Affiliate Marketing Tips – 8 Reasons to Use Craigslist in Viral Marketing
In this article in the Affiliate Marketing Tips Series, I wanted to look at another great website that has not been mined effectively by the serious affiliate marketer. In fact, Craigslist often does not figure in most of the affiliate sellers’ marketing plans!
The reason probably is quite simple – Craigslist is overshadowed by Facebook, Twitter etc. And the second reason is probably the fact that there is absolutely no advertising about Craigslist – it hardly shows up in any of the Social Media news. It’s rarely that we get to hear from Craig Newmark about the immensity of his website.
Blogging Tips – McKinsey Report on Post Recession Consumer Behavior
McKinsey Quarterly recently published an interesting report on How the recession has changed US Consumer Behavior (this is a premium report). The report hints at the fact that more & more customers have started to rely on “cheaper” products, and have started to “like them”.
I will highlight a few interesting points from this McKinsey report on Post Recession US Consumer Behavior.
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Preparing for Caffeine Page Rank – 5 Tips for Improving Site Loading Time
This is a follow up article on Google’s new Caffeine search technique will now be affected by a website or a blog’s loading time (read Blogging Tips – Site Load Time to Affect Google Page Rank Says Matt Cutts). Here I will show 5 easy ways that can help improve your website or blog’s loading time.
You can follow these instructions carefully & you will see significant changes to your website or blog’s time to load.
Blogging Tips – Site Load Time to Affect Google Page Rank Says Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts have hinted at several places, interviews & at PubCon 2009 at Las Vegas that a website’s load time is now going to affect the Google Page Ranks. So far, Google had not paid attention to site’s loading time while assigning Google Page Rank, but with the new Caffeine search algorithm, websites that load faster will receive better ranking on Google Search engine.
Blogging Tips – Keeping Your Blog Safe & Live with Internet Services
Very recently we had to switch our website hosts. We were scattered all over the place & we carefully studied the amount of time & money we would save in maintaining our sites if we could optimize on some of the infrastructural services.
One of the major issues that we wanted to protect ourselves from was the downtime of our sites. The second issue on our radar were security & safety. Infrastructure is one of the key areas of focus for any webmaster.
Book Value – A Lion Called Christian & Example of Viral Video
After having read so much about the viral video on YouTube about Christian the Lion re-uniting with his foster family, I finally bought the book as a birthday gift to my wife.
Here are a few of the videos on YouTube on Christian the Lion:
- Christian the Lion 1 minute 16 secs
- A Lion Called Christian – Their Story from Animal Planet TV 2 minute 8 secs
- Interview with John Rendall (2008) 7 minutes 44 secs
E-Commerce Strategies for Business Blogs – Planning & Setting Up Shopping Blogs
More and more bloggers are moving towards a more e-commerce centric website or a blog. If you are custom designing your blog you can have built in e-commerce features. If you are creating your own theme or customizing a free theme, it would require some work to set them up for e-commerce.
Whether your blogs & sites are capable of handling commercial transactions is the question that will come later. The first question is, do you have a good enough ecommerce strategy that will help your blogging business grow?
10 Small Business Ideas Anyone Can Make Money From – Online Business
I have been traveling a lot lately on account of my full time job. I did not get much time to write for the past 2 weeks, but I did get a lot of opportunities to talk to a lot of different type of people. Most of them either have their own part time business, while some are about to start their own very soon.
One of the biggest road blocks to getting away from a regular paid job to starting a business is the feeling of insecurity if anything goes wrong! When I started my online work I too had the same fears, but I had a good plan in place.
