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How to Sell to the Rich - Part 5 - The Final Word

Lest you forget, the rich are people, too. They're just wired differently. But once you, as a marketer, figure out their wiring pattern, they'll be worth their weight in gold to you. Listen, everyone breathing has needs, desires and emotional resp...

How to Sell to the Rich - Part 4

There are only two types of products in this world: need to have products, and want to have products. Need to have products are the typical staples of life: food, clothing, a roof over one's head, a car, a lover on the side (no, just kidding). ...

Microsoft and Yahoo – Russian Roulette

As was announced Sunday, Microsoft is withdrawing its bid for Yahoo, which caused Yahoo shares to plummet today. But I'm guessing we haven't heard the end of this story. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knew that the withdrawal of the bid would cause ...

How to Sell to the Rich - Part 3

An excellent contribution was added to my last post by a devoted commentator (she, who thinks I'm a moron. Actually, she says my logic is moronic - not me. But since my logic defines me, I must therefore be, ipso facto, a moron. How do you like that ...

"SEO" Trademarked?

Could SEO companies soon lose the right to call themselves SEO companies? If a man named Jason Gambert has his way, the answer is yes. Mr. Gambert claims in his application (which was rejected several times before finally being accepted for publi...

How to Sell to the Rich - Part 2

I received some interesting comments about my last post. It seems there are a few readers out there who are not marketers, either of the online or offline kind. And they didn't agree with my contention that money brings happiness (and that more...

Give Your Visitors Confidence To Buy: Getting Past The Order Form

Your sales are drastically reduced when you fall victim to a very common problem. Prospects not getting past your Order Form. WHY they run is simple. Lack of confidence. WHAT to do about it is a bit more involved. You can reduce your prosp...

Optimizing for Personalized Search

iGoogle get’s social Seems that the fine folks at Google are stepping a little closer to the world of social media/networking after opening up a sandbox for iGoogle developers (as reported today on GoogleSystem and Search Engine Land). For those n...

Web Design Basics You Do Not Want to Miss

by Moe Tamani

Most web designers, even ones who've worked in the industry for quite a while, will forget the most basic and rudimentary rules behind proper web design and then find themselves scratching their heads, wondering why more people aren't coming to their sites. As a web designer, there are fundamentals that you're expected to know without having to be taught and follow with each and every project build.

4 Simple Steps to Starting Your Affiliate Program

by Alicia Forest

Alicia talks frankly about how her wariness of new technologies in affiliate programs lost her otherwise free money, and how she learned to conquer the affiliate field and build residual income from it. Find out how you can increase your website profits with this new piece of technology.

10 Tips for Planning an Outstanding Website

by Ivana Katz

When faced with the daunting task of planning what to include on your website and how to write the copy, here are a few tips that will make the task easier for you and much more rewarding!

Balancing SEO Against The Needs of Your Article's Audience

by Hunter Waterhouse

Article marketing continues to be a proven method for generating traffic to our websites and developing good search placement, even after all of these years. Find out how to get into article marketing or how to improve your article marketing strategy -- by looking at the balance between article content, audience, and the necessity for search engine optimization!

How To Win As An Affiliate Marketer Online !

by Eilidh Wright

This article reveals the three most important tricks for affiliate marketers to enable them start an affiliate business or make a success of their current business.

Traffic to Non Viewable Page

[code]/practice-photos/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php[/code] I don't understand ajax so I don't know what this page is. But it's not a viewable page, huh? It's got the top traffic, today. What's the go, please? Thanks, Laurie. …

Could you please tell me why my site is not listed in google search?

Hi guys,today I was searching some keywords in google.But dont found any links to my sitre related those keywords.These was active still one month ago,but now I have lost my google page rank and also google search engine visitors.I have tried to find out the reason but cant.I found nothing keyword w …

Redirects?

Not sure if "redirects" is correct, or even where I should post this question. The Pro's out here know everything though! Am looking at possibly having to rename my company due to some trademark issues (yeah, still stings) Anyway - along with that major issue - is the issue of my web address!. M …

W3 Validation: Good or bad?

So I think that W3 validation is good. I always like to have my site validated in both HTML and CSS. This is because it makes my site look more professional, and also because I find that validation is a good buzzword to use when discussing websites. I managed to talk my sister who is opening her o …

PNG or GIF?

So I am under the impression that PNG is better than GIF because it supports alpha transparency, and is compressed better. However, it seems that IE5 and 6 don't read PNG's transparency right, so I am wondering, which do you guys think is better? …

The Rarest Words

Hi Just looking through the HTTP referrers for one of my sites and I found something very interesting here The Rarest Words (deserves a back link) There isn't much there yet. the refferer was http:// therarestwords .com/my domain .com and it showed a ta …

S v Z?

We target mainly the US and UK with our site. Many spellings are slightly different "organisation v organization" do the search engines need to see both spellings on my pages? …