My ebay shop and job situation

ebay shop

My ebay shop is going well I will except that it will take up to 2 years to reach its full potential. But at this date I'm happy.
ebay shop

The job situation could be better, however I will just have to get on with it at the moment

ebooks and planetsms

I have joined planetsms the information that they supply is amazing and I recommend that you should join or alternatively you can follow my blog and see how I do before you commit. For $10 or£5 per month the information that I have been supplied with is a steal.

I now I have to get ebooks set up but with all the information available it will take me a while to read it all and then implement it. That's not a bad thing I just have to use time management. However at long last I can light at the end of the tunnel in both working from home and in my regular day job. This is something can afford to pay every month that with hard work and dedication I should see results.

Plus I also give you this.

All You Need To Know About Blog Hosts

Apart from the chat rooms, instant messengers and electronic mails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the emerging innovations that help man build opportunities for interaction. The need for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological landscape of the Internet.


Blogs / “weblogs” or blogging are the newest gift of Internet technology to people all over the world. These are updated posts, crop up entries or personalized life snippets, of mundane or bizarre in nature. For most, a “blog” is a personal, unedited, and authentic journal meant to be shared in an online community. Blog site is a place where bloggers can publish anything; his thoughts, feelings, photos, special events, experiences, comments on issues and so on. It is more of an online diary with videos, links, documents, newsletters and opinions on just about any topics you are interested.


Blogs are made to welcome the insights and opinions of all and therefore, should not be written to sound intimidating and too formal. This kind of blog is a sure way to put off the readers. In the basics of blogging, conversational tone would be more appropriate to reach the desired audience.


Blogging is all about individuals reaching out to other individuals. Having a blog has its own set of advantages:

? Freedom of Expression. If you want people to hear you out and give their own opinion, this is the best way to create a line of communication;
? Networking is at its best. Having a blog is a good platform for exchanging genuine ideas from consumers to you as marketer of a certain product. Sound opinion and point of view is better than just showing the price quote;
? Excellent advertising platform. Blogging is a new way to advertise products, a refreshing change from the traditional advertising outlets and it is cost-effective.
? Gauging public opinion on products and services. The key is nice and catchy titles with new ideas presented in your content. This is an assurance of quick and repeated responses from your readers. Blogs is an excellent spot for the exchange of ideas between the seller and the consumer. Good for measuring public opinion regarding services and products, even political and business matters alike.
? Useful tool for internal communication. This will help your company to build a knowledge-based community of employees. Also good for harnessing employee relations and identifying human resource issues in advance.
? Other benefits like search engine optimization (SEO) will help your blogs to be seen often by as many people as you wish. This is very good exposure for your products and services.


Many blog hosting services are available on the Internet. But the basic question is which one of the services will be the best to start off your business blog program? Business people are usually clueless to recent technological innovations which would help them maximize their marketing potentials. For these beginners, it is best to study first the services offered by blog hosts. An ineffective business blogging program may damage marketing opportunities instead of enriching them.


A company may decide to do the following depending on its capacity and needs: 1) Host their own blog service, 2) Pay someone else to host the service, or 3) Setup a “blog aggregator page” and ask the employees to select their blog hosting services individually. There are paid and free services available for individuals.


For business blogs, they are required to have the latest blogging features; if not, this will prevent them from maximizing their marketing, public relations and SEO potentials.


Keep in mind that blogs should have the following basic essentials:


COMMENTS. Welcoming comments provide opportunity for dialogue. In business blogs, they are a good customer feedback mechanism. This helps develop better customer relations based from loyalty and trust. Blogging is an innovative way to converse with your customers.
TRACKBACK. This helps in maximizing company and product exposure. Through this service, consumers can get back to you for more posts and updates without the difficulty of locating you. If your blog is popular in a specific online community chances are links going back to your blog site are everywhere online, other blog sites or even websites.
CATEGORIES AND TAGS. These both help in classifying blog searches for ease of navigation and on site search. Categories act as libraries because it classifies posts by subject matter such as business, distance learning, e-commerce, online auctions, etc. Tags, help in the classification, especially in the blog search engine Technorati. Possible customers and new clients locate blogs about certain topics of interest by just clicking the tags.
RSS FEED. Really Simple Syndication is the feed from your blog that is sent out over the internet, and collected through the various newsreaders and aggregators.


If your company is to establish a business blogging program, considerable options should be made available by the hosting companies shortlisted for the services. Free blog hosting services are popular but they are much appropriate for individual online journals. Paid blog hosting services offer unlimited packages best for your company’s needs. You may want to suggest checking out some blogs that use the host first, read and examine their layout and design. Another important thing to consider is a reliable technical support the host has.


After, choosing the blog host, a team should be ready to plan the design and structure of the blog: The team should:
? create a style that meets the needs of the audience;
? establish an open, credible tone;
? schedule weekly updating of blog - ideally, a few times a week;
? include weblinks of other website and blogs;
? blog post should be in the “first person;”
? focus on the business blog objective; and,
? maintain an honest, engaging conversational quality.


Remember, whatever the look, style and content found on your blog is a reflection of you and your company.

e books

E-books and Affiliate Programs

Some E-books combine very well with an affiliate program. When the affiliate receives some extra benefit from promoting the viral message, like being able to brand your E-book with his affiliate links, the affiliate makes a sale when a reader buys through a branded link. You benefit from increased traffic on your website because the affiliate is willing to promote the E-books for you.

Be absolutely certain that your message includes a clear call to action. There shouldn’t be any doubt whatsoever about what you intend recipients to do. Make sure that the instructions are perfectly clear so that recipients know HOW to act. The action that you require should be simple and obvious as well. Don’t make things complicated or it will confuse the reader, such as by adding numerous links.

Remember the K.I.S.S. principle: Keep It Simple Stupid! The incentive should be clear to those you want to take an action. Readers will look at your offering for about seven seconds before they move on. If it takes longer than that for them to figure out what it is you want them to do, they will move on. Don’t make your message vague or difficult to comprehend. If you do, chances are you will lose them. You must respect your readers enough to express your message clearly.

Once you are sure you have an E-book that will be of value to an affiliate program, approach them with your idea and be able to show that it will be mutually beneficial.

Viral Marketing using E-books is one of many techniques that all together have a cumulative effect in attracting customers and subscribers to your business and in attracting targeted visitors to your website. You will very soon find out that this is an excellent way of increasing sales, subscribers and referrals.

I have also recently signed up to planetsms myself so everyone can keep tabs on how my dealing go over the next few weeks and months.

Mailing List for Affiliate Marketers

If you are an affiliate marketer who wants to make a comfortable living from referring your prospects to other people’s product or service for decent commissions, then you must consider building your own mailing list.

Building your mailing list of hungry prospects can be one of the best investments you will ever make, as it is time and effort worth spending on. When you strike on a Joint Venture and have a new product or service to endorse, you can look no further than your own mailing list.

Granted, that most affiliates, as in more than 90 percent of them, are not making money from affiliate programs, but this often results from the same amount of effort focused on least effective methods.

While having your own mailing list is, by a long mile, not the only effective affiliate marketing method, you can make affiliate sales very quickly even in the next few hours after sending a sales message, provided that your mailing list is huge and responsive.

This is often true, because owning your own mailing list for you to endorse products and services to is one of the fastest-producing results, beating other affiliate marketing methods imaginable.

In a nutshell, the affiliate marketer who gets ahead of the pack is the one who owns a huge and responsive mailing list of prospects.

Why Publish an eZine?

As everyone is aware that I started this blog when I suffered a serious drop on salary. I have been constantly searching and trying out different ideas. However every time I seem to achieve a breakthrough another obstacle rising. I know I have find ways around these but when it concerns capital which I haven't got there is the stumbling block.

I am now looking at building ebooks and ezines.

On the Internet, it is very possible to make money without selling any product. One way of doing so is through starting your own eZine, also known as an electronic newsletter.

In a nutshell, you send out your eZine issues on a periodical basis to your subscribers. The good part is that you have a flexible choice in automating the process of sending out your eZine issues for you or manually sending them on a periodical basis.

As an eZine publisher, not only can you easily achieve the benefits a conventional newsletter publisher enjoys without having to chop down several trees in the process, you can easily and conveniently spread your marketing influence and expertise to your base of subscribers from the shoes of an ordinary individual.

In other words, you do not have to invest in expensive printing equipment, brick and mortar business, and hiring staff just to run your own newsletter publication, resulting in a lot of time, money and effort saved.

Basically, all you need to start your own eZine are an auto responder and broadcast feature to go with, enabling you to reach out to your massive subscribers whom you can regard as your prospects, too.

All in all, if you do not have the commitments of creating your own product for sale, then publishing your own online newsletter can be one of the wisest decisions you will ever make, given the benefits of impressive marketing power and influence it can offer to you.

Job Situation

Nothing new on the job situation. Another week gone by and all I seem to get from management is that they are awaiting to speak to someone else to discuss the case.

All my friends who work in different occupations some work in HR in other companies are convinced that my present employer wants me out. I will not give them the satisfaction in handing in my notice. If they give me job that meets me half way so therefore I know how much I will be paid every month. I will find alternative employment. It's not that I looking for other employment at the moment it's just want my pound of flesh.

They could also pay me off but that will not happen as I have mentioned in one of my previous posts.

I am looking at adding ebay to my list of alternative ways of earning some cash. The mystery shopper thing has so far been a success. See my other blog for further details.

Affilaite Marketing

This is a great article.

Affiliate marketing on the Internet is possibly one of the
most lucrative means to making money there is.

Of course, you need a certain amount of knowledge in order to
make large commission checks.

The money will not start flowing in until you lay the groundwork
for your success.

This article is going to reveal four effective methods in setting
the groundwork for selling large amounts of affiliate products
without hassle.

- Start with great content.

Your website should offer content that is both relevant and
useful to your target market.

This will automatically inspire trust and respect with visitors.
This first step is critical. If you have a site that you
hastily throw together in order to make a buck, then you are
better off not getting involved in affiliate marketing.

People need to feel that you are respectable, trustworthy,
and able before they will listen to your suggestions. Your
content should prove your knowledge and experience and be of
great value to your visitors.

- Insert a soft sell of one or two affiliate products in the
course of your content.

A soft sell is exactly what it sounds like:

To softly, passively promote a product. You should avoid
sales pitch style promoting at all costs. This will turn people
off and make them want to leave your site.

Here's an example.

Let's say your content is about lawn care, and you are marketing
a fertilizer that does wonders for lawns. During the course
of your well-written content all you have to do is mention
the product and say that it has done great things for you.

That's it.

Anything else and you are getting into a sales pitch. Simply
insert a quick blurb about the product in an appropriate part
of your content and provide a link to the company that produces it.

- Promote at least three affiliate products at once.

It is important to diversify your affiliate products.

This ensures a much more stable income, because it is
produced by multiple sources. It is never a good idea to
put all of your efforts into promoting a single product.

This leaves you very vulnerable. If only one product is
bringing in your entire income what happens if the company
suddenly goes under or cuts the commission payouts in half?

It would be disastrous to your cash flow. You would be
left seeking out a new product and a new marketing scheme
for it. This can be very difficult, especially if your
whole site was geared toward promoting that one product.

If on the other hand, you have three or more affiliate
products regularly bringing in income it wouldn't be
near as big a concern if one of the companies went out of
business or cut down their payouts.

- Create a viral ebook loaded with affiliate links.

A viral ebook is basically a free ebook that is spread by
word of mouth. Viral ebooks are a great way to market
affiliate products. Suppose you create a viral ebook about
how to start an Internet business.

Place affiliate links throughout the book. There could be a
link to an autoresponder company, a web hosting company, and
anything else an Internet marketer would need to start a business.

If anybody clicks on the links within the book and buys one
of the products, you get a commission.

Everyone wins.

The person reading the book gets set up with great services,
the companies you promote get more business, and you make
loads of affiliate commissions. Viral ebooks can also help
to generate a lot of fresh traffic to your website.


Use these tactics above and no one will be able to stop you
from becoming successful in affiliate marketing.

adsense

Monetizing Your Website With Adsense Is Profitable!

How do you maximize your site?

By earning some few dollars per click from displaying Adsense ads on it. Many are now realizing that good money is made from this source of revenue. Try the simple mathematical computation of multiplying those clicks for every page on your website and you get a summation of earnings equivalent to a monthly residual income with that little effort you have made.

Google Adsense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant and text-based Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money in the process. The ads displayed are related to what your users are looking for on your site. This is the main reason why you both can monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense.

How much you will be earning will depend on how much the advertisers are willing to pay. It will depend also on the keywords required. If the keywords the advertiser have chosen are in high demand, you could receive more dollars per click. On the other hand, low demand keywords will earn you just a few cents per click.

How can you start making profits out of your website using Adsense?

1. Sign up for an Adsense account. It will only take a few minutes of your time.

2. When the site is accepted, you will be receiving a clip code to include in your web pages. You can insert this code on as many pages or web sites that you want. The AdWords will start appearing immediately after.

3. You will be earning a few cents or some dollars per click when someone starts clicking on the AdWords displayed on any of your web pages. Trying to earn false revenues by repetitively clicking on your own ads is a no-no. This will result in a penalty or the possibility of your site being eliminated. The money you have already earned may be lost because of this.

4. View your statistics. Adsense earnings can be checked anytime by logging into your web site account.

Once you got your account working, you may still want to pattern them to the many sites that are earning more money than you are. It is important to note that there are factors affecting how your website will perform and the amount of money it will give you.

It is a common practice that when a site earning money, the tendency is for the owner to want to make more out of what they are getting already. It usually takes some time combined with trial and error to attain what you want for your Adsense contents.

Time and some important factors that you can practice and use.

How do you increase your Adsense earnings?

1. Choose one topic per page. It is best to write a content for your page with just a few targeted phrases. The search engine will then serve ads that are more relevant which will then result in higher clickthoughs.

2. Using white space around your ad. This can make your ad stand out from the rest of your page so visitors can spot them easily. There are also other choices of colors you can use, provided by search engines, which can harmonize the color of your ad with the web page color.

3. Test your ad placement. It is recommended to use the vertical format that runs down the side of the web page to get more positive results. You can also try both horizontal and vertical formats for a certain period of time to see which one will give you better results.
4. More content-based pages. Widen the theme of your website by creating pages that focus more on your keyword phrases. This will optimize the pages for the search engines. It can not only attract traffic but also make them more relevant for the AdWords to be displayed.
5. Site Build It. This is the perfect tool to be used for creating lots of Adsense revenues. Site Build It has all the tools necessary to quickly achieve a keyword-rich site that can rank high in the search engines. This will also produce a flow of traffic to your site of highly targeted visitors.

Job Situation

Well I have had 2 days training . I have no real complaints with the background of non profit organisations I have found the training OK. I'm sure the other new starters several who are also new to the organisation are finding it tougher than I am.

I have spoken to my union rep or should I say the one who is covering for my usual rep. That I will complete all the training however I am not sure if the job is the right one for me at the end.

On another positive I have found 2 positions advertise in the local press. At last something to go for.

My working from home has slowed right down at the moment because I have homework to do most nights. However I have signed up to become a mystery shopper. I don't know how much work I will get from it, but every little helps. It might also get me a few free meals or other freebies.

New Job

Well I commence my new job, well it's not really a new job. It's just undertaking training for up to 13 weeks which could lead to a new position. However this will not be on the salary that my union wishes or wants me to receive and the union are still awaiting for management to shift their stance nearer to what both myself and the union think wants fair.

The real positive is that I am not in a section that I was once the deputy and when I was on secondment I was in charge of the team undertaking the same style of work.

I'm not really apprehensive about my new challenge I just wish that the salary situation could be resolved and a positive conclusion can be reached concerning all aspects of my position with this company.

I am still looking at all aspects of internet marketing however as I have said in previous posts there is still movement however at a slower pace while I try to concentrate with the union to resolve the job situation.

Job Situation

It was arranged that this week that I would have a meeting with management to move to another job. Not a job that my union are happy about however to see it as a step in the right direction while I await a satisfactory conclusion. Also it would give me extra money while the union carry on discussions.

Well I receive correspondence from management saying that they are trying to arrange the move asap. OK so what's asap. For me I say I start by the end of the week or next week. The problem is my union rep is of on holiday until the 24 Sept. therefore I also think to management they will arrange the meeting for w/c 24.

So I couldn't move 3 weeks ago because members of the management team were on leave and now the union reps are off. Therefore if I move only on 1 Oct that would be 6 weeks that I could be learning new skills and competencies(although management and union both agree all skills and competencies are transferable) and more importantly receiving more salary.

Moving onto my internet working I have received $100 (£50) worth of adwords vouchers my eldest is going to work with me in setting up my PPC. Its something I have looked into however not having money to set it up this is a step in the right direction.