Are You Interested In Work At Home Business Opportunities?? ...READ THIS FIRST!!!!
What if I could work from home and not have to dredge through the day to day grind of long hours, back-breaking work, and mediocre pay?
Is there more to life than just punching a time clock every day?
How can I attain the financial security to work at home and have the freedom to spend more of this time at home with my family?
If you've ever asked yourself any, or all, of these questions, then there's no doubt that you've thought about starting a work at home online money making business of your own. Right? But be honest. What's stopping you? The fear of not making it? The risks that may be involved? The lack of experience with the Internet and website design? Maybe you just don't think you have the skills required to make it all come together and work? Well, let me tell you a little secret. Not so long ago, I was right where you are now. My head was filled with ambition and thoughts of an endless stream of cash waiting on my doorstep each month. But then my mind would start to fill up with the clouds of doubt. I'd tell myself:
--"I can't possibly do it".
--"I don't know how to build and design a website".
--"I've never worked with computer programming before".
--"Besides, even if I did manage to get a website, then no one would want to come to visit it".
Any of this starting to sound familiar? I would search and search for that one perfect program that would take away all the fears, risks, and headaches involved in the process and I could just sit back and watch the money roll in. Then I had something amazing happen. No, I didn't strike it rich and become a millionaire overnight as some of the programs said I would. I had a reality check. All of the get rich quick envelope stuffing, claim processing, and survey taking scams were only a get rich quick trick for the companies that offered them. I soon realized that while there actually is good money to be made on the web, there really isn't any such thing as "free" money. There are definitely some amazing money making opportunities out in cyberspace, but most are going to require a little effort to make them really successful. I guess the old adage is right, "you reap what you sow".
So, how do you apply this new found insight to picking a program that's right for you? First of all, those 5 minute success stories are just that... stories. In all likelihood, and without some miraculous stroke of luck, the only way you are going to go from everyday Joe (or Jane) to millionaire in five minutes is if you win some lottery. Although, in most cases, your odds of making money with the lottery are probably better than your chances of making money with some of the shadier get rich quick online schemes. Also, all of those sites that promise to set everything up for you and all you have to do is sit back and watch the money fall at your feet? You might want to find a comfortable place to sit, because if you do nothing and expect them to do it all for you, then you will probably be sitting there for quite a while.
So, while you're sitting there, why don't you take some time to read all the way through this site. I know it may seem like it goes on forever, but I am going to tell you what you really need to know to succeed in the work at home business. And first things first, nearly every worthwhile work at home program is going to require at least a little time and effort, at least to start with. Some will require more than others, but expect to spend at least some time with the initial start up. The key to how much will be required really depends on several factors, but the main ones are:
1. How much time you have to devote to developing your new online business.
2. What kind of skills you are bringing in with you in regards to things like website design, html coding, and the other technical aspects of the business.
3. How much support you get from the program publisher.
4. How willing you are to learn and follow instructions from those who have been successful in the business.
5. How much money you are willing to invest in the business.
Let's focus on these key factors for a moment:
Number one: Time
The first, and possibly one of the most important, is how much time can you "realistically" spend working on your business? Let me be perfectly honest here for a moment. If you are not willing or able to put the time in to developing and setting up your business correctly, then you are most likely not going to see much of a return from your program. While most of the higher end programs are very well established for you in advance, there are still going to be some actions that you will have to take to see that you are achieving the goals you are trying to reach. Once again, "you reap what you sow".
For starters, most of the programs that include "free" websites with your purchase are going to need some work to truly be useful and "search engine friendly". Most of these sites have the required elements to be a useful website, but they lack a lot of the "personal" elements that make them stand out from the crowd. In a sense, they are "cookie" cutter websites in that they all pretty much look alike. This is a problem in and of itself, in that the search engines, and Google in particular, does not like this type of website. In fact, if Google finds that your new bargain website matches a hundred other websites, then they will more than likely not even index it in their searches. This is something that most of the "gurus" on the web won't tell you. Now this isn't to say that you should stay away from programs that provide a free website with your program. Not at all. If nothing else, you at least have a starting point to build from, without all of the expense and time of cr!
eating your own website from the ground up. Think of it this way, they built the house. All you have to do is decorate it.
Do yourself a favor. If you don't take anything else from this paragraph, read the next sentence VERY CAREFULLY! The single most important part of your website is NOT the ads or the product you are selling. It is the CONTENT that makes up the bulk of your page. I can't stress enough how important this is. It may not sound that important at first, but once you get an idea of how the search engines actually work, then you will see how important this really is. Basically, if you do not have unique, interesting, and informative content on your website, then you can pretty much forget about ever being anywhere near the top of the search engine results. In fact, without good quality content on your page, most search engines will not even index your pages. Remember the reference to Google earlier? They are a prime example of this. Google bases a lot of its search indexing on the quality and quantity of the content on your site. If Google doesn't feel you have enough content, or good, quality content that would benefit their searchers, then they will simply pass you up, or at the least index you so far down in the search results that you might as well not even exist. And most of the other search engines are picking up on this and looking more closely at their own website submissions.
So, make sure that you add good quality content that would actually make the web surfer who has just found your site actually want to spend time on your site. Don't just give them a basically empty page with a bunch of links to programs and gadgets for them to buy. Give them the information that they came to your site to find in the first place. And it really isn't that difficult to do once you understand a few basic principles about website design.
But that's a topic for our next key factor, so let's just sum this part up by saying this: Just be prepared to put in a little time to fine tune your program, whether it is embellishing your website by adding features, adding text and content, or whatever. This is one of the most important things you can do if you expect to have a productive site that attracts the search engines, and eventually, your customers.
Number Two: Skills
Now, as for the skills that you bring to the table? Rest assured that you do not have to be a computer programmer to make money on the Internet. This is merely going to slow the process down a little as you move through the learning curve.
While not all programs will require you to have a website, in my honest opinion, you are passing up on multiple streams of income without one. Most programs will not expect you to already be an Internet guru with your own arsenal of websites at your disposal, but if you do have one, then you are ahead of the game. Nearly all good programs will be designed with the beginner in mind and some even provide you with your own starter website, as was mentioned in the previous section. If you do not already have a website of your own or the necessary tools to edit and update a site, there are many helpful and useful websites out there that can guide you through every step of the way. I highly recommend downloading one of the free HTML and programming editors. They work right on your computer and you can re-work or change your existing websites, or event create your own from scratch. The best part, other than being free, is that you really do not need any prior programming experience to use most of these programs. They are very easy to understand and user friendly for the beginner as well as the expert. I personally use the NVU HTML-editor myself and it works great. In fact, most of my site listed in the resource box below was designed and modified using that very program.
And if you do reach a place where you are stuck and don't know what to do, then the very tool you're using now is a gold mine of information and help for you to use. There is a wealth of knowledge on the web just waiting for you to tap into it. There is everything from free information such as forums, blogs, and articles to complete premium services that will walk you through the process or even do it for you. Not sure if you need a premium service? There are many free website tools available to help you along as well. These can include checking your site for errors, ranking, dead links, and all kinds of other problems. If that doesn't fulfill your curiosity, then there are some more free products and services on my site listed in the resource box below that you might want to try.
The point to remember here is this: Don't be afraid of what you don't already know. Look for the answer if you don't know what it is. Everyone has to start somewhere and most people's fears of technical issues are nothing that can't be overcome with a little research and knowledge.
Number Three: Support
Which brings us to the next factor. What kind of support is your program publisher going to provide? This is very important in speeding up your learning curve and has a big impact on how quickly you can expect to see results.
As was stated in the previous paragraph, most publishers have the beginner in mind, at least to some extent, when they design a new money making opportunity. After all, the majority of their customers are going to be people that are new to making money on the Internet. If you already knew how to do it, you wouldn't need their product in the first place, would you? So, expect the program you join to provide you with most of the tools you need to get a reasonably good start on your business. The more materials and support they offer, the better off you'll be no matter what your level of skill is. These are the building blocks that will be the foundation of your business, so don't overlook this when deciding on a program.
Take in to consideration your own skills when deciding what type of program you want to try. If you already have your own site and are just looking for something to add to that, then you may not need a program with a free website and all the extra bells and whistles included. On the other hand, if you think HTML is something that you get off the dollar menu at McDonalds, then you may want to find a program that is designed for someone just starting out. It's all about what you think your capabilities are and what you're willing to do on your own.
There's no shortage of variety in the styles of programs out there. You will find everything from turn key online stores, to affiliate programs where you advertise other peoples products for them, to direct marketing of your own products. The possibilities are truly endless here. Just as a little side note here. If you are new to working online, then you owe it to yourself to check out the wide variety of affiliate programs that are out there. As a beginner, I would highly recommend this type of program to start you out. What could be simpler? You simply advertise other people's products on your website, or by any other means that you choose, and if you direct someone to their products and they buy something, then you receive a commission from the sale. They take care of all the business details such as shipping, receiving, accounting, returns, overhead, etc. All you have to do is keep promoting their products from the comfort of your own home. Keep in mind here though, that you will have to PROMOTE these products. Just having a website set up and on the web is not going to direct any sales your way without some advertising to bring them in. But we will discuss advertising a little later.
If you haven't already picked up on this by searching the work at home websites, you will also find that a lot of programs are basically just an e-book that you download to get you started. However, you don't have to necessarily be intimidated by these programs. While they essentially may only be providing you with information, there are some that can absolutely blow you away with the wealth of knowledge and insight that they provide. Information, in and of itself, is one of your most valuable tools when establishing an online business. Read all the mistakes and pitfalls that are discussed all over the web. Learn from their mistakes and build from their successes. That's the beauty of a work at home business. You can take as much time as you want to spend learning and studying all of the various techniques and ideas that are scattered around the web. Decide which one is right for you, and then commit to it. Best of all, if you take it seriously and take the information that is available to you and apply it, then you may very well make your dreams of unlimited online wealth a reality. It all comes down to how much you are willing to learn about the things you don't already know and then applying that knowledge effectively.
Number Four: Learn and Follow Instructions
And that leads us right into the next factor which is, how willing you are to learn and follow the instructions provided by the program. If you are seriously wanting to make money with your own home based business, then the easiest and quickest way is by following the direction of someone who has done it.
Well over 90% of work at home businesses that fail are due to people not following through with the process that was laid out for them in their program. It really is that simple. It's just as if someone gave you turn by turn directions to a destination that you had never been to before. Sure, if you just took your own path, you might eventually get there on your own. But, wouldn't it be a lot easier and less time consuming to follow the directions from someone who already knew the best way to get there instead? If you do a little research, you'll find that most worthwhile programs are laid out in a step by step approach that will guide you through the process in the correct way. Granted, this may not always seem to be the easiest or fastest thing to you, but that is why you purchase a program in the first place. To get the direction and guidance to do something that you didn't already know how to do.
Take my word for it, the road to online wealth is not going to be an overnight trip. To make the truly life changing amounts of income that most of us desire for, isn't going to be all that fast at first. There is usually a considerable amount of "setup" time that you just have to take into account when you decide to take on a business such as this.
First of all, you have to realize that if you are starting out with a completely new website that no one has ever seen, then you can't expect it to just magically pop up on the first search engine that looks for your particular type of site. There is a lot of preparation involved in getting a website out there for the world to see and this is usually what separates the "haves" from the "have nots" when it comes to a successful work at home business. Once again, that is why you do your research and find a good quality program that has already streamlined this process for you. There are so many things that can trip you up and slow you down when you're just starting out. And it is very easy to get frustrated and want to give up when you don't see the results you are hoping for in a short amount of time. But don't give up. It is the persistence and constant vigilance that makes these programs work. If they were all that easy, then the paybacks would reflect the effort required and they wouldn't be worth the time in the first place. The reason most of these programs have such tremendous money making potential is because of the fact that there is a certain amount of dedication required to "get it right" and that's what makes all the difference. The only sure way to make that happen is to follow the steps that are laid out before you and you should be on your way to the success you desire.
Number Five: Money
Now for what is probably the hardest factor for most people. How much money are you willing to invest in your online business venture? Don't panic just yet! While this is one of the most important of all the factors in regards to how fast you can see results from your efforts, having a limited budget is not going to keep you from being able to make money with a work at home business. There have been literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people who have make very good incomes on the Internet with little more than a lot of desire and the time to work at making it happen.
Aside from a few initial start up costs, such as the cost of your program, registering your domain name, and in some cases, the cost of hosting your website, most work at home businesses can be started with little upfront expense. It really all comes down to what kind of time frame you are looking for in regards to a return on your investment. While it is true that without a hefty amount of advertising revenue to get the word out about your site, you can expect to see somewhat slower results, but with wise use of free tools, online information, and a little trial and error, you can still make money with a work at home business. On the other hand, if you indeed do have a little start up capital to invest in your new business, then you can definitely speed up this process dramatically.
You see, here's the deal on websites. It doesn't matter how perfectly designed your website is. It doesn't matter how many top selling products you put on your site. It doesn't even matter how much unique, interesting, and informative content you put on your website. So what matters then? VISIBILITY of your website is all that matters. If no one ever sees your site, then nothing else will make up for that. That's it. Game over. You have to get your site out there in the spotlight if you ever expect to have anyone visit your site, let alone buy something from it. That's where the amount of money you intend to invest will make the most difference. If you've got the extra funds to pay for some high profile advertising, then you can dramatically shorten the length of time it takes to get your site noticed and getting a steady flow of traffic through it.
You can use all kinds of different media to promote your site, but if you have to limit yourself to just a few, then you want focus all of your efforts on just three key players in the Internet world. These are the three main search engines. They are Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Above all though, you want to get your site noticed by Google. They have been the highest ranking search engine for quite some time, and that doesn't really appear to be going to change any time soon. What is one of the fastest ways to get your site on Google you ask? Most agree that the answer to that question would be to use Google's pay per click program called "Google Adwords". Check out Google's website or use the link in my site listed in the resource box for more info on the Google AdWords program. Basically, you bid on the key words that you want to advertise your site with and if you are the highest bidder for those particular key words, then you get the top ads on Google's main search results pages. You can set a daily spending cap so that you stay within the budget you set, but you have to realize that the lower your daily cap and the higher the price-per-click on your key words, the less times you are going to have your ad shown per day before you reach the spending cap and you're done for that day. But don't get me wrong, this program has made countless websites money and it could be just what you're looking for to promote your new site. You just need to realize going into it that while this can be a very quick way to get the word out about your site, it will probably end up costing you a pretty penny as well. And if your particular niche, or area of interest for your site, is one of the more popular ones with a lot of competition from the larger sites that can devote thousands of dollars a day to advertising, then you can almost guarantee to pay top dollar for those most sought after key words for your site. Now once again, don't panic. This is just one of the many, many forms of online advertising that you can employ to get the buzz out about your new up and coming financial whirlwind of a website.
You can submit your site for free to nearly all of the major search engines out there. I say some, because there are a few that strictly index their lists from what they find on the web themselves. In that case you will need to make sure you get a lot of quality inbound links to your site from as many well known sites as you can get to link up with you. Once again, this is where the time factor comes in. It takes time to contact each Webmaster of a site you want to link with. And then there's the time waiting for a reply. And so on. And so on. If you do a little research, you will find that there are several sites out there that will link your site to others for you, which can save you a lot of time. But, just a word of warning here. If you use these type of sites, then make sure of two things.
--Number one, make sure you are getting a "reciprocal link" to the other sites you are hooking up with. A reciprocal link means that your site links to theirs and their site links to yours. You don't want to have all one way links either into or out of your site. The search engines, and here again, Google is really picky on this one, they have a thing called PR which stands for page rank. This is determined by the number of sites that are willing to link to your site. This shows a sign of trust in your site that the search engines like to see.
--Now the second thing about these link exchanges is this: Stay away from what is called "link farms". These are sites that you can basically pay to be linked with every site they can get their hands on based on the theory that the more links you have, good or bad, the better your search ranking will be with the search engines. This is a very big mistake in the eyes of the search engines and in extreme cases, you can actually get your site ranking lowered because of this, if not getting totally banned from the search engine all together. The big three, and most of the smaller search engines as well, see this as tampering with the system, which it really is, and they do not take it lightly. So, do yourself a favor and stay away from the link farms.
Just go out there and do your own foot work. Talk to the other webmasters and show them why an exchange of links with your site would be beneficial to you both. This way you can make some honest links with some of the other sites out there and you should have no problems with the search engines. Not to mention that every link you can get from another website is another potential stream of traffic that you just got for nothing more than a little constructive conversation with the other webmasters.
You can also check out some of the free traffic generating websites out there such as TrafficSwarm, HitSafari, and Webbizinsider. They may not generate the levels of traffic that they claim to be able to at first, but traffic is traffic, and every person that sees your new website is one more potential customer.
What it all boils down to is this: Your initial start up capital for your new work at home business is really only going to affect you in two ways, only one of which is fatal to your business.
--First off is that the amount you have to invest in the marketing and advertising of your site will determine how quickly you achieve your goals, not if you achieve them. More advertising money spells faster results, but less spending money just means slower results, not necessarily no results at all.
--So that just leaves the one potentially fatal affect that your amount of investment can have on your business. You have to be able to budget your cash flow to match your results. Some call this your "rate of return". For instance, if you have a start up budget of $500 (and this is just an example), and you are spending $250 a week on AdWords ads and various other methods of advertising, but your site is only bringing in $100-$150 a week in income, then it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a math scholar to figure out that you aren't going to be in business very long before your budget runs dry. The trick is to find something that works for you AND fits your budget.
The silver lining here would have to be that if all else fails, you've always got time. Most major search engines will usually get around to indexing your site after a little while, so don't think that without expensive advertising your site will never be known. It all comes down to time. The current lag on most search engines is around 6-8 weeks to index a site. Some may even take longer. The key is to not give up. You are in this for the long haul right? Remember that persistence and vigilance that keeps the work at home system alive? Plain and simply put, this type of work can indeed make you more wealth than you ever thought was possible, but it will require a commitment from you to see it through the initial ups and downs.
The upside to all of this? Most of the higher end programs that you will find have something very great in common with each other. Nearly every one one them, once they are established, require very little effort to sustain them. In fact, most of them will continue to build upon themselves and keep gaining and earning with little to no effort from you. The key is seeing them through the beginning stages to make sure they are firmly established. If you have the desire, the patience, and the drive to put in a little time and effort to better your current financial situation, the you very possibly could one day turn that dream into a reality. You too, can have your own online work at home business.
Conclusion:
I hope this gives you a little better understanding of what it takes to really make a successful work at home business that will provide you with years of steady, ever growing, reliable income for you to enjoy. The keys to success are not that difficult, as you can see, so now all you have to do is find a program that's right for you.
And now that you have a little deeper insight into what the pros and cons are of your new online business venture, I have searched the web and found a few of the really exceptional programs that I think you may be interested in looking into. These are some of the best money making opportunities for your new work at home career. If you are interested, please feel free to check them out on my website listed in the resource box and see what you think.
I want to wish you all the success in whatever business you choose and remember...we all have to start somewhere!!
by: John Newby
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MAiCHAIR’s adjustable features include a 5-position headrest, an engineered, flexible plastic backrest, adjustable arms, and a lightweight five-star base. The state of the art syncro-tilt provides adjustable tension resistance, pneumatic seat height adjustment and multi position tilt-lock control in one easy to adjust mechanism. Unique to this dynamic, cost effective chair, is that the seat and back cushions are designed with special fasteners that allow for quick and easy removal permitting replacement without tools.
Ongoing Customer Support
MAiSPACE provides a service program that matches the pace of customers’ requirements. “This is comprised of in-house support services and a team of dedicated professionals,” Bassil says. “Additionally, we can access our nationwide network of resources to find reputable local contractors for services such as Move Management, Inventory Assessment, Storage and Warehousing and Furniture Removal and Disposal.”
“We focus on making customers’ projects easy and effortless,” Bassil concludes. “Whether a small or mid-size company making major furniture purchase or a large corporation looking for new global furniture standard, MAiSPACE products and service are second to none.”
Established in 1993, MAiSPACE has approximately 250 employees worldwide, and a North American installed base of more than $150 million. MAiSPACE combines global sourcing and supply chain management with a streamlined just-in-time manufacturing and distribution system to reduce costs across the board and ensure fast delivery.
Contact us for a free quote and we'll show you how to save thousands on your new office interiors.
Systems Furniture Buying: MAiSPACE guarantees their deliveries to dealers and distributors anywhere in North America and with our short production lead-times, we take all the steps necessary to make certain that you get the product when you need it. Let us quote your project and we'll beat any other manufacturer with comparable quality and features on systems furniture.
by: Larry Tang
For more than 15 years, smart buyers and facility planners have looked to a company called MAiSPACE as one synonymous with best value in systems furniture. The company’s innovative products hold a “Best of NeoCon” award, one of the most prestigious in the contract furniture industry, yet are priced up to 40% less than manufacturers whose names frequently are top of mind.
MAiSPACE is a name based on the contract furniture industry’s term “Modular Architectural Interiors.” The company’s Vice President Mark Bassil explains, “When planning office interiors companies must realize that floor plans and requirements are going to change at some point. This calls for modular products that do it easily without sacrificing structural soundness - which is the premise of MAiSPACE. The benefit is improved flexibility moving forward while reducing costly installation and reconfiguration time. It also diminishes the need to buy new parts every time modifications are made.”
Voice, Data and Power Cabling Made Easy
MAiSPACE systems revolutionized the contract furniture industry by incorporating standards-compliant plug-and-play cable management systems in its superior quality stackable panel system. Patented, knocked down and ready-to-assemble (RTA) frames equipped with self-aligning connectors simplify moving elements into and throughout the building, thereby reducing installation costs. This design can also reduce the number of framing components required.
“Frames provide unobstructed cable pathways end to end and top to bottom,” says Bassil. “Cable runs are laid in behind lift-off panel segments. This differs and is superior to competitive designs requiring that cables be bundled and fished through structural elements. When moves, adds or changes (MACs) occur system segments are unplugged, moved and reconnected without disrupting the entire office’s local area network (LAN). This frequently can be accomplished by on-site IT personnel without the need of outside contractors,” he says.
As a research driven company MAiSPACE constantly evaluates and updates product options to enhance furniture system furniture capabilities and keep step with advancing technological, ergonomic and architectural innovations. The core system features off-modular design allowing flexibility in workspace size, configuration and in locating bins, shelves, and divider panels.
Buying Tips Systems Furniture
Easily removable panel segment options include laminate, Coverseal, veneer, painted metal, embossed steel, brushed stainless steel, airflow, clear glass, frosted glass, or textured glass, fabric, tackable/acoustical, power/data, marker board and paper management. Segments are designed to facilitate access to the MAiSPACE lay-in cable management system and are available up to 6 feet in length.
Customer Support from Day One
A pillar of the MAiSPACE value proposition is a professional in-house design team to produce the best and most cost-effective layout not only to satisfy customers’ current staffing demands, but also to plan ahead. The company’s designers understand facility issues and employ the most appropriate product applications and space planning layouts. This entails the use of the latest versions of AutoCAD and GIZA specifying software to achieve furniture and floor plans that are virtually fault free. Related to this are accurate detailed specifications, product lists and installation drawings.
“Our objective is to provide customers with beautiful and functional offices without sacrificing affordability or performance,” Bassil says. “Moreover, we commit to meeting project time frames, quick turnarounds and fast resolutions to revisions. These services are free with a signed purchase order or order placement.”
Looking Behind the Panels
>From a construction standpoint, the MAiSPACE product starts with a 3 1/2 inch wide frame constructed of 16-gauge cold-rolled steel to provide strength and rigidity, allowing it to remain distortion-free during installation and later MACs. To demonstrate this, a MAiSPACE panel configuration composed of 8-foot panel frames stacked 10 feet high and supported by two 24” return panels was rated to 2.5 tons on the work surface in a test conducted by Underwriters Laboratories.
“This is the highest load rating in the industry,” Bassil comments. “That strength also means the load-bearing panel frames can be used to build walls from 30 inches to 14 feet in height. Panel height can be increased without removing existing panel frames or disturbing power, voice and data cabling, another pillar in the MAiSPACE value proposition in terms of reduced product and labor costs.”
Buying Systems Furniture
Knockdown and RTA framing components equipped with self-leveling connections simplify moving elements into and throughout the building, reducing assembly costs and the number of framing components required. “For example,” explains Bassil, “only two horizontal sub-assemblies plus two shared vertical uprights are required to support panel frames up to 8 feet wide. Frames can easily be added to or removed from runs without disturbing adjacent structures.”
Panel segments are constructed from 24-gauge steel for exceptional durability and effective sound dampening. “This allows us to provide a .80 NRC and a 35 STC rating, the highest the industry,” Bassil says.
A Closer Look at Cabling Systems
The company’s patented zone distribution system includes plug-and-play connectors, lay-in cabling and the largest cable capacity in the industry. With a 4-Circuit, 8-Wire system, it supports any network or power requirements needed by customers today, but is designed to grow and change with business. “As suggested earlier, managing voice, data, and power cabling is a snap with MAiSPACE because cable runs are laid in behind lift-off panel segments, not bundled and fished through structural elements,” Bassil says. “Office reconfiguration time is reduced from days to hours without disruption of the entire network.”
MAiSPACE conforms to telecommunications industry standards for horizontal cabling systems in open offices. Standard belt line access and easily accessible consolidation points provide an interconnection between work area outlets and telecommunications closets creating a zone distribution system. Unrestricted cable pathway access simplifies changes to the existing network. Factory-terminated and tested modular cable assembles in copper or fiber support plug and play office reconfigurations. A wide variety of cable types are available to meet specific customer needs. “This includes Category 7 cabling, which is available for data-intensive and video applications, surpassing all current industry standards,” Bassil notes.
Product Innovations Broaden Customer Base
Focusing on small and mid size companies, MAiSPACE saw a need to develop a sister product called MORSPACE. As described by Bassil, “MORSPACE is a system designed with greater flexibility and more capacity than a monolithic system but at a lower price. With interchangeable tiles, stacking frames, built in cable pathways and multiple filing and storage options, MORSPACE offers all the features of premium modular office systems, including off-modular capabilities, but at a price that falls within even the tightest of budgets.”
“Both the MAiSPACE and MORSPACE lines are the most environmentally safe systems on the market,” Bassil points out. “Unlike most office systems, which are filled with fiberglass that doesn’t break down in landfills and is a source of airborne glass, we use post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) from ground up soda bottles. We hope other manufacturers will follow our lead. Due to the large number of plastic containers being discarded, much of this material goes unused. We’ve found a use for it that makes sense from every perspective.”
Ergonomic Seating
Seating rounds out the MAiSPACE product offering. MAiCHAIR is the most affordable, fully functional ergonomic seating line on the market today. “It incorporates all the comfort, style and adjustment features usually reserved for much more expensive chairs,” Bassil says. “MAiCHAIR’s flexible backrest conforms to the spine and provides critical support in the lumbar region. The contoured seat cushion and waterfall edge improves blood flow, and the syncro-tilt mechanism helps maintain the correct posture through a full range of motion.”
MAiCHAIR’s adjustable features include a 5-position headrest, an engineered, flexible plastic backrest, adjustable arms, and a lightweight five-star base. The state of the art syncro-tilt provides adjustable tension resistance, pneumatic seat height adjustment and multi position tilt-lock control in one easy to adjust mechanism. Unique to this dynamic, cost effective chair, is that the seat and back cushions are designed with special fasteners that allow for quick and easy removal permitting replacement without tools.
Ongoing Customer Support
MAiSPACE provides a service program that matches the pace of customers’ requirements. “This is comprised of in-house support services and a team of dedicated professionals,” Bassil says. “Additionally, we can access our nationwide network of resources to find reputable local contractors for services such as Move Management, Inventory Assessment, Storage and Warehousing and Furniture Removal and Disposal.”
“We focus on making customers’ projects easy and effortless,” Bassil concludes. “Whether a small or mid-size company making major furniture purchase or a large corporation looking for new global furniture standard, MAiSPACE products and service are second to none.”
Established in 1993, MAiSPACE has approximately 250 employees worldwide, and a North American installed base of more than $150 million. MAiSPACE combines global sourcing and supply chain management with a streamlined just-in-time manufacturing and distribution system to reduce costs across the board and ensure fast delivery.
Contact us for a free quote and we'll show you how to save thousands on your new office interiors.
Systems Furniture Buying: MAiSPACE guarantees their deliveries to dealers and distributors anywhere in North America and with our short production lead-times, we take all the steps necessary to make certain that you get the product when you need it. Let us quote your project and we'll beat any other manufacturer with comparable quality and features on systems furniture.
by: Larry Tang
Vacuum Cleaners - Getting The Best Buy For Your Money
Without a doubt one of the most common housekeeping appliances is the ordinary vacuum cleaner. These range from light-duty models up to the 100 gallon shop models. What vacuum you choose depends largely on the demand you expect to place on it. In this article I'll offer a few tips on how to choose the right one for your needs.
Types Of Vacuums:
Vacuum cleaners come in variety of shapes, sizes, styles and features. There is the small; rechargeable handheld which is best suited for cleaning up specific spots that may be difficult to reach with other types of cleaners. Uprights and canisters are other types that are used for around the home or small office. The upright is lighter and more maneuverable but lacks the ability to handle tougher jobs, while the canister vacuum is perfect for harder jobs around the home but is more restricted in it's movement. If you live in a home with two or more floors the upright may be the way to go; just make sure you have obtain additional stair cleaning attachments. Another type of vacuum gaining popularity is the broom type which is great for apartment and condo dwellers that have smaller areas to keep clean.
Buying A Vacuum Cleaner:
Keep in mind the phrase "You get what you pay for" when making a vacuum purchase. Making the right buying decision should be made according to your specific needs, but don't scrimp on quality just to save a few bucks. All vacuums are not created equal.
Some things to consider:
Type - Your choice in the type of vacuum cleaner to purchase depends on the surfaces you'll be cleaning, so be sure you keep this consideration in mind before buying.
Comfort - You wouldn't buy a car that was hard to drive, so why is a vacuum any different? Handling is an important feature in buying a vacuum cleaner. Check how well it handles, its weight, size and comfort of use.
Noise - This is where the higher price models really have it over the cheaper brands. If you are sensitive to noise, then you might want to consider buying a higher priced model with insulated materials around the motors.
Filtration - Check the efficiency of its filter, especially if you are prone to allergies. Research the HEPA rating of different models online before you go shopping. Vacuum cleaners with highly rated filtration systems usually come at a premium, but are more effective in filtering out particles. If price is your main consideration then choose a vacuum with an efficient dust collector. Typically these collectors consist of a bag or plastic container.
If you're not into replacing your vacuum every few years go with a metal framed unit. A longer cord is also a plus if your home has fewer electrical outlets or you simply don't want to stop cleaning every few minutes to change outlets.
If you decide to spend the extra money for a higher quality unit then seriously consider purchasing an extended warranty as well. Even a Mercedes has to go to the mechanic from time to time.
There is a lot to consider when buying a vacuum cleaner. To reiterate, it largely depends on your intended use and how much you are willing to spend. Take your time and test a few models before you purchase the one to suit your needs.
by: Chuck Lunsford
Types Of Vacuums:
Vacuum cleaners come in variety of shapes, sizes, styles and features. There is the small; rechargeable handheld which is best suited for cleaning up specific spots that may be difficult to reach with other types of cleaners. Uprights and canisters are other types that are used for around the home or small office. The upright is lighter and more maneuverable but lacks the ability to handle tougher jobs, while the canister vacuum is perfect for harder jobs around the home but is more restricted in it's movement. If you live in a home with two or more floors the upright may be the way to go; just make sure you have obtain additional stair cleaning attachments. Another type of vacuum gaining popularity is the broom type which is great for apartment and condo dwellers that have smaller areas to keep clean.
Buying A Vacuum Cleaner:
Keep in mind the phrase "You get what you pay for" when making a vacuum purchase. Making the right buying decision should be made according to your specific needs, but don't scrimp on quality just to save a few bucks. All vacuums are not created equal.
Some things to consider:
Type - Your choice in the type of vacuum cleaner to purchase depends on the surfaces you'll be cleaning, so be sure you keep this consideration in mind before buying.
Comfort - You wouldn't buy a car that was hard to drive, so why is a vacuum any different? Handling is an important feature in buying a vacuum cleaner. Check how well it handles, its weight, size and comfort of use.
Noise - This is where the higher price models really have it over the cheaper brands. If you are sensitive to noise, then you might want to consider buying a higher priced model with insulated materials around the motors.
Filtration - Check the efficiency of its filter, especially if you are prone to allergies. Research the HEPA rating of different models online before you go shopping. Vacuum cleaners with highly rated filtration systems usually come at a premium, but are more effective in filtering out particles. If price is your main consideration then choose a vacuum with an efficient dust collector. Typically these collectors consist of a bag or plastic container.
If you're not into replacing your vacuum every few years go with a metal framed unit. A longer cord is also a plus if your home has fewer electrical outlets or you simply don't want to stop cleaning every few minutes to change outlets.
If you decide to spend the extra money for a higher quality unit then seriously consider purchasing an extended warranty as well. Even a Mercedes has to go to the mechanic from time to time.
There is a lot to consider when buying a vacuum cleaner. To reiterate, it largely depends on your intended use and how much you are willing to spend. Take your time and test a few models before you purchase the one to suit your needs.
by: Chuck Lunsford
Keeping Things On The Level. Without This Tool All Your Hard Work May Collapse
Levels in their basic form have been used for thousands of years. Ancient South American Indians used a crude form of the level, utilizing water in a bowl to form a bubble, to design and build their irrigation canals. Modern researchers have marveled at the engineering of these canals, none of which would have been possible without the use of a level. Since then this handy tool has evolved into the implement we see today in most do-it-yourselfers tool boxes, as well as the larger commercial job sites.
Without the common level as we know it we would be seriously challenged to build above one-story without fear of the whole structure coming down on our heads. In this article I intend to cover some of the types of levels in use today as well their care and storage.
Types of Levels
Wood, aluminum, or magnesium is the materials commonly used to make most levels. During the 1800's these tools were often made using iron as the frame. The better wood-framed devices were made using beech and oak, with teak being used for the highest-quality levels.
Shortest of all is the line level, which is used suspended from a string that has been pulled taut. This is done for long-span leveling, as in road grading or foundation work on homes or buildings.
Longest of all is the mason's level, typically four feet long (although some models today range up to eight feet in length ) and used to cover broad spans in concrete work to show which cement blocks need adjusting,
The carpenter's level is about two feet long and is equipped with both plumb vials for checking vertical surfaces and level vials for checking horizontal surfaces.
The torpedo level is popular and handy in that it fits where its longer cousins won't. It is also equipped with both plumb and level vials.
Taking Care of A Level.
Although having no moving parts a level is still susceptible to damage caused by rough handling or neglect. Considering the price of a quality level it is in ones best interest to take care of it. A simple wipe down and keeping it stored in a carrying case is more than enough to keep most levels on the job for decades.
Few jobs could be completed without this humble, but necessary implement. Whatever the job there is a level available to aid in the completion of it. Choose the right one, take care it and it will take care of you for years to come.
by: Chuck Lunsford
Without the common level as we know it we would be seriously challenged to build above one-story without fear of the whole structure coming down on our heads. In this article I intend to cover some of the types of levels in use today as well their care and storage.
Types of Levels
Wood, aluminum, or magnesium is the materials commonly used to make most levels. During the 1800's these tools were often made using iron as the frame. The better wood-framed devices were made using beech and oak, with teak being used for the highest-quality levels.
Shortest of all is the line level, which is used suspended from a string that has been pulled taut. This is done for long-span leveling, as in road grading or foundation work on homes or buildings.
Longest of all is the mason's level, typically four feet long (although some models today range up to eight feet in length ) and used to cover broad spans in concrete work to show which cement blocks need adjusting,
The carpenter's level is about two feet long and is equipped with both plumb vials for checking vertical surfaces and level vials for checking horizontal surfaces.
The torpedo level is popular and handy in that it fits where its longer cousins won't. It is also equipped with both plumb and level vials.
Taking Care of A Level.
Although having no moving parts a level is still susceptible to damage caused by rough handling or neglect. Considering the price of a quality level it is in ones best interest to take care of it. A simple wipe down and keeping it stored in a carrying case is more than enough to keep most levels on the job for decades.
Few jobs could be completed without this humble, but necessary implement. Whatever the job there is a level available to aid in the completion of it. Choose the right one, take care it and it will take care of you for years to come.
by: Chuck Lunsford
Direct Connections and Ecommerce, Are You Losing Money?
When we talk about 'Connectivity' in the Business Technology world, we are referring to the ability of a computer at a buyer's office and a computer at a seller's office to send and receive information about products and product ordering without human intervention.
Images of box here box there, data flowing between. Some Data marked as information about the product, some data marked as information about a specific order.
Way back in the olden days (OK, some of you are still doing this), the buyer's inventory would show that they were getting low on a Lund part. Purchasing would fill out a purchase order and send a fax to Lund to order 6 more. Someone at Lund would grab the fax and type the order into accounting software and order processing software. Then the warehouse guy or gal would gather up the stuff and put it on a truck. When the parts arrived, a receiving clerk would have to go find the paper work, match it to the shipping documents, enter it into the accounting software and inventory and put it on the shelf. But what if Lund has the product on back order while they rebuild the machine that makes them? What if someone hits the wrong number key when they're entering the part number? What if the price has changed? The process quickly bogs down into a time-consuming and inefficient mess that we all assume is normal business procedure. The fact is, this process costs our industry billions of dollars per year.
If you're a WD, like Keystone or a big box retailer or a chain of 1600 stores, like O'Reilly Auto Parts, you live or die by your margins. The price you buy a part for isn't going to change much, nor is the selling price. Other costs just seem to keep on rising; insurance costs, labor costs and certainly fuel costs. The only way to maintain or improve your margin is to become more efficient. Automated order processing is one important way to reduce costs. As a matter of fact automated document transfer is a requirement of doing business with most (soon to be all) of these larger buyers. This has been an expensive hurdle for our manufacturers until recently.
That's the stick. Here's the carrot. Both seller and buyer reap financial and other rewards from automated order transfer.
Take a look at these benefits. Buyer Benefits • Lower Inventory Levels: Reductions in order processing time can result in shorter delivery cycles. • Quick Order Acknowledgment: If a supplier can not provide the product desired, the buyer can quickly seek an alternate supplier. • Efficient Invoice Processing: Time spent matching invoices to purchase orders and re-keying invoices into an Accounts Payable System is reduced. Supplier Benefits • Elimination of problems and delays caused by order entry errors: Manual order entry can result in errors in as many as 50% of all documents. Errors in order entry mean missed ship dates, shipment of wrong items or quantity, and lower customer satisfaction. • Personnel Reductions: There are estimates that as much as 70% of all computer output becomes computer input. With Electronic Order Processing, the supplier is relieved of the process of re-keying and verification of orders. • Inventory Reductions: Production schedules can be tuned more closely to customer demand thereby reducing supplier inventory. • Improved Cash Flow: Time taken out of the invoicing/payment cycle improves the cash flow of the supplier. • Improved Customer Service: Automated order processing benefits participants on both sides of the sales equation. • Improved Sales Tracking: Because orders are already in the system, analysis can take place in real time.
• Cost Savings: One survey estimated the cost of a manually prepared and transferred document to be about $40 and the cost of an electronic document to be only $2.10.
OK, Sounds good. How does this work, exactly?
EDI, AS2, XML, Partnership Network
EDI Most of the larger stores and chains use a document transfer protocol that originated in the late 60's called Electronic Data Interchange or EDI. EDI (or one of thousands of EDI 'flavors') is the standard document transfer format. Every other version of document transfer is either a version of EDI or a way to manage EDI-like documents through other means.
AS2 AS2 is nothing more than a secure, reliable way to transfer EDI documents using the Internet instead of dedicated phone lines.
XML utilizes Extensible Markup Language to transfer EDI-like documents via a web browser interface.
Partnership Network was developed by O'Reilly Auto Parts and then made available to the entire aftermarket. It is a software package designed to transfer EDI-like documents over the Internet. Partnership Network is used by CARQUEST, CSK, O'Reilly and Advance Auto Parts as well as over forty aftermarket manufacturers. It is available through the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association.
Because an EDI installation is expensive for a smaller business to implement and maintain, numerous EDI service providers have emerged including GCommerce, MISG, and TrueCommerce, among others. These service providers accept documents from trading partners, translate them from EDI to multiple other formats and transmit them. In other words, if a buyer who has EDI capability sends you an order, the order might be translated into a fax, an email or into an XML document and delivered to you. When you send a document back to the buyer it is then translated by the service provider into EDI and delivered to your customer.
Well, that sounds pretty good in theory, but now let's talk to some folks with 'skin in the game' who are engaged in electronic document trading to see how these theoretical benefits stack up in the real world of business.
Stories from the Front Lines
Jessica Miller, Director of IT at Crane Cams said, "For us, EDI is a necessity of doing business. It's a must-have in order to work with our biggest customers, but even if it wasn't, cost savings from reduced errors and data entry would have driven us to it."
"We're a driving force for manufacturer implementation of EDI" said Cheryl Ives, EDI Director for a large mail order retailer. "There are less order errors and we need confirmation when products leave our vendor's factories for planning purposes."
Jim Riden, Director of IT at Hypertech said Hypertech has only implemented EDI with 3 or 4 of their biggest customers, but that reduced processing time and fewer errors is a real benefit. "I wish more of our buyers would jump on the bandwagon and accept EDI documents" he said. "It would make our lives at Hypertech a whole lot easier."
Flowmaster's CIO, Alan Glazier seconded Riden's statement. "If more of our buyer's accepted EDI documents, we'd be able to reduce order processing costs even further. I came out of another industry where we used EDI for many years. I'll take as many additional connections as I can get. It just doesn't make sense in this day and age to pay a bunch of data entry people to type in orders."
It seems that as a SEMA manufacturer, you may come to electronic document trading because you're forced to by a customer or because you want to expand your market to include large volume buyers who demand it, but lower order transaction costs may be the real ongoing advantage.
As Jerry McCabe, Senior Vice President of Business Architecture at Affinia Group, said a few years back: "Of all the ways you could allocate your company's resources today, I believe your best ROI will come from investments in perfecting your data and in ways to deliver your data ... in that order."
Get More Info
• SEMA's Business Technology Committee at http://www.sema.org/main/semaorghome.aspx?id=53742 • Aftermarket eForum at www.aftermarketeforum.com • AAIA Technology Standards and Solutions Committee at http://www.aftermarket.org/Ecommerce/Committee/committee.asp
by: Dan Jondron
Images of box here box there, data flowing between. Some Data marked as information about the product, some data marked as information about a specific order.
Way back in the olden days (OK, some of you are still doing this), the buyer's inventory would show that they were getting low on a Lund part. Purchasing would fill out a purchase order and send a fax to Lund to order 6 more. Someone at Lund would grab the fax and type the order into accounting software and order processing software. Then the warehouse guy or gal would gather up the stuff and put it on a truck. When the parts arrived, a receiving clerk would have to go find the paper work, match it to the shipping documents, enter it into the accounting software and inventory and put it on the shelf. But what if Lund has the product on back order while they rebuild the machine that makes them? What if someone hits the wrong number key when they're entering the part number? What if the price has changed? The process quickly bogs down into a time-consuming and inefficient mess that we all assume is normal business procedure. The fact is, this process costs our industry billions of dollars per year.
If you're a WD, like Keystone or a big box retailer or a chain of 1600 stores, like O'Reilly Auto Parts, you live or die by your margins. The price you buy a part for isn't going to change much, nor is the selling price. Other costs just seem to keep on rising; insurance costs, labor costs and certainly fuel costs. The only way to maintain or improve your margin is to become more efficient. Automated order processing is one important way to reduce costs. As a matter of fact automated document transfer is a requirement of doing business with most (soon to be all) of these larger buyers. This has been an expensive hurdle for our manufacturers until recently.
That's the stick. Here's the carrot. Both seller and buyer reap financial and other rewards from automated order transfer.
Take a look at these benefits. Buyer Benefits • Lower Inventory Levels: Reductions in order processing time can result in shorter delivery cycles. • Quick Order Acknowledgment: If a supplier can not provide the product desired, the buyer can quickly seek an alternate supplier. • Efficient Invoice Processing: Time spent matching invoices to purchase orders and re-keying invoices into an Accounts Payable System is reduced. Supplier Benefits • Elimination of problems and delays caused by order entry errors: Manual order entry can result in errors in as many as 50% of all documents. Errors in order entry mean missed ship dates, shipment of wrong items or quantity, and lower customer satisfaction. • Personnel Reductions: There are estimates that as much as 70% of all computer output becomes computer input. With Electronic Order Processing, the supplier is relieved of the process of re-keying and verification of orders. • Inventory Reductions: Production schedules can be tuned more closely to customer demand thereby reducing supplier inventory. • Improved Cash Flow: Time taken out of the invoicing/payment cycle improves the cash flow of the supplier. • Improved Customer Service: Automated order processing benefits participants on both sides of the sales equation. • Improved Sales Tracking: Because orders are already in the system, analysis can take place in real time.
• Cost Savings: One survey estimated the cost of a manually prepared and transferred document to be about $40 and the cost of an electronic document to be only $2.10.
OK, Sounds good. How does this work, exactly?
EDI, AS2, XML, Partnership Network
EDI Most of the larger stores and chains use a document transfer protocol that originated in the late 60's called Electronic Data Interchange or EDI. EDI (or one of thousands of EDI 'flavors') is the standard document transfer format. Every other version of document transfer is either a version of EDI or a way to manage EDI-like documents through other means.
AS2 AS2 is nothing more than a secure, reliable way to transfer EDI documents using the Internet instead of dedicated phone lines.
XML utilizes Extensible Markup Language to transfer EDI-like documents via a web browser interface.
Partnership Network was developed by O'Reilly Auto Parts and then made available to the entire aftermarket. It is a software package designed to transfer EDI-like documents over the Internet. Partnership Network is used by CARQUEST, CSK, O'Reilly and Advance Auto Parts as well as over forty aftermarket manufacturers. It is available through the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association.
Because an EDI installation is expensive for a smaller business to implement and maintain, numerous EDI service providers have emerged including GCommerce, MISG, and TrueCommerce, among others. These service providers accept documents from trading partners, translate them from EDI to multiple other formats and transmit them. In other words, if a buyer who has EDI capability sends you an order, the order might be translated into a fax, an email or into an XML document and delivered to you. When you send a document back to the buyer it is then translated by the service provider into EDI and delivered to your customer.
Well, that sounds pretty good in theory, but now let's talk to some folks with 'skin in the game' who are engaged in electronic document trading to see how these theoretical benefits stack up in the real world of business.
Stories from the Front Lines
Jessica Miller, Director of IT at Crane Cams said, "For us, EDI is a necessity of doing business. It's a must-have in order to work with our biggest customers, but even if it wasn't, cost savings from reduced errors and data entry would have driven us to it."
"We're a driving force for manufacturer implementation of EDI" said Cheryl Ives, EDI Director for a large mail order retailer. "There are less order errors and we need confirmation when products leave our vendor's factories for planning purposes."
Jim Riden, Director of IT at Hypertech said Hypertech has only implemented EDI with 3 or 4 of their biggest customers, but that reduced processing time and fewer errors is a real benefit. "I wish more of our buyers would jump on the bandwagon and accept EDI documents" he said. "It would make our lives at Hypertech a whole lot easier."
Flowmaster's CIO, Alan Glazier seconded Riden's statement. "If more of our buyer's accepted EDI documents, we'd be able to reduce order processing costs even further. I came out of another industry where we used EDI for many years. I'll take as many additional connections as I can get. It just doesn't make sense in this day and age to pay a bunch of data entry people to type in orders."
It seems that as a SEMA manufacturer, you may come to electronic document trading because you're forced to by a customer or because you want to expand your market to include large volume buyers who demand it, but lower order transaction costs may be the real ongoing advantage.
As Jerry McCabe, Senior Vice President of Business Architecture at Affinia Group, said a few years back: "Of all the ways you could allocate your company's resources today, I believe your best ROI will come from investments in perfecting your data and in ways to deliver your data ... in that order."
Get More Info
• SEMA's Business Technology Committee at http://www.sema.org/main/semaorghome.aspx?id=53742 • Aftermarket eForum at www.aftermarketeforum.com • AAIA Technology Standards and Solutions Committee at http://www.aftermarket.org/Ecommerce/Committee/committee.asp
by: Dan Jondron
Why Data Matters
Sometimes when those of us who are less than computer geeks read about supply-chain new technology, it seems that the people writing about the subject are obsessed with "data." The articles all seem to go on endlessly talking about the importance of full and complete data or about data standards with cryptic acronyms like PIES and ACES. Why is data so damned important?
Data is the fuel that makes computers work. And just like contaminated fuel in an engine, if you put incomplete, inaccurate or otherwise contaminated data into a computer system, it will sputter, spit and stall.
To understand the importance of data, one must consider how computers "think." Computers don't actually think like people; they just process data. And they do that very literally. It's one very good reason why computers don't drive cars. Tell a computer to go straight for 2.2 miles and then turn left by the gas station, and a computer would go straight, all right-straight off the road at the first slight curve. When the computer encounters a Circle K when it is time to turn left, it might not recognize a convenience store that sells gas as a proper gas station and it would just stop and generate an error report.
While computers can process a lot of data very quickly and very accurately, they lack the ability to reason and interpret the way the amazing little computer we call a human brain can. And that is why data standards become so important for aftermarket trading partners that want their computers to interact with each other.
Data variations and data formats are endless. Even those issues that seem intuitive or obvious to our "human computer" are not so obvious to computers. Consider a few examples that tax a computer's ability to "understand" data:
Is a pound, lbs. or #?-If a manufacturer sends product information to a distributor that describes the shipping weight of a carburetor as 6 lbs., it's pretty obvious that the product weighs six pounds. However, the distributor's computer might refer to that weight as 6 # or 6 pds, not 6 lbs. Unless there is previous agreement to describe a "pound" as "lbs.," one computer will have no idea what the other is referring to. God forbid that the customer is in Canada and his system is based on metric weights. PG=pounds gross, PN=pounds net.
What's a half an inch?-Is the carton 6.5 inches tall or 6.5" tall? Note that there are two variables in this example. First is the expression of one-half as either a fraction or a decimal. Computers don't do well with fractions, as they "see" slashes as markers between expressions (as in http://yahoo.com/mail). The other issue is the abbreviation for inches. While our human computer easily translates (") as inches, a computer is much more comfortable with the PIES standard IN.
Gimme a case of those-Packaging is another area open for interpretation, this time even to the human computer. It seems there is no convention for common terms such as cases or cartons. One man's case is another man's carton. Then there are oddities such as inner-packs or self-merchandisers. Again, the PIES standard brings definition for all these issues.
You say Chevrolet, I say Chevy-As intuitive as this one seems, any database will sort Chevy parts into a separate category from Chevrolet parts.
How many of what?-In the aftermarket we use a lot of descriptions to define "how many," or units of measure. When someone asks for one, did he mean one kit, one set, one pair, one carton, one foot, roll, bulk, quart, gallon, case, box or just plain "one." Think about this: If braided fuel hose is purchased in 50-foot rolls and sold in one-foot increments, what happens when you want 50 feet but the supplier's system sees the order as rolls? Somebody is making a large return.
To avoid such "data disasters," our industry trade associations-including SEMA-have created standards to make computer-to-computer communication possible between trading partners. The standards quite literally standardize the way the industry describes various attributes of our products and what they fit. These standards are easy to implement. In many cases, compliance is just a matter of changing column headings or the abbreviation that is used. In other instances, it may require adding a field or modifying one. The changes are usually small, but they can have a big impact once implemented. A good example is the "short product description" field in PIES. Very often, manufacturers will put their part number or an internal description of the product in that field. But consider it from the customer's perspective: Have you ever pulled out a cash register receipt that had a long string of meaningless letters and numbers that cost $19.99 and gives you no clue what it was you bought? At a time like that, you will appreciate the manufacturer that populated the "short product description" with the words "air filter."
Many of the same articles that are "data obsessed" talk about how incorrect and inaccurate data is costing the specialty-equipment market billions of dollars. For most of us, that seems improbable at first, but as more is learned about data and how unstandardized data contributes to more computer errors, those projections of losses don't seem so outlandish.
There is a story told by one of the senior buyers at W.W. Grainger, the large industrial distributor, about data that is worth sharing. The story is set in the late 1990s around the time that Grainger was seriously migrating its business from paper catalogs and telephone ordering to a web-based eCat and online ordering. It seems that this buyer had a great vendor, one that did just about everything right. The product was great, the service fantastic, but the supplier wasn't very keen on addressing Grainger's endless requests to provide full electronic data on the products being provided. This supplier took the attitude that it didn't much care about all this computer hocus pocus and, besides, it knew it was a great manufacturer and supplier (having won dozens of preferred-supplier awards). At first, Grainger did the data work for this great supplier but eventually gave it the ultimatum: Get us the product data we need, or we will find another vendor who can, even if its product isn't as good. The supplier called Grainger's bluff and lost. The line was replaced with one that wasn't quite as good but could provide the product data Grainger needed to fuel its eBusiness needs. That might not happen today in the specialty aftermarket, but the day is coming...and soon.
Getting your data standards compliant also greatly expands the potential size of the market and channels into which both manufacturers and distributors can sell. Major retailer chains and new-car dealers challenged by shrinking margins in their core product areas have determined that selling performance and accessories products is an important strategy for expanded profitability. Since these businesses will do most of their transactions through special orders, they will need to be able to source, check stock and place orders while the consumer is standing in front of them with their checkbook or credit card. A transaction of this nature will only occur when our computers can talk to each other and exchange complete product and application data in a standardized format.
There is an extensive feature on this issue entitled "Cutting Cost vs. Selling More" that examines the upside of expanded selling opportunities along with the efficiency that technology offers.
Taking advantage of the opportunities that technology offers requires the existence of clean, standardized data "fuel" to power your computer. Realizing those benefits, whether through lower operating costs or the ability to sell more to new and expanded markets, requires SEMA manufacturers to get serious about getting their data act together and sharing it with their customers. (Manufacturers in particular should read the article entitled "Manufacturer Product Data Services" to get more insight into preparing and sharing their data.)
By Bob Moore & Dan Jondron
by: Dan Jondron
Data is the fuel that makes computers work. And just like contaminated fuel in an engine, if you put incomplete, inaccurate or otherwise contaminated data into a computer system, it will sputter, spit and stall.
To understand the importance of data, one must consider how computers "think." Computers don't actually think like people; they just process data. And they do that very literally. It's one very good reason why computers don't drive cars. Tell a computer to go straight for 2.2 miles and then turn left by the gas station, and a computer would go straight, all right-straight off the road at the first slight curve. When the computer encounters a Circle K when it is time to turn left, it might not recognize a convenience store that sells gas as a proper gas station and it would just stop and generate an error report.
While computers can process a lot of data very quickly and very accurately, they lack the ability to reason and interpret the way the amazing little computer we call a human brain can. And that is why data standards become so important for aftermarket trading partners that want their computers to interact with each other.
Data variations and data formats are endless. Even those issues that seem intuitive or obvious to our "human computer" are not so obvious to computers. Consider a few examples that tax a computer's ability to "understand" data:
Is a pound, lbs. or #?-If a manufacturer sends product information to a distributor that describes the shipping weight of a carburetor as 6 lbs., it's pretty obvious that the product weighs six pounds. However, the distributor's computer might refer to that weight as 6 # or 6 pds, not 6 lbs. Unless there is previous agreement to describe a "pound" as "lbs.," one computer will have no idea what the other is referring to. God forbid that the customer is in Canada and his system is based on metric weights. PG=pounds gross, PN=pounds net.
What's a half an inch?-Is the carton 6.5 inches tall or 6.5" tall? Note that there are two variables in this example. First is the expression of one-half as either a fraction or a decimal. Computers don't do well with fractions, as they "see" slashes as markers between expressions (as in http://yahoo.com/mail). The other issue is the abbreviation for inches. While our human computer easily translates (") as inches, a computer is much more comfortable with the PIES standard IN.
Gimme a case of those-Packaging is another area open for interpretation, this time even to the human computer. It seems there is no convention for common terms such as cases or cartons. One man's case is another man's carton. Then there are oddities such as inner-packs or self-merchandisers. Again, the PIES standard brings definition for all these issues.
You say Chevrolet, I say Chevy-As intuitive as this one seems, any database will sort Chevy parts into a separate category from Chevrolet parts.
How many of what?-In the aftermarket we use a lot of descriptions to define "how many," or units of measure. When someone asks for one, did he mean one kit, one set, one pair, one carton, one foot, roll, bulk, quart, gallon, case, box or just plain "one." Think about this: If braided fuel hose is purchased in 50-foot rolls and sold in one-foot increments, what happens when you want 50 feet but the supplier's system sees the order as rolls? Somebody is making a large return.
To avoid such "data disasters," our industry trade associations-including SEMA-have created standards to make computer-to-computer communication possible between trading partners. The standards quite literally standardize the way the industry describes various attributes of our products and what they fit. These standards are easy to implement. In many cases, compliance is just a matter of changing column headings or the abbreviation that is used. In other instances, it may require adding a field or modifying one. The changes are usually small, but they can have a big impact once implemented. A good example is the "short product description" field in PIES. Very often, manufacturers will put their part number or an internal description of the product in that field. But consider it from the customer's perspective: Have you ever pulled out a cash register receipt that had a long string of meaningless letters and numbers that cost $19.99 and gives you no clue what it was you bought? At a time like that, you will appreciate the manufacturer that populated the "short product description" with the words "air filter."
Many of the same articles that are "data obsessed" talk about how incorrect and inaccurate data is costing the specialty-equipment market billions of dollars. For most of us, that seems improbable at first, but as more is learned about data and how unstandardized data contributes to more computer errors, those projections of losses don't seem so outlandish.
There is a story told by one of the senior buyers at W.W. Grainger, the large industrial distributor, about data that is worth sharing. The story is set in the late 1990s around the time that Grainger was seriously migrating its business from paper catalogs and telephone ordering to a web-based eCat and online ordering. It seems that this buyer had a great vendor, one that did just about everything right. The product was great, the service fantastic, but the supplier wasn't very keen on addressing Grainger's endless requests to provide full electronic data on the products being provided. This supplier took the attitude that it didn't much care about all this computer hocus pocus and, besides, it knew it was a great manufacturer and supplier (having won dozens of preferred-supplier awards). At first, Grainger did the data work for this great supplier but eventually gave it the ultimatum: Get us the product data we need, or we will find another vendor who can, even if its product isn't as good. The supplier called Grainger's bluff and lost. The line was replaced with one that wasn't quite as good but could provide the product data Grainger needed to fuel its eBusiness needs. That might not happen today in the specialty aftermarket, but the day is coming...and soon.
Getting your data standards compliant also greatly expands the potential size of the market and channels into which both manufacturers and distributors can sell. Major retailer chains and new-car dealers challenged by shrinking margins in their core product areas have determined that selling performance and accessories products is an important strategy for expanded profitability. Since these businesses will do most of their transactions through special orders, they will need to be able to source, check stock and place orders while the consumer is standing in front of them with their checkbook or credit card. A transaction of this nature will only occur when our computers can talk to each other and exchange complete product and application data in a standardized format.
There is an extensive feature on this issue entitled "Cutting Cost vs. Selling More" that examines the upside of expanded selling opportunities along with the efficiency that technology offers.
Taking advantage of the opportunities that technology offers requires the existence of clean, standardized data "fuel" to power your computer. Realizing those benefits, whether through lower operating costs or the ability to sell more to new and expanded markets, requires SEMA manufacturers to get serious about getting their data act together and sharing it with their customers. (Manufacturers in particular should read the article entitled "Manufacturer Product Data Services" to get more insight into preparing and sharing their data.)
By Bob Moore & Dan Jondron
by: Dan Jondron
Boost Your Business With Blogging
Business blog is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great business opportunities in just one click. Blogs are user-friendly, customized and flexible medium for disseminating useful information for effective positioning of your products in the market.
Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors. Here are some advantages:
a) Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
b) Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.
c) Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews. It would be easier to improve on your products if you observe your customers’ thinking and behavioral patterns. You can also take immediate action to your customers’ concerns.
d) Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.
For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL. Be sure that your blogs contain exclusive information with value and are always updated to keep readers popping in, read up your blog, move on to the next and click on again for updates.
Blog is like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to strike your sale scales up.
The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.
For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.
If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company’s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.
1. Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do’s and don’ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.
2. Setup several test blogs right away.
If your initial try out with blogs worked well, you can now start setting up your blogs.
1. Study blog design. Blog hosting services provide pre-designed templates. But if you opt for paid blog service, you can ask your artist to design and layout your blog site to match the company’s identity and needs.
2. Choose a topic. Its good to have a line-up of topics you want for your blogs but be sure they are in consonance with your business objectives. This would be a test of your flexibility and open-mindedness since results may be going against the set objectives.
3. Remember the following safety measures in blogging:
- legal issues are sometimes involved in blogging; it is safer to include disclaimers and limitations of liabilities;
- corporate communication and legal department are responsible in educating the senior management on how blogs might affect business;
- create blogging policies; set limits on who gets to blog and what information are allowed to be made public;
- avoid outright marketing blog or you will shy away your readers;
- make content updated, relevant and fresh;
- reinforce the company’s core values; and,
- encourage employees to use it.
4. Start blogging and complete 20 posts before going to marketing.
5. Begin marketing.
6. Regularly monitor the coming ins and outs of readers and get updates. Then, measure your results.
7. Adjust if needed. You can always play with your designs in the blog site as long as it remains to match the company’s identity.
8. Strive to be consistent with your topic all the time.
9. Try to have unrelated topics with general and broad appeal.
10.Schedule updates regularly. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday would be best to update blogs.
Once you have done all these things, you can now ultimately enjoy the benefits of business blogging.
by: James Murray
Companies engaging in business blogging have a definite edge over its competitors. Here are some advantages:
a) Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much gain your company will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
b) Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.
c) Feedback. Blogs is good for product research and reviews. It would be easier to improve on your products if you observe your customers’ thinking and behavioral patterns. You can also take immediate action to your customers’ concerns.
d) Community halo-effect. Bloggers are reasonable, friendly and helpful. They are more than willing to create blogosphere of comments regarding your product. The only thing you have to do is embrace and take active part in the culture and your product will surely be considered in their next stop to the supermarket.
For better marketing results, actively promote your business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Do not forget to paste in with your blogs, your URL. Be sure that your blogs contain exclusive information with value and are always updated to keep readers popping in, read up your blog, move on to the next and click on again for updates.
Blog is like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to strike your sale scales up.
The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important too in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. In this way you have better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.
For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.
If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and targeting sales increase, your company is now ready to start blogging. But first, you have to be in tune with your company’s business objectives and determine if blogging will really help you achieve your goal.
1. Several blogs are dedicated to teaching people the do’s and don’ts of blogging, READ them! Include in your reading materials blogs that are consumer-based too to give you an idea.
2. Setup several test blogs right away.
If your initial try out with blogs worked well, you can now start setting up your blogs.
1. Study blog design. Blog hosting services provide pre-designed templates. But if you opt for paid blog service, you can ask your artist to design and layout your blog site to match the company’s identity and needs.
2. Choose a topic. Its good to have a line-up of topics you want for your blogs but be sure they are in consonance with your business objectives. This would be a test of your flexibility and open-mindedness since results may be going against the set objectives.
3. Remember the following safety measures in blogging:
- legal issues are sometimes involved in blogging; it is safer to include disclaimers and limitations of liabilities;
- corporate communication and legal department are responsible in educating the senior management on how blogs might affect business;
- create blogging policies; set limits on who gets to blog and what information are allowed to be made public;
- avoid outright marketing blog or you will shy away your readers;
- make content updated, relevant and fresh;
- reinforce the company’s core values; and,
- encourage employees to use it.
4. Start blogging and complete 20 posts before going to marketing.
5. Begin marketing.
6. Regularly monitor the coming ins and outs of readers and get updates. Then, measure your results.
7. Adjust if needed. You can always play with your designs in the blog site as long as it remains to match the company’s identity.
8. Strive to be consistent with your topic all the time.
9. Try to have unrelated topics with general and broad appeal.
10.Schedule updates regularly. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday would be best to update blogs.
Once you have done all these things, you can now ultimately enjoy the benefits of business blogging.
by: James Murray
A Shot In The Arm For ADWORDERS
Roger Preston is a journalist for various publications in upstate New York as well as the New England area. He recently had a chance to interview the fine team of professionals at WebBusinessSecrets.com whose flagship product is entitled "Get Google Ads Free".
I,June Yasol, as one GGAF affiliate, need to share Preston's story for the concern of the adwording society...
In April of 2007 "Get Google Ads Free" was launched, and the effect was nothing less than equal to "the shot heard around the world! "Within just weeks people everywhere were talking about it, and other top-notch online marketers were scurrying to sell it as an Affiliate for the company.
http://tinyurl.com/26xlbf
But here's a little insight that 99.9% of everyone the world over doesn't know: The Product's greatest endorser is none other than Google itself! That's right. As shocking as it may seem, Google has NO problem with the course that reveals how anyone can get ads on their search engine for Free!
Now, at this point I know you must be curious as to how such a thing is possible, as Google makes its money from the sale of both AdWords (PPCs) and AdSense (where webmasters allow Google to show their ads on their pages). One might think that any information that revealed how an advertiser could get their AdWords pay-per-clicks free would be damaging to Google, and therefore Google would not want anyone finding out about it, right?
WRONG! It seems that the secret system developed by the retired native New York doctor contains an interesting "twist" that while allowing advertisers to eliminate their AdWords costs, it does not reduce a single dollar in AdWords revenue for Google. In fact, just the opposite! I cannot give away the secret here because that's why it's for sale in the first place. But I can tell you that with the application of what's inside "Get Google Ads Free" that: - Google loses NO money - Google actually can make even more M0NEY! - Advertisers gain an instant almost unfair advantage over anyone not knowing what's inside "Get Google Ads Free!" - Advertisers can now afford to outbid their competition! - Advertisers are not at risk any longer as their advertising budgets no longer matter! Wow!
And this is just the beginning! Now, where's the definitive PROOF that Google endorses the amazing system shown in "Get Google Ads Free? "I asked this question to company spokesperson and Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd Coutrin, to which he responded: --- "We started our launch like we always do with any product online, using Google AdWords to offer our Product...We used keywords that contained the word 'free' so we anticipated the usual HOLD these keywords usually cause any campaign using them to experience... But when our campaign was paused by Google for a tad more time than what we regularly anticipated, then we got concerned."
"I actually placed a call directly to Google at 1-866-2-GOOGLE and spoke at length with a customer services rep who said she'd check into what was happening... She returned my call 16 hours later and informed me that due to the specific nature of the Product in question (i.e., the ebook "Get Google Ads Free!") their team at Google secured the product, read it all the way through, and then realizing it would NOT hurt their revenue but actually increase it, they immediately un-paused and resumed our ads" ---Amazing!"
They actually got what amounts to a Signed Certificate of APPROVAL from Google itself! Therefore, anyone who questions the truth or legality concerning"Get Google Ads Free!" need not fret at all. Yet, the usual "naysayers" seemed to ignore the obvious fact that if Google had a problem with "Get Google Ads Free!" then we all wouldn't be seeing all the PPC ads at Google each time we type in the keywords and phrases: - free ads - free advertising - "Get Google Ads Free" - free ppc - free adwords and so forth!
Yet, there are many very stubborn, even foolish, among us ... > The "Crybaby Syndrome"...What's shocking is that this individual is actually a student of law (at least that he should perhaps check out the facts before proceeding with such careless 's what he claims) so one would think remarks. After all, he admits severally that he "never even ordered the ebook" so how could he truly know one way or the other if it was avalid system - not to mention it is assumed he's at least reasonably intelligent since (according to him) he got into lawschool, that he would be able to see for himself the firm's Affiliates' ads all over Google, and therefore reason that Google itself is perhaps the firm's chief supporter.
But stubbornness abounds, I supposeIronically Rob says that the only reason he attacks the firm is because "it's a no brainer that this must be a scam," and he got"tired of seeing all those little AdSense ads on his page that people kept clicking on" (which by the way only stood to make him lots of M0NEY!) -- yet he accepts donations on his site as a poor, struggling law student in need of paying for his education, and rather than legitimately earn an income from AdSense with an APPROVED Product.
Sadly, Rob actually censors most of his Blog so that others who wish to post POSITIVES concerning "Get Google Ads Free!" can't even do so. (But what would you expect from a "wanna-be" lawyer?) He even posts what appears to be an actual response by the firm's lawyer, but which is perhaps nothing more than his own posts disguised and designed to make himself look better (as anyone can see that the dialogue appears "manufactured" instead of genuine).
What some people will do to project themselves as "Savior to the rest of us" and "The People's Advocate." How ridiculous indeed. Despite the "crybaby" from across the pond, Rob Snot (Ooops! I must have meant Rob Scott!) has failed miserably to put even a dent in the firm's sales! Plus, traffic is on the rise shooting up from an average of 14,000 visitors daily to now well above 20,000 visitors daily (an increase of 42% in daily traffic alone! -- Keep up the good work, Rob!!)
Anyway, don't be dissuaded in your decision to build your online business by eliminating your Google AdWords costs, as the course"Get Google Ads Free!" not only reveals precisely how you can do this, but it goes 10 steps further by giving you all kinds of other amazing strategies I can't even begin to allude to here. Plus, the e-Course comes with countless resources that go far beyond the usual variety of instantly- clickable extra values!
Lastly, never forget that even though quite elderly now, Dr Jon Cohen has even set new records finishing ahead of himself by now having: - Grossed over $400 Million in revenues!! - and SAVED over $100 Million in Google advertising costs!! - attained a personal wealth above $80 million...all due to his own system!
*NOTE: Rob Scott is broke and demands donations! (Ha!) Talk about putting your money where your mouth is!! So if you'd like to get in on all the action, then go grab this amazing "BREAKTHROUGH" for yourself only at:
http://tinyurl.com/26xlbf
As one very famous Internet Marketer said it best: "This is a weapon that should be in every Internet and Affiliate Marketer's arsenal and library!" Get it directly from the good doctor himself!
So, to all of you "adwording societies" out there, please be guided accordingly.
by: June Yasol; Roger Preston
I,June Yasol, as one GGAF affiliate, need to share Preston's story for the concern of the adwording society...
In April of 2007 "Get Google Ads Free" was launched, and the effect was nothing less than equal to "the shot heard around the world! "Within just weeks people everywhere were talking about it, and other top-notch online marketers were scurrying to sell it as an Affiliate for the company.
http://tinyurl.com/26xlbf
But here's a little insight that 99.9% of everyone the world over doesn't know: The Product's greatest endorser is none other than Google itself! That's right. As shocking as it may seem, Google has NO problem with the course that reveals how anyone can get ads on their search engine for Free!
Now, at this point I know you must be curious as to how such a thing is possible, as Google makes its money from the sale of both AdWords (PPCs) and AdSense (where webmasters allow Google to show their ads on their pages). One might think that any information that revealed how an advertiser could get their AdWords pay-per-clicks free would be damaging to Google, and therefore Google would not want anyone finding out about it, right?
WRONG! It seems that the secret system developed by the retired native New York doctor contains an interesting "twist" that while allowing advertisers to eliminate their AdWords costs, it does not reduce a single dollar in AdWords revenue for Google. In fact, just the opposite! I cannot give away the secret here because that's why it's for sale in the first place. But I can tell you that with the application of what's inside "Get Google Ads Free" that: - Google loses NO money - Google actually can make even more M0NEY! - Advertisers gain an instant almost unfair advantage over anyone not knowing what's inside "Get Google Ads Free!" - Advertisers can now afford to outbid their competition! - Advertisers are not at risk any longer as their advertising budgets no longer matter! Wow!
And this is just the beginning! Now, where's the definitive PROOF that Google endorses the amazing system shown in "Get Google Ads Free? "I asked this question to company spokesperson and Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd Coutrin, to which he responded: --- "We started our launch like we always do with any product online, using Google AdWords to offer our Product...We used keywords that contained the word 'free' so we anticipated the usual HOLD these keywords usually cause any campaign using them to experience... But when our campaign was paused by Google for a tad more time than what we regularly anticipated, then we got concerned."
"I actually placed a call directly to Google at 1-866-2-GOOGLE and spoke at length with a customer services rep who said she'd check into what was happening... She returned my call 16 hours later and informed me that due to the specific nature of the Product in question (i.e., the ebook "Get Google Ads Free!") their team at Google secured the product, read it all the way through, and then realizing it would NOT hurt their revenue but actually increase it, they immediately un-paused and resumed our ads" ---Amazing!"
They actually got what amounts to a Signed Certificate of APPROVAL from Google itself! Therefore, anyone who questions the truth or legality concerning"Get Google Ads Free!" need not fret at all. Yet, the usual "naysayers" seemed to ignore the obvious fact that if Google had a problem with "Get Google Ads Free!" then we all wouldn't be seeing all the PPC ads at Google each time we type in the keywords and phrases: - free ads - free advertising - "Get Google Ads Free" - free ppc - free adwords and so forth!
Yet, there are many very stubborn, even foolish, among us ... > The "Crybaby Syndrome"...What's shocking is that this individual is actually a student of law (at least that he should perhaps check out the facts before proceeding with such careless 's what he claims) so one would think remarks. After all, he admits severally that he "never even ordered the ebook" so how could he truly know one way or the other if it was avalid system - not to mention it is assumed he's at least reasonably intelligent since (according to him) he got into lawschool, that he would be able to see for himself the firm's Affiliates' ads all over Google, and therefore reason that Google itself is perhaps the firm's chief supporter.
But stubbornness abounds, I supposeIronically Rob says that the only reason he attacks the firm is because "it's a no brainer that this must be a scam," and he got"tired of seeing all those little AdSense ads on his page that people kept clicking on" (which by the way only stood to make him lots of M0NEY!) -- yet he accepts donations on his site as a poor, struggling law student in need of paying for his education, and rather than legitimately earn an income from AdSense with an APPROVED Product.
Sadly, Rob actually censors most of his Blog so that others who wish to post POSITIVES concerning "Get Google Ads Free!" can't even do so. (But what would you expect from a "wanna-be" lawyer?) He even posts what appears to be an actual response by the firm's lawyer, but which is perhaps nothing more than his own posts disguised and designed to make himself look better (as anyone can see that the dialogue appears "manufactured" instead of genuine).
What some people will do to project themselves as "Savior to the rest of us" and "The People's Advocate." How ridiculous indeed. Despite the "crybaby" from across the pond, Rob Snot (Ooops! I must have meant Rob Scott!) has failed miserably to put even a dent in the firm's sales! Plus, traffic is on the rise shooting up from an average of 14,000 visitors daily to now well above 20,000 visitors daily (an increase of 42% in daily traffic alone! -- Keep up the good work, Rob!!)
Anyway, don't be dissuaded in your decision to build your online business by eliminating your Google AdWords costs, as the course"Get Google Ads Free!" not only reveals precisely how you can do this, but it goes 10 steps further by giving you all kinds of other amazing strategies I can't even begin to allude to here. Plus, the e-Course comes with countless resources that go far beyond the usual variety of instantly- clickable extra values!
Lastly, never forget that even though quite elderly now, Dr Jon Cohen has even set new records finishing ahead of himself by now having: - Grossed over $400 Million in revenues!! - and SAVED over $100 Million in Google advertising costs!! - attained a personal wealth above $80 million...all due to his own system!
*NOTE: Rob Scott is broke and demands donations! (Ha!) Talk about putting your money where your mouth is!! So if you'd like to get in on all the action, then go grab this amazing "BREAKTHROUGH" for yourself only at:
http://tinyurl.com/26xlbf
As one very famous Internet Marketer said it best: "This is a weapon that should be in every Internet and Affiliate Marketer's arsenal and library!" Get it directly from the good doctor himself!
So, to all of you "adwording societies" out there, please be guided accordingly.
by: June Yasol; Roger Preston
Get Rich Quick Scheme?
No. It is not true that the so called "get-rich-quick-scheme" exist at all. Maybe if you venture into illegal businesses, you might find your riches quickly. But you also will be busted and be a bankrupt as quickly as you became rich. To me, a get-rich-quick-scheme does exist. In a way that if you work hard, you will get rich the fastest possible way you can ever imagine. Getting rich quickly is not true, unless you work hard and are willing to learn, you definitely will be much richer than those people working a day job.
As a saying goes,"time is money", must be remembered for those who wish to get rich quickly (I don't mean in a day or two). You have to spend every second available to you to get on with your research and to plan your strategies if you wish to venture in the online market. The online market is saturated with online-marketers-wannabes. But if you put in the extra effort, I am a hundred and one percent sure that you will be able to succeed.
There are many ways for you to choose if you wish to work from home. There are jobs ranging from online marketing to doing online surveys. It is up to you to choose which job you really want to do. But let me tell you something, even if you know practically nothing about the internet, as long as you are willing to learn and put in the extra effort, you will be able to succeed and earn even more than those who have ventured in online marketing for a long time.
So, getting rich quickly is impossible if you think short-term (maybe a week or two). If you think long-term (maybe a month or two), it is possible to achieve your desired results. And you can start planning for a holiday to Hawaii or whichever country you wish to visit.
Working from home and earning a handsome amount of salary might be a fantasy to others, but not to you and me.
by: Mathias Conner
As a saying goes,"time is money", must be remembered for those who wish to get rich quickly (I don't mean in a day or two). You have to spend every second available to you to get on with your research and to plan your strategies if you wish to venture in the online market. The online market is saturated with online-marketers-wannabes. But if you put in the extra effort, I am a hundred and one percent sure that you will be able to succeed.
There are many ways for you to choose if you wish to work from home. There are jobs ranging from online marketing to doing online surveys. It is up to you to choose which job you really want to do. But let me tell you something, even if you know practically nothing about the internet, as long as you are willing to learn and put in the extra effort, you will be able to succeed and earn even more than those who have ventured in online marketing for a long time.
So, getting rich quickly is impossible if you think short-term (maybe a week or two). If you think long-term (maybe a month or two), it is possible to achieve your desired results. And you can start planning for a holiday to Hawaii or whichever country you wish to visit.
Working from home and earning a handsome amount of salary might be a fantasy to others, but not to you and me.
by: Mathias Conner
Even The Laziest Person In The World Can Work From Home
Looking for the right job seems tough. Imagine being jobless and you are scouring through the classifieds everyday just to find a suitable job that you want. Imagine being a retiree and you just cannot seem to find a company who would hire you. Imagine your family is breaking apart because you often have to stay in office till the wee hours before you get home. Imagine earning a mediocre sum of salary and you cannot seem to find other jobs to support you and/or your family.
An online job would easily solve all your troubles and woes. Even the laziest person in the world can work from home. Having said all these let me tell you how it works. All you need is just a set of computer, sign up for a company you wish to work for and you can start earning your salary from home.
But please be aware that there are some companies out there out to scam people like you. Be alert and not fall into their trap.
It is a pleasure to work from home as you can do whatever you like. You need not be afraid of being reprimanded by your boss. You need not be back from lunch on time. You can take naps for as long as you like and no one will bother you at all.
If you are into data entry, all you need to do is to accept assignments from the various companies, complete them on time and you will get paid accordingly.
If you are into surveys, just select the survey which you would like to do, complete it and you will receive your money.
If you are into internet marketing, you would need to own a site, promote which ever products you wish to promote and wait for the cash to roll in.
All these jobs all require you to just work from home. No questions asked. This is why even the laziest person in the world can have such a job.
by: Mathias Conner
An online job would easily solve all your troubles and woes. Even the laziest person in the world can work from home. Having said all these let me tell you how it works. All you need is just a set of computer, sign up for a company you wish to work for and you can start earning your salary from home.
But please be aware that there are some companies out there out to scam people like you. Be alert and not fall into their trap.
It is a pleasure to work from home as you can do whatever you like. You need not be afraid of being reprimanded by your boss. You need not be back from lunch on time. You can take naps for as long as you like and no one will bother you at all.
If you are into data entry, all you need to do is to accept assignments from the various companies, complete them on time and you will get paid accordingly.
If you are into surveys, just select the survey which you would like to do, complete it and you will receive your money.
If you are into internet marketing, you would need to own a site, promote which ever products you wish to promote and wait for the cash to roll in.
All these jobs all require you to just work from home. No questions asked. This is why even the laziest person in the world can have such a job.
by: Mathias Conner
Working From Home VS Working in an Office
There are tons of reason why you should get started working from home. But the mega two reasons are:
1. You get to work at home!
2. You get to spend more time with your family!
Besides this two, I want you to know that working from home has a lot of advantages. That is why many people out there are trying to find a job that allows them to stay at home and work. A possible few reasons that people want is job are:
1. People who are out of job
2. People who are lazy to travel to work
3. People who want to save travelling fee
4. People who want to earn some extra income
5. People who want to make it big online
6. Retirees who want to earn some income
7. People whom are tired of being reprimanded by bosses for even the slightest mistake
8. People who hate office job to the core that you would die if you stayed on
9. People who are always late for work, hence the deduction in your monthly salary
10. People who always love staying up just to catch a soccer match and are unable to get up in time for work.
Now, why should you get started working from home? Besides the two reasons I mentioned earlier, these are a few more:
1. Money earned easily from your home.
2. You can have tons of toilet breaks and no one can stop you.
3. You can take naps for as long as you like, as long as the assignments are complete otherwise you won't get paid.
4. There will not be any overtime work. If you have time to spare, you can complete more assignments for more income.
5. No one to reprimand you of your mistakes.
6. You need not get up early just to work. You can work anytime.
7. You can surf the net and complete your assignments at the same time.
8. You can watch a replay of your soccer match and complete your assignments at the same time.
9. No limit to your lunch breaks and tea breaks and whatsoever breaks.
10. Expect no salary cut at all.
You would be thinking, what if everyone quits their day job and start working from home? Well, there are people in this world who loves being stuck in his office cubicle and enjoys being reprimanded by their supervisors and boss.
Therefore, if you wish to start working from home, do not hesitate at all and start as soon as you like. Working from home has no boundaries.
by: Mathias Conner
1. You get to work at home!
2. You get to spend more time with your family!
Besides this two, I want you to know that working from home has a lot of advantages. That is why many people out there are trying to find a job that allows them to stay at home and work. A possible few reasons that people want is job are:
1. People who are out of job
2. People who are lazy to travel to work
3. People who want to save travelling fee
4. People who want to earn some extra income
5. People who want to make it big online
6. Retirees who want to earn some income
7. People whom are tired of being reprimanded by bosses for even the slightest mistake
8. People who hate office job to the core that you would die if you stayed on
9. People who are always late for work, hence the deduction in your monthly salary
10. People who always love staying up just to catch a soccer match and are unable to get up in time for work.
Now, why should you get started working from home? Besides the two reasons I mentioned earlier, these are a few more:
1. Money earned easily from your home.
2. You can have tons of toilet breaks and no one can stop you.
3. You can take naps for as long as you like, as long as the assignments are complete otherwise you won't get paid.
4. There will not be any overtime work. If you have time to spare, you can complete more assignments for more income.
5. No one to reprimand you of your mistakes.
6. You need not get up early just to work. You can work anytime.
7. You can surf the net and complete your assignments at the same time.
8. You can watch a replay of your soccer match and complete your assignments at the same time.
9. No limit to your lunch breaks and tea breaks and whatsoever breaks.
10. Expect no salary cut at all.
You would be thinking, what if everyone quits their day job and start working from home? Well, there are people in this world who loves being stuck in his office cubicle and enjoys being reprimanded by their supervisors and boss.
Therefore, if you wish to start working from home, do not hesitate at all and start as soon as you like. Working from home has no boundaries.
by: Mathias Conner
Working From Home Is Forever A Dream?
Working from home seems like a dream that everyone wishes for, but you can make this dream come true. Working from home might seem much like a scam, but in actual fact, there are companies who are willing to hire people to work from their homes. There are so many job opportunities for you to choose from. From taking online surveys to doing data entry work, just like a normal clerk doing his/her daily job in office. But the difference is, you can get to do this by working at home and you can have your own tea break or maybe even a nap on your comfortable bed.
It is true that there are many scam sites out there wanting to con you. But you can prevent that from happening. All you need to do is to do a little research and you can be safe from those scams.
Reaping in a hundred and fifty dollars a day can be achieved. But it requires tremendous amount of hard work and research. Imagine having yourself signed up to 15 survey companies out there, and they each have 5 daily surveys for you with a payout rate of 2 dollars per survey. All you have to do is to complete all 75 surveys and you can reach the 150-dollars-a-day target. It may sound simple, but having to do 75 surveys really takes up a lot of your time. But after all, you still get to work from home. And with such a tempting amount of income, who can resist it?
There are other ways to earn 150 dollars per day. You can take up data entry job, reading emails, writing articles or maybe you can venture into online marketing for those who are willing to try. All of these jobs require you to just sit down in front of your computer and start working from home.
If you are willing to work hard, you might even earn more than 150 dollars a day. It all depends on your willingness to learn and the amount of hard work you put in. Remember, there is no free lunch in this world. Some might think that working from home sounds tough, but let me tell you that if you manage to pull through from all the hard work, everything that you do after the hardship, would be as easy as memorizing the alphabets ABC.
by: Mathias Conner
It is true that there are many scam sites out there wanting to con you. But you can prevent that from happening. All you need to do is to do a little research and you can be safe from those scams.
Reaping in a hundred and fifty dollars a day can be achieved. But it requires tremendous amount of hard work and research. Imagine having yourself signed up to 15 survey companies out there, and they each have 5 daily surveys for you with a payout rate of 2 dollars per survey. All you have to do is to complete all 75 surveys and you can reach the 150-dollars-a-day target. It may sound simple, but having to do 75 surveys really takes up a lot of your time. But after all, you still get to work from home. And with such a tempting amount of income, who can resist it?
There are other ways to earn 150 dollars per day. You can take up data entry job, reading emails, writing articles or maybe you can venture into online marketing for those who are willing to try. All of these jobs require you to just sit down in front of your computer and start working from home.
If you are willing to work hard, you might even earn more than 150 dollars a day. It all depends on your willingness to learn and the amount of hard work you put in. Remember, there is no free lunch in this world. Some might think that working from home sounds tough, but let me tell you that if you manage to pull through from all the hard work, everything that you do after the hardship, would be as easy as memorizing the alphabets ABC.
by: Mathias Conner
Searching For A Work From Home Job? Beware Of Searching For A Work From Home Job? Beware Of Scammers
So, how to search for a job which allows you to be working from home? There are many ways that allows you to be able to search for a job like that. But there are also many scam websites out there wanting to cheat you of your time and money. To prevent that from happening, I have come to warn you of the scam techniques used out there.
A website is usually the primary source for scammers.
If you happen to stumble upon a website that looks somewhat unprofessional but you are tempted into doing the job, think twice before you even agree to them. Remember to check by keying in the company name into search engines and see if you can find results about them. Usually, there would be some results coming from several forums and sites which have reviews about the company which you are searching for. So, look through the comments, and if none of them are negative about that company, go ahead and join them. If there are tons of negative comments, you might want to avoid being in contact with it anymore. If the searches give little or no search results, the company might still be new, but you better take a little precaution and step away from that site at the moment until there are some reviews about it.
If your friend happens to be working from home, you might want to consult him/her about it. Ask him/her to give you some advice and if he/she permits, ask them to let you in on what company they are working for. This way, you are surely a hundred and one percent safe from being conned.
Sometimes, companies would advertise on papers to look for people willing to work from home. You should get a copy of your daily newspapers and make an effort to scan through each and every advertisement so as to make sure you are not missing out on any offers that allows you to work from home. This might seem to be the safest way, but you must also be alert. If they do advertise their website together with the ad, go have a look at their website and decide for yourself whether it seems like a scam or not. If they want you to give them a call, go ahead. If the personnel attending to you sound somewhat unprofessional, do not hesitate and just hang up, they are just wasting their time trying to rip you off.
by: Mathias Conner
A website is usually the primary source for scammers.
If you happen to stumble upon a website that looks somewhat unprofessional but you are tempted into doing the job, think twice before you even agree to them. Remember to check by keying in the company name into search engines and see if you can find results about them. Usually, there would be some results coming from several forums and sites which have reviews about the company which you are searching for. So, look through the comments, and if none of them are negative about that company, go ahead and join them. If there are tons of negative comments, you might want to avoid being in contact with it anymore. If the searches give little or no search results, the company might still be new, but you better take a little precaution and step away from that site at the moment until there are some reviews about it.
If your friend happens to be working from home, you might want to consult him/her about it. Ask him/her to give you some advice and if he/she permits, ask them to let you in on what company they are working for. This way, you are surely a hundred and one percent safe from being conned.
Sometimes, companies would advertise on papers to look for people willing to work from home. You should get a copy of your daily newspapers and make an effort to scan through each and every advertisement so as to make sure you are not missing out on any offers that allows you to work from home. This might seem to be the safest way, but you must also be alert. If they do advertise their website together with the ad, go have a look at their website and decide for yourself whether it seems like a scam or not. If they want you to give them a call, go ahead. If the personnel attending to you sound somewhat unprofessional, do not hesitate and just hang up, they are just wasting their time trying to rip you off.
by: Mathias Conner
How To Build An Internet Marketing List Of Over 100,000
In anticipation of an upcoming launch of Jeff Walker's Product Launch Formula 2, I told my list that I was going to offer a solo mailing to one of my lists of over 120,000. This immediately started a flood of emails asking how they could order early... something that I anticipated.
The second flood of emails asked how I had managed to build such a huge database. Rather than answering that second question in individual emails, I decided to answer it with this article.
First of all, I should point out that I've been in business online since late-1996, and have been slowly building my lists almost since the very beginning. So, I didn't accomplish this overnight. Still, I know that you can build a huge list rather quickly if you use the right techniques.
Here are some of my favorite list-building techniques:
1) Put a sign-up form on every page of your websites, except for direct sales pages where it would interrupt the flow too much. Next to that sign-up form, give a powerful reason why they need to join your list, and ask them to take action.
Next to the sign-up form, assure them that you will protect them from spam. Also post a few testimonials as proof of the value your newsletter provides.
2) Write information-packed articles and distribute them everywhere appropriate. I've written over 850 information-packed article on the topic of Internet marketing. Those articles demonstrate my expertise, share useful information, and bring visitors to my websites ready to join my lists.
I believe in sharing a lot of cutting edge information in my articles. Many people only drop hints, but I'm not afraid of sharing too much. The reason is that knowledge grows exponentially, and since I'm constantly learning new things, I can never teach you everything that I know.
Since I don't fear running out of useful information that you will value, my articles are genuinely helpful, and that generates lots of loyal subscribers.
3) Write information-packed, inexpensive ebooks and then allow affiliates to sell them for most of the profit.
I create a steady stream of ebooks - largely expansions of my articles - and then I set up affiliate programs where affiliates earn as much as 100% commission. Money is a great motivator for getting others to send you lots of new "paying" customers and subscribers
My favorite tool for setting up these "ebook traffic magnets" is Sid Hale's Rapid Action Profits script. This script allows you to set up a system where an affiliate earns INSTANT commissions which are paid directly to their Paypal accounts.
High commissions are a great motivator for people to send you new potential subscribers. When those commissions are paid instantly to affiliates who often have cash-flow problems, it's like pouring gasoline on a fire.
You'll find Sid's Rapid Action Profits System at: http://TheRealSecrets.com/RapidActionProfits/
4) Run pay-per-click campaigns... when the math makes sense. This is something that I don't see a lot of my competitors doing. However, when I know that my conversions rates or backend profits are sufficient, I often run pay-per-click ads... sometimes even for free items.
With pay-per-clicks, you need to closely monitor your results. You also need a good idea of the lifetime value of a new customer or subscriber. To me, it makes perfect sense to lose a dollar to gain a new highly qualified subscriber.
If you're paying attention, you'll notice numerous Internet marketers who run promotions where they pay a dollar or more for referrals who simply opt-in to a list. I essentially do the same thing when using pay-per-clicks. With pay-per-clicks you reach new subscribers who may not already be on a dozen other marketers' lists.
5) Use free giveaways where appropriate. I contribute to, and help to promote free giveaways, when they are well managed and the quality is high. I've built large lists doing this and have a friend who got over 5000 subscribers from one of his first giveaways. I've written about how I do that many times before.
The key with free giveaways is that you need to offer a gift of high enough value that your new subscribers instantly bond with you. You still have to develop the relationship, but your gift should start it on a positive note.
Many people who participate in free giveaways offer "absolute garbage." Once their new subscriber downloads their free "gift" and look through it, they HAVE to feel insulted.
My rule is to always offer a gift that's good enough to sell. I was humored when, in one recent giveaway, I contributed resale rights to one of my new ebooks, along with a rough website. Before the giveaway was even over, at least one fast-acting individual had my ebook set up using the Rapid Action Profits script mentioned in number three, above.
6) Give away free viral ebooks. Write ebooks on topics that you know a lot of people are interested in. In those ebooks recommend specific solutions to problems, and include affiliate links to buy those products. Make some of those links rebrandable.
If the ebooks are filled with lots of useful information, AND they have links that can be rebranded, then you have an ebook that should go viral. People are incentivized to spread it!
In these ebooks, offer some type of a free bonus... perhaps an audio recording, or a template, or free piece of software, but require readers to visit your website to get this bonus. On your site, require them to register, or join your mailing list, to get the freebie.
If the original ebook delivered tremendous value, then the new potential subscriber will have no objection to joining your list. If the free ebook offered marginal value, then they have to assume that your other "gift" will be more of the same, and so they won't subscribe.
For creating viral ebooks, I recommend using the "Viral Document Toolkit" a next-generation PDF brander created by David Schwartz. The Viral Document Toolkit allows you to easily create rebrandable documents where you can specify links, and text that can be rebranded. You can even specify rather large BLOCKS of text as rebrandable... and even rebrand hyperlinked images! You create a rebrandable ebook, and then pass along the ebook (with most parts locked, but some parts changeable) along with the rebrander tool, to your subscribers, website visitors, customers, etc. Since they can profit from changing the ebook, they happily spread it, and in the process build you a huge list.
You'll find the Viral Document Toolkit at: http://ViralDocumentToolkit.com
David finished testing the Viral Document Toolkit software March 1st, 2008, so you'll be using a tool that 99.9% of your competitors will have never seen. VDT is actually so revolutionary that NO ONE other than a few of David's closest friends have even been allowed to touch it, until now.
If you make your new viral ebooks good enough, you may be pleasantly surprised to see your competitors promoting them ;-)
6) Take massive action and do it immediately. One of my secrets to building my database so large is that when I'm shown a new tool or technique, and it passes "the common sense test," then I put it to immediate use... provided it doesn't distract me from something more urgent that I'm already working on.
Many of my contemporaries, and subscribers, complained about having no list as long as five years ago. Many of them still use that same excuse for why they've not made any real business growth progress.
I'm not sure why this is since all of the techniques that I, and that many of my mentors use, are so simple... and even obvious!
The key is not to over-analyze things. That traps you into "paralysis by analysis." Instead, get into the habit of doing while others are still "thinking about it."
My friend, Dr. Joe Vitale, taught me that "money loves speed!"
I've just shared with you some of the techniques that I've used to build a massive subscriber database. Of course, I can't cover every technique that I use in this short article. I will close by sharing that part of the key to growing your list is actually retaining the subscribers after you get them. To do that, you merely need to deliver tremendous content telling them how to solve their most pressing problems.
Simple - right?
by: Willie Crawford
The second flood of emails asked how I had managed to build such a huge database. Rather than answering that second question in individual emails, I decided to answer it with this article.
First of all, I should point out that I've been in business online since late-1996, and have been slowly building my lists almost since the very beginning. So, I didn't accomplish this overnight. Still, I know that you can build a huge list rather quickly if you use the right techniques.
Here are some of my favorite list-building techniques:
1) Put a sign-up form on every page of your websites, except for direct sales pages where it would interrupt the flow too much. Next to that sign-up form, give a powerful reason why they need to join your list, and ask them to take action.
Next to the sign-up form, assure them that you will protect them from spam. Also post a few testimonials as proof of the value your newsletter provides.
2) Write information-packed articles and distribute them everywhere appropriate. I've written over 850 information-packed article on the topic of Internet marketing. Those articles demonstrate my expertise, share useful information, and bring visitors to my websites ready to join my lists.
I believe in sharing a lot of cutting edge information in my articles. Many people only drop hints, but I'm not afraid of sharing too much. The reason is that knowledge grows exponentially, and since I'm constantly learning new things, I can never teach you everything that I know.
Since I don't fear running out of useful information that you will value, my articles are genuinely helpful, and that generates lots of loyal subscribers.
3) Write information-packed, inexpensive ebooks and then allow affiliates to sell them for most of the profit.
I create a steady stream of ebooks - largely expansions of my articles - and then I set up affiliate programs where affiliates earn as much as 100% commission. Money is a great motivator for getting others to send you lots of new "paying" customers and subscribers
My favorite tool for setting up these "ebook traffic magnets" is Sid Hale's Rapid Action Profits script. This script allows you to set up a system where an affiliate earns INSTANT commissions which are paid directly to their Paypal accounts.
High commissions are a great motivator for people to send you new potential subscribers. When those commissions are paid instantly to affiliates who often have cash-flow problems, it's like pouring gasoline on a fire.
You'll find Sid's Rapid Action Profits System at: http://TheRealSecrets.com/RapidActionProfits/
4) Run pay-per-click campaigns... when the math makes sense. This is something that I don't see a lot of my competitors doing. However, when I know that my conversions rates or backend profits are sufficient, I often run pay-per-click ads... sometimes even for free items.
With pay-per-clicks, you need to closely monitor your results. You also need a good idea of the lifetime value of a new customer or subscriber. To me, it makes perfect sense to lose a dollar to gain a new highly qualified subscriber.
If you're paying attention, you'll notice numerous Internet marketers who run promotions where they pay a dollar or more for referrals who simply opt-in to a list. I essentially do the same thing when using pay-per-clicks. With pay-per-clicks you reach new subscribers who may not already be on a dozen other marketers' lists.
5) Use free giveaways where appropriate. I contribute to, and help to promote free giveaways, when they are well managed and the quality is high. I've built large lists doing this and have a friend who got over 5000 subscribers from one of his first giveaways. I've written about how I do that many times before.
The key with free giveaways is that you need to offer a gift of high enough value that your new subscribers instantly bond with you. You still have to develop the relationship, but your gift should start it on a positive note.
Many people who participate in free giveaways offer "absolute garbage." Once their new subscriber downloads their free "gift" and look through it, they HAVE to feel insulted.
My rule is to always offer a gift that's good enough to sell. I was humored when, in one recent giveaway, I contributed resale rights to one of my new ebooks, along with a rough website. Before the giveaway was even over, at least one fast-acting individual had my ebook set up using the Rapid Action Profits script mentioned in number three, above.
6) Give away free viral ebooks. Write ebooks on topics that you know a lot of people are interested in. In those ebooks recommend specific solutions to problems, and include affiliate links to buy those products. Make some of those links rebrandable.
If the ebooks are filled with lots of useful information, AND they have links that can be rebranded, then you have an ebook that should go viral. People are incentivized to spread it!
In these ebooks, offer some type of a free bonus... perhaps an audio recording, or a template, or free piece of software, but require readers to visit your website to get this bonus. On your site, require them to register, or join your mailing list, to get the freebie.
If the original ebook delivered tremendous value, then the new potential subscriber will have no objection to joining your list. If the free ebook offered marginal value, then they have to assume that your other "gift" will be more of the same, and so they won't subscribe.
For creating viral ebooks, I recommend using the "Viral Document Toolkit" a next-generation PDF brander created by David Schwartz. The Viral Document Toolkit allows you to easily create rebrandable documents where you can specify links, and text that can be rebranded. You can even specify rather large BLOCKS of text as rebrandable... and even rebrand hyperlinked images! You create a rebrandable ebook, and then pass along the ebook (with most parts locked, but some parts changeable) along with the rebrander tool, to your subscribers, website visitors, customers, etc. Since they can profit from changing the ebook, they happily spread it, and in the process build you a huge list.
You'll find the Viral Document Toolkit at: http://ViralDocumentToolkit.com
David finished testing the Viral Document Toolkit software March 1st, 2008, so you'll be using a tool that 99.9% of your competitors will have never seen. VDT is actually so revolutionary that NO ONE other than a few of David's closest friends have even been allowed to touch it, until now.
If you make your new viral ebooks good enough, you may be pleasantly surprised to see your competitors promoting them ;-)
6) Take massive action and do it immediately. One of my secrets to building my database so large is that when I'm shown a new tool or technique, and it passes "the common sense test," then I put it to immediate use... provided it doesn't distract me from something more urgent that I'm already working on.
Many of my contemporaries, and subscribers, complained about having no list as long as five years ago. Many of them still use that same excuse for why they've not made any real business growth progress.
I'm not sure why this is since all of the techniques that I, and that many of my mentors use, are so simple... and even obvious!
The key is not to over-analyze things. That traps you into "paralysis by analysis." Instead, get into the habit of doing while others are still "thinking about it."
My friend, Dr. Joe Vitale, taught me that "money loves speed!"
I've just shared with you some of the techniques that I've used to build a massive subscriber database. Of course, I can't cover every technique that I use in this short article. I will close by sharing that part of the key to growing your list is actually retaining the subscribers after you get them. To do that, you merely need to deliver tremendous content telling them how to solve their most pressing problems.
Simple - right?
by: Willie Crawford
How to Raise the Money to Start Your Internet Business in 5 Easy Steps
So, you have discovered that perfect home-based business that is going to have prospects banging down the door to sign up…but you don't have the money to invest. The investment requirement may be $1500, it may be $1000, it may be $100.
The point is that you have NO money to spare, if you want to keep a roof over your head and food on the table. This describes most, in today's economy, but you are special because you are wise enough to realize that if you just keep doing what you are doing now, you are just going to keep getting poorer.
Now mind you, that doesn't mean you can walk into your boss's office, drop off your resignation letter, and tell him to pound sand just yet…that comes later. But, you know that while your day job will make you a living, your online business will make you a fortune. Right?
So the challenge is to raise the money to start your business as soon as possible. The methods I am about to teach you will do just that, PLUS generate recurring monthly savings that will become your advertising budget.
Step 1: Where is My Money Going Now?
The simplest and best way of making money is to reduce your costs. But you may already only be buying what you need! So, we are going to reduce our costs WITHOUT sacrificing the goods/services that we need. But first, what ARE our costs?
Exercise: Take out last month's bank statement and credit card bills. Itemize each of your major costs. Your list may look something like this:
* Mortgage on house or cost of renting
* Car payments
* Health Insurance
* Car Insurance
* Homeowners Insurance
* Groceries
* Fast food/lunches out at work
* Telephone/Internet/Cable
* Gas
These are just a few. It can be frightening to see just how much money you are spending to keep a roof over your head!
So now that we know WHERE our money is going, let's take action to divert more of it away from other people's pockets and into our own. We will do that via…
Step 2: Competitive Bidding--Who wants my business?
It is simply astonishing how almost every company utilizes competitive bidding, and yet how few households do! For every item we listed up there, there are dozens, hundreds, or thousands of different companies who would love to have you as their customer!
Let's make them compete against each other, shall we?
Exercise: Find your policies for Health, Auto and Home Insurance. Find exactly what your coverages are, and your premiums. THEN, go online to a competitive bidding website, fill out your information, and request quotes from dozens of bidders! I personally use LowerMyBills and E-Health Insurance (links are provided in the resource box below). Representatives from these companies will be scrambling all over each other to provide you with their most competitive quotes, especially if you…
Tip: TELL THEM that other companies are bidding for your business! No one wants the competition to get a customer, so they will cut their margins as much as they can!
Tip: Create URGENCY by telling them that you are only accepting bids until X date, at which point you will choose the most inexpensive offer that meets your needs!
You will be astonished at how much this will reduce your monthly costs. This is a service that I perform for clients, in exchange for a % of whatever I save them, and believe me that is a pretty penny. But you don't need me to do it for you, you can do this yourself!
Savings: (will obviously vary from person to person, this is what I tend to see on average)
Savings on health insurance: $200 per month
Savings on car insurance: $100 per month
Savings on home insurance: $75 per month
First-month savings on insurance: $375
Ongoing monthly savings: $375/month
Wow! That's a nice chunk of change right there towards your business. And your actual results may be much higher or much lower, but chances are that right now, unless you bid out your insurance annually, your provider is probably treating you like a 200-pound 4th-grader taking your lunch money.
Step 3: I Can Pay Less, to Save MORE?!?
Have you been reading the news about the economy? In an effort to turn around the recession, the FED has been slashing through interest rates with speed and vigor usually seen only in Japanese Samurai movies.
Take out that mortgage bill, and see what rate you are paying. 7%? 6%?
We'll use an average mortgage amount of $200,000, and assume your current interest rate is 7% at a 30 year fixed loan. Ergo, your payment is $1,330.60 per month.
Do you have any idea JUST HOW MUCH money you can save by refinancing now at a lower rate?
With the Fed rate cuts, loans at 5% are easily available. Just that 2% drop in interest will lower your payment on the SAME LOAN to $1,073.64…saving you $237 per month!!
Let's add that in…
1st-Month Savings on Refinancing at lower rate: $237
Ongoing monthly savings: $237/month
And you can roll in your closing costs to the loan, so you don't pay anything up front, and STILL be saving this much (a few thousand over a 30-year loan just knocks off about $20 per month from your savings, which is already factored in above).
Step 4: Waste Not, Want Not
Now we are going to look at such a simple, obvious, and EASY way to save money, that never even occurs to most people.
What are you doing for lunch at work? Are you getting fast food, because it's easy and convenient? If so, you are spending about $6-$8 per meal!
Or do you eat out a restaurant? That gets REALLY expensive, anywhere from $10-$20 per meal or more! For this example, we will say that you are like most of working America and you eat lunch at a fast food place, spending $7 per meal.
So not only are you clogging your arteries and getting poor nutrition, but you are spending $210 per month just on lunch!!
Start bringing your lunch to work with you. Make yourself a sandwich, or whatever you please. The groceries will add up to $1-$2 per meal, if that. Let's say $2 per meal.
1st-Month Savings on Brown-bagging it for lunch: $150!!
Ongoing monthly savings: $150/month
Benefit to your health: Priceless!
And how badly do you REALLY need that $3 Mochachino from Starbucks every morning on the way to work? If you cut that out of your budget, there's another $90 per month you save!
BUT I LIKE MY FANCY STARBUCKS DRINKS AND DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM UP!!
Ok, fiiiine! Give it up for just the first month then. If you are going to be able to make $1000's of dollars per month by starting your internet business, wouldn't you be willing to make that small sacrifice?
In the words of Jim Rohn, "OF COOOURSE!!"
Step 5: Take Advantage of the Economic Stimulus
By now you've probably gotten the letter from the IRS about the Economic Stimulus Plan…you are going to be receiving a check for somewhere between $300 and $1200 in May 2008!
If you spend it on bills, it's gone, and the bills will be back…with friends. That's why you want to start your internet business in the first place, right? So that you will have gigantic loads of income streaming in again and again from your marketing efforts?
For this example, let's assume you are married, below a certain income level, and have 1 child. Your tax rebate will be $900 (or possibly $1200, but let's be conservative).
Ok, let's recap. So far, we've managed to raise:
Savings on health insurance: $200 per month
Savings on car insurance: $100 per month
Savings on home insurance: $75 per month
Savings on Refinancing at lower rate: $237 per month
Savings on small luxuries like Starbucks: $90 month 1
Unexpected Tax Rebate Coming in May: $900 month 1!
Savings from not eating out for lunch: $150 per month
Total Savings for First Month: $1752
Ongoing Savings per Month: $762 per month
WOW! We are there!! You have raised $1,752 to start your business, which is more than most cost! Not only that, but you will be saving almost $800 per month…let's take $400 of that and invest it our business as our Advertising Budget, and we will have LOTS of prospects coming to our site…and from there, it is just a matter of the Law of Averages to generate out your sales.
My Passport to Wealth business only costs $997 to get started, and an advertising budget of $350 per month gets you a professional Marketing Manager who does all your marketing for you, AND a personal sales assistant who calls all your prospects! I have included a link in the resource box to learn more about this hands-free automated internet business.
So that would leave an extra $752 in month 1, even above and beyond the cost of investing in your business…AND you would have ongoing savings of $412 per month.
Do you think you could find a use for this extra money that you raised?
"OF COOOURSE!!"
Feel free to contact me if you need any help with any of these 5 Simple Steps to Raise the Money to Start Your Internet Business. I believe strongly that giving back to others is the way to wealth.
Kind regards,
Rob Hunter
Passport to Wealth Mentors4U Team
Resources:
http://YourWealthBeginsHere.com Passport to Wealth
http://www.LowermyBills.Com Get competitive bids here
http://www.EHealthInsurance.Com Get competitive health ins bids
http://www.irs.gov Learn more about your tax rebate
by: Robert Hunter
The point is that you have NO money to spare, if you want to keep a roof over your head and food on the table. This describes most, in today's economy, but you are special because you are wise enough to realize that if you just keep doing what you are doing now, you are just going to keep getting poorer.
Now mind you, that doesn't mean you can walk into your boss's office, drop off your resignation letter, and tell him to pound sand just yet…that comes later. But, you know that while your day job will make you a living, your online business will make you a fortune. Right?
So the challenge is to raise the money to start your business as soon as possible. The methods I am about to teach you will do just that, PLUS generate recurring monthly savings that will become your advertising budget.
Step 1: Where is My Money Going Now?
The simplest and best way of making money is to reduce your costs. But you may already only be buying what you need! So, we are going to reduce our costs WITHOUT sacrificing the goods/services that we need. But first, what ARE our costs?
Exercise: Take out last month's bank statement and credit card bills. Itemize each of your major costs. Your list may look something like this:
* Mortgage on house or cost of renting
* Car payments
* Health Insurance
* Car Insurance
* Homeowners Insurance
* Groceries
* Fast food/lunches out at work
* Telephone/Internet/Cable
* Gas
These are just a few. It can be frightening to see just how much money you are spending to keep a roof over your head!
So now that we know WHERE our money is going, let's take action to divert more of it away from other people's pockets and into our own. We will do that via…
Step 2: Competitive Bidding--Who wants my business?
It is simply astonishing how almost every company utilizes competitive bidding, and yet how few households do! For every item we listed up there, there are dozens, hundreds, or thousands of different companies who would love to have you as their customer!
Let's make them compete against each other, shall we?
Exercise: Find your policies for Health, Auto and Home Insurance. Find exactly what your coverages are, and your premiums. THEN, go online to a competitive bidding website, fill out your information, and request quotes from dozens of bidders! I personally use LowerMyBills and E-Health Insurance (links are provided in the resource box below). Representatives from these companies will be scrambling all over each other to provide you with their most competitive quotes, especially if you…
Tip: TELL THEM that other companies are bidding for your business! No one wants the competition to get a customer, so they will cut their margins as much as they can!
Tip: Create URGENCY by telling them that you are only accepting bids until X date, at which point you will choose the most inexpensive offer that meets your needs!
You will be astonished at how much this will reduce your monthly costs. This is a service that I perform for clients, in exchange for a % of whatever I save them, and believe me that is a pretty penny. But you don't need me to do it for you, you can do this yourself!
Savings: (will obviously vary from person to person, this is what I tend to see on average)
Savings on health insurance: $200 per month
Savings on car insurance: $100 per month
Savings on home insurance: $75 per month
First-month savings on insurance: $375
Ongoing monthly savings: $375/month
Wow! That's a nice chunk of change right there towards your business. And your actual results may be much higher or much lower, but chances are that right now, unless you bid out your insurance annually, your provider is probably treating you like a 200-pound 4th-grader taking your lunch money.
Step 3: I Can Pay Less, to Save MORE?!?
Have you been reading the news about the economy? In an effort to turn around the recession, the FED has been slashing through interest rates with speed and vigor usually seen only in Japanese Samurai movies.
Take out that mortgage bill, and see what rate you are paying. 7%? 6%?
We'll use an average mortgage amount of $200,000, and assume your current interest rate is 7% at a 30 year fixed loan. Ergo, your payment is $1,330.60 per month.
Do you have any idea JUST HOW MUCH money you can save by refinancing now at a lower rate?
With the Fed rate cuts, loans at 5% are easily available. Just that 2% drop in interest will lower your payment on the SAME LOAN to $1,073.64…saving you $237 per month!!
Let's add that in…
1st-Month Savings on Refinancing at lower rate: $237
Ongoing monthly savings: $237/month
And you can roll in your closing costs to the loan, so you don't pay anything up front, and STILL be saving this much (a few thousand over a 30-year loan just knocks off about $20 per month from your savings, which is already factored in above).
Step 4: Waste Not, Want Not
Now we are going to look at such a simple, obvious, and EASY way to save money, that never even occurs to most people.
What are you doing for lunch at work? Are you getting fast food, because it's easy and convenient? If so, you are spending about $6-$8 per meal!
Or do you eat out a restaurant? That gets REALLY expensive, anywhere from $10-$20 per meal or more! For this example, we will say that you are like most of working America and you eat lunch at a fast food place, spending $7 per meal.
So not only are you clogging your arteries and getting poor nutrition, but you are spending $210 per month just on lunch!!
Start bringing your lunch to work with you. Make yourself a sandwich, or whatever you please. The groceries will add up to $1-$2 per meal, if that. Let's say $2 per meal.
1st-Month Savings on Brown-bagging it for lunch: $150!!
Ongoing monthly savings: $150/month
Benefit to your health: Priceless!
And how badly do you REALLY need that $3 Mochachino from Starbucks every morning on the way to work? If you cut that out of your budget, there's another $90 per month you save!
BUT I LIKE MY FANCY STARBUCKS DRINKS AND DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM UP!!
Ok, fiiiine! Give it up for just the first month then. If you are going to be able to make $1000's of dollars per month by starting your internet business, wouldn't you be willing to make that small sacrifice?
In the words of Jim Rohn, "OF COOOURSE!!"
Step 5: Take Advantage of the Economic Stimulus
By now you've probably gotten the letter from the IRS about the Economic Stimulus Plan…you are going to be receiving a check for somewhere between $300 and $1200 in May 2008!
If you spend it on bills, it's gone, and the bills will be back…with friends. That's why you want to start your internet business in the first place, right? So that you will have gigantic loads of income streaming in again and again from your marketing efforts?
For this example, let's assume you are married, below a certain income level, and have 1 child. Your tax rebate will be $900 (or possibly $1200, but let's be conservative).
Ok, let's recap. So far, we've managed to raise:
Savings on health insurance: $200 per month
Savings on car insurance: $100 per month
Savings on home insurance: $75 per month
Savings on Refinancing at lower rate: $237 per month
Savings on small luxuries like Starbucks: $90 month 1
Unexpected Tax Rebate Coming in May: $900 month 1!
Savings from not eating out for lunch: $150 per month
Total Savings for First Month: $1752
Ongoing Savings per Month: $762 per month
WOW! We are there!! You have raised $1,752 to start your business, which is more than most cost! Not only that, but you will be saving almost $800 per month…let's take $400 of that and invest it our business as our Advertising Budget, and we will have LOTS of prospects coming to our site…and from there, it is just a matter of the Law of Averages to generate out your sales.
My Passport to Wealth business only costs $997 to get started, and an advertising budget of $350 per month gets you a professional Marketing Manager who does all your marketing for you, AND a personal sales assistant who calls all your prospects! I have included a link in the resource box to learn more about this hands-free automated internet business.
So that would leave an extra $752 in month 1, even above and beyond the cost of investing in your business…AND you would have ongoing savings of $412 per month.
Do you think you could find a use for this extra money that you raised?
"OF COOOURSE!!"
Feel free to contact me if you need any help with any of these 5 Simple Steps to Raise the Money to Start Your Internet Business. I believe strongly that giving back to others is the way to wealth.
Kind regards,
Rob Hunter
Passport to Wealth Mentors4U Team
Resources:
http://YourWealthBeginsHere.com Passport to Wealth
http://www.LowermyBills.Com Get competitive bids here
http://www.EHealthInsurance.Com Get competitive health ins bids
http://www.irs.gov Learn more about your tax rebate
by: Robert Hunter
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