Effective Internet Marketing - Proven Strategies To Increase Your Income

Effective Internet marketing is a process of using any number of traffic generation methods for gaining visitors to your website. This often includes free methods such as article marketing, social media, forums or video - as well as paid advertising solutions such as Google's AdWords. Your time and budget will initially determine which choice you make - although there are also benefits to using various methods of generating traffic from a combination of sources. This article will outline some of the key points to keep in mind when it comes to effective Internet marketing.

Effective Internet marketing through generating traffic from free sources largely revolves around the concept of giving informative or interesting content in return for visitors to your website. Utilising article marketing is perhaps the most commonly used method of generating traffic in this fashion. It also provides the added benefits of quality back-links for your search engine optimisation strategies - which can be provided through other webmasters publishing your article as well as the initial link article directories allow you to have from your article. While not providing the same benefits in terms of back-links and search engine optimisation, marketing by offering similar content through video is growing increasingly popular. The primary goal behind most strategies employing this method is to create a video that will likely inspire viewers to send it to someone else upon viewing it, potentially resulting in a lot of viewers who subsequently visit your website in a short period of time.

Effective Internet marketing is growing less common through paid advertising services such as Google's AdWords. While it does offer benefits in that you can get a high number of targeted visitors to your website very quickly - it is growing increasingly out of the budget for the average marketer who runs a small business on their own. It is now primarily recommended as a quick way to test how your website performs in terms of converting visitors into buyers, and then make adjustments to increase its effectiveness.

Building a list is an important part of any effective Internet marketing. This commonly involves placing an opt-in form on your site and providing some incentive such as a free guide or sample tutorial video for them to join your subscriber base. Implementing a list is an important method to stay in touch with your website's visitors and keep them interested in what you have to offer.

Any form of effective Internet marketing should be designed to provide you with a high amount of website visitors that eventually convert into buying customers. Using methods to generate traffic from a wide range of sources will allow you to reach as many potential customers as possible, which will ultimately result in a much higher level of income.

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Use Custom Automation Of Your Spreadsheet Reports To Drive Down Costs And Increase Your Profits

Who Needs To Read This Article?

You will find this article of considerable reading value, if you belong to at least ONE of the following spreadsheet user categories: Owners of Small Businesses - Restaurants/Bars, Hotels, Hospitals, Factories, Consultants etc; Decision Makers/Job Holders in Corporations - Materials Managers, Sales/Marketing Analysts, Financial Analysts/Accountants, Project Engineers; And Anyone desiring to make BETTER sense - and use - of data!

Spreadsheet Automation Facilitates EFFORTLESS Data Handling, Analysis & Report Generation!

Sometimes people don't really care about learning(or using) all the "cool' advanced functions, formulas and techniques in the spreadsheet application they use for their work. They just want to punch in their relevant raw data - at any time - and immediately see the computed results generated by the spreadsheet in a manner that can facilitate their important decision making.

At times, they would prefer to click a button that says "Print ABC", or "Print XYZ" report, instead of having to crawl all over the huge spreadsheet(and get "lost" every now and then), to highlight and print different report pages. Using a custom built data entry form to make data entries into 14 different cells in different parts of a table(at the same time/with one click) would, for them, be "heaven" compared to making the entries one at a time.

This article is meant for those individuals/businesses who sometimes experience a need to use their spreadsheets in the (somewhat "impersonal"?) manner described above, to get the results they want. That need would often arise out of their lack of requisite skills to get the spreadsheet to behave the way they want - or limited time to devote towards incorporating necessary automation to make it do so.

In my article titled You Can Increase Your Profits Without Changing Your Prices, I ended with the following summary:

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If You Remember Nothing Else, Remember The Following:

1. One good way to maintain and/or significantly increase your profits without raising your prices, is to reduce your Variable Costs(VCs).

2. You can reduce your variable costs by marketing more efficiently (getting more customers at lesser cost, AND maintaining them at lower expense). I once read an article that proposed a new parameter COCS: Cost Of Customers Sold or Served). This could be adopted as a Key Performance Indicator(KPI).

3. You can also reduce your variable costs by innovating more(i.e. developing greater efficiency in your routine internal operations and/or product/service delivery). That way, you would be able to produce/deliver more products and/or services with less effort, in less time, and using less resources. All of these would imply LOWER expenses/costs, leading to INCREASED profit retention per unit of product/service sold.

4. There is saying that: "You cannot manage something, if you do not measure it. Nor can you measure it, if you do not record it". Spreadsheet tracking will help you conveniently implement and sustain the process of monitoring, controlling and/or reducing your VCs. You will need to do this so as to constantly evaluate progress of your VC monitoring/control and reduction initiatives.

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A DIFFERENT Type Of Automation

The approach to spreadsheet automation that I refer to, is one that seeks to provide functional spreadsheet automation alternatives for ANY spreadsheet user task(s). Typically, solutions like this would require the developer to study existing manual data recording, analysis and report generation systems, then plan - in consultation with users - for incorporation of automation into the spreadsheet to replace them, where possible.

Custom spreadsheet solutions which survive long after the developer has "left the scene", are often those which users accept because they discover it - among other benefits - makes their work quicker and easier to do. That is why the best person to develop such solutions tend to be one who works in that area, and is therefore familiar with the way the manual system operates. S/he would have an "insider's" perspective of the best way to introduce automation other users will readily adopt - even as it solves the identified problem(s).

In effect what I am saying is that companies which get the most value from spreadsheet automation(including using it to avoid expenditure on less adaptable commercial off the shelf applications) will be those which empower their users to routinely generate "in house" solutions. In such companies, you will find that only when the requirement becomes considerably specialised or complex, does the IT department get called upon to develop or purchase software solutions for user departments or functions with significant data recording and analysis needs.

So, (when considering the automation I speak about) do not think about spreadsheet documents containing one or two click-able buttons that allow a user print a page or copy some cells from one sheet to another. Instead, I want you to picture an application(or Entreprise Information System) that customises the appearance of your spreadsheet workspace(to take advantage of maximum screen capital available on your PC), and offers you custom "floating" data entry forms.

In addition, visualise it having dynamic query/report drop menu interfaces, and a variety of custom buttons: for navigation(within and between worksheets), printing, data export (as PDF documents or spreadsheet files), saving, auto-data filtering, auto-charts plotting, auto-backup of files, user login authentication (for documents with sensitive or confidential content) etc.

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How A Well Known Corporate Multinational Used Spreadsheet Tracking/Automation To Repeatedly Cut Spending - And Increase Profits

During my graduate training(while in paid employment), I was redeployed from Guinness Nigeria Plc's corporate headquarters training office(in Lagos) to the Benin brewery training department (in Edo state), where I was assigned the - additional - job of using a custom Lotus macros driven Variable Cost Analysis spreadsheet application to generate brewery reports for dispatch to headquarters.

The assignment was not an accident. Before being redeployed to Benin brewery, I had been involved in "validating" the numerous complex formulas in the custom Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application during its development. The author - Richard Chambers - was at the time in charge(as Training Coordinator) of training new entrants, and upon discovering my keen interest in learning, often gave me his laptop to "proof" formulas, links etc. It was he who had told his counterpart in Benin brewery(Joe Sheehy) that I could help out with a problem they were having using the application. And I did resolve the problem - resulting in my subsequently becoming responsible for the reports collation using the application.

Variable Costs Control/Reduction was a strategy that worked extremely well for the company. Most memorable for me as a brewer, was the manner in which huge monetary savings/profit gains were made by successfully implementing variable cost reduction initiatives. For instance, a brewing ingredient switch was made to a more readily available local alternative which was many times cheaper, resulting in phenomenal savings and progressively increasing profit earnings even though the price of beer produced was not raised. This practice was routinely applied across the brewing and packaging processes in line with a well thought out plan.

To elaborate further: A one-page Variable Costs Analysis report sheet automatically generated by the custom spreadsheet application I earlier described, was a powerful tool used by top management to quickly assess performances of individual breweries. Among other benefits, the report made it quite easy to realistically compare sister breweries in different locations(even across countries) based on common denominators. Apart from summarising brewing/packaging materials in two groups -

"Over-used/Over-spent"(Losses) and "Under-used/Under-spent"(Savings) - on a monthly basis based on data entered, the program also automatically plotted charts showing trends over a 12 month period.

The visiting head of the technical function only needed to look at the most recently plotted point on the chart (relative to preceding ones) for a Key Performance Indicator like

Cost per Hectolitres brewed(One Hectolitre = 100 Litres), to know if the brewery had stayed within the approved upper limit of spend(plotted as a straight line target across the same period) or not. Discussions would then take place based on identified "Exceptions"(which could be "good" e.g. savings made or "bad" e.g. monetary loss due to materials over-used), and "Actions To Be Taken" to correct or maintain observed performances agreed upon.

Spreadsheet Tracking As A Crucial Element For Business Development

There are ways you can use spreadsheets to record and track materials usages/stocks, product sales, and other business data such that discrepancies will be easily detected when they do occur. The use of spreadsheets when properly done, can help to uncover the cause(s) of "losses" in virtually any aspect of a business operation.

1. The Pareto Principle - Using spreadsheet tracking, you can easily apply the Pareto principle in deciding which of your income sources and expense channels(i.e. products and services sales) to focus on in order to maximize profits. Considering that you are most likely to use the same marketing/sales resources to serve your customers, it only follows that if you focus on your biggest margin selling products/services, you will get increased profits at more or less the same cost.

One Possible Application: Plotting a pie chart based on income contributions from all your products and services(daily, weekly or monthly), and reviewing the automatically computed percentages/visual pie slices, can give very illuminating insight.

The 80:20 Pareto principle is based on Pareto's theory that 80% of the results one gets in a particular endeavour will be mainly due to 20% of areas to which one has applied efforts. In business this principle has been found to be true. Your data, properly converted into appropriate performance indicators, will show you where your largest margins come from. You can then channel more time and effort in that direction.

For instance if a company had five drink brands in the market but notices that Brand A, which has a profit margin of at least twice the others is in greatest demand, they could (a) focus production efforts on that brand, so that more bottles go out to trade (b) Apply Best Practice/Continuous Improvement initiatives that would result in lower costs of producing each bottle of Brand A so that even though the market price remains fixed, the company is able to earn increasing profit margins per bottle.

2. Sourcing Capital - For Expansion or Startup. You can make it easier for banks and prospective investors to back you financially and/or take the decision to buy into your business. Those already running their businesses will know that banks like to see detailed business records that show in real terms all aspects of a business' performance. Without detailed and comprehensive spreadsheet tracking, it might be difficult to show this. Agreed there are software applications that capture most of these. However, sometimes, you want to highlight certain scenarios or trends in a way that an off-the-shelf application cannot accommodate due to the uniqueness of your need. It is in this regard that the use of spreadsheet tracking becomes relevant.

The intelligent use of spreadsheets, combined with the application of the 80:20 rule will help to achieve the foregoing and more. One does not need any expert to start doing these things today. Just take the decision to start keeping daily, accurate records and commit to analysing them. You'll be surprised to find that you will soon become much more aware of how you're doing and what aspects of your business you should focus on more to get better returns for your efforts - and you will be able to confidently supply verifiable/authentic financial data to back up any claims you make about your business performance to bankers or prospective investors.

Deciding What Spreadsheet Application To Use

This would ultimately be up to you. The big "fight" has always been between Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel. I started out with Lotus 1-2-3 back in 1993 and learnt Lotus Macros programming(via self-tutoring). I eventually used this skill to develop - in my free time - various custom spreadsheet solutions(that were formally adopted for use in the departments I worked in as a brewer/manager in Guinness), before switching to Microsoft Excel in 2001. Subsequently, I developed my Excel Visual Basic spreadsheet programming skills (also via self-tutoring), because the company had chosen to adopt MS Office during the roll over to year 2000.

I believe using either of these two applications should not pose any problems for implementing your spreadsheet automation ideas. This is because both have always been "friendly", towards making it easy for users to get more functionality out of them by way of custom programming.

You can choose to learn how to do it yourself - or call in someone(an Excel VB Solutions Developer for instance) who knows how. Again, this would be dependent on your purpose, how proficient you are, and/or how much time you have at your disposal. Ultimately, even if someone develops a custom application for you, it should happen with YOUR guidance at every point to ensure that it does EXACTLY what you want it to do, and that you can easily - with your developer's support/coaching - learn how to make modifications to it in future, without needing to call back your developer.

This last point in my opinion is ONE major benefit you must seek to extract, if you choose to engage the services of a developer. S/he should be able to help you develop (in-house) expertise needed to maintain the application AFTER s/he is gone. If you fail to ensure this, all your cost-savings from using the application might end up being spent paying the developer to maintain the application over time in the future!

From this point on, I will refer to only one of the above mentioned applications, because it is my preferred work environment. That is Microsoft Excel. I believe users of other spreadsheet applications will be able to adapt whatever I say from here for use in their own peculiar environments.

Automating Your Spreadsheet Document : What is Excel VB?

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for recording, organising/re-organising, analysing and presenting information. By Excel VB, I refer to Excel VBA - where VBA means Visual Basic for Applications(VBA). VBA refers to the highly extensive and flexible macro programming language developed by Microsoft for use in their MS office applications - Word, Power Point, etc.

VBA is therefore different from the Standalone Visual Basic program used(by professional programmers) for developing commercial quality software applications - though it borrows many of the latter's features. Think of Excel VBA as being the standalone Visual Basic software, built into Excel for the benefit of Excel users who are not necessarily programmers, but who are keen to exert more control over the application.

So, Excel VB offers any interested users the necessary tools to make the application deliver more functionality. The final product is still an Excel document, but with extra functionalities added using VBA.

Why Excel Visual Basic - and NOT Visual Basic?

1. I always answer this question by asking the following question: What would be the point of "Killing A Fly With A Hammer"?

Let me elaborate. If a method is available that allows us to achieve the same desired result(s) at LOWER cost, with LESS effort and in LESS time, why should we fail to adopt it?

Certain IT persons insist that developing executable applications using the standalone Visual Basic programming language is "better" as it does not limit the user to a particular user application software environment. I concede that this might be a valid point under certain conditions. However, I point out that there are many users who have peculiar needs that do not necessarily require complex solutions.

A lot of people today simply want to get their data recording, (re)organisation, and analysis for decision making done quicker and with less effort. They also want to spend as little money as possible to do this. In other words, they want a cost-effective solution that gives them independence from the solution provider in the long term - without requiring them to undertake laborious skills acquisition immediately.

This category of everyday users of technology described above are the ones I believe need Excel VB solutions of the type I describe. One expects that some of these users will over time develop an interest in acquiring advanced skills needed to develop their own solutions in future - which is why I also encourage them to do so, possibly via self-tutoring, like I did.

2. Another question I ask, in answering the "Why Excel VB?" question is : "Why re-invent the wheel? "

My experiences(and those of others who favour the use of Excel VB like I do), confirm that to organise, and analyse data for (financial/management) report generation and decision making, you will save hundreds of hours using already in-built, pre-programmed Excel functions compared to a situation where you used Visual Basic proper.

All the functions needed to achieve the above purposes already exist in Excel, so that you don't have to write them all from scratch as would be the case if you were to use Visual Basic.

3.It works even when you lack "In House" expertise

For the purpose of creating custom financial and business management solutions that solve your identified problems, and give you control/ownership, without burning a hole in your pocket, Excel VB offers an amazing variety of possibilities, in the hands of an adequately skilled user.

In addition, an Excel VB developer( who in many cases will tend to be a user turned developer, and is therefore likely to easily see things from your perspective) - unlike a programmer - is more likely to be positively disposed to working with you to ensure the application meets your practical needs. S/he will readily understand that the final application is meant to help solve a real problem(s), and will therefore build it to match those expectations.

It's not enough to have a professional with the technical skills to solve your problem. s/he also needs to have the right attitude and background/experience - else the relationship will not work. This is where an Excel VB resource is more likely to add value to you. Most Excel VB Developers have backgrounds in management, accounting, engineering and other fields, which further equips them to be useful to you in "thinking up" better ways to apply your spreadsheet automation to get the most value for your business. You therefore need to choose the right developer, with the appropriate background to match your needs.

I believe the foregoing are compelling justifications for choosing Excel Visual Basic over Visual Basic.

Get Maximum Returns On Your Investment In Spreadsheet Automation By Developing "In House" Expertise

Organisations can deliberately expose their employees to learning events(or self-help tutorials) on spreadsheet solutions development. Such employees can then be challenged to develop in-house solutions that effectively address the business' peculiar data analysis/report-generation needs as they arise.

A person with proven competence in this area CAN become "notorious" for developing spreadsheet applications, which eliminate drudgery from the process of using MS Excel to handle large amounts of data. Typically, work that takes hours or days will suddenly take minutes or seconds to finish.

The claims I make above are NOT exaggerated. They are in fact based on my personal experiences doing the foregoing (a). As an manager in the challenging, fast-paced manufacturing work environment of a corporate multinational (b). As a solutions developer for individuals and businesses who use MS Excel for their work.

I am keen to encourage individuals and organisations to explore using advanced MS Excel formulas and functions, in conjunction with Excel VBA programming, to develop customised spreadsheet applications that will solve typical problems end-users encounter daily in trying to record/analyse data and generate reports.

The savings - from using your "in house" expertise - in terms of money and man-hours alone, will quickly justify the investment you make in "developing the needed skills" - especially, when you compare what you spend with the cost of purchasing a commercial software application - or even engaging the services of an Excel VB developer.

Summary

The key imperative for most people who handle business data is often "how to use it" to monitor - and where feasible - control performance i.e. they study/anticipate trends in a way that helps decision making towards ensuring REPRODUCTION of desired results, while minimising - or eliminating - undesirable ones.

You CAN transform the way you manage/analyse data(or generate reports) in your business today - and get more usable benefits to the extent that your profits increase. One major step you can take towards achieving this purpose, will be to intelligently use spreadsheet automation to improve data handling/analysis and report generation systems in your business operations - while empowering yourself and/or staff to acquire skills needed to maintain the developed spreadsheet solutions for the future.

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Announcing 6 Authentic Ways to Increase Your EBay Income

Others resort to eBay if they need to put away a number of items they no longer want to use. However, for some, it's a very profitable business. To ensure 100% success when doing eBay, here are 6 right ways to do just exactly that:

1. Answer e-mails promptly. Replying to your prospective clients' inquiry, mostly done through email, is a great way to build customer trust. Make it a habit to check your inbox everyday and reply to each email within 24 hours.

2. Allow your customers to pay online. A lot of customers prefer to pay items online, especially through credit cards. You can sign up in a number of online payment service such as Paypal which is proven to be one of the most safest and cost-effective means to pay online.

3. Increase your website traffic. How do you increase sales if you can't increase your traffic? So load your product descriptions and title with keywords. Join affiliate programs, or write articles with appropriate link pointing to you eBay page.

4. Be fair and honest. When writing your product descriptions, be accurate and concise as much as possible. Most of all, don't add hype. This can surely pull down your credibility.

5. Think of the season. Fit your products to the season. So don't sell ear muffs on July or swimsuits on December. However, you have to ensure that you can already stock these items early so that there will be no problems when it comes to shipping.

6. Sell similar products simultaneously. Oftentimes customers would like to buy other products that may be interesting to them. It works well for both sellers and customers. Customers can save postage costs while sellers can keep packing costs just by shipping items together.

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Increase Your Income From Home Business

This is an overview of the eight steps you need to take in order to start and grow a more profitable online home business:

Find a niche market -- BEFORE you decide what to sell

Write compelling sales copy that attracts visitors

Design an effective site that converts visitors into buyers

Use the top search engines to drive tons of targeted traffic to your site

Tap into sources of cheap and free traffic

Use email marketing to communicate with visitors and convert them to buyers

Grow your business by selling new products to your existing customer base

Harness the power of affiliate programs for hands-free traffic and sales!

Anyone, from newbie to seasoned marketer, can benefit from going through these proven series of steps. No matter where you are in your home based business, it always pays to revisit the basics and make sure you're doing everything possible to grow your home business and increase your income opportunity from home.

I believe strongly in testing. Most email software these days allows you to test absolutely every single aspect of your marketing efforts -- so you can discover exactly what is working and what is NOT. When it comes to your email campaigns, I strongly urge you to test as many different elements as possible:

The email: Be sure to test different email messages to see which one encourages the greatest number of buyers through to your sales letter.

The Subject lines: This is the first point of contact with your audience. Your subject line has to grab their attention and encourage them to open your email!

The offer: Try testing different price points, different bonuses to go along with your main product, different product "bundles" -- as many variables as you can come up with.

The list: Send the same offer to different segments of your list (e.g., your customers vs. your subscribers)

The calls to action: You never know what language is going to get your readers to click on your call to action! Maybe they'll respond to a simple "click here." Or maybe they like more casual language, such as "check it out by visiting..." Maybe they don't need the URL written out for them -- or maybe they do. The only way to know for sure is to test different calls to action -- and see which works best for you!

The Best Timing: Which day of the week yields the best response? And which time of day? Will you get better results if you send on Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. -- or Sunday at 11:30 in the morning? Once again, the only way to know for sure is to TEST. Most email marketing solutions allow you to do this kind of testing. If yours doesn't, it's time for you to start looking for a new software package or service provider.

A responsive email list = more Income for you!

Follow the rules! These are the international laws that outline what email campaigns can and cannot do in order to avoid being labeled as spammers.

At any moment we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any moment we wish, we can open a book that will expose our mind to new knowledge. Any moment we wish, we can start a new a campaign. Any moment we wish, we can start the process of business change. We can do it today or next year, but time is the only resource that once lost can never be regained.

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Increase Car MPG - 9 Effective Ways to Increase Gas Mileage

There are a lot of methods to Increase Car MPG or rather increase gas mileage, you probably have read or heard all the methods somewhere, since they sound so trivial, you might be ignoring it. Some of them do not work and some of them work, if you just implement four to five of these methods consistently, saving hundreds a year is not impossible.

Tuning up your engine, this does a big effect to increase gas mileage (incorrect fuel ratio, spark timing and plugs can affect the MPG of your car)
Stop turning on the engine when you are not driving and avoid stop you might want to take alternative routes (traffic jam is bad for your emotional state and your car MPG, and indirectly affect your income)
Use a good oil (synthetic oil with a friction that reduces oil additive has been proven to increase car MPG by 10%)
Reduce weight in your car (forbid people to take a ride!!, I mean remove unnecessary objects from your car)
Make use your cruise control whenever it is possible
Reducing resistance while traveling, pay attention whether your tires are properly inflated
Never Use Your air conditioner (I know it is impossible, but you can use it less, right?)
Help your engine overcome the gravity while climbing hill, you only need to close your windows
Can You keep your highway speed at 55-60 mph? It could increase gas mileage by 25% (are you shocked? Everyone knows it is tough)

Do they sound very hard to implement? Increase car MPG by doing them consistently would be tough, you might be able to do it in the first two weeks but after that, I am sure most people will give up.

There is no reason for you to lose hope though, you can increase car MPG with a hidden secret method (actually it is well known), which is to run car on water.

Is it possible to run car on water?

Yes, it is. In fact this technology was invented 80 years ago but it was kept secret because of some political reasons. Today with the power of the internet, people can get the guide easily and enjoy their life, in which they do not have to worry about rising gas price.

Running car on water with hydrogen on demand system can increase gas mileage by 100%, it has been proven. As a matter fact, CNN has interviewed a guy that has managed to convert his car to run on water and save hundreds of Dollars every month.

Amazingly you do not have to spend $1000 instead you only need to spend $150 for a complete hydrogen on demand system. The interesting part is that you can claim your IRS tax refund (for driving a more environment friendly car) and keep even more money in your pocket. What would you do if you can increase car MPG and save money massively?

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7 Proven Cost-Effective Ways to Increase the Value of Your Home

Real Estate remains an excellent investment most of the time. If you can afford to purchase home, you may want to purchase a home. Check if you can afford a home every now and then. Land values appreciate over a period of time. Thus, the land values do not appreciate all the time. In an economic downturn, the land values depreciate. Luckily, there are things that you can do to appreciate your real estate property regardless of economic situation.

First, figure out your priority and budget. List the project in priority sequence. Second, watch out on overspending. Look at the market value around your neighborhood. Suppose the market value around your neighborhood comes to $300,000 and the market value of you home comes to $200,000, try not to spend over the potential capital gains ($300,000 - $200,000). In worst case, the seller gets back 40% to 90% on how much you spend to improve the value of the house. Otherwise, you get the maximum capital gains ($300,000 - $200,000). Third, spend on what gives an excellent first impression. This pertains to what you can see as oppose to hidden things. Finally, improve to increase the potential income. Appraiser analyses if the addition would increase income. For example, you added a carport. A carport increase rental income at least $100 per month.

1. Tidy up the property
When the potential buyer drives past your home and your home looks like a garbage dump, the potential buyer just drives past your home without bothering to check the home. So, rake the leaves, clean up the garbage, and take off the weeds.

2. Neat Landscape
A manicured lawn, trees, and flowers bring peace and relaxation effect to the buyer. A great landscape adds $7,000 to the price of home value.

3. Paint the interior and exterior
New paint draws potential buyers and improves curb appeal. Use a different color on windows and doors to provide contrast. And, new paint seems to increase the size of the interior.

4. Tile around fire place or add a fireplace
Build character to your place by tiling around the fireplace. If you are going to add a fireplace, try to use non-gas fake fireplace. Since oil and gas prices increase all the time, buyer stays away from gas fireplace.

5. Hard-wood floors and wood paneling
Wood panel adds warmth for $500 to you kitchen, while Hard-wood floors adds elegance for $1000 to room.

6. Power-wash and refinish wood deck
Power-wash removes dirt, algae, mold, mildew, and stains on the wood deck. Vibrant wood color comes alive when you refinish the coatings.

7. New Carport
It pays to erect a new carport. It only takes four poles and roof. With an erected carport, you can easily convert to a garage by enclosing the carport and adding a gate.

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Article Marketing: Effective Strategy To Increase Website Traffic And Increase Business Income

Is article marketing still an effective strategy to increase website traffic and lead to an increase in potential business income in today's fast-paced technical environment? It can be, if done correctly and in conjunction with some other online marketing strategies.

Put quite simply, article marketing is a traffic generator. It is specifically designed to build an online presence for your website and drive traffic to that website in order to convert traffic to customers. The savvy internet article marketer will develop a strategy to incorporate article writing with video marketing and search engine optimization (SEO).

The key to effective article marketing is optimization. You must understand key words and how they affect the success of your article, and consequently, your website traffic. Maximized articles will ideally contain two percent "key word rich" content that will be published on an articles managing platform such as EzineArticles. These articles go out into the Internet for all time, helping to establish your online presence, add to your credibility, driving traffic to a specific website, and, ultimately, increasing sales, thus leading to an increase in business income.

A successful business marketing strategy will also incorporate the use of video marketing, such as YouTube, along with a Social Media marketing campaign. The success of Facebook and Twitter among big corporation advertising has been phenomenal, so it certainly is understandable that smaller businesses would build a marketing strategy incorporating these options.

There is a lot to learn in the world of article marketing and how to best put your skills to use. There is certainly a learning curve involved while learning the terminology and different strategies. You may experience "information overload" as there are so many directions you can take your marketing strategies. Each internet marketing "guru" has his own idea of what will make you an "Instant Millionaire." Stay focused on your basic internet article marketing skills and realize that you will NEVER wake up one morning with a million dollars and a mansion. It is hard work, and it does take time, but the pay-off is there and you can increase your profits.

Using article marketing is still the most effective, proven way to increase traffic to your website, and increase your business income through your online exposure.

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2 Popular Ways to Increase Your Penis Size - Do Either of These Enlargement Methods Work?

Who else wants to take a look at even MORE ways to increase your penis size from home? If you are anything like most of our readers, you certainly want to do exactly that.....and more! But with so many male enhancement methods on the market today, it becomes VERY important to separate the ones that WORK...from those that are simply set up to "work you" out of your hard earned income and energy. Let's look at 2 popular choice for men looking to enlarge their anatomies, and see if there is any truth to their claims. Read on..:-)

Penis Enlargement Pills

Yes, these are the pills you pop to enlarge your penis from home....usually, as advertised, by engorging your member with blood while erect. But do they work you want to know? In our experience, sadly...the answer is NO! (unless you are taking them for sexual dysfunction - which is a totally DIFFERENT breed of drugs, which ARE indeed effective) Most penis enlargement pills are nothing more that herbs, supplements and other ingredients that are purported to dialtate the blood vessels and allow more blood to flow to the penis. While this can conceivably occur, there is NO long term (no pun intended..:-) size gains that occur as a result.

Topical and Trans dermal Patches and Potions:

Does applying a gelatinous cream or ointment on your pelvis enlarge your penis? The answer, unfortunately is a resounding no..:-) While these products would in fact be a dream come true if they worked - the simple truth is that the only thing PROVEN to grow from patches are the bank accounts of the people who are selling them! Again, as we've recommended to MANY men who've used patches and potions in the past, simple and natural male enhancement exercise is a FAR more sound strategy for getting great gains than this is..:-)

As with everything else in the Men's health domain, knowledge is POWER, and information is EVERYTHING!

And remember, with our modern day understanding of anatomy, and the variety of holistic, alternative, natural approaches to OPTIMIZING our bodies in all sorts of ways...it is now common practice for men everywhere, who know how - to systematically improve, build and increase our penis size and do it quickly.

The need for creams, hanging weights and other esoteric methods are not only strange and potentially dangerous - they are also finally completely obsolete and unnecessary.

So while they may be laughing at you behind your back...trust me, they won't be for long! Take a little bit of time and learn how your anatomy works, and how simple exercises and optimizations you can make, everyday can yield a RADICAL increase in your penis size without the worry. I did...and it was the best decision I ever made!!

You Can Increase Your Profits Without Raising Your Prices

This Article Is Based On Proven Real-Life Practice

The ideas, concepts and strategies I advocate for adoption in this article are based on proven practice. In fact, the case study and specific analogies used are based on real-life activities that I personally partook in over a period of six years, as a manager in a large blue-chip multinational brewing company. Read my article titled "Use Custom Automation Of Your Spreadsheet Reports To Drive Down Costs And Increase Your Profits" for additional details of my experiences in this area, while in paid employment.

What you learn from reading the above mentioned article, will hopefully encourage you to seriously explore ways to put the information provided in this article to good use for your business. The principles described below can be successfully adapted to virtually any business operation - be it service or production based.

If you need any help with thinking up ways/means of putting them to use, I would be pleased to help out.

Case Study

"Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two - basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the others are costs" - Peter Drucker

What follows is a bit of a simplistic example, but it serves the intended purpose of providing a basis for the following discussion. The logic on which this analogy is based can be applied to any situation.

African Arts Concepts Limited (a hypothetical company) uses three raw materials, A, B and C in producing their flagship brand Product Z - which sells for N14,000 naira (about $100 equivalent, using a N140.00 Naira to $1.00 US dollar currency conversion rate) per unit - in the following combination:

5 lengths of material A(N2,500.00) + 1 kg of material B(N1,500.00) + 20 pieces of material C(N,2500.00) = 1 unit of Product Z(N6,500.00 Naira or $46.43 US Dollars).

Assume other (say operational and marketing) expenses amount to N500 per unit of Product Z , the Cost Price for one unit would be N7,000.00($50.00) - approximately. That means whenever 1 unit of Product Z is sold, a gross profit of N7,000 (N14,000 - N7,000) or $50.00 USD is made by African Arts Concepts Ltd.

THE PROBLEM (Common To Many Businesses)

Now imagine that a staff of African Arts Concepts Limited begins to over use (and this does happen!) material B by say 0.5kg for every unit of Product Z. The usage cost for(i.e. cost of using) Material B per unit of Product Z produced will become N2,250(N1,500.00 plus N750.00) .

5 lengths of material A(N2,500.00) + 1 kg of material B(N1,500.00) + 0.5 kg of material B(unrecorded N750.00 usage cost ) + 20 pieces of material C(N2,500.00) = 1 unit of Product Z(N7,250.00 Naira or $51.79 US Dollars).

Adding the other (operational and marketing) expenses of N500 per unit of Product Z, would bring the cost price/unit of Product Z to N7,750($55.4 USD), instead of N7,000($50.00 US Dollars). In otherwords, the company incurs an - unnecessary - N750 or $5.4 US Dollars additional cost to produce EACH unit of Product Z.

That extra $5.4 would most likely be LOST because:

(a). African Arts Concepts Limited may not detect it - except they have monitoring systems(e.g. a custom automated Variable Cost Analysis Spreadsheet) set up to alert them to such occurrences.

That batch of Product Z will therefore still be sold for $100.00 US Dollars per unit(a 20% LOSS).

(b). Even if it is detected, little can be done to correct it for batches that would already have been produced BEFORE discovery/correction of the problem.

Multiple Negative Consequences

If continued unchecked, this over usage can quickly cause huge losses: Multiply the N750 naira ($5.4 USD) over usage by say 1000 units of Z produced in a month and you get N750,000($5,400 USD) - lost unknowingly.(That $5,400 USD over usage equates to losing 54 market ready units of Product Z!).

What will typically happen is that at the end of the month, the company would find that they have 500kg LESS of material B left than expected. This would subsequently require them to make an additional unplanned purchase of material B using money budgeted for other purposes - thereby disrupting cash flow etc.

The foregoing is one major reason why some businesses that appear to be doing well suddenly go under, or record low profits/losses! They fail to keep a grip on their real costs of operation. What has been described here is applicable to virtually any type of business - be it service or product based. One only needs to change the items of income and expenditure considered in delivering the relevant product/service.

Question: How Do I Prevent A Problem Like The One Above Happening To Me?

Answer: By Adopting Variable Costs(VC) Monitoring/Control Techniques.

I like to think of Variable Costs, from a lay man's perspective, as those expenses you incur, which can(and do) vary depending on your ability to find cheaper yet equally - if not more - effective ways to do what you do, when compared to your current methods.

To implement a VC Monitoring/Control system, you can follow the steps outlined below - making needed adjustments to suit the peculiarities of your unique situation or need (Note that the use of spreadsheets is integral to the approach I recommend, as it facilitates sustainability of systems set up).

Step 1 : Collate Relevant Data in Spreadsheets : Start recording and analysing your business revenue and daily operating expenses, including variable cost elements such as how much you spend on marketing, transportation, phone calls, materials usage etc. You can easily do this by creating Excel spreadsheets with raw data entry interfaces linked to standard reporting templates(which generate meaningful output from formulas applied to your raw data).

For best results, you might find recording materials usages in the same spreadsheet, with their corresponding prices helps in deriving expenses relevant to materials usages(by simple linking of cells to be multiplied e.g. "Kgs" used by price per kg).

Step 2 : Benchmark Your Process : You will also need to do some benchmarking by obtaining detailed industry data for businesses similar to yours. Using that data, you would derive weighted averages, upper and lower control limits etc. These could then be charted in your spreadsheet using actual data you would periodically post. Your objective in managing your business/process would then be to ensure your Key Performance Indicators(KPIs) fall between the established control limits implying that it is performing optimally.

If during your daily, weekly or monthly recording and monitoring, you then notice any of your charted KPIs deviating outside the favourable range, you would be able to quickly investigate and correct the problem before it goes too far. In the case study used above for example, if a target usage rate of material B per unit of Product Z produced had been routinely recorded in a spreadsheet, and plotted on say a Schewart chart, the CONTINUOUS over usage of 0.5kg per unit would have reflected in the slope of the chart - and therefore led to early detection.

Again, this is a simplistic approach. More effective methods(e.g. automated plotting of a Cusum - Cumulative Sum Deviation chart) can be easily employed using spreadsheets with about the same effort. I cover Cusum charts, and how to use them, in considerable detail in my forthcoming article titled "Simple Performance Measurement/Process Control Tools You Can Use In Your Business".

Question: Okay, That's To Detect/Stop Things Getting Out Of Hand. But HOW Exactly Do I Go About INCREASING My Profits Without Raising My Prices?

Answer: By Applying Practical Variable Costs(VC) REDUCTION Techniques.

As I earlier stated, your variable costs are those expenses you incur, which can(and do) vary depending on your ability to find cheaper yet equally if not more effective ways to do what you do, when compared to your current methods.

By implication therefore, a VC REDUCTION Strategy is bound to make a difference to your bottom line profits.

Adopting this strategy means you will actively encourage/engage in the routine search for quick, easy, practical, inexpensive, and sustainable ways to drastically cut down on the expenses required to make and/or deliver your products and services to those who want them.

The foregoing underscores Peter Drucker's assertion that Marketing and Innovation are the two basic functions in any business which can enhance its profitability. All others are costs.

Therefore To Increase Your Profits Without Raising Prices :

1. Increase Your Marketing (While Reducing Your VC): Find more NEW customers more frequently. But in doing so, think up cheaper and more effective/efficient ways to reach more people who fit your target audience profile. Even if you already have a website, chances are there are still a number of viable ways you could use it to achieve this purpose, that you are YET to explore. Take it from me. I get so so much done at little or no extra expense using my website resources more creatively.

One reason why this is possible is because I have devoted hundreds of hours to learning web design, custom CGI programming and web marketing techniques.

If you actively work to find new customers, you create a growing pool of clients from whom you can generate referrals and repeat businesses resulting in higher sales volumes/turnover. Also, it helps you cover gaps that will occur periodically from client attrition or turnover.

Use Your Website More Effectively: Traditional methods of business marketing and advertising can be quite expensive especially when used for protracted periods. The dilemma of the business owner who seeks increased exposure therefore tends to be, finding a reliable way to stay in touch with(or visible to) her target audience without going bankrupt.

The answer, from my experience lies in learning how to intelligently leverage technology and the Internet to complement the marketing efforts being made offline, in a way that cumulatively lowers overall expenses incurred - resulting in increased profits over time. Read my article titled "Zero Cost Methods To Boost Your Business Marketing and Cuts Your Costs Using Your Website" for tested and proven ideas, methods, tools and resources you can use.

2. Innovate More (By Reducing Your VC) : Actively work to discover and implement quicker, cheaper and easier ways to deliver the same products/services to those who want them. Assume you previously could only turn out 1000 units of your product per month at a cost of $5.00 per unit(to sell at $5.75 per unit). Then following a change in your procedures, suggested by one of your employees - who gets rewarded accordingly :-) - you are subsequently able to routinely churn out 1500 units per month at the same $5.00 cost per unit, the implications for your year end profitability are obvious. Entrenching a continuous improvement culture in your operations will facilitate innovation - to your ultimate benefit.

Use Your Spreadsheet And Accountant

To reduce your VCs, you need to measure, record, analyse and trend your data. Many of the income and expense items you need to capture in your monitoring are likely to be the same ones your accountant/auditor would focus on in helping you prepare your end of year accounts for tax returns computation.

Therefore, at this stage you might find it useful to involve your accountant in generating the spreadsheet you want to use - or even have him give you one s/he uses, so you can adapt it for your purposes.

Justification For Using VC Reduction(Instead Of Price Increases) To Increase Profits

No matter how large your turnover or revenue is, control of your expenses is the only sure way to reasonably ensure your profits are maintained in the face of fierce/increasing competition, and/or market fluctuations. This is especially so, because you cannot raise your selling prices at will - else you price yourself out of the reach of your target customers.

Three(3) Practical Benefits Of Applying VC Monitoring/Control And Reduction Initiatives In Your Business

1. Long Term Affordability Of Your Products/Services - You will be able to price more competitively and still retain good profit margins even when market situations do not favour most other operators. You would have greater customer appeal. More customers are likely to be able to afford you i.e. your VC reduction efforts enable you price your products/service in such a way that they never become too expensive for your clients/customers.

Also, your ability to cut down your expenses without negatively affecting your product/service quality or delivery, will make it possible for you to offer lower prices/rates and depend on sales volume to sustain the same profit margins. The resultant increased customer base, will naturally afford you increased marketing opportunities, Enhanced ability to withstand/survive market place or industry fluctuations and so on.

This is easy to appreciate. A good example of a business that obviously has a competitive edge of this type in the market place is Richard Branson's Virgin Airlines. They offer some of the lowest rates available in the airline industry, often delivering about the same quality of service as their competitors - who may not all necessarily be too pleased about it :-). If Virgin did not have the means of sustaining this practice, while remaining profitable, they would have crashed out of business long ago.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. - Richard Branson

2. Increased Assurance Of Sustainable/Increasing profits - Which would you prefer: More Revenue? Or more Profits? At the risk of stating the obvious, if you do not control your expenses, your revenue can increase without a corresponding increase in your PROFITS. One does not have to be in a business where billions need to be spent before knowing that this is true.

When two units - instead of one - of a raw material are used to produce 1 unit of your bottled juice, you are spending more to produce that bottle, hence your profit margin for that bottle will drop by the value of that extra unit of raw material used, be it with or without your knowledge.

Whether you know about it or not; whether you measure it or not is immaterial, and will not change the fact that you will earn a lower margin on that product. If that then happens to many products(or a larger number of the same product), you may find at the month or year end, you get a shocking low profit declaration when you(or your accountant/auditor) reconcile expenses, revenues etc for the period.

Things could even fall apart before then. That's when you see a company that gets plenty of business from old and new clients struggling to find money to run daily operations and make salaries payment(cash flow)!

This is why setting up a Variable Costs Monitoring/Control and Reduction System is important. It will help you keep a close watch on all the important measures of your business' operational performance, so that you can easily, discover undesirable trends and nip them in the bud. At the same time, you would be able to intelligently experiment with changes aimed at reducing your operations costs, and monitor their impact in order to decide whether or not make them permanent.

3. Greater Operational Efficiency In Using Labour/Resources/Time : Uncover the invisible costs by using spreadsheet tracking. Some costs are more visible than others. It is those "invisible" cost channels that I refer to here. They are the "potential" profit drain pipes. Do you know how to identify, monitor and control them in your business? Are you sure you're not missing a few critical ones? Often times they are avoidable - should not be there - but because the business owner has no monitoring/control system in place, they build up over time, till they cause BIG problems.

Examples include theft/pilfering by outsiders or staff, materials over usages, idle/downtimes in different aspects of your operations, overstaffing, etc. All these things can - and do - happen. The challenge is for the business owner or decision maker to setup monitoring systems to quickly throw up inconsistencies in the inflow/outflow etc of the concerned items.

Want To REMAIN In Business For The Long Term?

As more and more people go into business for themselves, every owner will have to contend with increased availability of the same products/services in the same market. As has happened in the past, some will have done their operations management so efficiently that they will be able to drop their prices significantly below the market price(or refuse to increase them), and still make as much profit as (or even more than!) their rivals. The latter on the other hand would struggle to match such price drops if their operating costs are higher - possibly resulting in their being forced out of the market.

This applies to one-man businesses as well as corporate multinationals, be they product manufacturers, distributors, resellers or service providers. The only people who don't worry about cutting costs in order to give customers/clients stable or even lower prices, are monopolies(due to lack of competitors) and those who "buy their way" to new business.

For those who play by the rules, your ultimate objective, if your business is to GROW, will have to be to put money in your pocket, that you can spend without looking over your shoulder for creditors(or the IRS - for taxes) and without running out of money to run your business(cash flow). The wise owner will make a habit of continually exploring Variable Cost Monitoring/Control and Reduction initiatives, that will enable successful delivery of larger numbers of products/services at lesser cost, in lesser time, and using lesser resources.

I could go on, but I think the point I've made here is clear enough already. So much thinking/re-organisation will have to be done initially to develop the needed systems. But the process once started, can only get easier. And the positive benefits derivable from adopting this approach will be immediately obvious.

If You Remember Nothing Else, Remember The Following:

1. One good way to maintain and/or significantly increase your profits without raising your prices, is to reduce your Variable Costs(VCs).

2. You can reduce your variable costs by marketing more efficiently (getting more customers at lesser cost, AND maintaining them at lower expense). I once read an article that proposed a new parameter COCS: Cost Of Customers Sold or Served). This could be adopted as a Key Performance Indicator(KPI).

3. You can also reduce your variable costs by innovating more(i.e. developing greater efficiency in your routine internal operations and/or product/service delivery). That way, you would be able to produce/deliver more products and/or services with less effort, in less time, and using less resources. All of these would imply LOWER expenses/costs, leading to INCREASED profit retention per unit of product/service sold.

4. There is saying that : "You cannot manage something, if you do not measure it. Nor can you measure it, if you do not record it". Spreadsheet tracking will help you conveniently implement and sustain the process of monitoring, controlling and/or reducing your VCs. You will need to do this so as to constantly evaluate progress of your VC monitoring/control and reduction initiatives.

Self-Development/Performance Enhancement Specialist ? Tayo Solagbade - works as a Multipreneur, helping individuals/businesses develop and implement strategies to achieve their goals, faster and more profitably.

Email Tayo's FREE Layman's Business Variable Costs Control Systems Awareness Quiz? to yourself (Click Here). It contains seventeen(17) questions designed to get you thinking about possible areas in which you can look to apply spreadsheet facilitated Variable Costs monitoring/control and reduction initiatives in your business.

How to Increase Your Income Effectively Online

There is a big trend to start using the resources online to create a potential business and income for yourself. The opportunities are endless online to make money, you can use the tried and tested ways like auction over eBay selling products but that can be time consuming or completing surveys which can provided you with little or no money that all.

However there is a much simpler way to increase your income. By just using the easy and simple few proven strategies to make money online. You do not need to be good at computers you just need to provide a little time and have the desire to succeed.

Promoting products by being an affiliate for a company. Affiliate marketing can be a profitable way of increasing your income once you understand the essentials to make the methods work for yourself.

Affiliate marketing works by you acting as a middle man working along side an existing company and agreeing to promote their products.

The two of many methods for promoting affiliate products is through using non-paid advertising;

1. Article marketing.

Writing articles is an affective way to advertise your product to generate exposure for the products. By providing useful information about the product you are promoting, Article marketing will target customers through various means such us article or blogging websites. In turn increasing traffic flow to your website also generating new customers.

2. Social networking sites.

Social networking sites are far and beyond, they are becoming very popular providing you with a big pool of opportunity to target your market in an easy way without the stress as it is already done for you. Just by one click reaching far bigger scope then you would believe, providing you with the opportunity to radically give exposure to your website.

This is where you will benefit, when you have successfully created a sale by customers purchasing from the website you will earn a commission.

The tips above are just a small sample of the larger blueprint of what to expect with affiliate marketing. Did you find this article helpful? And you would like to find out more, then take a look at the step by step video tutorials here!

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Adsense Tips To Help You Increase Your AdSense Revenue

The Google AdSense program can be an extremely powerful way to make money online. If you own a website that receives good levels of traffic then you have a good opportunity to make money with adsense. If you do not own a site then you need to learn how to create one and optimize it for the search engines. I recommend you read more articles on search engine optimization to help you do this.

The first step is to apply for the AdSense program and the website you use to apply is important. Make sure that your site looks professional and complete. You can also use a blog from Blogger to apply. Make sure to make a few useful posts before applying. There is a new YouTube videos feature in the program that you can also add to your site.

The effectiveness of this new feature is yet to be proven so it is something you can test later on after you have mastered the basic layouts and formats and optimized your site for adsense. If you do intend to use this feature perhaps it is best to make sure that the videos are selected by you and are of non commercial type. Look for relevant tutorial type videos that will keep visitors on your site instead of having them go to the YouTube site.

Remember that ads should only go on content rich pages. Make sure to have ads above the fold on your site. This means that you want ads on the part of your site that visitors first see without having to scroll down. The first step before you put any ads is to make sure that you have channels enabled so you can track your ads.

Make sure to add a custom channel for your site so you can check the effectiveness of the current ads on your site. It is very easy to setup, just click on the 'add channels' link and then click 'custom channels' and then add in the url of the site you want to track. Also be sure to add the ads towards the middle of your pages if possible. This is the part of the page that most people focus on so putting ads there will get them noticed much more.

Your ads must blend into your site as much as possible. Removing borders from the ads is a good way to get people to notice the ads more since the borders tend to cause people to ignore the ads since they subconsciously associate the borders with advertising. Also if the links on your site are red then make sure the links in the ads are also red. Also if you can, try to get the size of the text in your ads to be the same as those of your site.

Make sure to add at least one ad unit at the bottom of the page, this will give your visitors somewhere to go once they have finished reading the content on that page. A 468 x 15 link unit at the bottom of the page can also work well as it will look like a natural part of the navigation on your site. Also a 468x15 link unit at the top of the page can also be effective as long as it fits in well with the navigation.

Also use html tables to add some ad units directly into article content by having the content wrap around the ads. A good way to do this is to add a 336x280 or 250x250 ad unit depending on the width of your text under the main title and then you can add maybe one more under another sub header. Remember to never squeeze your content otherwise you will lose visitors since they cannot read your articles easily. Do not diminish the user experience to try to increase your click through rates.

Most visitors expect some ads on a site so add them in as discreetly and naturally as possible. Also make sure that the niche you are in has many AdWords advertisers because this will ensure more relevant ads and also a better pay per click since the average bid will be higher. Use some of these tips to help you make the most money from adsense.

Roger is an online researcher and regular contributor to a site that shows people how to make money online. Be sure to visit and also learn more about affiliate marketing as a way to increase your income.

How to Increase Your Profits in Any Economic Climate

A great number of people who come to me for marketing help have numerous complaints: "I have no time to grow my business, I'm not the selling type and I really hate marketing." Or worse, "Customers have stopped buying, there's a down turn in our industry, we're cutting our costs and trying to keep our heads above water."Often they're expecting me to wave a magic wand that will give them the ultimate marketing strategy and save the day.

That wand is available but it's not what they expect to hear.

The first dose of medicine is this information: Your concept of your business and the marketing of it is completely backwards. Marketing and growing a business isn't an ordeal to be endured. Marketing is about finding great profitable customers. Making sure that when you attract these customers they invest as much as they can, in as many products and services that you sell. Finally once you've generated these customers you build a relationship and nurture them so they keep coming back again and again for as long as possible. This is the true purpose of any business. By fulfilling that purpose it's the goal of your business to generate an abundance of profit to create opportunities for its owners and shareholders to add value to their lifestyles.

You need to change your point of view first.

What do I mean?

After talking to thousands of business owners over the years I found that there are 4 challenges holding business owners back from creating their opportunities and achieving their goals of being successful, no matter what the economic climate is. First is:

Change, If you look at the most successful business in Australia today, both large and small, they are constantly innovating in the way they do business in other words they're always looking at ways to do things differently. As the old saying goes keep doing the same things over and over again and you're guaranteed of achieving the same results.

Ask yourself the question how many lead generation strategies have I got in place to attract profitable customers, if the answer is one or none then you're definitely headed for some quiet times in the very near future.

Here are 4 cost-effective strategies to attract more customers today.

1. Go back to your existing customers and offer them the benefits of trying some other products and services they might be interested in.

2. Direct mail or email your database with an incentive to buy now.

3. Introduce yourself to the businesses around you and offer them incentives to become customers, remember there are acres of diamonds in your back yard.

4. Pull out all your quotes and proposals from the last 12 months and ask your prospects if they've purchased the goods and services you quoted for. If they haven't ask them if they'd like to go ahead and purchase now you'll be surprised at how many people will say yes.

Second challenge is:

Time, most people in business say" I'm to busy to market or I haven't got any time to grow my business". Here's an incite in to time studies that have been done on businesses to measure productivity and time efficiency and they found that up to 85% of time was invested in non productive and non income generating activity. This is due to most people being reactive rather than pro-active with the challenges that they face every day. You have a choice on how you control the effectiveness of your time. Imagine what would happen if you invested only 10% of your time focusing on developing and growing your business.

7 time management strategies to dramatically improve your productivity,

1. Plan your day before it starts

2. Be clear about your objectives

3. List only 6 of the most important things to do daily

4. Allocate the amount of time to complete each item on your list.

5. Plan when in the day you'll do each item.

6. Do the most important things first.

7. Make an appointment with yourself to invest at least, one hour per day to be devoted to business development or income generating activities.

Remember "Most people aim at nothing and hit it with amazing accuracy". Make the time for your life and your opportunities now.

Third challenge is:

Money, negative cashflow is a major issue with most businesses in Australia today. This is due to the focus being on the lack of income rather than creating an abundance of capital. Let me explain, most businesses have a bill mentality, that is they only focus on making enough money to pay their bills rather than creating a profitable return on their efforts. This is constantly proven as we always manage to just cover our expenses from month to month. If you want a positive cashflow you'll want to focus your attention towards implementing profitable income generating activity.

4 strategies to improve your cashflow:

1. Set profitable weekly, monthly and yearly sales targets; share those targets with all your team members responsible for making the sales in your business.

2. Improve the selling skills of your sales people, regularly educate them on the benefits of your products and services and teach them relationship skills, so they develop better rapport with customers. Remember people buy from people they like.

3. Implement cross selling and up selling strategies to increase the average dollar sale your customers invest in.

4. Reduce the discounting of your products and services and increase your prices to improve your margins. Sell on value not on price this will have a dramatic impact on your bottom line net profit.

The last challenge is the biggest killer of all in business:

Procrastination, the ultimate driving force in human behavior is 1. The desire for ultimate pleasure and 2. The desire to avoid pain. " We will do far more to avoid a pain than we will do to gain a pleasure." The fastest way to eliminate procrastination from your life is, when you feel you're about to procrastinate, just put it off for another time. Seriously the idea is to change the way you approach things. " At any moment in time, what ever you focus your attention on is what is most real to you."

So when you find yourself putting something off, ask yourself the following two questions.

1. How not changing your behavior will be more painful than changing it? So if you don't deal with the task at hand, what will be the ultimate price you'll have to pay?

2. How changing will bring you measurable and immediate pleasure? If you already gotten it done, how would your life be better? How much more joy would you have?

3. Develop a habit of saying I want to instead of I have to.

Earlier on I called these, challenges that most businesses face, they're really the excuses that most people use to explain why things aren't working for them. "85% of success is dependent on your attitude" It's time to create a mindset of abundance and continual prosperity in your life and your business. All it takes is one small strategy at a time and you'll build a business and a life that you truly desire.

John Logar helps organisations achieve more than they thought possible through consulting, coaching, keynote presentations, seminars and training in the areas of leadership, values, team performance, marketing and risk management. John has addressed and consulted to over 1,000 organisations in commerce, government and not-for-profit. For FREE sales and marketing resources and downloads go to http://johnlogar.blogspot.com

Increase Your Sales by 50%

Horror stories

Is it the sales assistant who doesn't end her personal phone call when you walk into the store? Or the waiter who rolls his eyes when you ask too many questions about a dish? As customers, we all have our own favourite horror stories to tell.

Australia is the worst

Twelve countries were recently surveyed on behalf of American Express. Australia ranked equal last with Britain on measures of service satisfaction, behind the US, France, Canada and India and Japan.

''The barometer clearly said customers want superior service and it's certainly not being provided,'' said Christine Wakefield, vice-president of American Express World Service Australia, which commissioned the survey.

''Australians have a laid-back attitude and this might be translating to some businesses having a similar attitude.''

Customers will pay more

"Companies were more likely to reduce service during economic downturns but those that did missed an important revenue opportunity". The survey found Australians were prepared to spend 10 per cent more in return for good customer service.

The Japanese and service

Customer service in Japan is an extreme experience. Japanese have learnt to expect nothing less than perfection in being served. Because of this, the level of service is extraordinary and humbling because the staff are so warm and genuine in wanting to satisfy. When baby boomers were children their parents enjoyed the same level high of service that that still enjoyed in modern Japan and many other countries.

"How to increase your sales by 50%"

Change you attitude will change your altitude

Too often we go looking for opportunity that is 'over the next hill'. We make life hard for ourselves. Sometimes opportunity is right in front of us. This document is intended as a road map to guide you to a different perspective. Competition is increasing each day. If you are not investing in new methods to increase sales then you will be going backwards.

Looking at the basics

The anatomy of a modern customer

There are as many different types of customers as there are products and services. It would be easy to suggest that there is no consistencies, but this isn't true. There are some things that have been proven to be consistent about every customer worldwide:

Recognition -Customers adore to be recognized. The power of a persons name has been proven in a multitude of social experiments. People crave to be identified as the unique individuals that they are.

Emotion -We are all emotional animals. Although we would consider our actions to be rational, the initial interest or spark in a purchase is almost always emotionally driven.

These basic emotions are grouped as:

Self fulfillment
Self esteem
Love / belonging
Safety
Physical / mental

Customers switch off

Customers are bombarded by information. It is a deluge that intrudes into our lives. Most of this information has a common style of aggressively trying to grasp our attention. Customers have become very sophisticated in identifying if an offer will benefit them. Women will judge a websites credibility within 1 - 5 seconds of it loading. Men will judge a website within 5 - 10 seconds of it loading. We switch off very quickly when we don't see the benefit to us.

What is lost?

In the race to become sellers of "stuff", many companies have lost the perspective of the customer. There is a common belief to treat a customer as an individual is an expensive and time consuming exercise. Customers then learn to accept what businesses offer them. The only way that they can vote is to purchase else where.

A customer satisfaction survey conducted by consultancy firm Accenture's survey found 52% of the 3,500 respondents said their expectations for customer service have increased over the past five years. Just under 60% of Australian respondents said they refused to buy a particular brand if prices were too high, but that number jumps to 75% when high prices were combined with poor service - the highest figure worldwide.

Australian businesses are so focused on churning customers that they don't often stop to measure the impact that their interaction actually has on their bottom line.

The traditional sales cycle

A customer walks into store or goes online to a website. They see something that they like. They purchase the item. The customer leaves. The customer returns either because of the businesses investment in advertising or because of the memory of a good experience.

At the point of leaving, the business has lost control of that customer.

This is crucial for several extremely important reasons:


That customer knows people in the same demographic
Others will see the product or service that was purchased
The customer will make future purchases
You are not aware of how the customer viewed the shopping experience
You don't know all of the reasons the customer came to you in the first place
When do they shop?
Why do they shop?
What are their triggers?
When will they shop again?
Where else do they purchase?
How much do they spend?
How much is their disposable income?
How do they rate the shopping experience?
Will they shop again?
Why will they shop with you again?

The list can go on and on.

Keeping it simple

The intention here is not to bombard the customer with questions. The intention is to illustrate how little most businesses know about their customers after they have left. Most businesses treat a customer as a paycheque. A false smile, and wave then onto the next customer. To most businesses, the cost to you is a factor of 7 to induce a new customer to purchase. The cost to retain an existing customer is a fraction of this factor.

What an existing customer can do for your business:

Be an ambassador

An existing customer has been initiated. They have overcome their suspicion to purchase. They know the same sorts of people in the community that you have yet to reach. Most customers will not bother to promote your business to their community unless you ask them.

Be a mate

Instead of a business card have a cardboard card printed. On the front side it bears the words -

"mates rates card"

On the reverse it offers the following wording -

"Your friend recently purchased from from us.

They think enough of you as a mate to offer you 10% discount at our store".

It is of little consequence if they pass the card to a friend or use it themselves. Either way you have certainly guaranteed yourself a follow up sale.

Ask for advice

Few stores would currently think to do this. In the process of serving a customer ask them if they could think of a way that the store could be improved.

Automatically capture information

Print up some A5 sized cards. When asking the customer the advice, go to the trouble of writing the information down on the card on behalf of the customer. This extra effort will demonstrate to the customer that their opinions are valued. Then ask the customer if they would like to go into a weekly / monthly draw to win a piece of merchandise from the store. The value of the item is actually not that important, it is the fact that their shopping experience has been elevated that will engage with the customer.

Be exceptionally different

Let's be crazy for a moment and lets pretend you don't have customers. Let's pretend you only had family and friends who shopped at your business.

You would know their names.
You would have a different style of conversation
You would have a different interaction
The way you and your staff act will dictate how your customer will react.

Customer service in Australia is treated as an uncomfortable relationship between the customer and the business (staff). It doesn't often come across as sincere. All surveys tell us that customers all want to be recognized. The average customer service experience looks solely at the current sale. It doesn't value the lifetime relationship with the customer. The average sales person feels that they are intruding to ask questions beyond the script that has been rehearsed. Its time to throw out the old rulebook on customer service.

Don't wait for the customer to ask

If a customer has had to ask, it means:


They have been thinking
They have been waiting
There is frustration
There is uncertainty
There is concern

Almost every sale is a carbon copy of the last. Not in terms of details but in terms of the mechanics. Evaluate what customers want at each stage, develop a plan to deliver and give before the customer asks.

Be consistent

It is more detrimental to offer great service on one visit only to give average service the next. It creates doubt. Humans like certainty. They don't like to be surprised. Take McDonalds. They would never claim to make the best food. They would claim to make the most consistent food the world over.

Throw in the floor mats automatically

Anyone who has ever taken advice about buying a car is told to make sure you get the extras for free. It is not so much that they price will make a difference, it is the perceived value for money. It is better to cost in the extras and offer a complete solution:


Hairdressers, combine a manicure
Auto mechanics, combine in car detailing
Accountants, combine in the personal tax return with the companies
Nursery, combine in a bag of potting mix
Restaurant, combine in a cocktail
Dentists, combine in a hygiene pack

Give value. Look at the customer as being a friend for the next 2 - 5 years. If you were investing in a long term connection, what value would you place on the relationship?

Thank you

How many businesses have followed up sincerely after the transaction and said thank you? How many hand written notes have your received? Thank you is powerful. It screams of recognition. It says to a customer that they have been remembered.

Ask for an assessment

An assessment goes both ways, it gives the business feedback and it gives the customer the ability to air their feelings. Be consistent. Create a system. The easiest way for an assessment is to create an online survey.

Where are your customers looking?

The new frontier of customer acquisition is no longer the web.

The new frontier is mobile web.


3 times more searches are done with a mobile phone on sites such as carsales.com.au
A sale on eBay using mobile phone occurs every 10 - 15 seconds.
Approx 17 million mobile apps are sold by the Apple store each day.

70% of mobile phones still use WAP technology that cannot open conventional web pages. New technology has been established to give access to both the 30% of smart phone and the 70% of old technology mobile. This technology is now cost effective and gives you access to 100% of the web traffic.

Use existing customers to test future opportunity

If you have been successful in building a solid relationship with existing customers then you have what many businesses need to pay big dollars to acquire -

Your own test laboratory.


Customer love believing that they are in on the secret. It goes to the core of their need for recognition.
Offer samples to existing customers at marked down prices in return for feedback.
Invite customers to a VIP night to get their thoughts.
Show customers new ideas and involve them in product development.
Create competitions with giveaways if they are able to induce interest from others.
Have fun with this involvement. This will change the way your view your database.

Invest in systems and procedures

Your existing customers are your extra 50% of your sales.

They represent:


Future sales to replace the initial purchase.
Sales of auxiliary accessories
Referrals to future customers to prove credibility
Access to their circle of friends and contacts
A source of testing to research the benefit of offers.

Iain Stubbings is a director of Mitrom, the marketing ideas company.
Mitrom is located in Melbourne Australia and assists businesses with less than 50 staff to attract more customers, convert enquiries to sales and build ongoing loyalty.
Mitrom's expertise is in website development, online optimisation, database management, email marketing, design, digital and offset printing, developing loyalty programs.
Mitrom have worked with retail, government, manufacturing, financial services and charities to implement new marketing strategies.
Mitrom can be found at http://www.mitrom.com.au and can be contacted by email - service@mtrom.com.au

How to Increase Your Affiliate Commissions Quickly

One of the simplest ways to make money on-line and start your own Internet business is affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing you do not need your own website, and you don't have to deal with customers making it an ideal situation.

With the assumption that you are already an affiliate marketer, your next step would be to increase your commissions right!

The following tips are very powerful ways that you, as an affiliate marketer, can do just that.

- Know the product or program you are promoting. You will want to promote the best products that are doing well. It is easier to promote good products so in turn that will boost your commissions.

Some factors you may want to consider. You will want to select programs that offer generous commissions. Make sure that the products you are promoting fit with your target audience. Be sure that your affiliate program has a proven track record when it comes to paying their affiliates on time. If you are having a hard time cashing in on certain programs get rid of them. There are plenty of fish in the sea, you may as well find a bigger fish to fry!

Remember that you are spending your hard earned advertising dollar so don't be afraid to be picky. Only select the best programs that will give you a healthy return on your advertising investments.

There are many benefits to writing reports and short ebooks for distribution from your site. You will be in competition with other affiliates that are promoting the same thing you are. Short reports and short ebooks is a great way to stay ahead of the pack. You will stand out from the crowd of competing affiliates.

People love free information. You can always include recommendations on certain products with this free information you are giving away. Writing an eBook gives a lot of credibility to what you are recommending. Customers will be more likely to buy from such a credible resource.

- Make sure you are collecting contact information like email addresses from those who you offer these freebies to. This will allow you to send them more free info that may turn into a sale, or several.

Always follow up with your contacts.

Since you are getting only getting when a sale is made collecting contact information is important. You don't want the vendor getting the sale without reimbursing you for your efforts. This is why it is wise to collect this info before sending them off to the vendor.

Plus when you collect this contact information you now have the opportunity to send them messages about other products. This will allow you to have an ongoing income as apposed to a one time only.

When you publish your own newsletter you are establishing a trusted relationship with subscribers. It is easier to sell to people with an established trust than to a perfect stranger. If they trust your newsletter chances are they may trust your recommendations on certain products.

Be sure that you are not too pitchy, remember that you are providing them with valuable information and that is why they trust you. If they believe you are just trying to sell them something they may cancel their subscription and then you lose that contact forever. It is more important for the long term to keep your contacts.

- If you are successful at your marketing campaign it never hurts to ask for a higher commission. Remember that you are a valuable asset to your merchant. Chances are that they would rather give you more money than lose all the potential sales you could bring them. Just be reasonable about it and only approach them if you are having success with this promotion.

Pay Per Click ads are very effective. Using Google AdWords and Overture is a great way to increase your income. Be sure to monitor your ads, get rid of the ones that are not working and keep the ones that are.

These strategies should help you increase your commissions fairly quickly.

Written by David Vernon

David enjoys working on the computer. He is very resourceful and loves to share good information with people. Do you want to more helpful ideas when it comes to online marketing? Check out his blog at http://davidsonlinemarketingblog.blogspot.com

7 Proven Internet Marketing Strategies to Increase Your Sales

I am constantly amazed by the number of people I meet on the web who have absolutely no marketing strategy whatsoever behind their site or online marketing.

I am even more amazed by the number of people who believe all they have to do is buy a domain, slap a few HTML pages together and place them on a web host somewhere. Then they expect everything else to just happen because their site or business is on the web!

It very rarely happens that way.

Creating an online business takes some planning and strategy if you want your site or business to succeed. You must have a plan of action, but most of all, you must have some fundamental marketing strategies behind your online site.

Now, I am speaking from experience here, because I also stumbled around on the web for 2 or 3 years like the people I described above. I foolishly thought just because I had a web site, I could do business on the web.

Well, not very much happened. I received very little traffic and very few sales. My site was going nowhere fast.

Fortunately, the theme I chose for my first site was Internet Marketing! I spent those first years studying all the online marketing material and information I could get my hands on. I gradually learned what to do and what not to do when it came to marketing online.

Mostly, I stumbled across some great Internet marketers like Marlon Sanders, Neil Shearing, Ken Evoy... true pioneers of online marketing. By studying those first class marketers and their marketing techniques I learned how it was all done.

Over time, I learned how to become very analytical with my sites and marketing. I started to create marketing strategies and put them into practice with my sites. This was all new to me because I have a background in education rather than marketing.

Now, I would like to share with you some of these marketing strategies and practices - just things I do and things I put into place which enable me to receive a modest but very comfortable online income.

So here are some things you can try:

1. Know Your Market Or Audience

First and foremost, you must know your market. Know who you will be targeting with your marketing? Know who will be buying your products or the affiliate products that you're promoting on the web?

I keep my eyes open for hot trends or products which everyone is buying. You can use programs like Google Trends to see which products are becoming hot. For example, in electronics, which products are on everyone's wish list? Is it laptops, PCs or netbooks? Are people buying smart phones, PDAs, Blu-ray Players or E-readers?

Just find out what products are hot? Find what products are being searched for in the search engines... do a check to see how many searches are made each month for your chosen product? Use WordTracker, or a free online site such as Seobook to see what products people are searching for on the web.

If there is a large demand/audience/market for your product or subject area, then you have a better chance of succeeding online. It is a simple marketing strategy that many first time marketers ignore - please don't. So choose your products to match the demand that is out there for them.

2. Buying Mindset

One of the key elements to selling stuff online is finding people at the exact moment they are ready to buy. What some marketers refer to as a "Buying Mindset". You find people who have their minds set on buying something when they reach your site.

This is much easier than you think!

A simple way I found to do this is to create sites which target keywords related to buying... such as gifts, coupons, bargains, deals and so on. For example, a site on wedding gifts will obviously attract customers who are interested in buying wedding gifts.

To give you a concrete example from my own site, I have a section on "Corporate Business Gifts" which offers special deals/coupons on corporate business gifts... someone searching for that phrase is more likely to purchase a gift. Just simple reasoning, but it works wonders for selling stuff online.

In the Info-Product market, many Gurus create a "Buying Mindset" by offering special bonuses and discounts if someone buys from their links. Another simple way to boost your sales.

3. Target Special Holidays

Along the same lines, I like targeting times when people feel obligated to buy. Using special holidays like Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day... in your marketing can be very effective.

There are occasions such as anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, graduations... when people feel they must buy something for a loved one or special friend. Targeting those occasions with your marketing can be extremely effective... people are looking for a birthday gift, a graduation gift or a wedding gift - you simply help them find what they're looking for.

On one of my sites, I target the "Back To School" market which has proven very lucrative since I market high-ticket affiliate items such as laptops, PCs and netbooks.

4. Place All Your Emphasis On Supplying Information

The majority of people searching on the web are looking for information - first and foremost - even those who are ready to buy. They want information on the subject or product they're searching for on the web. It should be your marketing strategy to give them this information.

All of my sites are based on supplying information to my visitors.

If you give solid information they will be pleased and take note of your site and a few will buy the products you recommend, but the information must come first.

Even popular selling sites like Amazon give loads of consumer information and feedback while selling their products on the web. Consumers want information on the products they're buying. Supply this information and you will sell more products.

5. Target Long Tail Keyword Phrases In Your SEO

If you're selling stuff on the web, it is extremely important that you have a SEO marketing strategy. You must use the search engines to bring in those quality visitors and potential customers to your site. You must rank high in the search engines for your chosen keywords.

I have found SEO is not easy but it is also not that hard to do. In order to rank high you must be persistent, have a six month or yearly plan... work at it over time, even years to build up your rankings. Most webmasters won't have the patience or resources to stick to a long-term strategy for months, even years before they start ranking for popular, well-searched for keywords.

However, there's another quicker and faster way to get quality traffic from the search engines. Instead of targeting highly competitive popular keywords, you target longer keyword phrases that have little competition. For example, someone searching for a particular brand and model is more likely to buy then someone searching for a general topic. Someone searching for "cars" compared to someone searching for "2007 Ford Mustang Shelby GT" - the last phrase will have very few searches but it can produce more targeted buyers.

6. Build Lists of Interested Buyers

One of my most effective marketing strategies is building simple lists of people who want to receive further information on the subject or product they're considering buying. The web is a very temporary process since most people spend less than a few seconds on most sites. So it is important that you try and get them to opt-in to your mailing list, join your Twitter account or Facebook group... and so on.

You must build lists of people who are interested in finding out more about your subject or product. This way you will have repeat visitors to your site and you will get the opportunity to sell to them again and again. If you build a trusting relationship with these contacts, they will respect your opinions and suggestions.

List building can have a very positive effect on your sales numbers so it is one marketing strategy you should definitely try if you're not already using lists.

7. Sell Things You Can ONLY Buy Online

This marketing strategy is so simple - it's almost laughable. But I quickly found selling stuff that can only be bought online do much better than selling stuff that can be bought at your local Walmart. If buyers can only find it online, then you will have a much better chance of selling it to them.

Therefore, marketing unique products or specialty items, which are only available online can prove very lucrative. This is a very simple marketing strategy but also a very effective one. Just try it.

There are no doubt, countless other marketing strategies you can use. But using some or all of the ones listed above will help increase your online sales. Again, just try them and see for yourself.

The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites. If you want to find out more marketing strategies and selling on the web in general, just download these marketing manuals: Free Marketing Courses. For the latest web marketing tools try: Internet Marketing Tools. Titus Hoskins Copyright 2009. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.