What niche can you be an expert in? Are you a person of many talents but master of none? Or can you delve into the darkest recesses of a subject and make it interesting to your readers? There is money to be made in niche markets and you can get world wide traffic from the search engines. So, take time out of your busy schedule today and evaluate your current niche. Should you go deeper? Can you go deeper?
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Niche Long Tail Strategy.
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When we are young we act impulsively and are so excited to be in the game that
we sometimes make bad decisions. We spend money impulsively and don't save
enough for a rainy day. If we want to start a business or grow a business then
we need to keep our money. What would experienced business people tell us about
succeeding?
Who do you go to when you have a tough decision to make? Do you talk with your
grandfather or dad? Do you have a mentor that can help you noodle out the right
choice?
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Business Lessons Learned from Experience.
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I almost missed it. I was so busy working on a new project that I hadn't been
spending much time looking at my stats pages. I knew it was coming. I had
calculated toward the end of July that somewhere mid-way through the month of
August I was going to go over the halfway goal for the year.
Officially, On August 7th, 2008 I achieved the distinction of having 500,000
Page Views for the year. Yahoo!!! Here is a brief rundown of my numbers.
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Five Hundred Thousand Page Views for 2008.
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A new search engine is open for business. If you are tired of Page Rank,
bullying and excessive fees for advertising with Google, then Cuil (pronounced
COOL) is the search engine for you. Cuil founders claim they have indexed 120
billion web pages. This is 3 times more than any other search engine.
Visual differences include search engine results in columns. Images attached to
each result. More relevant data in the search results rather than just the
results that have the most money or best SEO techniques.
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Former Google Employees Start New Search Engine.
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Entrecard speed droppers raise your bounce rate and COST YOU MONEY
Entrecard speed droppers raise your bounce rate and COST YOU MONEY. This
cutting edge technique promises to reduce your bounce rate before the weekend.
Here are proven tactics to increase visits to other pages within your own blog.
One of the bad things about Entrecard is the skyrocketing increase in bounce
rates that it causes. This shouldn't surprise you since there are 12,000
Entrecard members each trying to visit 300 pages everyday. What can you do to
decrease bounce rates or at the very least get your blog visitors to go to more
than one page?
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Drop Your Bounce Rate Quick and Easy.
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Using Testimonials to Grow Your Business
Why do testimonials work so well? Find out what the great copywriters of all
time have to say about testimonials later in this article. You might ask, who
are the great copywriters? Read more as we take you on a journey into the most
powerful tool at a copywriters disposal.
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How to Harness the Power of Testimonials and Social Proof.
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How Robo Basho and Non-alcoholic Wine can help you succeed
How to Overcome Failure and Become a Success. Research that has been done on
successful individuals has shown a few points of interest. You might believe
that the successful person has no problems and once they decided to do
something - success just happened.
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How to Overcome Failure and Become a Success.
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There are 4 types of people
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People that create ideas
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People that are on the cutting edge and embrace these ideas first
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People that are a little behind the curve on embracing these ideas
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People that embrace the idea long after their ability to use it profitably has
passed.
Are You a Member of the Cutting Edge?
What type of person are you? Are you cutting edge? Do you strive to be the
first to see first run movies? Are you just waiting for the 2009 cars to come
out so you can trade in your 2008? Are you looking at fuel cell cars? Have you
already installed IE8 or FireFox 3?
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Your Personal Bell Curve Score.
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What's the purpose of your web site or blog? Is it to entertain, educate, vent,
practice your writing, or what?
There are times when you need to stand back from your blogging and re-evaluate
your goal for blogging. Whether you started blogging a week ago, two months ago
or 5 years ago, self assessment is important to your success. Did you start out
with the goal to educate visitors on a certain subject; but, now you are only
venting about things you don't like? Were you interested in practicing your
writing, but you fall back into the same old habits you started with 4 years
ago?
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Your Blogging Purpose or Why Did You Start Blogging?.
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I was listening to the radio yesterday as my favorite radio personalities
interviewed Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune. They were talking about
online publishing (ie blogging) and how the printed newspapers were drying up
and dying. Clarence Page said, "You know our business model hasn't changed much
since Gutenberg invented the printing press."
Even the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers are going online. But, they all
are finding they can't make the same amount of money online as they do printing
newspapers. It is very clear that they are continually losing market share for
the printed paper. People are finding the information they want and need on the
internet.
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Printed Newspapers are Dying and How You Can Profit From It.
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Are you dissatisfied with the information available from Alexa as far as
viewing web traffic for blogs? I certainly know I am very dissatisfied with
Alexa. Well, there is a new sherrif in town and Alexa should be scared. The new
800 pound gorilla is none other than Google, which has just released their new
Google Trends for Websites.
Why should you care? It's backed by Google and it's free. Now you can compare
your web site or blog with your favorite competitor. How does your make money
blog compare to John Chow, John Cow or Problogger? Who has the most traffic?
Google has an answer.
The Google Trends for Websites is still in discovery mode. It is part of Google
Labs and as such will probably change over time. But, it has some cool features
including, a graph with your traffic or if you type in multiple domain names
you can graph you and your competitor's traffic side by side. Along with the
graph you will find a list of regions where your visitors come from, websites
your visitors also visited and some other search terms.
The data that is displayed comes from
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Google Trends Web Measurement Tool.
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Have you ever bought a plant for your yard or garden over the internet or even
by mail order? Does it scare you to try? It is actually very easy and if you
follow these simple steps you will be very happy with the beautiful bouquet of
sweet smelling flowers each summer. Here are some things to watch for to make
sure your transaction is a happy and successful one.
Here are a few areas you should watch for as you plan your purchases. Will you
be home when the plants are shipped? Do the plants come to you as root stock,
seeds or potted plants? What is the company's guarantee for the flowers? Does
the company have a reputable customer service department? Do they protect your
private information and do they have a privacy policy? How much does it cost to
ship the plants and how are they shipped? Are there times of the year when the
company doesn't ship anything?
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How to Buy a Perennial Over the Internet.
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This is a little how to on how you can get more traffic from using the service
known as Entrecard. For the purposes of this discussion I am going to assume
you already know what Entrecard is all about and you are just looking to drive
more traffic to your site.
The first thing you need to realize is that not all traffic is the same. In the
Entrecard community you have many different dropping techniques and everyone
thinks their technique is the best. I am not naive enough to think these are
the only methodologies, just some good things to think about.
Here are some dropping techniques:
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How to Drive Traffic with Entrecard.
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I received an email from the ExactTarget company this week that details new
changes coming from the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. These changes could affect your
blog right now.
What is Changing on July 7th?
** Any unsubscribe process can request only the recipient's email address and
any opt-out preference changes associated with their subscribed email address
** Any unsubscribe process that requires a recipient to provide more
information, or interact with more than a single web page, is prohibited.
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Changes To CAN-SPAM Act Might Affect Your Blog.
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Have you been to the Entrecard Forums recently? It is time to take another look
if it has been a while. There is a new forum that Entrecard Founder Graham has
been posting articles pretty regularly called
Entrecard Economy. Here Graham and the Entrecard Members discuss
ad pricing and drop values and more.
Graham is trying to find a way to make Entrecard better for it's members and is
looking for a way to monetize Entrecard. I suppose venture capitalists like to
see a profitable organization or at least one that has a future of
profitability.
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Time to Visit the Entrecard Forum for the First Time, Again.
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Well the first half of game 2 is over, the Celtics are up and the announcers
for ABC are whining like a couple of school girls. Dumbest comment by the
announcer. "We should not have a limit of fouls for the super stars like Kobe
Bryant." Really he said that. I didn't realize I was watching the Laker
network. I thought it was ABC Sports. Finally, the referees are actually
calling fouls on Kobe. He gets away with some of the worst fouls. He holds, he
pushes and whines and the referees never call him on anything. Finally some
referees with some kahunas.
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New NBA Logo.
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A group of us were talking basketball at work on friday and we began discussing
the NBA logo. One of the guys, Jeff, said it was based upon the famous, Jerry
West poster. He forwarded the photo and the logo and you can definitely see the
similarities.
I remember that Jerry West was huge in the 60's with a tremendous work ethic.
Jerry West and the LA Lakers were synomous with the success of the NBA.
But, if the logo was reworked today would it be ....
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New NBA Logo.
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I got a good laugh the other day when I was reading a blog entry and someone
said they received a Seth Godin action figure from their father.
Let's face it, you have made it to the big time when you have your very own
action figure. How good of a marketing person do you have to be to make it
profitable to have your own action figure?
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Seth Godin Action Figure.
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"A person who is focused of average intelligence can run circles around the
genius who doesn't have the focus."
Brian Tracy - Absolutely Unbeatable Laws of Business Success
Are you focused? "Focused on what," you might ask? Are you focused on what you
are planning on eating for supper tonight? Focused on what is on TV? Focused on
what your spouse is saying to you right now?
People Who Succeed in Life Are Not All Super Geniuses
I think the comment is designed to help you realize that the people who succeed
in life are not all super geniuses that you and I could never match up with. We
all have innate talents and abilities. If we learn to harvest that ability then
we can succeed.
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How to Beat a Genius - Work Habits of the Successful Web Entrepreneur.
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Tunnel View and Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley's
Tunnel View gives you a panoramic wonderland showing off El
Capitan, Half Dome, and Bridalveil Fall. Yosemite Valley demonstrates the
effects of glaciers with Bridalveil Fall a classic example of a hanging valley.
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Ten Sun Loving Perennials
Here is a great list of 10 sun loving perennials you can place in those hot dry
areas of your garden. These
ten sun loving perennials will provide a rich color and interest
from Spring to late fall. The birds and butterflies will love being in your
yard. All 10 perennials require little water and care, but will show you a
bounty of flowers and interest.
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Question of the Day
How do you designate a method as Abstract?
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Answers from Yesterday's Question of the Day
What is the visibility of a member declared as public?
Public designation allows a member to be accessed by the member methods
of other classes.
Previous Questions of the Day
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