Working From Home More Productive

10 Tips To Make Working From Home More Productive

by Jeremy Gislason

Working from home is a great thing, no doubt about it.

You can wear what you want. Keep you own hours. Eat and drink when you want. Surf the net without feeling like your boss is going to bust you.

You don’t have to worry about commuting and all of the stress associated with bumper to bumper traffic.

No annoying bosses to deal with anymore and you can take breaks when it suits you. In short, you control your own destiny.

All of those things are fantastic pros to owning your own business and working from home. However, there is a dark side.

There is the tendency to get sidetracked from the work that generates a profit and puts food on your table to the work you would maybe rather do at the moment like build that deck in your back yard, work on your car, or ugh…do the laundry.

There is also the tendency to lose track of time researching for your business or taking care of tasks that may be better suited for a different time or even handled by a different person.

All of these sidetracks, and many more, will take away from your daily productivity and essentially end up affecting your bottom line.

Here are 10 tips to help you stay on track and heading toward the profits you desire and deserve.

1. Organize everything. Having a system in place for your business, your home office, and your work time is essential to remain focused and productive. Develop a system of organizing your office files and your computer files. Make sure there is a place for everything including the stuff you got in the mail today. Some common file categories are:

• Expenses
• Bank accounts
• Receipts
• Customer files
• Contracts
• Payables
• Receivables
• Taxes
• Business entity documentation
• Marketing
• Copywriting ideas

On your computer it is often helpful to have a folder for every major aspect of your business with separate smaller folders contained inside if necessary. For example you could have a taxes folder on your computer with separate tax information stored in sub folders by date. Al l the tax information and documentation for each year would be stored in that year’s folder. The important thing to remember when developing a system of organization is to make sure that it is a system that will work for you, your business, lifestyle and needs. If it doesn’t you wont use it and it won’t do you any good.

2. Plan. Some people are planners and others are doers. To be a successful business owner, you have to be both. You have to plan it and then you have to do it. Plan your business, plan your year, plan your month, plan your week, plan your day. Task lists and project management systems are great tools for the day to day, month to month type planning. For longer range annual planning you will want to go back to your business plan and review, revise, and reassess it annually.

Goals are much easier achieved if you set out a plan to achieve them. This includes the small daily goals like calling that contact about that new joint venture idea you have. I’m sure you have already heard this, but good goals are measurable, relevant, timely, and attainable.

3. To do lists. To do lists or task lists as we talked about in #2 are essential to keep you on task and focused on your goal. Task lists also help keep you organized and they help you prioritize your day. If you’re like me, then they help to motivate you too. There’s something satisfying about crossing an item off of your task list, and conversely something terrifying about watching that task list grow and grow while doing nothing to shorten it and keep it under control.

4. Automate what you can. One of the fantastic things about working from home and owning an online business is that there are so many wonderful tools available to help make our lives easier. There are autoresponders and electronic shopping carts. Web tracking statistics and article submission software programs. Heck, there are even task list programs that will email you your task list for the day! Automating certain tasks will help take the burden off of your shoulders and free up your time to spend on more important tasks.

5. Keep real hours. One of the pitfalls of working from home is the tendency to work 12 hours a day. I know you’re thinking no way, I wouldn’t do that, but it happens and your friends, family, and even your pets suffer the consequences. You do too. All work and no play makes ….well you know the rest. Even if you LOVE your job, it is important to step away from it. Keep real hours. 9-5, 8-4, 10-6 it doesn’t matter. Do whatever works best for you and your business but when it comes time to clock out and eat dinner with your family – do it. Work isn’t going anywhere but your family is.

6. Let it go. This goes back to #5. When the horn blows and it’s time to turn off the computer and go to your child’s choir concert, be there with them in the moment. If your mind is at home thinking about the task you didn’t quite finish or the project you’re starting tomorrow, you’re not truly with your child.

7. Track your hours. Tracking the hours you work and the time it takes to accomplish certain tasks can be an eye opening experience. You may find that the copywriting you think is only taking you an hour a day is actually taking you two. You may also find that your administrative tasks are taking significantly less time than you thought they were or that answering emails consumes half of your day. Tracking your time is essential if you want to later determine the value of it.

8. Plan your admin time. Use the time of day that you are most productive for the tasks that are important to your business. You can easily handle your administrative tasks during the time of the day when you’re unable to focus as well or are likely to have more interruptions.

9. Outsource what you can. Since there are only 24 hours in a day and 5 days in a working week, it may not be possible to get everything done. If you can fit it into your budget to outsource some of the more time consuming, and less appealing tasks, it may be worth your while to do so. Particularly if your time would be better spent on tasks that generate revenue.

10. Identify your time stealers. Everyone has time stealers. Some get easily distracted by email. Others find themselves spending too much time networking online or researching. You likely know what your time stealers are. If you don’t track what you do during the workday and how much time you spend doing it. The results will be interesting.


Once you know where you’re losing time, you can take measures to eliminate it.

For example, if email is stealing your time, schedule checking your email into your task list in the morning, at lunch and near the end of the day. That way you’re not responding to every new email in your inbox.

Working from home is a joy but it takes a bit of structure and discipline if you want to be productive. Using these ten tips as guidelines, you’ll be well on your way to a productive, and profitable future.


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Successful Joomla Web Site

7 Steps For Building Successful Joomla Web Site

by Christopher Nielsen

Step One: Defining your business goals.

The first step in this process is to clearly understand what the goals are for investing your time and money into this project. What quantifiable results do you want to achieve with this initiative and who else will be involved in the process of achieving these goals. Very much like starting any new business you want a clear understanding of your SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats).

Two: Defining your Project Plan.Step

Once you have a clear idea where you are going you need to develop a strategic plan for getting there. Project plans need to consider where you want to go both short term and long term with this project. It needs to have a focused and phased approach that takes into consideration your available time and resources over time to sustain this project. It needs a timeline and content acquisition checklists that will help you stay on target and on focus with your priorities.

Step Three: Defining the Look and Feel.

The first actual development tasks with your Joomla Project are to define your Joomla Website design and choose your template or process of implementing one. There are three key parts of a template you need to consider:

1. Graphical design elements: Colors and style
2. Layout options: Wireframes or in Joomla terms Module Positions
3. Features and Functionality: Standards compliance, special modules and capabilities.

It is important to realize that the Joomla template is a foundation for which you will build your site and you need to consider this decision carefully. However, you can easily change templates in the future with often little effort.

Step Four: Defining Content and Navigation.

Now that you know how you want your Joomla web site to unfold, both from a design perspective and from a roadmap ahead you can start mapping out the intended content and collecting any graphics or generating article copy. Typically you will want to bring every page of content into an offline document that can be edited prior to inserting into your new site. Sometimes if this is a site redesign you can cut and paste from an existing site. If you plan to get the most out of search engine optimization you will want to get targeted keywords generated and pass these on to your authors for consideration in developing the copy.Now is a good time to think about the Sections and categories for which you will organize your content and how you want your users to navigate with the best possible user experience. It is a good idea to use a mind mapping tool to define your site navigation.

Step Five: Features and Functionality.

With a clear understanding of the content you want to present and manage you will have a better idea of the types of Joomla Extensions that you will need to implement this. With over 4000 extensions and the list is growing every day, you may need to make lists of the options, compare the features and review the demos and reviews before installing them on your site. Once you have narrow this down you can then test them on your new site once you get it installed. Sometimes you may find that there are not existing components that provide the features or functionality that you need. This will require creating a development spec that clearly itemizes the features you want to add to an existing extension or for building a custom extension for your site. It is a good idea to get this sorted out early in your development process.

Step Six: Installation and Configuration.

Once we have all of our objectives, a defined roadmap, site plan and specific template in hand we can begin the installation and configuration process. Some ISPs have automated tools for installing Joomla but I prefer to get the latest release directly from the Joomla.org site and to install it manually. Once Joomla is installed we go through a process of configuring this specific for your needs. Installing extensions, installing the template and setting up the parameters, once you get the baseline of your site configured with all of the components, modules and plug-ins and perhaps a couple place holder content articles and menu items it is a good idea to make a back up copy of this and there are inexpensive extensions that can automatically do this for you.

Step Seven: Populate your Joomla web site with content.

Having a good baseline for your framework in place and backed up prior to beginning to populate content and fine tuning the configurations helps you move quickly and safely through the content population stage in your project. This is the point where we provide training or you would go through tutorials on content management techniques. Once you get this underway most of the outcome is in your hands. With a good support team that is well rounded in both strategy, branding and marketing expertise as well as the technical support and programming expertise you can increase your effectiveness through a collaborative Joomla Website Development approach. We highly recommend that you work with a qualified team to guide you through this process. In the end it will give you a much more professional web site, better train your team and give you the technical support to get the very best value out of your investment.

Moving Forward


Joomla CMS is a superior choice for growing a solid business online. There are endless extensible possibilities and freedom to expand this as a platform for success. There are many other steps you can take to optimize your content and leverage more in-depth capabilities of the Joomla framework over time but this should get you an overview of the initial steps for getting started. With a good strategic and tactical plan you can keep your focus. In a world fill with exciting possibilities it is very important not to lose sight of your intended business results. Regardless of your web expertise, choosing a qualified support team to help you build, launch maintain your project will give you the very best return on your time and capital investment.

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Christopher Nielsen is CRM 2.0 Certified, an award winning multimedia producer and open source technology expert. With rich product knowledge on systems such as Joomla CMS and Info at hand CRM systems. As the founder of CNPintegrations.com he is the principle CRM consultant, software configuration specialist and Social CRM technology evangelist.
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Is Facebook Falling Apart?

by Robert D Lockard

Is Facebook dying? That's the topic of an astonishing New York Times article, entitled "Facebook Exodus." Author Virginia Heffernan starts by pointing out:

The exodus is not evident from the site's overall numbers. According to comScore, Facebook attracted 87.7 million unique visitors in the United States in July.

But while people are still joining Facebook and compulsively visiting the site, a small but noticeable group are fleeing - some of them ostentatiously.

I've written about Facebook several times in the eHarbor Blog, usually noting its strength and rapid growth. Along with Twitter, it is leading the social-media revolution - or fad - that could change search engines and other aspects of the Internet or just peter out.

This article grabbed my attention and demanded I discuss it.

You should definitely check out the New York Times article because it tells five stories about individuals who left Facebook for a variety of reasons. They are all quite compelling.

One felt his privacy was violated by Facebook, and another felt she was wasting too much time on the website.

The feelings of privacy violation are completely understandable, and perhaps even unavoidable. Facebook is a social network so its information is not meant to be completely private.

Perhaps people's concerns are just the result of their own carelessness in posting too much information or not studying the rules to keep it hidden. Or maybe it's a combination of shifting, hidden or hard-to-understand rules, as well as people's decisions not to read the fine print.

Heffernan notes, "As Facebook endeavors to be the Web's headquarters - to compete with Google, in other words, and to make money from the information it gathers - it's inevitable that some people would come to view it as Big Brother."

The part of the article that really took my breath away was when a prolific Facebook poster said the site felt dead to her a few months ago, even though it was still experiencing explosive growth. That struck me as incredibly odd. She noted the novelty of finding people on Facebook is wearing off, and I suddenly started looking at Facebook in a whole new light. Maybe Facebook's services never really had a future, but they were just a fun diversion - a flash in the pan.

The last paragraph in the New York Times article sums it all up nicely:


Is Facebook doomed to someday become an online ghost town, run by zombie users who never update their pages and packs of marketers picking at the corpses of social circles they once hoped to exploit? Sad, if so. Though maybe fated, like the demise of a college clique.

This internet marketing article was originally posted at www.submitsolution.com


An article by Robert D Lockard. More internet marketing articles can be found at www.submitsolution.com

An Exit Strategy?

Did You Design Your Website with An Exit Strategy?

by B Hopkins

Most businesses use their web site to do many of the basic functions that off-line tools and marketing systems do; sales, branding, market research, customer service, etc.

Most businesses typically use their web site for 1 or 2 of the functions listed above and rarely more that 3 at the same time.

It all depends upon what the business owner wants to get out of their web site, however, how many of them design their web site with an exit strategy?

What is an exit strategy?

In this case it is the way in which you are going to end the ownership of your website. Will you just close your web site down or will you get your investment back and sell it?

Most business owners just close their web site down when they are done with it and fail to realize that they could be flushing a valuable asset down the drain.

It would be similar to walking away from your store and leaving the inventory, customer list and all of your trade secrets behind for who ever is clever enough to come by and salvage what is possible.

If you have your web site for several years, over that time you have developed a following, traffic, content, gained a lot of knowledge about your niche based upon customer buying patters, or visitor traffic patterns, and so much more.

You don't realize that it is an asset. If you can determine how much your web site makes per month, you can know how much you can sell it for.

If you have a sizable email list, you have an asset that a smart email marketer can make use of to generate even more income on a monthly basis.

If you get considerable traffic to your website, and your website is not branded to who you are (such as oprah.com), then you should create an exit strategy based on how much you can get from your web site when you decide to sell it.

If your are going to sell off your business, your web site will add that much more to the value of your business when you sell it. How can you know how much to sell your web site for? There are some websites out there that will give you an estimate of how much your web site is worth. Some of the factors these sites take into account include:

The amount of traffic your website gets

The number of Inbound links your website has

It's popularity in the Web 2.0 Space

How much it comes up in the search engines.

Domain Name


How many directories your website is included in.

When building and marketing your web site, you will want to incorporate as many of these factors as you can. Be sure to build your web site so you can easily add content, and always add new links pointing to your web site as well through the numerous linking strategies that are available.

You want to create your website with as much value as possible. If you create your website with the mindset that you will sell it, you will end up with a web site that has much more value in a few years than if you just put one up as an online brochure.


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Offline Tactics

7 Offline Tactics To Drive Visitors To Your Website

by Neil Stafford

Most of my business is web-based, but I use all and every marketing technique that can boost my sales.

Offline and online together gives you a good mix of marketing processes to use if one or other slows down or stops completely.

These are 7 offline ways I use to drive visitors to my website and they should be part of your marketing strategy too.

1) Classified Ads Out of date?
You would be surprised how effective small classified adverts in niche magazines are in driving people to a website. Because you only have a few words, treat it like a Google Ad. Keep the headline relevant, the text topical and end with a call to action to visit your website for more information. I also give a telephone number for people to call for more information.

Why? Because it gives me the opportunity to get a mailing address which I can use. I then send offline mailings and postcards to them at a later date and this has proved very successful.

2) Display Advert
A bigger statement, but also a lot more expensive. Usually a quarter, half or full page of the publication so you can make more use of your headline and body text to create interest and give them more reasons why they should visit your website.

Because of the increased cost, you need to think this carefully as it is not always justified. Remember to test all adverts that you run for responsiveness to the advert AND conversion to sales.

3) Flyer or Insert
This is so simple you must implement it immediately. With every physical order you send out to new customers include a flyer that advertises another of your products and / or website. Once those customers have bought from you they have confidence in you and now is the ideal time for them to buy from you again.

Flyers are also a cheap and effective way to reach new customers when you have a Joint Venture (JV) arrangement with another business. For instance, we have a Junior Soccer Site and so an ideal JV would be with a major sporting goods supplier. Every time they send out an order, we have a potential new customer reading our flyer, at very little cost to us.

4) A Full Direct Mail Pack
Direct mail is a specialised area and you need to treat it with caution as it's easy to lose money when you don't know what you are doing. With direct mail you must understand your lifetime customer value and have a good knowledge of your response and conversion metrics to be successful.

In the past I have experimented and tested including a web address on my order form to see if that had any effect on orders. The results were variefd because in one niche market it increased my normal conversion levels but in another it showed a fall.

I can't be certain why; but one theory is that by including a web address on your order form you are giving your customer the option to put your order to one side to 'deal with later online', but usually 'later' means they won't get round to it.

5) A Single Letter or Postcard
I successfully use this technique a lot with existing customers or customers who haven't bought from me in a while and need rejuvenating with a new offer.

Keep it simple with a personal, one page letter or postcard giving a small amount of information and a call to action directing your customer to a website.

6) Seminars
Once your business becomes successful you will probably be asked to speak at, or run, seminars and workshops on your niche topic and it is a great way to promote your product or service.

You must always, always, include a web address within your presentation to direct your audience for t more information about you or your products. I recommend you put up a special page for the event you are at and tell people they can download your presentation (or offer a special report) if they visit the site and leave their name and email address.

Also, get the most from your business card and make sure it has a call to action on it as well as your details. Offer it to those you meet during the event and give them a reason to contact you afterwards.

7) Books
Books are an excellent marketing tool and not as hard to write or produce as you might think. In the book you can place bounce back offers directing people to your websites for more information or free downloadable gifts and you can use the book to place adverts for your own products or services.


By selling it you can increase your profits, or just give it away as a bonus at seminars and generate more traffic to your website.

These 7 simple offline techniques will drive online sales. Don't make the mistake of thinking that an online business only means you do everything on the Internet.


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Free Traffic Secrets - VII

Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is definitely one of the most effective forms of free advertising. If you've got time on your hands, but no money to advertise, this should be your first choice.

Forums are free advertising sources and if you spend an hour a day posting in multiple forums you will capture leads and you will make sales -- for any product you promote.

The concept is simple. You act as if you are not selling anything (which in fact, you are not!) All you are doing is interacting with people that match the product you are promoting and are therefore likely to buy it if they look at the offer.

Your offer is appended to your signature automatically in every post you make.

Here’s a sample signature you can use:

Still Struggling to Make Money Online?
I'm not - Click here to find out why...
==> http://affiliatecashsecrets.com

The job is simply to have fun! That's it! Really there are no catches here, no strange angles. The only thing you can't do is talk openly about the product you are promoting because it just doesn't work.

Here are five approaches to successful forum marketing:

1. Answer questions. If you're an expert on the topic, you can easily help people who ask questions in the forum.

2. Ask a question. If you're not an expert on the topic (i.e. affiliate marketing) there must be a lot of things you want to know. This is a quick and legitimate way to add a lot of posts to any forum.

3. Ask for a critique. Say you write an article and post it in your blog. Make a quick post to ask what people think. You'll not only get exposure for your signature. You'll also get a good back link to your blog.

4. Ask for an opinion. If you come across a product or service and want to research it first. Forums are a great place to find out. For instance, you could make a post that says, "Has anyone had any experience with this product...?" It's that simple. Just go to ClickBank and ask about every product in the marketplace!

5. Offer an article. You wrote an article, published it to your blog, and asked for a critique in the forums. Now go back and make a post offering your article for publication with the condition that they leave your resource box intact.

To get started, visit one of the high-traffic forums below and sign up for an
account.

AssociatePrograms.com - Affiliate Marketing Forum
eWealth.com - the #1 Affiliate Hangout
Internet Based Moms - Forum for Work-at-home Moms
Money Maker Group - Forum About Making Money
Work at Home - Work at Home Business Forum

Next, log in and then click Profile at the top. This is where you can add your
signature, which will appear at the end of every post you make.

Read the rules about posting. Basically, you either ask specific and relevant
questions or you answer questions by replying to posts.
Start by looking at what others are posting and how people are replying to those
posts. Once you get a feel for it, post as much and as often as you can. Never
advertise in your posts (except where permitted). Let your signature do the work
for you.

And don't forget to use a tracking link so you know where your sales are coming
from...

You can get a surprisingly large amount of sales from affiliate links that were
posted in forums on discussions about the programs you promote. You should say something positive about the product and then ask if anyone has heard of it.

There are a lot of newbies posting in forums who are desperately seeking direction to help them start making money online. Whenever you see a post like that, reply and say, "Hey - Check out this site..." and explain how it really helped you.

And make sure you leave your affiliate link in your signature.

by Derrick Van Dyke
http://affiliatecashsecrets.com

Free Traffic Secrets - VI

Blogging for Profit

If you want to generate consistent, long-term traffic and sales, you need to start
blogging. It takes time to build a blog. But if you do a little each day, you'll profit in the long run.

The first thing you want to do is go to Blogger.com and create a blog. You're going to post content in your blog so it gets picked up by search engines.

Blogger.com is owned by Google. So everything you post gets into the Google Search engine eventually. You're also going to use Ping-O-Matic to notify all the blog services about your posts so you get into other search engines like Yahoo! and MSN.

Next, you need to get some articles up so you can get an Adsense account and make a little money with that too. You need some content in your blog before you can isplay Adsense ads and affiliate links.

You can write your own articles (if you have time), have a freelance writer do it,
or you can get free articles at EzineArticles.com.

Setting Up Your Blog

Just go to Blogger.com and create a new blog. You'll want to create a new blog
for every product you promote. I recommend you start with Affiliate Cash Secrets
for your first promotion because the affiliate program pays up to 75% commission
monthly.

Once you create your blog, go to Settings. Under the Basic tab, add a description of your blog.

The title can just be “Affiliate Cash Secrets.” I put “Building Your Automatic Money Machine” for the description. But you can enter whatever you want.

I also set Show Email Posts to NO. I don't want any distractions in my blog. No
external links, etc. My visitors are there to do one thing of two things: click on an affiliate link or an Adsense ad.

Next click the Formatting tab. Select "Show 1 Post on the main page." I only want
one article on each page because that gives the reader a stopping point where they come to my resource box and click through to my site.

Post template - here's where you can add your resource box to appear on each
page. It will not update your entire blog. But it will appear in the HTML editor
every time you make a post.

Now click the Comments tab.

Default - new posts do NOT have comments. Again, you don't want any
distractions on your site. This isn't a "fun blog," it's a "money blog."

Finally, click the Template tab. If you want a different template, click “Pick New.”
Google has a ton of tutorials on how to edit your template so I won't cover that
here. But you'll notice on my blog that I changed my Links and put the Adsense
ads on the side bar.

When you're finished posting, go to Pingomatic.com and enter your blog name
and URL. This will notify all the search engines that your blog has been updated.
Only ping when you have added new content or made significant changes to
your blog.

I would add about 10 pages to start. Then add 3-5 pages a day. After 3 months
at 5 pages a day, you will have 450 pages listed in the search engines. That
could easily generate a few hundred visitors a day to your blog.

Back Links from sites with a PR (page rank) of 5 or more will significantly
increase your search engine rankings. And you'll get crawled faster too. You can
see the page rank of any site by installing the Google Toolbar at
http://toolbar.google.com

To get free back links, you'll need to submit your original articles to these directories. You can use articles from the directories below as examples to write
your own. Just make sure the end result is original content. And if your article is
good, it may get reprinted by thousands of publishers.

EzineArticles.com - PR6
ArticleCity.com - PR6
GoArticles.com - PR5
IdeaMarketers.com - PR5
SiteProNews.com - PR4

by Derrick Van Dyke
http://affiliatecashsecrets.com

Free Traffic Secrets - V

List Building Networks

Just as the title indicates, these services allow you to build your own mailing list.

List building networks are based on a multi-level matrix anywhere from 7 levels deep to infinity. It's based on the same concept of M-L-M.

While I don't recommend using Viral Traffic Exchanges as your only promotion strategy, it is a great way to generate 100% free traffic over time.

The key to success with these multi-level traffic generators is to get other people
(your downline) to promote for you. You do that by helping them succeed.

Here's an example. If you get 10 people to sign up with Your Lucky List, your hope is that each of them will sign up 10. Now you have 100 people in your downline. And if each of those hundred sign up 10, you have 1000 in your downline.

That's in a perfect world. But it doesn't usually work that way. Most people won't
take action and promote it. So you don't build a downline and your traffic is minimal (at best).

So the big secret in any MLM is to train your front line to promote and encourage them to do the same for their front line. You multiply your efforts by training others to build your downline for you.

Once you get a few people on your list, you can send your email ad to everyone
in your downline (usually once a week). Your downline cannot send messages to you. But you agree to receive email from everyone in your upline.

You can filter these emails into the trash, but I don't. Instead, I filter them into a folder because they contain ads that I may want to use later in my own
advertising. And sometimes I find good offers on products to buy and sell.

Here are the top list builders online:
Your Lucky List
ListDotCom
Viral List Builder

by Derrick Van Dyke
http://affiliatecashsecrets.com

Free Traffic Secrets - IV

Traffic Exchanges

An easy way to get free traffic is through exchanges. You just have to enter your
websites URL or affiliate link and it will be displayed in rotation with other
members of the traffic exchange. You can also get traffic credits for referring
other people.

These are the best traffic exchange services to use:
Instant Buzz
Traffic Swarm
Hit Pulse

Some traffic exchanges require you to add code to your web page to create an
exit popup. Each time an ad is shown on your site, your ad is show somewhere
else.

But you don't lose anything because an ad only pops up if someone leaves
your site.

If you don't have a website, you can just as easily ad the exchange code to a
blog or a free web host. Many of which have built-in HTML editors to build your
web pages.

Here are some free places to create your pages:

Blogger - create a free blog and post your affiliate content and exchange
code.
FreeWebs - this service is free and they also have an online page builder.
DotEasy - You get free hosting if you purchase a domain name there

by Derrick Van Dyke
http://affiliatecashsecrets.com

Free Traffic Secrets - III

Classified Ads

Internet classified ads are just like the classified ads that are in your local
newspaper. The only difference is that they are on the Internet.

Most of the free classified ads are junk and never get read. Look for sites that are
well organized and up to date. In most cases, paid ads will produce better
results. However, I will recommend Mike Filsaime's Free Advertising Blog
because his website gets a ton of traffic and you can post your ad every day.

Remember, any classified ad you place is a teaser. Your only goal is to get
people to click on your link. So write short, compelling ads similar to those you
see on Google.

Here are some classified ad companies to start with:

Yahoo Classifieds
Squidoo
Craig's List
Nation Wide Newspapers
INETGIANT
Home Business Mag
Classified Ads.com
US Free Ads
Ad Land Pro
Internet Based Moms
Cash From Home

by Derrick Van Dyke
http://affiliatecashsecrets.com

Free Traffic Secrets - II

How to Write Effective Ads

Are you familiar with ADIA? It's an acronym that stands for: Attention, Desire,
Interest, Action.

This is a tried and true copywriting technique you should always refer to when
you write any advertisement.

1. Get the readers Attention with a captivating headline.Your ad is going to be next to many others, so you need to stand out in the crowed.

2. Maintain their Interest with benefits that support the claims made in the headline. Let them know what you're offering.

3. Create Desire by telling them what they they'll get if they take action right now. People want to know, "What's in it for me."

4. Give them an obvious call to Action. Click the link below... Sign up now... Hurry before it's too late...Don't miss your chance to... etc.

Creating Unique Ads

Most affiliate programs provide pre-written ads for you to use – While it is
convenient, you'll get much better results make them unique.

1. Add a personal endorsement. With all the hype online, people are more
likely to read and click on something that you personally recommend.

2. Include a testimonial from the salesletter for the product you are
promoting. That's an easy way to get content for a good solo ad.

3. Use other people's ads. One of the easiest ways to come up with ideas for
good ads is to subscribe to a slew of marketing lists and look for ads that
catch your eye. Modify them to fit the product you're promoting and add
your own personal touch. You can use this method to build a massive
portfolio of great ads.

by Derrick Van Dyke
http://affiliatecashsecrets.com

Free Traffic Secrets - I

Introduction

There’s no way around it…if you want to make money online, you have to get
people to visit your site (or the site that you’re promoting).

But advertising can be expensive and risky. There’s no guarantee that you’ll ever see a return on your investment.

While there is no way around driving traffic to your website there is a way around
having to pay for it. And that is exactly what this report is all about.

On the following pages, you will find simple, proven and effective ways to get free
traffic so you don’t have to spend money driving visitors to your website.

Why is this so important?

Because, when you think about it, what is the biggest most expensive part of
your business that eats away at your profits?

In most cases, it is the advertising that takes money straight out of your pocket every single month!

The methods and advice in this blog will allow you to bypass the largest expense
of your Internet business, and that’s worth a lot (regardless of how much you spend on advertising).

by Derrick Van Dyke
http://affiliatecashsecrets.com