6 Ways To Keep Your Online Customers Away From Your Competition

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1. Stay In Touch Stay in contact with customers on a regular basis. O.ffer them a f.ree e-zine subscription. Ask customers if they want to be updated by e-mail when you make changes to your Web site. After every sale follow-up with the customer to see if they are satisfied with their purchase.

2. Friendly Web Site Make it easy for your customers to navigate on your Web site. Have a "FAQ" page on your Web site to explain anything that might confuse your customers. Ask them to fill out an electronic survey to find out how make your Web site more customer friendly.

3. Easy And F.ree Communication Make it easy and for your customers to contact you. O.ffer as many contact methods as possible. Allow customers contact you by e-mail. Hyperlink your e-mail address so customers won't have to type it. O.ffer toll f.ree numbers for phone and fax contacts.

4. Teach Your Employees Make sure employees know and use your customer service policy. Give your employees bonuses or incentives to practice excellent customer service. Tell employees to be flexible with each individual customer, each one has different concerns, needs and wants.

5. Impress Your Customer Give your customers more than they expect. Send thank you gifts to lifetime customers. E-mail them online greeting cards on holidays or birthdays. Award bonuses or discounts to customers who make a big purchase.

6. Be Nice Always be polite to your customers. Use the words Please, Thank You, and Your Welcome. Be polite to your customers even if they are being irate with you. Always apologize to your customers should you make a mistake. Admit your mistakes quickly and make it up to them in a big way. Quote of the Day: "Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph." -- William Butler Yeats

Warm regards,

What is Internet Scam Reporting?
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Copyright 2006 Best Internet Home Based Business PublicationsInternet Scam Reporting may be the best internet home based business opportunity you’ve never heard of. You can register to be a scam reporter and enjoy the benefits of getting paid to share your experiences of getting ripped off by con artists selling home business opportunity scams. This is the best way to get back at companies that virtually stole your hard earned money.Report your bad experiences of getting scammed and get paid! Scam Reporting allows individuals who have been deceived and scammed out of money investing in any of the various business opportunity programs for buying and selling real estate, stuffing envelopes, MLM, chain letters, affiliate programs, etc. a chance to get even. Added to this, scam reporters receive help from private organizations and agencies that specialize in helping to report internet scams and rip offs.There is no limit to the kinds of business opportunity scams or rip-offs that you can report. You can report Advertising schemes, Affiliate programs, Chain Letters, Commodities (Futures) Contract programs, Contacting Private Philanthropists, Envelope Stuffing, Franchises, Get-Rich-Quick schemes, Government Grant and Loans programs, Lottery systems, Lottery Syndicates, Mail Order programs, Multi-Level Marketing, Network Marketing, Owning or Operating Online Malls, Porn Websites and Casinos, Product Assembly, Pyramid Schemes, Real Estate programs, Referral businesses, Reseller programs, Selling Software or Computers, Sending or Processing E-mails, Stock Market programs, Newsletters (buying or selling), Vending Machine packages, Wholesale Distributorship, or any other scam found in a magazine, seen on television, or found on the internet.The difference between a Scam Reporter and the average victim of get-rich-quick schemes is that the Scam Reporter is trained to systematically report his or her experiences in exchange for profits. The average victim of a get-rich-quick scheme loses their money and feels cheated. He is left to feel hopeless, powerless, and clueless. The average consumer victim may file a complaint to the Better Business Bureau. But that doesn’t always help them get their money back and it certainly doesn’t quell the frustration of getting ripped off.Scam Reporters only report their experiences to work-at-home inquirers who request information about what types of programs work and/or don’t work. The inquiry side of the Home Wealth Industry has been a relatively obscure entity until now. Home Wealth Industry program inquirers sometimes pay as much as $150 for information “lists” for what kinds of business opportunity programs work. More importantly, they want to know which ones do not work. These individuals who are interested in work-at-home programs are located all over the world.Scam Reporting can successfully be done from anyone’s home no matter where they are located in the world. It is commonly referred to as the best home based business online. Think about it: You can get back at every company that has ever scammed you and get paid for it.In short, Scam Reporters report scams and get paid handsomely for their noble work. This is accomplished with the help of private organizations and agencies. They are paid money from work at home inquirers located across the world. Many of these individuals pay as much as $150 for information lists on what works and what does not work

by Joe Cooper

Brute Force Attack!

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Brute Force Attack:A last resort is to try every possible password, known as a brute force attack. In theory, a brute force attack will always be successful since the rules for acceptable passwords must be publicly known, but as the number of possible passwords increases very rapidly as the length of the password increases, this method is unlikely to be practical unless the password is relatively small. But, how small is too small? A common current length recommendation is 8 or more randomly chosen characters combining letters, numbers, and special (punctuation, etc) characters. Systems which limit passwords to numeric characters only, or upper case only, or, generally, which exclude possible password character choices make such attacks easier. Using longer passwords in such cases (if possible on a particular system) can compensate for a limited allowable character set. and, of course, even with an adequate range of character choice, users who ignore that range (using only upper case alphabetic characters, or digits alone, for instance) make brute force attacks much easier against those password choices.Generic brute-force search techniques can be used to speed up the computation. But the real threat may be likely to be from smart brute-force techniques that exploit knowledge about how people tend to choose passwords. NIST SP 800-63 (2) provides further discussion of password quality, and suggests, for example, that an 8 character user-chosen password may provide somewhere between 18 and 30 bits of entropy, depending on how it is chosen. Note: This number is very far less than what is generally considered to be safe for an encryption key.How small is too small thus depends partly on an attacker's ingenuity and resources (e.g., available time, computing power, etc.), the latter of which will increase as computers get faster. Most commonly used hashes can be implemented using specialized hardware, allowing faster attacks. Large numbers of computers can be harnessed in parallel, each trying a separate portion of the search space. Unused overnight and weekend time on office computers can also be used for this purpose.The distinction between guessing, dictionary and brute force attacks is not strict. They are similar in that an attacker goes through a list of candidate passwords one by one; the list may be explicitly enumerated or implicitly defined, may or may not incorporate knowledge about the victim, and may or may not be linguistically derived. Each of the three approaches, particularly 'dictionary attack', is frequently used as an umbrella term to denote all the three attacks and the spectrum of attacks encompassed by them.Ankit Talwar - Web Designer
Article Source: http://www.superfeature.com
Ankit Talwar is the owner of www.Dead-Yahoo.com. He is a Web Designer.

10 Phenomenal Ways To Plug In Extra P.rofits
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1. Attend trade shows and seminars that are related to your specific industry.
Pass out business cards or brochures about your business.


2. Swap articles with other e-zines publishers.
You could get your articles published more often if i exchange you publish their articles.


3. Ask people to link to your site's content.
Some people may not want to link to your home page but might want to link to your content.


4. Convert your web site into an ebook.
You could o.ffer your ebook as a f.ree bonus for your product or another business' product.


5. Create ebooks for other web sites or businesses.
You could create them for no c.harge in exchange for an ad or mention of your web site inside.


6. Team-up with eight to ten other sites to promote the same web site.
Just include e.veryone's products on the web site you are all promoting.


7. Give f.ree e-mail consultations to your customers.
When you e-mail them back your advice include a small ad for a back end product your selling.


8. Encourage your customers or visitors to e-mail you questions about your product or web site. Just include your sig file with your reply.


9. Give out f.ree web space on your server.
Many of your visitors may want to publish their own website. Just require that they publish your banner ad.


10. Design web sites for other businesses for f.ree.
Just require them to publish your banner or text ad somewhere on their home page.

Quote of the Day:

"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing." -- Arnold
H. Glasow

Search Engine Optimization: Advertising, Websites and Sitemaps

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To understand the value of a sitemap on your website, it may be of benefit to place internet marketing and advertising in perspective.

Before the advent of the Internet; before there were Internet businesses and Internet marketing, the main means of getting your message before the public was by several standard advertising venues. First was newspapers, then came radio, and then there was television. For each of these mediums, the techniques became stylized and solidified. Each learned what worked best for its particular means of expression and target market.

Then, along came the Internet:

Whether an internet business however, or a more traditional business, the goal has remained the same...get the message to the consumer.

Once all the high-tech trappings have been stripped away, that single goal remains the focus of internet marketing just as in the older, less technical settings.

Another thing which has NOT changed is the advertisement itself. The best advertisements offer a solution to a problem the reader might have. They are clear and concise. They make sense, or perhaps they amuse. The message can be approached from several different angles, and the writing of advertising copy is an entire field in its own right.

The same applies to the headline. The headline is the hook, which when properly crafted, gives just enough information to pique the curiosity of the reader while creating the image of the answer to the problem of the moment lurking just a little further into the copy text itself. Entire books have been written just on the subject of writing the right headline.

While the arts of writing good advertising copy and alluring headlines is still much the same, the means of getting the advertisement into the hands of the reader, or onto the screen of the reader's computer, has changed.

A newspaper was delivered to the door, or was hawked on a street corner. The reader might buy to read news and see information about a new car sale...or they might buy the newspaper to find out what cars were on sale. In any case, newspapers were easy to get hold of, and everybody knew how to find the classifieds or the obituaries, depending on their interests. Since a newspaper tended to be regional in nature, someone in San Francisco did not have to worry about whether or not the car in the ad was in New York or Boston.

Radio and television followed in the newspaper's footsteps, and much the same was true of them as has been said about newspapers.

The Internet has changed a lot about advertising:

First, the product offered by an internet business is not necessarily regional any more. Someone in San Francisco CAN buy a car that is located in New York or Boston.

Second, people from all over the earth can now create an online business and sell many of their products and services all over the world.

This means there are millions, perhaps billions of people trying to sell or buy on the internet at any given time. Each has their own major advertisement posted online, and this advertisement is called their website.

No longer is it sufficient to just have good advertising copy, a good headline, and to place the advertisement in the local paper or TV station. Not only must the website/advertisement meet all the requisite criteria for success, but now the advertiser must figure out how to get THEIR advertisement read.

Anybody with a computer can put up a website, but to get people to visit that website, and perhaps make a purchase, requires more. There are literally thousands or even millions of websites offering the same thing that you offer. In order to make your website stand out, one thing you can do is use the techniques of SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Search engines are important to an internet business because it has been estimated that about 85% of website visitors arrive through a search engine listing. Performing some sort of search engine optimization to a website will enable search engines to more efficiently find, index, rank, and present all the websites floating in the vast sea called "Internet".

There are many possible techniques involved in search engine optimization, such as proper use of meta tags, use of valuable content laden with keywords, and linking from relevant sites to name a few. One other technique is the use of a sitemap. The more pages your site has, the more important a sitemap becomes.

In its simplest form, a sitemap is a listing, or catalog, of all the pages on a site, together with their links. A link to the sitemap should be placed on the index page at a minimum. A sitemap may be simple links, or may be a description of the page with the link.

Commonly, there are two particular types of sitemaps, although others may be used. The XML structure is really directed at search engines. It is a series of clues to search engines such as Google as to the structure of the site. The search engine's spider will then follow the links on the sitemap, gathering data about each page in its normal manner. A sitemap laid out in HTML format tends to be more for the sake of humans and often contains descriptive text in addition to the links. For these reasons, you may encounter sites that contain both types of sitemaps.

A well-constructed sitemap serves two purposes:

1. It allows a visitor to look at the entire layout of the site and perhaps more rapidly find the page that addresses his or her concerns.

2. It allows search engine spiders to more rapidly and completely access, index, and evaluate all the pages of the site. This can contribute to a higher site ranking in some cases, and, at the least, provides more possible pages to lead the visitor to the site.

While a sitemap can be constructed using basic html, there are free sitemap builders or generators available. These can be found simply by performing a search under one of those terms.

Secrets To Success With Google Adsense
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So you place a google adsense ad on your page and you will begin making money immediately, right? Not exactly. This is a common misconception amongst internet marketers that can cause frustration and ultimately lead to many quitting with no success. If you can believe this, there is actually work and strategic planning involved with you making money with google adsense. So what are these secrets to success with google adsense you may be wondering?

The placement of your google adsense ad on the page is crucial to how much money you will make. It is vital that you place the ad above the fold on your page in order to get the most clicks. What this means is you want to place the ad high enough on the page that visitors do not have to scroll down to see your ad.

By placing the google adsense ad above the fold you are increasing the odds of people clicking on the ad. The reason for this is because a majority of your readers do not read your entire site or the entire page. For the most part people glance over some of the key points on the top part of the page without worrying about scrolling down. If you place the ad higher, you have a better chance to get clicks out of these types of visitors.

The way you blend the ad with the rest of your page can determine if the ad is visually appealing or not. You want to try and make your google adsense ad look less like an ad and more like your work. You can do this by making the font and color of the ad’s text similar as the text on the rest of the page. It is also recommended that you blend or mesh the background of the ad with the background of your page.

What you place around your ad can have just as much affect as the google adsense has itself for success. You want to eliminate any kind of clutter that can distract and disorient readers when they come to your page. It may seem appealing to you to place banners and pictures and text all over the page, but this is simply cluttering the page. If the page is cluttered you are increasing the chances of your visitors completely skipping over the google adsense ad altogether.

The last secret to success with google adsense is similar to your website in general. You want to pick a niche that is similar to your website and stick with that niche for all of the ads you place on your website. By selecting a niche you have a better chance for keyword optimization and targeting your readers with relevant ads to what they are searching for on your website.

It is the little things that most never even consider that can make the difference between success and failure with google adsense. If you do all of these secrets listed above and generate traffic to your website, you should have no problem having success with google adsense.

How Beginner Copywriters Can Make A Lot Of Money Very Quickly

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If you are a copywriter looking to get your feet wet -- and don't know where to turn or how to get started -- this article will give you two simple ideas you can run with today and be making money by tomorrow.

But first, you need to know copywriting is in huge demand.

Reason why is because so many people are just afraid to write copy, don’t know how to write copy, or are simply too lazy to learn.

And so, if you know even the bare basics of copywriting you are in big demand and you just need to find where the "starving crowd" (as master copywriter Gary Halbert puts it) is that are hungry for what you got. Here are two ways you can get started:

1.) First, you could look at trade publications or magazines where you see ads, newspaper ads, anywhere in your local community, and usually there are phone numbers on there.

And you call or write these people and say, “Hey, I’m looking at your ad. I’m a writer and I’ve got a couple ideas that I think could double the response of your ad if you’re interested.” And that's it. If you call 20 or 30 people a day, I’m sure you could pull in three or four jobs a day. Or at least get some good leads.

2.) And the second way to get started is you can take a person’s brochure or letter or flier or display ad that you see in these publications -- the ones that you know aren't pulling anything -- and make a couple of corrections on them. Then, after that, send the corrected ad with a letter explaining that you’ve made these corrections and it should increase their response. And if they like what they see and want a completely redone marketing piece to contact you.

Now, neither of the above ideas is complicated and anyone can do them. And just doing these two things alone should give you more than enough business to get started. You just have to put in the effort.

Let’s get a little more specific to quickly start your copywriting career with an easy example of a way to get leads just by searching through eBay and then writing an email.

Here's what you do:

Go to eBay or some other auction site and look for ads selling things that are selling for maybe $400 or $500 or even just $300 or $200, and that are listed over and over again -- but not selling.

Look for ones that are very poorly written. Ads you can look at and say, "I can do better than that!" and use your copywriting skills to rewrite the ad.

Then, when you've rewritten the ad contact that seller and simply say, “I’ve been looking at your eBay ad for the last couple of weeks or the last couple of months, and although you have a good ad, there are a lot of things that you can do to make this auction sell better and sell at a higher price and sell more often. What I’ve done is I’ve taken the liberty of rewriting your ad, and I’d like to get your opinion on it.”

Then, you put your ad up on a webpage, and you let him know the ad is copyrighted under international and federal law. You may even want to use a simple "non-disclosure" form they must sign before they can view the ad as an extra layer of protection (just in case).

If you really want to go the extra mile, you can even get some simple software that will allow you to protect the page, meaning he can’t copy and paste or print the page so it’s just view only.

The idea here is you want to show him your work, but you don’t want him to be able to copy and paste it, or use it. At that point you can then get his opinion and you can sell that to him, or you could negotiate.

You could say, “I’ll let you use my sales letter to sell your product. Why don’t you test it on one or two of your auctions? And then you pay me a percentage on everything you sell for using my sales letter.”

If he says no, move on to someone else selling something similar where you don't have to do any massive rewriting.

And just keep going after them. There are so many ads on these auction sites.

You should especially look at the completed auctions for stuff that sells for ten, fifteen, twenty thousand dollars. Let’s say you find someone selling a million dollar boat, for example. And let's say he has great pictures, but he has no copy, no benefits, no descriptions.

You can simply say, “Did you ever sell the boat?”

Chances are he'll say something like, “Nah, I never sold it. It’s still sitting here.”

You could negotiate and say, “Let me help you sell your boat. I’ll write an ad to sell the boat, and if we sell the boat, you split it with me. You pay me $2,000 or $3,000 or $4,000, whatever.”

Look, this may sound simple, but it works. The world is starved for good copy -- especially on the online auctions.

And this is a great way for a beginner copywriter -- who knows the basics -- to get your feet wet and maybe make some good money at the same time.

Michael Senoff

Team players: get more wins—and more sales—from your affiliate program by stacking your roster with internet-marketing pros

WANT TO PAY a marketing team only for results? Then get an affiliate program in place, and invite internet-savvy marketers to promote your business for no upfront cost. To launch a successful program, plan your strategy based on these questions:

1. WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR AFFILIATES TO DO? First, decide if you'll pay affiliates per click, lead or sale. Then, discuss their role in your overall marketing strategy. Experienced affiliates will use e-mail, search engines, content sites and possibly offline opportunities to promote your business. Do you want this sales force to dominate all marketing channels for you, or will you set restrictions to prevent same-channel competition?

2. IS YOUR COMPENSATION OFFER COMPETITIVE? To find out, check out competing offers on resource sites such as AffiliatesDirectory.com. You can also sign up as a network affiliate to review offers in that community.

3. HOW WILL YOU HELP AFFILIATES MAKE MORE MONEY? Yup, that's right--put your affiliates first, because by igniting their success, you'll be fueling yours. Create various ads and persuasive copy blocks they can use. And consider writing a newsletter with new-offer announcements, marketing tips and performance contests to help them perform even better.