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Feature ArticleUnderstanding the Different Methods of Online Promotion
Did you realize there are only three types of online
promotion?... This statement may seem odd and even untrue
in your mind, but I am speaking in more general terms than
you might be thinking.
Let me explain.
The three types of promotion are Junk, Active and Passive promotions.
JUNK PROMOTIONS ARE MONEY PITS
Junk promotions are those that seem to produce results, but by their very nature are really only illusionary promotions.
For example, let me begin with FFA (Free For All) pages.
You might find yourself subscribing to a submission program
that tricks you into believing you are submitting your
links to tens of thousands search engines.
According to the Open Directory website, they have only
approved 1705 search engines and directories for inclusion
in their database (dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/).
I like using the DMOZ directory as an example because
submitted links are tested by human beings with integrity,
for the honesty used in site description. Search Engine
Watch and other search watchers tend to show fewer than
these 1705 engines, primarily because a lot of the engines
provide very little value.
Yes, you can submit your URL to a FFA page, but FFA's
usually only permit 100 or 1000 links on their page at any
one time. So, if ten thousand people are submitting a link
to an FFA page on a daily basis, then the average life of
your link is between seven minutes and 144 minutes. I
suspect the actual number of submitters is much higher and
the results are much worse. Given that few people surf FFA
pages, the chances of your submission being of any real
value is practically nill!
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Most of the people telling you that you can submit your
site to tens of thousands of search engines are truly only
submitting your site to FFA pages! Beware of the false promises.
Another junk promotion method is Safe Lists. A safe list is a mailing group that is signed up to be received by people
who want to submit their own ads. Now, most safe lists have
thousands of subscribers who are able to submit their ads
daily or weekly. The person signed up to receive the list
will receive anywhere from twenty to 140+ messages a day
from the list. These messages will be received by people
only interested in promoting their own thing who do not
have the right motivation to open, let alone read Your
Advertising. As a result, thousands of messages go out
daily or weekly that will never be seen by anyone but the
sender of the ad. Where is the value in that? There is none.
ACTIVE PROMOTIONS
Active promotions are the type that require you to go out on a daily basis or a weekly basis and put out your
advertisements. With active promotions, you will either
place your advertising or you will not sell your products
or services. Your choice is simple — work or starve.
Examples of active promotions include Pay Per Click Search Engines (PPCSE's), Direct Email, Ezine Advertising, Solo
Ezine Ads, Newsletter Publishing, Ezine Ad Swaps,
Classified Ads, Auctions, Site Sponsorship and Banner Ads.
Some people are able to utilize these methods very
productively, while others are destined to drop their money
into the bottomless pit of failed Internet promotions.
PASSIVE PROMOTIONS
Passive promotions are those promotions that can continue to provide results for you long after you have invested the
work to make them available to the Internet community.
Examples of passive promotions include: Link Exchanges,
Articles, Ebooks, Content Exchanges and Writing
Testimonials for others.
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Let's look at articles as a solid example of my point. You are reading an article that I have written to promote my own business. This article is timeless and therefore
could have been written five years ago and still have been
as valuable as it is today.
Due to the fact that the article is timeless, it can and
will be placed in newsletters/ezines and their accompanying
online archives, on websites and in ebooks for many more
years to come.
As a result, this article will continue to serve me well
beyond the time in which I wrote it and submitted it to
publishers and webmasters for public consumption and publication.
This is the best example I can give you of an excellent
passive promotional method.
AVOID THE MONEY PITS
Many try and even fewer succeed to conquer the Internet and to produce their dreams of online wealth.
My hope is that you will be one of the people who conquer the challenges before you and to make a nice living while
working online. It will take drive, determination, study
plus trial and error, but you can make it work for you.
Please continue to educate yourself so that you can avoid the money pits - instead, strive to find the money barrels.
It can be done. I am living proof.
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Stone Evans owns the Home Business Resource Directory where
you can find everything you'll ever need to start, run and
grow a home based business at: www.Home-Business.com
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Second Article5 Ways to Speed Up Your PC
No matter how fast your processor and regardless of how much ram you carry, there comes a time when you realize your computer just doesn't run as fast as it did when you bought it.
Windows loads slower, programs take longer to launch, and, in general, your computer drags like it just came off a 2-night drinking binge.
If this sounds like your situation, these 5 tips should help you get some extra speed from your PC.
Disk Cleanup Utility
You may not realize it, but just because you finish with a file doesn't mean your computer does.
In many cases, if your computer's hard drive were a garage, you would have unused junk files piled 20 feet high and spilling out into the street.
Everyone should use the Windows "Disk Cleanup Utility" to delete old, unused, and temporary files that clog your hard drive.
Click Start, point at All Programs (or Programs), Accessories, System Tools, and click Disk Cleanup. Analyze your hard drive for files you can eliminate and it may shock you to see how much hard drive space (and speed) you can free up with a few clicks.
Defrag
Imagine a properly maintained hard drive as room the size of Wal-Mart filled with filing cabinets.
Now imagine ripping open every drawer of every filing cabinet, slinging the contents onto the floor and trying to find one document -that's a fragmented hard drive.
Sometimes lack of speed simply results from your computer working too hard to find the files it needs.
You can solve this problem by "defragging" your hard drive.
Click Start, point to All Programs (or Programs), Accessories, System Tools, and click Disk Defragmentor. Choose the disk you want to defragment and expect to let the program run for several hours.
Uninstall Unused Software
We all maintain software on our systems we rarely, if ever, use.
That software can steal system resources. Click Start, Control Panel, and "Add Remove Programs" to pull up a screen that allows you to remove old programs you don't use anymore.
Simply select and uninstall all programs you know for sure you don't need or want.
Buy More RAM
Increasing your RAM, a computer's memory, can dramatically increase speed when running certain operations or programs.
RAM costs so little now that you should install the maximum amount of memory your system can handle.
"Stop Them At Startup"
This operation requires a bit more technical savvy than the other four, so proceed with caution.
Many programs load into the system tray in the lower right of your computer's desktop and consume system resources even if you never use them.
Click Start, Run, type in msconfig, and press Enter. Click the "Startup" tab to see a list of programs that automatically start with Windows.
Clear the check box next to programs you know you don't want to load at startup.
But don't clear any checkbox unless you are 100% certain of a program's purpose.
Once you finish, click OK and it will prompt you to restart Windows.
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Author and co-author of several highly successful ebooks, including "How to Write and Publish your own eBook... in as littl as 7 Days" www.7dayebook.com. Writes a syndicated offline Newspaper Column - www.thenetreporter.com - focusing on ebooks, tips, tricks, expert interviews, & more!
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