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Re-looking at the whole content, it has become more appealing with the VersaPoints concept. The VersaPoints are just points awarded to affiliates for a variety of actions including things as simple as reading articles online and contacting your personally-sponsored affiliates. There is even a VP Scoreboard to keep track of your points. The more points affiliates accumulate each month, the more they can benefit through commission overrides and other rewards. Now, the SFI Power Rankings are also based on VersaPoints. Personally, I think this is powerful.

Another attraction, at least for me, is the Eye Earner program. The idea is simple, join the EyeEarn network, and get paid to drive your car, wear t-shirts, and more! How about this for the appetizer? Just by outfitting your car with an EyeEarn cling-on sticker, wearing an EyeEarn T-shirt, etc., you can create ongoing monthly income!

EyeEarn is a new global advertising network that taps into simple, easy forms of advertising that everyone can do while they’re going about their day. No experience is needed to participate. And it’s one of the easiest ways ever to make extra money. You don’t have to know about computers, advertising, or marketing. Just take your place in the EyeEarn advertising network and you can start earning monthly commissions. Keep participating every month, and it can be grown into a full-time income!

Together with the Eye Earn starter kit also comes the EyeEarn X-Card. It is the size of a business-card and sports a glossy, full-color front-side featuring the EyeEarn logo and tagline, “Get seen. Get paid.”

I am simply attractive with the simplicity of the concept. Imagine displaying the EyeEarn cling-on sticker on your car and giving out the EyeEarn X-Card to people who are interested in the program. When people see your ads and go to the EyeEarn.com Website, they can do one of three things:

1. They can enroll as an SFI affiliate at no cost.
2. They can become customers and make purchases at TripleClicks.com.
3. They can enroll as an SFI affiliate and also join the EyeEarn advertising network by subsequently purchasing a $20 EyeEarn Starter Kit at the SFI Affiliate Center.

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Article marketing is an advertising type of writing articles related to the industry and made available for distribution and publication in the marketplace. Each article contains a resource box that includes references, contact information and byline of the author or author’s business. People are free to quote and publish the article as long as the resource box is kept intact. Having quality articles on the industry will establish the credibility of the author within the market as well as to attract potential clients. And, how do you multiply with article marketing?

These are the commonly recognized benefits of article marketing.

1. Your articles (with the resource box that links back to your website) are placed permanently all over the internet. The articles can be published on blogs, social networking sites, article directories, and of course your own website.

2. The article resource box will direct pre-screened traffic to your website. Those are the people sharing the same interest in your topic.

3. People reading your articles are more likely to click through your link compared to those that just come across the link via other means without the article.

4. The article will build and solidify your reputation as an expert in your field. People read your article for specific reason. They want to learn something or find out more about certain topic. If they get the information from your article, they will respect you for giving them information.

5. With more external links to your website, the site’s search ranking would improve. There are different opinions on this topic as Google would penalize sites with duplicate content. For this reason, I would suggest that you amend a bit of your article every time you submit to different site.

6. Through the article, you would be able to get in touch with people with the same interest. People write article not only to sell something. Sometimes it is just for sharing common interests.

7. Article marketing is considered as cost effective and an alternative to permanent advertising. With one time investment, the dividends pay perpetually.

Up to this point, we are clear that writing article is cost effective and cost efficient in helping to increase our search rankings and traffic. However, distributing multiple articles increase the benefits we have just discussed multi-fold. Some people say exponentially, not just proportionately.

Let’s look at some benefits of multiple article marketing. In essence, they are just the same benefits multiplied many times over.

1. Increase in back link and traffic

The more articles you write and send out, the more you will have link back to your websites. That would mean higher search engine rankings which also mean more traffic. This will eventually lead to more growth for your website.

2. Self-screening traffic

Only people sharing the same interest will read the article you write. When they click on your link in the resource box, you can be very sure that those people are also interested in your topic or at least the topic you have in your website. The more articles on the topic you write, the more screened visitors you will attract and the more likely for you to meet their needs and wants. This will mean increased revenue for your business.

3. Return traffic

When you write articles regularly, people will be exposed to your article regularly as well. By putting your name in front of people consistently, they will remember you and visit your website again because they know you add material of interest to them.

4. Reputation building

Having multiple articles on a topic will establish you as the expert. Having people see your name repeatedly on the articles they read will increase your reputation. Writing quality article is one of the best ways to build reputation effortlessly.

You have seen that doing article marketing by writing quality articles really pay off handsomely. Good articles with enough details are more interesting to readers and search engines. The more details you have in your article, the more your reputation will improve and the higher your search engine rankings.

In conclusion, more articles will not only increase the benefits proportionately, but also do so exponentially.

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Arrangements vary with different drop shippers. Some will even ship the product for seller one at a time. Some will charge a fee for service separately. Others will include the fee into the wholesale cost of the items.

The concept of drop shipping is almost as old as the history manufacturing and distribution. Although there is no exact time period when drop shipping was first started, this concept gained momentum with the start of large size retail and manufacturing companies. Modern manufacturing with reduced inventory concept has brought an “on-demand” type of production. This has made drop shipping more popular. Retail market also gets similar benefits here with reduced inventory and risks to achieve higher cost savings

Besides the advantages, drop shipping also has its disadvantages.
1. You have to rely on your supplier to send the product to your customer on-time. You almost do not have control here.
2. Your profit margin is affected by the changes in wholesale pricing.
3. Not all drop shippers have the capability to track inventory and automate the ordering and shipment process.
4. The products might not be unique or special.

The greatest advantage of drop shipper for the retailer is that it enables the establishment of the business at low cost. It includes no cost in initial inventory as well as the cost to maintain stock such as warehousing, etc. The only thing you have to worry in business with drop shipping is promotional costs, such as marketing and advertising.

Drop shipping is used by and very popular among Ebay sellers. They list the products on Ebay. When a buyer bids and wins the sale, the seller orders the product from the drop shipper who will send the product to the buyer’s address. The money will go from the buyer to the seller and finally to the drop shipper.

On the final note, it is important to pay attention if you are searching for drop ship directory online. There are many sites offering drop ship directory with questionable content. They might be full of broken links, out of date drop shippers and companies that do not do drop ship and just middlemen. The site creators are more interested in your money than providing valuable information and maintaining legitimate business. The solution to this is not straight forward. You just need to be very careful. Here are some points to explore when you are selection drop ship directories: sample content (on the format and information), education (with topics including drop shipping, e-commerce, importation and FAQ), toll-free number, customer service and finally, guarantee.

For a comprehensive list of drop shippers, I personally like dropshipper forum based in UK.

Drop shipping is not readily available and not easy to find. It is important to connect up with a wholesaler who is willing to do drop shipping. Some drop shippers are very difficult to do business with. Beware of this as it can do damage to your business. It is therefore important to make the right connections.

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1. Learn SEO techniques and apply them

There are many techniques you can learn and apply when it comes to SEO (search engine optimization). We are talking about how to make our website more appealing to search engine to index and more inviting to human visitors to leave their name and contact information.

2. Include web address in all your stationary and communications

It is a good practice to always include your web address everywhere, especially in all your stationary materials and communications. You need to present your URL in front of as many people as possible through all means. Printing the address on your name card is a good idea especially when you do a lot of name card exchanges with other people.

3. Create a blog to supplement the web presence

Having a blog to supplement your website is another way to increase traffic. The nature of blog is having regular postings. Search engines love sites perceived to be active and updated with fresh content regularly. Linking to your website from the blog will definitely increase your website ranking as they are seen to be related and relevant. With higher search engine ranking, you will definitely receive more visitors.

More information can be found here: What is Blogging,  Blogging with Wordpress and Why Business Needs Blog.

4. Conduct online surveys and contests

You can also conduct online surveys and contest on your website. These are popular especially if the prizes are attractive. When people take part, they will tend to come back often just to see the progress and the result especially in contests. When your website design is attractive, your visitors will stay longer and explore more pages.

5. Provide online discount coupon download

For promotion purpose, your business will sometimes offer discount for products or services. Instead of using the normal way of discount, why don’t you use online discount coupon download? It will encourage people to visit your website and at the same time familiarize them with the site.

6. Provide special price for online order

Besides promotion, you can also provide special price for people ordering online. It will provide exactly similar effect to online discount coupon.

7. Start a regular newsletter with links back to your website

The much preferred way is to start a regular newsletter. By sending regular mailings, you will be perceived as expert in your topic and niche. By the time your readers are ready to buy, they will be more willing to purchase from you. Regular exposure will also encourage people to buy from you after about seven mailings. This is according to the statistics. Of course there are people who will buy earlier and there are some who will buy later.

8. Start a forum for your customers and visitors to interact with each other

Another method to gather people is to start a forum. People can join and interact with each other to familiarize with your products and services. For the forum to be successful, you need to moderate properly and correctly though. If not, it might turn into something you don’t really desire to have.

9. Get involved in social networking sites

From your involvement in social networking sites, you will also be able to increase traffic to your website. When you join the social networking sites, you will be given a profile page where you can enter your introduction and related websites. When people know you better, they will check your profile page. That is when they will click on your website and visit. Of course, when you are more or less known by other people, you can advertise indiscreetly. But, you have to remember not to do it too often as to flood the message stream with your advertisement. Example of social networking sites are Facebook, MySpace, etc.

10. Connect with microblogging

Microblogging is the trend now. Twitter is the trendsetter and its name is synonymous with microblogging. Similar to social networking site, you will be provided with profile page where you can put your web address. People will then look at your profile and visit your website.

11. Buy PPC

If you have the budget, you can also purchase PPC (pay-per-click). The popular and bigger network operators of PPC are Google Adwords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter. All there operate under a bid-based model. It means you bid for higher position with higher value of money for the CPC (cost-per-click).

These are just some ideas. Of course there are many more methods not covered here. I will be adding as and when I come across some good ideas to increase traffic. Please feel free to add on the comment section your ideas as well.

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The next questions are how exactly do you grow and network on Twitter? And how do you monetize that network? How do you build business with Twitter? Let’s start first with how to grow your Twitter network. 

First let’s approach it in the simplest way possible. We should not make networking more complicated than it needs to be. Networking is simply a way of making contact with a lot of people who want to exchange information with each other. The main point here is the word “exchange”. It is a social process. Therefore the term “social networking” is used for services such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on. 

On the other hand, we can think of social networking sites as places where people gather and meet each other. It is as if you were at a cafe, pub, bar, at someone’s party or at some public places. When you attend a party, normally you do not take a megaphone and shout at everybody to come and visit your shop. Instead, you get to know each other, ask questions, share information, and perhaps exchange business cards. 

Doing business at the party should not be our immediate aim of attending. Your first aim should be to make a good impression on the people you meet. When people show interest, you will then explain what you do. The people may possible recommend you to someone in their network at later day due to the good impression.

What you should do at social networking like Twitter.com is very similar to what you would do at a party illustrated above. The business card equivalent of real life is your profile page. You should post some information about yourself and what you do, and include a link back to your website. Make the content as interesting as possible for people to read. 

Your post is called tweet. It is both a noun and averb. When you post tweets or when you tweet (as it is commonly called), do not make a blatant advertisement for your affiliate marketing program. You will create a very bad impression. Instead, give out and share some useful tips, some interesting insights and some daily activities related to your specialty. Being helpful, generous and nice are viewed very positively. When people have good impression of you, nobody will object to your posting a promotional link in the future. 

Don’t feel that you have too tweet only about your business. Please remember that when you are at social function, you don’t want to perpetually talk about business. You will also talk about other topics of interest. Internet marketing, especially social networking and social marketing, is all about building a brand around a personality. We are referring to YOU. 

The best way to the branding is not to focus on yourself only all the time. It is also about other people. If you are at a party, you would do that by going around mingling with other people. It is the same on Twitter. You do it by following other people (as it is called in Twitter’s world). Following others is the key to building your network on Twitter. The more you follow, the more you will be followed. In fact, your friends in Twitter are your followers. So who do you follow and who are your followers? 

1. Follow people who are entertaining, who share information and who link out to interesting websites. Even if their network is not big, it is likely to grow in the future due to the positive attributes we discussed above. You will want to be able to plug into it. 

2. Follow people who follow people. At the top of every Twitter page you will find information about the number of followers and the number of people being followed. Personally I try not to follow people who have a much larger number of followers than the people they follow. These people are kind of stingy and are unlikely to reciprocate when you follow them. Of course there are exceptions to this for example the news twitters, etc. 

3. Find people via Twitter search box. You can search for people by entering keywords related to your area of interest or field of expertise. You will be able to build up a solid network of people who may be interested in what you have to offer. 

4. Use a service such as Twitter Grader which will generate a list of people whose profiles or areas of interest seemed to be similar to yours.  See my ranking at Twitter Grader.

5. Check out the people who are following the people you are following. Then you can click and follow all the people who appeal to you on the list. 

6. Check out the people who are following your followers. You can click and follow all who appeal to you.

Interestingly, you will find that many of the people you follow will be happy to reciprocate and follow you. It pays to actively follow as many people as possible. At the end of the day, you will be able to build up a large network quickly and efficiently – and most importantly have fun at the same time.

Happy Twittering!

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Everyday without fail we will see news on the recession and the effects to our lives. It is quite depressing witnessing all these. However, we should not take it lying down. Instead, there are many things we can do. So, what can you do during the recession?

1. Go back to education

During the low period, it is best to re-educate ourselves about the business. During our normal busy time, education is normally set to the back of the mind. There is just not enough time for education. Therefore, it is best to take the opportunity now when you have so much time to pick up some educations related to your business.

2. Revisit your leads and potential customers

With more time, it is worthwhile to revisit previous leads that did not purchase from you in the past. You can reconnect back with people who left you their contact information. You can also revisit your past customers just to show some attentions. Many times just a simple hello would remind the customers that it is time for them to buy something extra from your business.

3. Provide extra services

During the down time, it is also a good idea to provide extra services for your customers when they order. Apart from feeling happy, this additional extra can serve as an introduction to other products or services that the customers do not usually buy from you. By doing this, the customers have a chance to try out the products/services. Besides, providing the extra services, it also serves as increase in perceived value of your offerings.

4. Explore new ways of selling and new markets for your products & services

You can also use the time to explore new ways of selling. Alternatively you can also explore new markets. These could be areas that you don’t normally consider as your natural markets. Feel free to explore as you have all the time now.

5. Get active in community and services organizations

Being involved in community organization is a noble act. There is no shortage of organizations that we can join and volunteer our time and efforts. There are also services organizations around that need our involvement. Examples of services organizations are Rotary Club, Lion’s Club, Kiwanis, etc. Apart from contributing to society, we also have a chance to bring our business name to the attention of other professionals and the industry just by being around the people from the same or different organizations.

6. Offer free samples of products or free trials of services

This is related to point 3 above on providing extra service. The concept is very similar. By exposing your customers or prospects to free samples or free trials, it increases the familiarity which eventually will lead to sales. We always like to get what we are familiar with. With this understanding, the more people are familiar with your offerings the more they will buy from you.

7. Take part in networking session

Having more time during the recession, you can also join various networking sessions in town. For example, the city chamber of commerce, your religious organizations, alumni associations, breakfast club, etc. Just by being in front of other people, your business and brand will be more noticeable which will lead to familiarity. All these are related to public relation efforts for the business.

8. Form mastermind group with the successful people

There was a saying that what you are earning now is the reflection of the earnings of your ten closest friends. With this, it is very important to decide your ten closest friends. Therefore, it is a good idea to form a mastermind group. And the main criteria, the members of the mastermind group ought to be successful people. We are not being arrogant here, but the purpose of the group is to support and create opportunities for each other.

9. Pick up your hobby or sports you have been ignoring

You can pick up hobby or sports that you have been putting aside due to time constraint in the past. Building a healthy body will in turn create a healthy mind.

10. Build better bonding with your family & people around you

With all the extra time, it is also crucial to build better bonding with family members and people close to you. This is also a beneficial future investment. One of my motivations to build a successful business is for my family to enjoy together the fruit of the success. Therefore, I would put this near the top of my priority list.

11. Sit back, relax and recharge your energy to prepare for the rebound

Of course the easiest is to sit back, relax and recharge your energy. You always have to remember to recharge and let your body have enough rest. What is the point of having all the money without the good health to enjoy all the wealth? Health is more important than health in this matter.

12. Stay positive

Finally, you must stay positive. Although you will see all the news everyday about how bad the economy is doing, it is very crucial to always stay positive. We don’t want to be positive without reason also. Therefore, it is good to find reasons to be positive. Being alive and healthy are good enough reasons to be thankful to the universe and to stay positive.

With all these points, I hope you can weather the recession storm hovering over the whole world. These are some ideas I think I would do during this depressing period.

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Here are few points that hopefully can change your mind on the needs of business to have blog:

1. Keep in touch with current customers
Blog is the most effective way to keep in touch with current customers. Providing the option for visitors to register to receive emails when the blog is updated, blog is the best way to keep in touch with the visitors. The customers will be able to know the latest the business is offering and the promotions the business is having.

2. Update visitors of new developments in the company
Through the blog, the company can easily update the visitors of the latest developments. These can be new products, new services, new promotions or even a new season sale with special pricing for a limited period. In fact, you can also provide downloadable discount voucher from the blog to encourage visitors to purchase from you.

3. Reach out to potential customers
Similar to the previous points, visitors are your potential customers. You can use the blog to turn those people to become your customers with correct message and promotions.

4. Share company expertise
You can also use the blog to share your company expertise. We are not talking about free sharing of the company’s intellectual properties. Some special knowledge can be shared freely. With generous sharing, your company will be seen as the expert in your field.

5. Offer company view on certain topics
With blog, the company can also offer opinion on certain public topics. It does not have to be official but the blog will be able to broadcast your company view effectively.

6. Solicit feedback from visitors
An important feature of blog is the comment section. It allows your visitors to leave comments. This allows effective two-way communication. Of course you can control which comments you desire to appear on your blog. This is important to prevent garbage. When you are blogging long enough, you will realize that not all comments are related and some are even outright spams with uninvited advertisement.

7. Collect ideas and suggestions for product and service improvements
Through the blog, you can also create polling or survey for people to provide their feedback and suggestions. Some people even use blog as the customer support helpdesk with the capability to turn the postings into FAQ list.

8. Build additional web traffic
If done properly, blog can easily achieve higher ranking with search engines. It is due to the blog nature with regular fresh content rich with keywords. Through the blog, you can link back to your main website. With this link, the blog should be able to channel more traffic to your website. Personally I believe this is an amazing feature of blog for small business.

9. Quicker to update and more cost effective to maintain
Blog is very easy to update and maintain. You don’t need a whole IT department to deploy and support your blog. Even installing the blog software is relatively straight-forward. After configuring the blog with desired features, you are practically self-sufficient. You don’t even need to tweak the technicalities to continue posting and maintaining your blog.

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First of all, you should not fall into the trap of instant gratification. This is important as the law of attraction does not work instantly like what people prefer to think of it that way. Just like everything else, you have to practice many times before you can see success and manifest according to the law of attraction. Many people fail due to this one fact alone, unrealistic expectation.

Practically, it is easier said than done. When you are frustrated, it is very difficult ot stay positive and to manifest correctly. It is even more difficult if everything in surrounding is very negative. We might just start to attract negative things to our lives.

So, how do we stay positive in using the law of attraction? Here are few tips that you can quickly use manifest correctly.

1. Allow yourself to receive

To use the law of attraction, people will transmit their thoughts. If you keep on transmitting and requesting without pause, your mind will be too busy transmitting and forget to receive. Even if the universe were to respond and give, your mind would be too busy as you are not allowing yourself to receive. Just think of your desires and leave it out there. Go away, let the universe work on your desire. Believe that it will happen and expect for it to happen.

2. Be patient with yourself and the universe

Receiving takes time. In the modern society, people tend to work in instant mode. Everything has to be done and completed immediately. Working with the law of attraction takes time. It is not instant. You need to relax and be patient as everything in this world has a natural development time. By being patient, you will less likely to become frustrated and fall into the downward negative spiral.

3. Support and educate yourself

Many people think that the law of attraction (the secret) is the “be all and end all” solution. This is not true. It is just part of the nature fulfillment program. In order for the desire to be manifested, you also have to upgrade yourself to receive the manifestation. You have to also seek and be hungry for new knowledge to support what you desire for. Apart from receiving, you also need to support each other through your knowledge and ability.

The banner below has more information on helping you with business dream manifestation.

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