The most important yet challenging part of any business is Communication with clients. Businesses grow as the clients increase and clients’ growth depends on how effectively we are able to connect with them. If we do not reach out to our clients in a proper way then it may result in the biggest failure as oppose to a strong and ongoing communication can become a boon for a business.

There are many different ways of interacting with clients such as live chat, email, forums and so on. There are tons of companies out there that offer these communication products in one big package but believe it or not these companies charge fortunes to offer them. To stay competitive, we have no choice but to pay fortunes and get those products.

NOT ANYMORE!

This maybe too good to be true but it is TRUE!

One of the most leading customer service and customer communication software providers, Comm100 offers its clients/ business owners 100% FREE communication software with unlimited operators & unlimited features. Main focus of Comm100 is to continuously develop and manage fully integrated customer communication software enabling business owners like you to effectively communicate with your customers.  Every product offered by the company is delivered as “FREE SaaS/Hosted applications and fully managed by Comm100.”

Now you wonder what products would this free software offer. Trust me; it is everything that you need in order to communicate with your customers. Let’s highlight some of the products below:

Live Chat: Today we live in the “Internet World.” Almost every business owners has a website. No matter how detailed you are on your website regarding your service or product, your potential customers/ visitors will have questions. Live Chat is the best solution to answer your visitor’s question in the quickest way. Comm100 free live chat software enables your potential customers to get live answers to their questions from your customer support and sales representatives.

“Comm100 free live chat software promotes your sales, reduces operating costs and increases your customer satisfaction.”

The live example of the Live Chat software is my own sites and blogs.

http://MillionDollarResidualPlan.com

http://HarpritSinghBlog.com

http://YourBWW.com

Email Ticket: Email communication is one of the most effective and important means of communication between you and your customers. It may result in the loss of sales and bad user experience if email inquiries are not handled professionally.  Comm100 Email Ticket organizes all incoming and outgoing email as one ticket. This allows you to assign status to the ticket which will help you segregate each solve and unsolved cases. If you go to my site I have used the same email ticket techniques in the “Contact Us” section. When a customer enters their query and clicks on “Submit” that inquiry is submitted as a ticket in the backend. The ticket in the Comm100 backend can be then assigned to different departments and various operators.

Forum: Forums are one of my favorites. It enables the customers to post their questions and get answers from the like minds. For business owners it helps them get true feedbacks, questions and concerns about their services and products. Creating a forum page is not so simple, it requires some expertise. You have to buy a monthly hosting space and then install the software. Then you have to tweak the software and memberships for the visitors and customers. Comm100 Forum is a FREE Hosted software is designed for businesses to be able to communicate with their customers. Hosted means that you don’t have to buy the hosting space to run the forum. Comm100 makes it much easier for business owners to have a forum page up on their site in just few minutes which enables to serve customers much effectively.

Newsletter: This is one of the best of the best feature that Comm100 has. I tell you, I save heck a lot of money every month just by using Comm100’s Newsletter service. Live Chat, Email Ticket and Forum helps businesses to answer queries that comes from their customers and potential customers, but how do you update your customers with the ongoing development, upcoming promotions and deals and any changes that occur in your services or products? Newsletter and Email Marketing is what allows you to keep your customers and prospects updated on a regular basis. Comm100 allows businesses to maintain and develop relationships with their customers and prospects by sending newsletter promotions and starting email marketing campaign. Other companies in the market charge $ 40 to $ 50 per month and that too according to the number of subscribers. Needless to say Comm100 is FREE.

Knowledge Base: “80% customers are asking 20% questions! Most questions were asked before.” These are the common questions that are usually put together on one page of the site, FAQ. FAQ helps improve customer support as they can get their answer without asking any customer support or sales representative. Comm100 offers the most powerful free FAQ/ Knowledge base software enabling businesses create an effective FAQ page.

Comm100 DOES NOT STOP HERE!

Survey and Issue Tracking are the two upcoming products of Comm100. With the introduction of these two features Comm100 is going to blast the market. These two products will be really helpful for the growth of the businesses as owners will be able to get the feedback from their customers and will be able to track issues and progress of their service and products.

All these for FREE, wondering Why?

Well, it’s all about true client relationship. This is what Comm100 says

“Comm100 believes every business deserves top-tier customer support and communication software. Free software is a widely adopted and proven business model. Well-known free software includes WordPress, Java, Linux and so on. In the future, we will charge fees for add-on services. However, all features you get free now will continue to be free in the future.”

Now how can you beat such a company along with its values. Visit: http://comm100.com/ to get your free access to the products of Comm100, the most efficient way to communicate with customers and grow businesses in no time.

Go to my sites above and get the live examples of the FREE services provided by Comm100.

Good Luck To You & Your Business!

Corporate Job or Home Based Business? Which is the best for our present and future?

Corporate Job is when we are working FOR a company and Home Based Business is when we are working WITH a company FOR ourselves.

Whenever I asked an employee in a Corporate World on if they were interested in doing a Home Based Business? Many of them would say NO! I am a very curious person, I like to ask questions so I always ask them for the reasons on why are they not interested in Home Based Business? I would hear tons of advantages of working in a Corporate World and disadvantages of Home Based Businesses. Then I went to the Entrepreneurs who were operating a Home Based Business and I asked them for the reason they are working FOR themselves and not FOR the Corporate.  Unlike corporate employees, I got many advantages of Home Based Businesses and disadvantages of Corporate Jobs.

I then decided to analyze all the advantages and disadvantages of Corporate World and Home Based Business. Here is my analysis:

One of my good friend (and ofcourse myself) working in the Corporate World told me that his company provides him opportunities that helps improve his skills and learn new ones. In other words, companies use innovations to compete and excel in the industry. Trainings, assignments, responsibilities and multiple projects are the privileges for them to prove their abilities, improve their skills and learn new things. In addition, Corporate Jobs helps expand network WITHIN the company or at most, WITHIN the industry. Home Based Business gives you the opportunity to meet the ENTIRE world through internet that never sleeps; opens up the door to meet millions and millions of people with whom you share your experiences and learn from their experiences too. You will find expert coaches that will give you training on regular basis and will mentor you throughout your journey. You will have responsibility of your own business and that is how you will be motivated to create your own strategies to expand your Home Based Business and gain more and more PROFIT out of it. I am also one of the expert coaches who have created many successful entrepreneurs in the world of Home Based Business. I can be contacted via www.milliondollarresidualplan.com

Corporate Jobs provide SALARY, whereas Home Based Businesses are PROFITED. Now carefully look at both the terms, SALARY & PROFIT. In the Corporate World, the company we work for does gain PROFIT and they provide us with a SALARY FROM that PROFIT which is not even be 1% of their PROFIT. On the other side, when working FOR ourselves, the PROFIT we make is what we KEEP. That’s right; no one is going to give you a handful of money from that PROFIT calling it as a SALARY. It’s the ENTIRE PROFIT YOU KEEP! Also, in Home Based Business there are a lot of Tax Advantages.  You can deduct a part of your home’s operating and depreciation expenses on your home as business expenses. This can be a percentage of your mortgage, property taxes, insurance, utilities, and/or the expenses of household maintenance. Read more about Tax Advantages on Home Based Business at http://harpritsinghblog.com/183/advantages-of-starting-a-home-business-%e2%80%93-tax-benefits/

In addition, the best advantage that I feel the Home Based Business has is the Personal Freedom. NO BOSS standing on top of our head setting deadlines for us and NO STRESS of getting late at work or not being able to complete an assignment. Home Based Entrepreneurs have a lot of time to spend with their friends and family.

Now let’s check out some disadvantages of Corporate Job and Home Based Business.

While working in the Corporate World, I have personally witnessed employees being less creative and are not much willing to try new ideas due to the fact that any new idea goes through huge bureaucratic filtrations which obviously is not in our hands and sometimes they get very annoying. As I have personally experienced, in Corporate Job people tend to be very stressed out and their rewards are much less compared to the hard work required by the company.  These Corporate World problems cannot be resolved by us; we just work like a zomby and follow the rules set by the “Big” people. Now let’s look at the Home Based Business where everything is controlled by you. You are the “Big” people. Of course, even Home Based Business has some negative points, but since you control your business, every disadvantage, every negativity has a resolution.  The biggest pitfall of the Home Based Entrepreneurs is falling short on cash. Getting an expert advice on how to minimize taxes, forecasting startup costs and expenses, and having enough cash in the bank is the best solution. I have showed many different strategies on conserving money in various areas and I can also guide you. Another drawback of Home Based Business is that people don’t take you seriously and soon you give up. Now this is something that you and only you can resolve. Be strict, show your potential clients that you mean serious business, it’s not a joke. Demonstrate your expertise; tie your ideas and suggestions with them and their lives. In addition, many clients feel that they are not able to communicate with their mentor on regular basis; they feel that they do not have enough training and as a result they leave your team. The most effective way to retain your team/ clients is to hold meetings regularly and keep your clients updated via sufficient trainings.

After analyzing these advantages and disadvantages of Corporate Job and Home Based Business I can conclude that Home Based Business has more advantages than Corporate Jobs. In addition, every disadvantages that Home Based Business has, there is a solution to it; whereas, disadvantages of Corporate Jobs’ resolution is not in our hands.

What are your thoughts after reading differentiating between Corporate World and Home Based Business? What are you thinking? Are you still confused? Would you like to learn more about this topic? Please feel free to visit www.milliondollarresidualplan.com and submit your name and email address, you will be directed to the page where you will find answer to all your questions along with my contact information. Remember, your mentor (me) is always here for you!

There is a free newspaper that circulates in and around the new york city subways called Metro. I saw an interesting article titled “Unemployed doesn’t mean unenjoyed.” This article is an answer to the question asked by one of the current unemployed “I’m a male professional who prides himself on his work and being able to afford the luxuries of city living. The problem is, I was laid off more than a year ago. In social situations, it’s uncomfortable when people inevitably ask me about my career, and I feel like I’ll never land a job. It’s also very difficult in the dating world to be unemployed. Girls expect me to pay, and I’ve always done so. How should I handle this?” Our focus in this article will be how to tackle unemployment. Article in the Metro suggested that one should network around as much as possible to find a new job due to the fact that there may be people out there who may know someone looking for hard working people in their company.

I do agree with the article in terms of networking, since it is the best way to make friends and get socialized. On the other hand, I don’t agree on looking for another job, which really means “Just Over Broke.” If you already have one that’s fine. Continue it. But if you are laid off then why look for another one instead work for yourself. Why do we need to go on the same path that we have already walked on? Being employed in a company itself brings stress each day with the loads of work and having constant pressure from boss and unemployment brings distress for the entire family which is what I read in another article this week and it is true, then why do we want this stress and distress to come back in our lives? Today with unemployment being 8% & 9%, there is no guarantee of any jobs, not even the one you may have found 2 days ago and we all know this is the fact. In addition, the increase in gas price is also increasing our expense as we have to commute everyday to work either in our own car or the public transportation which also raises fares as a result of rise in the gas price.

I believe, having a job, working for another company is spending fortunes while earning a handful. Instead, how about earning fortunes and spending luxuriously? Wondering if this is even possible? Well, nothing is impossible unless you have a heart to do it. Save on your gas and get rid of all the stress from work and/ or unemployment forever by starting a home based internet business.

People usually tend to run away from home based business because whatever they hear or read seems too good to be true and I don’t blame them because those quick rich schemes are scams. I am not going to make any false promises. you make what you deserve and your hard work and dedication decides on what you deserve.

Creating goal is the very step even before starting a business. Next step is building a solid business plan. if you stick to your goal and follow your plan truly, than there will be no room for unemployment stress and crazy hikes in gas prices everyday.

Let me introduce myself. I am a Home Based Internet Marketing Entrepreneur and a Mentor. With my expertise I can demonstrate several different types of business strategies that may be of your interest and can help you plan accordingly. I can be contacted by visiting www.milliondollarresidualplan.com .

In addition, as mentioned in the question of the article, it is difficult in the dating world to be unemployed, obviously because Girls usually want Guys to spend money and if you are unemployed, how would you be able to spend so much. In this case do you think starting your own Home Based Internet Business can solve this problem too?

Remember: Earn Fortunes and Spend Luxuriously as oppose to Earning a Handful and Spending Fortunes!

See You On The Top!

Maximum Profit with Successful Internet Marketing Plan-Part 2

As promised-Here is the Part 2 of my plan!

Video marketing, as we discussed in Part 1 gave me an excellent result. It gave me the recognition that I had never even imagined of. One day I was in the mall and I met I was looking at something at some shop. I was just chit chatting with the sales person and then another sales person came. He told me that he has seen me somewhere and then he said that he saw my video on YouTube while he was searching for a legitimate Home Based Business. I was thrilled as I had never had any such experience. I felt like a rockstar J. He then told me that he has tried several Home Based Businesses but he ended up with more expenses than revenue, due to the fact that he did not have enough training and coaching from his mentor. He then said that he visited my website, www.milliondollarresidualplan.com and was anxious to learn more about my business, but wanted to actually speak with the coach (me) personally to make sure he will get proper training and was even going to call me in the day. We had a conversation about the Home Based Business. Today I am coaching and guiding him throughout his journey.

While our discussion went on and on; suddenly I got a call from my wife wondering where was I. This is when I realized that we were chatting since more than 1 hour and discovered that I has so much to say. So then I thought about putting all my ideas and experiences together and share them with my friends, current and future business partners. I started writing articles and went ahead with article marketing.

Article marketing: Article marketing is marketing a business with keyword-focused articles online. It is easy and builds credibility. It also helps build links, which are very important to market a website. These articles can be repurposed into many income streams. Article marketing is tested, proven and works for as long as your article is relevant. Title is the very first and most important part of an article, because this is where you need to grab your reader’s attention. The golden rule is to tell your readers within first three or four words of title on what the article has to offer them. Articles are marketed on websites and blogs, so make sure you follow the rules for writing good web articles. The most important information should be mentioned at the top of the body paragraph. Sentences and paragraphs should be kept short and make a good use of subheadings. In addition, deliver exactly what you promise in your title. If your title says 5 SEO tips, than do not go over or under 5. An average article marketed online is between 250 and 500 words. Another important part of article marketing is the biography of the author. This is where you will be able to show your expertise. You can market your articles on free sites such as EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com. I use Ezinearticles as it is well policed so it is higher in quality and most trusted article submission site. They do not allow any duplication, so there is no way anyone can just copy and paste your article under their credentials. Once you publish your article on ezine, it will be reviewed by the experts to determine the approval of your article and then it will go live for your audience. Do visit one of my articles recently published on ezinearticles.com and see for yourself on how it looks: http://ezinearticles.com/?30-Miles-to-30K—A-Numbers-Game&id=6031667

People read my articles; some came and joined my business and some went on to the next. But I was looking for some feedbacks and exchanging comments and ideas with my readers. That’s when I found out about Blog Marketing. In addition to the article marketing sites, I started posting my articles on blogs.

Blog marketing: Blog marketing is to market an article or give out information, tips, suggestions, etc. via blogging sites. These are different than the regular websites, due to the fact that they feature daily or weekly posts, usually around a single topic. Search engines love fresh, new contents. When creating a page on static website, search engines recognize that page as a new content. Every new static page gets identified by the bots, such as Google’s bots. With a blog, every single article gets cached by bots and if you post a new blog every day, that’s every day search engines, gets notified for the new page created on a static websites. Blogs allow 2 way communications, of course with control settings. In other words, your readers are able to post any questions or concerns they may have on your posts and you are able to respond to their inquiries effectively. Also, blogs allow creating tags, which is the best way for people to find your blog through keywords. There are two ways you can use Blog marketing, one is to use the blogging sites such as www.blogspot.com and www.wordpress.com or you may create your own blogging site. In other words, decide on a standalone domain name such as mine, www.harpritsinghblog.com or directory of an existing site like the one I have, www.milliondollarresidualplan.com/blog, where I have installed customized blog software, wordpress.  Just like the websites we discussed in Part 1, SEO is very important when creating your own blogging site too. Make sure to get your Free SEO Tips.

As I was blogging my articles, I started getting comments and questions. As I would respond to them, I would get more and more ideas for my next articles and videos. It’s like a give and take process, I share/give my experiences and thoughts to my readers through my articles and responses and I learn/take their thoughts from their comments, questions and concerns.

Social Networking, Video Marketing, Article Marketing and Blog Marketing are all free marketing strategies which are very effective. After I got success in all these techniques, my mentor suggested me to put my foot into Search Engine Marketing which is paid marketing. Continue reading to find out more on this low cost marketing strategy.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM): Search Engine Marketing is the use of paid “sponsor” links that promote your business in Google. The search results that flow down on the right hand side of the Google search are not the “organic search results” as you would see in SEO, they are the paid links that results using Google’s advertising platform, Adwords.  It is very effective way in marketing your business for the fact that creating Adwords campaigns guarantee that your business will appear on the homepage for your selected keywords. When you create an ad, choose the keywords or keyword phrase that are related to your business, this way when people search on Google for your keywords, your ad will appear next to the search results. Your customers can simply click on your ad and learn more about your business. Adwords are inexpensive, there is no minimum amount required. You choose your own budget and create campaigns accordingly. In addition, the best part of SEM is the ability to precisely track the success of your campaign. Adwords campaigns can be integrated into Analytics programs, which will provide you with statistical information on your visitors and their actions.

Since the day I started publishing ads via Google Adwords, believe me I have been getting tremendous result on the traffic that I see on my site in addition to the growth I have been experiencing in my business since then is just incredible.

This is my journey as of today; this is how I planned my way up. Are you interested in Internet Marketing Business? Would you like to have a mentor that can train you and assist you in planning and achieving your goal? Contact me by visiting www.milliondollarresidualplan.com and submitting your name and email address.

See you on the top!

Warning for Email Marketers:

Google is releasing Smart Folders which will automatically filter out all bulk mail messages. In other words, smart folders will remove all mass mailing such as newsletter and promotional emails from the inbox.  Read more about this new feature: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/10638/Gmail-Releases-Smart-Folders-Email-Marketers-Be-Aware.aspx

As your mentor/future coach, I would advise you to take a look at Maximum Profit with Successful Internet Marketing Plan 1 and find out several different ways of marketing business online besides from email marketing:

http://harpritsinghblog.com/310/maximum-profit-with-successful-internet-marketing-plan-part-1/

2^nd part of this article will be published soon!

If you would like to join my team and learn about Internet Marketing in dept while earning residual income, go to http://www.milliondollarresidualplan.comand submit your name and email address.

Facebook just announced that as of today 03/11/11 Facebook will not support FBML for Fanpage. Click here to read on developers site. There was a long debate on this that someday in 2011 facebook will discontinue use of FBML but it was not confirmed.

So this means that if you are going to use FBML in your fanpage to customize your landing page you will not be able to. The users who are already using FBML will not be affected but facebook strongly encourages everyone to move from FBML to using iFrame applications. So if you are using FBML on your fanpage then to no need to panic.

iFrame in now supported on Page tabs also.

Before February 10, 2011 facebook did not allow iFrame on page tabs on fanpage. It only allowed it on Canvas page (on facebook applications). Facebook applications are different than fan page. But as of February 10, 2011 they support iFrame on both Canvas page and Page tabs. It do not also require and activation to load them. Before it needed an action to load the iFrame so you would need a kind of javascript. Well, let’s not go that deep. I will soon come up with the tutorial on how to add the iFrame. So keep an eye on my blog.

Also add Click here me as friend on Facebook and Click here to “Like” my Fan Page.

Maximum Profit with Successful Internet Marketing Plan – Part 1

In today’s advanced technology world, there are many different ways of marketing a business. Who can forget the Old School techniques of marketing; I am sure we have all been through either us bugging our family members and friends to buy our product or someone else may have tried this strategy on us. How many people can you actually reach in one day, one week, and one month? Do you know via Internet you can reach millions and millions of people in just less than a week? Why? Because Internet is not limited to the neighborhood or city or country; it’s WORLDWIDE. According to Internet World Stats , as of June 31, 2010 there are 1,966,514,816 Internet users around the world. In other words, product/services marketed via internet is reached to all these users without leaving your home; even when you are sleeping at night because during that time there are people on the other side of the world awake surfing internet.

Internet marketing has several different ways, yet it is advisable not to utilize all techniques at ones. Planning should always be the first step. In this article, I will show you the path I took and accordingly will describe it.

When I initially started my business, the very first thing I did was build a website because this is how you and your business gets recognized on the Internet. There are some folks who will be reading this article that I know who asked me for advice few days as of writing this article. They said that they are masters in web designing and marketing and creative services. One of the guy works as a head of Creative Department in a big company. He does his work on the side outside of the job also but complained that he don’t have enough business. I asked him very first question that what is his website. He said he don’t have one as he gets most of his business word of mouth. Do you see the problem here? This dude is himself doing web services and creative services but don’t have a website. What kind of brand exposure he will get on the internet? NONE!!! He kept on complaining about all nine yards but he just didn’t get my point. He need to have a website first. That’s it!

Just like we have drivers license for our identification, internet businesses are recognized via websites. Yes, you may have business cards too, but that is more effective in the old school techniques. The most challenging part of creating a website is the domain name. The domain should be something that can describe your business or the goal of the business in couple of words. If we look at my domain which is http://milliondollarresidualplan.com/, it clearly states that the plan that I have in this business is aiming towards a million dollar residual income. It’s not impossible, if you are willing to truly dedicate yourself and follow the plan. Once a website is created, the most important thing is to market it, promote it. SEO plays the most important role in getting your site recognized around the internet world.

SEO: Search Engine Optimization is a tool that makes a website visible in the most well known search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. If SEO is used in the right way, your website will be on the top of the search engines in no time. Find out more about SEO and get the most simple but the most effective tips from “Become an SEO Expert with 50 simple tips.”

After creating the website and applying SEO strategies, I stepped into the social networking world. No matter how much popularity your sites gets in the search engines, it is always advisable to get connected to people and exchange thoughts and views.

Social Networking: Social networking is a service whose purpose is to build social relations among people. When it comes to social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, we tend to think it’s for teenagers and “just for fun” kind of sites. Not anymore! These sites are means of communication between online communities. This is where you will be connected to the “like minds”, be able to share your point of views, will be able to describe your product/ services in one shot to millions of people via one status. My most favorite is Facebook, due to the fact that it allows you to create fan pages based on your business just like mine, Harprit Singh-Million Dollar Marketing. It also allows you to create ads that are seen by more than 500 million Facebook users, usually visible on the right hand side of the wall and profile. To find out more on how to market effectively on Facebook, feel free to grab your “complete guide to facebook.” I have been actively marketing my business via social networks since years and years. Let’s connect on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn and you will see how this strategy actually works.

In no time, I noticed that social networking strategy was working successfully. In other words, I was being introduced to a lot of people around the world, getting connected to “like minds”, there were many people who started inquiring about my business, who were interested in getting into the business world and was looking for my guidance. Along with social network, it was now time to take the next step.

While I was communicating with people on the networking sites, I was always wondering about who I was talking to. I was curious to know how they look. Along with other aspects, we often tend to judge people on their looks. It becomes easier to trust them when we know exactly who the person is. This is what made me jump into the next marketing strategy, Video marketing.

Video Marketing: Selling product/services online is awesome, but how do you make people trust you and your product/services if you are shy or afraid of actually going in front of them and branding yourself? Well, in today’s “technological world” nothing is impossible. Video marketing is marketing your product/services via videos. Go out in front of the people; show your face by publishing your video that you may have shot very comfortably in a closed room with no one around . Video marketing is very effective in a way that they are very popular; people like to watch videos for the fact that YouTube which is one of the video posting sites is the 3^rd most visited websites, as of May 2010, YouTube exceeds 2 billion views on daily basis. You will many more interesting facts at Website Monitoring Blog.The more informative and the more interesting your video content is, the more it will hold viewer’s attention to your video. Remember “Content is King”, so no matter what strategy you use in marketing your business, content should be the priority. Videos with keyword focused titles will be able to gain top spot in the search engines, due to the fact that search engines recognize words and not pictures or videos itself.

Video marketing has given me a very good opportunity to go in front of my audiences and be able to brand myself, able to build trust between me and my clients. Feel free to subscribe to me on YouTube and get more insiders on how to market your business online personally from me via videos.

This is not the end; it’s the beginning of the internet marketing. There are few more no or low cost strategies that will be discussed in the next & last part of this article.

Every person has their own way; this internet marketing strategy has worked for me but you may not have the same feeling for the path that I have walked on. No worries! If I am able to plan my way up, it is certain that I have several different plans that could assist you in building your own strategies that would work for you and for your success! I am always open to meet with potential/current entrepreneurs like you. Feel free to contact me via http://milliondollarresidualplan.com/ and find out how I can guide you to make you a winner!

Keep an eye on my next article release!

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Our character is built by our thoughts; our circumstances are shaped by our thoughts; our healthy body is a result of our thoughts. Give your thoughts a purpose, purpose of an achievement. Design your thoughts, visions and ideals in the direction of your goal.

Every person has a goal. Some people want to earn millions and millions of dollars, some people wants to own a beautiful house on an island and live there for the rest of their lives. Some people wants to have the most expensive car where as some people wants to travel and explore the different places in the world. No dream or goal is impossible; remember “nothing is impossible.” What is important is that how valuable is your goal to you in your thoughts? The more you believe in your dream; the more dedicated you will be to bring them into the reality. You have to conceive a dream first, before it becomes a reality.

When we are kids, we are taught about what is right and what is wrong by our parents, teachers and other elders. As we grow up, our thoughts are built by what we learn from our loved ones and what we experience in school and in our social groups, this is when we decide what major we want to study in college. Once we put our step into our desired college, we want to dedicate ourselves into studies so that we can gain the highest GPA. Our decision of our subject of study and our dedication towards it comes from our thoughts that are built up during our growth stage and through our experiences.

Our experiences play a huge role in how we think and how we are able to shape our circumstances by our thoughts. There are two types of thoughts built up with every experience, either negative or positive. Negative thoughts are when a man gives up on his situation and does not want to fight anymore. This kind of thinking can only lead him to a failure because he does not want to change his situation, does not want to change his thoughts and take it towards a new direction. In other words, he is not ready to make a move and come out of his comfort zone. A positive thinker would never quit, he would fight till he has found his success and achieve his goal. This kind of thinker is always looking for a better change, take any situation as a challenge and face them courageously. Their bravery can only lead them towards a successful and prosperous life as they have guts to bring change into their lives.

“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.” One example that I can think of is the economic downturn. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics there are over 18.3 million home-based businesses in USA and from the survey done by Home Office Computing Magazine, 98% people are happier working from home, 96% of people would like to recommend work from home to others and 88% would never ever return back to the corporate world. These are the people who had courage to come out of their comfort zone and bring the change in their lives by taking the risk of investing in the home based business and dedicating themselves towards accomplishing their goal. They were able to gain success in their new life is because they believed in themselves with positive thinking. According to the U.S. Dept of Labor, the unemployment rate is 9.0% (Unemployment defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): people who do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the past four weeks, and are currently available for work. Also, people who were temporarily laid off and are waiting to be called back to that job are counted as unemployed.). These are the people who do not want to start their own business and still wants to depend on the corporate world with the hopes that the economic condition will change someday. They are afraid to make change in their lives, have a fear of losing. In other words, they have already built up negative thoughts about the new world. These people will always struggle in the corporate world and will retire with their hand full of 401K funds (if any left).

On the other hand, today home based business is a $427 billion a year industry, which is more than the pharmaceutical industry, food industry, and consumer goods industry combined. Also, according to IDC, a top national research firm, the average income for income-generating home based business households is $65,000 per year and the report from the SBA’s (Small Business Administration) office of advocacy shows that over 20,000 home based entrepreneurs have grossed over $1 million. These entrepreneurs are sure to retire by turning their dream lifestyle into reality.

We are what we want to be. In other words, it is true that we do not have control over the situation created by our destiny, but we certainly do have power to change that situation and give it a new shape.

Today is your day to give your situation a new shape. There are many home based businesses out there that will guarantee you of becoming millionaire overnight. Guess what? There is no such thing as overnight millionaire (unless you win a lottery). Also, when you try to contact such companies, you will get their automated messages only (I have personally experienced this situation). Every business needs a plan that can be executed. Visit http://milliondollarresidualplan.com , find my contact info. at the bottom of the page, email me or call me to find out the plan that I have set for you, for your bright future. There is also a Live Chat there. You can chat with the live support or leave a message.

The best way is to submit your name and email address on the same page and you will be directed to the Internet marketing business plan that I have for you.

Choosing a path is not a goal, but the starting point of the goal. We choose a path to walk on, we do know what our goal is; but we often fail to achieve that goal.

Why?

What is it that we did not do?

And what can we do to succeed?

These questions are very important, yet not everyone is fortunate to get their answers upfront. Well, you are lucky to land up on this page and have opportunity to find out the answers to these questions. In other words, here are my smart tips that will help you achieve success in your Internet Marketing Business.

“Failure Is Success If We Learn From It.” – Malcolm S. Forbes.

According to the experts, 97% people fail in their Online Home Based Business. Let’s find out the reasons of their failure and learn from it.

Failure: People are very comfortable where they currently are and they do not want to get out of their comfort zone and accept new challenges. We all have a comfortable and protective friends and family social circle. We hesitate to get out of that circle and do something extraordinary. Even if we do our friends and family pull us back into the comfort circle again saying that there is risk out there, it’s a bad world out there and we are protecting you from it. Its one of the crucial failure point that it overlooked. Can you relate!

To Succeed: The very first challenge that every potential entrepreneur face is to come out of the comfort zone and that is when they decide on starting their Internet marketing business. Once they come out of that comfort zone, the next challenge is to learn new ways, strategies, technology and much more to gain success in their business. It is important to be open in terms of facing new challenges. “Life is beautiful, IF you choose not to settle for an ordinary; be ready to accept new challenges and take the steps towards creating your dream lifestyle.”

Failure: Goals are first and most important task of any entrepreneur. Many Internet marketers set unrealistic goals such as wanting to earn million dollars in one month. When they cannot achieve that, they give up.

To Succeed: As a successful and experienced Internet marketer, my suggestion would be to first set a goal. Setting a goal is easy, but it is important to set SMART goal. Set something your mind can conceive. In other words, your goal should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Based. Set a definite goal that can be measured on timely basis, more importantly, set a goal that is possible to accomplish. Unrealistic goals lead to failure for sure. “Setting SMART goals provide guidance and direction to our lives.”

Failure: People usually tend to think that online business is just an ABC and will be showered with money. In other words, they are just looking for instant money. WRONG!

To Succeed: Miracles happen only if you work on it (unless you win a million dollar lottery). If you don’t even go to work, is your employer going to come to your home and give you a pay check for not working?

NO!!!!

Usually people are under the impression that they will make easy money and get millionaire overnight in their Internet marketing business, which is not true (except in the game of monopoly. Well even in that you have to play to earn those million paper dollars). Every business requires hard work. Your income depends on your efforts and your true dedication towards the business. “Truth is bitter” but there is no instant money in the business world. “In order to accomplish great things in life: we must not only believe, but also PLAN; we must not only dream, but also ACT.” Stay away from people or companies that sell Get Rich Quick dreams.

Failure: No one is a born genius. The biggest problem with the Internet marketers is that they do not get enough training and mentoring.

To Succeed: It is easy to join any Online home based business as today there are many companies offering such opportunity, but it is important to find the one that provides full training and mentoring. Training keeps you up to date with the market, new technology, different strategies and customer needs. In addition, joining a successful team is the most important step when starting an Internet marketing business, due to the fact that your sponsor plays a significant role in your success as he/ she provides guidance according to what they have already experienced. “Mentoring, Coaching and Training is the key to one’s success.”

TIP – If you are going to join a company or any online business do me a favour first. First find the “Contact” button on the site and see how is their support system. Do they have email support or phone support or chat support or all 3. Send them an email and see how long do they take to reply. I bet you, 70% of the moneymaking sites are replicated sites and they just don’t have any support. If they have a phone, pick up the phone and make a call. See if someone really picks up the phone. I bet you (again) that most of the companies who even have a phone listed have automated “voicemail” system where they tell you to leave a message and they will call back. Now use your brain and see calculate everything. You will get the answer J

Failure: People treat their online marketing business as a hobby and not as business.

To Succeed: It is important to be determined in the actions you take towards your business. Set goals, make schedules, create your to-do list, and dedicate yourself towards your Internet marketing business for at least 2-4 hours per day maybe more, but not less. You put at least 8 hours every day in your corporate job, work as hard as you can so that you can get raise and promotion; home based business requires the same attitude, so that you can write bigger pay checks for yourselves and get financial freedom. “Business has a profit motive whereas hobby is for enjoyment, does not guarantee profit.”

Looking at these secrets of success does seem tough to follow, but not with today’s advanced technology. Internet marketing business has become much easier than years ago with the automated internet marketing system that I have for you in place. If you would like to know how this system works, then visit http://milliondollarresidualplan.com enter your name and email address. You will be directed to the page where you will gain access to the insider information on how the automated internet marketing system can help you live your dream lifestyle.

Automated Internet Marketing System has been a boon for me and my family; here is your opportunity to be blessed. It was a choice and I chose it. It’s your call now!

What is SEO?

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a tool that optimizes a website to make it visible in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. The purpose of such tool is to achieve the top position in the search engines and be able to reach out to more and more audiences. SEO is not an easy task; there are several different ways in how to get the most out of it.

If you are in the Internet Marketing industry you probably know that you need traffic to your site. In order to make money you need to sell and to sell you need to bring people to your site. The more people you bring and the more people you put through the funnel system the more money you make. This is a simple concept. If you want to know how the funnel system works then go to http://milliondollarresidualplan.com and put your name and email and it will take you to a page where it will show you how the funnel works.

Anyway, in order to get traffic you can have different mediums of marketing your site like article writing, video marketing, social media marketing, forum marketing, banner ads etc etc. But the long lasting and ever lasting way to get genuine traffic to your site is by SEO. I recommend http://webdesignersintoronto.com for SEO as they do my SEO also. They are based in Canada.

50 SEO Tips

Following are 50 simple tips on SEO. These tips are simple, no doubt; but much more effective in making you an SEO expert:

1.     Using Java Script drop down menus, image maps or image links? Make sure to put text links somewhere on the page for the spiders to follow.

2.     Good, well-written and unique content that focuses your primary keyword or keyword phrase can make you a winner.

3.     Backlinks play a very significant role in SEO as websites with good number of quality backlinks are considered to be the most relevant in the search query result of search engines such as Google.  Make sure the backlinks are related with the content of your site.

4.     Every page of your site should have a title tag. A unique and keyword focused title tags are bound to get more searches.

5.     Be consistent with updating your site. Fresh and useful contents added regularly on the site helps improve the ranking and values more in the eyes of the search engines.

6.     Your keyword phrase should be used for the links to your site and within your site. For example:  if your target is “SEO Tips” then link to “SEO Tips” instead of a “Click here” link.

7.     It is important to focus on a search phrase instead of just a single keyword to result in more searches.

8.     Designing your website with consideration of SEO is very important and useful. Creating a flashy website with Flash and images only won’t help at all when it comes to SEO due to the fact that spiders can crawl text but not Flash and images. This does not mean you cannot use any images or videos.

9.     Keywords and keyword phrases should be used properly in text links, image ALT attributes and also in your domain name.

10. Cannibalization issues-www and non-www domains: Make sure to decide which would you like to use and 301 (permanent) redirect the other to it. In other words, if you prefer to use http://www.domain.com then http://domain.com should redirect to it.

11. Sometimes we have index.html attached to our link. In other words, you may have http://www.domain.com/index.html as your internal link. If this is the case, than make sure you abandon index.html or whatever the internal link is appended to and the page always links back to your domain, http://www.domain.com

12. Frames, Flash and AJAX all share a common problem; they are linked to either all pages or none. In order to get the best SEO result, do not use Frames at all, use Flash and AJAX sparingly.

13. As far as SEO is concerned, it doesn’t matter what URL file extension you use (.html, .htm, .asp, .php, etc).

14. Submitting a new website through Google’s regular submission form can take weeks, instead getting a link to your site through another quality site will be the quickest way of getting your new site spidered.

15. If the content on your site does not change often, then it’s better to have a blog on the site due to the fact that search spiders like fresh text/content. It is advisable to blog at least three times a week with new, fresh content to feed those little crawlers.

16. Link building is a very important task when it comes to SEO. Strong belief in Quality over Quantity will put you on the top of the world. One single, decent, authoritative link can give you much better recognition than dozens of bad quality links, which can even result negatively.

17. Search engines are in love with natural language content. Loading the page/text with keywords might not even get any searches. Search engines look for how many times a keyword/ term are used in your site content and if it is abnormally high, then it will count against you. In other words, keywords in your content should be used wisely.

18. In addition to your link that uses keyword anchor text, the words around the links should also be related to your keywords.  In other words, the link should be surrounded by the descriptive text.

19. Are you on a shared server? Make sure you do a blacklist so that you don’t end up on a proxy with a spammer or banned site because their ill reputation can affect your rankings badly.

20. Make sure that you are not using services that block domain ownership information when you register a domain, due to the fact that search engines such as Google might see your site as a potential spammer.

21. When optimizing your blog posts, optimize your post title tag separately from your blog title.

22. The bottom line in SEO is Text, Links, Popularity and Reputation.

23. An easy to use site will easily influence your link building ability and popularity; as a result you will get thumbs up to your ranking.

24. It’s a Give and Take relationship when building the link network. When you link out, it encourages others to link to you.

25. Search engines are attracted towards unique and quality content. Make sure your site includes both.

26. If the main page of your site is flashy, meaning is using all Flash or has one big image then make sure to place text and navigation links below the fold.

27. Some of your most important links might not appear in websites, but they can be in form of e-mail communications such as newsletter and ezines.

28. Search engines give preference to the links from .edu domain. Look for.edu sites that are looking for sponsors.

29. Link baiting is a great way to increase your link popularity. It creates more links to your site, which helps you in the search engines. Also, these links come to you, you don’t have to get on your knees and beg for them. In addition, it creates more links to your site, which sends potential customers your way.

30. Instead of optimizing the page for numerous keywords at once, give each page a focus on a single keyword phrase.

31. SEO is not a one-day task. The search landscape changes on daily basis, so be active on your optimization daily.

32. Try to provide your images, videos, podcasts, etc to the most powerful bloggers and authority sites who might link to you.

33. Use descriptive, keyword rich text in your title and description when optimizing the text in your RSS feed.

34. Just like photos in the newspaper, use captions with your images on your site. Utilize keywords when placing captions with your images.

35. Images are ranked based on the texts that are surrounded. Make sure there is a special attention given to those texts by placing keywords text, headings, etc.

36. Let your site be founded naturally by the crawler. Use a good global navigation and linking, instead of relying on XML Sitemap.

37. If you do not want to see Google’s Personalized Search results than first of all, log out of Google and then append “&pws=0” to the end of your search URL in the search bar.

38. Links from high PageRank provides a golden opportunity. Backlinks of such links weigh a lot more than from any other sites as high PR indicates higher trust.

39. Your on-site link navigation will be less prone to problems and if someone tries to scrape your content, you’ll get backlinks out of it, if your links are absolute.

40. Social marketing is also very big part of SEO. The more you understand social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Del.icio.us, etc. the better you will be able to compete. (A Complete Guide to Facebook Marketing can be found here: http://yourbww.com/bfm/signup.php)

41. Create a video sitemap and list it in your Google Webmaster Central account to get the best searches for your videos by the crawlers.

42. Make sure to submit your videos to other quality video sites such as AOL, MSN, Metacafe, Yahoo, etc. as the video searches that result in Google blended search does not necessarily come from YouTube; other video marketing sites are also marketed via search engines.

43. Just like images, videos should also be surrounded by the text with keywords, due to the fact that the search engines look for text/content that defines the video.

44. Along with the keywords, do use the words “image” or “picture” in your photo ALT description. Many searches are for such words.

45. In order to make your SEO more successful, it is important to enable “Enhanced image search” in your Google Webmaster Central account since images have become a big part of the new blended search results.

46. Viral components such as reviews, sharing functions, ratings, visitor comments, etc should also be added to your website or blog. This will attract more traffic.

47. Make sure to include video, podcasts, news, social content, etc to your site as SEO is not just about linking anymore.

48. It is always wise to check the cache date of the page where your link will be located in Google, when you consider to purchase or exchange the link. The newer the cache date the better, as the cache date more than a month old is not worth.

49. If there are pages in your site that are very similar and would like to make sure only the correct one is considered in the search engines than place the URL of your preferred page in your sitemaps.

50. Check your server headers to make sure your URLs report a “200 OK” status or “301 Moved permanently” for redirects. If the status shows anything else, then make sure your URLs are set up properly and used consistently throughout your site. You can find free online tools to check server headers.