How To Avoid Getting Scammed By Illegal Pyramid Schemes

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1. Avoid any program that pays commissions for recruiting additional distributors. It may be an illegal pyramid.

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3. Be cautious of programs that claim you will make money through continued growth of your "downline"-the commissions on sales made by new distributors you recruit--rather than through products you sell.

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6. Don't EVER pay or sign any contracts in an "opportunity meeting" or any other high-pressure situation. Insist on taking your time to carefully think over your decision to join. Talk it over with your spouse or partner, a knowledgeable friend, and an accountant or lawyer.

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A Website is not One-Dimensional

Written by Wintress Odom


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Content/Copy

Your text, information and page layout is called your copy. It isrepparttar words on your page, but equallyrepparttar 119987 charts, graphs, pictures andrepparttar 119988 layout of all these items. Remember that Internet copy is different than paper copy, and oftentimes a wall of words will overwhelm a visitor to your site. Keep your copy clear and concise, since visitors’ attention spans onrepparttar 119989 web are notoriously short. Determine your site’s chief purpose, your thesis. Are you about building your brand, selling your product directly overrepparttar 119990 Internet, or getting a buyer to visit your store? Keep your purpose in mind as you create your website copy. Tell it like it is.

Maintenance

Your company will be growing, so your website should as well! As you organize, allow for new categories, new products, and new links. You should perform regular maintenance to make sure your links are working, your contact information is correct, your forms are working, and that everything is up to date, including copyrights. You want to keep your content current.

You can also use tools that will track what is working best for your website, what is getting results, and what pages are being visitedrepparttar 119991 most. Good statistics about where your visitors enter your site and how they move through it can help you tweak your site to improve sales and to create more effective layout, copy and design. You never know where your company may go, and good maintenance of your website will keep it, and your customers, with you every step ofrepparttar 119992 way.

Marketing

You want other people to see this website you put so much hard work into, so you need to find marketing solutions to get it out there. These days one ofrepparttar 119993 best ways to reach your customers is via Search Engines, because that is where customers are looking for you.

A search engine is a site such as Google or Yahoo where one can go and type in any sort of keyword and be led to sites that feature whatever they are looking for, be it “mouse ears” to “oven racks.” In order to ensure that YOUR website is amongrepparttar 119994 top ofrepparttar 119995 list of results, you need to practice what is called “search engine optimization.” You see, search engines rankrepparttar 119996 results they find, and if you sell staplers in Butte, you will want to be sure your site will rank well when someone types “Butte staplers” inrepparttar 119997 search box. Search engines rank their results based on very specific information fromrepparttar 119998 copy and underlying code of your website. There are millions upon millions of websites that search engines have to sift through for each search, so “optimizing” your website will make is easier for a search engine to recognize that your site is relevant. If you have repparttar 119999 time andrepparttar 120000 inclination to learn, you can optimize your website yourself. However, optimization is something many companies choose to outsource.

Remember your website is not like a printed document. It is not a one-dimensional, non-interactive page. Your website is a completely new kind of marketing medium and must be approached as such. From choosingrepparttar 120001 right domain name to converting visitors into buyers, throughrepparttar 120002 creation and implementation of your navigation, copy and design, from choosing your host to search engine optimization and marketing, every aspect must be carefully considered. Best of luck!

Wintress Odom a full-time professional copywriter with over half a decade of experience in writing technical and advertising material. She runs a successful copywriting agency, The Writer for Hire, and partners with Directory One in all of their marketing efforts.


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