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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Article Marketing Might Be The Best Thing For Your Online Business

Posted by cagoraman on 23rd May, 2012 ?

There are many ways to market your product online, but when it comes down to reliability, nothing comes close to article marketing. Keep reading to understand the effectiveness of article marketing and how it can help you achieve business success. There are so many aspects of starting and running a successful internet business that includes Rip Curl Commissions and getting comfortable with making important decisions is one of them. That one aspect is among many that you will need to face and either accept and deal with or not.

Just like anything else, there is a definite learning curve associated with web business. Many feelings you will experience will be totally normal, and they are the same things that all people go through. It is normal to make mistakes, and that is something you can look forward to because they will never end. Once you have have survived for a while, then you will see your mistakes dwindling in numbers. There is always room for improvement, learning and growth which is what all savvy marketers do.

One of the most effective online money making methods has been proven to be the promotion of affiliate products through article marketing. Focusing on small niches with targeted articles and then using them to promote Clickbank or Amazon products is one way you can take advantage of articles in affiliate marketing. Clickbank is an ideal option to use with article marketing because it offers a myriad of information products such as ebooks and software products. Simply build a landing page for the item you have decided on promoting with article marketing and insert links into your articles to it. The traffic your articles drive to the landing page will be sent to the main sales page of the product. An effective method to make money online is through affiliate marketing and one of the best ways to drive traffic is through article marketing which means they go hand in hand. This is because affiliate marketing requires targeted and qualified visitors to make sales. Besides that, you can also review affiliate products in your article and drive direct traffic to the product page. All you need to do is be a little creative to succeed with affiliate marketing because article marketing offers you a wide range of possibilities. You can also build a targeted email list with article marketing. The value of a highly targeted and responsive email list is known by all internet marketers and article marketing allows you to build exactly that. You can do this by driving traffic to your newsletter opt-in page or just a simple opt-in page where you can bribe your visitors with a bonus for subscribing to your list. Articles will help you find quality visitors that are happy to subscribe to your list, no matter how you decide to acquire their email addresses. With this method, you will be able to expand your list with people from other related niches because you can diversify your approach. If you are focusing your list building efforts on ?search engine marketing?, for example, you will also be able to use any content related to PPC, SEO or keyword research to expand your list. This just goes on to show how far article marketing can help you with your list building efforts. You should remember the nature of doing any kind of business on the web. You need to look at the short history to really gain a clear understanding of what we are talking about. So just remember that the climate can become very different, and you will have to adjust to it the best you can. If Internet Marketing is possibly something you can include with the way you promote, then that is a positive but think about what that could possibly mean in terms of the long term. You need to think long-term regarding methods, techniques and similar items to make sure the impact is favorable and will not put you on thin ice. Still, though, we generally think it is more important to not have fear but rather be cautious with your business.

Your articles can even be reused by taking them and creating a PDF report or e-book that you can offer to your subscribers or traffic free of charge. People are very fond of reports that are free, and if you were to make one of your own and give it away, you would see that people will then give it to their friends and you?ll get even more exposure and traffic. Reports such as these allow you to use your articles in a positive way, and you will see lots of traffic, but the best part is that it?s all absolutely free. Make sure you mention that people can distribute your report as they see fit so that they?ll be more likely to pass it around. If you can make it easy enough for the report to spread, you?ll see there?s more than one good way to use articles. Lots of marketing methods are evergreen and Affiliate Marketing is one of them, but there is a reason some of those methods have worked so well over the years. You never want to find your self in a situation with your business that causes you to have a narrow view of the marketing world. Not everybody has the kind of mind that lets them learn new things, and you have to make an honest assessment about your self about that. If there is one stand-out among all three, then choose that and begin implementing it in your business. We were not holding back information to make your life harder, we can only do so much in a short article. It can get a little nerve wracking when you want to do something you have never tried before and are really feeling hesitant to squeeze the trigger on it.

Figure out how you can use it without causing an unreasonable time commitment with implementation.

All in all, the benefits highlighted within this article can give you an idea of how article marketing can benefit any online business positively.

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Podcast Basics For Columbus MLM Business Bloggers

Today?s Columbus direct selling article is for Columbus internet rookies who want to kick up their web marketing a notch by adding a podcast to their Columbus home business blog.

A podcast is a multimedia file that is downloaded for playback on a mobile device such as an iPod or laptop computer. It can be a digital recording of a radio program or, more often, a program produced solely for online distribution. A podcast can be a recording of a webcast: a live Columbus program that is ?streamed? or broadcast on the internet in real time. When this is the case, it is similar to a DVD recording of a live program that you store in the database of your playback device.

A related term is the acronym RSS which probably originally stood for Rich Site Summary feed but is sometimes used for Really Simple Syndication. You have probably seen the term RSS on websites. An RSS feed allows digital files to be downloaded in a standard format. Riceville podcast listeners often subscribe to favorite ongoing podcasts. When new podcasts are produced, they are automatically downloaded by RSS applications.

It is fairly simple hardware- and software-wise to product your own podcast for your Columbus online business
. Your laptop may already have recording capability. If not, you can buy any equipment you need in the Riceville area.

Columbus business owners operating on a shoestring will be happy to know that basic recording and editing software can be downloaded for free. If you want to get fancy, you can always buy more sophisticated software at Illinois specialty computer stores. I recommend using a headset microphone so the mic is always in the right spot to get a clear and consistent recording.

Now the fun part: what will you podcast? The possibilities are endless for Columbus direct marketers. You can record Illinois trade show presentations, interviews with founding distributors of your Columbus direct sales company, or create an entertaining pitch about your Riceville business opportunity. Let your expertise and enthusiasm shine.

Creating a podcast gives you a chance to connect with potential Columbus customers or downline members in a personal way.

I am Acai Chocolate Manager Adam Green, a network marketer representing Xocai Sipping Cocoa. I am based in Elgin, Illinois.

Are you interested in owning a Xocai Sipping Cocoa online business? My team members are steadily expanding their networks and increasing their direct sales income.

Call me today to start building your own online Xocai Sipping Cocoa business!

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I am Adam Green, and I am a Elgin-based Xocai artisan chocolate distributor. I joined Xocai in April 2010. I sell the industry-leading Xocai Sipping Cocoa and Xocai Sipping Chocolate online and in Elgin, Columbus, Spartansburg, and Elgin. Our valued Riceville customers recommend Xocai Sipping Chocolate because Xocai Sipping Chocolate chocolate products by Xocai is healthy!.

Winner?s Circle is also a fantastic Xocai Sipping Cocoa home-based business within 46 miles of the Riceville area. Illinois entrepreneurs can supplement their income by cashing in on a high-demand Illinois healthy artisan chocolate market. To learn more about Winner?s Circle, visit http://adampaulgreen.com/videos/.

Call me at 801.437.5994 to own your own Xocai Sipping Cocoa business in Elgin, Columbus, Spartansburg, or Elgin.

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Bruce Willis: Romney is 'an embarrassment'

Esquire

By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Bruce Willis is no fan of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

In?an interview for the?cover story?of the?June/July issue of Esquire magazine, Willis tells a reporter he's not exactly pleased with the former Massachusetts governor.

"He's just such a disappointment, an embarrassment," the actor tells writer Tom Chiarella. "He's just one of those guys, one of those guys who says he's going to change everything. And he'll get in there, and they'll smile at him and introduce themselves: 'We're Congress, we make sure nothing changes.' He won't do it. He can't. Everybody wants to be Barack Obama. And what did he change?"

When asked if he thinks Romney will win the election, Willis told the writer "No," and added "I don't really care."

He also called Romney "the Dash Riprock" of the Republican party, referring to Elly May Clampett's handsome and conceited suitor?from "The Beverly Hillbillies."

Willis has supported both Democratic and Republican candidates in the past. In 2006, he told reporters, "I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government."

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Stuck with Joe: Why Obama won?t pick Hillary Clinton

No.

Not even if you see an airborne swine. Not even if they?re driving a Zamboni in Hades.

When you read a rumination--or recommendation, or prediction--that President Barack Obama will replace Vice President Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket--the odds are overwhelming that its creator was inspired by two thoughts:

1. My deadline is an hour away.

2. I got nothing.

Yes, the Weekly Standard?s William Kristol correctly notes that Clinton?s favorability ratings are very high--higher than those of Obama, Joe Biden, and Mitt Romney. And we should not lightly dismiss the predictive powers of Mr. Kristol, who asserted on Dec. 17, 2006: ?Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I?ll predict that right now.?

Yes, the White House is all but publicly grousing about the way the vice president forced the president?s hand on gay marriage.

And yes, Biden has proven to be a much juicier target for the late-night comedians than the more phlegmatic President. (Jason Sudeikis? flannel-mouthed glad-handing veep trumps Fred Armisen?s Obama).

But grab yourself a cup of decaf and ask yourself two simple questions:

First, when have presidents who are up for re-election dumped their vice-presidents, and why have they done it? The difference between the reality and the Hillary-for-Joe fantasy can be measured in light years.

Second, if Obama were to attempt this, how would he explain it? Trying to answer this question with a straight face is the best way to understand why (assuming accident or illness does not intervene) it?s not going to happen.

In more-or-less modern times, presidents have dumped their veeps three times.

Franklin Roosevelt did it in 1940. His two-term vice-president, the former House Speaker John Nance Garner, was far more conservative than his president, and had broken with him on issues like the packing of the Supreme Court. The Democratic Party?s liberal wing despised Garner. At a Congressional hearing, labor leader John L. Lewis called him "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man." When Garner showed signs that he might challenge FDR?s nomination for a third term in office with his own presidential candidacy, the Democrats replaced him on the ticket with Henry Wallace, the secretary of agriculture. (Garner retired to Texas, his place in history assured by his famous aphorism--often censored--that the job he held was ?not worth a bucket of warm piss.?

Four years later, it was Wallace?s turn to walk the plank. His liberal views on race and social justice, along with a very sympathetic attitude toward the Soviet Union, unsettled Democrats who were well aware that FDR might not survive his fourth term. Out went Wallace, in came Harry Truman. Wallace got the consolation prize of secretary of commerce, until his increasingly open hostility to Truman?s Cold War policies got him booted. In 1948, he ran for president as a member the very-left Progressive Party; he got 2.4 percent of the vote, but the 8 percent he captured in New York likely cost Truman that state, and he surely made the results in California and Ohio far closer than they otherwise would have been.

The only other example came in 1976, when Gerald Ford was facing a strong challenge to his re-nomination from Ronald Reagan. Ford had to have the support of prominent conservatives such as Strom Thurmond--and the price of their support was the dumping of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. To help Ford, Rockefeller fell on his own sword by taking himself out of the running early--in November, 1975--saying, "I didn't come down (to Washington) to get caught up in party squabbles which only make it more difficult for the president in a very difficult time, when the problems of the country require his fullest possible attention.? He left the political stage dramatically, caught on camera giving the middle-finger salute at a campaign rally; and left life even more dramatically, having given up the ghost while engaged in intercourse--perhaps social, perhaps otherwise--with a woman 45 years his junior.

(Unelected running mates have been tossed as well: George McGovern jettisoned Tom Eagleton as his running mate in 1972 after news of Eagleton?s history of depression--including electroshock therapy--emerged. And ?The Passage to Power,? the new volume of Robert Caro?s Lyndon B. Johnson biography, suggests JFK might have turned elsewhere in 1964 because LBJ was no longer able to deliver a Southern state, and because journalists and Senate investigators were in hot pursuit of Johnson?s shady finances).

All of these examples, unlike Biden?s situation, involved a vice president who became anathema to a significant segment of his party. Other veeps have been retained even though they were polarizing figures: Spiro Agnew in ?72, Dan Quayle in ?92, Dick Cheney in ?04.

Which brings us to the second question.

Imagine the press conference where President Obama has to explain his decision to replace Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton. It is, to put it mildly, not likely that the press will accept at face value a Biden announcement that he has decided to step down to run Amtrak, or to retire to his beloved Scranton, Pa.

So what would the president say? That he made a mistake the first time? That he is tired of clicking on yet another website to read, ?Biden later explained...??

The one thing he could not say is what everyone what everyone with a pulse will believe: ?I?ve concluded that my re-election will be much more likely if I run with Hillary Clinton.?

A Biden-for-Clinton switch would stamp Obama as a president who is acting just like any other politician. This perception is already eating away at the most potent appeal of his first run for the White House: that he was different from the standard political mold.? Of all the poll numbers that smother the landscape, the most troubling for Obama was the CBS/New York Times finding that--by a huge margin of 67 percent to 24 percent--voters believe he changed his position on gay marriage for political reasons. (Never mind what that tells us about how remarkably the ground has shifted on that issue).

Without question, most folks believe that anything and everything a candidate says is shaped by tactical considerations. But the public manifestly does not want to hear a candidate admit that. Remember what happened to Arlen Specter, who switched parties in 2009, explaining that becoming a Democrat would make it easier for him to be re-elected as senator from Pennsylvania? That video clip was one big reason why Specter lost the 2010 Democratic primary to Rep. Joe Sestak. For Obama to take such a momentous step to strengthen his chances for survival would, paradoxically, do him significant damage.

There?s one way to know if I?m wrong about this. If sometime in the next month or two Biden comes out for an antiabortion amendment to the Consitution, the end to collective bargaining for public employee unions, and the cutoff of all aid to Israel, it means he?s decided to give his boss the running room he would need to make the switch.??
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The real 'Dancing' star? Host Tom Bergeron

Adam Taylor / ABC

By Ree Hines

The end of yet another season of "Dancing With the Stars" is upon us, and like others before it, it's had plenty of bad ballroom moments. Judges' scores often didn't match the dances. Results shows featured more filler than action. And one twist even took power away from the people who watch the show.

But it wasn't all bad. In fact, one part of this season -- and the others before it -- was perfect. When it comes to fine form and show-saving service, host Tom Bergeron deserves all 10s.

Sure, Tom doesn't have to teach celebs to salsa, evaluate their moves or even hit the floor himself (except for that one time when he did just that), but that doesn't mean he's not able to carry the show when the other parts fall apart.

He is, after all, the best live-TV host in the biz (no offense to the also awesome Ryan Seacrest), and that means something.

This season it's meant defusing tension, wise-cracking through dull moments and even acting as the ballroom's always-appropriate father figure.

As for the tension, for a show chock-full of sequined costumes and spray tans, "Dancing" features as surprising amount of high-stress moments. Sometimes they're the result of problems on the panel (such as inequitable scoring) or grumpy pros (such as Maksim Chmerkovskiy after facing some of that inequitable scoring) and sometimes it's just the normal tension that comes with face-to-face critiques.

Regardless of the cause, Tom's there to save the day with his quick wit -- or in the case of moody Maks, he's there with a hop and camera-ready reaction when the pro gooses him (and mad or not, Maks always gooses him).

Back in week six, when head judge Len Goodman nitpicked William Levy's rumba for featuring too much side-to-side hip moves when what Len really wanted to see was "back and forth action," Tom didn't skip a beat before telling the audience "Later at home tonight, Len will be reading 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'"

Of course, some situations call for more than a quick zinger. Good thing Tom shines during the serious moments, too.

Longtime viewers will no doubt recall Tom's fast thinking back in the show's fifth season, when Marie Osmond passed out on stage. Tom knelt by her side, showed concern, maintained a calm demeanor for the audience and threw to a commercial as easily as if it had all been rehearsed.

This season, when "Dancing" queen Katherine Jenkins had her own panicked crisis following an injury on the dance floor, Tom was by her side and once again making sure all was well before getting back into the usual swing of the show.

Another rescue Tom deserves credit for was his role navigating the dreaded Dance Duel. This season's dance-off twist prevented the audience from having a say in the eliminations. Sure they were still encouraged to vote, but they could only help determine the bottom two pairs. The judges picked who would stay and who would go based on slap-dash duels.

Needless to say, many fans of the show weren't fans of the twist, and the pros and the stars felt much the same. But someone had to keep it moving and check in with the celebs after the judges delivered their Duel reviews. Normally the post-judge chatter goes to co-host Brooke Burke Charvet, who's often called the Brooke-bot due to her predictable questions made up largely of the line "How does that feel?" But Tom mixed it up when it was his turn.

"I know Brooke gets some heat for saying (that)," he told Entertainment Weekly. "I found myself treating it like it was a landmine. I didn't want to step on."

And he didn't. But that's Tom. He's always on his toes. And he's just as good out of the ballroom when he's out promoting the show.

When asked what fans could expect on "Dancing" in the future, he once deadpanned to Maximo TV: "Well, there will be more people getting spray tanned and dancing. Then there will be fewer of them every week. And at the end, somebody will win a little goofy trophy and go, 'Really?!'"

It's almost time to bring out that goofy trophy this season. But should the ballroom bosses decide to tweak the show's formula before returning for next season, here's hoping they realize that Tom's the one part of the show they should never change.

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$150,000 Is Up For Grabs At Stanford?s BASES Finale This Week

hoover towerStanford has been a hotbed of startup activity for what seems like forever, and one reason for that is its Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) program. The group, which has been instrumental in promoting startup activity at the university for the last 15 years, will be awarding $150,000 in prizes to participants from four different funding competitions this Tuesday. The BASES Finale brings together four different funding competitions for one full-day event. From 10:00 am to 7:00 pm at the Arrillaga Alumni Center, groups will present as part of the E-Challenge, Social E-Challenge, Product Showcase, and Forge program.

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