Big Marketing Ideas Without The Big Spending!

Written by Andre Plessis


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By analyzing your situation regularly you make sure to be on top of everything and if you notice that you’re not reaching your goals then you will makerepparttar appropriate decisions early enough to reach them.

One ofrepparttar 119877 best ways to reach your goals is to write them down. Writing down your goals is an important first step towards achieving them. First, because by writing them down it forces you visualize your goals. And second, becauserepparttar 119878 act of writing them down creates a commitment on your part. A Harvard study of their graduates over thirty years found that there was only a small percentage (3%) of them who actually wrote down their goals and these wererepparttar 119879 most successful! Maybe that is why so few people actually are livingrepparttar 119880 life that they would like to be living.

Polls show that 90% of all Americans consider themselves middle-class. About 70% of Americans make less than $50,000 a year. In 2001, 1.3 million more Americans slipped belowrepparttar 119881 federal poverty line, set at $18,100 a year for a family of 4. That's 33 million Americans at risk of hunger, including 13 million children. Nearly 8.5 million people, including 2.9 million children live without enough food, let alone medical care. Those people are 11.7% ifrepparttar 119882 population. Median income is $44,000 a year for a family of 4. Median means halfrepparttar 119883 people in this country live on less than that, many of them on a lot less. 1% only of Americans make more than $373,000 a year.

Most individuals will have a hard time understanding and believing that if you write down your goals you will accomplish more and I agree with you it sounds unbelievable. Butrepparttar 119884 truth is that it will be a lot more difficult to achieve something if you do not write down your goals.

Just think about it. How can you possibly accomplish something if you do not have a road map? You need to visualize it, so write down a plan to achieve your goals.

It is also extremely important to review your goals frequently. Remember,repparttar 119885 more focused you are on your goalsrepparttar 119886 more likely you are to accomplish them.

Thank you for your trust. Thank you for enjoying reading my newsletters. I wish you and your family Happy Holidays and Best Wishes forrepparttar 119887 coming New Year.

Regards,

Andre Plessis

Andre Plessis Author & Marketing Consultant Savings4Merchants http://savings4Merchants.com Big Marketing Ideas Without The Big Spending! Copyright 2004©



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3 Overlooked Ways to Get Hundreds of Links and Prospects to Your Blog

Written by Tinu Abayomi-Paul


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So why don't more people use Trackback?

One reason is that what is arguablyrepparttar most popular free blog system, Blogger, doesn’t have Trackback. However, Haloscan.com can remedy this with their free service – it’s a cut and paste away.

Many new bloggers don't get what it is and how it differs from commenting. And of course,repparttar 119876 dynamics of it are a little more complex than I've stated. But learn to use Trackback properly, and you won't need to beg for links to your site ever again.

It's harder to estimate an exact number of visitors that come as a result of trackback links. But if you posted five days out of seven, and was able to get a trackback link to your site three times a week, byrepparttar 119877 end ofrepparttar 119878 year you'd have almost 150 topical links back to your site, which are more valued by search engines than a typical link trade with an unrelated site.

The most overlooked source of traffic for a blog is through article submission. To start with, turn your longer posts into articles and submit them to ezines or directories. Look especially for directories that ask forrepparttar 119879 direct link torepparttar 119880 article on your own site, and inputrepparttar 119881 permanent link torepparttar 119882 post on your blog.

Make sure that your Auto-Discovery tag is in place and it can mean hundreds more prospects, links and subscribers.

It's a shame this isrepparttar 119883 one ofrepparttar 119884 least used traffic methods for most sites, let alone for blogs. In four days, this method generated just over 1000 visitors. 157 newsletter leads, 98 new feed subscribers, and 206 links to my site. You may not get these same results right away, but using these simple strategies can still get you more exposure than you have now.

These aren't normallyrepparttar 119885 highest quality links, as they rarely make sure of anchor text. However, bloggers are citing me using Trackback, sometimes in lieu of linking torepparttar 119886 site where they originally foundrepparttar 119887 article, so some anchor text linking does occur - enough, in fact, to make this worth your while.

To see this in action, do a search on "Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings",repparttar 119888 title of an article I submitted earlier this week.

That article was published within a week of this one-repparttar 119889 results speak for themselves. Many of these sites aren'trepparttar 119890 ones where my articles are normally published.

There are, of course, plenty of other ways you can leveragerepparttar 119891 content in your blog or RSS feed to increaserepparttar 119892 traffic to your site. The methods outlined here may be a bit outsiderepparttar 119893 norm, but, as you’ll soon find, that’s part ofrepparttar 119894 reason they are so effective.

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