Internet Business Tips

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.

I am working on a new project of creating a website. In the process of searching for loyalty free pictures, I came across this great collection of 40+ free vector graphics and photoshop brushes. The best of all is that they are available for commercial use!

Yes, as it states,
“You can use these images for logos, advertising, promotional products, and much more!”

Here I just want to list several which attract me the most. If you are interested in finding them all, please visit qbrushes.com

1. Colorful - By MyStockLogo.com

2. Vector Ornaments – By keepdesigning.com

a collection of antique frames and ornament

3.African Animals – By Blackmoondev.com

4. Free Vector Graphics Set – By Pien Duijverman & Smashingmagazine.com

5.Vector Stock – By ysr1.deviantart.com

6. Health And Beauty Brushes – By fudgegraphics.com & Smashingmagazine.com

By Tammy Embrich

Are you often scrambling to find an important printed document? Or are you having trouble finding a simple item such as a stapler? Is your desk so piled up that you can barely see the top of it? More importantly, maybe your child’s homework is buried under the shuffle of papers that seem to be growing in front of you?

If you answered even one of these questions with a “yes” then your office needs some tender loving care organization.

I know when my desk is piled up and I can’t find anything, I sure don’t feel very productive. I find I have a much more productive day if my desk is nicely organized and tidy. I always feel better about my business when I get up in the morning and find everything in it’s place. I mean it just makes sense, an organized office is a successful office.

The following tips will help you have a more productive business

* Always clean your desk off at the end of your work day. For example, put all those papers in their proper place, preferably in a file cabinet. Put all the pens/pencils in the little cup that’s supposed to be holding them. Make sure you have a schedule made out in front of you for the following day.

* Create a home business environment for yourself that will encourage work and motivate you rather than make you want to go out shopping. If it means redecorating your home office to achieve this environment, then do it.

* Organize your documents on your computer and consistently do backups so your information is safe. Make a separate document for your income and your expenses. Keep these updated daily, weekly, or monthly. This way when tax time arrives, you won’t have to do these tasks for the entire year. You can even save these documents to a disk and keep it updated if you want to be extra safe.

* Keep your important printed documents in organized file cabinets. If you don’t own any, invest in some. With a home business, a filing system is essential, just like any other business.

* Always eat your meals at the dinning room or kitchen table with your family. Don’t eat your meals at your desk. By doing so, after your meals you will return to your work area refreshed and ready to take on the rest of your tasks.

* Establish some rules for your home office. If your work day doesn’t evolve around your phone, let your answering machine pick up those calls during the day, unless they are emergencies of course. If you have a busy household, shut your office door and tell your family to knock before entering. If you feel the need to, place a sign, “do not disturb” on your door. Just these two office rules will decrease distractions considerably.

The less distracted you are, the better your focus will be on your work each day. With the help of the tips above, try and create a method for organization with your daily tasks. While doing so, you will most definitely increase productivity, thus generate success for your business.

Also visit Tammy on her Work At Home Forums, where you will find free job leads, work at home articles, home business ideas, and more. A place to get to know others and network.

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.

You have a picture, you want to edit it by adding some text. How to do it? The common way is to use a graphic designing software such as Photoshop. If you are familiar with the software and are very skillful at using it, you may still find it the best to use it to add text. But if you are not that good or you just want a quick addition, then I would recommend Picfont, an online editor for adding text to pictures.

According to Picfont, “You can simply add text on 3 differents modes : over a picture (uploaded from computer or from an Url) over a canvas which represents a space where you can select a background color), or over a shape (badges, signs….)”. The effects can be viewed below:

Over a picture

 Over a canvas

Over a shape

I find it quite handy, how about you?

It is not easy to find quality weather graphics. Here are some beautifully designed weather graphic set, in day and night sets.  They are totally royalty free graphics. You can even use them commercially. Good deal, right?

Those buttons were generated from a wonderful online button generator: dabuttonfactory.com . Do you like them? They are definitely useful for any websites, aren’t they？

It is very easy to create buttons with this website. You enter text,  choose font size and color, text shadow as well as button shape, background, border, shadow, size, you can see the button form in front of your eyes. When you are happy with it, you can select the format as an image or css background. Then you can download or link the image.Sounds easy? Indeed, it is easy. Have a try!

Easter is around the corner. It is time to start another round of promotion. How about a change to your website’s appearance? yes, Easter bunny is a good choice. Here is a list of cute Easter bunny icons I love a lot and I believe that you will like too.

If you have a site, you must be curious to find out how many visitors it attracts. There are a lot of free services available on the internet. For example, if you are happy with the simply counter like the ones shown below, you can get one from here.

However, if you want to find out the location of your visitors – which is far more interesting – you may consider using one of the two services.

1. Flagcounter

As you can see, it visualizes the countries from where your visitors are from. Each time a new visitor from a new country visits your site, you get a new flag in your flag counter. It can be quite impressive to see. As the owner of the site, you will feel proud of yourself.

2. ClustrMaps

This is an example showing visitors of ClustrMap site itself. This one shows different dots. Their sizes reflect the number of visitors from a certain city in a particular country. Lovely to see. And it really helps understanding where the visitors are from so you can target the audience better.

Both of the services have free option. What you do is simply copy and paste the generated code provided by the them and immediately they can be up and run!

If you don’t have one site visitor counter yet, get one of these handy services. You will like it.

DfGallery delivered dfGallery 2.0! dfGallery 1.0 has been a very successful cool free gallery with 200,000+ downloads.

According to dfGallery, “The reason for this gallery to be cool is not just its UI but the way it is built and architected. We have an amazing theme engine built to support custom themes with multiple skins for each. The administration console built on CodeIginter lets you manage multiple galleries and albums of different types.”

Some key features I want to emphasize here：

– you can embed the gallery anywhere (website, blog, facebook, myspace…)

– you can change the skin

– you can make the gallery full screen

– Picasa – Load any picasa album by just configuring the URL

– AJAX & Multiple Image Uploads

– Customize the background music of the gallery

A very nice addition to your website and blog. We can definitely use it for our business purpose.