So I am a new fan of poker after having watched it countless times on ESPN as they advertise the 2009 WSOP. I am a starter and found a great site with tips for the noob. The site itself is very easy to navigate through but has taught me how to play AA and KK right and how to avoid the bad beats. Articles are posted everyday so content is fresh and most of the time new. Well for me it’s great because I’m starting out in the world of poker online. Signing up to sites like Pokerstars. Visit the site www.QubeBlog.com to learn how to play poker, watch videos, talk about strategy, and much more
We all know how well wordpress as a blog platform works. I actually love using wordpress and in my opinion I think it’s the best CMS (Content Management System) compared to the others for the ease of use and versatility. There are so many wordpress plug ins it is insane.
I do want to go ahead and recommend one product, that product is Artisteer. It is a great tool to use just because it gives you great “one of a kind” templates for wordpress. You won’t find these themes anywhere else besides the Artisteer program itself. It also allows you the power to customize the themes for your own usage. Basically this program here is a wordpress site builder.
The program gives you free upgrades for a year as well as design suggestions and features it also allows you to export these themes as:
- XHTML+CSS
- WordPress Theme
- Joomla 1.5 Template
- Drupal 5/6 Theme
- DotNetNuke 4.9+ Skin
- ASP.NET Application
- CodeCharge Studio
You are also provided with 200 + stock photos you can use on your site. It’ll be great for those corporate/business professional themes you want to create.
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Yes so i started this blog almost two months ago..we’re getting down to it where i’m almost at 100 hits….you may think to your self 100 hits in two months what a joke…..yeah. i know but i don’t promote this blog at all…it just sits and cruises along for the ride. Give me the hundred and I’ll give you guys a cookie! ha
So I was looking to buy books for next semesters classes for my little sister. I goto Campusbooks.org it’s like the best site ever. Any ways it searches through half.com, ebay, abebooks, and other popular websites. I ran into a cheap book about $35 cheaper. I go and buy the book for $98. One thing that’s weird here is because I ordered some books from them before and I got them on time and never complained. This time I go out order it and I ask where my book is they provide me with a tracking number shipped by a “unknown” company. When you click on the company url it states that they no longer deal with Textbooksnow.com I think to myself thats fairly odd. So its been three weeks I email them and still no answer they took my $98 and ran with it.. Don’t order from this site
Do you need ideas for promoting? As a business owner I’ve gone through a great deal of finding ways to get exposure to my business. It’s a tough economy but as a business you should advertise even if it’s a little bit. Advertising is one of the key ingredients to a successful business. Many large corporations spend millions coming up with ad campaigns.
As a small business you want to do the same thing that these large corporations are doing as well. However, I’m sure you don’t want to be spending millions of dollars on advertising. Maybe you don’t have a budget that big but you need to at least do some advertising.
A cheap way to get exposure is using banner stands. These are portable and can get heads turning quickly. You can use them indoors or outdoors. You have a wide variety of ways to use banner stands as well as being cheap. It’s both versatile and affordable. I buy my own banner stands from retractablebannerstands.us You can find a lot of sellers but I’ve determined that this place is the cheapest. The place I get my banner stands from even installs them for me when I send them an image to print. Easy and cheap is the way to go.
With tough times, giving yourself some exposure is always good. If your competitors aren’t doing it than you should do it.
I myself, believe that I have a business mindset. I have always had a business mindset, I think it’s a gift that makes me unique. Of course you sit there and say, “Oh I have a business mindset as well.” But to be successful in business one must experience the ups and downs of a business. Creating a start up and gaining a great reputation from it takes hard work. It is not easy starting a business, those who have a business mindset must be able to apply their concepts in order to have a business mindset.
Once you start your business is when your business mindset comes in. How does one deal with certain issues and scenarios is where this business mindset truly is. Everyone at some point wants to start a T-shirt business…eventually making it a clothing line. I know I was one of those people. I had truly had my eyes on it because well it was so easy to do. Buy some T shirts, Screen Print them, Sell them. Sounds easy right? Wrong.
I had assembled a team with two friends. One was an artist by heart, who loved to draw and had a creative mind. The other was a web designer who constantly updated his myspace layout every two weeks or so. Me? I was the business man, I was the capital. I was the man who would take control and approve everything that was going on. Mind you these two guys are also my friends. I had done research, finding ways to cut costs and produce the cheapest high quality t shirt I could come up with. Thought about the things that could go wrong and solutions. Well solutions to the material/ shirt process….however I missed the fact that I was working with my friends that had no capital in the business. They didn’t care if it succeeded, it was a hobby. Maybe my business mindset got in the middle of it. But it was a Fail, they had no desire no determination to achieve the product that I wanted.
Anyways, one of the friends to this day wants to start up another T shirt company and consults with me , the one with the “business” mindset. I find it interesting that you know somethings people overlook when it’s just common sense to look at it. To this day, I am still a consultant for my friend. Failures in the past, but with so much knowledge gain. Hopefully it works out for my friend I don’t know as there is so much competition with this industry of silk screening tees. Like I stated earlier, you can have a business mindset but till you start one that’s when you know if you have what it takes to succeed. Look at great entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, a college drop out, and play boy Richard Branson. They have that mindset to distinguish their company and therefore give them their own competitive advantage
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101 Ways to drive traffic to your site
September 9, 2009 in Uncategorized | Tags: social book marking, facebook, twitter, SEO, increase traffic, blog, professional blog, ping, rss feeds, comments, writing, content, articles | Leave a comment
Hello All,
Just compiled my list for the best ways to get traffic to your site check out hte list
101 ways to drive traffic to your website
1. Join MyBlogLog, add friends, and join communities.
2. Sign up for Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes.
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators.
4. Submit your blog to all of the directories on Robin Good’s list of RSS directories.
5. Use trackbacks.
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches.
7. Tell your friends about your blog and specific posts.
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.
9. Create link bait.
10. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog.
11. Write press releases for your blog.
12. Link liberally to other blogs in your posts (many bloggers check who links to them).
13. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in.
14. Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire.
15. Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.
16. Answer questions on Yahoo answers with the answers on your blog.
17. Answer questions on forums related to your niche with a link to one of your blog posts that answers the question.
18. Set up a feed on MyYahoo so that Yahoo keeps better track of your blog.
19. Make lists (My Top 5…, Ten Things…, etc.). Many of the most popular blog posts are lists like this one.
20. Use pictures. Most of the top trafficed blogs use pictures in their posts.
21. Use video on your blog.
22. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it.
23. Be the first to break a news story.
24. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts.
25. Write controversial posts.
26. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post.
27. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed.
28. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts.
29. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.).
30. Interview well known people in your industry (it’s working well for me).
31. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts.
32. Don’t be boring.
33. Write for beginners.
34. Participate in group writing projects.
35. Participate in blog memes.
36. Create a blog meme and tag your friends.
37. Participate in blog carnivals.
38. Post at different times of the day.
39. Submit your best posts to article directories.
40. Write Killer Content.
41. Start a group blog. These tend to get more traffic, because more people are creating conent and more people are promoting it.
42. Have guest posters.
43. Create a blog meme and tag an A-list blogger who you like.
44. Submit your blog to regular web directories (like DMOZ, etc.).
45. Join SpicyPage and promote your blog on it.
46. Join a blog webring.
47. Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog on it.
48. Join LinkAndBlog and do link and blog challenges.
49. Submit your best posts to Netscape.
50. Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.
51. Trade blog roll links with related blogs.
52. Sign up for Rojo. Subscribe to your feed and click “add mojo” on your better articles.
53. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments (I REALLY need to do this).
54. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg).
55. Add a tell-a-friend script or plug-in to your posts.
56. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser.
57. Make it easy for people to link to your blog.
58. Use easy to read fonts.
59. Use a professional looking blog design.
60. Make your blog easy to navigate.
61. Highlight your most popular posts.
62. Write posts that ask provocative questions.
63. Use questions for the title of your blog posts (you knew that was coming).
64. Use good keywords in your post titles.
65. Reply to every question you get through email.
66. Reply to every question you get on your blog.
67. E-mail other bloggers about your really good post(s) (breaking news posts).
68. Offer free stuff related to your niche (tools, ebooks, etc).
69. Run a contest.
70. Publish videos on YouTube with the URL for your site at the beginning and end of the video.
71. Install a translation plug-in or use a translation service to translate your blog into foreign languages.
72. Put Your URL on everything that goes out of your house (business cards, stationary, mailing labels, etc.).
73. Go through listible.com’s list of web 2.0 sites and promote your blog on all web 2.0 sites that apply.
74. Search for Wikis related to your niche to submit your blog to. For example, for this blog the search phrase would be “make money online wiki” or “internet marketing wiki”.
75. Give regular polls (use a poll plug-in like democracy for this).
76. Add trivia quiz pages.
77. Add ecard pages.
78. Add a forum for your visitors to discuss more on your niche.
79. Add a wiki to your blog .
80. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog from articles you write.
81. Join Blink List and make a list of blogs with your blog in it.
82. Join 43 Things and write a list of 43 things you want to achieve (include your blog url in the list).
83. Join Blogger Party (and/or other free blog systems). Then write posts that link back to your blog.
84. Make a Squidoo lens (or more than one) with a link to your blog.
85. Provide Wikipedia articles with links to your blog where it makes sense.
86. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog (like John Chow).
87. Join Blog Catalog (kind of like MyBlogLog).
88. Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.
89. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
90. Use good grammar. People will be happy with your writing.
91. Submit your blog to directories in your niche.
92. Email or Instant message your friends to Digg, stumbelupon, etc. your post.
93. Link to your blog from other websites and blogs you own.
94. Write a post about the top x bloggers in your niche or state or country, etc. Then tell them about, so they will want to link back to you.
95. Promote your posts on related newsgroups.
96. Post frequently.
97. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.
98. Search for .edu sites with link pages, forums, directories, and wikis to submit your link to.
99. Give out blogging awards and tell the bloggers you are giving the awards to about it.
100. Pray. (That’s just always good advice)…
101. Make a 101 list.