Archive for July, 2008

Discover How You Can Do Network Marketing Online With Integrity

Guest article by Tina Fields

Let’s face it, Network Marketing has a bad reputation for some people. That reputation was created because Network Marketers used to (some still do) bug their friends and families to join or buy things they didn’t want or need. Well not anymore.

Network Marketing online today has nothing to do with bugging anyone to join your opportunity if you know how to market and have the right opportunity. As you probably already know internet marketing is the path to success in this industry. It is so easy to reach hundreds or thousands of people each day with your opportunity if you know how.

The best part is that you are reaching people who are already searching for a business opportunity. They want to hear what you have to offer. You don’t have to feel like a pushy salesperson anymore. You only provide people with the information that they need to make an educated decision.

So what are the things that will allow you to be in integrity in this industry.

#1 Join a company that is in line with your purpose in life. You can choose from hundreds of opportunities out there. You will find opportunites in health, internet marketing or personal development and a whole lot more. I suggest that you join one that has a product that really speaks to your soul. Otherwise you will not be committed and you can not make 6 or 7 figures if you don’t have the passion to succeed. I made this mistake with the first opportunity that I joined and I failed miserably. Then I found an opportunity that was really true to who I am and found the success that we all dream of having. As a Certified Coach it is important to me to help others and I am a personal development junkie so it’s only natural that I would want that as part of my Network Marketing online opportunity.

#2 Look into the company before you join. Speak with one or two Sponsors, attend a webinar or a teleconference and get a feel for the community. Are they too aggressive for you? Or do they have the approach of helping and serving others?

#3 How does the company give back to the community? Do they give to charities? If so who?

#4 Do they offer a money back guarantee? If they truly believe in their product and their business opportunity they will. This is important if you want real credibility with your leads.

#5 What is the company sales approach? How were you approached by the Sponsor that contacted you? Were they pushy or helpful? That is a sure sign of the company philosophy.

It is possible to have a real, honest, successful business with Network Marketing online. You can truly reach the financial and personal success if you find an opportunity that has integrity and is in line with your values. Of course you will need a program that gives you tools and training but INTEGRITY is the key to success.

About the Author:

If you would like to learn how you can replace your income with a Home Based Business Opportunity with true integrity and is helping others create abundance visit Tina’s site. Tina Fields is a Certified Home Business Coach, author and a Network Marketing mentor.

Niche Websites can Make you Money

Guest article by Don Shults

Niche website marketing is growing, more and more businesses are stepping out considering this type of marketing. It’s a pretty easy way for many businesses, small or large, to get ahead of the game. Niche websites are products, services or informational sites on any particular topic or subject that has not been fully explored. You can take maximum advantage of niche markets by tailor making a specific product for them and at the same time offering alternatives by adding affiliate product feeds for maximum advantage. Niche websites are all the rage these days and but many of you may be wondering how to find your own niche. A niche website is one that is focused on a specific topic or specialized area. Search Engines Love Them

Search engines are the provide much of the traffic for niche websites today. Search engines strive to find original content because it makes them valuable with their customers. When you use a search engine to search for something, you don’t want to see a page full of ads show up in the search results.

Search Engine “Bots” really are drawn to changing content. If you create file names and URL’s that are use words that your reader will be searching for it will improve the search-ability of the site. Search engines place a lot of weight on your titles and URL. If you inbound links contain your article or sites keywords and the link comes from a website that complements your site, you can expect the search engines to pay closer attention.

Since Search Engine traffic is free, you certainly should look at it a great resource. There are a number of ways to get paid traffic to your site. Using Search Engine traffic should be part of your advertising mix.

Getting your Site Started can be Easy

Starting a blog is a great way to begin. A blog helps you personalize your business and allows your customers to get a glimpse of the people behind the scenes. Starting with only 3-5 pages when you first launch the website. You can always add more pages later.

Blogs are a good way to involve your readers in the content creation process. Reader add comments to things that you write. You may also have readers that want to post their own articles and you can enable them to become authors on your blog. It’s easy to see how blogs can become a content magnet.

Promoting your Site

Make sure your target market is aware of your site. Place ads and links to your site in all the right places, places where your target market spends their time. The success of your niche website is really dependent on the quality of your traffic. If you find people interested in your niche, chances are you will be able to convert them to products or advertising offers that will help you build a solid income. Find Forums and Blogs on your niche so that you can be sure your site get lots of attention from the search engines.

Making your Site a Profit Center

Google Adsense has simplified the process of making money on-line for even the small time niche website owner. There are literally thousands of ways to make money on-line. Google takes the anchor text of a site’s back links, and uses it to determine how that site ranks for a given keyword.

Google Adsense allows web site owners to profit with the click of our visitor’s mouse. Depending on your abilities, building a niche website for Google Adsense could to be either a joy or a frustrating exercise. Google has some interesting ways of determining what your website is about and will show content relevant ads.

Building a Niche Web Site is a great way to create some passive monthly income. The cost to get started are very low. There are a number of great resources on the Web to help you with getting started.

About the Author:

Don Shults has created a number of Niche Websites that create passive income each month. More Info on Building Niche Websites. Niche Website Resources are available at Instant Web Templates.

Website Design Tips

Guest article by Lucas Heijn

Your website is the heart of your business. It’s much like the headquarters of an off-line company. For this reason, it is very important to practice good design principles this make sure that your sites reach the maximum number of people, and thus make that maximum number of sales.

Plan Navigation

Avoid confusion.You must give clear direction on how to navigate your site. If your visitor is confused about how to get around your site they will just leave it and go somewhere else. Your navigation, must be clear, uncluttered, and concise.

Visitors come to your site, because they’re interested in the content. Let’s say you have a large number of articles or downloads available on your site, you need to make it simple for your visitor to find what he is looking for. You may do this by providing an SQL driven data base search, or just a simple index. By providing one of these features you have made it simple for your visitor to to be able to find the content they were looking for.

Once we have the visitor to our site, it is important to keep them there. They will only stay if they can work out how they can get to the content they want. if they can’t work out how to navigate the site, they will leave. I would recommend that you stay away from complicated flash-based navigation and drop-down menus.

It is important to avoid confusion. If your visitors become confused you will lose them. At times your visitors will be deeply engrossed in surfing your site. Your pages must make it possible for them to know where they are, and how to get back to the main page.

Here are a few more tips that will help.

#1 Do not use splash pages.

What is a splash page? It’s the first page you see when you arrive at a website. A splash page is often a very attractive page with lots of graphics. They will often have the words welcome to my site or “click here to enter”. They are in fact, just pretty pages with no real purpose. The reason not to use the splash pages is so as not to give your visitors reason to click the back button. Visitors come from content. Not pretty pages.

#2 Be careful not to use too many banner ads

Even the newest people using the Internet have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements. This means you would be wasting valuable Web real-estate in using banners. It is far better to provide valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content. This will lead your visitors to feel they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

#3 Avoid Audio

If you want a visitor to spend a long time on your site reading your content you need to make sure they’re not getting annoyed by some looping audio on your website. If you’re determined to add audio to your site, make sure they have some control over it. This could be volume or muting controls, these would work fine.

About the Author:

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