Archive for December, 2009

7 Ways To Convert Your Traffic Into Cash

Written by MichaelZ on December 31, 2009 – 9:26 am -

The KEY is in leveraging on each visitor and making sure you have a monetization strategy in place. Once you get this, you can make any website profitable with a little effort. Here are 7 basic ways in which you can profit from your traffic today:

1. Sell a product/service

First you can sell a product or service to your visitors. This is the best way to cash in from your own product. Usually an e-book or software works the best ?they can be downloaded right away without hassle and shipping charges.

2. Opt-In list

It is crucial you try to convert every visitor of yours to a subscriber of your mailing list. The most important asset that an Internet marketer has is his or her list of subscribers. They define whether you will go far in the online business venture.

3. Viral marketing

You can provide a free product or bonus on your site to be downloaded by your visitors. Usually it’ll be an e-book where people can read from and learn useful information. In this bonus, you include give away rights and urge readers to give it away to anyone they want to.

4. Pay-per-click

In this case, you get paid when your visitors click on ads you place on your site. There are many advertising programs that give you a percentage of the profits based on click through, including Google Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera.

When people click on the ads shown from either of these advertising programs, you will earn money. And if your site receives good traffic, these programs alone can bring in huge paychecks to you.

5. Offer an advertising space

Targeted niche websites with high traffic can ‘rent’ a portion of space on their web page to advertisers. For example you can charge 0 per month in advertising fee if your web page is pulling more than 2000 visitors a day. By doing this, you won’t clutter your website with too many ads and spoil the visitor’s experience.

6. Affiliate marketing

If you don’t have your own products for sale yet, you can sell other people’s products instead and receive a commission on every sale. With affiliate marketing, you have an unlimited source of products to sell and you don't need to go through any fulfillment issues after your sales.

7. Pay-per-lead

Instead of earning money from click through, you are paid if your visitors subscribe into other people’s mailing list. Alternatively there are a lot of big companies like Coca-Cola who need surveys to be done, and by referring your visitors to complete surveys, you can also earn good profits from your website.

About the author: Tom Venuto is a coach who provides a bodybuilding program and works on IX Web Hosting.

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Thoughts On Internet Security For the Entrepreneur Or Small Business Professional

Written by MichaelZ on December 30, 2009 – 1:57 am -

It is another fine day when you sit down in front of your computer to surf the net. You log in to your e-mail account and see a number of messages. One of them, although from an unknown sender, seems interesting. It has an .exe attachment and a title that says ‘your document’. You click to download and CRASH! Your computer crashes wreaking havoc on all your data!

You’ve just become a victim of a virus – the insidious scourge of the internet. Each day, millions of internet users worldwide grapple with viruses that invade their systems and make their lives miserable. Over a period of time, not only have viruses become more complex and better able to disguise themselves, their effect on your systems have become more crippling too. Earlier viruses appear tame in front of the latest viruses that can not only invade your system, but also read your personal data and use it to tamper with your transactions, records etc. Attacks by viruses are expensive. And virus removal is undoubtedly a critical business need.

Which is exactly why virus removal is such a big business. Conservative estimates put the global virus removal business in the range of billions of dollars. But it is the big five companies that dominate the virus removal landscape. The biggest and most popular by far is Symantec – the makers of the popular Norton AntiVirus virus removal and Internet Security systems.

Even software giant Microsoft has a comprehensive web portal dedicated to the business of virus removal. When you get to the Microsoft security centre on the web, you can not only downloads diagnostic tools for virus identification, but also patches and security updates to facilitate virus removal. Additionally, the website also provides information on the latest malicious programs and runs a 24-hr help center for critical advice and care.

But for those who would like to do it themselves, or are not prepared to go in for professional removal tools, there are lots of free virus removal tools available on the net. A simple search reveals that websites like PC Tools, Kaspersky and Norton Internet Security offer some comprehensive virus removal tools. While the quality and dependability of these tools needs to be verified, there is no denying that they are yet another weapon in the battle against the virus.

But when you intend to affect virus removal from your system, remember that viruses could come disguised even as free virus removal tools! When in doubt, it is always better to go for a trustworthy branded product. I’m not saying that the free products are no good. Just that you need to be careful and wary when it comes to removing viruses a keeping your system clean.

 

 

 

 

 

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What you have to do when remodeling your home

Written by MichaelZ on December 29, 2009 – 4:32 pm -

One of the funnest things to do when you have experienced living in a home for quite a while is doing a remodel.It is fun since since once it is done you definitely feel you have a new home.It makes you to once again appreciate your home.  And more then likely it made your home more usable.Plus if done right you can also boost the value of your home.  In today’s market any way you can increase the value of your home is worth doing.

So the very first thing you need to do when you are remodeling your home is you surely need to remodel your kitchen.This is definitely one of the most important rooms of the house. When you remodel this room you are absolutely making your whole home new.Plus when you are planning on selling it is a perfect room that sells your home.  I see how much a remodeled kitchen changes my clients home in my San Diego kitchen designs company.

The next room you need to focus on that absolutely makes you feel like you done something is the bathroom.Hard to believe that one small room can make a big difference but definitely it does.Maybe it is because it is so private that people absolutely love when it appears perfect.  Whenever people want to remodel their homes in my kitchen cabinets San Diego company I always suggest doing the bathrooms.

Finally when you work these two rooms you definitely need to go all out.What I really mean by that is make them surely look great. Buy nice cabinets and nice granite countertops.Also never forget to provide great flooring.  These three in combination will make the new rooms look fantastic.  I see it all the time in my Encinitas kitchen remodeling company.  You can’t go wrong doing these two rooms.

So there you have the two rooms you must definitely do if you plan to remodel. They are the rooms that will make your remodel look fantastic.

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