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The idea of viral marketing is one of the more recent ways of marketing to come to the Internet. As the word ‘viral’ suggests, it depends on people passing your promotional material around like a cold. It would normally travel from friends and colleagues to their friends and colleagues ad infinitum. You can imagine that if I sent a message to all the people in my address book and they did the same, the message would perhaps get to a million people in a month. All free of charge. Viral marketing is low cost and can be fast and far reaching, if you use the proper advertising medium, but it does tend to be unfocused. That is to say, you do not know who is going to get your viral advert, so you do not know if that person will be interested or not. You can extract certain conclusions, if you choose your material properly though. Say, you had a website on craft work. You could send out a free knitting pattern to all your acquaintances and to those other people who have given you permission to do so (no spamming, please). Append the URL of your website at the bottom and tell the recipients that they can forward it on to anyone they know who would appreciate it. Job done!! Now you know that most of the recipients after the first wave that you sent out yourself will be interested in crafts and / or knitting. It is also pretty safe to presume that most of them will be older women with computers. If you marked your return URL with a code by sending them to a web page like viral-ad1-knitting.html and had a sign-up box their for a newsletter, you would soon have a list of older, computer literate women who like knitting or and other crafts. That information would be of use. Different companies send out various things. It might be a free report on smoking or catching trout or bicycle maintenance. Some people just send out jokes. Sending out jokes or pictures is not targeted but you can see how other things are very on target. Hotmail came up with this strategy and they maintain that they went from zero subscribers to twelve million in eighteen months. That is some record to beat. Look at the bottom of a lot of the email circulars that you receive and you will in all probability still see Hotmail’s viral marketing. This is the best viral marketing system, but you must attach you URL to something worth having, you friends will not want to send junk or sales blurb to their friends and family. Keep the emails informative, helpful or humorous, is the best strategy. Very similar to this method is the use of a sigfile (short for ’signature file’). Write a catchy little one or two line file with your URL at the end. Outlook, Outlook Express and the majority of of the others will append this sigfile to the bottom of your emails automatically. This is a great method of getting your URL out to thousands of people a month, especially if, when you write to say, your Mum, she copies it to all your brothers and sisters, aunties and uncles. It is a simple, yet free viral marketing tool that many people neglect. By the way, use the same sigfile in the posts you make on blogs. You do not make any? Shame on you, you should. Search Google for related blogs like - blogs knitting - and sign up to a few. Then read the entries and leave comments with your sigfile. Hundreds will read them and some will click through, if you are not too boring. Do not bore people on blogs by promoting yourself. Owen Jones, writes on a few topics, but is now concerned with Marketing Your Website. If you want to know more, go to our website at The Best Sales And Marketing Strategy. |
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012Anne Bagby Collage DVD Review
Sunday, January 1st, 2012| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
The best collage ideas DVD that I’ve ever run across is the one by mixed media artist Anne Bagby. The DVD is produced by Creative Catalyst Productions and available for sale at their website. As you may know, the origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form of the Cubists. Since then collage has been embraced by many artists as a fun and expressive artform. As a talented mixed media artist, Anne Bagby demonstrates her unique collage techniques, including how to create your own stamps, masks, stencils, and paper as you build a truly unique collage painting. You’ll love seeing the demonstrations of Anne’s layering techniques, which create interesting and mysterious surfaces. I also enjoy Anne’s fast and carefree approach to collage. Collage materials may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. Anne makes all her own collage materials, including her own stencils and stamps. In the DVD she shows how to transfer antique designs to hand-carved stamps and cut contact paper masks to guide custom stencils. Anne says she would use store-bought stencils if she could just find ones that are interesting enough! Another thing you’ll enjoy about this collage DVD is how Anne combines stamped and painted patterns to create the wafer-thin paper she uses throughout the workshop. Anne uses an experimental process, working simultaneously on five figures. Why five figures? She takes risks with the weakest, using the freedom of collage to find creative solutions. I think you’ll be totally inspired by the collage ideas presented in this excellent DVD. Learn more about family photo collage ideas. Stop by our Collage Ideas blog for tips on collage ideas, including a review of the top 3 free online photo collage makers. |
How Can I Use Article Marketing?
Monday, December 19th, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Article marketing is the writing of articles that are relevant to the topic of the web site that you wish to promote. It works because the writer is permitted to append two URL’s to the articles, usually at the end, which will permit the reader to click through for further information. Therefore, if you wanted to advertise a web site on cooking, you might write a series of articles on ways of cooking or using certain kitchen gadgets. If you send these articles to a general article database, you can expect a pretty low click through rate (CTR), but if you posted it to a cookery blog, you could look forward to a higher CTR. The good thing is that everyone who clicks through will know what they are prone to see on your site, so they are focused visitors and focused visitors are more prone to turn into customers. The articles that you submit to webmasters of blogs and article databases normally want to approve them for length and content, but if you are honest, that is hardly ever a problem Another advantage of article marketing is that these webmasters never shunt your article off their web site when new ones come along. They may place them into archives, but the archives are still readable and scannable by Google and this is an important point as well. You see, Google rates web sites on their popularity and one of the methods it uses to estimate popularity is how many links there are on the Internet pointing back to it. They are called backlinks. People found this out and attempted to work around it (and still do) by exchanging backlinks. However, Google ranks one-way backlinks higher than reciprocal links. An article on a blog gives you two one-way backlinks until the blog goes under. If you choose where you post astutely, this may never happen. Google also checks to see if the host of your link is applicable to your site, so it is worth posting to sites that are pertinent to yours and Google awards extra merit if the site having your link is an authority site, that is, a top site on that topic. If you submit an article to an article database and a leading authority site or newsletter on that topic picks it up and prints it, you will get heaps of bonus points from Google, shoot up in the ranking, get loads of visitors and more clients. The message is to write good, pertinent articles and submit them where they can be found. By this I mean, use the biggest article databases, because that is where the top people go to look for articles if they are stuck and also submit your article to blogs that are relevant to the subject of your article, which should be relevant to the subject of your website, which should be relevant to what you are trying to promote. I recently had one of my articles picked up. I had 3,450 plus visitors to my web site within two hours and 256 of them became customers. If only it could be achieved every day. The thing is, it can, if you get the approach right. Stay on target. Owen Jones, the author of this piece writes on many topics, but is currently involved with Marketing Your Website. If you would like to know more or check out some great offers, please go to our website at The Best Sales And Marketing Strategy. |
Opt-in Email Marketing
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Opt-in emails are not spam. In fact, they are the opposite of it even if they are transmitted to thousands of people. Spam is unsolicited commercial email or UCE, whereas opt-in email is only sent to those who have requested it or opted into the list of people to whom the email is sent. You should never send spam, but opt-in bulk email is fine. Spam is typically exactly the same email message sent to thousands or even millions of people, whereas opt-in email messages are normally personalized with your name, because you have provided it to them, and are on a subject that you are interested in, because you wanted to be sent the email. Opt-in emails typically include relevant, useful information and may also contain a price cut or special offer available to members of the opt-in list only. For example, if you like music, you could opt-in to a list on your favourite kind of music, then whenever a new album of that type of music is released, the firm selling them would let you know and possibly offer you a discount too. You can start your own opt-in list by putting an opt-in form on your website. You can ask for as much data as you like from the subscriber, but it worth keeping it to a bare minimum. People do not sign up if they feel that you are being too interfering. It is better to only ask for a name and an email address. When the form has been filled in and submitted, your software should add the details to your list and send the subscriber a confirmation email. This is called a single opt-in list. The problem with this system is that people can subscribe other people to your list, which can lead to complaints. A way around this is the double opt-in list. The difference is that the confirmation email will ask the subscriber to confirm registration and it is only after this confirmation has been received that the data are added to your list. The problems with this are that people forget that they signed up, change their minds, cannot be bothered or just do not get the confirmation email because of overly aggressive spam blockers. It is important to get this verification email out immediately. The double opt-in list is the marketing industry standard and is the only recognized method of collecting personal information which has nothing to do with spamming. The software should automatically record the IP address from which the subscriber signed up and the exact time and date. This is your evidence that you got the details legitimately. There are businesses that will permit you to send email to their list members for a fee - the so-called rent-a-list’s. They are dicey, because you do not see the list and you do not know how many they email out or to whom or if they have been read. Another method of creating and operating a list, is to offer a gift, say, a useful report, valuable information or a coupon which can be collected in the email after the verification email. This then subscribes them to an autoresponder which sends out a series of emails at prearranged intervals. These emails can be on whatever you like, as long as it is pertinent, and go out for weeks, months or even years, with special discounts and recommendations in the body text. Here are a few pointers, if you want to build a list: Do not purchase a list from anyone. The list members did not subscribe to you and do not know who you are. Promise never to sell or rent your list and keep your promise. Use only the double opt-in method of getting subscribers. Do not use false headers ie, no not misinform by using a false identity or by saying something like ‘Message from PayPal’, just to get people to open your email. Unsubscribe people who request it straight away. If you need to know more about team building activity ideas, then visit our website called small team building activities to learn more. |
Dressing Up And Putting On Hair Decoration - A Habit Enjoyed By Some Girls
Friday, November 11th, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Since the beginning of time, wearing of clothes has been part of human life as a protection from wind and sun, as insulation from the cold, for ornamentation, for cultural identity, and for identification of social position. Since then, until today, kids and adults alike take time, effort, and money in choosing what kinds of clothes to wear-from hair decoration to footwear-in a given time and occasion. Anthropologists have recorded that since the earlier times, dating back up to 500,000 years ago, clothes have existed and used by men. Different natural materials in the environment such as animal skin, furs, grasses, leaves, bones, and shells were used to make clothes. Through the years, as men learned the different things about the environment, they also discovered the advantages of woven fibers over animal hides, hence the creation of clothes. Learning how to make clothes widened the range of its purpose from being used as protection to being a tool to beautify one’s appearance. Dressing up is a practice enjoyed by everyone. As was said, wearing of clothes-from head decoration to footwear-is no longer exclusively done for purposes of protection; rather, it is practice for a number of reasons. An online survey listed a number of good reasons why people dress up. Among these reasons are because life’s too short to blend in, because fashion is a method of self expression, and because everyone deserves to look best at all times. Others on the other hand, reasoned that they dress up because they believe that glamour is not only reserve for the rich and famous but for everyone. Aside from these personal reasons, professionals have also cited a number of reasons why man loves to dress up. Included among these reasons are for cover, protection, as items of ornamentation, and for identification. Today’s society dictates that various parts of the body should not be displayed in public. This law, which was established sometime in past, made clothes a necessity. Protection is also another reason why people wear clothes. This reason is also among the primary reasons which led to the invention of clothing-man’s need for protection against harsh weather conditions, against their fellow men, and against bodily harm. Scientists and archaeologists also found out that people wear clothes as items for ornamentation since the ancient times. This is exemplified by the number of balls and parties held by the royals to flaunt their new dresses, costumes, hair decorations, and footwear. Professionals have also discovered that clothes have been worn by people to identify themselves since the establishment of social statuses in the society. Individuals belonging in the upper class were identified against those in the lower class through clothes. Dressing up is a practice that has indeed been ingrained in our culture. From hair decorations, to body covering and footwear, we all carefully consider which one to don in a given time and occasion. This is a practice that will definitely go on in the future. Jeanelle Jamier is a hair stylist from Germany. She has been styling hairs for local celebrities for about 10 years now. She always has on hand a “haarschmuck” (as how they call ‘hair decoration’ in German), she uses in decorating the hairs of her customers. |
Sending Gifts To Your Loved Ones
Saturday, July 23rd, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
During the summer and the winter are very important times for the Japanese people, this is the time they are able to give out gifts to their loved ones as a form of expression of their love to their loved ones. They mostly refer to it as O-seibo and O-chugen, these are the gifts that they offer to their friends. The gifts are not offered just anytime of the year when it is summer or winter but they are offered on specific days where three of those days offering are offered to the gods and on the second day it is when they also offer the ancestors gifts. This time is normally referred to as o-chugen. Due to this gift giving process to the ancestors, it led to the development to the o-chugen where gifts are offered to the friends during summer In Japan, it is expected that at the end of the year married daughters normally return to their homeland where they were born and give offerings to the ancestors as a sign of respect ushering them to the new year. Offering gratitude to other people who have been helpful to you all the year came out of this ceremony, it is the right time in which most people deemed it proper to do this. You can be able to get different gifts during this time ranging from foodstuffs to other things, but do not expect to get shoes since it will mean that you are being stepped on. You do not need to offer just anything that comes on your mind and seems good, you need to select something that you think, the recipient will appreciate most of his time. As it is always routine make sure that at the beginning and the end of the year you are bale to offer gifts to the loved ones for you to enjoy the whole year long. Besides gift giving, the author also frequently shares knowledge regarding BV Cures and Secrets of Successful Traders. |
How To Attract Girls
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Art in any form needs time to get learned and experience is the best way to learn it. Flirting being an art has no exception. Usually it is men who like flirting with women but the doing it the right way is difficult and only few can do it successfully. Very few women like this art. Flirting is another name for interest and excitement. When you see someone whom you like, in a party or in other musical gathering, just go and try your luck. Don’t be shy because little flirting is not always bad. If the signals you get are positive, you have the best opportunity to avail then. Usually they wait in the party for the gents to flirt with them. This waiting if goes long, they return home empty handedly. You should not be so cruel with the ladies. So whenever you get the opportunity for flirting, avail it. For flirting, the first lesson to remember is keep eye contact with the opposite sex. Eye contact is the most important thing because it is a way to talking non-verbally and in a sophisticated manner. Never look at her like a hungry wolf. Avoid the ways that make her unhappy. She will get attracted if you chose to have a decent look at her eyes instead of staring at her. Smile matters a lot for flirting than any other thing. Keep a sweet smile on your face and she will not even look at what sort of clothes you are wearing, who branded shoe, you have or how rich you look. Smile increases you face value which is important in such situations. It also creates an impression of yours which lasts long. With your smile you can also judge her intentions. Show her that you are interested in her. Pay attention but don’t forget to give her time to think. It’s women’s nature that they want to get full attention and love the person who fulfills this desire of them. This writer also frequently gives advice about things such as burn the fat feed the muscle and Stream Direct TV review. |
Internet Scams And Making Money Online
Sunday, July 17th, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
If you have been using the Internet long enough to set up some kind of email address, you will probably have been invited to earn some extra cash by filling in on line surveys.. These so-called paid on line surveys are targeted at the increasing number of people who find themselves at home all day with a computer, little capital and no work. They are particularly targeted at stay at home mums and the jobless. It is possible to earn a few dollars a month from some of these on line survey companies, but many of them are cons. They may make their money in a diversity of ways, but usually the cash out figure for the person surveyed is pretty high, often $50 or $100. It is hard to reach that figure at the rate of one $1 survey per week. However, they have you running back and forth to their site in the hope that you will click on one of their advertisements and they will get paid. The first sign of a fraud survey company is the up front registration fee. This is typically less than $50 and seems a good deal if you are going to be earning the thousands of dollars that they ‘promise’. Well, not really promise, because the disclaimer always says that you may not earn as much as the ‘people’ who have sent in the testimonials that you read posted all over their web sites. Testimonials from people like ‘Mary T., New York’, completely undetectable, unverifiable, probably fabricated ‘people’, who claim to be earning enough money completing on line surveys to pay off the mortgage, buy a big car and go on holiday in the Seychelles every year. Rule number one for avoiding on line scams: never pay a fee on the assurance of probably earning money. The mobile phone rip-off is always very popular amongst con men and women. In this swindle, you will be asked to verify that you are a real person by replying to a simple text message. What you are not told though is that you are texting a premium number which will in all probability cost you up to $5. The firm is sure that you will not notice this charge, especially if you are pay-as-you-go and do not receive monthly bills. Another popular scam is where you are promised special offers or even cash for clicking on the adverts of the site’s ‘partners’. You will be asked to ask for more details by clicking on a banner. You may be promised 30% off or five cents for clicking. What you are not told is that you will be pestered from now to kingdom come by telesales marketers. Health insurance, pet insurance, free holidays, you name it. The only thing that you can be sure of is that you will end up paying more. Then there is the free magazine scam. You are offered a free magazine on an exciting topic of your selection. Again they ask for your telephone number. What they do not say is that your free magazine comes with a subscription to their magazine which costs $19.95. The charge will be made to your phone bill and you will most likely never even notice it, which is what they are hoping for. Never give out sensitive information over the Internet if you do not know who is receiving it. Phishing is also a profitable swindle, where an email is said to come from a bank or even Google or Yahoo. You are told that your account has been hacked and that you should corroborate your details. As soon as you do, your account will be compromised sure enough. Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on many topics, but is currently concerned with Web Based Marketing. If you would like to know more or check out some great deals, please go to our website at The Best Sales And Marketing Strategy. |
Surprising Your Man For His Special Day
Sunday, July 17th, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
Talking about the birthday gifts, it is common practice to give some gadgets and expensive stuff to the boys on their birthday. This is not a good perception, the boys also become somewhat emotional and you can gift them other stuff a well. You can arrange a nice party for the birthday of your man. He will definitely like the idea and will love to celebrate his birthday with his friends and the family. Before planning the part, you should decide the venue, food, and other things like budget very carefully so that all the things are accomplished nicely with perfection. There should be no flaws in the arrangements being made. This birthday party can make you closer to the man. You should pamper him with the love and affection if you want to be his lady. This thing is very necessary as the men also like being cared by the women. This party can make your relationship and love grow t the maximum pace. You can use other stuff like a love letter or some cake or even a birthday cake to become closer to the guy. He will be automatically attracted by your care and love. Therefore, include such stuff in the birthday party too. This is also a hot idea to include in your gift something unique that will remind him continuously about the things you have gifted him and your care and love for him. Scrap book can be a better idea to bring some smile to the face of your beloved man’s face. You can also paste you’re all reminding and adorable pictures and after adding captions, you can describe some information about your views about both of you. You can make your boy friend surprised by this effort and he will keep this valuable scrapbook with him forever. The cost of the gift does not matter a lot. The actual thing is the care and devotion that you have shown in your guy and if he noticed it then your effort will be successful. The author also often blogs regarding topics like health insurance providers and health insurance providers. |
Several Uses Of Fashionable Scarves
Saturday, July 9th, 2011| Scentsy | Flameless Candles | Wickless Candles |
The most important piece of cloth in your wardrobe is the scarf. Ladies know how to make use of it to create many different styles. People can tie them on the neck, drape them on the shoulders, tie on the head, and even on the handbags to complete the color theme of your dress code. On a bad hair day, it is easy to just get a hold of a really beautiful scarf and use it to style your hair. Some people use it as a headband, or wrap it around the head. It really helps on a windy day, or on a chilly day to shield you from the cold. Women know how embarrassing it can be when the neckline on a dress is slightly too low. To help the situation, an attractive scarf on the neck creates a brand new look and succeeds to remove attention from the trouble spot and draw it to the other parts of the face. Did you spill something on your dress- no problem, just use a scarf positioned in the right place and off you go. Those looking at you will think how fashionable you are. The same goes for those important times when you need to be in a bathing suit, or a halter neck and you think it can be too revealing. No problem, use a beautiful silk scarf to make things work in your favor. The short square ones with beautiful patterns are also very effective in adding color to the black, brow, or white handbags to complete your style. If you like wearing long skirts with tank tops, the scarf should be your best friend. Just fringe it and wrap around the waist. If you love ponytail hair style, make use of a scarf by slipping it around allowing it to hang under the hair. This makes you look young and carefree, fun loving and outdoor girl. If you choose a cashmere scarf, it will add sophistication to your dressing. A wonderful wool scarf with bright color will add some good color effect to your black coat to enhance the contours of your face. Whether you are in whatever place or type of climate, you will find that scarves are what will help matters all the time. The colors and designs and patterns are so varied and that is why they are so versatile. Access various other educational articles created by this same writer dealing with things including small alphabet cookie cutters and Christmas rubber stamps. |