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I found this web site lately called Posterous. It provides service of using email to send your updates to various services like Facebook, Myspace, Tweeter… and most important of all, your blogs. It is such a convenient tool which saves time to go to each site and put in your updates. If however, you don’t have account on any of the social networking sites, and don’t have your own blog, they give you a free blog, just like a blogger/blogspot blog. You update your new blog by sending emails. Google “Posterous”, you will find the site.

I was checking one of my email accounts which was not used much lately and found a message asking me if I am interested in selling ad space on one of my blogs. He also gave a list of sites he wishes to advertise on. I was impressed by the genuine and professional approach, and replied immediately. While I told me that I will be glad to put his ads on my site, I also gave him a list of my other sites/blogs. After a couple of exchanges, we reached a deal, to put advertisements on all of the sites/blogs I provided for one year. To me, it is a major deal. It’s like a milestone on my journey of making money online. If I didn’t check that old email address, I would have missed out this deal. I am glad and grateful to have this chance to deal with a serious and professional media advertising player. His name is Parsa, from Gray Element Inc.

It is currently auctioning at Digital Point forum, ending in less than 24 hours. Current top bid is $5, so if you bid $6, it could be yours. The deal includes domain name AceArticles.info, full site and script, and 6 months free hosting. If you want a play ground to sharpen your Internet marketing/promoting skill, this could be just for you, so come over and have a look, here is the link to the forum thread.

Just in case you are not familiar with Digital Point (DP) forum, it is a great place for Internet marketers, bloggers, programmers, investors and technical personals. You will find heaps useful information, bargain deals on web sites, domain names, and link/advertising.

Update: The auction ended with the site being sold at BIN price of $15.

Nowadays twitter is getting more and more popular. When buying a template, someone was asking: is the template “Twitter integrated”? . Do a search on google, I found the new term “Integrated Twitter Search”. There is a pretty good article on that topic, you can see here.

There are 2 marketing traps can cause you to lose sales if you base your marketing decisions on them.

Trap1: Presumption that Everybody Needs My Product or Service

Unfortunately, most people don’t believe that they do need a particular service of product.  Obviously with items such as Ipods – your teenager children will try and tell you they really, really, really need one, but this is peer pressure that has been built up with millions of dollars.  Much of this was spent on research into what there market wanted – and they got it right!

If you believe this then you also believe that you can succeed without doing much marketing or selling.  Unfortunately, despite what some marketers tell you – it does not happen that way.  Undoubtedly there some very successful marketers around, but they will all admit that a great deal of market research, testing and reviewing of their offerings – happened before they became successful.

Building a successful business is hard work – most of it devoted to finding potential customers and then matching them with your products and services.  Even if most people can use your product or service, you still need a marketing strategy to reach them and a persuasive sales message to close sales – because you can bet your last dollar – that where there a lots of potential customers – there are just as many sellers.

To avoid trap 1:
•    Do your homework – find out where your potential customers are, what particular needs and desires they have and what they are seeking to solve these.
•    Look for a narrowly defined niche market where your product or service will solve a unique need of the customers.
•    Design your product or service to meet these needs.
•    Test, Change, Test, Refine, Test and obtain customer feedback.

Trap 2: People buy a product at the cheapest price they can find.

That is not true – if it was then companies like Rolex and would not exist – Timex would have put them out of business a long time ago.  Despite the ease of research that the internet affords – buyers are generally lazy and don’t undertake full research.  Even on eBay where it is far easier to check the relative prices of a product – people often buy a product at a higher price than they could.  So what causes people to buy?  These are called buying triggers – the most common are:

•    Confidence in the seller
•    A high perceived value
•    Recommendations
•    Ease of purchase

To avoid trap 2:
Establish your credentials – for example we have over 20 years of business consultancy experience – so we know what works and what does not work in a business.

Find ways of enhancing the perceived value of your product or service by adding extras or clearly demonstrating the value of it’s purchase.

Ensure that you include some actual recommendations within your sales letter.
Make it easy to purchase and receive your product by not introducing any barriers to purchase such as extra forms, obscure or complex payment methods.

1. Blogging for just one blog
2. Blogging all by himself
3. Blogging for huge traffic.
4. Blogging for non targeted traffic.
5. Blog Monetization by Adsense.
6. Nothing to sell/offer

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