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7 Ways To Establish Your Personal Brand For Online Business Success
November 8, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Whether you are a freelancer, internet marketer, offline business owner, or a recent college graduate who is looking for a job, you need to create a strong and professional online presence to succeed in today’s business world. How do you create an online profile that is recognizable and trustworthy? Follow the steps in this article and within a couple of months you will establish a polished online personal brand for yourself.
1. Get a domain. A top level domain, preferably a dot com domain, is a must for your personal brand. It can be a your name, your business name or some other assumed name that you want to associate yourself with. If you already own an offline business you can start with your business name.
Finding a short domain name is almost impossible these days. In most cases, you will be able to find a three words domain name easily. If your own name is somewhat unique, you can be that lucky one whose name is not already taken by domain squatters.
Use DomainBot to do your domain research. When you enter one or more keywords in the DomainBot search box, the website will suggest a large number of available domains that are different variations of your keywords. If you like a domain, you can directly register the domain with one of the domain registrars like godaddy or 1and1.
2. Get a website. After you register a domain, you need to get a web host to host your website. If you are absolutely not going to spend any money for web hosting, sign up for Google’s Blogger platform to start a blog. It is free. Use your own registered domain, instead of the default sub domain that Google offers for Blogger platform.
If you are ready to spend $25 a month, you can sign up for a reseller account at Hostgator. With a reseller account, you can create unlimited websites. Hostgator offers a commercial script library called Fantastico that automates installation of web applications in your sites. Start with installing a Word Press blog.
3. Get your globally recognized avatars. A globally recognized avatars or gravatar is a picture that follows you from site to site appearing next to your name when you do things like commenting in a blog, posting in web forums.
You can use your own picture or a professionally designed graphic image for your gravatar. If you are using a graphic picture, make it unique and get it done professionally. If it is your own picture, take the picture in a lighted area showing your face clearly.
4. Start a blog. Pick a few topics that you are interested in. One of them should be your chosen profession or business niche. Also pick topics related to your hobby or something that you want to learn more about.
Create an about page in your blog, put your avatars and tell your story in short 300-600 words. Make it interesting, intriguing, or humorous.
Go to Technorati, a blog directory, and search your topics to find blogs related to your interests. Subscribe to a dozen high quality, popular blogs using Google reader. Make a habit of reading a few interesting articles in your niche every day.
Now start writing your own articles for your blog regularly. If you like writing, you can write couple of times a week. If you have hard time coming up with topics to write about, start with a few articles a month and slowly work towards one article per week.
5. Visit blogs and forums related to your topic of interest. Leave insight full comments in other blogs and create interesting posts in forums. Create a forum signature with your gravatar in every forum you join.
Use a back link to your blog in your signature. When you create a post in a forum, your signature will be appended to your post. When you post a comment in a blog, use the URL of your blog and your gravatar name. You will be instantly recognized.
6. Create Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin Profiles. Facebook and twitter are two popular social media sites with millions of users. Facebook is mainly used for networking with like minded persons and Twitter is for sharing short timely messages about news, industry trends, interesting articles, and if you are doing any interesting thing. Linkedin is for exchanging information, ideas, and opportunities with professionals in your field.
Update Facebook status and post twitter messages every day. You can start with sharing interesting articles that you have read, productivity tips, interesting pictures, etc. You will soon find people start following you in Twitter if you are posting interesting things every day. Using Facebook’s friend suggestion tool, you can request friendship with others in the Facebook network.
7. Learn and use search engine optimization. It is a very valuable instrument at your disposal to propel you websites and social media profile pages for higher search engine rankings. You don’t have to be a professional in search optimization, just learn the basics and apply them whenever you create contents.
You don’t need to buy any expensive books or sign up for extensive training program. Use free information available online. You can start with SEOBook site and download some free ebooks on search engine optimization.
Make Money Online – Easy Tips on How to Increase Your Financial Resources
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Are you internet savvy? Do you like doing online transactions? Do you not have a job or are looking for something you can do for part-time? If you echo a solid yes to all of these questions, then this article is perfect for you. As here, we shall discuss ways by which you could earn more, without the scam and the hassle.
You are quite aware that with the advent of the internet, a lot of things and business process go online. As in marketing, currents trends are geared toward maximizing the World Wide Web technology to promote these products. Hence, we have the so-called online marketing.
Hold on, you do not have to be a firm or a professional to be able to do the marketing yourself. All it takes is a single computer with an internet connection and you can already make money online. What is more, you do not have to be a college graduate or someone who has a masters’ degree in economics to do the job best. Young or old can do it, be it a male or a female as it does not require specific gender neither age to qualify.
Make money online by being an affiliate marketer- it is so extraordinarily easy and shockingly simple. The notion of affiliate marketing has been around for some time now. You probably remember an incident or two when you visited this website where you saw this advertisement about a product. What you may be unaware of is that, regardless whether the advertisement looks so professions, it could be done by someone who does not have a proper training on the job.
Cutting the bush, you are probably in deep curiosity as to how to go for the make money online slogan by being an affiliate marketer. Well, there are easy and simple five steps.
When you promote Zero Friction Marketing, the first thing to do is to register at the site’s payment processer Clickbank. When you sign up for Clickbank, you will then be given the affiliate link. Your link will contain the Clickbank ID which will be given to you after you complete the sign up. Second, you can or opt to purchase your domain server- you need this because it can help you earn more money. It is the site where you can also provide your affiliate links for easier access to people. Third, you can write articles or you could hire someone to do it for you, at a cheap cost. Third, you could publish your marketing links through 2.0 websites. These websites are for free use; examples are Multiply and Wordpress. You could also advertise through online classifieds such as Craiglist and MySpace. There are a lot more than just these two sites. To make money online, everything is so easy and simple, right? All these at your own convenience.
Once you have done the five steps mentioned above, you are now ready to start with your affiliation. But how do you get paid? Do know that there are two popular ways of earning your points- Cost per Action (CPA) and Pay per Action (PPA). Between the two, CPA is more lucrative as you can get paid the range of $1-$40 depending on the gravity of your contribution. So what is this contribution? As for the PPA, you get paid for every click done by the end-user. As for the CPA, it requires getting some information from the end user such as zip codes,
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