The Best and Worst Website Layout
Don’t judge a website layout by its appearance – judge it by how well it fulfills its purpose. Business websites exist to make money, and often the most profitable websites include some ugly features, such as advertisements. But almost all websites should use some design elements and avoid others, so here is the best and worst you can do with a website layout: The Worst Website Layout Let’s start with the worst website layout. The first thing you notice about it is that’s it’s cluttered with content, advertisements, navigation, notices, and other features. As I mentioned earlier, ugly websites can…
Making Money Online with a Second Language
As Americans climb out of difficult financial times, student loans remain an economic barrier to many, with loan debt growing in every quarter since 2003. Repayment is a burden for many current students and graduates. What can you do to rid yourself of the debt accumulated? I recently spoke with a community college graduate who smartly navigated his way out of educational debt through leveraging his proficiency in a second language. Though highly intelligent and proficient in their own languages, many students at his school were having trouble mastering English, and needed someone …
Link Building – How is it different for affiliates?
I want to address the perceived difference between the strategies used by affiliate marketers and merchants. In researching this post, I read a number of other blog posts and a number of presentations around the topic of how affiliates can get links. It struck me that the tools and techniques being talked about would fit in fine with pretty much any type of link building campaign, whether it was for an affiliate or not. To illustrate the point, these websites are affiliates: MoneySupermarket VoucherCodes.co.uk AsiaroomsAt first glance, you wouldn’t put them in the affiliates category, but they are. You can call them super-affiliates because there are huge businesses behind them, but the …
How I Built 20 Profitable Websites Quickly. Stages + Outsourcing + Resources
The single biggest contributor to my financial success with online business has been the amount of profitable niche websites I’ve been able to develop over time. I currently own over 20 profitable niche websites, each of which generates income from a variety of sources such as contextual ads, private placement ads, affiliate product sales, sales of my own products as well as lead generation. Although I have been working on what would be considered an “authority” website (outside of this blog), most of my online income is generated by the portfolio of niche…
The Incredibly Useful Value of Links Beyond SEO by Dixon Jones
Whether it was at SES London or one of the many other search marketing conferences in the U.S., I’ve always been able to count on Dixon Jones for great advice on link building. Dixon was recently recognized for his content contributions to the online marketing world in our Top UK Online Marketing Influencers and Bloggers list. Working with Majestic SEO as their Director of Marketing, (TopRank has used Majestic for years) Dixon has been a fountain of smarts when it comes to the value of of links for SEO, but also for many other purposes. Links are the connective tissue of the web. Before Google and …
Viral Marketing Effect Brought By Micro-blogging
Currently almost everyone has a mobile phone. Just imagine the viral marketing effect this can have on your online business links. Make money online with the latest work at home jobs. Now make money blogging from free website traffic sources. Making money online has suddenly become delightful.
XForex – Can you earn an extra $1000 next month?
Want to Make Money online with forex trading, then you must try XForex XForex – where technology meets the world of finance; where technology meets foreign currency. XForex is an innovative and regulated company which has developed a robust and unique web trading platform for foreign currency trading. Our platform was created in 2003 and developed by traders who understand the needs of a beginner trader but also satisfy the advanced ones. The Xforex platform is one of the most popular trading platforms worldwide and has been offering traders worldwide, premium services, tools and resources as well as the cutting-edge platform, all of which have contributed to the broker’s popularity since its inception …
The 20 Biggest Benefits of Blogging
20 years ago, blogs didn’t exist. Today, there are over 150 million of them. Still, I get a lot of puzzled looks when I tell people that having a blog is the single most important thing a business, cause, or person can do to advance online. Even though ‘blogging’ has hit it big, most people don’t get what makes blogging so powerful, helpful, and beneficial. To put an end to that, I’ve compile a list of the 20 biggest benefits of having a blog below. If you’re among the uninitiated, prepare to be enlightened. If you’ve already started a blog of your own (as I assume many …
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When should you write? How often? How long should your blog posts be? Should you have a schedule? I get asked these questions and similar every week, between emails, Q&A calls/webinars, and clients. Content is becoming super important. We used to talk about if content was king or not. Now, I see a shift. The content creator is now king. (click to tweet) Keeping the crown is getting tougher than ever, though. The problem is, people get caught up in thinking they don’t have time, are not good enough, not …
Balancing Risk With the Need to Earn From Your Investments
This Post was Originally published at Balancing Risk With the Need to Earn From Your Investments on Start Investing MoneyThe whole point of investments is to earn money on them. It doesn’t matter whether you put money in a savings account, stocks and shares, real estate investing, mutual funds or anything else. What matters is the ability to earn money on those funds in order to make the investment worthwhile. Focusing on risk We all know riskier investments tend to bring better rewards. However they also bring bigger chances of losing out on those rewards – and indeed on the money we have invested in the first place. The idea is to balance out the need for risk with the rewards you are…
Preparing Your House For Sale
The Following Article Is A Guest Post. If you’re interested in submitting a guest post please contact me. When the housing market is buoyant (remember those days?) it was possible to sell your house quickly and for big money with almost zero effort. Indeed, many estate agents reported having buyers lined up to purchase properties unseen in the early part of this century. But in the midst of a flat market, or a market in decline, buyers are at a premium and so selling your property becomes much more …
The Pros and Cons of Renting Out Your House if You Can’t Sell It
If you need to move out of your current home but can’t sell it due to market factors, you have another option. You can rent your house out until you can eventually sell it. There are advantages and disadvantages when renting out your house, but depending on your circumstances it could work to your overall benefit. Advantages of Renting Out Your House if You Can’t Sell It If you have to move, and can’t sell your house, you can have two basic problems to overcome: trapped home equity and a …
Learn The Facts About Those Credit Cards That Banks Issue
These days, consumers require as much information and advice as possible to keep their finances in order an avoid overspending. Charge cards can either be an excellent tool for building your financial life or a huge liability that can wreak havoc on your finances. Continue reading for some great credit card tips. It is commonly
Chipotle’s Brand Is Transcending Fast Food
Chipotle is transcending fast food to become a lifestyle brand. In an attempt to combat competitors like Qdoba and Taco Bell, the burrito chain is selling organic cotton sweatshirts, sponsoring festivals for locally-sourced food, and backing a comedy video series mocking industrial farming, Leslie Patton at Bloomberg News reported. While other brands like Abercrombie & Fitch and Harley-Davidson sell ideas like sex and rebellion, Chipotle is trying to sell idealism, Patton writes. “It’s new territory for a …
Euro Area Spreads Near 52-Week Lows
Spreads on the debt of sovereign European countries have been falling like a rock recently, especially in Italy and Spain. Current spreads on the 10-year sovereign debt of Italy are trading at just 247 bps above 10-year German paper. This is the lowest level since the Summer of 2011, and it’s less than half of the peak level that spreads reached in late 2011. Spreads on sovereign debt in Spain are down by a similar amount. After peaking at a level of 633 bps last Summer, spreads are down by nearly 300 bps and near their lowest levels since last Spring. …
How to Use Your Blog to Repair Your Damaged Online Reputation
We all know that it’s important to manage how people perceive us, particularly in the ever-increasingly utilized internet search. Many consumers go straight to the search engines before considering which brand to go with for a particular product purchase.… Click here to continue »
Clay Collins Founder Of Startup Leadbrite, Pioneer Of The Prelaunch, And Serial Entrepreneur Shares His Story
Tweet[powerpress] Download the Text Transcript in PDF (coming soon) Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes Clay Collins is the founder of Leadbrite, the company behind LeadPages and LeadPlayer, two tools that are fast becoming the go-to-standards when it comes to collecting leads online with video and landing pages. This interview is epic in terms of how many things Clay talks about. He was a home schooled child, a founder of a software company at 15, a college grad and PhD student with published papers, became a social media expert in particular with Digg during its heyday, a niche marketer…
5 Daily Habits for Effective Social Media Marketing
Of all the things your business could be doing on social media, these are the things you should focus on.
Bryan Silverman on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Starting Up in College (Video)
As the College Entrepreneur of 2012, the co-founder of Star Toilet Paper discusses his top startup challenges and ways he’s helped overcome them.
RFID in the Sheets
USA Today: The plush robe in your hotel room now comes with an electronic leash. To keep robes and towels from checking out, a small but growing number of hotels are starting to use new radio frequency chips to keep track of their inventory. The RFID technology — which stands for radio frequency identification and requires an installed chip that can be read by an electronic reader — has been used by various industries for several years to organize product storage and tally shipments. With cotton prices rising and fewer employees in housekeeping, hotels are using the tech to monitor the whereabouts of bathrobes, bed sheets, duvet covers, bathmats, pool towels and banquet linens.
8 Ways to Blow Getting a Job Interview
Once again we’re hiring at PushFire and once again that means I’m going through a slew of resumes to try and find some new – and awesome – members to add to the PushFire team. Add to that my post last week railing ForbesWoman for explaining how women have a hard time competing in today’s market for employment because they have to compete against men and I figured this would be a great time to post about what I see (and repeatedly at that) that actually hurts your opportunity to get the career you…
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The Strangest Pet Insurance Claims
One of the latest trends in insurance news is pet insurance. As more people delay having children, pets become the default “children” of a couple or single person. People spend billions of dollars each year on their pets, so it makes sense that they would also want to insure their investment.About This is where pet insurance comes in. Pet insurance acts similarly to human health insurance. Pet owners can choose the desired coverage for their pets. Typical insurance plans cover both expected and unexpected health risks for cats, …
Carnival of Wealth, And Stay Out Edition
You can pray to Abaddon all you want. He’s not listening. The previous Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, got our vote as the most corrupt, incompetent, unethical man ever to hold the position. Yet as low as he set the limbo bar, his successor cleared it with inches to spare. Tim Geithner has done more than any single man to prolong an economic miasma that walks like a depression, talks like a depression, yet is never officially …