This is a video from Karel Geenen regarding the hot topic: how to get visitors to your website. Briefly, the strategies include

• Searh engine optimization
• viral marketing
• mobile marketing
• pay per click advertising
• email marketing

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How to start an internet business? Have you thought of selling other people’s products and get commission? It is different from the traditional way of doing business — you don’t have the inventory, you don’t deal with the customers, you don’t need to solve any problems or offer after sale customer service. Everything is done by the seller, what you need to do is to promote the products. This is so call affiliate programs.

There are lots of affiliate programs online, but the best one for beginners is ClickBank . It is actually a marketplace for all the affiliate programs. You can search the database in different categories for the products you are interested in, and then you can focus on promoting them.

How to do it? It is very simple. Follow the steps –

1. Get an affiliate ID. It is free.

2. Browse through or search the marketplace in ClickBank and find the right products to promote. If you don’t have the money to get going, or you don’t have the time to set up a website, you can simply start writing articles about the products and submit them to article directories. Do this frequently and you will be able to see some result soon.

3. Do advertising. Register an account with Google Adword. Do some research on the keyword. Start and test your PPC campaign with Adword. Do offline advertisement such as newspaper, radio, local classified ads, flyers, etc. You can even post the ad on the local grocery stores. The whole purpose is to catch people’s attention and push them to review the product you promote.

If you make money, you can reinvest it into another product from Clickbank. If you don’t make any after a while,redo the research and start over. Anyway we have to pay tuition to learn something. And the best learning experience is from doing.

This is the process we do over and over again. Based on the previous knowledge, experience, we do the research, find the niche and promote, promote, and see some results.

ClickBank has a very detailed categorized marketplace, a super place to search for product to promote. If anyone is interested in taking part in the huge affiliate market share, it is the right place to start.

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Here is a podcast from Sherman Hu, “Solid Strategies in Blogging for Traffic, Credibiligy & Sales“. You can download it and play it again and again when you drive, rest… It features clear, well-explained strategies in blogging. I think it is a great resource to learn how to use blogging for traffic, credibility and sales.

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You must know Bookmarks from Firefox or Favorites from Internet Explorer. The function is to add the sites to the list for later fast access. You may have already found out that the bookmark list or the favorite list is not enough to host all the sites you value or want to revisit, giving the fact that there are 15 billion websites. What is the solution? You many want to try Social Bookmarking!Social Bookmarking? Let’s first take a look at the “Social Bookmarking in Plain English” video from leelefever.

The video uses del.icio.us as an example. It shows

1. how to register with del.icio.us.
2. how to use tag to organize
3. how it is social

In addition to del.icio.us, there are several other social bookmarking sites. One of the most popular ones is Stumbleupon.com..

The other popular one is Furl.

Then, now start enjoying social bookmarking and sharing them with other users!

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I am in the process searching for a good solution for galleries, and the article posted by tutorialblog.org offers great resources and references. It is an excellent collection if you are considering setting up an easy gallery on your site.

“There are a large number of Flash image galleries but sometimes Flash is not required or cant be used so we turn to Javascript and CSS. Here is a roundup of some of the better Javascript and Ajax based solutions to our gallery requirements …”

In this post, you can find 12 image galleries. Here I would like to mention a couple I like the most.

• Modified Hoverbox Image Gallery

• slideViewer

• Minishowcase

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RSS and web feeds are very useful, as we bloggers all use it, to offer a channel for the subscribers to pull the content to their desktop. There are many websites that collate and categorize large amounts of useful information through web feeds. Just to name a few of them: Google reader, My Yahoo, and more. It is much easier for people to stay up to date through blog and website feeds.

Information on the internet is flooding. Instead of visiting all the websites you are interested, RSS and web feeds give you a channel to access more resources in a easier and organized way.

Here I would like to introduce a video from Common Craft’s post on RSS feeds.

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Twitter is so popular now. More and more people are using it to stay in touch with their friends and family. But what is it? There is an excellent intro video.

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source: Market share

According to Marketshare.com, Internet Explorer still ranked as no. 1 browser in 2008 while the other browsers such as firefox, safari, google chrome, opera, were invading into more market share. Firefox has been very popular for downloading and now is having 21.34% of the browser market. Google chrome, the simple and easy browser, has taken 1.04% of the current market after only 4 months since its lauch; maybe its growth will continue in the year of 2009.

What can we learn from this information? Users’ experience sometimes is somewhat determined by the browser they use. As a small business owner, it is important to understand what browser the customers use and try to improve their online experience by offering more attractive services or designs according to their surfing habits.

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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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