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		<title>Consider Blogging for Income</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the easiest way to blog is not always the best place to find a home for your blog. Take for example blogging on a social network site such as Facebook. While it is a great place to place a link to a blog on another site, it is not great for blogging itself. And [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/consider-blogging">Consider Blogging for Income</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes the easiest way to blog is not always the best place to find a home for your blog. Take for example blogging on a social network site such as Facebook. While it is a great place to place a link to a blog on another site, it is not great for blogging itself. And this is something you absolutely must take into account. There is a way to blog and a way not to blog. There is a time to blog and a time not to blog. There is a place to blog and places where blogging is not going to be as beneficial to you as another place may be. So how do you know how, when and where?</p>
<p>So why is Facebook not a great place to blog? For starters the website is not set up for blogging. You can write and add &#8220;notes&#8221; but you have to tag each of your friends and followers if they are going to be notified of your new post. And then it shows up on their wall &#8211; which may not go over so well if being inundated with &#8220;notes&#8221; is not their preference. You could wind up losing followers, friends and family. When that means you are not going to be making any money. And you will not make money from your blog alone on Facebook. You will have to put links to your website or to another blogging web site if you want to utilize ads and banner ads for affiliate programs.</p>
<p>Establishing the fact that social networking sites such as Facebook are out, leaves you with places such as WordPress or even Blogspot.com. There are some ups and downs for each site but they do, at least, allow the use of ads and promoting affiliate programs. You just have to get traffic to the site. That leaves you with the proper time to blog once you figure out where. Try not to post late night blogs because many people will miss out on new blogs if you are consistently posting at odd hours. Try posting at the same time each day or every couple of days. You may not want to even blog every single day for fear of inundating your followers with too much information or repeated information. Have a set number of blogs for the week and stick with that schedule.</p>
<p>All that being said, there is a specific formula (or blueprint) for when to blog, how frequently, and how to get links to your original page and traffic to your individual blog posts. However, all this usually takes a lot of work. Not many people want to devote that kind of time to maintaining their blog on a daily basis. But don&#8217;t lose heart! There is a solution. Just take a quick visit to <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/smart-automation" ><strong><u>Smart Blogging Automation</u></strong></a> and you will see what I have been up to for the last three years &#8211; earning my living from home, blogging for income. It may also be the perfect solution for your needs. You can cut down on your proposed work load, boost your blog rankings (and traffic), which eventually equates to a higher return. Best of all, the entire tools and system is heavily based on &#8216;smart&#8217; automation.</p>
<p>What is &#8216;smart&#8217; automation you ask?</p>
<p>Get all the details right here: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/smart-automation" ><u>Smart Blogging Automation</u></a>.</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Marketing Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to know what is the all time biggest secret of Affiliate Marketing? To answer that question we need to dive down into the very depths of the Internet Marketing world. Are you ready? Ok so before we answer the question that&#8217;s on everybody&#8217;s mind, let&#8217;s take a second and think about the true [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/affiliate-marketing-lessons">Affiliate Marketing Lessons</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody wants to know what is the all time biggest secret of Affiliate Marketing? To answer that question we need to dive down into the very depths of the Internet Marketing world. Are you ready?</p>
<p>Ok so before we answer the question that&#8217;s on everybody&#8217;s mind, let&#8217;s take a second and think about the true and time tested master or fundamental principles that make up any business whether online or off. So, what are these so called master principles? (take a minute and I&#8217;ll bet you can guess) that&#8217;s right it&#8217;s RESEARCH! Research my dear friends is where it all begins. It even starts (or at least should start) before you even begin to think about promoting to any and I mean ANY particular niche. It along with self-determination and hard work will eventually determine how big your end profit will be. It my friends is what determines if you are successful or not, it is your hammer and nail!</p>
<p>This Is The Right Way</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at an example of how to perform the proper research and how to implement it. Alright so the other day I was reading in a popular little magazine that always comes with the Sunday morning newspaper. You might have heard of it, it&#8217;s called Parade, and while I was thumbing through the pages I stumbled upon the perfect demonstration of research applied.</p>
<p>It was an ad for a product called StriVectin which is a neck cream that supposedly deals with the problem of &#8216;turkey neck&#8217; skin for middle and older aged women.</p>
<p>It was a very simple ad that gets straight to the point. The ad basically read, Got Turkey Neck?&#8230; New StriVectin Neck Cream visibly lifts, tightens, smoothes and tones neckline &#8211; call (their number) or visit (their website). Remember if you have skin you need StriVectin. Before the title of the ad it also read, StriVectin The Stretch-Mark Cream Turned Anti-Wrinkle Phenomenon!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s Break It Down</p>
<p>I hope you&#8217;ve got a pen and pencil ready! Let&#8217;s look at who their target market or should I say perfect customer really is. Well, from the title &#8220;Got Turkey Neck&#8221; and product, we know that their target market is women or more specific or niche as I like to say, is older women suffering from wrinkled skin. In case you didn&#8217;t know, women are the perfect customer or at least they hold the purchasing power and they also have a lot of problems that need to be solved and a lot of needs that need to be met, lots of things that drive them). I&#8217;m willing to bet that the majority of people who read the Parade magazine are middle to older aged women. And the ad copy perfectly addresses their problem as well as a solution to it.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author:</strong> Jim Robert is an online entrepreneur that focuses on helping others succeed online. Checkout his <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eAffiliateCourse.com" >free affiliate marketing course</a> at eAffiliateCourse.com Article Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/" >ArticlesBase.com</a> &#8211; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/the-secret-of-affiliate-marketing-and-you-thought-you-knew-638672.html"  title="The Secret of Affiliate Marketing &acirc;&#8364;&#8220; and You Thought You Knew!">The Secret of Affiliate Marketing &acirc;&#8364;&#8220; and You Thought You Knew!</a></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Marketing Diary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some ways to help you to become a successful affiliate marketer even if you are only spending a few hours a week working at it. The most obvious is that you must enjoy the Internet. Now this may seem ridiculous, but I know of people who started out with affiliate marketing who dislike [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/affiliate-marketing-diary">Affiliate Marketing Diary</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are some ways to help you to become a successful affiliate marketer even if you are only spending a few hours a week working at it.</p>
<p>The most obvious is that you must enjoy the Internet.   Now this may seem ridiculous, but I know of people who started out with affiliate marketing who dislike the Internet.   Worse than that &#8211; they are afraid of it.   For you to be successful you must enjoy the whole experience, be curious about what is out there and how you can harness that to work for you.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to invent the whole system, as that has already been done for us by someone else, thank Goodness.   Many people have built the systems that make it all work, especially in the affiliate marketing field, so you don&#8217;t have to be particularly techi. Just be prepared to follow the system and don&#8217;t get fazed if it doesn&#8217;t do what you hope or expect it to do first time.   </p>
<p>It can help later on if you are prepared to learn something about how it all works, but it is not essential.   Many very successful Internet based businesses are run by people who do none of the technical stuff.   They just hire people to do it for them, and there are plenty of those out there.</p>
<p>Time is really important, especially if you have a day job.   I know people who get up at 6 a.m., do 2 hours of their own Internet work, work a full day and then work on the Internet again until midnight when they get home.    Not all of us are so driven and not all of us are prepared to give up that amount of our lives.    </p>
<p>Be honest with yourself about how many hours a week you can dedicate to your affiliate business.    Whatever you decide your available time is, say 2 evenings a week + 6 hours at the weekend &#8211; you choose.  It is more important to keep to that time on a regular basis than try to cram more hours in. Once you have made your timetable, try to stick to it.</p>
<p>Consistency is the key. Think about it as though you are keeping appointments with yourself.   Put your allocated time in your diary and think of it as a commitment to yourself.   Why I suggested the 10 hours above is because it is do-able for most people.  However, we all have different habits and you should choose the times that fit in with your life whilst not interfering with it.</p>
<p>Ability to set your own goals helps towards your success.    Remember &#8211; you are going to be your own master or mistress in this enterprise.   There will be no boss or colleague to nag you or make demands on you.   It is all up to you, so you need to have a certain amount of self-discipline to keep this all going over time. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget that you do have to work hard at it.   It is not a get rich quick strategy.   Please don&#8217;t believe all the hype that is around on this. Even the most successful Internet business leaders have spent years and thousands of hours perfecting their products and services.    However, the advantage of affiliate marketing is that you can jump onto their bandwagon.   You can reap advantage from their expertise and investment.</p>
<p>Finally, there are two essential requirements to be successful with affiliate marketing, and they are patience and determination. As I have said, there are no instant millionaires with affiliate marketing, but there are many, many people who are making a comfortable additional income, and there are no limits to what can be achieved.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />
</p>
<p>Trisha Stone is passionate about helping people get going with their successful internet businesses.   Get her free 20 page report &#8220;The Absolute Beginners Guide to Affiliate Marketing&#8221; by going to <a target="_blank" href="http://theinternetbusinessexchange.com/presents/index.php.txt" >The Internet Business Exchange </a></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Marketing Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>how to get a blogsite started to sell adsense and do affiliate marketing?</b><br />
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<p>I want to make revenue using adsense and doing affiliate marketing and i am completely lost on the whole process of getting started. I am more of a hands on learner that learns best by being shown how to do it first and then practicing over and over to get it right. If anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.<br />
I would love a mentor on how to do it, if anyone could, let me know.</p>
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<p>I suggest blogger.com for your blogsite since it&#8217;s free and easy to put adsense ads. You can get a lot of how to videos on youtube.com just type the keywords &#8220;blogger tutorial&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Affiliate Marketing Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet Affiliate Marketing is the method of marketing in which web based businesses are promoted. This is done by posting advertisements on the net and the affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer and / or sale provided through the efforts of the affiliate. It is the person who undertakes the task of marketing [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/affiliate-marketing-regulations">Affiliate Marketing Regulations</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Internet Affiliate Marketing is the method of marketing in which web based businesses are promoted. This is done by posting advertisements on the net and the affiliate is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer and / or sale provided through the efforts of the affiliate. It is the person who undertakes the task of marketing the product (on the web in this case) but is not strictly controlled by the mother organization. </p>
<p>The owner of the website or the affiliate (publisher), uses their site for the promotion of the products of the merchant or the mother organization. This in done by inserting a link(s) to the merchant&#8217;s website. When visitors visit a website and click on a link, which results in a purchase, the merchant will pay a commission to the affiliate. The payment is based on the pay-per-performance principle, so the merchant will pay the affiliates for every click on the link of the affiliate website that results in a sale. </p>
<p>Threats</p>
<p>In the early days of affiliate marketing, the main organization had very little control over what the affiliates did. This was misused by many affiliates who used many crooked means to generate more sales. False advertisements were one of these that included the use of false or exaggerated information for deceiving the potential customer. Many affiliates used the system of forced clicks to get tracking cookies set on user&#8217;s computers.</p>
<p>Many affiliate programs were poorly managed and some used adware. Adware or advertising supported software is any software package that automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used. In the early days, many affiliates used spam to promote the programs in which they were enrolled. </p>
<p>Spam is the indiscriminate sending of unsolicited bulk messages using the electronic messaging systems, and it made internet users develop a negative opinion about affiliate-marketing. Spamming is affordable because advertisers have no operating costs except the management of their mailing lists. In addition, it is difficult to hold the senders accountable for their mass mailings and the barrier to entry is too low.  The costs of this such as low productivity and fraud are borne by the public and the internet service providers, who are forced to add extra capacity to cope with the extra volume. </p>
<p>Another threat is the practice of spamdexing. In this such methods are used which manipulate the output of search engines and provide links (that are displayed when a term for search is entered) which contain these ads. Spamdexing has emerged as the largest threat to organic search engines. </p>
<p>Apart from these factors, the lack of self-regulation, lack of industry standards with respect to training and certification are legal factors that encourage the aforementioned abuses by rogue elements in the affiliate marketing industry. Some steps are being taken in this direction and a Code of Conduct was released by affiliate network&#8217;s Commission Junction / Be Free and Performics in December 2002.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />
</p>
<p>Stephen C Campbell (MBA, MSc, MCIM) is a business consultant and internet marketer who has conducted business throughout Europe, Far East &amp; U.S. Learn<br />
more about internet marketing at <b><br />
<a href="http://www.affiliatemarketinginformationcenter.com/"><br />
</a><a href="http://www.AffiliateMarketingInformationCenter.com/" target="_blank" >http://www.AffiliateMarketingInformationCenter.com/</a></b></p>
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		<title>Teen Bloggers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day, blogs are created by people of all ages and from all walks of life, but when it comes to blogging, teen writers are truly on the cutting edge of the movement. Because today&#8217;s teenagers are the first generation of people to have grown up using the internet at every stage of their development, [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/teen-bloggers">Teen Bloggers</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every day, blogs are created by people of all ages and from all walks of life, but when it comes to blogging, teen writers are truly on the cutting edge of the movement. Because today&#8217;s teenagers are the first generation of people to have grown up using the internet at every stage of their development, many adolescents have a seemingly innate sense of how to use web technology to express their innermost thoughts and ideas.</p>
<p>Older writers often experience a kind of learning curve when they begin to blog, but many young people find that using a word processor and blogging software feels more natural and direct a mode of communication than writing in a diary ever could. </p>
<p>One of the reasons why blogs have undergone a kind of explosion in the teen community and are growing by leaps and bounds is the fact that they provide a unique mixture of visibility and anonymity. A teenager can<br />
invite friends and peers to read his or her blog with a simple email, thereby winning attention or possibly even praise. </p>
<p>Of course, with visibility usually comes the possibility of embarrassment, but the fact that it is possible to blog anonymously with an invented handle or nickname negates a lot of the potential for humiliation. Many a blogging teen lives in fear that a parent or guardian will discover his or her blog, but by publishing under an alias a teenager can spill his or her secrets without fear of being traced. </p>
<p>Outside the world of blogging, teen writers often have very limited opportunities to be published. Magazines and journals are often reticent to publish young writers who may not have as much credibility as older writers with a lot of experience and extensive credits to their names. </p>
<p>This can discourage adolescents from writing or from seeking chances to publish their work. By blogging, young people can begin to gain a following of readers without first having to win the attention and support of an editor or publisher who may not be very interested in teenaged authors. </p>
<p>Between the fact that blogs provide young people with a chance to exercise their impressive technical aptitude, to gain visibility without compromising privacy, and to build a readership for their writing without having to jump through the traditional hoops of the publishing industry, it is little wonder that are so many teenagers with blogs. For some teenagers, blogging is even a very social endeavor that allows them to meet people with similar interests from all over the world.</p>
<p>Many a blogging teen has discovered that having a weblog on the internet is a great way to explore self-expression and, often, to win positive feedback from new friends.</p>
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		<title>Boost Existing Business With Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market. Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors. [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/boost-existing-business-with-blogging">Boost Existing Business With Blogging</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market.  </p>
<p>Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors.  Here are some advantages:</p>
<p>Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.</p>
<p>Awareness and loyalty.  Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.</p>
<p>Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews. It would be easier to improve on your products if you observe your customers? thinking and behavioral patterns. You can also take immediate action to your customers? concerns.</p>
<p>Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.</p>
<p>For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL. Be sure that your blogs contain exclusive information with value and are always updated to keep readers popping in, read up your blog, move on to the next and click on again for updates.</p>
<p>Blog is like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to strike your sale scales up. </p>
<p>The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales. </p>
<p>For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.  </p>
<p>If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company?s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal. </p>
<p>1. Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do?s and don?ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea. </p>
<p>2. Setup several test blogs right away. If your initial try out with blogs worked well, you can now start setting up your blogs.</p>
<p>3. Study blog design. Blog hosting services provide pre-designed templates. But if you opt for paid blog service, you can ask your artist to design and layout your blog site to match the company?s identity and needs.</p>
<p>4. Choose a topic. Its good to have a line-up of topics you want for your blogs but be sure they are in consonance with your business objectives. This would be a test of your flexibility and open-mindedness since results may be going against the set objectives.</p>
<p>5. Remember the following safety measures in blogging: legal issues are sometimes involved in blogging; it is safer to include disclaimers and limitations of liabilities; corporate communication and legal department are responsible in educating the senior management on how blogs might affect business; create blogging policies; set limits on who gets to blog and what information are allowed to be made public; avoid outright marketing blog or you will shy away your readers; make content updated, relevant and fresh; reinforce the company?s core values; and, encourage employees to use it.</p>
<p>6. Start blogging and complete 20 posts before going to marketing.</p>
<p>7. Begin marketing.</p>
<p>8. Regularly monitor the coming ins and outs of readers and get updates. Then, measure your results.<br />
9. Adjust if needed. You can always play with your designs in the blog site as long as it remains to match the company?s identity.<br />
10. Strive to be consistent with your topic all the time.<br />
11. Try to have unrelated topics with general and broad appeal.<br />
12. Schedule updates regularly. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday would be best to update blogs.</p>
<p>Once you have done all these things, you can now ultimately enjoy the benefits of business blogging.</p>
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		<title>Blogging News As It Happens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging news stories as they unfold is one of the most exciting and controversial applications of technology that bloggers have discovered. One thing that makes the blogosphere so active is the fact that it is possible to update a blog instantaneously, so the news on blogs tends to be more current than the news in [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/blogging-news-as-it-happens">Blogging News As It Happens</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blogging news stories as they unfold is one of the most exciting and controversial applications of technology that bloggers have discovered. One thing that makes the blogosphere so active is the fact that it is possible to update a blog instantaneously, so the news on blogs tends to be more current than the news in the paper, or on television. Unlike news delivered by these other media, news that appears on blogs does not have to travel through a series of editors and administrators before it reaches the public eye.</p>
<p>This has some advantages, and some distinct disadvantages.</p>
<p>One of the most notable cases of news hitting a blog before appearing in other media took place in July 2005 when terrorism struck London. As passengers were evacuated from a subway car near an explosion, one man took several photographs of the scene with his cellular phone, and within an hour these images were posted online. First-person accounts of the catastrophe began appearing on blogs soon after these photos appeared, and people all over the world learned about the events in London by reading the words and seeing the photos posted by bloggers. </p>
<p>The fact that these stories and images were being spread directly by individuals operating without the added filter of a reporter helped to make the crisis feel very immediate to people across the globe. When it comes to blogging, news often appears in a very personal context.</p>
<p>This has the potential to be the beginning of an exciting new era of reporting, one that takes &#8220;New Journalism&#8221; to it&#8217;s logical next step by putting the power to shape how the news is written and read directly into the hands of the public. </p>
<p>Many bloggers and cultural commentators who are champions of the weblog movement feel that this growing trend of individuals who getting their news from blogs is a good thing, because it makes the flow of information more democratic. By decentralizing the control of news, blogs allow more voices to enter the field of debate about important current events.</p>
<p>However, many people are adamantly opposed to the use of blogs as news outlets, and there are plenty of good arguments on this side of the debate. Unlike newspapers or television stations, few blogs have fact-checkers, and there is little attention paid to journalistic accountability on many blogs. This can lead to the rapid spread of misinformation, and more than one falsehood has taken the blogosphere by storm. The questions about whether blogging news as it happens is ethical or not are very complicated, but no matter where you stand on the topic of current events blogs you are almost sure to agree that this movement has the potential to revolutionize how modern people get their news.</p>
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		<title>Niche Marketing Pros And Cons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>What are the Pros and Cons of niche marketing?</b><br />
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<p>I am trying to help a friend and we need to know what are the pros of niche marketing and what are the cons of it. if any of you can help me it would be highly appreciated&#8230;
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Answer: You could practically write a book trying to answer that question!</p>
<p>A few main thoughts come to my mind:<br />
Niche marketing if done properly lets you sell your product to a group of targeted buyers. In other words people who are actively looking for what you are selling.</p>
<p>I have to disagree with the other answer, it does not have to be expensive at all. Your friend can do keyword research for free and then write articles targeting the keywords and get them published online free of charge. He can also visit forums related to what he is selling and engage in posting there and advertise his site via his signature. Social marketing like MySpace and StumbleUpon(among many others) can bring traffic also. This just touches on how to get the traffic to a website.</p>
<p>The disadvantages are that it is time consuming. FIrst you need to know enough about the niche you are promoting or do the research on it. Then you need to have some quality content set up on your website. You need to target your keywords so the search engines will find your site. Then you need to use the above methods and others to bring traffic to your site. Of course, you have to have products to sell, either your own or find affiliate products. </p>
<p>But costly, no, you can do it for nothing but time, especially in the beginning. It&#8217;s a learning process.</p>
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		<title>Repurposing Your Blog RSS Feed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note and Update: There is a very good reason this is one of the most popular posts on this site even though it was written back in October 2007! Far too many online marketers are missing the boat by not paying attention to their RSS feeds. They think their blogs are doing all the [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/repurposingfeeds">Repurposing Your Blog RSS Feed</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note and Update:</strong> There is a very good reason this is one of the most popular posts on this site even though it was written back in October 2007! Far too many online marketers are missing the boat by not paying attention to their RSS feeds. They think their blogs are doing all the heavy lifting in the search engines, but don&#8217;t know how to reach even more targeted traffic by re-purposing their feeds. If you can &#8216;get&#8217; this concept into your mind and implement the technique in a way that makes sense to your market, you can write your own paycheck.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
I&#8217;ve been out of the loop for the last few months as many of my regular readers know. Working on other projects and not wanting to fill up the world wide web with unnecessary ramblings.</p>
<p>Today I want to share an internet marketing strategy that I initially wrote about in Stampede Secret 2.0, and now hear other trainers teaching (which I&#8217;m happy about because this is an elegant way for savvy marketers to drive traffic and increase brand awareness within their target markets).<span id="more-172"></span></p>
<p>As an aside, I took the Stampede Secret 2.0 package off the market a few months back when I picked up a demanding corporate assignment and couldn&#8217;t focus on the marketing or personalized attention some of my users required. However after receiving many email requests for the course I edited the book (with a stronger focus for niche marketers), and have just today put the ebook back for sale at a price more people could afford. (see <a target="_blank" href="http://www.stampedesecret.com/web20/guide " >http://www.stampedesecret.com/web20/guide</a> for more details). Keep in mind that this is a strategy guide &#8211; it&#8217;s up to you to determine where you implement the strategy and you have to put your thinking cap on to do so. I&#8217;m not about to tell you that one site has all the answers for all the markets online.</p>
<h3>Back to the original reason for this post&#8230;</h3>
<p>Andy Beard wrote about this website today (gooruze.com) and touched on the technique I shared with marketers earlier this year &#8211; repurposing your blog&#8217;s rss feed on Web 2.0 enabled sites.</p>
<p>I first discovered this hugely beneficial technique on the very busy PlugIM website, then again on Squidoo, and then on BlinkBits and now (via Andy&#8217;s direction &#8211; <a target="_blank" href="http://andybeard.eu/2007/10/gooruze-preview.html" >Gooruze Preview</a>).</p>
<p>Of course there are countless other places to repurpose your feed content (without penalty and niche market specific) to drive traffic and obtain immediate backlinks to your website &#8211; those listed above are just some of my favorite, generic, and/or internet marketing, related.</p>
<p>If Gooruze looks to be up your alley, <a target="_blank" href="http://smart.gooruze.com" >sign up, add your blog&#8217;s feed</a> to your profile (and your photo of course), and be eligible to win $10,000 in Adwords clicks during this early-launch phase. And while you&#8217;re there, take a page out of Andy&#8217;s power user idea &#8211; add your StumbleUpon feed to your profile as well! (A link to it is found in your StumbleUpon user page &#8211; lower left orange RSS icon).</p>
<p>Drop me a line and let me know your results in 30 days or so!</p>
<p>Laura Childs</p>
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		<title>Michael Campbell said &#8220;Click Off!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been around the &#8216;net for a while, learning about building multiple sites and optimizing them for the search engines, you&#8217;ve likely heard the name Michael Campbell. Michael is probably one of the coolest heads in the business. He translates complicated procedures into non-geek English, he tests every strategy he teaches, and he fully [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/michael-campbell-says-click-off">Michael Campbell said &#8220;Click Off!&#8221;</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve been around the &#8216;net for a while, learning about building multiple sites and optimizing them for the search engines, you&#8217;ve likely heard the name Michael Campbell.</p>
<blockquote><p>Michael is probably one of the coolest heads in the business. He translates complicated procedures into non-geek English, he tests every strategy he teaches, and he fully investigates every product he endorses or recommends.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is high praise in the internet marketing and website promotion industry.<span id="more-149"></span></p>
<p>Now I don&#8217;t know Michael personally but I&#8217;ve been a subscriber of his off and on since 1998. His emails are one of a handful that I religiously grab a cup of coffee for and read from start to finish.</p>
<p>All tolled he&#8217;s held me captive for many hours over the last 8 years.</p>
<p>You get to know a person.</p>
<p>But I NEVER expected to read the words that flew from his fingertips on a blog comment surrounded by some of the hottest and most respected internet marketing and/or blogging personalities today!</p>
<p>Michael Campbell said: &#8220;Click Off!&#8221;</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I feel like a kid who just heard her first swear word.</p>
<p>Michael Fortin, Ken McCarthy, Andy Wibbels, Denis de Bernardy, Teli Adlam, Gary Huynh, and of course, the host of the party, Andy Beard were all there &#8211; they &#8216;heard&#8217; it too. (There are others I didn&#8217;t recognize immediately and there will likely be more before you get over there to see what all the fuss is about.) This will only interest you if you&#8217;re a WordPress blogger or if you enjoy seeing where the &#8216;celebrities&#8217; were hanging out today. </p>
<p>And no, Michael didn&#8217;t start the fight&#8230; <a target="_blank" href="http://andybeard.eu/2006/10/wordpress-trademark-scammers.html" >Trademark Troubles?</a></p>
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		<title>Niche Marketing Ebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling a product within a specific market niche can be a financially rewarding exercise. Niche marketing is on the rise, as savvy marketers recognize the lucrative opportunity presented by smaller, underserved markets. However, in order to successfully exploit its power, one must possess and understand the two keys to successful niche marketing. Finding the Right [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/niche-marketing-ebook">Niche Marketing Ebook</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Selling a product within a specific market niche can be a financially rewarding exercise.  Niche marketing is on the rise, as savvy marketers recognize the lucrative opportunity presented by smaller, underserved markets.  However, in order to successfully exploit its power, one must possess and understand the two keys to successful niche marketing.</p>
<p>Finding the Right Niche</p>
<p>With all the marketing hype online, it&#8217;s easy to convince yourself that any niche can be a massive financial winner if targeted.  However, this is not true.  It is essential to find and isolate particular niches, but you must also be able to &#8220;read&#8221; them, in order to determine whether or not there is really a strong likelihood that they can be successfully penetrated and exploited.</p>
<p>This requires an understanding of the niche, its demographics and tendencies.  For many marketers, this effort is simply too time-consuming and complicated to undertake.  Fortunately, services like Easy Niche Products can do the work for the marketer.  Easy Niche Product produces ebooks designed for sale within specific niches.  They choose the niches they tackle, carefully, first assessing its all aspect of its profit potential.</p>
<p>Finding the Right Project</p>
<p>Simply knowing there is a niche &#8220;ripe for the picking&#8221; isn&#8217;t enough.  One must have something to sell to those occupying the niche.  This requires creation of a product specifically oriented to appeal to a niche&#8217;s population.  One of the quickest and efficient means to profiting within a particular market niche is via ebook sales.  A marketer simply needs their well-honed sales skills and a quality ebook to sell.</p>
<p>Ebook creation, however, may not be a perfect fit for many marketers.  Writing an ebook requires writing skills, a knowledge of the subject matter and the preferences of the niche population, and a great deal of time and energy.  May splendid marketers may not take advantage of the great opportunity provided by niche markets because of those concerns.  Instead, they should consider purchasing a subscription to Easy Niche Products, which will provide them with the custom ebooks and supporting materials they need to successfully make their mark in the niche.  Easy Niche product, located at <a href="http://www.easynicheproduct.com,"  target="_blank">www.easynicheproduct.com,</a> provides full product packages specifically designed for maximum effectiveness within a niche.</p>
<p>Niche market sales offer tremendous possible rewards to those able to find the right target areas and to supply the right materials.  A smart marketer can easily outsource the work associated with these two keys to Easy Niche Product, a subscription service that understands what it takes to make niche marketing work.  Easy Niche Product finds the underserved market segments and creates the perfect products for those segments.  A quality marketer can then take those products and present them to the niche, knowing that his or her marketing skills will determine the endeavor&#8217;s success.  Reports from Easy Niche Product subscribers are universally supportive of the program&#8217;s ability to arm marketers with all the resources they need to successfully encounter lucrative niches.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />
<br />
Joseph operates a Niche Product website that offers Niche, THEMED product line that users can upsell. You can check out his website at:<br />
<a href="http://www.easynicheproduct.com" target="_blank" >http://www.easynicheproduct.com</a></p>
<p>Article Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/" >ArticlesBase.com</a> &#8211; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/ebooks-articles/the-two-keys-to-successful-niche-marketing-7160.html"  title="The Two Keys to Successful Niche Marketing">The Two Keys to Successful Niche Marketing</a></p>
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		<title>Affiliate Marketing Disclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An increasing number of people are into Internet affiliate marketing jobs and businesses. This business is becoming a useful tool for income generation. This system of employment and business venture is unlike other employment or business sectors, which mainly require the physical appearance of their workers. Internet affiliate marketing programs gather members online. Internet marketers [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/affiliate-marketing-disclosure">Affiliate Marketing Disclosure</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An increasing number of people are into Internet affiliate marketing jobs and businesses. This business is becoming a useful tool for income generation. This system of employment and business venture is unlike other employment or business sectors, which mainly require the physical appearance of their workers. Internet affiliate marketing programs gather members online. Internet marketers take advantage of the convenience of working from home and at the same time, getting paid just like a regular employee or business man. </p>
<p>However, there are still a lot of affiliate marketing programs which are good as scams. The initiators of these scams have the main objective of taking advantage all your efforts and sometimes your money. Internet affiliate marketing can be considered effective money- making generator only if we have signed up for legitimate programs. </p>
<p>But the blame is not directed to you. It is an inevitable mistake because of some people deceiving your outlook. Here are some ways to rule out if the affiliate marketing program you have chosen is a total scam:</p>
<p>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No customer support or no means to contact the specific program.</p>
<p>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Insufficient information contained in the website. The website is not done professionally. You will be able to determine scam sites which are always offline or under construction.</p>
<p>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No product disclosure for consumers. If you find an affiliate marketing program which does not have transparency about their product, it is better to jump off and find another program. </p>
<p>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are being asked to give your credit card numbers or account information, be reluctant to sign up. Most affiliate programs are for free. </p>
<p>Do take note of these 4 things so you will avoid making unnecessary mistakes. Do the right thing and you will be on your way to achieve online success.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />
</p>
<p>Zack Lim is an internet affiliate marketer who owns <a target="_blank" href="http://www.myaffiliatemarketingonline.com/FreeEcourse" ></a><a href="http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse" target="_blank" >http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse</a>. He has helped hundreds of people to start their own affiliate marketing business. </p>
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<p>He&rsquo;s recently developed a free e-course showing you a step by step process for starting your own affiliate marketing business easier. To learn how to start your own affiliate marketing business without wasting your time and money, visit<br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.myaffiliatemarketingonline.com/FreeEcourse" ></a><br />
<a href="http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse" target="_blank" >http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com/FreeEcourse</a></p>
<p>Article Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/" >ArticlesBase.com</a> &#8211; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/affiliate-programs-articles/best-affiliate-tip-how-to-rule-out-a-scam-affiliate-marketing-program-767470.html"  title="Best Affiliate Tip: How to Rule Out a Scam Affiliate Marketing Program">Best Affiliate Tip: How to Rule Out a Scam Affiliate Marketing Program</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Childs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are involved in your own affiliate marketing business, one of the things that you will note is that it is a lonely business as you will have to spend most of your time in front of your computer when you are first starting the business. There are many other reasons for attending the [...]<p><a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help/learn/affiliate-marketing-summit">Affiliate Marketing Summit</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help">Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are involved in your own affiliate marketing business, one of the things that you will note is that it is a lonely business as you will have to spend most of your time in front of your computer when you are first starting the business. There are many other reasons for attending the seminar. You should consider going to one of these marketing seminars. You will be surprise with what is available for you.</p>
<p> Firstly, many of the talks that are given during the course of the seminar are actually veiled sales pitches. You may be able to learn some useful information from listening to these, but most likely they will end with their product or service being offered to all the people that are present.  This is a smart way that they use to make money and there is nothing wrong with that as long as you are getting some benefit at the same time.</p>
<p>The real benefit of attending the seminar is the activity that happens after the seminar.  Typically, you will have the opportunity to interact with other individuals who are doing the same thing as you.  Because you are more on a one-to-one basis, they will tend to disclose some affiliate marketing secrets. </p>
<p> Apart from learning some very interesting things about affiliate marketing, it also gives you the opportunity to meet and interact with other people who are involved in the same type of business as you. Especially for those like us who spend all of our days at home with nobody else but only our computer to keep us accompanied, meeting more people definitely helps. So you really benefits from going to an affiliate summit as you might be able to learn something you have never learn before or cannot be learn online and you can enjoy the company of individuals who are somewhat like you.</p>
<p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />
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<p>And now I would like to offer you Free &#8220;7 Days to Affiliate Marketing&#8221; course when you subscribe to my newsletter on Affiliate Marketing. You can get your instant access at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.myaffiliatemarketingonline.com" ></a><a href="http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com" target="_blank" >http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com</a></p>
<p>From Zack Lim &#8211; The Up And Coming Affiliate Marketer who provide valuable affiliate marketing information at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.myaffiliatemarketingonline.com" ></a><a href="http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com" target="_blank" >http://www.MyAffiliateMarketingOnline.com</a></p>
<p>Article Source: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/" >ArticlesBase.com</a> &#8211; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/affiliate-programs-articles/why-should-you-attend-a-affiliate-marketing-seminar-454857.html"  title="Why Should You Attend a Affiliate Marketing Seminar?">Why Should You Attend a Affiliate Marketing Seminar?</a></p>
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