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	<title>Online Affiliate Wealth &#38; Search Engine Optimization Coach - Web SEO Coach &#187; Online Wealth Coach &#8211; Make Affiliate Money Online &#8211; Affiliate marketing and Search Engine Optimization Coach</title>
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		<title>3 Simple Steps to Creating Your Own Online Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of online shopping is exploding. More than ever, people are now buying online, with the figures in the next 5 years set to double the current figures of online purchases. So imagine if you could tap into this [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The world of online shopping is exploding. More than ever, people are now buying online, with the figures in the next 5 years set to double the current figures of online purchases.</strong></p>
<p>So imagine if you could tap into this goldmine yourself and start your very own online retail store and compete with the big retailers on the same level!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s actually much easier, and cheaper, than you think.</p>
<p>In three simple steps you can have an online business up and running within a few days.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t even need to buy any products for your online store</p>
<p><strong>Here is my simple 3 step guide to creating your own online retail business:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Step 1: Getting started with a domain name and hosting:</strong></p>
<p>Like any retail store, you need &#8216;office&#8217; space. In the online world this is web hosting. You also need your business &#8216;name&#8217;, which is a domain name.</p>
<p>Probably the cheapest and easiest way to get this started is to visit our friends at <a title="Hostgator cheap website hosting" href="http://secure.hostgator.com/~affiliat/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=devision"><strong>Hostgator</strong></a> who can set your web hosting up for around $7.95 per month. This comes with a free domain name.<br />
You will also need a shopping cart for your products, and for this instance we will be using <a title="Wordpress Online CMS" href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a>, which is a free software package. Hostgator offer a free &#8217;1 click&#8217; install of WordPress on your hosting package so the software can be literally up and running a few minutes after you sign up with Hosthgator.</p>
<p>Once you have done this the next thing you need to do is create your online store:</p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Creating an online store &#8211; the easy way! </strong><br />
Usually running any business online you need to update the products pricing, arrange postage and handling and even buy and stock the products, which is all very expensive and time consuming.</p>
<p>But there is a much easier way to run an online retail store, without buying any products and it only requires a few minutes a day or even per week to manage.</p>
<p><a title="Datafeedr Homepage" href="http://www.datafeedr.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=2034_1_tlid_11"><strong>Datafeedr</strong></a> is an online subscription service which connects to retail affiliate companies, and feeds their product data directly through to your online store.<br />
This means that you simply select the affiliated companies you want to sell for, select the products you want to sell and then with a click of a button all the product information including product images, descriptions and the latest prices are all on your website, and they update automatically!<br />
So you don&#8217;t need to update anything manually if you don&#8217;t want to, apart from reviewing possible new products you would like to sell.</p>
<p>Sign up with Datafeedr and all the instruction videos and support are readily available for you to start your own site instantly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.datafeedr.com/affiliates/jrox.php?id=2034_1_bid_16"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.datafeedr.com/affiliates/image.php?bid=16&amp;mid=2034" alt="" width="468" height="60" border="0" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Find the products you want to sell:</strong></p>
<p>One of the biggest concerns for online shoppers is knocking if the products they are purchasing are genuine. The great thing about using Datafeedr and affiliate businesses is that your customers are buying direct from leading brand companies, but each time they make a sale through your affiliate link you make a commission. These commissions usually range from around 6% to 50%, so making money online is very easy, and you don&#8217;t have to do anything!</p>
<p>Datafeedr lists all the companies it works with, and the affiliates you need to sign up with first to make it work.<br />
Signing up with affiliate retail companies is totally free, which provides you with your unique sales link, which you enter into your Datafeedr account. When this link is clicked on your website and a sale is made you receive the sales commission. Simple!</p>
<p>The recommended affiliates to sign up with include:<br />
<a title="Commission Junction Affiliate Program" href="http://www.cj.com"><strong>Commission Junction</strong></a><br />
<a title="Commission Monster Affiliate Program" href="http://www.commissionmonster.com"><strong> Commission Monster</strong></a><br />
<a title="Share S Sale Affiliate program" href="http://www.shareasale.com"><strong> Share A Sale</strong></a></p>
<p>To view a site I have created myself using Datafeedr and Hostgator, check out Shoppalot:  <a title="Shoppalot Online Retail Store" href="http://www.Shoppalot.com">www.Shoppalot.com</a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quick small screenshot too:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shoppalot.com"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1065" title="Shoppalot online store" src="http://www.webseocoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/shoppalot.jpg" alt="Shoppalot online store" width="580" height="439" /></a></p>
<p>Shoppalot took just a couple of days to create and started earning an income within days!</p>
<p><strong>So if you are looking for a new business venture without the costs or time required, creating your own online affiliate-based business might be the solution for you!</strong></p>
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		<title>How to create a professional Facebook page for business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has recently made changes to it&#8217;s site, making it much easier now to easily create a professional looking business page for your business. Facebook business pages are becoming as important to promoting your business as your website itself, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Facebook has recently made changes to it&#8217;s site, making it much easier now to easily create a professional looking business page for your business.  Facebook business pages are becoming as important to promoting your business as your website itself, but until now most business owners haven&#8217;t been able to easily create a professional looking Facebook page for their business without knowing FBML, the Facebook Markup Language script required to build it.  But now there is a very easily solution that anyone with basically no skills can use to create the perfect Facebook page for business.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The new <a href="https://billing.lujure.com/idev/idevaffiliate.php?id=526_0_1_4"><strong>Lujure Facebook Business page creator</strong></a> lets you easily build your own professional pages and upload them with all the tools to create the ulimate Facebook page</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://billing.lujure.com/idev/idevaffiliate.php?id=526"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-937" title="Lujure Facebook Business Page Builder" src="http://www.webseocoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/486x60.jpg" alt="Lujure Facebook Business Page Builder" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;<br />
All it takes is just a little knowledge of what is possible to do in Facebook and away you go.  For instance did you know you can offer exclusive one-time offers by setting up an initial entry page, and if someone &#8216;likes&#8217; your page they will be taken to an alternative welcome page with your special offer.  Or did you know you can add video, shopping carts, blog feeds, like twitter feeds, Flash animated photo galleries, Mailing list forms, Google maps and even Paypal payment buttons directly into your Business page, allowing people to purchase directly from within your Facebook page!</p>
<p>Facebook also provides you with great demographics enabling you to learn more about your visitors and followers, including their age, location, and main keywords that attracted them to you, helping you plan future online marketing campaigns to your targeted audience.</p>
<p>Here is a quick snapshot of Facebook demographics.</p>
<div style="text-align: right;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.webseocoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/facebook-demographics.jpg" border="0" alt="facebook-demographics.jpg" width="550" height="854" /></div>
<p>So if you aren&#8217;t using Facebook for creating a unique customer base and business community you are most likely missing out on a lot of business opportunites.  Check out Lujure and try the totally free demo and create your own Facebook business page &#8211; <a href="https://billing.lujure.com/idev/idevaffiliate.php?id=526_0_1_4"><strong>Click here to visit their website</strong></a></p>
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		<title>3 Steps to Making Money Online from Dropshipping</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 10:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hosting & Domains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Money Online]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online shopping is changing the way we shop for retail products. Almost 85% of all retail shoppers now search the web for products before they buy them, and most end up buying them online rather than the traditional retail store. [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Online shopping is changing the way we shop for retail products.  Almost 85% of all retail shoppers now search the web for products before they buy them, and most end up buying them online rather than the traditional retail store.</p>
<p><strong>Online retail shopping has become big business!</strong></p>
<p>But the great thing about online retail websites is you don&#8217;t have to have millions of dollars to create an online shopping website. You don&#8217;t even need any products!</p>
<p>Setting up your own retail website similar to Amazon is now easy and very affordable, and the great thing about it is you can earn up to 70% of the value of the purchase.  You only need to make a handful of sales a day to make more than your average office job would pay, and the best thing about online store is it keeps making money while you sleep, you don&#8217;t have to spend every hour of the day slaving over a hot computer, and the money is in your account before you arrange the dispatch of the product.</p>
<p>This sort of online retail sales is called &#8216;<strong>Dropshopping</strong>&#8216;</p>
<p>The way dropshipping works is you first sign up with a Dropshipper who stocks the products you want to sell, and they will provide you with a wholesale price for the products. You then upload these products to your website and you can then charge whatever you want for the products.</p>
<p>When someone visits your website and purchases the product, usually through Ebay, you then pass the order to the dropshipper once the payment has cleared, and then you pay the dropshipper before he dispatches it directly to your customer.</p>
<p>There is no handling of the product yourself, and the dropshipper usually sends out the product with your business name on the package.</p>
<p>Sounds simple right?  Well it is!</p>
<p><strong>HERE ARE THE THREE STEPS TO SETTING UP YOUR OWN DROPSHIPPING WEBSITE:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1 First, find your dropshipper.</strong><br />
This can often be hard to find the products you want, but Professional Dropshippers such as <a href="http://www.salehoo.com/learn-more?aff=berko"><strong>SaleHoo </strong></a>offer over 8000 categorized suppliers, so finding a dropshipper that has your products is easy and they offer high quality genuine brand name products.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salehoo.com/learn-more?aff=berko">SaleHoo</a> charge a small annual fee to join, but for the return you get back from your website, and the hours you would waste otherwise looking for quality dropshippers yourself, it is well worth the price.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salehoo.com/learn-more/?aff=ENTERID"><img src="http://www.salehoo.com/assets/Uploads/AttachedFiles/BannerPage/PageBanners/animatedmiddlemen468x60.gif" border="0" alt="" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.salehoo.com/learn-more?aff=berko"><strong>FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SALEHOO</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>2. Set up your website hosting and domain name</strong><br />
To set up your website you will first need a domain name and web hosting. Godaddy are one of the most affordable sites for purchasing domain names, and offers tools to help you find a great domain name to suit you online business. Then sign up for your website hosting.</p>
<p><a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/~affiliat/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=devision"><strong>Hostgator</strong></a> is one of the quickest and easiest hosting providers to get up and running with, offering great online support, and a simple 1-click setup of Wordress, so no tricky uploading and configuration is required. You are literally up and running in a matter of minutes!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/~affiliat/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=devision">CLICK HERE TO VIEW HOSTGATOR WEB HOSTING</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>3. Creating your online store.</strong><br />
If you want to create a professional looking online store you should invest in <a href="https://secure.avangate.com/order/product.php?PRODS=2929632&amp;QTY=1&amp;AFFILIATE=25040"><strong>Shopperpress</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Shopperpress is a WordPress-based shopping cart theme which offers all the bells and Whistles of the big professional shopping cart systems, but for a fraction of the price. Shopperpress comes with a great range of pre-designed themes to suit most common retail niches, or you can edit it to create your own design.</p>
<p>As it is based on WordPress, Shopperpress ranks extremely well on the search engines, so getting on the top of the search engines is easy, driving more traffic to your website than most other shopping cart applications.</p>
<p><a href="https://secure.avangate.com/order/product.php?PRODS=2929632&amp;QTY=1&amp;AFFILIATE=25040"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS ON SHOPPERPRESS</strong></a></p>
<p>Once your website is in place, simple go to your Salehoo account, search the products you want to promote and add them into your website and you are in business!</p>
<p><strong>Author: Chris Bourke of Devision Design and WebSEOCoach.com</strong></p>
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		<title>The Online Internet Business Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More people are escaping the &#8216;bricks and mortar&#8217; traditional business and moving to creating online businesses. The major advantages of online business compared to a shopfront is that there are less overheads and you have a global audience. But the [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More people are escaping the &#8216;bricks and mortar&#8217; traditional business and moving to creating online businesses.<br />
The major advantages of online business compared to a shopfront is that there are less overheads and you have a global audience. But the disadvantage is that it is a very competitive marketplace online, and many people jump in ill-prepared, and as a result almost <strong>75% of all online businesses fail</strong> within the first 12 months.<br />
Many people are blinded by the stories of online wealth that other successful businesses have achieved in short timespans.<br />
But like any business, success comes down to the careful planning of your online venture, including goal setting, marketing, budgeting and of course your competition.  Unfortunately most online business ventures fail to do an Online Business Plan before starting out, which is critical to the success of any online business.  If you are considering an online business venture, here is our basic Online Business Plan to help get you started:</p>
<p>
<strong>- &#8211; - THE WEB SEO COACH INTERNET BUSINESS MARKETING PLAN &#8211; - -</strong></p>
<p><strong>YOUR BUSINESS NAME</strong></p>
<p><strong>YOUR WEBSITE ADDRESS:</strong></p>
<p><strong>YOUR BUSINESS EMAIL ACCOUNT:</strong></p>
<p><strong>DEFINE YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE<br />
</strong><em>Knowing your target audience is critical to the success of any business. If your business brand, and marketing, products or services relate to your target audience you will achieve success.</em></p>
<p><strong>Define your audience:</strong></p>
<p>• Are they Male or Female?<br />
• What is your target audience&#8217;s age group?<br />
• What is your ideal customer&#8217;s net household income?<br />
• What is the level of education of your target audience?<br />
• What is the job profile of your ideal customer:<br />
- worker<br />
- manager<br />
- stay at home parent<br />
- executive<br />
- entrepreneur</p>
<p>
<strong>• Do your ideal customers buy your products for themselves or as a gift?</strong></p>
<p>
<strong>• What is the average you would expect your ideal customer to spend online on your website?</strong></p>
<p><strong>ABOUT YOUR PRODUCTS</strong><br />
<em>To succeed online you need to offer something else your competitors don&#8217;t. To achieve this you first need to know your products and your own business:</em>  • Describe your products or services.</p>
<p>• How does your product relate to the marketplace?</p>
<p>• What is the unique difference of your products or services compared to your competitors?</p>
<p>• What is your overall unique point of sale compared to your competitors?</p>
<p>
<strong>COMPETITION</strong><br />
Knowing your competition, and their strengths and weaknesses is important to being the best in your niche:  • Describe your competition</p>
<p>• What is unique about your overall business compared to your competition?</p>
<p>• What is your overall unique selling proposition?</p>
<p>
<strong>MISSION STATEMENT</strong><br />
In 2 sentences or less, outline your mission statement. define your business and the services you provide, your business goal, and your unique selling point that will make you successful.</p>
<p><strong>BRANDING</strong><br />
<em>Your brand is a reflection of your services and your business in general. every successful business has a strong professional brand.</em></p>
<p>• Have you consulted a design/brand agency to create a professional brand and logo for your business or website, based upon the above information?</p>
<p>• Has your graphic designer provided you with a visual style manual outlining the correct colours, fonts and elements of your logo/brand?</p>
<p><strong>SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING</strong><br />
<em>Social Media Marketing is one of the most cost-effective and best ways of promoting your online business to the world.</em></p>
<p>•  Will you be marketing through Facebook, Twitter and social bookmarks?</p>
<p>• Do you have your social media branding in place ( Eg, Twitter branded background, Facebook Business page with welcome page</p>
<p>• If you are using Facebook Business/Fanpage to gain followers, what incentive do you have for them to follow you?</p>
<p>• How do you plan on tracking and managing your social media marketing? (eg, using <a href="http://www.sproutsocial.com">Sprout Social</a>, <a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com">Tweetdeck</a>, <a href="http://www.hootesuite.com">Hootsuite</a>, etc)</p>
<p>• If you have a blog, have you created a <a href="http://www.linksalpha.com">Links Alpha</a> account to automated your messages to multiple social media networks?</p>
<p>• Have you added your Facebook &#8216;Like and Twitter &#8216;tweet buttons into each page of your website or shopping cart for social media exposure?</p>
<p>
<strong>MARKETING &amp; PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES</strong><br />
<em>Creating an ongoing marketing strategy will ensure you continue to increase the awareness of your products and brand.</em></p>
<p><strong>Email Marketing</strong><br />
• Does your website have an email marketing signup form for capturing potential customers?</p>
<p>• Have you set up a professional email marketing account such as <a href="http://www.aweber.com/?352929">Aweber</a>, Constant Contact, MailChimp to send, track and manage email marketing?</p>
<p>• Have you created a professional looking email marketing template?</p>
<p><strong>ONLINE MARKETING &amp; ADVERTISING</strong><br />
• Have you established an online advertising budget for Facebook/Google Adwords campaigns?</p>
<p>• Have you planned and designed campaigns to target your audience on these social media networks?</p>
<p>• How are you tracking click through rates from online marketing campaigns? • Have you considered an affiliate/commission marketing program to sell your products?</p>
<p><strong>LINK EXCHANGES</strong><br />
<em>Exchanging links with other businesses online helps increase your page rank and popularity on the search engines.</em>  • Do you have software in place to exchange links with other related websites?</p>
<p><strong>E-COMMERCE</strong><br />
• Have you arranged a payment system to handle online trisections (eg, Paypal, Paymate, etc)</p>
<p><strong>SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION</strong><br />
• Is your website/blog pages and images correctly setup for maximum SEO results on the search engines?</p>
<p>• Have you done your keyword research as to what keywords best reflect your business online?</p>
<p>• Has your website been submitted to all major search engines?</p>
<p>• Have you created a Google Webmaster tools account and created and submitted an XML sitemap?</p>
<p>• Have you created a Google Analytics account to track your website statistics and visitors and keyword search results.</p>
<p><strong>ARTICLE DISTRIBUTION</strong><br />
<em>If you run a blog for your website, creating regular articles is a great way of attracting the search engines and traffic to your website as related articles help define your positioning and placement on the search engines.<br />
</em></p>
<p>• Have you planned a regular scheduled article campaign to promote your services, products or events?</p>
<p>• Are you writing these articles yourself, or have you arranged an online seo copywriter to write the articles?</p>
<p>• How often duo you plan on publishing/releasing the articles?</p>
<p>
<strong>OFFLINE/TRADITIONAL MARKETING &amp; ADVERTISING STRATEGIES</strong><br />
<em>Even if your business in web-based, you should still promote it offline using traditional marketing strategies.</em></p>
<p>• Have you arranged the printing of business cards, letterheads, brochures, promotional flyers?</p>
<p>
• Have you set your budget for print/tv/video marketing?</p>
<p>
• Have you arranged publication of Advertorial/editorial to promote your business in print?</p>
<p>
• Have you arranged promoting your business at tradeshows or seminars to increase awareness?</p>
<p><strong>WEBSITE STRUCTURE AND SITEPLAN</strong><br />
<em>The success of your website also relies on have a website that not only looks professional, but is quick to load, and easy to navigate</em></p>
<p>• With all the above information in place, have you created a siteplan and structure that works best for your target audience?</p>
<p>
• Have you ensured your website will load fast and is easy to navigation?</p>
<p>
• Have you allowed in your website for important customer information such as Return and Shipping policies?</p>
<p>
<strong>BUDGET</strong><br />
• Have you established a budget for the set-up and running of your business, taking into account:</p>
<p>
• Branding<br />
• Website development and regular updates<br />
• Hosting and domain registration<br />
• Email Marketing and other paid online marketing including article writing/publishing to social press release sites<br />
• Print / radio / tv marketing production costs</p>
<p>
<strong>DEFINING YOUR PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT GOALS</strong><br />
<em>Many businesses create a goal for the businesses, but overlook their personal reasons for creating the business in the first place.</em><em><br />
Every business is created with the initial goal to create wealth, but look at setting long term &#8216;real&#8217; goals.</em></p>
<p>• Establish the personal goals you wish to achieve from the website business ( eg, regular holidays, early retirement, healthier lifestyle, less stressful workplace, more time with the family, financial freedom, passive income)</p>
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<p>This is only a basic online business plan, but should be enough to hopefully help you plan your successful online business venture.  With a little smart planning you will be on your way to achieving a wealthy online business in no time!<br />
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<p><strong>Author: Chris Bourke of <a href="http://www.WebSEOCoach.com">WebSEOCoach.com</a> and <a href="http://www.devision.com.au">Devision Design Australia</a></strong><br />
<em>Chris is a web designer and internet marketing strategist for online business and social media marketing, and also owns a number of online retail and travel business ventures.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>These days having a website to promote yourself online is not enough.</strong></p>
<p>By planning and integrating smart online marketing campaigns using social media such as Facebook and Twitter can increase your profit by 400% or more within 24 hours!</p>
<p>The only other ways to achieve this result online would be pay-per-click marketing such as Google Adwords or Facebook ads, yet professional social media marketing costs a fraction of what you would spend on other online services.</p>
<p>The big advantage of marketing using social media is that you promote your products more effectively by branding and utilising your social media pages more effectively.</p>
<p>Did you know nearly 80% off Facebook business accounts don&#8217;t use their Facebook business page to attract or promote their services?<br />
Most don&#8217;t even realise that you can brand your Facebook business page up, add contact forms, run videos or even set up booking forms, blogs and shopping carts directly inside of Facebook!</p>
<p>Here is a quick example of what your Facebook business page could look like:</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.webseocoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/facebook_page.jpg" border="0" alt="facebook business page design" width="580" height="876" /></div>
<p>By branding up your Facebook page you not only strengthen your branding by becoming more recognisable but you also make it easier to create an online following as you look professional.</p>
<p>The same can be done with Twitter, Youtube and so on.</p>
<p>Here is an example of a Twitter custom branded page:</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.webseocoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitter.jpg" border="0" alt="twitter business branding" width="580" height="246" /></div>
<p>So now that you can see what can easily be done using these free powerful online social media marketing tool, if you aren&#8217;t generating customers and sales using social media you are probably missing out on a lot of business!</p>
<p>Author:  Chris Bourke of Devision Design and Web SEO Coach<br />
Chris is a web designer and social media marketer in Australai, helping business&#8217;s with online branding for success.<br />
for more on how you can make money online check out Chris&#8217;s guide: <a href="http://www.ultimatecashblog.com">http://www.ultimatecashblog.com</a></p>
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		<title>Advice For New Become Affiliate Marketers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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<p>Today, many of us are growing increasingly tired of the workplace and the daily grind. We are continually overworked and undervalued. Working a traditional job offers very little incentive to produce more. The vast majority of us pare paid a wage with very little movement for increases.</p>
<p>Increasing numbers of us want to work for ourselves but this requires money and a great deal of risk. Starting your own business is a risky venture and it may be years before any significant profit is seen. Most of us can&#8217;t wait that long as our financial obligations need to be met immediately.</p>
<p>To bridge this gap, some are turning to the field of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing allows you to work for yourself. Instead of creating your own business, you working to expand an already existing one. This keeps the risk factor and investment low so you can concentrate on how to make profits. </p>
<p>Many think it sounds easy. Certain aspects of affiliate marketing make it very attractive but it isn&#8217;t easy at all. There are steps and loads of advice you should follow before plunging head first into and affiliate marketing scheme.</p>
<p>The first thing you should do before committing to an affiliate marketing scheme is to evaluate your skills and expertise. How motivated are you? How many hours are you willing to put in? What business skills do you already have and what skills do you need? Even though the risk is minimal, you want to make the most of the venture. You will need some business and sales skills. If you have none then you need to learn. There are very few products that sell themselves. If they did the company wouldn&#8217;t need you to do it for them. You profit will be based on your performance. If you cannot perform then your venture will struggle.</p>
<p>The next thing you should consider is a product themselves. You should find something that you know something about. That way you sound much more sincere when you are marketing them. However, you also need to look into how saleable they are. You may have loads of knowledge about a particular area but if it isn&#8217;t something that sells it will be useless. Find out from the company how well these items sell. How much of a return you can reasonably expect. Don&#8217;t let them dazzle you with the sky is the limit speech, or one of our salesmen hit the million dollar mark. You need to know what you are likely to achieve.</p>
<p>Finally, you need to have realistic expectations. One of the reasons that many work at home ventures fail is that people want instant results. Running a business of any type takes time and hard work. With affiliate marketing your will get out only what you put in. with patience and hard work it will be lucrative. Learn what is realistic and shoot for that. If you make more then great.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing is a fantastic way to start in your own business. If you&#8217;re self motivated and independent then this fields could be an excellent choice. Before you jump in, research the company. Look up the saleability of the products and ask for reasonable projections. Base your goals on these and build from there. With patience and hard work you will make a success of affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>Article from Web SEO Coach &#8211; <a href="http://www.www.WebSEOCoach.com">www.WebSEOCoach.com</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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<p>Many of us are upset and frustrated with our current jobs. The low pay and sense of being undervalued drive many of us to dream of our own businesses. However, the costs combines with the risk factors stops most of us in our tracks. Affiliate marketing is a way for people to work for themselves with no risk. There is no cost to you and you&#8217;re paid on performance. However, today one has to be careful. There are plenty of scammers and con artists out there that are more than happy to take you money and hard work off of you. Unfortunately, affiliate marketing is not immune to these scammers. Daily, people are taken in by promises of big money with relatively little effort. In this article we will teach you some of the signs to look for and tell you how to spot a scam.</p>
<p>When you join an affiliate marketing scheme, you either going to sell a product or a service. With products, you usually have a choice and range to sell. How you decide to do this is largely up to you. You could also sell a service. Web page designs as well as increasing sales and internet traffic are all examples of services offered by affiliate marketing programs. </p>
<p>How many times have you seen as ad on the internet promising huge earnings? Things like &#8216;Earn 1000$ a day&#8217; or &#8216;Join our program now and become a millionaire!&#8217;. If your look closely at these ads they are not actually selling anything. Any company that is just selling the opportunity to make money is likely a scam. True, some affiliate marketing companies will have attention grabbing headlines like the ones mentioned above. However, if you go on to read the ad and information, there will likely be a detailed description of what they company sells. They will also have a disclaimer and terms and conditions listed. </p>
<p>These companies that offer, the opportunity to make money are likely pyramid schemes. The only people paying money in are the ones actually joining. There is no income being created, just money being passed from person to person. Not only are these scams and you&#8217;ll loose what you invested, they are also illegal and you can face prosecution.</p>
<p>Another thing to watch out for is no free participation. If you have to pay to join then you may have stumbled upon a scam or what is known as a multilevel marketing program. Multi-level marketing programs are completely legal and some people make good livings out of them. However, if you&#8217;re not successful you may end up purchasing a bunch of products that you cannot sell.</p>
<p>True affiliate programs are free. That is part of their attraction. There are no costs to you and they should also be risk free. Any Affiliate marketing programs that demands your money is not an affiliate program. You should ask yourself why they are misrepresenting themselves this way if they are legitimate.</p>
<p>Many of us dream of being our own bosses. We would love to be able to take control of our lives and careers. The attraction of answering only to you combined with setting your own working hours and committing what your choose bring loads of people into the affiliate marketing schemes. Affiliate marketing can be an excellent way for a highly motivated, creative person to make an excellent living. There are some wonderful programs out there just waiting to be joined. However, for every great program there is likely one that is fraudulent. Con artists operate in many areas and unfortunate affiliate marketing is not immune.</p>
<p>Before joining, check to see what the company is selling. If they are not selling goods or services then they are likely an illegal pyramid scheme. If they require your own money to get started then they are what are known as a multi level marketing program. Affiliate marketing can be a great opportunity but you need to do your homework.</p>
<p>Article on Web SEO Coach website &#8211; <a href="http://www.WebSEOCoach.com">www.WebSEOCoach.com</a></p>
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		<title>4 Ways of Getting Free Web Site Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>4 Ways of Getting Free Web Site Promotion</strong></p>
<p>You have finished making your own website. You have introduced your company and presented your products and services. You have added propositions and promos to catch your target audience&#8217;s attention. You have achieved the dos and don&#8217;ts of building a company web site. But why isn&#8217;t your website a major success? </p>
<p>Maybe you&#8217;re not planning the key to the best promotion of your web site. Here are some guidelines on how to acquire free web site promotions for your company&#8217;s success.</p>
<p>If you have started to promote your web site, keep it constant. If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audience&#8217;s attention.</p>
<p>Be patient. Try each method in promotion until you acquire the best, free promotion there is. You have to accept trial and error for your web site to reach the top. </p>
<p>There are many ways for your web site to be seen. Here are some free web site promotions you could try until you find the most effective.</p>
<p><strong>1. Free promotions such as search engines and directories would give your web site the deserved traffic you always wanted.</strong>  <br />Make sure to check your web site&#8217;s ranking to know whether or not this type of free promotion is right for you.</p>
<p><strong>2. Make a deal with other web sites on trading links which could help both web sites. </strong><br /> Make sure to use words that could easily interest the audience. </p>
<p><strong>3. Find free classified ads that could boost the promotion of your web site.</strong><br /> These ads could be seen by other people who you are not targeting for, but may as well be interested in your services.</p>
<p><strong>4. Free and low-cost internet banners are spread all through out the World Wide Web.</strong><br />  Banners that pop-up at the top of a page or in a separate window would automatically catch your target audience&#8217;s attention.</p>
<p>If your web site and its free promotion did not work even after accomplishing these methods, analyze your web site. Track down all visitors, advertisements, and transactions. Then locate errors in your web site. Upload new files to your web site continuously for audience to return for new products and services. Monitor your own web site if it&#8217;s up in the market or down.</p>
<p>Then be ready to try the methods again and surely it will work. </p>
<p>It has always been said that the best things in life are free. Yes they are. And as soon as your free web site promotion proves to the audience its worth, then you&#8217;ll believe it&#8217;s true. </p>
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		<title>The 3 Step Online Business Plan for Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Web SEO Coach</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever wondered why rock bands like U2, Bon Jovi, Duran Duran, or Rolling Stones still keep playing music even when they have amassed more financial wealth than they will ever need in life?</p>
<p>After 25 years they still do the grind of travelling for hours, get on stage in front of the hot lights, and are rarely out of the public spotlight, when they could probably afford to live on a small island somewhere in the South Pacific and do absolutely nothing all day!</p>
<p>The reason they still keep playing music is they love their achievements.<br />
What drives them to keep doing what they do?&#8230;.They enjoy hearing the roar of the crowd, and hearing people singing their tunes for decades to come, and most of all filling someone&#8217;s life with a moment..happiness, tears..emotions.</p>
<p>Before starting any business, online or otherwise, think about the real reason you are doing it.</p>
<p><strong>An online business should never be just about the money. Think this way and it will fail.</strong></p>
<p>Most online businesses fail within a few months because people don&#8217;t create a long term plan for their business, or more importantly, a plan for their business life.</p>
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<p><strong>Here is a &#8216;lite&#8217; version of my Ultimate Online Business Plan for Life:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Exercise 1: &#8211; Setting your Goals</strong><br />
Every business starts with an idea, but it takes goals to really turn those ideas and dreams into cash.<br />
Write down 5 business plans &#8211; a 6 month plan, 12 month plan, 2 year plan, and a 10 year plan, outlining what you want to achieve in that period of time.<br />
Don&#8217;t make these goals just about the business and how much money you&#8217;d like to make, add in personal goals as well, such as a holiday to somewhere exotic every year, buying a new car, spending time in a luxury resort with the family every few months, taking the kids to theme parks, buying a home overlooking the ocean, etc<br />
If you don&#8217;t have any other goal other than just money, once the money starts coming in you will slacken off. Set real goals by cutting pictures out of magazines of your dream house, dream car, places you want to visit, and then stick them somewhere you will see them every single day for the next 10 years, and mark them off as you achieve each goal.</p>
<p><strong>Exercise 2 &#8211; Planning your attack</strong><br />
Every business has competition, but like any marathon, there can only be a handful that will cross the line first. It&#8217;s not luck, it&#8217;s mental mindset, thinking creatively, and knowing your competitors.</p>
<p>Turn your self into a professional &#8216;web athlete&#8217; &#8211; Before any race, an athlete doesn&#8217;t just walk up to the start line and run.  They train their bodies, but most importantly they train their mind. They don&#8217;t look at the see of competitors in front of them at the starting line, they imagine themselves as they hit the finish line in first place.<br />
Knowing their competitors strengths and weaknesses is also the key to winning. </p>
<p>Do some research online and list 5 major competitors, and 5 competitors you think may be a threat to your business, examine their business process, their strategy and what makes them popular. Look at ways you could improve on what they are doing and use this in your own business strategy.</p>
<p><strong>Exercise 3 &#8211; Changing your mindset</strong><br />
Now, sit down in front of your webcam, or even a friend, and do a 3 minute Bio about your life&#8230;set 5 years in the future.<br />
Talk about your background, where you started, your dream to create your business, your achievements over those 5 years, and your goals for the next 5 years.<br />
These could include the family trip to Africa you took after your third year of online success, the fund you set up for a charity, or buying that dream home you always wanted.<br />
It&#8217;s your dream you are creating&#8230;the limitations are only set by you. Dream as big as you want!</p>
<p>Now, picture yourself at your funeral.<br />
Talk about how your business achievements changed your life, and how you changed other&#8217;s lives.<br />
Did you donate to charity? Did you change the lives of street kids, help others achieve their business goals, give your kids the dream lifestyle that as a child you never had yourself.</p>
<p>If you start on these basic goal and mindset exercises, you will find creating your business becomes easy, and the money will follow!<br />
 Start creating your dream life now!</p>
<p><strong>Author: Chris Bourke of <a href="http://www.webseocoach.com">Web SEO Coach</a> and <a href="http://www.devision.com.au">Devision Design</a><br /></strong><br />
<em>Chris is a web developer and successful affiliate marketer from Australia</em></p>
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<p><strong>Create your own six-figure online business today &#8211; <a href="http://ww.UltimateCashBlog.com">www.UltimateCashBlog.com</a></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Setting up an online business is easy, and anyone can do it.</p>
<p>Unfortunately so many online business ventures fail within less than a year.<br />
The main reason they fail is lack of traffic to the site and product awareness.</p>
<p>There are a couple of very easy steps to increase your website traffic and quadruple your profits online which cost you absolutely nothing, and done correctly can take as little as a couple of hours a week to drive huge traffic, and profit.</p>
<p><strong>Follow these simple steps:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Create a blog.</strong><br />
Blogs are great because they are not only easy to update, but when integrated into your website and each article post is written correctly, the keywords used to describe your products spread like wildfire through the search engines much faster than a standard website or shopping cart.<br />
Best of all you can download the WordPress blog software free from WordPress.org, and if you are a little tech savvy you can set it up yourself, or outsource someone to set it up for you.<br />
A great place to get your blog set up for cheap is Fiverr.com There are people on Fiverr willing to setup your WordPress site on your existing hosting for just $5!</p>
<p>Next thing you need to do once your blog is set up is download a few free plugins, which can be obtained directly through the WordPress software. Search for <strong>Ultimate SEO</strong> and <strong>Headspace</strong> under plugins, which both work great for search engine optimising your blog.<br />
Also search for a Sitemap plugin. This will them refresh your XML sitemap, which the search engines read, and inform them that you have new content on your website.<br />
The key to a successful blog is not only the quality of the content, but also how often it is added or refreshed, so the sitemap is essential.</p>
<p><strong>Spreading the word.</strong><br />
Now, a blog is great as people can find your site when they search for products on Google, Yahoo, etc<br />
But how about if you could intensify that number of visitors by around 300% in just a few simple steps through simple social media marketing?</p>
<p>This is really simple but not many people do it&#8230;</p>
<p>Firstly, create a <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> page for your business.<br />
This takes about 5 to 10 minutes to do, but will greatly increase your online presence when included in part of my overall process I&#8217;m about to share.<br />
When creating your Twitter page, make sure your Bio not only describes your business but also has keywords that identify your business. This will help your rankings as Twitter bios and posts appear in Google searches.<br />
Also create a <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a> fan page. If you&#8217;re not sure how, Click on the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php?campaign_id=372931622610&#038;placement=pghm&#038;extra_1=0">Facebook Create a Page link</a></p>
<p>Now, the key is to integrate all your social marketing tools to work together so that every time you post an article or product on your website blog, it will automatically appear on Facebook, Twitter and over 30 other social bookmarking websites all in one push of a button! How much time would that save you? How much greater an audience do you think it will now reach!</p>
<p><strong>Linking your Social Networks</strong><br />
Now that you have done the hardwork, (which didn&#8217;t actually take that long!), here is the easy part:<br />
Create a free LinksAlpha account (http://www.linksalpha.com) and add your blog&#8217;s RSS feed to the account. An RSS feed is automatically created in your blog software, and the link to your RSS feed is available in your WordPress Admin panel. Simply cut and paste the link into your LinksAlpha account.</p>
<p>Now, also add your Twitter page address (eg, http://twitter.com/webseocoach) and then add your Facebook business page address)<br />
Now, each time you post an article on your WordPress blog it will automatically send the link to your TWitter account and Facebook accounts simultaneously from your RSS feed.</p>
<p>You have now set up a dynamic online social networking marketing tool, which will save you hours of time and guaranteed to greatly increase your visitors if you use it regularly.</p>
<p>The great thing about WordPress is that you can schedule your article posts to avoid bombarding people with every post at once.<br />
When creating a new post, instead of publishing it immediately, save your article as a Draft, and then schedule it to post on the required date.<br />
You can set up a whole weeks worth of posts at the same time, but trickle-feed them to your networks and blog, which increases your search engine rankings as a new sitemap will then be created every day, as well as new backlinks from your social network posts.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.webseocoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/schedule-wordpress.jpg" alt="scheduling wordpress posts" border="0" width="580" height="283" /></div>
<p>Give it a go and watch your online profits soar!</p>
<p><strong>Author: Chris Bourke from <a href="http://www.devision.com.au">Devision</a> Design &#038; <a href="http://www.webseocoach.com">Web SEO Coach</a><br />
Chris is a web developer, internet marketer and Search Engine Optimisation Coach from Australia</p>
<p>Download <a href="http://www.UltimateCashBlog.com">Ultimate Cash Blog</a> and learn all the secrets to making a six-figure income from just a couple of hours blogging a day. It&#8217;s easy! <a href="http://www.UltimateCashBlog.com">www.UltimateCashBlog.com</a></p>
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