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Extra traffic right under your nose!

Do you know what's the 2ND MOST VISITED page on your web site?This may surprise you. But in my consulting work the error page is the second most visited web page on many of the web sites that I've seen!Anywhere between 10% and 40% of your page hits could fall on your error page.SCARY ISN'T IT!Esp. . .

Password Security - How Secure are You?

Passwords - we use them every day, here in cyberland. They'reused as the first step in identifying ourselves. Yes, we'reallowed to logon to this network, because we have thepre-approved password. They're necessary for our online bankingtransactions and our online bill payments. Or yes, we're allo. . .

Business Opportunity Seeker Excommutercated

Are you tired of commuting to work, racing the clock to get there on time, dressing in work clothes everyday, and feel like your whole life is just stuck in traffic. If you do, use these proven 12 free tools, to start your business opportunity at home, and gain your freedom with no money and no-r. . .

Move Key Audiences to Actions You Want

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 900 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. Move Key Audiences to Actions You WantHow?Try a bl. . .

Boomerang, Don't Ricochet your Web Site Visitors

Boomerang, Don't Ricochet your Web Site VisitorsJudy Cullins © 2003 All Rights Reserved.You don't win your Web site visitors' trust right away. It may takefrom 4-7 visits before they buy. You must always give them areason to buy, and not offend them in any way because they willricochet to other s. . .

10 Easy but Essential Steps for Home Selling Success

They say that the whole process of selling up, buying new and moving on is one of the most stressful series of events any of us goes through in a lifetime: and yet with careful planning, attention to detail and a clear focus, the whole process can be relatively stress free.While there will always. . .

Graphic Design Using Color

Color is everywhere and conveys a message even if we don’t realize it. While this message can vary by culture it pays to know what colors “say” in your own corner of the universe, and even what color means to your target market.If you don’t think that color speaks just complete this sentence, “re. . .

14 Ways To Persuade Your Web Site Visitors To Give You Their Email Addresses

In order to persuade your web site visitors to give you their email addresses, you must first make it easy for them to subscribe. Then find creative ways to keep them coming back again and again.To help get your creative juices flowing, here are 14 tips you should consider:1. Ask visitors to subs. . .

The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs

The Next Generation Of EntrepreneursBy Brian L. Pruitt According to a recent survey, it indicates nearly 70% of American teenagers wanted to learn how to start their own business. However studies have shown that an alarming number of high school seniors only achieve an average score of 40% on ba. . .

Email tips and tricks

Email Tips and TricksExcerpted from the upcoming book The Busy Person's Guide to a Profitable Website and PlanetLink's Enews - an email newsletter delivered for FREE to your computer. To subscribe, go to www.planetlink.com.We'll explore the use and abuse of email and discuss how you can use it mo. . .

Performance Reviews That Actually Improve Performance

Performance Reviews That Actually Improve PerformanceEmployee performance reviews are one of the most dreaded tasks by most managers. It is hard to win here – you can never say enough good things, and one word of criticism is generally the only thing they will remember. Taking the easy way out an. . .

Staying Focused

Three of the biggest areas of concern to our survey participants were repeat sales, getting new business and staying focused while working at home. First, let's discuss staying focused at home. Remember, to have a separate office or to delineate one area and one area only to your home business. T. . .

What Are YOU Doing to Keep Your Customers?

Not too long ago I ran a survey on my site asking visitors what their main complaints were about shopping for or finding information online.An overwhelming number of people said: customer service.It appears that many online businesses are not doing a particularly good job of replying to inquiries. . .

Online Job Search Techniques

There're many ways to conduct online job search. However, many job seekers only think of posting resumes and searching opportunities on big job sites like monster.com, hotjobs.com and careerbuilder.com etc. There's nothing wrong with it, but according to a survey conducted by careerXrooads.com, o. . .

Convey Your Message

When writing anything to your readers it is the words that count.Isn't that the whole idea to communicate to your reader what youwant them to understand? How can you convey to your readers whatyou want to say in an interesting way that will make them passby other things that are sent to them and . . .

6 Easy Time Tips

You are definitely not alone if you are feeling a need to simplify and organize your life. Many people easily spend 20 minutes a day looking for things. That is 122 hours a year – 5 entire days every year. You are bombarded with information from every direction, with 150,000 books and 10,000 peri. . .

Workplace Security and Corporate Responsibility

1. The Security Consultant's Perspective...Workplace violence is a reality whether it happens at the warehouse, plant, parking lot, hospital or treatment center, and office or while sitting in your car taking notes. It should not be swept under the carpet. The average out of court civil suit sett. . .

How Well Do You Know Your Child?

Do you think you really know your child? I don't mean know what he/she likes and doesn't like, but to know him/her well enough to understand his/her challenges, to appreciate his/her strengths and weaknesses and to help him/her develop his talents. Knowing your children can help increase their ch. . .

Keys to Creating a Winning Marketing Program

Does your company spend thousands of dollars on marketing with little to showfor it? Poor response rates are enough to drive us all crazy. Fret no more. Thereis a solution! According to recent studies, businesses are reaping greater rewards by usingpromotional products as extensions of other mark. . .

Boomerang, Don't Ricochet your Web Site Visitors

You don't win your visitors' trust right away. It may take from 4-7 visits before they buy. You must always give them a reason to buy, and not offend them in any way because they will ricochet to other sites. Here's some things I do to get people to keep coming back to my site: 1. Upload new, ori. . .

WHO ARE YOUR BEST CUSTOMERS?

There is a marketing theory that says, "your best prospective customers are a lot like your current customers". In other words, the customers you should have the easiest time selling to are very similar to those who've bought from you in the past.Great idea. But, what do you know about your curre. . .

How Do I Start a Home Business?

From time to time (at least once a day actually) I'll get an impossible-to-respond-to email that says something like, "How can I work from home?", or "I want to start my own home business. Please send info." or even, "Please send free info.". Naturally such vague, generalized requests are not, fo. . .

Get a Laugh and Make the Sale

When one survey asked women what they liked best about the manof their dreams, most replied "he makes me laugh." We don'toften think of laughter as one of life's most importantnecessities, but it is.People of every age and culture love to laugh. Studies showlaughter lowers your blood pressure and. . .

5 steps to winning the affiliate game

When you join an affiliate program, you join thousands of other affiliates who are marketing the same product. So how do you ensure that customers buy from you instead of one of the other thousand affiliates? You do it like this.1. Buy the product or service you want to sell. That's right, buy it. . .

10 Best Ways to Promote your Site

1. Trade links with other web sites. Go to a search engineand type in words from your keyword list. This way you can find other sites in your target area. Go to each siteand find out if the site would complement your site. Send the owner of the web site a request to exchange links.2. Write a Free. . .

Is Your E-Zine Getting Too Personal?

Personalization has quickly gone from being the hottest new "must-have" for e-content to the most misunderstood and misused e-accessory. Some e-zine writers are particularly guilty of crossing the line between good touch - bad touch. I've noticed a trend lately towards using business newsletters . . .

5 Guaranteed Ways To Kill Your Ezine

DoubleClick's recent survey indicated that over 88% of onlineconsumers have made a purchase as a result of receivingpermission-based email.The most common forms of permission-based emails are ezines oremail newsletters. Currently there are hundreds of thousands ofezines available on the internet.. . .

Planning Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems: Phase II

You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 548 words long including the resource box. Thanks for your interes. . .

The New Internet - FREE VS FEE

In the last three months of 2000, it is estimated that over750 dot.com businesses went out of business forever.It was to be expected and very predictable because fartoo many dot.com enterprises were riding high on investor cash infusions, were long on promises butproduced little if any cash flow.. . .

When Politics Prevent Innovation

When Politics Prevent InnovationOr… Still Fighting Battles and Losing WarsThe objective is to beat the competition and make money. Everything a business organization does should be focused on that simple objective, with interpretation through various Vision and Mission Statements. However if we t. . .

Online Resources for Working Women who Juggle Family, Career and Home

Working mothers work longer hoursApproximately 47% of the UK workforce is now madeup of women, with 12 million employed, according tothe Labour Force Survey from the Office of NationalStatistics. And the employment figure is rising byapproximately 20,000 every two months. 41% of thesewomen are wo. . .

Diving with Asthma

Many asthmatics want to dive, but unfortunately, there are a number of concerns about the effect of asthma on dive safety. Dive physicians have traditionally taken a very conservative approach to asthma in dive fitness assessments. Mention of the word "Asthma" and potential divers were ejected fr. . .

Five Tips for Internet Marketing Success

Do you view your website as an expense or as an investment? Surprisingly, many companies seem to view their website as anecessary cost of doing business, not an opportunity toattract an audience and gain new customers. The followingfive tips can help transform a non-performing website into aneffe. . .

Popping Up For Profitable Results

Pop-up windows are those little windows that automatically pop up at the same time when you are trying enter or exit a web site. Many webmasters use pop up windows to display ads or subscription instructions to their ezine. Many marketers do not employ this strategy because they feel that it will. . .

PR Still a Mystery to Some

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1220 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. PR Still a Mystery to SomeUnfortunately, there ar. . .

Advantages and Advice About Online Degrees

Today, many people are engaging in some form of self-improvement activity. Bookstores, magazines,and newspapers are full of books and articles on how to be a better human being. If you want to be healthier, you diet. If you want to feel younger, you exercise. To expand your horizons, you travel . . .

Postcard Marketing Relieves Anthrax Scare

The latest Anthrax scare might have you thinking twiceabout using postal mail to promote your business.A Washington Post-ABC News survey showed that "65% of theAmerican public was at least 'concerned' that letterscontaining anthrax bacteria had been sent through the mail."That's bad news if you j. . .

"The Number One Answer is Search Engines..."

We surveyed 100 people...What is the best way to draw traffic to your website?Our survey said...Search Engines 53Article Distribution 30Ad Swaps / Links at other sites 14Banner Advertising 8Signature Files 5Ironically, it seems possible that we could have selected a different set of people and th. . .

Managers: PR More Than Tix and Plugs?

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1020 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. Managers: PR More than Tix and Plugs?You bet! And. . .

No Degree, No Problem

According to a recent survey, 52% of job candidates polled lied on their resume about having a college degree. Here are 3 brief horror stories: A new Director of Logistics and his family were actually loading the moving van provided by his new employer for relocation from California to North Caro. . .

6 Ways to Promote Your Online Business Using Promotional Items

It's getting tougher than ever to compete online these days somore companies are taking a unique approach to Internetmarketing ..... custom printed promotional products to helpset them apart from the competition and to gain customerloyalty.If you have a business online, you can benefit tremendous. . .

5 Success Strategies for Newcomers Who Want to Start an Internet Business

Thinking of Starting an Online Business? Here's what to do:1. Establish Your Credibility by Getting Your Own Domain NameOn the Internet free sites abound, but you need YOUR OWN DOTCOM to survive. It's relatively painless to register yourown domain name. Many companies such as Registrars will guid. . .

Which PR Is Right For You?

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 1135 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. Managers, Which PR Is Right For You?An effort bui. . .

PR: Let's Cut to the Chase

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at bobkelly@TNI.net. Word count is 985 including guidelines and resource box. Robert A. Kelly © 2004. PR: Let’s Cut to the ChaseIf your key – that’s KEY. . .

Getting Away from Mainstream Media and Finding the News That's Relevant

If you’re anything like me you are really getting tired of the mainstream media’s one-voice-to-many analysis of life on Earth. First of all, it’s just too negative! I read a survey recently that stated that fourteen out of fifteen newspaper and TV News stories had negative fear-based stories. I d. . .

Ten Reasons Why People Don't Buy From You

Here's ten simple yet POWERFUL ideas for you to reflect on. This will help you adjust your marketing strategies...which will have a GREAT effect on everything you sell.rr1. You don't make people feel safe when they order. Remind people that they are ordering through a secure server. Tell them you. . .

Ten Ways To Improve Your Customer Service

Here's some simple yet POWERFUL ideas on how to improve your customer service. Nothing can do more for a business than having "happy customers".rr1. Stay in contact with customers on a regular basis. Offer them a free e-zine subscription. Ask customers if they want to be updated by e-mail when yo. . .

A New Lawsuit Filed Every 3 Seconds! Protect Yourself

It's true. According to a recent survey, one out of every 2Americans will need a lawyer's advice in the next twelve months.Most of these people will try to handle it on their own, becausethey think they can't afford a lawyer. But, if you needed anoperation, would you do it yourself because you co. . .

Are you in control of your online destiny?

Are you content with sitting back and being someone elses affiliate forever? If you are then read no further my friend, this ones not for you. But if you are not satisfied with promoting products and services owned by others as the sole means of generating revenue from your online business then y. . .

The Tao of Web Marketing

A few months ago I was watching a stream meandering backand forth across a flat plain in a high mountain valley.The stream reached it's destination - a small lake - butonly after dozens of loops and curves. It occurred to methat Water and clever Web Marketing have something incommon - they both f. . .