Have you realized that colors can reveal the content of your site and the message is more subtle. For example, red is “warm, vivid, heat, energy, young …”, blue is “professional, cool, rational, relaxing, slightly sad, distance from crowd…”, black is “mysterious, dark, …” and lots more.

Here is a wonderful site you can play with the colors, the combinations of colors, and patterns from colors. You can find trend colors, palettes, patterns — Colourlovers.com.

Who are they? 

According to the self introduction, Colourlovers is a community

“that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.  “

You have to use colors, no matter it is for your web designs, for your office layout, or for advertising. It is also good to develop a taste in recognizing trends in the world of colors so to ensure your products always attractive. So, why don’t you take a look at the site and take some sips of the colorful richness?

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To promote our online business, we have several options; but the most used one is Google Adwords. Google Adwords basically is an ad auction system which allows you to bid on certain positions.  Here is a video in which Hal Varian, the chief economist from Google, shows us how ad auction works and how a bid increase by one advertiser can affect the advertisers bidding above him.

It is a great video for us to not only understand how Google Adwords works, but also know why sometimes we, as publishers, experience dramatic changes in ad income.

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Have a look at the video. Great tips. It is possible to attract more customers via less advertising. What is the key? Service! Unfortunately it is still the missing piece of many businesses.

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Marketing is the essential element driving business of all sizes forward. For sure, marketing involves money. But still there are several ways to cut costs while giving quality message to your target audience. Blogdesign mentioned the following 5 “sacrifice-free” ways to save money on marketing.

1. Get to know your target audience.
“Knowing your target audience means knowing their dreams, their aesthetic taste, and, of course, what makes them want to spend money on a product or service like yours.” It is true, marketing to your target audience helps spending time, energy and money on other audience who won’t help generate revenue. Focusing on the right people does not cost anything, but saves you lots.

2. Package yourself to appeal to this market.
“Once you know your customer base, tailor every aspect of your company and products so you appeal to these people. Your materials, website, and even paint job should be in colors that your customer finds pleasant.” Very straightforward. Makes total sense, doesn’t it?

3. Sell yourself to the media.
“Almost every business has a compelling story or a unique person behind it. Many local and even national media groups periodically do stories on interesting people and businesses. Why not be that story?” He made a very good point here. TV show gives not only exposure, but also credibility to public. If you have the chance, do it.

4. Cultivate a referral culture.
“Customer referrals are taken far more seriously than traditionally advertising, so getting your customers to refer you can be one of your most lucrative marketing tools. ” Yes, word-of- mouth is still the most direct and effective way of marketing.

5.Avoid cold calling.
“Cold calling and other types of broad advertising might make you feel like you are getting your word out there, but there are much cheaper and more efficient ways to market yourself such as business networking.” Excellent point. Networking is the key.

If you want to read the whole article, visit here.

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After having run a blog for a while, how to monetize it becomes an interest for most bloggers. Yes, there are many ways to generate streams of income with your existing blog; but how to manage them most effectively is a concern, esp. when the bloggers do not want to get involved in any code, with the fear of messing up all the settings. Then what to do? Here comes solution: Max Banner Ads widget.

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This is a video which explains what this widget does and how to install and monitor your activities. pretty easy, don’t you think so?

You can specify how many banner ads you want to host in one particular position, and you can let them rotate each time when the page gets refreshed. They can be within posts, after certain codes, or simply as widgets on the classic sidebars.

What’s more, in the dashboard you can have a look at the performance of your ads. There is a detailed statistics about impressions, clicks, CTR (%) … Pretty good little tool for any blogger even if s/he is quite familiar with html codes. You can download it here.

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Changing fonts is always the fastest way to change the look of your website, brochure, advertisement. I am glad to share with you my new finding: a great website which hosts 10,000 fonts. And best of all, they are free! So before you go and purchase any fonts, make sure you check this site: maybe you will find what you want without spending a penny!

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