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Configure A New WordPress Blog

Friday, May 4th, 2007 | Start A Home Business with 6 Comments

This tutorial is based on WordPress 2.1 with the following plugins installed and activated, newer versions of WordPress may not have all the plugins described in this guide, a different plugin that provides the same function, or a plugin may have been rendered obsolete when integrated into WordPress :

Most of the plugins listed comes from the Authority Black Book written by Jack Humphrey of authoritysitecenter.com. After reading the Authority Black Book and implementing most of Jack’s recommendations for WordPress blogging I decided to help those new to WordPress get their blog setup and Web 2.0 ready. After your blog is setup your next step is to get a copy of the Authority Black Book and see it all come together.If you are new to WordPress the first thing you will notice when you login are all the different options available to you in the administration panel. But don’t get overwhelmed we are going to walk through getting everything setup. There are a few extra steps involved to get the most out of WordPress.

To login to the WordPress admin panel go to your blog directory and add /wp-admin/ to the end of the URL it would look like this is you installed your blog into a directory called blog: www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-admin/

Getting to Know The WordPress Admin Panel

Now you will see a list of items across the top of the admin panel like this:

Dashboard Write Manage Comments Blogroll Presentation Plugins Users Options

Clicking on one of those panels will open a subpanel with more options.
Keep in mind that the contents of some subpanels vary depending on the plugins you currently have installed and activated.

The Dashboard has the recent activity on your blog, the latest information about WordPress and links to more documentation, plugins, themes and the support forum.

The Write panel is self-explanatory; you create posts and pages here.

The Manage panel allows you to edit posts, pages, uploads and categories. From here you can see lists of all your Posts, Pages, and Categories and edit or view anything in those lists. On this page you can also edit your templates and other files used by your blog, import content from various sources, and export your blog.

The Comments panel is where you can moderate comments by others made about your posts.

The Blogroll is a list of other blogs or websites you think your readers my find interesting. The default install of WordPress comes with a few blogs in here, you can delete them if you wish, but be sure to add “Work At Home Business Blog” http://www.esmartjob.com/blog. (I know, a shameless plug).

The Presentation panel is where you change the look of your blog. Here you can change the theme, customize a themes templates, manage themes and add sidebar widgets if you have the “Sidebar Widgets” plugin activated. * Widgets are now integrated into WordPress and the “Sidebar Widgets” plugin is no longer necessary.

The Plugins panel is for activating and deactivating plugins. Plugins are tools to extend the functionality of WordPress. The core of WordPress is designed to be lean, to maximize flexibility and minimize code bloat. Plugins offer custom functions and features so that each user can tailor their site to their specific needs.

The Users panel is for adding and editing users that will be posting on your blog. Click the Users panel and then the Your Profile subpanel, make any changes here you need to make now and click “update Profile”.

Getting To Know The WordPress Options Subpanel

You may see more options available in this subpanel than explained in this walk through, but for now we only going to look at the default WordPress options. Some of the other options shown in here are for plugins that will be addressed individually.

When you click on the far right Options panel, a subpanel will appear below the main panel. You will then be in the General Options subpanel. Here is where you can change the name of your blog and the tagline or slogan. You can also add or change your email address. Nothing else in here needs addressed at this time.

Next click the Writing subpanel; this is where you can specify the default category for all new posts and other options. Don’t worry about adding categories if you have none yet, you can do that as you make new posts. The last item in here is “Update Services”, that is a list of sites to ping when you make a post. Don’t worry about that list yet; we have a plugin that will take care of that. Nothing else in here should need changed unless you want to post by email, if so fill in that information.

The Discussion subpanel allows you to change the way people can comment on your posts. The default settings here are fine for now, and we will later activate a plugin to take care of SPAM comments.

Still working in the main Options panel, click the Privacy subpanel. Make sure to tick the radio button next to “I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers.”

The Permalinks subpanel gives you the option to change the way each post’s URL is displayed. By default the URL structure looks like this: http://www.esmartjob.com/blog/?p=123 with the ?p=123 being the actual post URL, kind of ugly isn’t it? There is a link inside this area to explain all the different options available, you could read all about Permalinks here or just paste the following code in the “Custom Structure” box. Tick the “Custom, specify below” radio button and paste this in the box: /%category%/%postname% that will turn the ugly URL into something like this: http://www.esmartjob.com/blog/catagory/title-of-post.

The Miscellaneous subpanel is the less important subpanel under the Options panel; there really is nothing in here that needs to be addressed. Features like file uploads, link tracking and support for custom “hacks” can be controlled from the Miscellaneous options subpanel.

You will notice more subpanels under the main Options panel if I installed Wordpress for you or if you have the recommended list of plugins activated, we will address these options later.

For more in-depth information of the WordPress Administration panel:
Administration Panels « WordPress Codex

Changing and Adding WordPress Themes

From the WordPress dashboard click Presentation on the main panel. Here you will see the current theme first and other installed themes below it. Simply click on the theme you want to use and it will now be active. Now that was simply wasn’t it?

If you don’t like any of the installed themes and want another just go to http://themes.WordPress.net/ for thousands of free themes to download. After you download a theme to your computer do not unzip it. If the “OneClick Installer” plugin is activated you should see the OneClick Install subpanel under the main dashboard. Click OneClick Install, browse to your new theme next to “Browse”, choose Theme on the drop down box and upload it. Go back to the Themes subpanel and activate the theme it if it isn’t already.

I highly suggest choosing a theme that is “Widget ready”. You can sort themes at http://themes.WordPress.net/ for only “Widget ready” themes but at times a few that aren’t will get through. The only real way to see if a theme is “Widget ready” is to activate the theme and look for a Widgets subpanel next to the Themes subpanel.

While we are talking about themes and are in the Presentation panel you should also see the following subpanels or more depending on the currently activated plugins.

Themes Widgets Theme Editor Install Theme Manage Themes Update Themes

The Theme Editor shows the code for the current theme; on the right side are the different templates related to current theme. You can make changes to the themes templates here if you know how but that is beyond the realm of this tutorial. Just keep in mind if you plan on messing around in here be sure to copy the contents of the file to a safe location BEFORE you do anything. If you do make a mistake paste the unedited code you saved back into the editor. If you can’t change it back you will need to delete the file you changed and upload an unedited version to your web host again. The other subpanel items in here are self-explanatory. In the future I may explain how to change the header image and make other minor changes, or if you want search Google or go to www.WordPress.org for more information.

Configuring WordPress Plugins

At the beginning of this tutorial I listed a group of recommended plugins and if you used my Blog Building service most of those are installed and activated. Some of these will still need addition attention and some will need an explanation for proper use. Most of the plugins have an active link in the Plugin Management page for more information.

Using the WordPress OneClick Installer Plugin

The beauty of the OneClick plugin is that you can now upload new plugins and themes right from your WordPress dashboard. Just download them to your computer and browse for the compressed (zipped) folder to upload it’s that simple.

To upload a new plugin from the WordPress dashboard, Click the main dashboard pabel and then the OneClick Install subpanel, from there you can upload the compressed plugin folder from your computer. Then go to the Plugins panel or Manage Plugins subpanel and click activate.

If you used my blog installer service the OneClick plugin should have already been installed and activated for you. If not please contact me or read the instructions here: Upload WordPress Themes and Plugins From The Dashboard

If I installed your blog the following steps have already been done for you, so you can skip to the next section.

First we need to get the plugins installed so you can customize your blog. If I installed and setup WordPress for you then you will have a pretty extensive list of the most popular plugins already installed and activated including the Installer. Installed means the plugin has been uploaded to your hosting account and is available to be put to use by activating it from within WordPress.

The first plugin to activate is called OneClick you can find it on here. This plugin lets you install other plugins and themes without needing to FTP upload them to your web hosting account.

In order to use this plugin you will need to change the permissions of the plugin and themes directory in your web hosting account. Login to your hosting account, go to the file manager and browse to your blogs directory. In there open the “wp-content” folder and change the “plugins” and “themes” folder permissions to 777.

I am going to get off on a tangent here but it’s very important to know what do when a plugin goes bad. While you are in your web hosting account and in the “wp-content” folder, click on the “plugins” folder and look around. If by chance you activate a plugin and you can’t see your blog or dashboard anymore go back to your plugins folder in your hosting account and delete the plugin you activated. That will get your blog back and a lesson not to use that plugin again!

Now lets activate the first plugin. Click Plugins, here you will see a list of the available plugins, scroll down to find the “Installer” and click “activate” on the right side. Some plugins are that simple, others may need configured after activating depending on the plugins use. We will go through the rest of the WordPress plugins later, for now lets get your blog looking the way you want.

Working With WordPress Widgets Customizing The Sidebar

WordPress widgets are things you can use to put content into your WordPress blog’s sidebar without knowing how to edit a web page. Using simple drag and drop and cut and paste you can make changes to the sidebar with a click of the mouse.

Activate the Sidebar Widgets plugin by clicking the Plugins main panel, scroll down to “Sidebar Widgets” and click “activate” on the right. If you have the “Installer” plugin activated you will also see a Manage Plugins subpanel, both will allow you to activate or deactivate plugins.

Clicking the Presentation panel will now show a new Sidebar Widgets subpanel is your theme is “Widget ready”. Click the Sidebar Widgets subpanel, and you will now see a “Sidebar Arrangement” screen. The number of sidebars in here depends on the theme; you may see one or more sidebars.

Below the “Sidebar Arrangement” you will see some “Available Widgets” boxes, you can now drag and drop any of those boxes into the “Sidebar Arrangement” above and arrange them in any order you wish.

Further down you will see two drop down lists, one for “Text Widgets” and another for “RSS Feed Widgets”. You can add up to 9 of these widgets, the most versatile are the “Text Widgets”. You can add anything in here you want including HTML and scripts such as an opt-in for your autoresponder and Google Adsense, the possibilities are endless.

Go to the drop down for “Text Widgets” and choose a one or more and click save. Now the number you chose are in the “Available Widgets” box. Drag one of them into the sidebar. You will now see a little box on the right side of the widget that means it is customizable. Click the little box on the widget and it will open displaying two boxes, the very top can be the title (optional, text only) and the bottom can be anything (HTML, scripts or just text).

Keep in mind once you place a widget into a sidebar and click “Save Changes” only the widgets you dragged into the “Sidebar Arrangement” box will now show up on your blog. Until then the default sidebar will be shown. You can arrange the widgets in any position on the sidebar by dragging them into any position in the “Sidebar Arrangement” box.

See this post for more information and a video: Setup FeedBurner And Widgets On WordPress Blog

Getting a FeedBurner feed and adding it to the sidebar

FeedBurner optimize your RSS feeds distribution so that your content is properly formatted for all of the major directories and can be consumed by subscribers wherever they are.

To setup FeedBurner click the main Options panel, then the FeedBurner subpanel. The directions in here are very easy to follow. Just click the “create a FeedBurner feed” link and signup for your feed. Then place your new feed address into the field in line 2 and click save.

Next we need to add your new feed address in a few other places:

Click the main Presentation panel, then the Sidebar Widgets subpanel, scroll down to the Available Widgets section and drag the RSS 1 widget into the sidebar above (if it isn’t already in there). Next click on the little box on the right of the RSS 1 widget and it will open up. If the screen turns gray and you don’t see the box scroll up to make it visible. Place your FeedBurner URL in here and if you want a description also, close the box, drag it to the desired position on the sidebar and click Save Changes.

Now your FeedBurner feed will display on your sidebar.

The last place to add your FeedBurner feed is in the WWSGD plugin.

The WWSGD plugin displays a small pop-up box to your visitors asking them to subscribe to your blogs feed. We are going to change that to your FeedBurner address.

Click the main Options panel then the WWSDG subpanel you will then see a box of code similar to what’s shown below. Replace your FeedBurner URL address with the existing URL shown highlighted. Make sure to place it between the apostrophe’s ‘.

<p style=’border:thin dotted black; padding:3mm;’>If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my <a href=’http://feeds.feedburner.com/esmartjob/vdxg‘>RSS feed</a>. Thanks for visiting!</p>

I suggest choosing the location of the message Before Post and then changing the Repetition box to at least 7 and click Save Settings.See this post for more information and a video: Setup FeedBurner And Widgets On WordPress Blog

Configuring Adsense-Deluxe For WordPress

AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed.

If I installed your blog then Adsense-Deluxe should already be installed and would just need activated and configured. If it is not already installed you can follow these instructions or contact me to do it for you.

Installing the Adsense-Deluxe For WordPress plugin is very easy, just copy the adsense-deluxe.php file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. So if your blog were installed in the root directory of your site login to your hosting accounts file manager, go to the “wp-contents” folder then the “plugins” folder and place the file in there.

Now login to your WordPress admin panel, go to “plugins” and activate the Adsense-Deluxe For WordPress plugin on the right. Clicking the main “Options” panel should now present you with a new “AdSenseDeluxe” subpanel click that and let’s get started.

In the Options for AdSense-Deluxe Plugin page on the right click “(Add New)”, under “New AdSense Block” put a name for your new block, if this is your first one it will revert to the default name <!–adsense–> so it really doesn’t matter what you call the first block. Now just paste your AdSense code in the “AdSense Code” box and click “Add AdSense Block”

Adding additional blocks will now add the name of each new block, for example if you create a new block called “new” will return a name that looks like this:
<!–adsense#new–>

Placing the ad blocks into posts is as simple as pasting in the name of the block where you want the ads to appear, but you must paste them into the “code” box and not the “Visual” box in the “Write Post” screen. You could write your post in “Visual” mode and then switch it “Code” and paste the AdSense block (<!–adsense#new–> ) wherever you want.

There is an Adsense-Deluxe drop-down box that can be used from the Write Post panel but only if you chose not to use the visual editor when writing. To turn this option off go to Users, then the Your Profile subpanel and uncheck the box next to “Use the visual editor when writing”. Now the AdSense Deluxe drop-down box should appear when writing or editing a post. Simply place your curser where you want your AdSense ads to appear in the post and select what code you want from the drop-down box.

I suggest creating a post template filled with all your AdSense codes (and anything else you may want), just start a new post called “Post Template” and save it without publishing it. Then when you write a new post open the post template in “Code” copy the code and paste it into your new post. Now delete what you don’t want in your new post, add the new content and publish.

This WordPress plugin is very versatile and you can use it for more than ads, you can put anything you want into the “AdSense Code” block and display just about anything you wish. There are also some advanced options for using it in templates in the read me file.

See this post for more information and a video: How To Use The WordPress Plugin AdSense-Deluxe
WordPress Plugin Smart Update Pinger

Smart Update Pinger automatically pings or notifies a list of services when you publish a post. You can modify this list by going to main Plugins panel then the Smart Update Pinger subpanel. The Ping Log may show numerous ping errors and if some sites show in here on a regular basis you may want to delete them.

This plugin causes your post to take longer to publish because as soon as you click Publish on a post the plugin goes to work pinging your blog.

If you have this plugin activated it is not advisable to use any other services to manually ping your blog, pinging too often is not recommended.

I will continue to add to this page and notify all those that utilized my Blog Builder service of any updates.

You can also find more information in the WordPress Blog category or over at WordPress Guides.

So others may benefit, if you have any questions or comments please post them below in the Leave A Reply Box. You can also be notified of any other comments by checking the Notify me of followup comments via e-mail box.

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What To Sell To Make Money Online

Friday, April 27th, 2007 | Make Money Online, Start A Home Business, Work At Home with Comments Off

What To Sell To Make Money Online

You may be asking yourself how do you start a work at home business and make money online. You have nothing to sell and you do not know anything about computers or the internet, or you might think you do not have anything to write about. Well, if you found this site, then you have some of what it takes to start your own work at home business. One of the greatest things about making money online is you do not need your own product to sell, or a vast knowledge of any particular subject. The internet provides all that for you! Everything you need is available to you if you can learn how to find it and use it to your advantage.

The details of going about it are a little more complex than what I explain here but the concept is relatively easy to grasp. You can start a work at home business and make a living promoting other peoples’ products. This is what is usually called affiliate marketing. These products may be actual items from companies like Amazon and thousands of other online merchants. These merchants will pay you a commission to send others to their web site and buy their products or services.

Another option is creating a content-rich web site full of useful information pertaining to a specific subject and selling advertising on it or a combination of the two. Both of theses methods can be very hard to start out with if you do not have prior experience. You can also find work at home opportunities that teach you how to start making money on the internet; some are free to join and others may be fee-based. As far as the free programs, remember the old adage “you get what you pay for”. You also need to be careful spending your money on a fee-based program. Research the offer thoroughly before you give up your hard-earned money.

Multi-Level Marketing is another great work at home opportunity that is a match made in heaven for the internet. Now, do not roll your eyes and click the back button just yet. I remember the days when I avoided my brother like the plague; he was always bugging people about coming to meetings or telling everyone how great he felt taking vitamins and dietary supplements. I bet the poor guy got pretty lonely for a while there. But MLM online is completely different. In fact, some of the best work at home opportunities to get started with is some form of MLM or tiered program. The beauty is you do not need to bother your family or friends to join or buy the products and your not limited to the people you know to get started. You have millions of people in the online community as prospects; so do not discount MLM online. It is a great way to get start a work at home business and usually these programs have great training resources to get you started because their success is based on your success.

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With Research You Can Start A Work At Home Business

Thursday, April 26th, 2007 | Online Business, Start A Home Business with Comments Off

You do not have to wander around town looking for real estate to get into business for yourself. You can always start a work at home business, provided you can offer a viable product or service, or take advantage of opening one of many available franchises. Your abilities, desire and financial resources can help determine the type of business and how long it may take to get it started.

When considering starting an online business you need to determine the type of online business you want to be involved with. You have the choice of selling products or services as well as whether you want to sell your own product line or someone else’s. The same can be true for service-related businesses. There are several companies offering services that you can resell and make a profit and if you find any of them useful, you may want to be involved.

You can also choose to sell a combination or products and services to take advantage of different aspects of the online shopping venture. While niche marketing and focusing on one product line has proven successful, so has being able to take advantage of different needs for different customer bases. Niche markets are more focused while a product mix reaches more of your targeted audience. You can also offer backend products, such as printer paper and ink to go with printers.

Working capital is a serious consideration in starting any online business and probably the biggest expense will involve marketing your business. A good business plan can help you determine your target audience, which in turn will help determine where you will focus your marketing. This plan should be part of the overall business plan as without a specific market to target, you could end up simply throwing money into the wind and hoping it falls where it will do the most good.

Sustaining growth is another planning process and depending on your product line can be a viable exercise. Every business that sells merchandise should plan to offer products that are considered disposable. Items that customers will need to replenish or replace when used to gain the possibility of repeat business. Some businesses, such as home mortgages, are only able to sell to the same customer once, or maybe twice so they are constantly on the lookout for ways of generating more customers.

A business offering disposable items do not have to continually focus on new customers, rather good customer service and quality products can provide continued growth based on repeat shopping by the same customers. For example, if you sell digital cameras, it may be years between sales to the same customer. However, you can bolster your sales by also offering memory cards and printing services or supplies to bring in additional sales to existing customers.

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The Right Work At Home Tools For The Job

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 | Start A Home Business, Work At Home with Comments Off

The right work at home tools can make a big difference between success and failure when you start work at home business.

Work At Home Software Tools like the following:

Keyword Tools – Keyword research is one of the first things to consider before launching a website or even an ad campaign. Research your niche and choose the right keywords to zero in on your customers.

Search Engine Optimization And Web Development – SEO is key to driving traffic to your site through the search engines. Learn how to optimize your site with these tools and products to gain a top ranking in the search engines.

Link Management – Getting links back to your site is key for page rank and search engine rankings.

Article Marketing And Submission - Another great source for links and traffic is writing and submitting articles.

List Building - Some of the most responsive network marketing leads I have ever purchased are here.

Marketing, Advertising And Sales Tracking -Get the entire list here:http://www.esmartjob.com/tools

When you start work at home business and continue to build your online business, you will need the right work at home software tools to make the most of your time.

I have compiled a complete list of tools to make the most of your home based business here: http://www.esmartjob.com/tools/

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Work At Home Ideas Can Confuse The Newbie

Friday, April 20th, 2007 | Earn Extra Income, Income Opportunities, Make Money Online, Online Business, Work At Home with 1 Comment

If you look into all of the work at home ideas available today you could end up confused trying to figure out the best one for you. When looking through the long line of income opportunity there are some questions you can ask yourself to help make the decision easier.

Since many of the work at home ideas involve multi-level marketing, if you are not the type of person that wants to sell products to your family and friends, then this is not the income opportunity for you. One of the ways people make money online with multi-level marketing is to sell products, but the main way to make money is to recruit others to sell the products for you. Hence the name multi-level marketing as there are multiple levels of distributors, each earning a percentage of the sales of everyone working under them.

The person at the top will be making the most money. Although there are income opportunities in this type ofonline business in which you can make money with your own internet business without having to sell to friends and family. Some companies offer a commerce website that for a small franchise fee, you can offer a professional looking and functioning online retail store and make money online off every sale made from your store.

Additional expense may be required for marketing to get people into your store, but that is similar to advertising for a brick and mortar store and a part of doing business. You may be able to increase your payout if you recruit others to also open stores, but it is not required in order to make money.

Becoming an expert in affiliate marketing can also earn extra income. You simply join with other companies and place ads for them on your website. When your visitors click on their ad and buy something, you get a percentage of the sale. Again, promoting your website will bring in more visitors and more potential sales through your affiliates.

Work at home ideas also include order processing, where you will receive email or snail mail orders for products, enter the information into your home computer and transmit it to a main company, which then processes the orders and sends out the products. These are legitimate income opportunities for the right companies, but may involve a small fee to get started.

One of the newer work at home ideas is for people to fill out forms online. A potential customer may email information to a box you are in charge of monitoring and when information is submitted you enter it on a company’s form and forward it to the company. It is easy enough work but it will take a lot of forms to make any money doing this.

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Authority Black Book

Thursday, April 5th, 2007 | Start A Home Business with 3 Comments

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Benefiting the Employer Telecommuting

Monday, March 26th, 2007 | Telecommuting with 1 Comment

What could your employees do if they were not stuck in traffic every single day for two or more hours? Look around you are you yourself are probably stuck in that same workday traffic: there are plenty of executives, data entry personnel, and others who are clogging the roads, yet is their presence at your company really required? Sure, you need a data entry clerk, but does she have to sit at a desk every single day to receive her work assignments? Could they not just as easily be delivered to her? Perhaps you could cut down the amount of time that she spends in the office while giving her the opportunity to work at home.

If your mind is working in that general direction, then you are probably ready to contemplate telecommuting for the people in your office. As an employer, you know that there are numerous benefits for you. While almost everyone thinks about the many advantages this mode of work has for the employee, the other side is rarely considered. Here are some of the most obvious benefits to your operation – and bottom line!

First and foremost you will be able to save on space. Space equals money, and instead of expanding your operation every few years when new personnel needs to be hired on to keep up with the growth of your business, you will be able to continue leasing the same space without making costly renovations to cram more people into the small space. Having a number of telecommuters working for you enables you to stagger the times when they come in and thus three to five workers can share one work station! While the initial cost of setting up several of your qualified employees to telecommute might be off-putting, consider the money you will save in facility related costs, and you will break even very soon.

With the many software innovations, you will no longer have to attend long and drawn out meetings that take time away from the many tasks you could be performing. Instead, online meetings, conference calls, and group emails will permit you to continue your supervision of the projects that are outstanding while at the same time freeing up time for everyone who would normally have to travel to meetings and take up time that could be better spent working on a task.

These are but two of the many facets that make up the advantages telecommuting can offer to the employers. Do not make the mistake of
dismissing the idea immediately. Sure, you will need to make sure that the person to whom you entrust this kind of work is disciplined enough to handle it, but once you have found them, you will be sure to reap great benefits.

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The Internet Is The Future … Now It can Be YOUR Financial Future Too!

Monday, March 26th, 2007 | Start A Home Business with Comments Off

If you haven’t staked claim to your little piece of cyberspace yet, well, now you can. It’s easy and you can even GET PAID in the process!

You should check this out right away. We were blown away by what we saw and we’re sure you will be too. There’s a good chance you can still get your own “personal domain” since this is so new.

http://www.esmartjob.com/gd

It’s a neat animated movie that is short and fun to watch. The “actors” in it will actually call you by name, so you’re kind of like a guest star in this. Don’t let the animation fool you though, this is serious. If you’ve never heard of an affiliate program, you’ll see why they are so popular online – and why this is one of the largest and fastest growing business opportunities worldwide.

There are nearly a billion people online now, and many of them want an easy way to build their own web site. People in dozens of countries are profiting big-time from this simple opportunity. We’ll show you how. It’s very fast and easy to get started (and FREE).

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Getting Massive Laser Targeted Web Traffic From Google Adwords Easily

Sunday, March 18th, 2007 | Start A Home Business with Comments Off

You need traffic to generate wealth in the internet, especially laser targeted web traffic. Everybody knows it; every site wants it and every site needs it. Without traffic, it is for naught.

With web traffic comes a potential customer which basically means sales which in turn means profits. While many sites have collapsed in the past, other smaller sites have still generated good money by concentrating on a certain niche and some sub-niches.

You can imagine why e-commerce site wants to laser target certain groups of people. They drive them to their sites to showcase their sites and products. Precision marketing is essential so that you could count on all the web traffic on your site as potential customers.

Using Money to Make Money

It’s a common business notion that if you want to make money, you have to spend money. Advertising is the most commonly used paid method.

You can make sure that your company and product will be known by people through advertising. With the right type of advertising, you can see the spurt of web traffic growth to your site. With a high volume of web traffic, even if only a small portion or percentage turns out to be buying customers it is still a good average of profit generating income.

Now, the surge in popularity of Google’s Adwords being the most used web traffic advertising method is very evident as you can see so many sites sporting this ad scheme.

To use Google’s Adwords, you pay a certain fee depending on the number of keywords your ad is keyword sensitive to. Each time a person does a search in Google, the keyword or keywords use generate ads in the side of Google which are generated by the keywords they have assigned for their ads.

This method can laser targets the web traffic that your site wants. You can also be assured that the first page of a search result has your site. Using Google Adwords ensures that your target group of people sees your ads. You can drive your laser targeted web traffic to your site which provides for their needs and wants.

Besides Google, you can also be featured in their other search networks. These include sites like, AskJeeves, AOL Search and Netscape. These sites also show Adwords ads that react to searches done by visitors.

You can also use content networks, non-search engine sites that feature Google Adwords. But this is subjected to the niche the site features. Your chosen keywords will determine which content network shall feature your ad. The frequency of your ad shall also be determined by your allowed budget.

Laser Targeting Your Web Traffic

You will need to get an estimate of your web traffic to buying customer ratio so that you can maximize your profits.

Knowing that your web traffic are all potential customers and are interested in your products and company provides you with a more accurate statistics. This will show you how effective your utilizing of Google Adwords is.

You will need to use keywords or keyword phrases that pertain to your company and to your products to drive laser targeted web traffic to your site.

If you need help in choosing keywords, there are many online internet tools available that could help drive laser targeted web traffic to your site.

With your Google Adwords ad, you are ensured that every click to your ad is a potential customer that is precisely looking pr interested in what you have to offer. Make sure that your Google Adwords ad has the right keywords so that you can drive you’re laser targeted traffic to your site.

Using Google Adwords can help boost the laser targeted traffic which proves to be very beneficial as many other companies can attest to. The benefits are high with the cost relatively justifiable.

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Taking Your Kids To Work: A Look At The Home Based Business

Saturday, March 17th, 2007 | Start A Home Business, Work At Home with Comments Off

More and more women are leaving the corporate world behind to try their hand at traditional homemaking. Being a wife and homemaker is a considerable responsibility in itself. Many women choose to work outside of the home to supplement their husband’s income and experience personal fulfillment through success in their chosen profession. The two income family is now the norm.

With the arrival of the first bundle of joy, comes many conflicting emotions and struggles. The wife and mother must now juggle attention to her husband, cooking, cleaning, shopping, errands, and motherhood with her career. Their desire may be to nurture and protect her children and husband nut the expectations and time constraints imposed upon her often force her to compromise those desires. This can result in guilt and depression in the over burdened woman.

It may not be a coincidence that divorce has become more prevalent and children more delinquent since the rise of two income families. Women are often finding themselves drained emotionally and physically from the dysfunctional patterns of behavior that are imposed on them by today’s society. Many women are fighting back by starting a home based business.

By working from home, women can now set their own hours, save time and money and spend more time with their children. With a little help, home based businesses can bring in a decent supplemental income with less hassles than the corporate world offers. Mothers can hire part time nannies instead of full time sitters and can arrange for childcare to be done in their own homes. This allows peace of mind for the mother and a chance to squeeze in quality time with the children during breaks, have picnic lunches on the lawn and never miss another chance to kiss away a fresh boo boo.

Hiring some childcare help during busy seasons in your business can help you keep your sanity. On slower days, the children can so quite well if they are kept in a structured environment and on a schedule. This takes preparation. Plan quiet times around favorite television shows, set up crafts and activities that require minimal supervision and intervention on your part. Prepare snacks and sippy cups in advance so toddlers can help themselves when hunger strikes. By keeping mealtime and naps on a schedule, you can be better prepared to give an estimated time for that conference call or know when a meeting time is absolutely out of the question.

No mother wants a stranger raising her children. Deciding to work at home with your children can be a wonderful compromise that allows you quiet those conflicting emotions of being torn between work and motherhood.

Staying Sane While Starting A Home Business

Friday, March 16th, 2007 | Start A Home Business with Comments Off

Starting a new business can be a harried experience. There are a myriad of decisions to be made, the budget needs stretched, the new secretary quits before the end of the first week: the struggles are endless. When starting a business from your home, you can add a slew of unique challenges to the list. Being aware of the potential pitfalls, and preparing for them can provide a way of preserving your sanity.

Friends and family members frequently assume that if you are home, you are available. Nothing can set your work back hours, faster than an unplanned visit from your mother. Setting clear boundaries regarding your schedule and availability for phone calls and visits can prevent misunderstandings early on in the life of your business.

If you are choosing to keep your small children home with you while you work, that carefully planned schedule can quickly become fodder for your three year old. Getting up early is often the best way to increase your productivity while those little angels are still slumbering away.

Having a contingency plan for days when the work load requires more attention than usual is an excellent way to head off disasters before they happen. Find local babysitters who are willing to come to your home to help out when needed. Recruit friends and family to provide occasional entertainment for short periods of time to allow you to work without interruptions. Anything that helps you keep focused is a good investment in preserving your sanity.

Running a business from your home has a few perks, especially at tax time. Consulting with a tax expert or accountant early on will arm you with the knowledge necessary to save you time and money when filing your first year’s business taxes.

Finding service providers that are both competent and trustworthy is a lesson in perseverance. The business directories, internet advertisements and even newspaper ads are clogged with scams and incapable providers. Seeking the advice of a seasoned home business veteran can be your salvation. Word of mouth will reveal strengths and problems with service providers.

If you find that you have chosen poorly and end up with a full sized, ten year old copier in your den instead of that sleek, all-in-one model with all the bells and whistles that you paid for, don’t despair. Don’t back down either. You can explain your dissatisfaction firmly and politely while explaining that the services were not acceptable. If after bringing the blunder to the business’ attention, you are still left feeling cold, you can report the offender to the Better Business Bureau: and call for legal advice.

Using good old common sense, a little street smarts and a lot of charm and honesty will help your achieve your business goals, while allowing you to keep your sanity and your home life intact.
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