"Creating Content: The Easy Way"

Written by Steve Shaw


There is little doubt that quality content has a number of real benefits for your web site, not least increasing levels of repeat visitors, and valuable revenue streams such as advertising andrepparttar sale of products or services related torepparttar 108830 content you provide.

The only difficulty is that creating such content can be costly, taking up valuable time and resources. This article examines different ways you can add content to your web site quickly, giving you maximum benefit forrepparttar 108831 minimum cost.

Syndicated Content Streams

Syndicated content is content provided by others for use on your web site. Certain sites provide 'content streams', where you can simply place a few lines of code on your web page, and forget about it. The content provider then regularly updatesrepparttar 108832 content it provides. The end result is that your site remains fresh and dynamic, at virtually no cost to you.

The content provider either charges a fee forrepparttar 108833 privilege of using their content, or they prefer to benefit through traffic, such as by placing a link adjacent to or withinrepparttar 108834 content. One provider at interestalert.com even offers to pay you for adding a news feed to your site.

Here are a few examples of some content providers you may wish to try:

1. http://www.1afm.com/free_content/ - provides a range of different content types such as news headlines or jokes.

2. http://submityourarticle.com/syndicate - a number of different content feeds you can add to your site, displaying articles relating to internet marketing and online business.

3. http://www.brainyquote.com - adds 'quote ofrepparttar 108835 day' to your web site, from a range of different topics and authors.

4. http://freesticky.com - an index of resources you can use to quickly add content to your site, with a wide range of content areas to choose from.

Free Reprint Articles

Free reprint articles are a type of syndicated content, and they are widely available.

The Top 10 E-Commerce Ways to Follow up with Clients - Part 2

Written by Judy Cullins


The Top 10 E-Commerce Ways to Follow up with Clients - Part 2 Judy Cullins ©2004 All Rights Reserved.

Did you know that 80% of all sales are made afterrepparttar 5th contact?

The biggest mistake we make is not following up with our clients regularly. We not only loserepparttar 108829 chance to offer other services and products, we loserepparttar 108830 chance for satisfied clients' referrals.

Building your practice needs consistent bi-monthly follow-ups.

If you think this takes too much time, follow my lead and delegate some of it where you will spend only 6-8 hours a week. Remember, only marketing and promotion builds income and business,repparttar 108831 rest are expenses.

Part one of this article is available at www.bookcoaching.com/freearticles/article-129.shtml.

Here'srepparttar 108832 top ten ways:

6. Follow up in two steps.

Inrepparttar 108833 first ecommerce follow up, give a fre.e report adding your sparkling signature file as a soft sales piece. In a week, follow this up with your offer. Refer torepparttar 108834 report, and then make your one irresistible offer. If I sent a report on what web sites need before contacting a web master, I follow it up withrepparttar 108835 three-session "telecoaching" program on writing a web site with marketing pizzazz.

One personal coach offered an excerpt from her new bookrepparttar 108836 first time, and followed up with a discount offer forrepparttar 108837 book.

7. Motivate yourself and your staff with a poster of each month's follow up promotions.

It's great to see your follow up progress. Your promotions can be small or large. You know your' re going to attract new clients because you put out messages that keep you in your audience's minds.

Withrepparttar 108838 help of your assistant, in just two hours, you can send out PR to local papers on a seminar, update email addresses, send an article torepparttar 108839 top ten, finish an interview and send to no spam ezines, email your new content to your Web master, and send out new proposals for talks to different organizations.

When you notice these 10-20 actions you take each month, you'll also notice new clients coming each month.

8. Offer teleclasses to attract past, present and new clients.

A good first teleclass can be a question and answer call. Once you survey your groups and discoverrepparttar 108840 top 4-8 questions they want answered, include this information in your teleclass sales letter. Two schools of thought on this--a free 1-hour or a small charge forrepparttar 108841 first. Without some risk such as $15-$20, you may only attract lookie loos.

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