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Published Thursday July 02 2009
Do you post to message boards, e-mail discussion lists,
classified ads sites, FFA sites or newsgroups? People will
usually read the subject line before they read your ad or
message, so it's important they get noticed. Below are ten
simple, but powerful tips to get your ads or messages noticed.
1. Use extra white space creatively in your subject line. You
can add extra blank spaces between your words or letters.
2. Combine capital letters with lower case letters. Use all
capital letters in every ...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Wednesday July 01 2009
IV. The Place
Some countries are geographically disadvantaged. Recent studies
have demonstrated how being landlocked or having a tropical
climate carry a hefty price tag in terms of reduced economic
growth. These unfavorable circumstances can be described as
"natural discounts" to a country's price.
What can be done to overcome such negative factor endowments?
In classical microeconomics, the element of "place" in the
marketing plan used to refer to the locus of delivery of the
product or servic...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Tuesday June 30 2009
Copyright © Marion Stearns - All Rights Reserved
http://www.admistress.com/column ====================
E-mail addresses are absolutely the 'FUEL' for ALL of your list
building and sales potential, especially for E-Zines. Without a
growing list, which is a consistently fueled list of responsive
readers, your list can't make a positive impact on your business
sales. Are you trying to sell with a dull and non-responsive
small list?
There are steps that you can take to maximize the size of your
s...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Monday June 29 2009
Marketing is a necessary expense in running practically any
business and the IRS acknowledges as much. You may run
advertisements on or in the Internet, radio, television,
magazines, newspapers and other media to sell your products or
services. You should be deducting all of the associated costs on
your tax returns.
Ordinary Marketing Expenses
Marketing costs must be "ordinary and necessary" business
expenses in order to be deductible. Put in layman's terms, you
marketing must be reasonably rela...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Thursday June 25 2009
Web Site Promotion - Getting Publicity
Publicity, if handled properly, can get your web site the kind
of promotion that cannot be bought, or at least not afforded. As
a marketer, that is always the goal of my publicity and PR
efforts.
Here is a good example of web site promotion that the site
itself could not afford but managed to accomplish through
publicity. A new web site is burgeoning to make it easier on
those of us who have to deal with the horrors of parking at any
one of the nation's ai...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Monday June 22 2009
In the early days of the Internet, banner ads quickly became the
prime advertising method. Most major companies still pour
millions into banner ads, but results have steadily dropped.
Banner ads that once pulled in business now get ignored. And so
it often goes with advertising. The first rule of making a sale
is for your ad to get attention. Once banners became commonplace
and consumers got used to them, they stopped noticing them (and
clicking on them) altogether.
All that was turned on its he...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Sunday June 21 2009
So you've done your research into your target audience's in
technical sophistication, and you've decided which technology
you can safely and effectively use in your banner ad. This is a
great start, but there's still something more you should know
about your audience: their "sensibilities." What appeals to them
visually? What "lingo" do they use? Do they respond to hard-sell
tactics or are they alienated by them? Answers to questions like
these will dictate the style of your banner ad.
Gathering...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Friday June 19 2009
In the hierarchy of advertising and promotional media, the lowly
Vinyl Banner has to be one of the most under-rated of them
all. Often viewed as a temporary substitute for a real sign, or
a cheap backdrop when you couldn't afford something better, in
the not-so-distant past vinyl banners rarely got their due.
The "digital revolution" has changed all that. Printing machines
are now available that can print directly on both indoor and
outdoor grade vinyl in stunningly beautiful full color. That
me...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Thursday June 18 2009
Is reciprocal linking dead? By Mark White
There was a time when reciprocal linking was a number one
priority among webmasters and SEO’s for obtaining a good search
engine position, that time alas is no longer with us.
This is in no small part because webmasters are no longer
dedicating as much time to link pages. Why should they spend
hours and hours getting link partners and then making sure that
their are linking back to them when all they have to do is spend
5 minutes joining a web ring or...
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Posted in: Internet
Published Tuesday June 16 2009
What Do You Want Hi Everybody
I have recently launched my website www.wanted-online and is for
anyone who wants something, so you place your ad and wait for
the seller to come to you. We are incredibly cheap compared to
other similar sites, with no hidden extras and also compared to
other similar sites are very,very straightforward to use. If my
blurb doesn't entice you to have a look then so be it but I
can't believe there isn't something you want! You can email me
at paul@wanted-online.com for...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Sunday June 14 2009
Did you realize there are only three types of online
promotion?... This statement may seem odd and even untrue in
your mind, but I am speaking in more general terms than you
might be thinking.
Let me explain.
The three types of promotion are Junk, Active and Passive
promotions.
JUNK PROMOTIONS ARE MONEY PITS
Junk promotions are those that seem to produce results, but by
their very nature are really only illusionary promotions.
For example, let me begin with FFA (Free For All) pages. You
migh...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Saturday June 13 2009
Pay-Per-Click marketing has become an online phenomenon, with
marketers only paying for traffic they receive. As Internet
marketing has evolved, pay-per-click is seen by many as the
middle ground between paying per impression and paying per sale.
Advertisers only pay when they receive traffic that may or may
not be targeted.
The pay-per-click advertisements are usually displayed with the
advertisement from the highest paying bidder in the top
position.
Navigating the complex web of Internet mar...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Friday June 12 2009
Adwords PPC Management Tip No. 1 --------------------------------
Setting up an account
If you live outside of the US, different minimum bid prices hold
true given the different currencies involved.
Let's take the UK for example - in the UK the minimum bid price
is £0.04 whereas the minimum bid price in the US is $0.05.
This means the cost of bids in the UK when currency is converted
is significantly higher (July 2005), therefore it may be wise
for you to setup an Adwords account which uses US...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Thursday June 11 2009
Is reciprocal Linking dead? I just read an article at SitePro
News that really rings my bell. It was written by Mike Banks
Valentine. Obviously being a very successful webmaster, one must
pay attention to his words and his most recent article really
mirrors my thoughts. Having just completed constructing a new
website for my personal use, I have been looking for
optimization improvements.
The current rage is “reciprocal linking” so I went about
searching for some reciprocal links. To my dism...
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Posted in: Internet
Published Tuesday June 09 2009
It is important that anybody with a significant online presence understands why offline ads are so important and more so why they are usually much more effective than online advertisements. This is very useful knowledge that will no doubt impact dramatically on the success and profitability of any online enterprise. More so when numerous businesses have lost significant amounts trying to advertise online and have ended up with virtually nothing to show for their efforts. Even the much-talked abo...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Monday June 08 2009
50% of Yellow Page Directory Users are Looking for Just One
Thing Dr. Lynella Grant
Directory Users Seek Information about Location First People who
open the Yellow Pages already have a desire to buy. That sets it
apart from all other advertising media. For a brief time, the
eager-to-buy directory user checks the competition, to see what
each of them offers. They scan for solutions that satisfy their
needs. Readers hope to find ads that leap out from the rest, and
will simplify their choice.
So ...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Sunday June 07 2009
Copyright © Bill Vannot - All Rights Reserved
http://www.successful-marketing.com
====================
Do you realize that articles can do a lot for your business?
1. They can drive qualified leads to your website -- people who
are interested in your topic.
2. You can consistently position yourself as an expert by having
your name and your business name in the public eye! This
develops your business identity.
3. Articles work to build link popularity.
4. Articles are actually, repeat advertis...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Saturday June 06 2009
The Power of Linking One of the first techniques and strategies
that worked well for me was linking to various websites that
allow you to place a link to your website on theirs, or want to
exchange a link.
However, don’t randomly begin linking to any old site. To
maximize the effectiveness of the link, you are going to want
the top websites the are ranked high by the search engines.
You can probably see where I am going with this. Use your
favorite search engine to type in something like Home ...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Friday June 05 2009
Reciprocal linking is an effective, free way to get more
visitors to your website.
Exchanging links with other webmasters can help you in two ways.
Firstly, by getting your link displayed on other websites you
are increasing the number of paths leading back to your your own
site. This in turn will increase the number of visitors.
Secondly, exchanging links will increase the chances of getting
your web page ranked more highly in the results returned by
search engines.
The reason for this is tha...
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Posted in: Advertising
Published Thursday June 04 2009
Search engine listing delays have come to be called the Google Sandbox
effect are actually true in practice at each of four top tier
search engines in one form or another. MSN, it seems has the
shortest indexing delay at 30 days. This article is the
second in a series following the spiders through a brand new
web site beginning on May 11, 2005 when the site was first
made live on that day under a newly purchased domain name.
First Case Study Article
Previously we looked at the first 35 days a...
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Posted in: Internet