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Gmail Priority Inbox Arrives

August 30, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

It is here and it is looking real good. Google priority inbox is a new feature of Gmail that you are probably going to love. It is a great way to get rid of the low priority emails and keep in touch with your inbox.

It comes out 8/312/10 and it is going to be great for those of us who get a lot of emails and need a simple way to stay organized. Gmail will have a built in feature that will automatically prioritize your inbox and keep you sane in the process.

There is almost no setup and really not much for you to do to get it running like a champ. You will have to check it every once in a while to make sure it is working to your liking though. Your important messages will automatically appear at the top of your inbox. Pretty neat huh?

How Gmail Priority Inbox Works

If you have a Facebook account, you get to see how Facebook measures who you interact with the most and who you are the “best” friends with. That is kind of what gmail priority will work. It will measure what emails you open the most and respond to, who they are from, and what they are about. Simple as that. It should do a pretty good job at it too. The more you use it, the smarter it gets in prioritizing your inbox.

Will this change the way you read your email? Well, if you want to emphasize a certain type of email from a certain person or subject, you better read them. Of course, this should come naturally. If you have any feedback, let us know.

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Tony Robbins Take On Current Economy

August 24, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

Tony Robbins is a smart guy and has a close tie with some very powerful and successful people. He put out 2 videos today that give his take on the current economy and housing situation and there is some food for thought to consider. Take a look.

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Free Social Media Icons Download

July 29, 2010 By Ben Janke 1 Comment

For all of my loyal readers………… Here are some great social media icons you can download for your own site(s) or use for client sites if you are a developer.
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4 Reasons To Have A Podcast

June 1, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

A few months ago, I started a podcast on my blog. It was a bit of a counter-intuitive move for me, since I am generally the shy guy in the room. It has turned out to be great for me personally and for my blog. It may just be the perfect next step for your blog as well.

1. A Podcast Opens Doors

Darren often mentions meeting other people in your niche to grow your influence. For a shy guy like me, that is often easier said than done. I don’t generally just start talking to someone out of the blue. A podcast gives me a reason to reach out to people. My blog focuses on providing advice to small business owners. With a podcast, I have been able to talk to authors, business coaches, and business owners about all sorts of interesting and helpful topics.

I am not some famous blogger or personality. That doesn’t matter. People are happy to share their thoughts. In fact, they usually look forward to it. If you start a podcast and seek to interview experts in your area of focus, you will likely find that it is pretty easy to get guests (unless your niche is mimes or monks who have taken a vow of silence). By offering to interview people, you are playing on both their desire to promote their work and their desire to help others.

When you have a platform, you don’t need to reach out to the people you respect feeling like you are asking for a handout. You can give them something useful in the form of a nice interview, and benefit yourself as well.

2. You Can Expand Your Own Knowledge Base Quickly

One thing that I love about my podcast is that I get to talk to really intelligent people about things that I often know nothing about. Recently, I have spoken to an identity theft expert, a lawyer who helps sell businesses, and a guy with a dream for a new type of conference. Being able to ask people questions on a regular basis has increased my own knowledge, making me a better blogger.

If you ever struggle with what you should write on your blog, doing regular interviews could solve that issue. Even if you always have something to write, a podcast can add a new flavor to your blog and help you explore new directions.

Some of the people I have spoken to would charge hundreds of dollars for an hour of time. I get that advice for free and am able to share it with my readers. Talk about adding value to your blog.

3. A Podcast Gets You Noticed

A side benefit that I didn’t really consider when I started podcasting is that it really gets you noticed. I have been working on building engagement at my blog, and the podcast has given me a boost there. First of all, my readers enjoy the interviews and the change of pace. Secondly, the people I interview are grateful and the interview is often the start of a great relationship. At the very least, the people you interview will now be aware of your blog. If you are working to build relationships with some key movers in your niche, this is a great way to get started.

The people I interview often post a link to the interview on their site. They also promote the interview to their networks, which gives a boost to site visitors. A podcast is a great opportunity to gain new readers. Since I started podcasting, the interviews have become some of the most popular articles on my site and have contributed to an increase in readers.

4. Podcasting is Inexpensive

I wouldn’t suggest any of this to you if it was going to take a big hit out of your budget. If you read this site, you are probably trying to figure out how to make money from your blog, not how to spend more money on it. The great thing about podcasting is that it is incredibly inexpensive. Sure, you can spend a lot on equipment, but you don’t have to. I bought a $40 headset and spent some money on a program to record Skype calls. I have also recorded calls for free using my cell phone and Google Voice. I edit everything with a free program called Audacity.

You don’t have to be a special person to start podcasting. I’m not. I am an inveterate mumbler, excessively shy, and I get nervous before every interview. At the same, I learn a lot, meet great people, and have increased the readership of my blog thanks to podcasting. A podcast could be just the thing you need to breathe new life into your blog.

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Effective Internet Marketing Strategy

May 31, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

Once your web site is up and running, the best technique for getting overnight congestion is pay-per-click search engine marketing. Though you have to hold back, you must conjointly be specializing in search engine optimization as a future strategy. If you would like a complete blueprint for an effective long term internet marketing strategy subscribe to my rss feed for more tips and strategies.

Search Engine Optimization – “SEO”

Search engine optimization, or “seo” as it’s higher known, is that the authoritative future Net selling technique. Thus, what’s it? Search engine optimization merely mentions to taking steps to make positive your website seems elevated in non-paid search results on Google, Yahoo and MSN. You have to think long term to have an effective internet marketing strategy.

The reason seo is considered a future strategy is…well, it takes an extended time. If your promoting is focusing on extremely competitive keywords, like “Europe travel”, there’s thus much competition that you may be trying at two or three years earlier than getting high rankings. The time amount is extremely a factor of how fast you’ll be able to build links. Sometimes you can move up at intervals vi months, however generally it takes some years.

Is it price it to attend for 2 years to urge into the prime five for “Europe travel”? There are over a pair of,000,000 searches a month for the keyword phrase. What do you think? If you offer a service or product related to traveling in Europe, how a lot of money would you create if even one million folks visited your website each month? Think about that.

The Big Three

There are 3, and solely three, search engines that matter when it involves seo – Google, Yahoo and MSN. What concerning Lycos, etc.? They simply do not have adequate traffic to create them price pursuing.

There are 4 keys to search engine optimization. First, you want to analysis the number of traffic various keywords are receiving. Second, you want to adjust your site to incorporate the precise keywords phrases within the meta tagging and text. Third, you want to add and add and add content to your site. The additional content, the a lot of the large 3 will like your website. Finally, you must trade links with different sites that have content connected to your site. If you would like to learn more on how a long term strategy to internet marketing can help boost your website rankings and increase your online profits listen to what Chris Freville & Mark Dulisse have to say and read my Dominating Google review for more information.

The keys to undertaking a seo marketing strategy are control and patience. Let’s take a quick look at each.

You must have the restraint to stay together with your seo effort when you’re seeing no results. The need to throw one’s arms within the air in frustration goes to be strong. Just remember that every step you’re taking these days will pay off down the road.

Patience balances thoughts of irritation and you’re going to have a lot of those. Look, it’s going to take a long time, therefore resist the urge to whine. Stick a sign up over your desk counting off the months or have a daily exercise routine. If nothing else, you’ll be able to day dream about all of the free traffic you are going to induce one day. Search engine optimization isn’t for the weak of mind or impatient. If you’ll keep on, this future marketing game plan invariably pays off.

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Instant PPC Traffic

May 31, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

Understanding how to use ppc marketing Pay per Click advertising has gained a lot of momentum in the past few years. It has grown dramatically as more and more small businesses start to use it for their traffic generation needs. If you are looking out for a way to advertise and get interested visitors to your website, you can set up your own PPC campaign and get results instantly. You only pay when your ad receives a click, which means it would be easier to get a higher return on investment. PPC, however, is a system where thousands of advertisers compete over keywords, which can drive the cost up. In order to get primary positions for your ads, you either have to outbid your competitors or write a quality ad that gets a high click through rate. As you improve at these skills, you can create more profitable campaigns and get more visitors to your website. Here are some proven strategies to create effective PPC campaigns.

One of the most important actions to take is testing your landing pages. Simply having a well written ad that is at the top of the listings is not enough. You also have to look at the next stage, having a landing page that converts your visitors into buyers. Without this, you cannot have a successful campaign.

Remember, you are paying for every click, so without a good landing page your clicks will only be running up your PPC budget. Testing your landing pages is the way to prevent this from happening. To test your landing pages, make sure you use at least two distinct landing pages for every campaign. You simply must do this if you want to maximize the performance of your PPC campaigns. You can use the better converting of two landing pages, drop the other one, and then try out still others in the future.

Watch your ads for two or three weeks and then narrow it down to the ad groups that are performing best. This is when you should analyze your results and weed out the bad performers. Take the cost per conversion into consideration and see to it that it’s not exceeding your profit margin. If this is the case, then you should either drop the ad or rework it and test it again. If you find ad groups that are profitable, of course, you should continue running them.

Try to stick, for now, with those keyword phrases that do not cost a lot. Probably not advisable to immediately compete with PPC professionals, so bid on the lower end phrases and you’ll be fine.

Goes without saying that you need to still make a profit after all the smoke has cleared, so figure out what you can afford. If you cannot afford to bid on the high end keywords, then you can lose money very quickly. In conclusion, pay per click advertising is certainly a high end way to generate profits for your business, but it always pays to start slow before ramping things up.

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Is It Worthwhile Paying For SEO?

May 31, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is now a big business and you will hear of ‘experts’ who are charging a fortune for their services. However there are many of these SEO companies who are promising the earth, moon and stars when it comes to your website and are guaranteeing to get your website to the top of the search engine results pages. And while there are some companies that can do this and that are experts, there are others who are not so successful so be wary of the ones who are guaranteeing you top search engine rankings.

The Dangers of SEO Services

The real danger with some of the less savoury SEO services is that they could actually get your website banned from Google or other search engines. Those that employ ‘black hat’ techniques may do things to raise your websites position in the search engine results but these actions can be enough to bring you to the attention of Google. There are quite a few SEO services that will do anything to get you up the rankings with little concern as to the future consequences. If your website was to get banned from Google it would be disastrous for your business.

Another issue with these SEO companies is that they are only doing the things that you could probably do yourself. Search Engine Optimisation is not that difficult even though for most new internet marketers it might sound very high tech. You could probably learn everything that you needed in just one afternoon. But for some people it might be easier to pay someone to do this as they just don’t have the time.

However some SEO companies will provide you with a top class service and will be able to get your website ranking highly by using approved techniques. You just need to look around and beware of those who are promising more than they can provide.

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How Does GetResponse Fair In the Auto-Responder Wars?

May 31, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

The company, GetResponse, is one of those household names in the internet marketing industry just about anyone in IM has heard about. If you’ve ever done any research on email/autoresponder providers, then you know that name.

Here’s the landscape: GetResponse and Aweber autoreponder service. Most marketers widely recognize both names as they are the largest and most popular of their kind. But we’d like to focus on GetResponse and the features and benefits it has to offer.

So what is it about GetResponse that accounts for its special qualities? Well, for starters, according to their website: they have over 100,000 active accounts, unlimited usability, plus a 68% deliverability rate more than other competitors. That’s a tall order to beat for a marketer who’s just starting out and looking for the best solution. You may have a tough time finding similar services that will beat those stats.

GetRosponse even made it possible for you to reach your customers from your iPhone when it released its iPhone application. The iPhone is many people’s first choice when they are looking for a feature rich trendy phone that can do just about anything.

Wherever you are you can conduct your marketing. If you ever feel chained to your computer then this is one of the keys to release you for a while. Sometimes, the day is too beautiful to stay inside all day in front of your computer.

If you aren’t sure if you want to drop eighteen dollars a month on the most basic account, GetResponse has a bare bones free account that you can sign up for. But that option only allow you ten contacts. Still, though, the free account will enable you to access all the other options available for other account sizes, as well. The free account could be a good choice is you’re undecided and maybe just want to walk around the place and get the feel. You don’t want to spend a bunch of money on something with a big learning curve. So you can do that, and then when you’re getting some subscribers, you can upgrade your account.

Everyone knows that e-mail marketing is the closest thing to running a business on auto-pilot. Of course, e-mail marketing is quite a lot of work. This is why services like GetResponse are so popular. There aren’t many list management services that can compare to GetResponse, in effectiveness or customer satisfaction. Your list will be secure with GetResponse and will never be lost due to the company suddenly going under. I don’t think that a hundred thousand clients is a sign of a company that doesn’t produce results. The truth about GetResponse can be found in the number of their loyal customers.

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Earn $10,000 With Your Home Based Business

May 31, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

To make more than 10K income in home business then online marketing is a good option. You will make money in the most convenient way by running an actual home based business. People with little or no higher education and diverse backgrounds can perform extremely well. Several methods exist for one to earn a profit via internet advertising. To start, individuals require a good web connection, telephone, and a pretty strong PC. With these simple tools in your online marketing kit, you can offer services and products to millions of people all over the world. Common ways to make money on line are auctioning merchandise, starting a dating service, selling eBooks for download or romoting products through social networking. As the world wide web is global, its possibilities are amazing.

An online marketing business is one great way to deviate your income to make 10K in a home business. By this being a genuine home business it will give you a most convenient way to make money. Individuals from varied backgrounds and with little or no college education can thrive. There are a myriad of ways to make money through online marketing. To begin, a person would need only a lineament internet service, a phone and a fairly powerful computer. With these simple items in your home online marketing one can offer to millions countless services and products. Auctioning your wares, creating dating services, downloading of eBooks, or simple social networking are only a few of the common ways to make money on line. Because the internet is international the potential becomes incredible.

The conclusion now is the time to evolve your very own marketing business to make 10K a month online.

Now is obviously the time to create your own marketing business online and to generate $10,000 every month.

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Internet Home Based Business – Do They all Work?

May 28, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

To get frank, this was exactly the same problem that I had asked about 2 years ago, after i first felt the pinch of economic instability. When you remember, those were the days when the globe was impaired because of an unparalleled economic crisis which left lots of people jobless, and people who maintained their jobs, with a decrease pay scale. As if this wasn’t adequate, the values of important goods rocketed up like never before. I would be aware of it too well, simply because I was one of the unfortunates who lost their work. I managed to keep my loved ones secure from the clutches of poverty by busting into my savings, but they wouldn’t last me forever.

I did before devote several hours daily searching the internet for an alternate means of income. I attempted all the income generating schemes available online in the wish that one of them would bail me from my financial problems. Believe me, such things as google adsense etc., are great if you are already generating a great sum of money. They can augment your earnings, however cannot substitute it. I discovered this the difficult way right after losing ample cash on it and clickbank account etc.

It is obvious they assisted me make some cash, but at the end of the day, I wound up paying a lot more than I gained. Chances are that if I had stuck long enough I would have received more than what I spent, however by then I might have had to market off my home. You can call it fluke or fortune, however during my sojourns of browsing the internet for alternate way of earnings, I discovered a fantastic program that promised me a lot of money monthly. Well, nowadays I devote most of my time lazing in the beach, or taking pleasure in dinner at classy resorts along with my family and friends.

That program has transformed my life for the greater in an amazing way. I would now like to share the strategies of my personal achievement with you. You might be asking why I’d do so. Well, there are simply twenty four hours daily, and I earn as much as possible in the course of these hours. Yet, there is a lot remaining to make via this internet home based business. Assisting you in beginning an internet business would benefit me too, because I too will make as much as you.

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Ben Janke Internet Marketing

Gmail Priority Inbox Arrives

How Gmail Priority Inbox Works

Tony Robbins Take On Current Economy

Free Social Media Icons Download

4 Reasons To Have A Podcast

1. A Podcast Opens Doors

2. You Can Expand Your Own Knowledge Base Quickly

3. A Podcast Gets You Noticed

4. Podcasting is Inexpensive

Effective Internet Marketing Strategy

Search Engine Optimization – “SEO”

The Big Three

Instant PPC Traffic

Is It Worthwhile Paying For SEO?

The Dangers of SEO Services

How Does GetResponse Fair In the Auto-Responder Wars?

Earn $10,000 With Your Home Based Business

Internet Home Based Business – Do They all Work?

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