How to get listed on Listorious

You’ve worked hard to establish your brand on Twitter. You carefully crafted your 140-character bio with important keywords and phrases related to your niche. You have your website url on your profile. You put out great information in your tweets. Your followers are all perfectly targeted. Now it’s beginning to pay off. Your superior knowledge [...]

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Rotator URLs, cloaking links, and traffic exchanges

Rotator urls are a wonderful tool, particularly for traffic exchange users. They are a real time saver. You simply submit the same rotator url to all of your traffic exchange accounts. When you need to make changes, you only need to do that once where you control the rotator url. You don’t have to login [...]

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3 tips on using pre-written email messages

Many affiliate programs provide pre-written email messages for members to use for promotion. It would seem that using a pre-written message is the smart thing to do because they must have been done by a professional, or at least by someone who knows more about email marketing than you do. That might be a good [...]

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Deliver what you promise

Warning: This is a rant I came across a cool copywriting blog on Twitter yesterday. They were giving away an ebook on copywriting for signing up for their newsletter. I liked what I read on the blog, so I entered my name and best email address on the opt-in form. I get sent to a [...]

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How figure skating is like affiliate marketing

Athletes are a dedicated bunch of folk. They have to be disciplined and focused, not to mention talented. The Winter Olympic Games shows us the best of the best. People who have trained their entire lives for this moment of glory, or defeat since whenever someone wins, someone else has to lose. But they all [...]

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Why your web page needs a good title

In the HTML source code of every webpage, there is what is called a title tag. What does the title tag do? It tells the whole world what that web page is all about. Well, it will when you set it up right. According to w3schools.com, the HTML title tag does the following defines a [...]

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Proofread your HTML code

You finally did it. You finished your first web page in HTML. You are so proud of yourself. You can’t wait to see it online. You anxiously upload the file to your server. You open a browser and type in the url of your new page. ACK! Why does it look like THAT? It’s usually [...]

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On submitting text link ads at traffic exchanges

All traffic exchanges offer text ads, those text link ads that appear on the surf bar and in various places on the traffic exchange web site. There are millions of ways to come up with catchy ads that convert to sales. I’m not going to address that here. I want to go over the basics [...]

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Small Business Mentoring

No experience running a business? Looking for a source for advice and mentoring? Look no further than SCORE. Founded in 1964, SCORE is a partner of the Small Business Administration and has offices throughout the United States. They are a national organization dedicated to supporting small business owners. You will find a wealth of resources [...]

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AdSense and Traffic Exchanges can’t mix

Traffic exchanges can generate great traffic to your web sites. Where have you heard that before? Oh, from me. Sorry, I can’t help myself sometimes. Traffic exchanges are a magnificent venue to showcase your marketing products and services to a targeted audience. Like with all professional tools, when used correctly you get outstanding results. So [...]

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