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Professional and social networking sites like LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, and Squidoo are effective outlets for finding new readers, but it is easy to find your message spread thin if you don’t choose the right strategy. Many businesses settle for sparse profiles on various sites, never discovering the other powerful marketing tools many of these social networking platforms have to offer—most of them for free.

To avoid the scattershot approach, choose one or two social networking sites that fit your business well and invest the time to maximize your presence in them. Let’s explore what that might look like if Facebook is one of your choices.

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EBay has been the ideal home based business for years. Most of us started with the ‘clean out the garage’ model, and over time graduated to dropshipping, and in many cases, it has turned into a pretty significant fulltime income.

Over the last several weeks, several VERY disturbing changes have taken place at EBay as EBay seems intent on wiping out the very business base that built the behemoth, to focus on the corporate clientele that have taken a much larger position on EBay over the past couple of years, using EBay to sell off their excess inventory directly, rather than selling to the large discount chains as was the previous habit.

Here’s an overview of some of the most significant - and damaging - changes that affect you and I, the folks that have built home businesses around EBay…. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a list of the Top 10 Social Sites
(According to Alexa, a world-wide page rank informational website that tracks statistics.  Sites are “rated” and a lower number means a higher ranking.)

YOU TUBE:   A video-sharing website.  YouTube ranks among the Top 10 Websites of any kind on the Internet right now.  Users can upload, view, and comment on videos.  In April 2008, reports indicated that the site is host to over 83 million video clips, boasting more traffic than any other site.  Ordinary computer users began to form networks and followings through YouTube; people can subscribe to your video uploads easily and provide feedback

MY SPACE:   The most popular social networking site for teens and adults. MySpace allows users to develop an interactive personal profile, network with friends and contacts, maintain blogs, and share photos and music.

FACEBOOK:   Facebook organizes networks according to city, workplace, school, and region.  Members can interact by sending messages to one another.  Users can be members of multiple networks and even have access to their friends’ profiles.

ORKUT:   An online social community designed by Google (and named after its creator, Orkut Büyükkökten) to help you maintain and expand your social life.  Interacting with people you know more easily, sharing pictures and videos, and posting messages is easy.  Networks of friends based on hobbies and interests, and even dating groups, are available.  While Orkut’s original target audience was the US, it has become the most-visited site in Brazil, and the second most-visited site in India.

FLICKR: One of the earliest Web 2.0 applications, Flickr was originally intended to be an image and video hosting site.  Flickr continues to be a popular image sharing site, and bloggers frequent this site that ranks photos by popularity and voting.  Using tags, photos are categorized for easy sorting, and visitors and members can vote on their favorite shots.  Photos can be stored publicly or privately, allowing publishers to decide if only their in-network friends can access them. Read the rest of this entry »

A very common fear in the minds of computer users is the occurrence of file corruption, accidental deletion of files or a virus attack.

The good news is that there are many good hard drive recovery software programs available to use to recover these lost, corrupt or delete files. Many of these are available as free downloads or sometimes even as freeware. In this article in the paragraphs below is a list of some of these free hard drive data recovery programs available nowadays.

PC Inspector File Recovery: Even when the boot sector of your computer has got damaged or deleted, this data recovery program is still capable of recovering lost files and of locating partitions automatically. This software can recover lost data even when a file’s header entry is no longer available. It can retrieve data with the original date and time stamps. You can save the recovered files on network drives by using this data recovery software. And surprisingly this hard drive data recovery software is still available as a free download. This is very popular software. 

VirtualLab Data Recovery Software v4.8.8: It is a remarkable free hard drive data recovery software. This data recovery software connects to a powerful recovery server and employs ‘artificial intelligence’. It compares your system condition with previous data recovery sessions and updates its solution methods. VirtualLab Data Recovery Software v4.8.8 is quite versatile and works with FAT 12, FAT 16, Fat 32, and NTFS file systems. It can even find the disappearing data from Jaz disks, Zip disks and digital camera media as well as from a computer hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »

It is human nature to defend your position… That said, our hard outer shell defends our inner weak emotional self. The one that one minute may hate someone and the next say that they love them.

Yes there is a truth that some people have a stronger emotional sturdiness, but they are few are far between.

Google Adwords and Google Adsense are an integral part of the Google jungle. The jungle itself is amazing to look at and equally exciting to visit; but if you are not careful you’ll get slapped, stung and leave the jungle penniless, as if robbed.

The image I am trying to create here is do we become the Tarzan of the Jungle, and become ‘one’ with the jungle. Or… do we get the hell out of the jungle and look for safety in our own ready built concrete haven? As we look back at that jungle of rivers and foliage, I may suggest we exaggerate with a little more intensity ever time we describe our experience. Instead of getting out of the jungle to save our sanity, we say we fought off lions and tigers and we could have been the king of that jungle. As with Google Adwords and Adsense, we walked through the rivers of the campaigns and systems… but ran away before we could conquer; to be overpowered by the foliage. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Sitemaps enables Webmasters to Directly Alert Google to Changes and Additions on a Website and that’s just one of 7 Benefits.

Telling search engines about new pages or new websites used to be what the submission process was all about. But major search engines stopped using that process a long time ago.

Google has for a long time depended on external links from pages they already know about in order to find new websites.

For webmasters and website owners Google Sitemaps is the most important development since RSS or Blog and Ping, to hit the Internet.

Using RSS and Blog and Ping enabled webmasters to alert the search engines to new additions to their web pages even though that was not the primary purpose of these systems. Read the rest of this entry »

Most Internet marketers know the power that lies with the autoresponder.  They have even been termed as being “a marketers best friend”. How and why is this? Well, if you are unfamiliar with autoresponders you could be in for a real treat!  They provide the ability to email a large group of people at the same time without having to write the same email over and over again.  An autoresponder can send pre-written emails to recipients throughout a predetermined time period.  What can this mean to you? Well, huge time savings are definately apparent but the real power of the autoresponder is due to the fact that you can virtually automate your selling process which can provide you with a massive automated income!

Why is an autoresponder a marketer’s best friend?  There’s a saying that goes as follows…”Exposure is everything but the fortune is in the follow-up.”  You can expose a prospect to your web site and they may buy what you have to offer.  However, if you really want to significantly increase the chances of getting a sale, then you need to follow up with as many people that visit your web site as possible.  Autoresponders provide you with the ability to do just that. Read the rest of this entry »

As an editor, I can tell you that one of my BIGGEST pet peeves is when a writer “pesters” me every other day or once a week about his (or her) submission. I don’t mind if it’s a viable question, but what I hate is when the writer’s impatience takes hold and I feel “squeezed” as if the writer’s pestering is going to make me accept his (or her) submission faster.

I think new writers, or writers with too much time on their hands, think that a little pestering will keep him (or her) on the forefront of the editor’s mind so that when the editor sees his (or her) submission, the editor will be inclined to look at it, recognize the name, and then buy the piece. And in a way, it makes sense. But what usually happens is quite the opposite. The editor becomes annoyed with the nagging writer and decides to simply decline the article—sometimes before it has even been read. Read the rest of this entry »

Compare Web Hosts for Satisfaction and Not Sorrow

  I have been a web master for about 8 years now. In this business that makes me an ancient. One benefit of experience is having already stumbled over a lot of newbie mistakes so I can (hopefully) avoid those mistakes in the future. I am sure I can find plenty of new mistakes to make.

One of the most important aspects of my business, and one thing that can make or break me no matter what else I do right, is finding a reliable web host. Most of us who build, promote, and maintain websites do not keep our own servers. We usually rent space for our websites from a web hosting company. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone who understands Internet Marketing will tell you to analyze your web logs… but what does that really mean? What particular things should you pay attention to when analyzing your web logs?

Errors - Page Not Found

How many visitors to your site experience an incorrect or invalid URL? Perhaps you have links on your website to a page that no longer exists. Reviewing the number of “page not found” listings in your web logs will help discern if you have any pages that are not accessible to your visitors. If that is the case, you can then either replace the missing page, or implement a system to automatically redirect the visitor to an appropriate alternate page.

Top Referrers

Where is your traffic coming from? Reviewing the sources of web traffic allows you to assess what advertising campaigns have resulted in increased web traffic. Read the rest of this entry »