogwash! The dirty little secret is, thousands of great domains expire every day! Here's a handy resource for finding great expired and expiring domains - http://deleteddomains.com/ - I've found some real gems here, like webbootcamp.com, webmastertoolset.com, customoilpainting.com and customoilpaintings.com - all formerly owned and let go, just to name a few.
When applicable, do try to get the singular and plural versions of your domain like we just saw with customoilpainting(s). When one could be easily be mistaken for the other, it helps to be covered this way. You're also protecting your brand.
Another expiring domain service to check out is snapcheck.com. They have some interesting statistics for expiring domains, such as google page rank and yahoo and dmoz listed domains. Bear in mind that any "perceived value" on a domain put there by a search engine listing or page rank is inherently fleeting. That's because the content that was responsible for that listing is now gone, and it is simply a matter of time before the search engine's spiders crawl the site again, and re-evaluate it's content. In other words, the search engine ranking is very likely going to disappear soon, unless you quickly repopulate the site with compelling content, worthy of the rank the original site had.
Roads To Nowhere, No Stops Ahead
One tasty bonus that accompanies a popular site is link popularity. This is how many other websites link to the domain in question. Think of a link as a road into your website. Quite often, webmasters do not update their links when the site they're linking to changes or disappears altogether. So if you find an expired (or soon to be expired) domain with high link popularity (many links to the domain), it may well stay that way for some time to come.
Case in point: special-report-network.net was once a very successful ad network run by online marketing guru Allen Says. For reasons unknown, he shut down the site and let the domain expire. The domain had over 14,000 links pointing to it! The weird part is, it still does! Want proof? Go to alltheweb.com and search for "link:http://www.special-report-network.net/", without the quotation marks. This will show all the sites linking to it. The domain got snatched up by Ultimate Search, a hong kong company that registers thousands of domains, and makes money from paid search results. The site has nothing to do with the original ad network site that Allen built and made successful, yet the links remain, and links equal traffic.
Bear in mind not all links are created equal. Link farms (A.K.A. FFA or "free for all" links pages), and seldom visited by real people. Instead, automated programs add people's URLs when they submit to a mass submission service, hoping to generate big traffic. Instead, all they get is a bunch of spam, which they've agreed to receive, in order for using the service. How can I snag that expiring hottie? When you find a name that is pending deletion (the owner hasn't renewed it), the next step is to try to secure it, the moment it becomes available.
Strangely, domains do not fall back into the pool of availability the day they expire. It can take up to 60 days or more in some cases for them to "drop", and the times are not announced. Thankfully, there are automated services to perform this task for us, such as Namewinner.com, Snapnames.com, Expirefish.com, and Pool.com. Prices vary, and none can guarantee success. Namewinner lets users bid against each other for expiring domains and only the winner pays, while Snapnames and Expirefish are first come, first served, meaning only one user has a shot at grabbing a particular domain. Snapnames also has the most registrar partners, (including Network Solutions), which may give them an edge for securing expiring domains that are currently registered with their partners. They also have the highest price tag, and you pay whether or not they secure your name. Pool.com is a newcomer that seems to rival the services of Snapnames, with better prices.
One more method you might try, is going directly to the current owner. Let's say your desired dropping domain is already "back ordered" on Snapnames.com, and Expirefish.com. Now you can still bid for it at Namewinner.com, and Pool.com, but you feel the odds are against you. If you're really hot on the name, and willing to pay a premium, you may be able to bypass the solutions above, simply by cutting a deal with the current owner. This can be a bit risky however, because once the owner realizes your interest, they may decide to ask for a unreasonable sum of money, or simply see value in the domain again (generated from your interest), and renew it as an investment.
Assuming you can make a deal, you may want to suggest using escrow.com, which eliminates the possibility of fraud for both of you. The owner will need to renew the domain before they can transfer it to you. The Website Graveyard - Visit Those Spooky Remains! Once you've found a deleted or soon to be deleted domain you fancy, you might want to take a trip into the past, to see what that site used to be! Now bear in mind most domains that are registered are never developed, so there may be nothing at all to see. But for those domains with a tangible history, we can often peek at their ghost, courtesy of the wayback machine at http://www.archive.org/.
One Owner, Driven Only On Sundays Another way to check the history of a domain, is simply to search for it. Try searching google, and groups.google.com, to see what people may have said about the site. You may think twice about purchasing a domain with a sketchy history. Speculators Beware! Don't go overboard and buy every known extension for your brand - (.net, .org, .biz, .info, etc.). Big corporations like google can afford to buy all the country domains. When you're starting out, remember, domain fees are yearly, and you need to consider the lifelong cost of each domain.
For most people, one domain is just fine. You may think snatching up good domains and reselling them would be a lucrative business. The problem is, finding a buyer is not easy. In fact, that's an understatement. Don't register domains containing trademarks. You will likely here from that company's legal department if you do, and will be forced to relinquish the name by The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), or a lawsuit, or both. Who's in charge? Icann (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) oversees the domain registration business. Their URL is http://www.icann.org/. If you ever have trouble with your registrar, it may be worth reporting to Icann. Case in point: A client of mine tried to switch his domain to another registrar (at my suggestion), to get added free features (free URL forwarding), and save money. His current registrar denied the transfer, and tried to charge him a fee for leaving! Once we threatened to take up the matter with Icann, and publicly expose them at Icann's forum (http://forum.icann.org/regxfer), they immediately backed down, and released the domain.
If you believe someone has registered a domain that infringes on your trademark (or has infringed on your intellectual property), the authority to see is The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), at http://wipo.org/ Brand Awareness Capitalize each word of your domain in your sig files and letterhead, and anywhere else you advertise your domain. It helps your brand stand out. EXAMPLE: http://www.webbootcamp.com/ looks better than http://www.webbootcamp.com/ Also, only add in http://www. when you're creating links back to your site (i.e., email, websites, and online forms).
In all your offline advertising, such as signs, business cards and letterhead, you should definitely skip http://www and just use "YourDomain.com". You only have a second or two of people's attention when they see your URL, so make it count. Brand that name! Just make sure your web host has your site set up to show without WWW. Most sites are correctly set up to display when a person types in "YourDomain.com", or "www.YourDomain.com" but a handful, maybe 10% or so will show page not found, if you skip "www". That could be devastating, so check with your host, and demand that your site come up either way! Ready To Buy Your .com? Don't overpay! I'm still surprised that many people don't know they can buy domains for under $10 these days. Shop around.
Currently I recommend http://www.tosdomains.net/. They offer a lot of extras like URL and email forwarding, free. Keep Your Registration Current! Don't let your domain expire! You cannot afford to be even a day late in payment. If it falls into the redemption period, you may find yourself high jacked by your registrar for an outrageous renewal fee. See this illuminating article for more about the redemption period - "Domain Redemption Period Farce Exposed!" here: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1034. If your expired domain falls back into the available pool, it may be registered by anyone, and you may have little recourse trying to recover it.
The easiest way to ensure you are sent renewal notices for your domain is to keep your email contact current for your domain. Perhaps the most common reason for people losing their domains, is simply that they switch ISPs, and subsequently, their email address changes, and they forget to update that information with their domain registrar. If you own a lot of domains, keeping up with administration can be tedious. One trick I rely on, is to use one domain for my primary business email address, and on that registration "admin" contact, I use my ISP email. For all my other domain registrations, I use my primary business email address (based on my primary domain, which I will never let go). Now, if I should switch ISPs, all I need to concern myself with is changing that one domain record, to reflect my new ISP email. All my other domain records have that primary domain email as the admin contact, so as long as I keep the one record current (and keep the email account active), all will be current, and all domain renewal notices will be sent to me.
In the end, it's not so much about the name, as it is what you make of it. Just look at all the big successful internet companies out there with strange names! Yahoo!
To learn how to set up your domain to point to your hosting account, I recommend the reading materials in Web Boot Camp, an all inclusive "how to" guide for web business. Get web savvy today! http://www.WebBootCamp.com/r.cgi?main
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10 Mesmerizing Ways To Reinforce Your Profits
Posted by Mary
10 Mesmerizing Ways To Reinforce Your Profits
http://www.pips.visit.ws
1. Anticipate any objections your visitors may have
about your product offer. You must research your
target audience's needs and wants.
2. Remember not to use outrageous or unbelievable
claims in your ad copy. People are too savvy online
and won't believe you.
3. Pick a good name for your business and product.
Your names should be memorable and describe the
kind of product your offering.
4. Solve your customer complaints by being quick
and friendly. The faster you respond, the more your
customers feel you care about them.
5. Never think your customers are satisfied with
their purchase. You should be constantly finding
new ways to better your product and service.
6. Market yourself, as well as your product. You
could write articles, ebooks, do free consulting,
do speaking engagements, etc.
7. Find new target audiences for your products or
services. For example, if you're selling coffee to
stores try to also sell it to coffee shops.
8. Use the phrase "invest in our product" instead of
the words buy or purchase. This makes prospects
feel they're investing in their future if they buy.
9. Create offline affiliates to market your product.
Have people sign up at your web site to sell your
products through "house parties".
10. Use logos and slogans for your business. They
make it easier for people to remember and identify
your business.
Quote of the Day:
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a
slow-ripening fruit." -- Aristotle
I Love This Website!
http://www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
10 Mesmerizing Ways To Reinforce Your Profits
http://www.pips.visit.ws
1. Anticipate any objections your visitors may have
about your product offer. You must research your
target audience's needs and wants.
2. Remember not to use outrageous or unbelievable
claims in your ad copy. People are too savvy online
and won't believe you.
3. Pick a good name for your business and product.
Your names should be memorable and describe the
kind of product your offering.
4. Solve your customer complaints by being quick
and friendly. The faster you respond, the more your
customers feel you care about them.
5. Never think your customers are satisfied with
their purchase. You should be constantly finding
new ways to better your product and service.
6. Market yourself, as well as your product. You
could write articles, ebooks, do free consulting,
do speaking engagements, etc.
7. Find new target audiences for your products or
services. For example, if you're selling coffee to
stores try to also sell it to coffee shops.
8. Use the phrase "invest in our product" instead of
the words buy or purchase. This makes prospects
feel they're investing in their future if they buy.
9. Create offline affiliates to market your product.
Have people sign up at your web site to sell your
products through "house parties".
10. Use logos and slogans for your business. They
make it easier for people to remember and identify
your business.
Quote of the Day:
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a
slow-ripening fruit." -- Aristotle
I Love This Website!
http://www.AmazingHomeBusinessOnline.com
SOURCE
10 Killer Ways To Sell Your Back-End Products
Posted by Mary
10 Killer Ways To Sell Your Back-End Products
http://www.JaimeParmis.com/pips.html
A back-end product is a product you attempt to sell
your customers after they have recently purchased a
related product from your business.
If you're not trying to sell back-end products to your
customers, you're making a big mistake. It is easier to
sell to existing customers than it is to sell to new ones
who don't trust your business yet.
Below are ten killer strategies you can use to sell your
back-end products to your existing customers:
1. When you ship people the first product they bought,
insert a flyer or brochure for your back-end product
in the package.
2. Give customers a free subscription to a customers
only e-zine when they buy your product. You could
include your ad for your back-end product in each
issue.
3. Send your customers greeting cards on holidays or
on their birthday. Include a small advertisement inside
the card for your back-end product.
4. After people order your first product from your web
site, take them to a "thank you" web page and include
your back-end product ad on that page.
5. Send customers a free surprise gift after they order
your first product. You could attach another ad with
the free gift for your back-end product.
6. If you're selling an electronic product, like an ebook,
include your ad for your back-end product somewhere
inside the electronic product.
7. Give your customers a free membership into your
"customers only" private site. You could include your
ad for your back-end product somewhere inside
the private site.
8. Contact your customers by phone and ask them if
they were happy with their purchase. You could tell
them about your back-end product.
9. Send your customers a thank you letter by mail or
e-mail. You could mention your back-end product
somewhere on the letter.
10. Ask your customers if they want to be updated in
the future when you have new product offers. You
could have them sign up to receive e-mail or snail
mail updates.
Your business will have a greater chance of surviving
when you attempt to sell back-end products to your
existing customers.
Quote of the Day:
"Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife
and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SOURCE
10 Killer Ways To Sell Your Back-End Products
http://www.JaimeParmis.com/pips.html
A back-end product is a product you attempt to sell
your customers after they have recently purchased a
related product from your business.
If you're not trying to sell back-end products to your
customers, you're making a big mistake. It is easier to
sell to existing customers than it is to sell to new ones
who don't trust your business yet.
Below are ten killer strategies you can use to sell your
back-end products to your existing customers:
1. When you ship people the first product they bought,
insert a flyer or brochure for your back-end product
in the package.
2. Give customers a free subscription to a customers
only e-zine when they buy your product. You could
include your ad for your back-end product in each
issue.
3. Send your customers greeting cards on holidays or
on their birthday. Include a small advertisement inside
the card for your back-end product.
4. After people order your first product from your web
site, take them to a "thank you" web page and include
your back-end product ad on that page.
5. Send customers a free surprise gift after they order
your first product. You could attach another ad with
the free gift for your back-end product.
6. If you're selling an electronic product, like an ebook,
include your ad for your back-end product somewhere
inside the electronic product.
7. Give your customers a free membership into your
"customers only" private site. You could include your
ad for your back-end product somewhere inside
the private site.
8. Contact your customers by phone and ask them if
they were happy with their purchase. You could tell
them about your back-end product.
9. Send your customers a thank you letter by mail or
e-mail. You could mention your back-end product
somewhere on the letter.
10. Ask your customers if they want to be updated in
the future when you have new product offers. You
could have them sign up to receive e-mail or snail
mail updates.
Your business will have a greater chance of surviving
when you attempt to sell back-end products to your
existing customers.
Quote of the Day:
"Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife
and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SOURCE
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