To make sure that the mail you send never gets lost in a crowd, it makes sense to buy personalized address labels. With all the fun colors and a wide range of designs you can choose from, it\’s very easy to find one to make your envelopes stand out!
Countless choices
There are thousands of personalized address label designs in the market, and it can get quite overwhelming if you don\’t know what you should have and what you can do without. We recommend having at least three kinds of personalized address labels to cover important aspects of your life. You can add or remove some from the list, depending on your lifestyle and requirements.
Professional address labels
Add an extra flare to boring business mail by using personalized address labels that reflect your career or occupation. There are a lot of available designs for the medical profession, for teachers, lawyers, and real estate agents, among others. Don\’t want your professional labels to be \’too obvious\’? Then go for those that feature artwork from up-and-coming artists, or gorgeous scenery such as mountain lakes, waterfalls, trees, and even tropical snapshots. The most important thing about professional personalized address labels is the font make sure they are readable for your clients and recipients to appreciate them.
Holiday address labels
You will be sending out a lot of cards and letters during Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Valentine\’s Day, among others, so it\’s a good idea to stock up on personalized address labels with holiday themes. Be sure to store your leftover holiday labels in a cool and dry place (preferably wrapped in plastic) to preserve their quality for the holidays in the years to come.
Address labels for special occasions
And of course, you might need specially-themed address labels for rare but important occasions such as weddings, graduation, and other life milestones. Don\’t order too many of these, though, because you won\’t be using them as much as the first two. If you are printing the labels yourself, use one sheet for several themes to save on paper. You can also request this from the shop if you are buying preprinted labels.
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Posted by Administrator on 31 Oct 2006 2:00 am. Filed under Online Promotion.
Search engines have the main purpose to index thousands of millions of web pages. Once you look for a word or a phrase, the search engine scans automatically the entire database where it has the stored pages indexed and it returns to you as a result a list containing the most relevant results for that search.
The only criteria the number of pages found and their relevance depend on are the capabilities of the used search engine.
Search engines appeared somewhere in the early 90’s when Alan Emtage, a student at the McGill University in Montreal created the first search engine like too. It was called Archie. Its purpose was to search through the information available on the FTP servers. The files on these servers were available for anyone, but one couldn’t use them unless knowing the exact address of the server and of the file. Archie looked through this database and gathered lists of files for each server. It was used by people to match phrases and characters in order to take them to the server address the file they were looking for was on.
Archie is now an old method, but its creation was the first step in the search engine rally that is going on now. As the public grew more and more aware of the existence of the internet, the need for a search tool became visible.
So, first there were some software robots, using the concept of spidering to index the web, following links from one site to the other and saving the text from all visited websites in a database.
Between 1994 and 1995 three important search engines appeared: Lycos, WebCrawler and AltaVista. At about the same time Yahoo! appeared but Yahoo! is not a search engine. Yes, it has a search engine function, but yahoo is firstly a director or data and articles, providing different services as email and hosting. Recently yahoo has signed contracts with other search engines as Google for both of them to provide more search results.
Today search engines are in a continuous competition. There are thousands of search engines, but just a few big ones. This small group of top search engines is responsible for more than 90% of online searches.
But the question arises: if search engines are free and they cam be used by everyone what keeps them financially alive? The answer to the question is very simple: advertising and traffic. The more visits they have, the bigger the traffic then the more money they can make providing promotion space.
Search engines are competing to develop the best formulas and algorithms to evaluate the web pages accordingly to the keywords provided.
If someone is looking for a top position in search engines, then he has to be sure that his site is projected in such a way that search engines would find it easily, being relevant for the keywords and phrases the owner wants it to be found by.
Last year had turned disastrous for Florida. The whole world was deeply saddened with the aftermath of Katrina and prayed for the victims.
But prayers are not enough; you must show some result-oriented work. To cope with the natural calamities you should make your home insured by purchasing the cheapest homeowners insurance.
Cost of homeowners insurance can range from 500 USD per year to 2000 USD. The amount of homeowners insurance, you receive after filing a claim depends on the value of reconstruction of your home, interior property, jewelry, electronics, furniture and clothing.
Some insurance companies work in cooperation with the security companies and are ready to provide you discount if you choose their associated security company for the security of your home.
Home insurance companies also offer you discount if you install surveillance cameras or motion sensors in home.
Installing fire resistant doors and carbon monoxide detectors can also help in getting a discount of $50 per year. But the main thing is you have to know which company is providing discount because not all companies offer such discounts.
The final method to get a home insurance discount benefit is to belong to a group of a club. If you are a senior citizen means elder than 62 years then you can receive a senior citizen discount.
Many home insurance companies offer discount if you buy two or more insurance policies from the same company.
More than 35% of fire disasters are due to smoking habits. If all your family members are non-smokers then home insurance company can offer you discount.
It is important that you also browse the net to find the cheapest home insurance policy in your locality. By doing a little bit of research work you can find the cheapest best homeowners insurance. Don’t forget to consult a professional if you are not confident.
Posted by Administrator on 30 Oct 2006 2:00 am. Filed under Online Promotion.
Any SEO fact finding mission will inevitably lead to reports from webmasters on how Google doomed or saved their website. True to human nature, those who feel hard done by are most often the loudest of the talkers. For every report of how Google has lavished a website with tens of thousands of visitors there are probably ten, a hundred or even more reports of how Google have doomed sites to failure.
Persuading Google To Respect Your Site
In all honesty, a webmaster that is looking for search engine success must gently persuade Google to love them. The rewards for doing so are far greater than any other form of advertising or marketing. Conversely, the punishment for sites left out in the cold by Google really is enough to break the soul of any webmaster.
The Google Effect
According to statistics, Google received 91 million American searches per day in the month of March 2006. Their closest rival, Yahoo, managed 60 million and MSN, in third place racked up only 28 million searches per day in the same period. It would be foolhardy to ignore other search engines but to ignore the 43% Google market share is outright online suicide and persuading Google that your site offers everything their visitors want will inevitably give you advantage with the remaining search engines too.
The Most Important Point
OK, so this is hardly breaking news after all, every SEO site on the Internet harps on about Google being the be all and end all of online marketing but it is a vitally important point that you must pay attention to. One of the major contributing factors for Google’s success is trust. So many billions of people regularly use Google to search because they trust the results will be as close to relevant as is virtually possible. There is no way to financially hammer your way to the top of the listings and even the sponsored listings at the side of the page are quite clearly listed as exactly that. Remember this point:
Google has become successful by providing relevant results to their visitors and they reward websites for doing the same.
Understanding Google Algorithms
The exact science behind Google algorithms are as much of a mystery as the whereabouts of your missing socks but there are certain factors that all good SEOs and webmasters know.
The right amount of relevant content and a clean design indicates a useful website.
Tricks and underhand SEO tactics are a thing of the past. They are best left to webmasters who know no better. That’s not to say there aren’t guidelines you should follows to ensure a greater success for your site. However, SEO guidelines are beginning to merge with visitor optimization tactics.
Love Your Visitors
Including keywords is still vital but not to set percentages. The inclusion of keywords makes the reading of your content easier for your visitors and has the added benefit that it also signifies a topic for your website making it easier for Google to assess it’s relevance. Similarly, a clean and simple website design is easy on the eye and quick to navigate for visitors and Google spiders can easily crawl your website.
So, in order to optimize your website for Google you should primarily optimize for visitors.
Give It A Little Time
This neatly brings us to the question of the Google sandbox. This name has been given to the phenomenon that Google essentially ignore websites for the first few weeks of their inception. Clearly, this is an irritant to many webmasters and one of the least understandable parts of their algorithms.
The principle behind the action is to ensure that brand new sites don’t pay for thousands of inbound links and propel themselves to the top of the rankings illegitimately. Google have always strived to ensure that links are gained organically based on the relevance and strength of a website and its content. Purchasing links completely bypasses this and, in Google’s opinion, degrades the value of linking.
What To Do
The next time you sit down to promote a website with the view of increasing your standings within the search engine results remember that ignoring Google because you’ve read bad press from other webmasters is a dangerous choice. Google is, by far, the most widely used search engine on the web and optimizing your site to climb the ranks is easier than many would have you believe. Among the key ingredients is fresh, original content that is useful to your visitors. In order to build up links to your website, the submission of articles to article directories is one tactic that shows positive results.
Posted by Administrator on 29 Oct 2006 2:00 pm. Filed under Work from Home.
Tired of paying for rub on transfers? Want to make custom rub on transfer names and scrapbooking rub on journals for your albums? With this fast, easy, and cheap technique, you will be making unique rub on transfers that are perfect for rubber stamping and scrapbooking projects!
Get ready to have a blast making custom rub on transfers. We spent hours researching the best way to make smudge free, rub on transfers that could be used in scrapbooking and rubber stamping craft projects. We had a wonderful time using computer fonts to create titles for scrapbook pages as well as unique rub on embellishments for our homemade cards. This fast, inexpensive technique can be used to make some incredibly wonderful designs for your next project!
Supplies:
1 Rub On Transfer Film (Included)
Fine Mist Hair Gel (LA Works Mega Hold)
Hairspray
Hair Dryer
Ink Jet Printer
Instructions:
Step 1: Spray the fine mist hair gel on the transfer film. Holding the film a few inches from a
mirror allows you to see if you have a good even coverage over the film. Only spray enough to cover the film completely. You don’t want the gel to run down the page, yet you need enough gel to cover all areas of the film
Step 2: Using the hair dryer, dry the gel to the film. It should only take between 20-45 seconds if you placed the correct amount of gel on the film.
Step 3: Prepare your artwork using any number of design or word processing programs. You can also stamp the images on the film with dye or pigment based inks. *Important: The design or image will need to be reversed. You can flip the image in your desired program or complete the image mirror in the printing step.
Step 4: Set your printer to the T-shirt Transfer mode or select Mirror Image in your printer options. (Refer to the manual that came with your printer for assistance.) If you already flipped the image in your design software or word processor, you can skip this step.
Step 5: Print your image on a normal print setting. This should provide enough ink to make a wonderful transfer while making sure the ink does not run. You may need to experiment a few times to get the right setting. *NOTE: Only print exactly what you desire to rub-on and not excess images. You will be able to use the film many times.
Step 6: Allow the ink to dry in place. You can speed the drying process with a hair dryer, but be careful not to blow the ink out of place. Place your image flat on a surface and spray with a light coat of hairspray. Using the hair dryer, dry the hairspray in place.
Step 7: Gently lay the rub-on onto the artwork. (Practice first!) Using a spoon, rub the image in place. Make sure to rub the entire area thoroughly to release the image. Gently peel away.
Kathy Williams writes about rubber stamping and rubber stamps and loves to use them for card making, scrapbooking, and other paper craft projects.
Posted by Administrator on 29 Oct 2006 2:00 pm. Filed under Work from Home.
Can you really be making money taking surveys online? Yes, you can. However, making money taking surveys is not necessarily going to make you rich. As a nice bit of side money or a way to earn some gifts, you can find some surveys that will offer a little extra cash each month.
There are some companies out there advertising how easy it is to begin making money taking surveys online. They tell you that you will be able to retire from your job and become rich. However, that is not usually the case. Most people making money taking surveys are averaging between $200 and $300 per month. Not necessarily enough to let you retire, but definitely some extra pocket money.
What is the average amount you will get when you are making money taking surveys? Well, companies will pay you between $1 and $20 per survey. It is really rare that you will make the $60 to $200 per survey that some companies claim. If you are looking for making money taking surveys in that range, you will be in for a surprise. Most sites will be able to offer you between 1 to 4 surveys per month.
One of the greatest factors in making money taking surveys is where you live. People in the U.S. and Canada are making money taking surveys more than people in other countries. Why are people in North America making money taking surveys while other countries struggle to find the surveys? The reason is that most of the market research survey companies are located in the U.S. and Canada. Still, there is no reason you cannot start making money taking surveys even if you live in another country.
While not every company will help you in making money taking surveys, some will offer you prizes or points for taking surveys. In some cases your survey efforts will put you in a pool to win a prize. In other cases, you can accumulate points to redeem for gifts or money. In the end, you may not be making money taking surveys, but you can earn some nice things.
However, if you are interested in making money taking surveys, you should be careful of companies that want you to pay to get access to the surveys. In many cases, some of these companies will ask you to pay and then give you the websites to some of the prominent online survey companies. Instead, there are a number of survey companies like SurveySavvy and Greenfield online that allow you to register for free. Why pay to begin making money taking surveys when you can find these companies for free?
Posted by Administrator on 29 Oct 2006 2:00 am. Filed under Online Promotion.
Cross promotions are, simply stated, a trade of advertising space. Instead of paying for advertising space on a site, you would place their ad on your page and yours on theirs. For example, a real-estate company may promote a certain lawyer to close a sale, as the lawyer will promote that agency in his firm. The system is somewhat similar to the primitive barter system, where people traded items rather than using money. How can anything primitive fit into the online world of Internet marketing? Very easily. There are many ways to use cross promotions in your internet business that can be an effective and cost efficient way to advertise.
Link exchanges are very effective when doing cross promotions with a company that is similar to yours, however be sure and never link to a page that is in direct competition with yours. One of the best things about link exchanges is that some search engines are factoring in hits from the sites that are linked to your page to when determining the ranking. Therefore linking to a more popular site, can not only increase your advertising, and traffic, but also increase your search engine ranking.
When customers or potential customers subscribe to your ezine you can use this as an opportunity to use cross promotions. On the same page that the customer subscribes to your ezine, make available the opportunity to subscribe to another company’s ezine. You can even exchange ad space in ezines, and provide recommendations for those whom you cross promote with. You might even want to exchange column space in one another’s ezines.
If you don’t have accurate details regarding promoting, then you might make a bad choice on the subject. Don’t let that happen: keep reading.
Writing free articles that inform customers or potential customers with information that is useful and accurate can create a reputation for you and your business. Soon readers will come to know you as an expert on the subject. In these articles the author uses a byline to help promote his site. Bylines can be a way to use cross promotions as well. You can use part of the space in your byline to recommend another’s product.
How about writing an ebook? A joint venture could mean increased profits for you and the person you are partnering with. Cross promotions through ebooks are an excellent way to allow for a wider topic and to promote both your business and your partner’s business. The ebook should contain information that will benefit both businesses and still be helpful to the reader. A good example of using cross promotions through an ebook is to a site selling used video games partnering with a site selling gaming devices. These are two subjects that would interest the same reader and most likely lead the reader to both sites.
You should keep in mind that the recommendations that you make are a direct reflection of you, so choose your cross promotional businesses carefully. Also keep in mind that it would be nice as a shopper to be able to link from one site to another as a way to shop around. Since this is usually not beneficial to you, never link or recommend a site that is in direct competition with you. Instead, recommend those who are similar, such as health and life insurance.
It never hurts to be well-informed with the latest on promoting. Compare what you’ve learned here to future articles so that you can stay alert to changes in the area of promoting.
Posted by Administrator on 29 Oct 2006 2:00 am. Filed under Online Promotion.
Think you already know what this subject is all about? Chances are that you don’t, but by the end of this article you will!
Now perhaps the infer you’re interested in site up a home base business is because you’ve seen an ad wherever on the Internet maybe, or you’ve been ask by somebody probably a family member. It was all about a great work-from-home money-making opportunity, and you’re excited. Finally, you can suspend your job! Just wait a minute….
If you’re thinking of working from home by somebody else’s rules, though, you have to realize that at slightest 99% of the offers out there are scams after all, if it was that easy to pay a few dollars and make thousands, wouldn’t everyone be getting involved with it by now? Here are the major scams out there, how to recognize them, and how to prevent them.
Location, Location, Location.
Where did you see that work from home offer? If you got it in the post, or by email, or saw it on a poster taped around a phone pole, then I can guarantee you right now that it’s not a legitimate offer. If you saw the ad in a newspaper, in a jobs magazine or on a jobs website, then it’s a little more possible to be legit but not much. Forever check out any offer, and think it’s a swindle until you have iron-clad resistant to the contrary.
Envelope Stuffing.
This is the most established work-from-home scam, and it’s been going for decades now. Basically, once you pay your money and authorize up to work from home, you’re sent a set of envelopes and ads just like the one you responded to. You might make some money if somebody responds to your ad, but eventually there just wont be a promote for it any more. Anyway, works from home offers like this are dishonest pyramid schemes.
You won’t make any money putting writing in envelopes get over it.
Charging for Supplies.
The prepare of charging for food is hard to pin down to any one swindle it’s the way almost all work-at-home scams work (including the envelope stuffing, above). You’ll be asked to make a small investment for anything resources would be desirable to do the work and then you’ll be sent very unkind resources that aren’t appealing to anything like what you paid, and you’ll find that there’s no market for the work anyway.
As you can see, running a home base business’ that just involves working’ for one company is a bad idea. You don’t know who you’re dealing with. Here’s the clincher, though: even with entirely legal work-at-home offers that do pay you for your work, you still won’t make anywhere near as much as you can with your very own home base business. So why bother with them at all?
Over time, you will begin to understand how these concepts really come together if you choose to venture into this subject further.
Working for Free.
This variation on the scam is common with crafts. You might be asked to work at home making clothes, ornaments or toys. Everything seems legitimate you’ve got the materials without paying out any money, and you’re doing the work. Unfortunately for you, when you send the work back, the company will tell you that it didn’t meet their quality standards’, and will refuse to pay you. Then they’ll sell on what you made at a profit, and move on to the next sucker.
Never do craft work from home unless you’re selling the items yourself. Note that you don’t need to be selling to consumers (you could be selling to wholesalers), but you still need to be the one deciding what you make and getting the money.
Home Typing, Medical Billing, and More.
There are lots of work-from-home scams that involve persuading you that some industry has more work than it can handle, and so has to outsource to people working from home. For example, you might be told that you’d be typing legal documents, or entering medical bills into an electronic database. These scams have one thing in common: they all say that all you need is your computer and they all then go on to say that you need to buy some special software’.
This software might appear to be from a completely unrelated company, but don’t be fooled the whole reason the work-from-home’ ad was there to begin with was simply as cynical marketing for the software.
As you can see, running a home base business’ that just involves working’ for one company is a bad idea. You don’t know who you’re dealing with. Here’s the clincher, though: even with entirely legal work-at-home offers that do pay you for your work, you still won’t make anywhere near as much as you can with your very own home base business. So why bother with them at all?
Posted by Administrator on 28 Oct 2006 2:00 pm. Filed under Work from Home.
One of the first business decision you will have to make in starting any new business is deciding what legal and financial business structure best fits you. There are four basic types of legal and financial business structures each with their own advantages, disadvantages and financial implications. They are: a Sole Proprietorship, a Partnership, a Corporation and an S Corporation. This article is devoted to helping you receive information on money, record keeping, taxes and etc. so you can make better decisions and run your business efficiently and keep Uncle Sam happy.
Cash is King!Finance. Money. Making the most of it.
This article is devoted to helping you receive information on money, record keeping, taxes and etc. so you can make better decisions and run your business efficiently. Also, keep Uncle Sam happy, if you know I mean. As always, the best advise is to review this article with your accountant before making decisions.
One of the first business decision you will have to make is deciding what legal and financial business structure best fits your art business. There are four basic types of legal and financial business structures each with their own advantages, disadvantages and financial implications. They are: a Sole Proprietorship, a Partnership, a Corporation and an S Corporation.
A Sole Proprietorship is a business that has one owner who assumes the responsibility for all profits and debts or liabilities of the business. Sole Proprietorship’s are easy to get started, you are the boss, you get to keep all of the profits, the business income is taxed as personal income and the reporting and record keeping requirements are less stringent than any other form of business. This form of business is perhaps used by a larger audience of art instructors and smaller suppliers. It also has certain disadvantages if you’re widely successful and need to hire employees. I’m not sure how many of us face this problem, but it is generally more difficult to hold and attract high quality employees. It is much more difficult to raise investment funding (commonly referred to as Capital). The business life can not be passed on, nor will it survive the owner and the owner accepts unlimited liability.
A Partnership is a business where two or more people agree to share in the companies’ profits and losses. This may appeal to certain artists who work together consistently teaching classes or building a business. It is also easy to get started, two or more heads are better than one, more investment capital is available and the partners only pay personal income tax on the business income. The down side is that partners may disagree, the partners assume unlimited liability even for the business debts of each other and all profits must be shared. I strongly recommend that you have a written partnership agreement that is drawn up by a competent attorney. The document should state at a minimum what each partners rights and responsibilities will be, what amount of capital funding each partner will contribute, what the percentage of ownership will be, how the profits and or losses will be distributed, how partners can join or leave the business, how disagreements will be handled and how assets will be distributed in the event the business is discontinued.
If you have a considerable business, or plan to open a retail outlet, you should consider a Corporation (also referred to as a C Corporation) which is a business that in the eyes of the law is considered a separate and distinct entity with the same rights as an individual person. This existence is separate from its owners and offers several specific advantages. A corporation’s liability is unlimited while the owners or stockholder’s liability is limited. This means that the owners are not personally responsible for either losses or the business debts. The ability to raise investment capital is easier because you can sell shares of stock in the company. As a separate entity, it is easier to transfer ownership by selling your stock and the company can survive the original owners because the corporate life is unlimited. The main disadvantages are taxes, start up costs, taxes, government regulation and, oh did I mention taxes. Unfortunately corporations are subject to a variety of taxes that individuals and partnerships are not. There are annual taxes on the number of outstanding shares of stock. There is a double tax where you pay taxes on what the corporation earns and on what you earn as profits you take out of the corporation. A corporation must have a state charter and therefore the costs associated with drawing up legal documents are much greater than with a sole proprietorship or a partnership. Record keeping requirements, both federal and state, are much more complex and professional assistance is critical.
To complete your education (even though few will want to form such an organization), an S Corporation is essentially one that has elected to be treated like a partnership. The main advantage to this form of company structure is that one avoids the double taxation rule of a regular C corporation. Income or losses are passed through to the shareholders and taxed at the personal level. Also S Corporation shareholders are not personally liable for the debts of the corporation and therefore it limits the liability exposure to owners. S Corporations also have disadvantages. These include filing with the state for permission to operate making it more costly to establish. Shareholders are limited to no more than thirty-five of which none may be another corporation. Legally you are required to have a board of directors, annual meetings and more formal reporting making it more complex to operate and manage. And lastly, there exists restriction on the types of stock that may be issued by this form of company.
There is one other form of company structure that is recognized by the IRS called a Limited Liability Company (LLC). This relatively new structure is similar to an S Corporation except that it generally has a limited duration that is fixed and has less formal operating and reporting requirements.
The financial implications of these types of business structures all vary. The Sole Proprietorship is the least costly. The Partnership costs more because you should have legal documents covering the partnership agreement thereby incurring slightly higher legal costs. The S Corporation and LLC cost even more due to the required state filings and other legal document preparations for partnership agreements. And lastly the regular C Corporation simply costs the most due to initial state and federal filings, legal document preparation such as articles of incorporation and bylaws and the continuous reliance on accountants, lawyers and other professionals.
Financial Tip.
Before deciding the type of company you want to be or have, carefully weight the pros and cons of each type of structure. Seek out the advice of accountants, lawyers and even your local banker. Check with your local community to see if you need any local permits to operate. Depending on your type of art business and its location you may need a local occupancy permit or a seller’s permit. If you are operating your business from your home, checking with local authorities about permits is critical. Also, a local permit to operate a business from your home will add validity to the IRS requirements of using your home for business purposes. Some states impose a minimum tax on Corporations while other do not recognize an S Corporation. You do not need a separate taxpayer identification number (TIN) as a sole proprietorship or partnership unless you pay wages to one or more employees, but you do for each of the other forms of business. A TIN does not cost anything to get but it’s just nice to know when you need one.
Estimated typical costs to establish any of the above types of companies varies and depends on many factors. Amounts to use as general guidelines are: for a Sole Proprietorship under $100 to $200, for a Partnership from $100 to $500, for an S Corporation or LLC from $400 to $1,000 and for a regular C Corporation from $500 to $2,000.
One last tip, although not specifically financial in nature, does offer advise on where to obtain free information that I highly recommend and I am sure that you will find invaluable. There are several ways to contact the IRS for free forms and publication: by phone call 1-800-TAX-FORM, by mail at Western Area Distribution Center, Rancho Cordova, CA 95743-0001, the Central Area Distribution Center, POB 8903, Bloomington, IL 61702-8903 and the Eastern Area Distribution Center, POB 85074, Richmond, VA 23261-5074 and by computer on the World Wide Web at http://www.irs.ustreas.gov. On the world wide web site I recommend you look at or down load publication 334 a Tax Guide for Small Business, publication 583 on Starting a Business and Keeping Records and form 1040-ES for Filing Estimated Taxes For Individuals.
Finally, I would like to leave readers with one small bit of advice. In a small business the most important asset you should watch more closely than any other is CASH,” put more simply; in a small business, Cash is King.
Darrell Crow has over 35 years experience in direct response marketing, marketing communications and sales. This is the third installment of an 8 part Basic Technique of Sales articles that Darrell has put together to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs gain success quickly. Darrell owns and operates the Darrell Crow Studios where he provides oil painting instructions on both videos and instructor-led classes. Darrell is fast becoming one of America’s favorite oil painting instructors. With his step-by-step instructions, anyone can learn to oil paint. Guaranteed. Request a free copy of his 2-hour comprehensive Basic Technique of Oil Painting Water video at www.darrellcrow.com/videos.
Posted by Administrator on 28 Oct 2006 2:00 am. Filed under Online Promotion.
I have found in my research that many new website owners whose primary objective is to sell MUSIC CDs, MP3 DOWNLOADS, PROMOTE NEW ARTIST RELEASE, and to provide a variety of other MUSIC SERVICES on their website, find it hard to position themselves to generate any sales of significant. Sure, it definitely can become very frustrating when each day goes by and you don’t see any Cd or New Artist Release sales, or no sales calculation of Mp3 Downloads. So what do you do?
There are several options to take in order to better position yourself to sell music on your website. I will provide two of great importance.
NUMBER ONE
Write an article based on your website topic. If your topic is www.BuyMusicCds.com, then write an article called, “How People Buy Music Cds Online”. At the bottom of our article, include a link to our website (http://www.BuyMusicCds.com)
Go visit many of the popular article directories on the web, and submit article to those directories. Once they’ve added your article and link to their site, the search engines will visit their website, and then follow all the links on their site. Guess what? One of those links will be a link to your site, and Lo and Behold! You are now indexed by the search engines.
So submit your articles to lots of article directories, and in return, more links we’ll get back to your website, and you’ll start to see more search engines visiting your site. Remember, the more links you get, the faster you’ll get indexed.
NUMBER TWO
Get other websites who are already ranked in major search engines to link to your website. The reason this works is because, search engines find new websites through what is called Crawling. If a website that is already indexed in major search engines says Buy Music Cds, Mp3 Downloads, Lyrics and New Artist Release here, and their website is link to yours, then guess what? The WebCrawler will not only craw the website that is attached to you, but it will also craw your website too, of which, automatically puts your website in the index.
Make sure that that you only request the websites that are music related to link to yours. If a website doesn’t sell, promote, buy or display Music Cds,
Mp3 Downloads or New Artist Release, you shouldn’t approach them at all, for it would be a waste of time.
Don’t forget to put your URL at the bottom of your article, as I will do mine.
Sincerely,
Michael Bell, CEO of Bell Time Records
http://www.buymusicfromus.com
, use one sheet for several themes to save on paper. You can also request this from the shop if you are buying preprinted labels. 