Don't Read This!

Written by Tony Dean


Don't Read This !

I gotrepparttar headline from a public domain book I have just compiled into a pdf file and placed on my server for free download and it was written by P.T. Barnumrepparttar 108746 famous American showman entitled "The Art Of Money Getting". In it he details how he once walked downrepparttar 108747 street past some shops and noticed a large sign hanging fromrepparttar 108748 awning and it simply said in very large letters: "Don't Read The Other Side!" He noticed there was a group of people onrepparttar 108749 other side ofrepparttar 108750 sign looking up and reading 'The Other Side'!

What do you have to do to get noticed in business? If you run a web business, how do you get noticed by potential customers and, importantly,repparttar 108751 search engine robots?

You've probably tried advertising, and link exchanges, and even writing articles. Even chatting on forums to make out you're an 'expert' in your field.

It still is not enough is it?

You really need to network yourself all overrepparttar 108752 web to get traffic to your site.

Let me explain. Search engine's seem to be giving less credence to link exchanges, therefore it does not seem to berepparttar 108753 way to go forrepparttar 108754 future.

Why not instead swap articles with each other, it gives more 'content' than a link any day?

What you can do is place allrepparttar 108755 articles you receive on a separate page, thereby building more 'content' and atrepparttar 108756 same time, other web site owners are placing your articles on their site.

Subject of articles must be 'relevant' torepparttar 108757 theme of each others sites, for example, if you sell paperback books, you want sites very similar to your own to publish your article, and you dorepparttar 108758 same for them.

Start withrepparttar 108759 link exchange partners to exchange articles with, and network from there. I am sure they will agree that it is an improvement on just link swapping.

When you have placed articles on your web site, make it known that these articles can be published in ezines, web sites, or online newspapers as long asrepparttar 108760 'resource box' is left in. It is a slow, but sure process of networking that you and allrepparttar 108761 web site owners who publish your article will be indulging in, but inrepparttar 108762 long run will lead to more traffic to your site. Every web site owner who participates in this idea of swapping articles instead of links, should extolrepparttar 108763 virtues of 'article swapping' on a page on their web site to encourage others to join in.

eCommerce, How much does it cost?

Written by Dennis Dadey


Making profits with your existing website design or creating a new online store can be exciting, affordable and most of all; rewarding. Mmmm . . . that's whatrepparttar last sales guy told me.

What is eCommerce (or selling viarepparttar 108745 Internet)? It is similar to selling through a physical building's business storefront, with one big difference:repparttar 108746 costs for eCommerce are lower. The lower costs alone make it a lot more affordable for someone to start up a business or expand their storefront business ontorepparttar 108747 Internet.

So,repparttar 108748 cost to do online business depends on how much time and effort you are able to put in andrepparttar 108749 eCommerce developer you choose to work with. Generally, developers should try to enable their clients to be as independent as possible in areas such as daily site updates, processing online orders, customer feedback and low or no cost (except time) online marketing.

Hosting costs are determined by:repparttar 108750 amount of 1) server space you require for product photos, e-mail accounts, and 2) bandwidth -repparttar 108751 more customers that visit your store,repparttar 108752 more bandwidth you will require. Typically an online store setup may cost $15 to $90 per month for hosting.

Other costs include online store program and designingrepparttar 108753 storefront. There are many programs to choose from with some being free to some costing thousands. As with anything you buy, you do get what you pay for. Clients like to use online store setups that are easy for them to use when they need to do product updates and simple design changes. That wayrepparttar 108754 initial higher cost forrepparttar 108755 client's online store will be offset by ease of use and low maintenance costs to operate overrepparttar 108756 long term.

Next we have graphical design costs, that can range from $70 for a pre-designed store template to a built from scratch setup that can cost $500 and up. If you have only a few products I would suggest starting withrepparttar 108757 pre-designed store template asrepparttar 108758 cost is low andrepparttar 108759 look is quite professional, with only a small amount of time required to input text and make some minor modifications to suit your requirements. If you have quite a few products and they are quite different from each other, you may incur more cost to developrepparttar 108760 graphic design as each product category will have a look designed just for that category.

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