Saturday, January 10, 2009

 

Internet Business Basics - 7 Tips For Starting Your Internet Business

I'm in the beginning phase of Internet marketing, products, and services.Where do I start in terms of beginning?How do you launch yourself and what steps do you take to get going?

Answer: If you are a client on my Monday night calls then you will get a link to my backend where there are a bunch of videos for you to watch regarding this process.Take the time to watch these videos.

I was recently at a seminar and somebody just told me that they sold their business that they built in my class a year ago.They actually built the site during my Internet millionaire Intensive seminar.A year later they sold the business for $250,000.How wonderful is that?This sale shows that you can do stuff outside of just working online.You can sell your business to make money.

Back to the question.Generally, the first thing you need to do is to cover the basics which include:


Internet Business Basic #1: Buy a domain name.

Go to http://www.godaddy.com to buy a domain.

Internet Business Basic #2: Get a hosting account.I would recommend getting a hosting account from Fat Jack hosting at http://www.fatjackhosting.com.

Internet Business Basic #3: Forget what everybody else says at this point regarding website design.I recommend that you put up a squeeze page/opt-in page.The reason for this squeeze page is to capture the name and email address of your website visitors.This allows you to market to them and build a relationship.

Think about it this way.Let's say you have a product and people buy it, but you don't capture their name and email address through a squeeze page.It is essentially a onetime transaction.Since you don't have their contact information you can't market to them in the future.You could miss out on a good chunk of potential profits.So set up a squeeze page/opt-in page right now.

Internet Business Basic #4: Drive your traffic to the opt-in page so you can build your list.

Internet Business Basic #5: Now you can work on affiliate marketing.When I first began, all I had was an opt-in page.I drove all my traffic to the opt-in page.I made my first million dollars through affiliate marketing.

Essentially, I built a list, found people that had products, and marketed those products.You can make a lot of money that way.

Internet Business Basic #6: I found the hottest products in my affiliate marketing.Then I built my business around these hot products.I let peoples checkbooks determine what markets and products I wanted to create.

Internet Business Basic #7: During this entire process you have to think about how you want to play in the Internet marketing game.Do you want to be a guru?Do you want to just be the publisher?Do you want to just be a reporter?I played in all areas.

I have done all roles.For example, I had a real estate company where I was the publisher.I had a guy that gave me all the content.I did all the marketing for his products.I just ran the backend.

I also did the reporting role/model.This is how I started in the Internet business world.I built a list called "Millionaire Minutes".I drove traffic to my opt-in page and found people like Drew Miles and people in the wealth building world.I reported on minutes I had with them and then emailed it to my list.

I also sold their products and services.I found people in real estate, taxes, Internet marketing, and wealth building niches.I marketed to them.

I also did the guru role.I surfaced in the Internet marketing world as a guru.


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Friday, January 9, 2009

 

Vast Majority of Traders

My Trading Edge is (Define it exactly) and this is why I will win, when 95% of traders lose.

Now this might seem quite obvious and it is - but most traders think they have an edge and they DON'T!Here are some common answers which are anything but an edge and will see a trader lose.Here they are:


- I have bought a forex robot with simulated back tested track record from a vendor


- I Have a system that predicts market turns in advance


- Science moves markets and I have a scientific theory


- I follow a guru, mentor or expert, as they know best


- I like to trade breaking news


- I am going to use a complicated strategy


- I am smart and clever than most traders so will win


- I work hard and hard work will bring me success


The above are common replies when I ask novice traders what their edge is and there not an edge at all.

They are either misconceptions about how forex markets operate, or common myths perpetrated by vendors selling products.

Now be aware of this:


Anyone can learn to trade and anyone can be successful - but still 95% of traders fail and this is huge percentage!

Entering the Elite 5% of Winners


To enter the elite 5% means you have to have an edge and it's based around this: You don't need to work hard or be clever - but you do need to make sure you cover the basics and understand how and why, markets move.

You then need a simple forex trading system, based around trading the odds, which must have robust money management.Don't fall for the harder you work or, the more clever and complicated your trading system is, the more likely you are to succeed - it's not true.

The missing Link for Success


Simple systems work best and always have as they are more robust.

Now, learning how to trade successfully is within all traders - but forex is not simply about having a good method, its about having the discipline to execute your method with discipline.

Discipline is the missing link!

If you can't trade your trading system with discipline and execute your trading signals with discipline, you don't have a system!

Most traders think they can trade with none or very few losses but even the best traders, face weeks or sometimes months where they lose and you have to stay on track until the profits emerge and this requires discipline.

If you can do the above, you can win.You are In Charge of Your Destiny.

To many traders think someone else can give them success and buy junk forex robots and other sure fire systems from vendors.The market then teaches them a lesson in reality, that there is no easy money.

The smart traders of course knows this and takes the time to learn the basics and get a system they are confident in and can execute with discipline.

They know exactly why there forex trading system will help them win and their edge.Its this that gives them confidence and the mindset to apply their system for huge long term gains.

Anyone can learn currency trading but few traders do it correctly however in return for a little effort, your rewards will be immense.So learn forex trading correctly, get and know your edge and you will enjoy currency trading success.


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Forex Brotherhood is a group of like minded individuals who help each other to achieve the best results on the market.

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

 

Pallet Jacks And Forklift Safety -- Recognizing And Dealing With Hazards

While pallet jacks might not seem as dangerous as a forklift, both of these machines have their own set of safety hazards.The required maintenance of these machines also carry a risk.In addition to all of that, the possible hazards you might encounter when dealing with a load of products requires even more safety precautions.The first step towards avoiding these problems is adequate training for the operator.In the end, however, the only true precaution is a collaborative effort between the operator, company, and everyone who works in and around the equipment.

Concerns With Forklift Batteries


The batteries require a lot of the same maintenance as other vehicle batteries.

The amount of use these batteries receive, however, means this maintenance, including replacement, removal, and recharging, occurs more often.The dangerous acids and other ingredients they contain means handling them with the utmost of care at all times.Ventilation is needed to prevent the inhalation of dangerous fumes and protective clothing is needed to protect against contact.This could be a special system installed into the building to remove the fumes and pump in fresh air, or it could be opening large garage doors.Other items to have on hand include a well-stocked first aid kit, an emergency shower, and eyewash station.Be sure they are easily accessible as well.

Equipment In Ill-Repair


Before each shift, the operator should inspect the pallet jacks or forklift very carefully to ensure everything is in good repair and looked after.

Breakdowns dealing with important systems such as the hydraulics, steering, or breaks could cause very serious accidents quickly.Tires are another component that could cause problems.If they are worn unevenly or have flat spots, the machine will not carry the load evenly, increasing the possibility of having the load tip or fall.

Provide everyone who works with any of these machines with a comprehensive checklist that outlines a full inspection.The operator should follow this before each shift and stop using it as soon as he or she notices something out of the ordinary.It should stay parked until it is fully operational.

Increase Risk Of Collision


Pallet jacks run a constant risk of running into things and running over the feet of the operator or a passerby.

A forklift also has these same issues.With the movement of large loads and basic inattention to their surroundings, injury and death are a very real hazard.Adding systems such as backup tweeters, lights, and horns can help warn others of the machine's movements.It also helps to eliminate pedestrian traffic in areas where moving equipment operates.Lastly, operators should move loads while driving in reverse to increase their visibility.

Unstable Loads


Loads themselves are not as dangerous as a load elevated to a particular height.

Loading the pallet correctly is half the battle.It is important to educate others about how to stack the products and check them for stability.The stability should also be checked and the load should be wrapped with plastic before using the forklift to raise the load.Caution is also needed with pallet jacks since they can jerk the load.It also helps keep the load from falling by ensuring that the flooring is maintained.Uneven flooring and surface flaws should be repaired as soon as possible.Finally, ensure equipment operators are able to distinguish the difference between loads that are stackable and those that are not.

These safety concerns are just a few of the issues that face businesses requiring the use of pallet jacks or a forklift.Education, careful decisions, and the ability to identify tragedies before they occur are the only way to prevent accidents in the workplace.


About the Author

Christine O'Kelly writes for RHI Lifts, a leading provider of pallet jacks.

Chicago customers and those throughout the country have access to the Illinois forklift dealer's full line of storage and handling equipment.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

 

Educational Sales and Marketing Tips On Affiliate Marketing

Many individuals who are in the Internet marketing business have made several failed attempts at becoming successful in the Internet business.This is not, however, because there is no potential to make money online, there is an enormous potential for generating fortunes.

In most instances, individuals who are not successful in the Internet business fail because they are looking in the wrong places for direction.If only Internet marketers knew where to turn for instruction, they would be much better equipped to make money online.Because this is the case, Internet business people need not give up because they are not succeeding.Quite to the contrary, it would be much better for such people to merely try a new approach.

One of the greatest features about the Internet marketing business is that assistance is readily available to any online marketer.Moreover, assistance is readily available at every step along the way.For instance, every Internet marketer has his or her strengths and weaknesses, and thus could require help at a different phase of the online marketing process.

For some, this could mean that assistance is required in promoting a product, and for others this could mean that assistance is required in the product development phase of the Internet business.The good news is that wherever assistance is needed, the Internet provides the means by which help can be received quickly and cost-efficiently.

One of the best means of getting started in the Internet marketing industry is through affiliate marketing.Affiliate marketing is the process by which an online marketer promotes and sells the product of another Internet marketer for a commission.Affiliate marketing is great for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it is a great way to make money online.

For novice Internet marketers, affiliate marketing is a wonderful strategy because it serves as a great introduction to the Internet business world.There is no need to learn about product development because the product is already developed.Affiliate marketing is also wonderful for online marketers with experience because it serves as a method of easily boosting income.This is because for minimal work, online marketers can make serious money online.

In reality, all that one must do to become a successful affiliate marketer is come to an understanding of how to promote a product.And although this might not come naturally to some people, learning promotional strategies is quite simple with the many tools available online.And the bottom line is that learning how to promote a product is undoubtedly easier than creating a product, developing it and then learning how to promote it.As such, affiliate marketing serves as a wonderful shortcut to making money online.

For Internet business people who find themselves stuck in a rut, affiliate marketing could be just the means to get back on track.Not only does affiliate marketing provide an easy way to jump into the Internet business, it provides a means of generating income while working on other products.It is just a good idea for those who are committed to the Internet business to be up to speed with affiliate marketing.


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Educational Sales and Marketing is the leader in internet marketing training and coaching through strategic alliances with Shanklin International and Omni Business Solutions.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

 

Taking Stock Of The Increasingly Disturbing Position

The number of people who feel they have reached a problem incapable of a solution is growing.It is all to do with money and the falling house prices of course, but here one has to differentiate between several categories.

The young have complications, senior citizens have complications, the well off have complications, the less well off have complications, and the ex-pats have complications.All of these complications are subject to their own peculiarities and need separate understanding.

In the case of the young first time buyers, prices are getting lower almost by the day, so from that angle it is better news for them than it was some months ago.However, getting a mortgage is a formidable task and is harder than finding the right house.It may help to look at things from the point of view of the lender, who will not part with money providing he has funds to lend, without careful checking.This means giving correct information as to the income which must be adequate to repay the loan.The type and condition of the property plays a role because the lenders like to have as much security as possible in case of having to recover their money.Ten worthy reliable borrowers are better than a hundred iffy ones.Easy mortgages are a thing of the past, and getting the lender to lend is the biggest obstacle to jump.

Senior citizens, who bought their house more than twenty years ago, should have no problems.Properties in big towns went up so much that they might have sold and bought something cheaper in the countryside to pocket the difference.However, assuming they did, now that property prices have fallen and continue falling, they may have been better off had they stayed put without all the hassle.Some might have borrowed against their property to help the youngsters, but since their house would have gone up significantly before they got their loan, it would not have gone down to a level where they would land in the negative equity zone, so they will muddle through.

The well off brigade have either made more money and got out in time, or else lost some back and remain rich unless they entered the housing game very late and bought at rather high prices.Of course, they probably also suffered losses in other directions, and must now wait patiently for the markets to recover which may take quite a time.The fix will come, but there is no quick fix.Patience is the key, as good opportunities will emerge and to be ready to step in at the right time is essential.

The not so well off are usually very flexible.They have known good days and bad days and by and large are survivors.They are the good spenders when they are holding, and tighten their belts when things are going badly.There is a section on a fixed income that bowl along at a steady pace come what may, who neither get an abundance of thrills nor an abundance of disappointments.

Finally, there is an army of ex-pats who sold their houses in U.K.at the right time, and bought their new property abroad at a reasonably low price with a very high pound.Life was great, and those on a pension enjoyed the bonus of the very good exchange rate for years.

Now the prices of houses have also gone down, especially in Spain where most of the ex-pats have settled.The pound has greatly lost value against the euro, meaning the pension is thus worth much less.It is a double blow.Does the answer lie in selling the house abroad and buying one back home now that the prices have fallen and will fall further?This time the exchange rate would be on their side!


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Paul Dubsky is director of Foreign Currency Exchange & Transfers Ltd.

The company is focused on being able to offer really friendly currency exchange rates and international money transfers.We believe we are the only Foreign Currency Exchange company which offers special rates to Senior Citizens.

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Sunday, January 4, 2009

 

Predictive Dialers In Outbound Call Centres

A predictive dialer is a computerized system that automatically dials batches of telephone numbers for connection to agents assigned to sales or other campaigns.Predictive dialers are widely used in call centers.

The autodialer preceded the predictive dialer.While the basic autodialer merely automatically dials telephone numbers for call center agents who are idle or waiting for a call, the predictive dialer uses a variety of algorithms to predict both the availability of agents and called party answers, adjusting the calling process to the number of agents it predicts will be available when the calls it places are expected to be answered.

The predictive dialer monitors the answers to the calls it places, detecting how the calls it makes are answered.It discards unanswered calls, busy numbers, disconnected lines, answers from fax machines, answering machines and similar automated services, and only connects calls answered by people to waiting sales representatives.

Thus, it frees agents from the task of manually dialing telephone numbers and subsequently listening to ring tones, unanswered or unsuccessful calls.Predictive dialers perform the same function but the architecture and delivery methods can vary greatly between manufacturers.

There are several types of predictive dialing: Software, Hardware, Smart, and Hosted dialers.A predictive dialer can dramatically increase the time an agent spends on communication rather than waiting; a 2002 survey indicated an increase in talk time from twenty minutes in the hour to almost fifty.

The system is most suitable for low quality lists and large numbers of agents; however, an unexpectedly high contact rate can overwhelm the system leading to call abandonment.Before running a campaign, Call list data is loaded into the dialer.The data is generally derived from a large database such as a telephone directory or similar listing from CRM software.Some predictive dialers generate call lists and report call attempts.

Unsuccessful calls are often analyzed to determine if the number called needs to be called back later or needs special treatment, such as a manual or autodialed call by an agent to listen to an answer machine message.

Predictive dialer systems are commonly used by telemarketing organizations involved in B2C (business to consumer) calling as it allows their sales representatives to have much more customer contact time.Predictive dialers may also be used by market survey companies and debt collection services who need to contact and personally speak to a lot of people by telephone.

More commonly predictive dialers are now being used as a quick and easy way to automate all sorts of calls which would otherwise be made manually by a call center, such as welcome calls for new customers, customer service call backs, appointment confirmations/reminders, or even for the automation of large numbers of ad hoc calls that might need to take place (such as by a taxi company, or parcel delivery service etc).

The predictive dialer exhibits predictive behavior when its dialing algorithm produces more call attempts (dials) than the number of agents currently logged in and available to handle calls.The predictive dialing happens when the predictive dialer dials ahead of the agents becoming available or when the predictive dialer matches a forecast number of available agents with a forecast number of available called parties.The matching and dialing ahead perspectives provide the large increases in dial rates and agent productivity.


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Ergonomic Office Chairs are a Necessity Not a Luxury

In these days of cut backs and credit crunch, many employers understandably seek to minimise costs wherever they can.Skimping on the provision of adequate office seating however is a false economy, as this will impact employee health, productivity and welfare.Investing in the very best ergonomic chairs and seating for staff will pay off in the medium and short run.

Ergonomics, or human factors as it's sometimes known, was invented in the early 1950s by scientists and engineers interested in the interaction of man and machine.The word itself is derived from the Greek "ergon" (work) and "nomos" (natural laws).

Originally, ergonomics seemed to most directly apply to factory workers and similar users of heavy equipment, or in specialised circumstances like the military interacting with control panels, flight decks etc.However, it soon became evident that office workers too could benefit from the science of ergonomics, as they increasingly have contact with typewriters, telephones, dictating equipment, photocopiers and computer terminals during the course of their working day.Indeed, office staff probably have more contact with different styles and types of machine on a regular basis than factory employees.

Most of that interaction by office staff is carried out from a seated position, so the role of ergonomics in the office is to combine the principles of biomechanics, physiology, even sociology and psychology, to design both the task and the equipment to best suit the human operator and minimise the factors that influence bad posture.
Bad posture is the root cause of most industrial or work-related injuries and illnesses and is essentially defined as any imposed position that exerts undue strain on the musculoskeleton.

Factors that influence bad posture can include the design of the equipment used, the nature of the task itself and the frequency or repetition of the task.Asking a five foot tall man to place a heavy object on a high shelf repetitively for a long time is going to result in a bad posture.Asking a person to sit in a chair that is too small for them is going to result in poor posture.When it comes to posture, ideally you should be performing tasks with the minimum effort.When the body is relaxed, with all the muscles and tendons in a resting state, you've achieved a good or a neutral posture.

However, whether you're involved in hard physical labour or just sitting at a computer, your muscles are always working, even if you are not moving.It's this 'work' that exerts force and strain on your musculoskeleton, and the extent of that strain that determines the effects on the body.You can improve your posture, your health and productivity by following some simple guidelines that cover the type of office seating used and your workstation setup.

Your Chair: height should be adjusted so that the forearms are parallel or slightly sloping down towards the keyboard, your shoulders are relaxed and your knees are slightly lower than the hips.Your feet should be in contact with the floor (if not then a footrest should be used) and the seat should tilt forwards to rotate the top of the pelvis so that the spine is in its natural 'S' shape.

The small of the back (Lumbar) should be supported to help preserve the natural curve of the spine and you should be able to sit right back into the chair without putting pressure on the back of your calves.You should it back in an upright posture, slightly relaxed into the backrest with the head over the shoulders and in line with the buttocks.Try not to sit bolt upright or perch on the edge of your chair as this will encourage you to slouch.

Your Workstation: the PC screen should be placed directly in front of you to prevent you from twisting to see it and should be approximately arms length away.Touch typists may prefer to have the screen raised higher than a copy typist as they do not have to 'drop' the head to see the keyboard.Place all things that you must operate with your hands, such as the keyboard and mouse, directly in front of you and with the elbows at 90 degrees by your side.

This will reduce the need to overreach, causing the body to move away from the back support and encouraging you to slouch.If you have to look at documents when you type, consider using a document holder so that you don't have to look down to the documents and then up to the screen which can cause neck strain.This is best placed directly in front of the monitor to avoid twisting the neck.

If you regularly use a telephone whilst typing, try using a headset to allow you to type freely with both hands.Make sure the space under your desk is free from clutter and that your legs are free to move from side to side and avoid static postures by changing tasks and taking regular breaks away from the workstation.


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