Saturday, May 10, 2008

Social Bookmarking for Blog Advertising

Social bookmarking sites are a growing trend and are
becoming more popular each and every day. They are a
great place to share your bookmarks with everyone and
to be able to access them from any computer. They are
also a great place that you can post a link to your
blog.

There are over fifty social bookmarking sites that you
use to submit your link to your blog. Digg, Digo, Blue
Dot, and del.ico.us are just a few of them that are
the most popular. Each site has its own guidelines and
rules for posting links, so it's important that you
want to read the rules that they have before you post
any links.

Because social bookmarking isn't as targeted as other
forms of advertising for your blog, you may find hta
tit will take longer for it to be effective. But it's
also a good way for you to get your blog noticed and
it may bring in people who may not have found your
blog another way.

Since social bookmarking doesn't always give you the
opportunity to know who it is that has seen your site,
or get to know other people, it's always a good idea
to keep track of the visitors who say they were linked
to your site through a bookmarking site. If the site
allows you to put a comment, ask people to let you
know on your blog that they found it through a social
bookmarking site and which one. That will help you
know how effective it is.

Success To You,
Paul Jesse Work From Home Online

Friday, May 09, 2008

Website content and lead generation

One of the best ways to get leads through your website is
to give the visitors information that they need without
them knowing that they need it.

Let's face it - people don't like to feel as if they are
dumb. But if you give them information that is useful
without them feeling as if they are being talked down to,
it can really make them sit up and take notice.

For example, take a company that sells jewelry. Most
everyone knows what the birthstones are for the different
months of the year.

But someone who has a jewelry website could offer a chart
for different anniversaries. For example, the 40th wedding
anniversary gemstone is ruby.

Another thing that a jewelry website could offer is
cleaning tips for different types of gemstones, because not
every method can be used on every type of gemstone. But
that is something that can be offered on the website as
well.

Both of the examples above are things that people may not
know that they want to know, but it's information that is
quite useful and people are going to be happy that it's
available.

People like to know that the company is offering them
information that is useful to them, because it doesn't make
them feel as if the company is only trying to make a sale.

The more useful information that you offer people, the
better chance you have of making a sale. People like to get
things that are free, even if it is only free information.

Paul Jesse ==>Work From Home Online

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Work From Home Online - Focus On Your Clients

The reason that a lot of online businesses fail is that they don't focus on what is really important - the client.

Most people will say that to work from home online is the most important, and money is important, but without website traffic you don't have money. So here are some tips for generating website traffic.

1. Meet your website visitors needs

Website visitors aren't going to buy your product or make use of your service unless you appeal to them and offer them something.

Instead of focusing your advertisements on what you do, focus on what they will get out of your product or service.

This shows your visitors that you are focusing on their needs instead of on simply making money on a product or service that no one can really use.

2. Get rid of waste

Offer a survey to your website visitors, find out where they found the information about you and your company. If one form of advertising is working well, and the other one isn't working as well, consider getting rid of the one that isn't working.

Depending on what it is, it can be costing you money without giving anything back in return.

3. Make use of your website

Take a look at your website and look at it with a critical eye. Try and see it as a customer sees it and make sure that any questions that they might have are answered.

4. Ask questions

The last thing you want to do when you work from home online is to ask questions. When people see a question, it makes them think. They may not have thought about it before, but it helps them take a look at themselves and they might just find that they do have a need for your product or service, or want to get more information.

Work From Home Online