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7 Secrets To Building Your Online Credibility

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7 Secrets To Building Your Online Credibility In a way, the Internet may be compared to the Wild Wild West. (Where do you think the acronym 'WWW' came from?) There is no real central authority that is in charge and many scam artists taken full advantage of this. Especially as a small business owner with no large company name behind yours, building credibility in the prospect's mind becomes crucial. Here are seven ways to build your online credibility. 1. You may find it beneficial to place your picture (even a mugshot) on your website. Brick and mortar stores have the advantage since the clerk has a direct face-to-face conversation with the customer. It is therefore easier to connect and form a relationship. I recently read an interesting thread on a marketing forum message board with several people giving their opinions on the pros and cons of placing your picture on your site. Most of the fears expressed were that people might be turned off by the owne...

5 Tips To Make Money on Craigslist

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5 Tips To Make Money on Craigslist Craigslist is one of the most visited sites on the internet today, with millions upon, millions of visitors a day. With this many visitors daily, it is very easy to get a nice chunk of traffic with your postings. I have put some tips together for you guys, apply these, and you WILL make money!  Tip 1: DON'T POST DUPLICATE POSTS! Posting duplicate posts will do nothing for you but get your ads taken down.  Yes, it is easy to just copy and paste, and make over 100 ads within minutes, but it won't do you any good. Tip 2: USE DIFFERENT IPS! Using different IPs is another way to avoid getting your ad flagged.  One way Craigslist will know to flag your posts are by looking at the IP you are using.  If they see multiple ads from the same IP, they will most likely flag your ad, thus your profits will suffer. (Wait, you won't have any.) One way you can change your IP is by using a proxy.  If you want a list of them...

5 Tips To Make Money In Trading Stocks Online

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5 Tips To Make Money In Trading Stocks Online The discovery of internet has made the methods of doing businesses very easy and comfortable. It has also taken the market of stock to the heights as the large percentage of the population has opted the method of trading stock online.  Tools To Start Trading Stocks Online The method of trading stock online proved as the most convenient and successful method of trading stock. It is also very easy for anyone to start trading stock online by just possessing 3 important tools which are: 1 - Computer: If the whole procedure of trading has to be done online, then it is obvious that the main foundation of this trade is the computer. If anyone wants to start with online stock trading, then he should possess a fast computer with Windows XP as its operating system.  2 - Internet: It is the major component of online trading as it will connect you to the various companies of the stock market. It is always suggeste...

Blog Mania

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Blog Mania Do your friends and coworkers turn to you for fashion advice? Are you a bonafide guru when it comes to the hottest designers and trends? Or, maybe youíre a would-be political punditóthe next Walter Cronkite? You could simply have a riveting way of capturing the world around you. Whatever your talent, rant or position, you can share your inner most thoughts in a place called the blogosphere    all you need is an Internet connection.  To the uninitiated, a blog is a personal website that is updated frequently by the author and typically consists of commentary and favorite links, as well as photos, or anything else really. There are essentially two rules for blogging:  1.) Update your site at least every 48 hours and  2.) Make the content somewhat compelling. It seems like everyone has a blog nowadays; even William Shatner and Mariah Carey have one. I mean, everyoneís story is unique, right? And since you donít need to know HTML, FTP...

Blog Layout Templates Are Simple

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Blog Layout Templates Are Simple The great thing about most blogging sites is that they provide you with templates that you can quickly use to design your site. This leaves you hours of time available for concentrating on the search engine optimization aspects of it. The layout of your blog is a template. This template is going to be the workspace where you contribute blogs for the next few months. In order to prevent this space from becoming cluttered with links, it must be well organized in the first place. Most blog software or online blogging sites comes with the software. This software comes with a number of preformatted layouts that can help you put your links, archived blogs and other information away in an orderly fashion that is easy for readers to navigate. Many of these templates are also very well designed and allow you to choose your own set of fonts and colors. There is also usually some kind of function that allows you to upload images and even ...

Blog Entrepreneur: Blogging Is the Perfect Internet Business

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Blog Entrepreneur: Blogging Is the Perfect Internet Business If someone were to tell you that you could create a global business, completely for free, with nothing more than the tools you already have, and the investment of your time, you'd question their sanity. Nevertheless, it's true. If blogging appeals to you, you can create a viable Internet business within a few months: for free. Blogging is a new development in online businesses. Essentially, it's instant publishing. Because entrepreneurial, blogging is so new, you have a great opportunity to build your business before others copy what you're doing, so get started now, and start building your own online empire. Let's look at five business models for your new Internet blogging business. These five models can be combined if you wish ñ there are no rules in blogging. You can change the business model of a blog at any time, to a model which generates more income. Each of these models ha...

Blog Design

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Blog Design It is great that the phrase blog floats around the net day in and day out, but what if you have no idea what a blog really is? Is this going to be helpful to your web site? No, not really. Here we will offer the skinny on the phrase blog, and you can decide for yourself if it may or may not be useful in your web pages. This way you will not be wasting your time on something you may not need, and the energy can be put into something you find more useful for yourself. The term blog refers to weblog and it is in every fashion not a commercial or professional site. It is more of the personal nature, for comment or web site material. Generally the most recent information on a blog is kept at the top of the page, as blog's are dated log formats. Often they will have commentary of other sites or links directing you to them. Many times the site is dictated by group links and the log is updated frequently. The opinion is this is the very first weblog was back in...