Springtime Marketing

Written by Biana Babinsky


Spring is inrepparttar air! Major department stores have been promoting Spring merchandise ever sincerepparttar 135910 middle of February. The stores are hoping thatrepparttar 135911 brightly colored Spring merchandise and displays will entice window shoppers to drop in and buy a few items to acceleraterepparttar 135912 arrival of a new season. Scores of customers with overflowing bags are a testament torepparttar 135913 retail sector's masterful use ofrepparttar 135914 weather to improve sales. You can utilize some ofrepparttar 135915 same techniques to improve your second quarter business results.

Springtime is associated with rebirth and a new beginning. It's also a particularly auspicious time to start a new marketing campaign. A portion ofrepparttar 135916 Christmas shopping debt has been settled andrepparttar 135917 shock induced by a pile of holiday bills has worn off. In addition, numerous studies show that increased sunlight tends to improve people's mood, which often manifests itself by increased consumption of goods and services. Here are three techniques you can use to followrepparttar 135918 lead of retail outlets and makerepparttar 135919 weather work for your business:

* If you sell a tangible product, feature your Springtime product lines on your front page and other high traffic pages. Customers are actively looking for Spring products. Some seek them out of true necessity, some sense that Spring will arrive more quickly once they've purchased a new wardrobe, and yet others are hunting for bargains and closeouts of your Winter inventory. Now isrepparttar 135920 best time to market your Spring products!

How To Get Your BLOGS "Site Feed" Listed In Yahoo! and MSN Within HOURS, Is Easier Then You Think

Written by Cory Threlfall


BLOGS... they seem to berepparttar talk ofrepparttar 135909 Internet marketing world these days, and for good reason.

Not only dorepparttar 135910 Search Engines love them for there Content Rich pages, you also haverepparttar 135911 ability to plug your Blogs "Site Feed" into an RSS feed and then have it syndicated to thousands of websites and directories giving your content more exposure to your target audience.

RSS(Real Simple Syndication) is a very Powerful technology that has been around for quite some time and when used correctly, can build an audience overnight.

If you want a crash course on what RSS is, in more depth, sincerepparttar 135912 nature of this article is to show you how to get your Blogs "Site Feed" listed in Yahoo! and MSN, I've provided a link to a page full of articles on RSS related issues. http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-articles.htm

Now, depending on where your Blog is hosted, whether its through a free service like Blogger.com -- http://www.blogger.com or hosted on your websites server you should have a "Site Feed URL" that hasrepparttar 135913 .XML extension.

This is your "Site Feed URL".

You'll usually locate it within your Settings area of Blog control center.

Here's what mine looks like as an example: http://theiwe.blogspot.com/atom.xml

This URL is intended for a RSS News Reader, so disregard its appearance.

Once you find your "Site Feed URL", copy and paste it into Notepad because you'll need it forrepparttar 135914 next steps coming ahead.

Now, what you need to do is go and set-up an My Yahoo! and My MSN account.

I've providedrepparttar 135915 links for you below.

- My Yahoo! ==> http://my.yahoo.com

- My MSN ==> http://msn.com

It should only take you about 15-20 minutes atrepparttar 135916 most.

If you already have accounts with My Yahoo! and My MSN, read on.

This is assuming you already have your accounts set-up, so your next step is to Login to your My Yahoo! account.

When you login, you'll be taken to your Yahoo! page immediately.

What you want to do next is go look underrepparttar 135917 Yahoo! search box torepparttar 135918 left and click onrepparttar 135919 "Add Content" link.

This will bring you to a new page.

From there, over torepparttar 135920 right byrepparttar 135921 "Find" button you'll see an "Add RSS by URL" link, click on it.

A new window will open with a "Web Form". Simply copy and paste your "Site Feed URL" from Notepad intorepparttar 135922 web form and click onrepparttar 135923 "Add" button.

Now, you should see your Blogs name infront of you. Simply click onrepparttar 135924 yellow "Add To My Yahoo!" button and your feed will be added.

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