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Monday, February 9, 2009

Be A Freelancer! Its Fun, Its Easy, And Its Good Money!

I gotta tell ya there are so many different ways to make money online it's insane!Some of these ways can pay your cell phone bill and others can pay your mortgage!The first thing you're going to have to do if you want to become a freelancer is figure out what you are good at and figure out how you can sell that to people or if they would even have a use for it.For instance; I'm an article writer and article marketer but, I also do other things as well such as web content, blog content, ebooks and sales letters.

There are a lot of different people out there looking for people such as me to do these content jobs for them.The problem with writing is you have to actually be good at it.This isn't something you can just wing and expect it to sound good unless your doing some sort of a cheat!Once you figure out what you're good at you can figure out then how to sell it to people.

I started out with forums but, I hope to quit that soon and start working directly with bigger corporations and companies!Either way you decide to go, maybe a couple of the freelancer "ideas" will help you along on at least your first step to becoming a freelancer; the figuring out what you want to do part!

Content Writer - In my opinion a content writer and an article writer are two different things.But a content writer can be an article writer and an article writer can be a content writer!A content writer, writes for your website.It doesn't matter if they have a professional type website, or a word press blog/website.You can find people that have websites about topics or subjects you have extensive knowledge about.You will write content for their websites and they will pay you per however you charge.Some people pay per page, per word, per day, etc.It's your service, charge what you will but again, be fair and honest with your prices.

Web Design & Development - These are two practices not everyone is good at.I can market, optimize, write do a ton of other things.But when it comes to web design or development the closest thing I know is Myspace html codes!I'm not the only fool like this!Again, there are millions of people out there that either don't know how to do this, or just don't have the time.This is a great service to offer if you know how to do it.

SEO a.k.a.search engine optimization - As a service provider you could easily find people that need their sites optimized.The most important thing, may be to convince them why they need this service because a lot of people don't even know what optimization is or why they need it.This is where you come in.Build a nice little professional website, and tell them why.List all your reasons.Make some affordable packages for individuals as well as bigger companies and corporations.

SEM a.k.a.search engine marketing - You can provide your all-knowing search engine marketing techniques to people online.Or better yet you could teach people how to do it on their own.Most of us know that SEO and SEM are two very important processes but so many people don't know how to market or optimize their websites.This is valuable information for the buyer.

Obviously these are just a few ways but you really could do anything service or any business online that you want as long as it sells.No sense in doing something that isn't going to make you money right?Even if you don't make a ton of money right now, it could lead into you making some big bucks in the end after you figure out a business plan and all of that stuff!

Freelancing is really cool, I really love it; I get to work for myself, I don't have to work in 140 degree kitchens (I'm a Chef), I can do whatever I want with my extra time, and I can go as far up on the totem pole as I want to!And best of all?I get to actually do something I love doing and I get paid for it!This could be a really great option for you so make sure you check it out!


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Monday, February 2, 2009

Learn Forex Trading & A Short Compilation of Answers to Emailed Questions on the Subject

I have been receiving quite a few emails recently asking questions regarding the best way to learn Forex trading and beginning to successfully invest in the markets.I have been answering them individually and this is a short compilation of the answers for all to read.

First, if you are going to buy a piece of Forex software and are under the impression it is a means to an end without a comprehensive understanding of the basic concepts to the advanced trading techniques then you are just fooling yourself.Why don't you just send me your investment capital to me, at least one of will be happy.Because you're not going to be.

Second, after you have a complete understanding of the Forex markets is the time to start acquiring your Forex trading systems.I say systems, because there is not one product on the market today that provides all the functions you will require.Or, at least I require.I use three different types in conjunction.A signal based system, a trend based system and a formula based system.

Third, if you just want to try to make money to see if you can and then you will invest later if you make money, then try this course.The name of the currency course is Forex Made E-Z and it is very simple to understand and employ its methods.I use the techniques taught in this class everyday and it turns nice consistent profits with very little risk.You don't have to know anything about Forex.Just follow every thing he say's to the letter and don't get greedy and the end of the month the little profits you make each day will add up to a very nice return.

Fourth, if you want a great Forex program to obtaining an exceptional education on the subject and also want to have the course to pay for itself then try Forex Brotherhood.I have been a member here since it began and trade the professional Forex trader, his name is Jason by the way, portfolio everyday.This is a mentoring program when you get to one on one training.I feel my knowledge is to the point now I really don't need much more training.But, I stay a member because I make $10,000's each month just making the same trades as he does each day.You are allowed to follow his every move in real time and make the same trades as he does in real time.You can even ask him why he makes every trade, which is a great learning tool.How much easier does it get?Not much.

There are two Forex programs that you don't have to know anything about Forex and depending on your investment you put real nice profits in your pocket.Two more you can look at are Fap Winner and Straight Forex.

As for Forex software you are just going to lose your money using them until you know what you're doing.I know, because I lost $1,000's until I found Forex Made E-Z and started enrolling in every currency mentoring program I could find.If somebody is really serious about this and takes a mentoring class and gets the knowledge required to take advantage of the software I will tell what I use, which I think are the best products on the market.
Good luck, it is not that hard.And to all you non believers and skeptics I will give you something to think about.I will love to see you answers to this.

Guess what, a currency can only go in one of two directions.It can go up or down.That means if you throw darts at a board blind folded you would be correct 50% of the time.So, if you did not use margins, you would break even if you know NOTHING about the markets.So really, how hard can it be?All you really need to know is how to control your use of margins and make them work for you as opposed to against you.Then let's say you learn a little and are able to take your winning percentage from 50% to 60% or 65% you know what that buys you?Any thing you want is the answer!

Remember, you are guaranteed to be correct 50% of the time; you can NEVER do worse than this.NEVER, it is IMPOSSIBLE!

Therefore the two keys to making big money in the markets are only two small factors.The most important, understanding how to use of margins, leverage trading, forwards and options.The next is just improving you winning percentage a small fraction, which is where the software comes into play.

Now, let somebody dispute that!Impossible, you can't, the numbers don't lie.


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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Tags And Google Analytics - What Tags And Numbers Are Important?

On my website each page should have targeted keywords in its source area.What keywords should be in the source area for blogs?The subject matter in my blog is not as targeted as my squeeze page and website.

Answer: First of all, I don't have a lot of keywords on a lot of my pages.Why?It is more important for me to get links pointing to my pages from websites that have the keywords.98% of the time you should focus on the links coming into your site.

The other 2% of the time you should deal with tags.Your title tags are the most important thing on your site.Your title tag should have no more than 83 characters in it to get you high up in the search engines.Next, your H1 and H2 tags are important and should have keywords in them.Then worry about your keyword tags.

I'm not a big blogger in the sense that you are talking about.From a squeeze page and webpage perspective the first thing I do is I usually run Google AdWords to my squeeze page.I can look at what keywords are giving the best click through rate.This click through rate lets me know which ads in my Google AdWords campaign people are clicking on the most when they are sent to my squeeze page.I optimize my site based on the click through rate.

Then people start subscribing to my list.I look at what keywords people are using to opt in to my squeeze page.Then I use those keywords to optimize my squeeze page.

After they opt in I send them to a place where they can buy.Then I optimize the site for buyers.So I get the buyer keyword information last.

I even optimize my articles with those keywords.Look in your Google AdWords campaign and find out what keywords people are clicking on.Look at your control panel to find your stats to find out what keywords to focus on.

Question #2: What are the most important things to look for in Google Analytics?

Answer: It depends on what you are tracking.When you login to Google Analytics go to "View Reports" for a specific site.I look at how many average visitors I had, my bounce rate, how many page views I had, and the number of new visits I had, and where my biggest traffic source is.

On one of my sites I'm consistently getting 650-715 per day, but then it dropped down to 293 one day and then jumped back up to its average of 650-715.This drop happened on a Sunday.This number makes me want to investigate what is going on.

I want to analyze the top traffic sources.Looking at the numbers of where my traffic comes from I had the following: 84% came directly from Google, 7.8% came from this site, etc.

I also look at what keywords people use to find my website.There are many numbers you can analyze and get ideas from.It gives you an idea of what is going on with your sites.

I actually use HyperTracker more often than Google Analytics.Here are the numbers I look at.I'm looking more from an email marketing perspective.So I want to know the total number of clicks, impressions, open rate, clicking on links in the emails, going to the page and actually buying, and the conversion rate on the opt-in page.I also look at how many people actually buy after the opt-in page.I look at the value-per-visitor as well.

I send out emails through HyperTracker to get this information.I also find this information in Google AdWords.


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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Optimizing Your Wholesale Video Games Script: Answered!

You have your business idea, you have your wholesale video games business plan ready, and you want to start selling video game related merchandise to the world-wide-web, how do you do it correctly?The reality as far as an answer goes is that you have few options to start with.

You can build a website from scratch and invest more money.This will in turn need outside pocket income or current cash flow from any other of your businesses.That is surely a great option if you want to start from scratch.You then have the simpler yet greater option of buying up an established business.

In layman terms, buying an established business should mean that you could keep it successful and make it more profitable.If you have the capital for negotiating a deal, go for it as long you understand what are the repercussions and the responsibilities when you have invested your money.

Once you have decided in any of the options, be it buying a business or starting from scratch know that you will have to initially work harder than ever in order to make your online business succeed in the majority of the cases.One of the first things you will have to understand and know is to optimize your website.Sooner or later you will have to learn to do it yourself if you are serious about business.

It does not matter whether you are starting a wholesale video games store or anything relating to e-commerce business, you will need to become literate in basic HTML.Personally, I never liked HTML or anything related to code, however, most of the material you need to comprehend is basic and can be understood with minimal investment of your time.With that said, most of us just end up learning HTML either way even if we hated it.

Putting it in even better terms, having to learn HTML may be catalogued as boring for some of you, but if you are going to build success businesses online and you do not carry substantial capital to outsource everything at the beginning, why not start in early stages?Once you get over the facts, learn to optimize your website from top to bottom.

Even if you have a sophisticated script which you put all your products up for live offering, you still can optimize your site in order to rank higher on the search engines.There is always a way!Know that when someone refers to optimization it refers to structuring your website in order to rank better in the search engines.As you know if it comes to the best quality and it happens to be free, nobody should be able beat it.

So know that search engine traffic is among the top 3 choices of best traffic and also know that there are scripts that you can legally download for free if you are starting from scratch.But how do you optimize your ecommerce script?

Start by optimizing your title tags.Your title should be at the very beginning top area of your HTML code.Second, your description Meta tags.Optimize them with a short description with the most valuable facts about your online business.

Finally, you have to put relevant keywords that involve your wholesale video games business or ecommerce site.There is surely a lot more to learn about wholesale games and the electronic discount business, this is just a basic start.Just make sure you get the best advice when it comes to internet business when you search online, your precious resource called time is at stake all the time.
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Finding Wholesale List Suppliers online are one of the business components Joaquin serves as reference source, e-commerce coach and certified author.

His focus today is assisting people receive extra income through the acquirement of a Wholesale List


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Friday, December 12, 2008

Article Marketing; The Answer To All Your Marketing Needs

There is a tremendous number of things you can do to generate dozens of leads for your business without ever leaving your home, but one of the easiest, quickest, inexpensive most efficient ways is that of article marketing.Here's the main concept; you have a website which is under a certain niche, obviously you want to gain as many leads and traffic as you can because you know this is the best way to make money.So what you want to do is attract people to your website, and you can do this with article marketing.The basis of article marketing is to write an article or have someone else write it for you.This person will write the article in a round about way about your niche or your website including keywords in the article that you want.

This person will then write the article, include the keywords you want and if they are a good enough business they will offer some sort of a distribution process.In this process the article with your keywords and your anchor and link will be placed in what is referred to as an author box.An author box is an inclusion that the author includes at the end of the article, usually in some form of an html code.Once the writer is done and is ready to submit the article to directories they will then place all the needed info in the author box and in the submission form.Once the article is distributed it will be sent to hundreds if not thousands of directories, blogs, websites, newsletters and other places around the Internet.When people are searching for certain keywords that are in this article or are placed in the submission form or in the author box, this article will show up.This process is also a great way to get tons of backlinks!

Now say I write an article for an individual about laptops because they own an electronic store and want to start selling things on their website, mainly the laptops.This person will give me keywords such as, computer, laptop, notebook, networks, Internet, Sony, Toshiba, etc.I will then place the keywords within the article at least partially, then the rest will go in the submission form.When writing these articles the most important thing the writer can do is make it interesting, the reasoning for this is because you want to pique peoples interests and make them read the entire article and then see the anchor text at the bottom and click it.

When they click that text it will then lead him or her to the individuals website.Now what's nice about article marketing is you can include pretty much any link you want.So they could either give me the electronics main site link or they could give me the link to the laptops.This in turn, leads to a lot of targeted visitors, traffic, backlinks, page rank; which will make your website show up in the results of a search engine, and potential sales; if you do it right!It's important to remember that no matter what you, the writer may think of the persons website that you always try to write a content driven, keyword optimized, quality piece of work!Believe me, I have written articles in my time, to sites I didn't like, or didn't agree with, but I always try to put my best foot forward and do what is right for the customer.

Content still is and will always be KING!


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Monday, October 13, 2008

Improve Your Hiring Process with Pre-Employment Background Checks

Pre-employment background checks will reduce your organizations liability risk and help you trim down the costs incurred by expensive turnover. This article will confer you in addition to admonition that can help you learn how to maximize your recruiting set of rules and pre-employment situation checks. Whether youre an executive, a superior or a team chief, the beyond briefing will be accepted to you.

First-class for checking criminal records, falsified useful credentials and distinctive intense liabilities, environment checks basically certify admonition each time an personality has been fixed individual deceitful. Of comparable or more bountiful scrutinize are underlying attitudes, as anyways as actions at which an applicant has not been stuck, to Some wholly protect your firm opposition negligent taking proceedings and to assure you are hiring surefire, ethical, well-built-working people.

Knowing this awareness just about the recruits you employ is enormously essential since a affair can be trapped traceable for chances and crimes fanatical by its recruits.
Pre-trade situation checks can include:

Direct Criminal Database Atmosphere Checks
- Central Criminal Search plus SSN Clue
- Assert Criminal Hunt in addition to SSN Hint
- Sex Offender Registry
- Watch Calendar
- County Criminal Court Search
- Federal government Zone Criminal Find

Credit Firm Situation Checks
- Credit Bureau SSN Evidence
- job Credit Results

Civil Record Environment Checks
- County Civil Court Hunt
- Central Spot Financial ruin Search
- Federal government Location Civil Search

Proof Services
- Instruction Verification
- Occupation Testimony
- Specialist License Testimony

Remedy Screening Services
- Urinalysis - 5 & 10 Panel - Quest
- Urinalysis - 5 & 10 Panel - Labcorp

Motor Automobile Atmosphere Checks
- Driving Record

Homeopathic Tenderness Approve Database Services
- OIG LEIE Therapeutic Expulsion List
- OIG In addition to
- OIG In addition to as well as One Assert
- OIG Also and All 50 States

There are as well other pre-employment atmosphere checks meant not simply for hourly position applicants but for any outlook in your agency, entry-level to executive. They aggregate and analyze job candidates with reference to deepest integrity, items dirt, uniformity and textbook ethic. These pre-vocation atmosphere checks analyze male reserve administration disputes that are step by step eroding corporations productivity and profitability:
- Theft
- Fraud
- inventory shrinkage
- Unexcused absences
- Tardiness
- Remedy use
- Clocking in or out for variegated employees
- Exposing undisclosed announcement and/or traffic secrets to outsiders
- Carelessness
- Sub-par job act
- Job-prancing
- Unauthorized use of the Cyber web
- Using organization electronic mail for deepest use
- Disclosing inner most and forbidden machine record

Recruiting qualified, candid staff is opposition to the accomplishment of your business. Every day recruits and criminal archive, falsified teaching credentials and different intense liabilities are hired by corporations who disappoint to carefully experiment their backgrounds. Knowing the backgrounds of the recruits you engage is utterly the whole story because a business can be fixed trackable for lucks and crimes committed by its staff. The result can be acts leading to overpriced negligent employing complaints.

Pre-job surroundings checks will ascertain the accuracy and/or completeness of awareness supplied by job applicants - in advance recruiting and maneuvers -- and consequently ease the costs incurred by overpriced turnover and relieve your gamble of liability. By implementing pre-career surroundings checks into your employing system, your bureau will be able to understand and predict problematic staff issues at all levels of the agency by pre screening prospective people for routines in conduct. Still, you will be able to understand job applicants that are sincere, medicine absolved, guaranteed, and physically powerful performing. Pre-worker atmosphere checks throw in you opposition information for evoking employing decisions you wont act of contrition.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Dental Practice Consultant - 3 Steps You Must Take to Protect Your Practices No.1 Asset

As a service oriented business, you have one main asset your practice that you could not survive without... your patients.

But so many dental practices we see are more worried about where the next mouth will come from; when the next dollar is going to come through the door. All the while, ignoring the dollars and future dollars that have already walked in and out of their door several times.

As your practice grows, patients are not listed on a balance sheet, or a profit and loss statement, but they are the most valuable pieces to any practice. Every other piece of equipment in your office can be replaced, but if you lose the patients, none of it really matters.

This is what we call patient equity. The amount of investment of time and quality work you put into that patient is considered an investment in your patient equity. Like a house, having more equity in your patient base leads to a happier practice owner. Then, also like a house, your patient base can truly be considered an asset. As an asset your patient list is something you need to protect in more than one way.

Here are the 3 steps you must take to protect your practices 1 asset:

1. You MUST create a scheduled backup system. A copy of your patient list that is stored somewhere other than within your practice. Put it on CD every month or so, and put it in a safe deposit box.

If your practice heaven forbid burns to the ground, or someone breaks in and steals all your computer hardware, this backup will serve as a good starting point to get back up and running. The chairs and computers are replaceable, but the patients names and addresses are invaluable, and you cannot risk them.

2. Your patients security must be guarded. Secure the data on your computer server.

Chances are you have patient names, addresses, and even credit card numbers. This information needs to be password protected, as well as encrypted securely even in your practice software system. Ask your manufacturer how they protect your patients information, should the computer be stolen or your internet security compromised.

Should a compromise of information happen, it could mean disaster for your trustworthiness with your current patients, and your relationship with current and future patients may never recover.

3. You must take steps to maintain the patient/practitioner relationship and improve your patient equity. Protect yourself from losing your patients to other dentists. There are many facets to this, and they include everything from surveys to customer service.

Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks Owner and internet billionaire, once said about his basketball franchise, "Everyone has thousands of entertainment choices and we dont want to create any excuses for them to go and spend their money somewhere else." This is truly the way you must think in a 21st century service oriented business.

There are more places for a consumer to spend their money today, than there ever has been in the past. These opportunities range everywhere from flat screen televisions, to new cars, to full mouth "extreme makeover" restorations. You need to have the best customer service, the best staff, and do the best work to make sure there is no excuse for your patient to leave.

Sure, the attrition of some patients due to death or relocation has been accepted, but no controllable excuse should be tolerated. These people have money they are willing to spend with you, and you dont want to give them an easy reason to go away. You cannot neglect your future receivables. A future receivable is the money your patient has in their mind that they are willing to spend with you, even though they have not signed an agreement for treatment.

As an example, at my next dental appointment, I am going to spend 200 for an exam and cleaning. That is the dentists money to lose. If the office does something to lose me as a patient, or doesnt do enough to keep me from going somewhere else, the practice will lose my 200.

Future receivables, like patients, are not tracked on any balance sheet, and are hard to track at all, but be assured, every patient counts as a future receivable for your practice. Whether it is 200 or 2000, your patients do have an amount in mind that they are going to spend with you in the future.

The future receivables all figure into your patient equity. Take a good look at your schedule book for the next six months and you can get a good idea of what your revenues will look like. Thats your patient equity in action.

There are many steps you can and should be taking to protect this patient equity.

Before you go any further, each of your patients needs to have a solid foundation to build a relationship on. This means customer service, both on the phone and in person, needs to be near flawless. If you have a problem with an established patient, it may be forgivable, but with a new patient, it may lead to a rocky future, or no future at all.

The way to truly set your practice and business apart and lock in patient loyalty is through non-essentials. Providing current patient specials, referral contests, and patient-only events are all considered non-essentials. Utilize different methods to keep your current patients involved when they arent physically in the practice.

Other non-essentials include knowing details about your patients such as their occupation, their family, or their hobbies. The more you can entwine your practice in their life, the harder it will be for them to go anywhere else.

Of all of the steps to take, and possibly one of the simplest to provide is a simple newsletter. The patient newsletter can provide a bridge between hygiene recall appointments, and can serve as a line of communication, both outgoing and incoming. It also provides you with a great media to communicate with your patients about the other services and non-essentials you provide. This is the best way to retain and secure a patient in your practice.

In conclusion, make sure to protect your patient base. It is the most important asset you have in your practice. Create systems and provide training to build solid foundations on which to establish a patient relationship, and create an ongoing maintenance plan to continue investment in your patient equity.


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