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Blogging Your Way Up the Search Engines
Any blogger can benefit from higher search engine ranking and traffic levels.This is especially true of business bloggers, for whom the blog equals profit and growth. When a blog has higher search engine ranking, it enjoys higher traffic levels as well. And blog traffic is the first step to connecting with your audience, spreading your ideas, and selling your products or services.Fortunately, there are a number of effective ways a dedicated blogger can increase his or her blog's search engine visibility for certain phrases. To h

you know your industry or subject matter. It's PROOF you're active in your business and niche.

**A blog is a way to connect with other like-minded professionals. When you comment on someone else's blog, or when they comment on yours, it's like a quick, manly nod that says, "Hey. Saw your post. Liked it. Peace out."

**A blog is a simple, searchable content management system. Why, oh why, are you hoarding all of your industry knowledge to yourself? Are you saving it for posterity? Do you think St. Peter will give you extra

Where is the Training Issue?
Too often, customers are frustrated in restaurants by indifferent service and food quality, and companies seem to be unable to solve the turnover problem - it's blamed on bad hires or inadequate training. Some companies even cut training dollars since they expect their employees to quit anyway.Perhaps the training dollars are targeted at the wrong level.A recent trip through the local electronics store illustrates the point. I spent nearly $1,000, and the checker, who also happened to be the manager, didn’t say a word the wh

I have five minutes to write this article.

However…

I have hours upon hours - days, really! - of pent-up energy on the subject of why you should be blogging. I'm sitting on the equivalent of a massive nuclear weapon here, or the cure for cancer, and no one's really understanding the implications…

Ever have one of those dreams when you're doing everything you can to run at a full sprint, but it feels like your legs are thigh deep in black tar? Or, you're trying like heck to shout a very important message to someone you love, like "Get out of the way! The train's coming!" or "Watch out! There's a giant shark fin right behind you!!!" but all that comes out is strained, laryngitis-ized hot air?

This is what's happening in my life right now. I sit across from friends and business associates, talk with entrepreneurs and small business owners, and share strategy sessions with larger companies and corporations, and I mention the possibility of them blogging. There's a universal glazed look, often followed by a shrug, or a nose crinkle. "Eh, I don't see the point," or "Yeah, I thought about that…"

I know it's my job to just let it go, and I do, because every business person knows the "I'm not ready to talk about this" look. Oh, but it's killing me! Because if you're serious about your business, career, or professional reputation, there is absolutely no reason for you not to publicize your interest and expertise in the form of a blog.

**A blog is conversational. It comes alive with YOUR distinct voice, style, and proclivities. It dies if it's fueled by the dreaded Corpspeak, stiff language, or totally self-conscious and "safe," play-by-the-rules drivel.

**A blog is FREE. (Or extremely low-cost, depending on how you go.) I mean, COME ON, what else is FREE these days?!!

**A blog is a mirror. It's an organized trail of your ideas, experience, and hints at your vision. It's ALSO a living, breathing organic organism that grows as you grow. It's like one of those "smart" computers that develops its own life and personality over time.

**A blog is search-engine friendly. It's PROOF you know your industry or subject matter. It's PROOF you're active in your business and niche.

Successful Marketing Begins During Product Development; 5 Steps Innovators Need To Take Now!
Most individual innovators – inventors, authors, software developers, artists, etc. -- assume there is a logical, sequential process involved in getting their products to market. So, most of their initial activities usually focus on getting the invention from the brain to the drawing board to prototype.Unfortunately, once the prototype is complete, a very large percentage of inventors “hit the wall” and are stymied by how to market their product.This situation doesn’t need to happen! In fact, many marketing steps can – and shoul

you love, like "Get out of the way! The train's coming!" or "Watch out! There's a giant shark fin right behind you!!!" but all that comes out is strained, laryngitis-ized hot air?

**A blog is FREE. (Or extremely low-cost, depending on how you go.) I mean, COME ON, what else is FREE these days?!!

**A blog is search-engine friendly. It's PROOF you know your industry or subject matter. It's PROOF you're active in your business and niche.

Thousands Now Make Money on the Internet - Who Never Thought They Could...
After the disgusting elements have passed, a new dawn will brighten our era and with it will come a new dimension in the way that the world does business. Many will make money at home, who never thought they could.In recent years, the Internet has experienced an amazing transformation. The aftermath of the MLM fraudsters, who gave our Industry such a bad name is now disappearing. As law enforcement agencies merge and the world becomes a much smaller place through the advancement of technology, their schemes now get exposed very quickly

n't see the point," or "Yeah, I thought about that…"

**A blog is FREE. (Or extremely low-cost, depending on how you go.) I mean, COME ON, what else is FREE these days?!!

**A blog is search-engine friendly. It's PROOF you know your industry or subject matter. It's PROOF you're active in your business and niche.

Underlying Keys to Motivation
Motivation starts with vision. In other words, people need to believe that they will succeed in what you are motivating them to do. No one likes to lose. For that matter, no one wants to lose. No one even wants to be associated with losers. So overcome this hurdle and instill in your listener or audience a vision of winning. Thinking we can win and seeing that victory in our mind's eye stirs our internal motivation. When we help others think of past victories or we instill the vision of victory in them, we ca

Corpspeak, stiff language, or totally self-conscious and "safe," play-by-the-rules drivel.

**A blog is FREE. (Or extremely low-cost, depending on how you go.) I mean, COME ON, what else is FREE these days?!!

**A blog is search-engine friendly. It's PROOF you know your industry or subject matter. It's PROOF you're active in your business and niche.

Not Every Sale Is A Good Sale
As you enter into business ownership you now become aware that you need to perform sales. Yes you can hire sales people but, if you don't understand sales then how can you properly recruit, hire, and retain good sales people. Anyway you look at it, you need to perform sales. However, when you first start selling your attitude might be that you need to close every sale. Be careful! Not every sale is a good sale.Be careful not to under sell or you will lose money from the sale and, if you are a service type business, while you are delive

you know your industry or subject matter. It's PROOF you're active in your business and niche.

**A blog is FUN, darnit! It's a chance to just be you, and even see and experience your own voice and priorities over time.

Sure, a lot of blogging gurus say there are "rules" - like, "you should blog at least three times a week!" or "be strategic" or "keep posts short; avoid long tangents!" (like this one). And a lot of PAGs (that's People Against Blogging) say no one reads them, or they're a waste of time, or all of the above. But to this I say, WHO CARES??!!

No one's reading your darn internal folders, or going through your file cabinets, but you still throw articles and information in there!

Why not claim your intellectual territory and put a select and steady amount of information, opinions, photos, and energy OUT THERE to be discovered by one or more of the proverbial masses, if and when they come looking for you or the information, knowledge, products, or services you have to offer?

God didn't just not bother with Antarctica because he figured no one would ever find the frigid continent, right? And now, with advances in technology, we get to watch fine films like "March of the Penguins," "National Treasure," and "The X-Files Movie."

If you have a passion, specialty, niche, mission, or business (and you gotta have at least one of those things, unless you're a corpse…or Paris Hilton), then START BLOGGING. Don't worry about traffic. Don't worry about the nit-picky stuff.

Do it imperfectly. Find your voice. Discover your flow. Loosen up. Be bold. Get yourself out there.

And if you refuse, please answer this one question.

WHY??????

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The best way to measure your success in direct mail donor acquisition is to examine your cost to raise a donor rather than your cost to raise a dollar.

Here is information on testing every newbie in the direct marleting business needs to get started. Written by one who has been there, this is a series of practical tips, illustrated with plenty of real-life examples. Humour is included at no extra charge, particularly for the scary bits.

DXinOne --- those dudes in Vanuatu who brought us the digot as an e-currency --- keep adding to their infrastructure, and this time they’re going mainstream. They’ve not only announced that they’re going to license their exchangers, they’re going to do it by putting their own spin on the Internet Caf? concept. Their innovative e-conomy is coming to the physical world. If nothing else, DXinOne doesn’t lack ambition.

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