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Business’ Barrier Entry
If you’ve run or worked at a brick-and-mortar business, you’ve probably come across procedures or regulations involving accessibility. These usually relate to things like doorways being wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs, or making sure bathroom sinks can be reached by folks with physical challenges.
Some small business owners I’ve heard of become frustrated with these rules and regulations. They complain that they can’t afford the expenses involved, that they don’t have the time to do the necessary updates or that they just don’t like being told what to do.
Politics aside, there’s something here these business owners often miss: these kinds of accessibility accommodations are good for business. If someone in a wheelchair can’t get through your front door, she can’t buy your products. Regulation or no, it’s just good business sense. You want people to get through the doors. You want to remove what experts call “barriers to entry.”
OpenX Launches Hosted Ad Serving
OpenX Hosted beta is the same professional ad management tool used to control the advertising on over 100,000 websites around the world, only hosted on OpenX hardware. The best thing about the service is it’s free as long as you don’t serve more than 25 million ads per month. I suspect OpenX started this hosted service in response to Google Ad Manager, which is also free.
As nice as OpenX Hosted and Google Ad Manager are, I still feel the best ad serving solution for bloggers is OIOpublisher Direct. Unlike OpenX and Ad Manager, OIOpublisher is a complete blog monetization solution. With OIOpublisher direct, advertisers can order, pay for and upload their ads directly to your blog. The only thing you have to do is approve the ad.
If you already have an in-house sale staff, then OpenX is a fantastic ad serving solution. I use OpenX for my entertainment sites and like the interface much more than Google Ad Manager. Having a hosted solution is just one more reason to stick with them.
Give Your Affiliate Business The High Five
Affiliate businesses are all over the internet. Lots and lots of people are now profiting from doing business across the internet whether as wholesalers, retailers, or affiliate marketers. Unlimited income can be earned from affiliate marketing. As an affiliate marketer, you and the product or service merchant share in the revenues from any sale or visit that you originate. There are several ways by which an affiliate marketer can earn from his business: pay per click, pay per sale, and pay per lead. An affiliate marketer can do any one or all of these types of affiliate marketing to earn loads of money.
Not all affiliate marketing programs are guaranteed to be successful and affiliate marketing is not all about the numbers. Oftentimes, affiliate marketing is advertised as an easy way to make profits. Being “easy” does not mean that you just let things be, and just do the minimum that is required of you. An easy and, more importantly, efficient way to earn from affiliate marketing is to do it strategically. Give your affiliate marketing business the Net Fool “High Five” with these strategic marketing tips on making money on your online business:
Master Internet Marketing with IM Answers
Internet marketing can be a very tricky and confusing business, especially if you are relatively new to the game. You will be faced with all sorts of terminology and concepts that may sound completely foreign, totally baffling, and utterly inexplicable. Even if you have been doing the Internet marketing thing for some time, you will inevitably encounter something that doesn’t make complete sense to you. Maybe you need a little help with search engine optimization or choosing just the right affiliate products to market.
Yes, you could venture into the vast world of knowledge offered by Google and Wikipedia, but you may emerge even more confused than ever. You could even invest in some e-books on the matter, but they could become outdated by the time you purchase them.
How To Make StumbleUpon Your Servant
Tried this method before and it worked quite well. Overall I got around 300K legit views, no paid to surf whatsoever. All I did was to use StumbleUpon. Most of you may say that’s normal, to get a couple hundred thousand views from Social bookmarking site. I don’t think so, simply because I don’t take StumbleUpon as a social bookmarking site. SU is totally different from Digg and the users are also more subject based. Unlike Digg, user sees whatever that is on their frontpage. It’s almost like a visit to the toilet for digg, come in and go.
What’s The Magic?
I tested this on my site letscafe.com. Basically I treat every post as potential viewer subscribing to my content. The content you show on your site reflects what your site is all about. From my experience, funny stuff does really really well on StumbleUpon. All you need to do is post some funny stuff once a week and wait for the magic to begin. Like I said, your content reflects your site. So don’t overdo it or people would think your site is suppose to be a humor site (That’s the last thing you want). To make sure that doesn’t happen, title your post something like “Your Site funny moment of the week” as an example.
