SOME SOURCES IN USING FREE PRESS RELEASES

Written by Craig Lock


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Solonews is alse free: http://www.solonews.com/index.shtml

Other Press Release services we've used are: Emailwire.com: http://www.emailwire.com/. They are mainly for corporate businesses, but check them out.

Also Xpress, who distribute news releases by e-mail. (Their address is news@xpresspress.com).

You can also use eNewsRelease.com and http://www.globalprmedia.com

We have no connection with these news distribution services, but have found them all to be effective in increasing "hits" after a news release.

Whether you pay forrepparttar service, or not, I believe it is a good idea to use press releases to getrepparttar 118939 word out about your web site, product or service. In writing them, try to make them as "newsworthy", as possible. They DO WORK in bringing traffic,repparttar 118940 first step to online sales.

Hope this helps and good luck.

Craig Lock

http://www.craiglock.com

Craig's various books* (hard copies, CD's, "talking books" and e-books) are available at: http://www.novelty-gift.com/

Computer and internet coaching CD's (practical and easy to use) are available at: http://www.nzenterprise.com/4reel/

For help in writing press releases, Craig can be contacted at: clock@xtra.co.nz

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Craig Lock has been successfully marketing products online for the past five years. Craig is a writer, who believes in sharing information, as well as encouraging and helping others to find their talents and gifts.


Making a Web Site Available to the World

Written by Grant McNamara


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Perhaps you should consider making your web site available in languages other than English. By far,repparttar largest number of non-English speakers have Spanish as their first language. By offering Spanish, your web site can be viewed by nearly 17 million people living inrepparttar 118938 US who don't speak English well. And let's not forgetrepparttar 118939 332 million people with Spanish as their first language (source Ethnologue, 13th Edition) that live outsiderepparttar 118940 USA.

Other languages, which you might consider, are Chinese, French, Italian and German. Each of these languages has over a million people, resident inrepparttar 118941 USA, who have poor or no English skills. And think ofrepparttar 118942 millions and millions of people outsiderepparttar 118943 USA who speak these languages. Chinese isrepparttar 118944 first language of 1,223 million people, (over a sixth ofrepparttar 118945 World's population). 72 million people have French as their first language, Italian is spoken by over 37 million people, and German by 98 million people.

Is it difficult to make your web site available in more than one language? Well, no it's not difficult, isrepparttar 118946 answer for most web sites. Andrepparttar 118947 cost of translation is relatively modest; particularly when compared withrepparttar 118948 huge increase inrepparttar 118949 potential market. Translation prices are usually based onrepparttar 118950 word count. Andrepparttar 118951 number of words displayed on most web sites are actually quite small. Usually somewhere between 500 and 1,500 words, which roughly equates to about US$100 to US$300 per language.

The effort to takerepparttar 118952 resulting pages, written in another language, and display them on your site is usually no more difficult than adding new pages in English.

And there are a number of things that you can do to keeprepparttar 118953 cost and effort down. • Check your site carefully for spelling errors. Especially watch out for horrid homonyns (those words which readrepparttar 118954 same, are spelt differently, but have very different meanings. You know them, words like; there, their, they're; its and it's; who's and whoose; too, to and two; site, cite and sight to name a few. • Keep your language simple, and avoid ambiguities. • Checkrepparttar 118955 grammar, and then check it again. • Avoidrepparttar 118956 use of colloquialisms. • Choose several professional translation companies and ask them for quotes. If there are large differences in their prices, ask why.

And if you make regular updates to your web site, most translation companies can offer a maintenance package.

I hope you've found this article useful.

Copyright (c) 2002 Grant McNamara, All Rights Reserved. This article may be freely distributed and published. If you wish to publish the article, out of courtesy, please email me and advise the url. Author Information: Grant McNamara - grant.mcnamara@translateme.co.nz Grant McNamara manages The Translateme Group at www.translateme.co.nz specializing in multilingual software and internet support.


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