I have started my own store on Facebook and am currently enjoying a bit of success with vWorker.com. In between writing articles to drive traffic to my site I earn money writing for others. I have not hit the mother lode but it is a start. You can make money online but it takes time to get established. I have found that scheduling my work load as if I were actually going to the office helps to get it done. I work a regular 8 hour day with scheduled 15 minute breaks and a lunch.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
INFLUENCE HOW IMPORTANT IS IT
How important is influence with online marketing? Most professionals would say influence is pretty important, especially when it comes to social media. The notion is that a few key people can spread an idea to their audiences and networks, causing a brand’s content to “go viral” or at least gain more substantial distribution than if the content were promoted to the every day social media Joe and Jane.
Pursuing the “big influencers” alone, is probably one of the biggest fallacies on the web.
instead of looking for influencers, stop for a minute to consider what “influencer” means. To me, it’s someone that has earned ongoing attention of an audience or community and this person has the ability to move others or sway them to a point of view. Just because a person may appear to be influential sometimes that is all that it is, an appearance.
POPULARITY AND INFLUENCED ARE NOT ONE AND THE SAME.
Influencers with mass appeal are easy to find and get found often. They get tons of requests by others to share this, promote that. Some of them do so much of what is asked of them that they lose credibility by over-promoting. Their community may remain but they stop believing in them and looking to them to know what is good or best.
instead of hunting the "big fish" go for the niche influence. go for the persons with intimate connections and you will fare much better in any market.
Remember it is often better to have a lot of little quality endorsements than a huge fish that no one will believe ever heard of you. stop dreaming of getting that one famous person to mention you or your product and K.I.S.S
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Downfalls
Well I have managed to get banned on ebay and Amazon in less than three months. This is a cautionary tale. never post items for an unknown source. I agreed to act as middle man for a person I met online and because they did not have the same sense of urgency in business as I do my accounts are now suspended. The suspensions were because of lack of product which caused me to have to make over 20 refunds on Ebay and on Amazon it was because of sloe delivery times. As an online business person I AM DEFINITELY NOT SUCCEEDING!!!! I will keep you al posted as to how this all turns out. one last casualty in all of this may be my 30 year association with Navy Federal Credit Union. because of the refunds I have a massive overdraft that I must repay, I could if Amazon would release my funds but they are holding them for 90days. No BANK WILL WAIT THAT LONG!!!! UGGHHHHH I really need someone to show me how to repair the damage
Sunday, November 7, 2010
BUYING WEB TRAFFIC
Getting a great amount of website traffic is difficult and even if you have the most brilliantly designed sight you will sit idle without the proper marketing strategy. Services like Seo content writing and pay per click advertising will provide you with some traffic but still it will not be enough. These avenues require time to build up the traffic necessary for site survival. There are sites that offer guaranteed traffic yet some of them are disreputable and you end up loosing your money and wasting valuable time.
There is way s to seek out reputable web site traffic sales. One is by reviewing different business forums to see who others are talking about and what they are saying about them. a lot of sites offer traffic garnered through the use of “Black Hat” Seo practices these are the ones you should steer clear of. The major search engines all have a type of pay per click marketing strategy available you should definitely add them to your arsenal. You can also hire content writers to write and submit articles with links to your site this will generate a fair amount of web traffic providing the content is quality and the key word density is in the appropriate numbers for search engine recognition.
There is also the option of “Media Buys” this is where you purchase banner space on someone else’s site to promote your product. This works best when done on a traffic share basis. You find people with products that tie in with yours, if you sell women’s stockings you would want a banner on a site that sells women’s shoes just to give you an idea of what we mean. Instead of paying the other person a fee you each host one another’s banners. Win-Win
Or you can buy web traffic in bundles from sites like megawebsales.com. Compare the different sites to see who offers the most traffic at the best rates. You get a better ROI on this type of traffic because you know up front what you will be investing each time. Most of these types of sites offer a introductory package at a low rate so you can try out the service before committing a large sum to it.
Online marketing strategies encompass a wide variety of ideas and you would do well to use more than one. With the advent of mobile Internet availability there is a whole new avenue to explore for your web trafficking needs. Diversity is the key to a successful launch of a new website. There are literally hundreds of ways to get your link in front of the eyes of potential customers. Here are a few you can start with right away.
Use high quality and unique content
Update the content periodically
Make sure your Domain name is search engine friendly
Use Alt tags in images
Have an organized list of keywords
Having meaningful titles for all the pages on your site will make it more appealing to search engines
Proper utilization of SEO marketing practices
Article submissions
Be sure and put your link on all your profile pages wherever you can
Try out a few of these and see the increase in traffic to your site double in a short amount of time and remember for instant traffic you can always purchase the traffic packages offered by websites that sell targeted web traffic.
There is way s to seek out reputable web site traffic sales. One is by reviewing different business forums to see who others are talking about and what they are saying about them. a lot of sites offer traffic garnered through the use of “Black Hat” Seo practices these are the ones you should steer clear of. The major search engines all have a type of pay per click marketing strategy available you should definitely add them to your arsenal. You can also hire content writers to write and submit articles with links to your site this will generate a fair amount of web traffic providing the content is quality and the key word density is in the appropriate numbers for search engine recognition.
There is also the option of “Media Buys” this is where you purchase banner space on someone else’s site to promote your product. This works best when done on a traffic share basis. You find people with products that tie in with yours, if you sell women’s stockings you would want a banner on a site that sells women’s shoes just to give you an idea of what we mean. Instead of paying the other person a fee you each host one another’s banners. Win-Win
Or you can buy web traffic in bundles from sites like megawebsales.com. Compare the different sites to see who offers the most traffic at the best rates. You get a better ROI on this type of traffic because you know up front what you will be investing each time. Most of these types of sites offer a introductory package at a low rate so you can try out the service before committing a large sum to it.
Online marketing strategies encompass a wide variety of ideas and you would do well to use more than one. With the advent of mobile Internet availability there is a whole new avenue to explore for your web trafficking needs. Diversity is the key to a successful launch of a new website. There are literally hundreds of ways to get your link in front of the eyes of potential customers. Here are a few you can start with right away.
Use high quality and unique content
Update the content periodically
Make sure your Domain name is search engine friendly
Use Alt tags in images
Have an organized list of keywords
Having meaningful titles for all the pages on your site will make it more appealing to search engines
Proper utilization of SEO marketing practices
Article submissions
Be sure and put your link on all your profile pages wherever you can
Try out a few of these and see the increase in traffic to your site double in a short amount of time and remember for instant traffic you can always purchase the traffic packages offered by websites that sell targeted web traffic.
Benefits of corporate financing
Financing is such a crucial part of the running of a business that it requires special attention. It is so important that large corporations have whole departments dedicated to the task of analyzing the finical structure and keeping the CEO apprised of where the company stands. Not so for many small and midsize business so they are left to hire an outside corporate financing firm
A business that is considering restructuring, IPO filings, reverse mergers and even mergers and acquisitions can get the benefit of corporate financing strategies by hiring consultants. One of the benefits of corporate financing is avoiding the small financial mistakes that can cost millions. One of these is having too much accumulated debt. By sitting and designing and implementing and designing and implementing a budget the company reaps the benefit of getting out of debt sooner.
Achieving greater financial success is another benefit of corporate financing. Once a corporation decides financing is necessary to find the funds needed to make the IPO. If it is doing a cash reverse merger it will need to find the cash that is what corporate finance consultants do for a company. The benefits of corporate financing are not always immediately visible but its lack is felt soon enough, in the form of greater debt and fiscal failure. Good corporate financing protects the financial infrastructure by providing a new source of cash flow to sustain a company during a stressed economy or while restructuring for any reason.
Another benefit of corporate financing is that the valuation of the company does not suffer from a drop in productivity nor does it struggling meeting its financial obligations.
Corporate financing can maximize a company’s value, by investing in projects that yield returns greater than the projected hurdle rate. Corporate financing takes into consideration the time allotted and makes decisions reflecting all side costs and potential benefits of these investments. In line with this an added benefit of corporate financing is that it allows you to choose a financing mix for the project that maximizes its value that matches the potential assets you will be financing.
Finally proper corporate financing allows you to get an accurate enough forecast of what the investments potential earnings might be and if they are not at the preconceived hurdle or sufficiently past it whether or not dividends are to be paid to the share holder.
Hiring a professional corporate financing firm can be the difference in the success of the proposed restructuring of a company. Without knowing where the company stands and what it needs financially to attempt the move in any direction can spell disaster. There are many firms that offer this service but you will want to find a firm that has years of experience and can read the ebb and flow of the constantly changing financial seas. Take the time to interview our firm and let us show you how we can help you experience greater financial freedom.
A business that is considering restructuring, IPO filings, reverse mergers and even mergers and acquisitions can get the benefit of corporate financing strategies by hiring consultants. One of the benefits of corporate financing is avoiding the small financial mistakes that can cost millions. One of these is having too much accumulated debt. By sitting and designing and implementing and designing and implementing a budget the company reaps the benefit of getting out of debt sooner.
Achieving greater financial success is another benefit of corporate financing. Once a corporation decides financing is necessary to find the funds needed to make the IPO. If it is doing a cash reverse merger it will need to find the cash that is what corporate finance consultants do for a company. The benefits of corporate financing are not always immediately visible but its lack is felt soon enough, in the form of greater debt and fiscal failure. Good corporate financing protects the financial infrastructure by providing a new source of cash flow to sustain a company during a stressed economy or while restructuring for any reason.
Another benefit of corporate financing is that the valuation of the company does not suffer from a drop in productivity nor does it struggling meeting its financial obligations.
Corporate financing can maximize a company’s value, by investing in projects that yield returns greater than the projected hurdle rate. Corporate financing takes into consideration the time allotted and makes decisions reflecting all side costs and potential benefits of these investments. In line with this an added benefit of corporate financing is that it allows you to choose a financing mix for the project that maximizes its value that matches the potential assets you will be financing.
Finally proper corporate financing allows you to get an accurate enough forecast of what the investments potential earnings might be and if they are not at the preconceived hurdle or sufficiently past it whether or not dividends are to be paid to the share holder.
Hiring a professional corporate financing firm can be the difference in the success of the proposed restructuring of a company. Without knowing where the company stands and what it needs financially to attempt the move in any direction can spell disaster. There are many firms that offer this service but you will want to find a firm that has years of experience and can read the ebb and flow of the constantly changing financial seas. Take the time to interview our firm and let us show you how we can help you experience greater financial freedom.
Young mother kills baby farmville blamed
A young Mother is so into Farmville that she shakes her baby to death. I play Farmville and though the game is intense I cannot see that ever happening to me. I see people all the time discussing their farms, you would think that they were real. I mean, now that she has admitted to killing the baby, for interrupting her farming duties, the game will probably be the next thing that gets banned. Hey, don’t laugh they banned the HAPPY MEAL for goodness sakes. It is a shame that this young mother was not more careful with her child and yes I think there is a lot more to it than that. All jokes aside there is such a thing as post partum depression and for a young mother it is all the more frightening because most often they are clueless as to what is actually happening with their bodies.
Post partum takes on many forms and it can be devastating for a single parent as young as this one. The hormonal changes and the constant crying added to the depression of a life altered forever, and yes you will feel anger. The problem as I see it, is who do you tell that you are angry about these things to. Most people see childbirth as the most glorious event in life. It probably is if you are not poor, uneducated and too young to be anybody’s mother. I remember that I was eighteen a husband of fin the military still living like he was single and there were times that I sat there rocking my kid in my arms with tears streaming down my face so damned mad that I was afraid to let go of him. I held him a feed him to keep him quiet until the moments passed. I f I had not worked for United Way in their Teen Pregnancy Service and been privy to information about the changes in emotions and hormones I would have thought I was going mad.
I went through the days where it was all I could do to get out of bed and see to my child alone with no one to talk to. I breast fed and those were the best moments of my day. There were days that I walked through that tiny apartment and ranted to myself about all of the things I could no longer do. After the baby came my friends who had no children stopped calling. They never had time for me anymore and my family treated me like I did not exist. Life is hard when you are young a being a parent only makes it that much harder.
When I set out to write this article I was hell bent on writing from a point of view of social outrage. As you can see it has become a share fest. Look yes, she went overboard but all I am saying is that if you are in the situation without a proper support system it is likely to happen just the way this did. I am now a 48-year-old grandmother with tears in my eyes for the girl I was then. My own daughter has called me on days when the two she has gotten on her last nerve and she is about to pop. I am more than happy to stop what ever it is I am doing and let her scream and yell until she can once more face her children with the light of love in her eyes.
Farmville did not make this young lady kill her child it was frustration borne of a feeling of entrapment. The media has no way of showing what it is really like to be alone, and even if you have the father in the picture you are mostly alone in some ways. We can condemn the girl or we can take a lesson in humanity and see that these young mothers need help. As a n older female I have several neighbors that are just out of high school mothers I think I will offer to watch their children once in awhile to just give them a break. They have such beautiful babies.
Post partum takes on many forms and it can be devastating for a single parent as young as this one. The hormonal changes and the constant crying added to the depression of a life altered forever, and yes you will feel anger. The problem as I see it, is who do you tell that you are angry about these things to. Most people see childbirth as the most glorious event in life. It probably is if you are not poor, uneducated and too young to be anybody’s mother. I remember that I was eighteen a husband of fin the military still living like he was single and there were times that I sat there rocking my kid in my arms with tears streaming down my face so damned mad that I was afraid to let go of him. I held him a feed him to keep him quiet until the moments passed. I f I had not worked for United Way in their Teen Pregnancy Service and been privy to information about the changes in emotions and hormones I would have thought I was going mad.
I went through the days where it was all I could do to get out of bed and see to my child alone with no one to talk to. I breast fed and those were the best moments of my day. There were days that I walked through that tiny apartment and ranted to myself about all of the things I could no longer do. After the baby came my friends who had no children stopped calling. They never had time for me anymore and my family treated me like I did not exist. Life is hard when you are young a being a parent only makes it that much harder.
When I set out to write this article I was hell bent on writing from a point of view of social outrage. As you can see it has become a share fest. Look yes, she went overboard but all I am saying is that if you are in the situation without a proper support system it is likely to happen just the way this did. I am now a 48-year-old grandmother with tears in my eyes for the girl I was then. My own daughter has called me on days when the two she has gotten on her last nerve and she is about to pop. I am more than happy to stop what ever it is I am doing and let her scream and yell until she can once more face her children with the light of love in her eyes.
Farmville did not make this young lady kill her child it was frustration borne of a feeling of entrapment. The media has no way of showing what it is really like to be alone, and even if you have the father in the picture you are mostly alone in some ways. We can condemn the girl or we can take a lesson in humanity and see that these young mothers need help. As a n older female I have several neighbors that are just out of high school mothers I think I will offer to watch their children once in awhile to just give them a break. They have such beautiful babies.
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