I know what you are thinking. "Why should I pay for content when I can get content online on any subject imaginable --- and I can get it for free?"

If you are running an online business and you are seeking information concerning how to take your business to next level, you should not want anything but paid content. Why?

AN EXAMPLE FROM THE SHORT HISTORY OF INTERNET COMMERCE

Let's take a look at "FFA link farms" first. Along about 1997-98, someone came up with idea of putting together a webpage that has 20 links on it for 20 separate businesses.

By providing a 25 word description, each link made its own contribution to permitting page to deliver up to 500 keywords to search engines, and to provide an opportunity for website owners to gain additional visitors to their websites.

Soon, hundreds of thousands of people were utilizing free-for-all link farms to promote their businesses, providing tons of junk to search engine databases.

Eventually, spider search engine managers realized that key to their own success was high-quality, content-related, search results. As a result, spiders blocked FFA link farms from their database, and penalized people who utilized them on their websites. Soon, whole domains were blocked from search engine databases as a result of their utilization of FFA link farms.

When only 200 people used FFA link farm approach to promote their businesses, idea was useful and perhaps even very effective. But once idea was advertised and hundreds of thousands of people were using system, system lost all of its original value.

If this concept was kept between its first 200 participants, then idea could have still been producing tremendous results for its users. Instead, it was turned over to masses that sucked all of life out of value of program.

EVEN SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION SPECIALISTS HAVE COME FULL CIRCLE

Here are seven straight forward tips to increase effectiveness of time you invest in your practice. 1. Practice Delivery Out Loud. Practice is NOT mentally rehearsing your presentation on drive over to presentation or even thinking about your presentation while tossing and turning at night. Both of these are something, but not practice. A lot can happen between thinking about what you want to say and actually getting words to come out of your mouth coherently. If you don't actually practice speaking out loud, when time comes, you may struggle to articulate your mentally well rehearsed thoughts. To audience, this struggle will appear to be lack of preparation.

2. Try to Conduct Your Practice in a Situation Similar to Real Speaking Venue. Whenever possible, conduct your practice in a situation that closely mirrors real presentation. For example, if you will be speaking in front of a large group in an auditorium or large conference room, try to practice in a large room filled with as many audience recruits as possible. Why? Research indicates that if your practice closely mirrors your real presentation, once you are in actual presentation your brain will think you have done this before. Besides practice, next most important ingredient in your success is experience.