09 October 2007

Add Value to a Business website

Three Simple Ways to Create Value on your Business Website


Whenever you go to a website, you're looking for one of two things: to buy something you've bought before or something new that you will buy. When you visit a website for the first time, you want to see that there is value in coming to that website over the others that are on the internet. So, knowing this, as an online business website, how can you offer this value to your next website visitor? Here are three ways to make their visit worth their while.



Give Good Information for Free



If you create a website that offers only the basic amount of information, you're going to have visitors that are confused. While they can get to your products and to your contact pages, they're wondering what else you can offer them for free. The truth is that website visitors want to get as much as their can from a website before they even spend a cent in most cases. For example, when you visit a news website, you look at all the stories before you would even consider signing up for a subscription to their forums or up to date news, right? This is the same situation for any website.



To help encourage your visitors to do more with your website, you need to create the sense that they are getting something for free – just for stopping by. Here are some ideas:



Newsletter signups – If you can offer your visitors a good newsletter on a regular basis (either via email or on your site), you will help to create a connection between your customers and your business. This will work well to keep your customers in the know, while also helping to give them something for free. The only thing to keep in mind is that this information needs to be relevant and not just a bunch of sales jargon. Free articles – By having regular free articles on your site that other websites or visitors can use, you will help to spread the word about your site (be sure to include your web address on the articles) as well as give good information to your site visitors.




Make Them an Offer They Can't Refuse



Too often, websites will only give out special offers to customers that are buying something or who have already bought something. Do something different by offering freebies without any other strings attached. These might be free samples, free eBooks, or anything else that you can give away that is related to your products.



Of course, you can also offer discounts on purchases and create subsequent discounts for future purchases as well. This will show that you value customer loyalty and that you are eager for them to come back.



Acknowledge Your Competition



While it might be tempting to criticize your competition, a better strategy is to offer discounts that match their prices – when you're both selling the same items. This will help your customers see that you are aware that you might not always offer the best price, but that you are willing to do whatever it takes for a customer to come to you instead of 'the other guy.'



You might also want to create a clear listing of the differences between your competition and your own website to help customers make the right decision for their purchases, without looking disparaging.



When you want to create value on your website, you need to remember what the customer considers valuable – discounts, freebies, and information. The more you can offer in these categories, the better you will look to your new customers.




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05 October 2007

Blogging for cash

If you want to find out more about the debate surrounding paid blog links, have a look at this article on paid advertising and sponsored links on blogs. Paid links on blogs represent a useful source of online income for home bloggers, far preferable to the numerous internet scams that offer instant riches!


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06 September 2007

Top 10 sites that pay you to blog

If you are not trying to make money from your blog then you are losing out on a potentially huge source of online income. Your blog, filled with fresh original content and updated regularly, appeals to the search engines and you can turn that appeal into hard cash for you. As long as your blog is cached in Google, has existed for at least three months and does not contain unacceptable material you can submit it to the agencies who pay for blog posts on behalf of clients. Find out where you can earn the most from your blog with this new list of top sites that pay you to blog.

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29 August 2007

Free Blogs - Good or Bad?

When you want to set up a blog of your own you may find it easy to get a blogspot blog (like this one) but it is a much better long term bet to set up your blog with your own domain name, by signing up for paid web hosting. The blog content, design and style plays a big role in the success of your site and you have more control over your blog if it is on your own web hosting panel. When your blog is uploaded to the web by a free blog host like Blogger, you will not have total control of it and your blog could be closed down without notice if the company decides that your blog content breaks any of their rules.

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18 August 2007

How to blog for money Blogging for Profit

You can start making money from home today with a profit pulling blog wherever you live in the World - the internet makes it easy and cheap to get started blogging for profit. The first step on your way is to get a domain name, web hosting and use the free blogging software provided. Sign up for my FREE Internet Business Tips ezine. Every month there is a free ebook or software tool for subscribers. You will learn how to start your internet business, with valuable advice on web hosting with free website design, plus website promotion.

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13 August 2007

Blog for profit

If you need help with starting a blog to make money online, you can check out the Blogging for Profit website. This gives you help on getting a blog, domain name and setting up your blog - which blogging platform to use will make a big difference to the success of your blog. Optimising your blog for the search engines is crucial to the success of your blog - get hand tips to help you start optimising your website or amateur blog

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26 July 2007

Make use of RSS - Free Blogging Tool -

All the major blogging software packages should include an RSS feed as a standard item. An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is the format that allows your content to be delivered (and subscribed to) on the Web. FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to publish your feed using their resources. FeedBurner is the world's largest feed management provider, and nearly all its addon services are free. They can help you publicise your feed and get new subscribers. There are lots of benefits to registering you feed here -
  1. Publicize your content and make it easy for people to subscribe.
  2. Optimize distribution so that your content is properly formatted for all of the major directories and can be consumed by subscribers wherever they are.
  3. Analyze your traffic to learn how many subscribers you have, where they're coming from and what they like best.
  4. Make Money by participating in the FeedBurner Ad Network when it opens. Why not reward yourself for your effort?

  5. FeedBurner allows you to track your feed traffic and gives all kinds of other monitoring options. It does not actually create the feed for you from scratch - instead, Feedburner wraps its features around your existing blog feed and adds its services on top. It has a few premium options for the serious feed publisher, too.
Did I mention most of these tools are free, and can help increase the traffic you get to your blog, by using your feed? Don’t believe me – go to http://www.feedburner.com and see for yourself.

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07 June 2007

Paid to Blog, Paid to Post - Make Money from Blogging

I get paid to post sponsored reviews on this blog and so far I have earned more than $500. Being paid to blog is and excellent way to keep posting fresh content on the blog (and climb up the search engine result), because you need to make at least one regular post between the sponsored ones. It is easy to sign up at Payperpost. I just write a short post with any photos or illustrations that are included and send the link to the post URL through. When the post is approved I am in line for real cash, which is paid into my Paypal account. There are plenty of opportunities to write paid posts on a wide range of subjects: this is proving to be a good source of income for bloggers who want to earn from ads on blogs. You can get started by clicking the link below.

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10 March 2007

New Offers at Blogsvertise

I am looking forward to making more posts for Blogsvertise after I received an update email from them yesterday. They are a good company to deal with, here are some of the features:
  • Easy going approval process for blogs and blogsvertise tasks.
  • Fast running servers and fast loading blogger user interface.
  • Simple and Easy to use blogger interface.
  • Assortment of income opportunties for bloggers. Blog entries, text/banner links and video ads!
  • Express yourself - Write whatever yiou want on tasks, positive, neutral or negative.
  • Highest affiliate referral payout programs.
  • Steady ad task offers - evenly spread out blog-ad offers to all our bloggers matched by category.
  • Payouts on time after 30 days.
You can submit your blog to Blogsvertise today, and start earning from your blog.

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03 March 2007

Website Review - Rangan

Here is an interesting blog that aims to be a one stop place for all your money making opportunities. The blogger, Rangan, will also review useful websites in any field like travel, investing, real estate, education,blog promotion,space world and spirituality,web directories and search engines, forums and message boards, webmaster tools etc. That is a wide ranging brief, I guess it saves time blogging but really the best approach is to optimise your blog posts and stay on topic, creating extra blogs or websites if you want to cover another niche.

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06 February 2007

Bloggers Help Forum

A fairly new forum for bloggers, Blogcrowds, offers help and support with design and editing, and ideas for monetising your blog. I joined recently and have received a lot of help with my blog. It is a friendly forum, where nobody is going to make you feel silly for asking a question (unlike certain other sites we have all visited).
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21 January 2007

New Blogger

If you are finding teething troubles when using the new Blogger aka 'blogger beta', there are a number of sites where you can get help. You will often find that other people have experienced the same problems as you. If you choose to 'upgrade' your template when prompted, it is renamed as a layout, giving you less control over the structure. The layout is written in XML, and it will not allow you to make the types of amendments you may have used before. Instead there are various 'widgets' in which you can use HTML. I find these time consuming so I have stayed with the 'classic template'.
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11 January 2007

Blog Carnival 11 January

Welcome to my latest blog carnival showing the best articles on home business ideas from some of the top bloggers in internet marketing. I will be publishing this blog carnival weekly - you can contribute at blogcarnival.com and search for 'latest home based business ideas'. There you will find that you can contribute your own articles.
In this week's edition, firstly John Ogden presents a long term income idea at Revenue sharing site is a long term prospect posted at Brilliant Ideas for Business, Corey has had some recent difficulties and presents The Battle With PayPal posted at myopiniononeverything.com. Murad has written a very interesting article, Steps to Proper Solution Selling & Implementation posted at The New Business World. Finally, Ruben presents Make Money with Affiliate Marketing posted at Turn Your Blog Into a Money Making Machine.
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of adsense advice using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our


blog carnival index page
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22 December 2006

London Blogger Competition 2006

Today sees the launch of our London Blog of the Year Competition, open to blogs run by Greater London residents that have been established for at least 90 days. UK bloggers are a growing force in the blogosphere, and we want to recognise this in our locality. We could even start London Bloggers meet-ups or would we all rather relate to each other in the blogosphere instead?

Very simple to enter:
1. Write a post on your blog with a link back to this blog on your blog's home page: extra points if you include a cool London photo!
2. Send me an email with the permalink of your post, confirming that you live in london - address or landline phone number.
3. Closing date 5 January in case you are offline over the holidays.

The judge's decision is final, depending on relevance and quality of posts.
PRIZE - a six-month link from this PR3 blog, up to 180 x 60 box if you have a button, otherwise a text link

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17 December 2006

Where should your blog be?

Th choice of blog 'platform' is important, and will stay with you for a long time. You will see a lot of very knowledgeable people using wordpress, and they seem to find it suits their needs. I have tried wordpress and blogger and I find, despite the restrictions, Blogger is best for me. It is fast and easy to set up, and requires no knowledge of code. There are lots of quality design options, and in my view a well-designed blogger blog looks better than many wordpress blogs, which end up looking overcrowded.
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