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Customer Service With Twitter?

Jun 7

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You bet. If Comcast and Zappos can do it you should do it as well. Make sure that your business website includes a way for people to follow you on Twitter. Also make sure that everyone knows they can request support or ask questions on Twitter, as well as expect a response when they do.

You will seem much more in touch and responsive to the needs and interests of your customers. In addition you will have the added opportunity to find out what there interests are and provide information that will fill there needs. If you don’t have a Twitter account linked with your website and blog then you should get that stated today. Twitter can fill a huge gap in your customer communications and let you build real relationships with your customers. When you do that you will have happy customers and they will advertise your company for you. Viral Twitter posts can become word of mouth recommendations very quickly in this kind of situation.

So get your business on Twitter and start building relationships today!

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Free Online Web Design Classes

Apr 27

Posted by Erik Ehresman in Blogging, Web Design | 1 Comment

If you would like to learn more about web design, but are on a budget and a tight schedual you should consider the free options open to you online.  I myself have used W3Schools and also Tizag. These are great resources for begginers wanting to learn web programming basics. You can learn the basics of HTML, PHP, Perl, JavaScript and many other languages. It could be very useful to use even to modify your own blog, or social media page. If you have always thought it was to complicated for you to learn, or to expensive ect. then check out these web sites and see for yourself what is availible.

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What is Social Bookmarking and How Can You Benefit?

Oct 15

Posted by Erik Ehresman in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Social Networking, Web Design | 1 Comment

Social bookmarking, have you heard of it? If not, I will briefly explain what it is, then let’s talk about how it can benefit your blog or website. In this introductory article I will talk about the very basic aspects of it. In the next article I will share specific tools and strategies you can use to benefit from this powerful part of the internet.

Think of the bookmarks on your web browser, this is a good example of bookmarking. Social bookmarking lets you organize book marks for a lot of your favorite websites and organize them with tags. A tag is just a keyword you use to categorize your bookmarks. Look at the bottom of this post, in small print you will see the tag l used for this post. Now you can use a tag to look up your favorite websites on that subject, but could someone else be interested in the sites you have found? Yes, this is where the social part comes in the bookmarks can be shared and then more people benefit. Other people can them rate or vote for the bookmarks making them a show of how popular a certain website can be.

Perhaps you are starting to see how this can benefit your website. The fact is your site will get more visibility, be indexed by the search engines more often and quickly, and just plain get you the traffic you want, if it is bookmarked. It will also help you rank better for the keywords you want most, in the natural search engine rankings. Also the people who use social bookmarking are the type of people who will probably contribute to your site content by commenting. These are all things you want to happen. You should definitely be using social bookmarking.

How, then, do you use this tool? That is what I will talk about in my next post on social bookmarking. Please feel free to share any thoughts, questions, or insights on this subject here by making a comment.

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Increase Traffic to Your Blog

Oct 14

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Every wants to know the secret to instant high blog traffic. So here it is, … the secret is, hard work and patience. That is is and it really works, trouble is no wants that answer. The proven techniques that work are consistently posting high quality, relevant, and helpful CONTENT. Writing all the time isn’t as glamorous as an instant secret formula but nothing works quite as well.

Now that being said there are something you can do to help get all that good content noticed. One of the very best ways to help increase traffic to your blog is contributing to other blogs and forums, helping people with questions in your area of expertise. Posting comments and answers to questions, establishes you as an expert. It also provides a link back to your blog from the forum or blog you are posting to showing relevance. When you do this don’t just go crazy and post spammy links to yourself. In fact don’t post links to yourself at all, in your post. Usually there is a form that included that information when you fill out the post, and that is enough. Also pick a high quality blog or forum make sure it is something you would really go to. Finally, provide good solid information in your post, something that will really benefit someone. This really will help get your blog noticed.

There is no substitute for putting in the time to do something right. If you do, in time you will have all the traffic and readers that you want. Do you have a favorite way to help put your blog on the map? Post a comment and share it with others here.

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Get Paid to Blog!

Oct 8

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If you have a blog, and would like the simplest way of making money with it try . They will pay you to write blog posts on your website about companies and products, you choose the ones that are related to your blog’s content. They do have a few requirements for your blog to qualify though.
1. You must be the only writer on the blog
2. Your blog must be at least 90 days old
3. You must have at least 20 posts with no gap of 30 days between posts.
4. You must be 18 years old.

Read all of their documentation for any other requirements but it is really quite simple. Then they pay you to do something you were already doing writing blog posts. Make sure that your articles are truthful, well written, and interesting, and you are on your way. They also have a version 4.0 in which the people who want the the blog posts written choose you instead of the other way around, I haven’t had much experience with this yet. I will post more information when I have it.

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Make Money Online with Google Adsense

Sep 30

Posted by Erik Ehresman in Blogging, Google, Internet Marketing | 4 Comments

Adsense, what is it and how can you use it to make money. Let’s start with what it is. Adsense is a program Google has for putting ads on your blog or website that are related to the content of your site. They do a very good job of making the ads relevant to the content of the pages the ads are displayed on. You can edit there color and size to match your site in order for it not to look out of place. It is free to sign up and you can link it with Google analytics which is also free and can help you manage your click rates.

Why would you want to do this? Google pays you for every time someone clicks on one of the ads! So how do you get people on your site to click on the ads from Google so you can get a paycheck? Provide valuable information. I know that everyone says this but there is a reason for that, it’s true. This is much easier to do on a blog. Write regularly about a subject you are passionate about, and that solves a problem and helps someone and you can help people and make money at the same time. This mutually beneficial arrangement is what makes it such a good thing in my view. Please don’t write a bunch of junk or copy other peoples blog posts! Create your own good content and be a benefit to the community, if you think in these terms and are diligent in posting you will be rewarded with a check in the mail from Google.

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Make Money as an Affiliate

Sep 29

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There are lots of ways to do affiliate marketing and there are a confusing amount of products out there to offer. The real question is what is the combination that will make money? The simple answer is, if you learn some basic principles and techniques you can find that out for yourself. So What we are going to do now is walk through some of the basics to give you that knowledge.

First let’s talk about methods people use.

1. Pay per click:
A. Direct linking: When Pay per click and affiliate marketing first met, direct linking worked very well. This method is now extremely limited by changes to Google policy and I think it worked for the good of search users, it is basically dead now as an affiliate. The process was you would right an Adwords ad and without a website you would link directly to the merchants site preferably the product you featured in the product. Now only one person can show a link to each individual domain so the actual website owner usually gets that link and you need to find another way to get your traffic to that site as an affiliate.

B. Landing pages: Many people find that purchasing a domain such as www.yourproduct.com and then creating a review of similar products or a nice sales copy page with there affiliate links added, they can direct Adwords traffic the merchant through there own simple landing page. You are more successful with this the more value you can add to the landing page. Also using tools provided by Google such as Google analytics, and Website optimizer you can test various changes to your landing page and increase sales which are called conversions, as well as clicks through your website to the merchant.

2. Writing articles:
Some have been very successful writing articles solving a problem in a platform such as squidoo that include their affiliate links.

3. Blogging:
A different approach is to write a blog that give important information, that helps solve a problem some might have and include an affiliate link in some of your posts that directs people to useful products and services that you have had experience with. I like this method myself and use it in this blog.

All of these methods have pros and cons. I have tried them all and have had measures of success with each one. You can also combine them such as use Pay per click to drive traffic to an affiliate blog post you have. If you plan on using Adwords that is a whole world unto itself. To get the help you need to be good at it, I highly recommend Free 5 Day email Course in Google Adwords, this will get you started. He also offers a more comprehensive course called The Definitive Guide to Google Adwords which I wouldn’t be without. It that is well worth the small price you pay, but you don’t need that just to get started, just start with the free email course. It is written by one of the most respected and successful people in internet marketing, Perry Marshall, and I know I couldn’t do it without the training and tips I learned from this course. If you plan to use Adwords you need this information it is that simple, plus it is FREE so how can you go wrong?

You can do this with nothing other than an affiliate account with clickbank and a free blog account. The key to successful blog affiliate marketing is to post good content and do it frequently. I would post every single day. If you can’t think of anything to write about try going to Yahoo answers and looking at the questions people are asking about your subject. Answer some of those questions on your blog and people will want to read about it. Then in a few of your posts simple include an affliliate link to a solid product that solves a related problem, you are on your way to some affiliate profits with no money output at all. This method works it just takes a lot longer and is slow to start off with.

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How to Get More Followers on Twitter and Why You Want Them

Sep 17

Posted by Erik Ehresman in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Social Networking | No Comments

Followers, why do you want them? For business it is a remarkable way to know your customers, what they want, need, and don’t like. This can lead you to more positive exposure, and loyal satisfied customers. The more people you have following you the more you benefit it is that simple.

The next question is then, how do you get these followers? We are going to talk about a few specifics, and some important principles, in the next post on this subject I will share more specific tools and strategies. One of the very first things you need to do is promote your Twitter profile on your website, blog, and other social media sites. Think of it as any website that you would direct traffic to. I have seen a lot of cable channels and specific shows ask for followers on twitter, you and I should be doing the same thing with the means at our disposal.

Content is king and you need quality content in your tweets. It is true that we only have 140 characters but that is why you have to make every one count. Now don’t over think this, just put up good quality without, being overbearing commercial. Try broadcasting important events and information that your customers would benefit from not transparent self promotion. You could run a simple poll on a topic, or even product preferences, on products you offer. I am not saying that you shouldn’t promote your company and products you should. However not with every Tweet and not without a real value to the readers in terms of information not just a sales pitch. Keep on working with twitter you will see benefits.

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How to Learn Html

Aug 13

Posted by Erik Ehresman in Blogging, Web Design | 4 Comments

In order to create your own website at some point you will need to know at least some HTML. It is the language of web pages and actually very simple. So how do you learn it? There are a lot of good tutorials that take you from absolutely zero knowledge to where you need to be to make your website sparkle. One I reccommend it Tizag another good one is W3schools.com both of these websites will teach you other web design languages as well such as CSS or Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript. If you don’t know what these languages are don’t worry you won’t need them at first and they are very straight forward as well.

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How to Start Your Own Free Blog

Aug 13

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If you are reading this than you are probably familiar with how useful information found it blogs can be. Creating your own blog give you the ability to help other people with information you know that can help others. You can also profit from increased traffic to your website if you post regularly and post useful information. There are many simple free places that you can create a blog for free including NO hosting fee and NO domain registration. There are pluses and minuses with using a free blog service but if you have never had a blog of your own before it can be a very good place to start. A good free service that you could use is Blogger this easy to use free service walks you through the setup step by step and then offers you ways to personalize your new blogs appearance.

Give one of these free services a try.

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