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Casual Articles - Is Your Website a Beautiful 'Hotel Nowhere' Lost in The Internet Wilderness?
AdSense earnings are the lifeblood of many internet marketers and the metaphorical thorn in the side for others. Often, despite their best efforts, some webmasters simply can not generate substantial AdSense earnings, and to be constantly bombarded with the success stories of others has moved beyond inspiring into irritating. Fortunately, many successful marketers are now sharing genuinely successful strategies for success in internet marketing, particularly using AdSense. If you have been frustrated with seemingly accidental AdSense earnings, this is the time to move beyond that frustration into
If your Hotel Nowhere website is ‘out there’, how do you expect people to find you? A real hotel needs roads leading up to the hotel, it has tour guides, maps, TV shows promoting vacations at the resort, radio adverts telling people about the next special, advertising in the nearby towns, agents and reps out there tal
If you want to make serious money with affiliate marketing, you need to have the right set of tools. I’m not talking about hardware. I’m talking about skills and the right elements of a perfect affiliate online presence. Those are the tools you’ll use to make money as a marketer and you’ll want to have them all in your toolbox.A contractor can’t build a new house with nothing more than a hammer and a few nails. They’ll use everything from earth-moving equipment to razor-sharp wire cutters to go from blueprint to dream house. That’s the way it is with affiliate marketing, too. Those wh
In fact, although a website is a crucial piece in the online marketing puzzle, you can still beat the best-looking website with great online marketing. And what still surprises me is after all the education, al the articles, all the proof, people still think, “If you build it (better) they will come!”
Sorry to disappoint folks – but that’s a dangerous assumption.
--- Just Do It Over
For instance, I was just speaking with a prospective client; they were explaining to me that their newly developed site was not working for them as they had hoped. During their explanation, they told me that they had a ‘solution’ for their problem – they were going to replace all or part of the site with Flash elements.
I politely explained to them that Flash wasn’t necessarily going to solve their problem and what they had on their hands was a beautiful ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website, lost in the Internet Wilderness. A ‘do over’ wasn’t going to solve their problems. Permit me to explain my analogy – I think you’ll like it.
--- Hotel Nowhere 101
A Hotel Nowhere website is beautifully designed one, it may have some Flash animation, perhaps some cool roll over images, maybe even active menu buttons that pop up and disappear as you move across them. It’s likely to have shading and other graphical elements that are visually appealing. And it’s probably got some words written on it too…but they’re secondary to the ‘look.’
The #1 problem with these types of websites (and some are not as bad as the image I painted above) is that they all suffer the same affliction…
They’ve been built in the middle of the Internet Wilderness!
Now let’s think about this for a moment. What good does it do to knock down your nice shiny new ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website and build another one in the same spot if no one knew about the last one?
If your Hotel Nowhere website is ‘out there’, how do you expect people to find you? A real hotel needs roads leading up to the hotel, it has tour guides, maps, TV shows promoting vacations at the resort, radio adverts telling people about the next special, advertising in the nearby towns, agents and reps out there tal
The more traffics you get at your website, the more your chances of making a sale increases.Here are 10 blazing website traffic secrets to help you succeed:1. Show your prospects how much enthusiasm you have for your product and business. If you're convincing enough, they will be enthusiastic too.2. End your sales letter or ad copy with a strong closing. It could be a free bonus, a discount price, a benefit reminder, an ordering deadline, etc.3. Please your complaining customers. You can refund their money, give them a discount, give them a free gift, solve the
Sorry to disappoint folks – but that’s a dangerous assumption.
--- Just Do It Over
For instance, I was just speaking with a prospective client; they were explaining to me that their newly developed site was not working for them as they had hoped. During their explanation, they told me that they had a ‘solution’ for their problem – they were going to replace all or part of the site with Flash elements.
I politely explained to them that Flash wasn’t necessarily going to solve their problem and what they had on their hands was a beautiful ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website, lost in the Internet Wilderness. A ‘do over’ wasn’t going to solve their problems. Permit me to explain my analogy – I think you’ll like it.
--- Hotel Nowhere 101
A Hotel Nowhere website is beautifully designed one, it may have some Flash animation, perhaps some cool roll over images, maybe even active menu buttons that pop up and disappear as you move across them. It’s likely to have shading and other graphical elements that are visually appealing. And it’s probably got some words written on it too…but they’re secondary to the ‘look.’
The #1 problem with these types of websites (and some are not as bad as the image I painted above) is that they all suffer the same affliction…
They’ve been built in the middle of the Internet Wilderness!
Now let’s think about this for a moment. What good does it do to knock down your nice shiny new ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website and build another one in the same spot if no one knew about the last one?
If your Hotel Nowhere website is ‘out there’, how do you expect people to find you? A real hotel needs roads leading up to the hotel, it has tour guides, maps, TV shows promoting vacations at the resort, radio adverts telling people about the next special, advertising in the nearby towns, agents and reps out there tal
Delegating or assigning tasks and projects to someone else, can be very difficult to do. You may not want to ask for help or be anxious to prove that you can do it all. However, delegating can be one of the most liberating things you do for yourself and help with your career. Delegating can be seen as training and offer value to your company and accomplishments to your resume.In today’s business environment, learning to delegate projects is especially important because we are all challenged daily to do more. If you are a manager or a small business owner, delegating can make the difference
I politely explained to them that Flash wasn’t necessarily going to solve their problem and what they had on their hands was a beautiful ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website, lost in the Internet Wilderness. A ‘do over’ wasn’t going to solve their problems. Permit me to explain my analogy – I think you’ll like it.
--- Hotel Nowhere 101
A Hotel Nowhere website is beautifully designed one, it may have some Flash animation, perhaps some cool roll over images, maybe even active menu buttons that pop up and disappear as you move across them. It’s likely to have shading and other graphical elements that are visually appealing. And it’s probably got some words written on it too…but they’re secondary to the ‘look.’
The #1 problem with these types of websites (and some are not as bad as the image I painted above) is that they all suffer the same affliction…
They’ve been built in the middle of the Internet Wilderness!
Now let’s think about this for a moment. What good does it do to knock down your nice shiny new ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website and build another one in the same spot if no one knew about the last one?
If your Hotel Nowhere website is ‘out there’, how do you expect people to find you? A real hotel needs roads leading up to the hotel, it has tour guides, maps, TV shows promoting vacations at the resort, radio adverts telling people about the next special, advertising in the nearby towns, agents and reps out there tal
Registering a domain is a waste of money for most of you probably. Some think that there are websites that offer free domain hosting so why should pay. But they don’t know that these free web domain hosting available in the internet only offer limited features and the website isn’t entirely yours.If you’re going to use your website for personal use such as family picture posting, forums, or article writing, then it’s probably alright. But for small business, you should register your own domain name and pay for it.In registering a domain name, you should be aware of some things. One i
The #1 problem with these types of websites (and some are not as bad as the image I painted above) is that they all suffer the same affliction…
They’ve been built in the middle of the Internet Wilderness!
Now let’s think about this for a moment. What good does it do to knock down your nice shiny new ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website and build another one in the same spot if no one knew about the last one?
If your Hotel Nowhere website is ‘out there’, how do you expect people to find you? A real hotel needs roads leading up to the hotel, it has tour guides, maps, TV shows promoting vacations at the resort, radio adverts telling people about the next special, advertising in the nearby towns, agents and reps out there tal
EFT (electronic funds transfer) refers to monetary transfers between different accounts via electrical signals and secured codes. These electric payments are a fairly new means of money transfer, and can be used to pay taxes, make personal, and company payments. Electronic funds transfer systems, include a large number of financial transaction systems. These include fund transfers amongst major banks and transfers among the Federal Reserve Banks through their private network. They are commonly termed as Fed Wire transfers. Other financial institutions are also encouraging the use of EFT. ACH-Debi
If your Hotel Nowhere website is ‘out there’, how do you expect people to find you? A real hotel needs roads leading up to the hotel, it has tour guides, maps, TV shows promoting vacations at the resort, radio adverts telling people about the next special, advertising in the nearby towns, agents and reps out there talking it up and generally promoting it and creating buzz.
In other words, your ‘Hotel Nowhere’ (your website) needs to be promoted and connected to the rest of the world AFTER it’s been built. Simply knocking it down and building another is a waste of time!
--- Going from Room to Room
If we continue the Hotel analogy, you need to know that your lobby is your main page (usually index.html or default.html) and it’s where guests arrive once they’ve been brought to your hotel. By the way, the bus or coach analogy is a good one for search engines – think traffic and you’ll start to see the imagery.
So you have people in your lobby. If you expect them to stay you’d better give them a darn good reason to ‘stick’ around. And if you want them to explore your hotel you need to give them a map. Oh yes, and more importantly, you will need to ensure that they can get from room (page) to room.
It sounds goofy, but many sites are built with no ‘doors’. A door is a link between pages. I know, you think that I’m wrong – sure You can click on the button and be taken to a page. But did I tell you that search engines are visually impaired?
They don’t see the picture buttons or the image maps like you do; they look for text so they can ‘read’ it. If your doors are not described via text links too, you can expect a lobby full of visitors for about 2 seconds before they get back on the bus and leave.
--- Going from Hotel Nowhere to Hotel Somewhere
Building the site should be the second phase of the project – the first phase should have been creating the architectural Internet Marketing plan. However, this is often not the case and the I.M Architect (consultant) is usually ONLY called once the client realizes they have a ‘Hotel Nowhere’ website on their hands!
The good news is that even if you have done things ‘backwards,’ it can be remedied quite easily, and a good I.M Architect (consultant) c
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