September 23rd, 2008

Some Twitter Application Tips for Building Brands and Followers

Twitter is one of the most popular social networking microblogging sites. It is the hot new social networking site of the present times.

Almost everyone is trying out and using it for different things. For instance some are using it for expanding their business while the others are using it for making friends. Businessmen also have started using this social networking site for marketing products and targeting their target customers. This site as part of social media strategy can be a highly valuable tool for making connection. Harness the full potential of the site by some applications.

Following are some of the applications discussed which might help you harness the potential:

• Use the Twitter page to its full potential to let people know you. For this you need to provide key information about yourself that too within 400 characters. You can also use the option for displaying the custom background. This will highlight your contact details and the key information.
• The Twitoria application will help you to sort out the followers who are not active anymore. You can delete the inactive users from your list and can update your network.
• Business that are into stocks and shares can use of the StockTwits application. You can follow the real-time market and get into a conversation with the investors and traders.
• If you face problems in managing your followers then seek help of the Tweepler application. It will enable you to sort your incoming requests. It saves the confusion of visiting each user’s page.
• Future Tweets is one another application where you can make recurring tweets that can be posted daily, monthly or yearly. If you are not able to log in tomorrow due to some reasons then you can pre-schedule a tweet to be released at a certain point of time.
• If you are a pre-approved user of a certain company then you can access updates with the help of group tweet.
• You can personalize your account in Twitter. Most people create their account in Twitter in order to converse with other people. Corporate people can also create a Twitter account by an appointed advocate conforming to a consistent brand voice.
• Enhance your customer service. Twitter offers the nearest social media strategy. It excels and boasts in high-end customer service.
• For marketing your product on Twitter you can use the TwitterHawk application.
• For improving the productivity you must use TweetLater. With this you can monitor replies, keywords, mentions, and future date tweets and reply to followers.
• You can get easy access to Twitter and its tools very easily with the help of Twitter toolbar. This also helps you to view your friends’ updates and post yours as well.

With all such advanced tips everyone seems to be ‘twitter’-ing. Some corporate individuals are yet to make full use of these tips. If used properly, they can prove to be immensely valuable for business expansion. Harness the full potential by making use of these tips in order to lift it to a valuable tool for making business and personal connection. Unleash the power of social media for your business and reach out to prospects and customers like never before.

The author is web marketing expert & shares his knowledge by writing interesting articles on the topics-social media networking, search engine optimization & web marketing.

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September 23rd, 2008

Analysis on US online advertising for first three quarters for 2009

US online advertising revenues reached almost $5.5billion for the third quarter of 2009, according to the IAB internet advertising revenue report. It representing an improvement of 1.7percentage from Q2’2009 and declined by 5.4percentage same period in last year. The internet advertising revenues for same period last year were $5.9billions.

First time drop in since last six years in Q3 revenues
If we observe trend of Q3 online advertising revenues, dropped by first time since last six years on year over year comparison. The online revenues 2004 to 2009 were $2.33billion, $3.14 billion, $4.78 billion, $5.26 billion, $5.9 billion and $5.5billion respectively. So this was the first drop because of economic crisis impact.

But if we look at statistics of the consumer online spending, according to the US department of commerce report consumers spent $34billion on online during the third quarter of 2009. This is an increase of 4.5percentage from q2’09 and 1.8percentage year over year comparison.

2008 first three quarters revenues vs 2009 first three quarters revenues
The total online revenues for first three quarters of 2008 were $17.4billions. This year because of economic crisis the revenues were almost reached by $16.39billions for first three quarters. Decreases by 5.8percentage compare to the last year first three quarters online revenues. The revenues were $5.46billion, $5.43billion and almost $5.5billion for first three quarters of 2009.
Same times in 2008 first three quarters revenues were $5.76billion, $5.74billion and $5.9billion.

2008 first half revenues vs 2009 first half revenues
According to the IAB report Internet advertising revenues were $10.9 billions in the first half of the year, declined by 5.3percentage compare to the last year during the same period. The revenues were $11.5 billions for first six months of 2008.

From the IAB online advertising revenue report for first half of 2009, Search and display related advertising continuing the top potions in revenue generation. Search ad revenue were on top with totaled $5,148million with 47percentage from total revenues and slight improvement from last year same period. Display related ad revenues included banner ads, rich media, digital video and sponsorship totaled $3,759million with 34percentage total revenues with second position. But declined by 1.1percentage compare to the last year same period.

Other formats like classified ads revenues totaled $1,116million, declined by almost 31percentage. Lead generation format revenues totaled $728millions declined by 9.6percentage. And E-mail ads revenues totaled $149millions declined by almost35percentage. The revenues in 2008 for search advertising, display related group advertising, online classifieds, lead generation and e-mail ads were $5,064billions, $3,799billions, $1,611billions, $806billions and $230billion respectively.

So far fourth quarter of 2008 online advertising revenues were on top
According to the IAB report if observed the quarter wise trend, fourth quarter of 2008 and fourth quarter of 2007 were on top positions in terms of total quarter revenue generation. The revenues were $6.1billion and $5.96billion revenues for Q4’08 and Q4’07.

So far fourth quarter of every year generating highest revenues in a year. Since it consists holiday season, so we may expect this year also some high revenues will come up for last quarter of the year.

Marvist is an online advertising agency providing web marketing strategy consulting to help companies to increase online sales and improve their profitability. Marvist was founded in 2005 and has been rapidly growing since then and has clients now in 11 countries including USA, Canada, UK, Spain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

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September 23rd, 2008

The Unsung Heroes of Internet today

If you are not aware of the most website you visit the visual presentation is somewhat unique that shows difference from other site. This is through the effort of the unsung heroes of the community. They are the graphic artists who are not mentioned on most of the sites in the internet.

Unless you will visit graphics related sites, you will see the talent and most especially the time and concept formulated just to create a unique visual presentation of the website. From ordinary mixing of colors, flash presentation and conceptualization, these graphic artists don’t receive any appreciation or commendation. This is because they created their own world, expressing their views in a different manner. By making their imagination materialize, has made them gratify their own fulfillment.

Graphic artists play a vital role in the virtual community, without them, I don’t know how these websites appear on the eye of the viewer. Most of the webmasters give focus on the visual presentation of their website, it should be stimulating to make the visitor stay a bit longer or even bookmark the site for future reference. But what are being given emphasis are the websites itself and all the features within and the one that created the graphics of the site is out of the blue.

Though there are lots of products created by these graphic artists being sold or even free on the net, it seems that the effort does not commensurate on the payment offered. How do you see it done? Well, unless you are a gifted person formulating your own graphics to your website, is another thing that makes these graphic artists to be on the unnoticed side of the community.

Since these artists are contributing immensely on the internet, they should be treated the same with others formulating and making this community a better place to live in. Though a website without any visual presentation can formulate profit beyond reasonable doubt, the visual presentation is also a factor; no! it’s a big factor for a website to make and formulate the traffic desired, not to include that visual presentation could target the desired traffic of the website.

“Picture paints a thousand words,” is a maxim that stimulates these graphic artists. Let me rephrase the idea where they start, correct me if I am wrong; first, they think what will be their audience in that particular image, then formulate the idea. It starts on a simple sketch, a scratched that later on maximized with the combination of the colors based on the thoughts of these projected audience. If you think this is simple, then you’re are an artist, but is it simple to make an idea presented in a visual form? I don’t think so.

The work needs time and effort just any other works on the internet or in the real world. And when it comes to work, dedication and commitment is one of the ingredients. Thus, the time for these Graphic Artists should be taken into consideration.

Kudos! Masters of Photoshop and graphics software’s enthusiasts, we are no longer invisible in the virtual community.

Leo Paguio is a born graphic artist and currently developing techniques to maximize his talents that lurks the internet world. He’s the owner of a leo art diary and caricatures

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September 23rd, 2008

Learn About Multiple Streams of Income To Make Money Online

Although you may be losing hope with the bad signs of this economy, you can still make money with multiple streams of income. In fact, a lot of people think that it’s one of the greatest ways for individuals to earn money because it not only protects you from risk, but it allows you to work from your home. What is really good about this is that you get to be your own boss. You would not have to take orders from other people anymore and more importantly; you get to dictate how much money you make. Essentially, your life is completely under you supervision.

There are a lot of ways in which people can create multiple streams of income. All you have to do is look for a few proven methods and follow them carefully and diligently. As you progress, you’ll begin to see more about the business and you will be able to increase your earnings. One great way in which you can earn money is in direct mail postcards. The way this works is you get to make postcards that will be addressed to certain people; you then send the postcards to them and you wait for a response. If they like your proposal they’ll order from you, if they don’t, then you just have to proceed to other prospects. What’s amazing about direct mailing is that you do not have to meet face-to-face with other people. This is wonderful for people who are shy and soft-spoken.

To make sure that you are creating and sending the correct postcards, it would be a smart idea if you conduct a few practice runs first. This allows you to witness the business firsthand so that you get to know what to do when creating postcards. The best way to do this is to use direct mail postcard samples. Postcard samples will serve as your guide. They will serve as your outline so you have an idea of how the card should appear, what contents it should have, and how you should craft it.

Creating multiple streams of income is undoubtedly great if you can have different kinds of businesses. Direct mail postcards are twice as beneficial for you because it gives you the advantage of reaching numerous individuals while expanding your business. As you move on, you can turn this venture into a well-established business and proliferate your earnings you can proliferate and turn this venture into a well-established business.

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September 23rd, 2008

How to Write Effective Articles To Drive More Traffic to Your Website!

Firstly, let me say that anyone that has a business whether it be online or offline, should be looking at develop a marketing one page plan, that incorporates using the Internet marketing techniques. It amazing how so many businesses miss MASSIVE opportunities by not exploring how that can leverage from the world wide web!. Using Article Marketing as part of your lead generation strategy is only one of many area’s to explore.
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What is Article Marketing and Why should you be exploring the idea!
An article is written about a specific topic or niche that your business is in and submitted to article directories and traffic is generated from that article. Pretty simple to start with but there is one extra step that is required to draw more traffic to your website. Next step is to add or create “backlinks” (see my blog fore more on ‘backlinks’). If you have not heard this term it is only a link in the article when clicked on will take the reader to the page you want them to visit. With sufficient backlinks you gain a higher recognition with search engines, increasing your page ranking increase on Google, Yahoo etc. Overall, quite an easy and nifty way to generate heaps of traffic your way

Your probably wondering, ‘How Do I go About writing an article. I’m a business owner not a writer, I have no experience and don’t now what to write!. Let’s start thinking laterally about this and how you can get dozens of articles about your chosen topic onto hundreds of article directories with out spending weeks and months doing it.

Firstly, let’s look at what to write about, how to write it, what the costs are and where to submit the artcles ..

1. Costs – The only real costs is your own time. Easy investment in my book. If you do outsource to a freelance writer (which is a great way to leverage your time) there will be some small costs but nothing in terms of the return on investment you will get from the increase in traffic.

2. What to write about – you probably talk about your business every day. Think about what customers or potential customers would normally be asking you. What type of ‘keywords’ are people using in normal conversation or searching the internet for (check out my Blog for more on researching ‘Keywords’) and brainstorm a list of 10 topics to write about. You may only come up with 5 ‘issues’ customers actually have right now or want to know but you can then merge topics into each other in order to create multiple articles. Do a bit of brainstorming for 30 minutes, right down as many things on a piece of paper, with out pausing to think about whether it’s right or wrong and by the end of the 30 mins you will have dozens of ideas not only to write articles about but potentially new product ideas to create new revenue from.

3. How to write the article – Keep it simple! Customers or potential customers don’t want to be bamboozled with technical words or loads of information. Give them a little bit of FREE information, a teaser to what is on offer if they purchase your product or draw them to continue through to your website. Make sure your article is unique in some way. There are probably hundreds or thousands of similar articles on the internet. Using a “Spin” feature is common (and there are products out there that can do this for you) which will allow just enough uniqueness for each article. Filter your articles with the lots of ‘keywords’ that Google, Bing, Yahoo and others will love and start adding your ‘backlinks’ so people can click on to get further information or be directed back to your website or an affiliates website. Again Search engines thrive on ‘backlinks’.

4. Where do I submit the articles? -There are literally hundreds of directories to submit articles too. There is also a viral affect with an number of these directories as other website owners can reprint your articles (under the condition they leave your author bio intact). Here are a few places to start but think about this; 10 articles (the same articles) submitted to 10 different directories, equals 100 articles with ‘backlink’ back to your website, product or what ever, helping increase traffic.

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.thesearchwarp.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.articledashboard.com

How many articles/backlinks do you need to get to page one of say Google?
More than your competitors. Do you own research by searching for articles with your chosen keywords and see what others are writing about. A great way to work out how to make your article unique. With careful selection of ‘keywords’ and ‘backlinks’ and submitting lots of articles to lot’s of directories, you would get your desired result which is higher ranking in search engines and more traffic to your site or products.

Can I leverage my time and automate the process of Article Marketing?
Yep, and a great idea to boot!
If you do not want to write the articles yourself, you can pay someone on Scriptlance to do the writing. Be specific about your keywords and instructions for the writer. (Cost per article is generally $5-10 dollars USD). Free articles may also be taken from an article directory website, which allows republishing (as long as the author bio or link is left in tact). Try to keep this to a minimum, and have the majority of the content unique.

There are so many of these so called article submission products out there that you really need to be very careful in your selection. Again, do your own research but here are a few to consider!

I like the the phrase K.I.S.S -Keep IT Simple & Stupid. Set your self a goal or writing 10 article and submitting them to 10 directories and then go from there.

Enjoy!

Andrew

Andrew has been helping people and small businesses get a head start to developing a business online and from home. His key focus is on leveraging time and creating a lifestyle! Check out http://easybusiness-success.com

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September 23rd, 2008

A new trend in Corporate Gifts

Gifting decisions are tough to make – whether personal or for the corporate world. They require considerable amount of time and effort in ascertaining the right gift for the right person which suits the occasion as well. They can be effectively used for clients, business colleagues and even staff members.
The logo promotional products, marketing gifts and make great reputation that people will use and definitely appreciate. There are the ranges of the various promo and logo based products that can be sell for the promotional marketing. The sales marketing for these products are seeing the top position in the next few years. Being a new concept in the market, manufactures have launched their online stores for selling their best efforts for their products. This is the best time to cash on this innovative idea. These gifts are specially manufactured in accordance with the requirements like small business, home business or trade purposes.

You can get many unique and useful corporate business items to kick up your business and to acknowledge people who have put in their efforts and interests to increase your business and its profitability. Put yourself ahead of the competition when you giveaway promotional business gifts. If you are looking for promotional products to promote your new brand or your company, Memento Gifts have a wide range of different promotional items available a few specimen are promotional pens, promotional bags, drink bottles, key rings and stress balls etc. Promotional gifts are a great way of reminding your customers and potential customers of your brand, and Memento Gifts are the useful in fully understanding of your marketing strategy and your business goals.
If you wish to further boost your sales, another way is to send promotional items out to former customers. If you think that some of your clients had been regulars but have been swayed by your competitors and have moved on, now is the time to send a friendly reminder in the form of a free promotional item with your logo imprinted on the surface. This will give them a nudge back.

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September 23rd, 2008

Online Video Marketing 2010

Video now is making strong moves in the online world, with sites like Youtube which is the 3rd most visited site on the internet and practically a search engine in itself.

The way we use video now to interact with our chosen audience is going to greatly enhance the way in which we do business.

There are many new companies out there which are making video marketing a priority in 2010, and it also should be a priority for you to.

There are so many different ways that you can use video to get your message across to your desired consumer.

Making a video is not just throwing a few pictures together to sell a product or to get your video marketing messge across to people, there are a few things to consider.

1. Length of your video: Statistics show that the average time someone spends watching video on video sharing sites, like vimo, youtube is 3.8mins…which even to me is a startling revelation, the attention span of most people who are searching online is short.

2. Content: What are you going to be using to get your message across, text, pictures, mixture of both.
How, where, when, timing, positiong, language, and so much more its important to consider all of these.

3. Lighting & Sound: Its up to you how professional you want your videos to look, so getting the correct lighting is very important, but it also depends what mood your trying to set also. Sound is even more important.

People will put up with grainy images and video, but bad sound will kill your video instantly, people will just skip it, so you want to make sure that if your outside you have no wind blowing, or get a lapel microphone.

4. Music: What type of music you use in your videos is just as important as the video itself, what your doing with this is taking people on a journey through sound so choose your music wisely.

5. Story: Make sure your video is around a mini story, so its good to have a story board for your videos, so you know where things are going so it allows you to put your triggers in at the perfect moment.

6. Trigger: Your call to action, how are you going to make people….. Click on The Link Below…… or… go to the page…… you want them to. Your trigger positioning is key to making this happen.

Video is such a good tool for advertising your business, because once you have done a video, it acts like a 24/hour robot.

Always bringing in leads, always performing 100% it takes no time of and if you want to change something to enhance it or test new strategies out it will not whine and complain it will do whatever you want.

There are many more things to consider when shooting a video to promote your products but i cant go through it all now, however, take the following above and implement it and see how it helps your business.

Always see your videos as an adventure be creative, its about arousing feeling in the observer.

Atlas

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September 23rd, 2008

How to Build a Residual Income Business Online

Nowadays our lives are so hectic that we tend to miss the sweet moment that eventually makes life worth living. It is from this view point, most people start to think of a job that can be done within the comforts of their homes and is good enough to take care of one’s family.

The Computer has infact changed the future of human civilization. It is so versatile that it enables a person to decide what he should do and most importantly be his own boss at what he does. The very concept of the word work was being exploited lately. People tend to “Live to work” rather than ” Work to live”. The economic pressures of the modern world had led to this situation. There is so much to spent on and so little ways to earn.

Residual income through online business is a fantastic concept. Residual income is created when a single product keeps generating revenue with little or no extra work on your part. You work within the coziness of one’s home and be your own boss at it. The internet has made such a work concept possible.

There are so many opportunities available over the internet like various affiliate programs and similar systems that generate residual income. And when we say working within the comforts of your home, we are not compromising on our earning potential. There is an excellent chance that you can turn your online business into one even worthier than your offline one.

Today, there are lots of online companies offering you help to set up an online business. You can either have a business collaboration with them or if you believe that you have that hidden entrepreneur in you, go ahead and initiate your own business.

The secret behind any success entrepreneur is hard work. And in today’s electronic age, you don’t have to wait much to bore the fruits of your hard work. You will see the exquisite change taking place right before you instantly. Once you have set your foot firmly, it is time to expand your business. There are many others waiting for an opportunity to start off, and your success story will definitely be a morale booster.

Last but not the least; never forget the reason why you decided to choose an online business that enables you to work from home. Enjoy life to its fullest. Live as if you rule the world or live as if you don’t care who rules the world.

Donny Gamble is a professional Internet Network Marketer that blogs about helping people create a solid residual income business online.

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September 23rd, 2008

Twitter and Marketing – Does it Really Work?

Twitter is a big deal right now and so a lot of people who have not yet built their Twitter profiles are asking me and themselves whether it is worth the effort. I personally use it to follow a small selection of 75 or so other tweeters and have a following of roughly 750. I post as often as possible – usually every day from my computer – and I ensure every article I write has a link posted on the site. It brings in some traffic and it works to develop a networking base.

But, here’s the thing about Twitter. It’s very easy to make mistakes that will leave you with very few followers and minimal results that will have second guessing all the gurus out there who claim it works. Here are three of those mistakes and how you can avoid making them:

1. Marketing too Early – Twitter is not, first and foremost, a marketing platform. The company has made that very clear with their recent revisions to the site’s usage policies. However, that doesn’t mean it cannot be used as a marketing platform – if you use it properly. The key here is not to market too early. Don’t market too early. Instead, build your social connections and develop a following that trusts you and will gladly click your links later when you start posting them.

2. Communication – I don’t know why this happens so much, but it seems to defeat the purpose of even spending time on Twitter. Marketers will setup an account and just post things to the site without actually interacting with their fellow tweeters. You don’t have to send everyone on your list a message every day, but send out a few retweets and direct messages each day, it becomes clear that you’re willing to interact.

3. Be Interesting – Enough of the dull, marketing rich talk. This is a social platform. Loosen up a bit and discuss things in your life. You don’t need to share details of your last doctor’s visit, but you can tell people funny things you’ve seen in your town, an observation you noted from a television program, or quotes you like. Tell jokes, be amusing. People will stop by more often and will even pay more attention to your links if you become a likable tweeter.

Twitter is an interesting platform for a lot of reasons, but before you use it for anything other than just socializing with friends, make sure you have the right approach in mind. You need to develop relationships, be engaging, and post things other than the links you want people to click on. Don’t do that and you’ll quickly become that guy or gal whose posts get ignored each day until you are unfollowed for overposting. Don’t be that person.

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September 23rd, 2008

Achieving Higher Rankings Using Skilled SEO Consultant Services

With the increase in fierce online strategy competition its extremeely hard Getting noticed these in the crowd of millions of web websites .. A relatively useful approach in achieving higher search engine rankings which is referred to as Search egine optimization This search engine plans drives more traffic to web sites and consequently will raise a web pages business revenue. Web business can enhance through the use of Search engine optimization strategy which will drive additional traffic to them.

The correct content is key in the process.

Content area in a web page communicates itself to the searchers regarding its products or goods accessible and is the primary goal of the web page . No matter what the web site is offering which can extend from advertising or other services it is vitalthat the website use its ste content to connect to the searcher. Subsequent to checking throughout a web pages content the reader will come to a decision whether or not the content is correct enough to be a superior choice of what the reader is looking for. This content is vital in portraying its allure to the reader as thought provoking and engaging to become a benefit to the reader. So the Search Engine Optimization Unique content within a website adds a in higher page ranking. Search engine strategy must appeal to both the audience and the search engine.

Getting the right keywords

Achieving a higher search engine ranking depends a great amount upon the keywords. Visibility of a web page packed in with millions of other web pages is relying on vital keywords to discriminate itself to search engines. While predicting the search keywords that internet surfers might put in when searching for a precise web page has been accomplished by the use of Google keyword device. Prominence and keyword density critical to page format are also focused on utilizing SEO tactics which fociusses on this web site value. The SEO content importance may become flawed by the overuse of precise keywords an thereby being absolutely unnoticed by the search engine . 1.5 to 2 % keyword density is generally the right worth. comprehending the critical keyword placement in the title and all through the initial paragraph is well practiced Search Engine Optimization plan in accomplishing higher search engine ranking. Equally spaced keywords in the content body allows eased navigation of the search engine when being web crawled

Attention achieving.

Having the Search Engines robot crawl it is the Search Engine Optimization main strategy Getting noticed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN is accomplished by submitting the site to popular directories which is a tremendous Search Engine Optimization practice.. Programmed traffic routing and indexing of the web site is accomplished at this point. Efficient use of the resource box assists to make links with othe3r websites and customers. Attracting guests to this web page can also be accomplished by the use of criticaladvertising techniques on social networking web pages . The popularity of the site will increase greatly when an increase of visitors visit longer after arrival to the web site This allures the attention of the robot that indexes it and gives the web page a top search engine ranking. Notice of the indexing spider is successfully achieved and raises the web sites search engine ranking.

Being a top rated Search Engine and as well as a top rated

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