Building a home business

Building a successful home business IS possible, if the recipe for success contains the right ingredients!

With so many opportunities available for the home business entrepreneur, it’s hard to decide where to start.

It takes a few key ingredients to be successful with your home based business, these ingredients will make your income rise…

1. You must have a solid company, a lucrative pay plan with no hurdles to jump each month so that you are not restricted in compensation in any way.

2. A product that is consumable, that will be used each and every month so that you have repeat business, a long term customer base will produce a long term residual income.

3. A mentor or coach, who can support you both Online and Offline to grow your business quickly and efficiently.

4. A team of like minded individuals to support you during your first few months of learning how to build your business. Friendly support and encouragement from others who are also building the business will help you as you initially grow your business until you become a mentor yourself.

5. Marketing tools, such as a free online marketing system to market to your potential customers, working for you 24 hours 7 days a week. Online training resource center, with information about your business that will help you grow.

6. Training Calls, either teleconferencing or online conferencing where you can connect with your team for support or bring new prospects to grow your business.

All these key ingredients are required to build a successful home business, however, the MOST important ingredient is YOU!

If you are not willing to invest the time needed to learn, market, and build, your home business will never grow.

Set your hours, set your goals, stick to them and If you add all the above ingredients, including you, together… watch your income rise!

Copywriting Sevice in Calgary

I am always looking for good people to help out with projects.
A young lady in Calgary is making a name for herself with her copywriting service.

Adria Laycraft - The Write Initiative - does a wide range of copywriting in many forms.
Check it out.

Low Investment Internet Marketing

Low Investment Internet Marketing


One of the biggest problems for new internet marketers is learning how to advertise their products, affiliate products, or websites without spending a small fortune in PPC ads. Luckily, there are several fantastic ways to go about this, some of which can help you to lower the costs of your PPC campaigns while others require no investment at all. Let’s take a look at some of these methods for lowering the amount of investment you need to make when marketing products or services.

First, there are a few great methods for reducing the costs of your PPC ad campaigns. Poorly constructed campaigns can drain your money faster than almost any other form of online marketing, and if you are a beginner, chances are you are making some crucial mistakes that are costing you big time!

Keyword-targeted campaigns are the most commonly used campaigns, so keywords are either your best friends or your worst enemies. Many sources of internet marketing “knowledge” seem to state that giant lists of general keywords are the best route for pulling traffic. While this does pull lots of traffic, short, general keywords are more often than not the downfall of an otherwise good campaign. Lots of traffic equates into lots of per-click costs. General keywords, however, do not generally bring converting traffic. The thing to remember about traffic is this – one highly-targeted potential buyer is worth thousands of non-targeted non-buyers.

Trim your keywords and remove general, slightly-related terms that are only meant to pull more people in. These keywords, in almost every case, will not convert. They will also cost you quite a bit more per click. Go for the long-tail keywords and the highly-targeted keywords. Allow me to explain.

Long tail keywords are keywords that consist of four or more words. Let’s say you’re selling a product to teach people to make money online. “Make money online”, “make money”, “earn money”, and similar search terms are some of the most awful keywords you could possibly use, as these are some of the most over-used and therefore over-priced keywords possible! Use some keyword programs and sites to get some long-tail keywords however, and you may end up with a list with keywords such as “earn more money online today”, “make money as an internet marketer”, “how do I make more money online”, etc. These terms are going to pull less traffic, but if you put together a good number of long-tails, you will still pull a substantial number of hits. The great part is that long-tail keywords are going to cost you substantially less than the general keywords, and therefore you get twice the traffic for half the price.

Highly-Targeted keywords are keywords such as “Buy product”, “Purchase product”, and “Order product”. These terms are very specific, and will bring in those searchers who are ready to purchase a product right now. This is some of the best traffic your site will see!

Site-Targeted campaigns in Google are an often overlooked but highly profitable way of running a campaign. Find the sites at the top of an organic search for your keywords, put them into your site-targeted campaign, and watch those sites’ traffic filter into yours for a fraction of the cost of PPC.

Finally, one of the most effective marketing methods is also free! Article marketing has proven to be one of the best ways to drive quality traffic to your site. The best part about article marketing, aside from being free, is that your articles can bring traffic for months or even years! This is a cumulative effort – the more articles you write and put out there, the more traffic will continue coming to your site. It’s brilliant, it’s easy, and it’s free – give it a shot!

You should now have a few new ideas about lowering your marketing costs and improving the quality of your traffic. Good luck!
Jack Zenert

Great Video

Here is a great example of a video:


One thing to notice - you would think that someone was out with their camera shooting the video here and there, but in reality this is just bits and pieces from various online sources put together, with a voice over along with background audio.

Some effects are added like fading in and out, etc.

Really something like this can easily be put together once you know how.

RSS - Fresh content on my site

I spent a few hours yesterday researching how to put content via RSS feeds onto my website.

It is a great way to have up to date information that is about your subject always updating on your site.

I looked at a few applications, such as CARP (which I had tried before), Power RSS, RSS Wrapper, RSS FeedMaster, and a few hosted applications such as FeedDigest and RSS FeedConverter.

The hosted applications were easy to use, but do not provide much flexibility. I think there would be more options, but you need to sign up with a monthly account, and I didn't want to pay monthly.

CARP I had used before - it is a free application that now has a couple upgrades to paid levels. I had found it not very user friendly, and did not have all the functions I wanted in a RSS feed converter.

I have a copy of RSS Wrapper. It is a simple tool to put RSS on your site, wrapped by your own content. Not alot of features.

So I was down to Power RSS and RSS FeedMaster.

RSS FeedMaster was created by the same person who made RSS Wrapper. I know he has excellent customer service, and really tries to over deliver on his products. I took a good hard look at everything that RSS FeedMaster could do - and I was quite impressed.

RSS FeedMaster allows you to do about anything you want with your RSS feed - from simple white hat techniques, to sophisticated Black Hat strategies (like removing any trace of ownership and links to an RSS Feed - ok if you own the feed - but a big no-no if you don't). RSS FeedMaster also allows you to use keywords to find the right content for your site. And it allows you to format the RSS feed in any way you need to make it look good on your site. Needless to say, since Richard ( the owner and developer of RSS FeedMaster) gave me a previous customer discount - I snapped it up. I will write a more indepth review once I get it up and running.

Power RSS looked like an excellent tools as well. It did many of the same things as RSS FeedMaster, although could not quite be as flexible with the look and ability to modify the feed for your site. One thing that Power RSS could do that I really liked is create an daily archive of your page with the feed on it. In this way, you could build your website a page a day over time using RSS feeds. I would really like to try out this feature, so I may pick up Power RSS as well and try it out.

I hope that gives you a little idea of the available feed converters that are available. I am sure there are others, and if you find a good one, let me know.
Thanks
Jack

P.S. - you can go to Power RSS to get your copy.

SEO strategy

The reason I'm writing to you today is to
teach you my secrets to getting over 148,000
visitors to just ONE of my websites last
month.

It was trully very simple.  Beleive me when
I say, you can EASILY get this kind of traffic.
Just follow (step by step) what I did...

The first thing I started with was to STOP
focusing so much on keyword placement and all
that nit and gritty junk.

Honestly, people put WAY too much emphasis on all
that stuff - it's important, yes.  But what about
EVERYTHING else that goes into proper SEO?

1.  Link popularity
2.  PR
3.  Out-going links
4.  Anchor text
5.  Search engine penalization...

People ignore all of those CRITICAL elements to
SEO mainly because they don't understand them.
These things can get incredibly complicated...

Well, that's the difference between my site and
most others!  While other sites focus on playing
with their webpage and placing keywords everywhere,
I put my focus on things like linking and PR.

Wanna know the results?

I BLOW my competitors OUT of the water!  I
out-rank all of them and got a CRAZY 200,000+
visitors just last month...

Now, how can you learn about all those complicated
things and keep track of everything on your own?

Honestly, SEO is no joke - it's incredibly complicated,
so if you were to try to do this on your own - I'm
not so sure you could do it.  Heck, I know "I"
couldn't...

Well, you know what, I saw this problem a few months
back and and that's exactly why I created SEO Elite 

Pure and simple, the average jo shmo like you and
I canNOT do everything by hand and keep track of
it all ourselves.  If we try, we're risking getting
BANNED by search engines (for just one little
mistake!)

So, what I created was a software that will literally
do it all for you - just hit a button and watch it
go. 

You can keep your focus on things like keyword placement,
just let this program do the rest...

Go on over to  SEO Elite to learn
more - this may just be the one thing you need to
have a crazy BOOM in traffic.

Always here to help,

Brad Callen, SEO Professional and creator of SEO Elite
SEO Elite 

What Wiki Software is best?

If you want to have your own Wiki - What Software should you use?

This is not a straight forward question. There are many different types and kinds of script and software available to give you a wiki type site.

It also depends on what you really want to do with your site.
Choosing the 'best' depends on your needs. For a general purpose wiki you could choose mediawiki, pmwiki or phpwiki.

If you want it for more text based - such as text support wiki go with docuwiki or moinmoin.

A good comparison tool is at http://www.wikimatrix.org/

Sorry for no single answer, but alot depends on what you are doing.
If you want any more help let me know, glad to assist.

Also - to get a list of wiki softare you can check out this list at wikipedia.

And they also have a nice comparison chart for wiki software.

What really are Wiki's main advantages:
There are many wiki engines that are free for download and usage.
Wiki software can be used by corporations or by individuals.
The installation of a wiki software is very easy.
Wiki creates a collaborative web site where every member can add and edit content.
Wikis are like forums where posts can be edited.
Publishing an article on a wiki site is easy even for non-web-experts.

and here are some of the basic criteria for comparison.

Who is the creator of the wiki tool - is it a single person or a team?
Is the wiki a free and open source software or do you need to purchase a license for it?
Who is using this tool? A good wiki engine is likely to have a large group of existing users. This is helpful as you might need support running it or just have questions on its functionality.

I hope this helps you to decide on where you want to go with your wiki.
Thanks
Jack