15 Ways To Read An RSS Feed
15 Ways To Read An RSS Feed by Steve ShawCopyright © 2004 Steve ShawNo doubt you have seen those small orange 'XML' or 'RSS' buttons beginning to spread across some of your favourite web sites. Perhaps you have clicked on one out of curiosity, only to be faced with a barrage of angle brackets and undecipherable code, seemingly designed to scare the heck out of anyone less than familiar with the intricacies of this new fangled technology creeping across the web.But once you click on that...
5 Top Tips For Attracting Targeted Traffic
5 Top Tips For Attracting Targeted Traffic
by: Steve Shaw
One of the most common needs of online business owners is traffic. Without traffic, your web site barely exists, and is unlikely to make any profit whatsoever. With traffic, you stand a much greater chance of success - but not just any traffic.
As the owner of a network of web sites receiving well over a million hits a month, in this article I give you my five top tips for increasing targeted traffic to your web site.
Newbies on...
About To Start An Online Business? Read This First.
About To Start An Online Business? Read This First.
by: Steve Shaw
I recently received an interesting question from a visitor to one of my web sites: "If there is any advice that you wish you would have gotten before you started a business online, what would it be?". Rather than write an extensive email on this subject, I figured my answer would be of use to many people out there about to embark on what for many could be a life-changing...
Are You Losing Sales Because Of Your Email Link?
Are You Losing Sales Because Of Your Email Link? by Steve ShawCopyright © 2004 Steve ShawI don't know about you, but I get dozens of emails daily with completely blank subject lines. The vast majority contain viruses or spam messages, and due to an overloaded inbox and the impracticality of going through each message individually, I tend to delete these suspects automatically en masse, in the same way that I delete other messages containing subject lines that scream spam.This practice has in...
Creating Content: The Easy Way
Creating Content: The Easy Way
by: Steve Shaw
There is little doubt that quality content has a number of real benefits for your web site, not least increasing levels of repeat visitors, and valuable revenue streams such as advertising and the sale of products or services related to the content you provide.
The only difficulty is that creating such content can be costly, taking up valuable time and resources. This article examines different ways you can add content to your web site quickly,...
Five Top Tips For A Prosperous 2004
Five Top Tips For A Prosperous 2004
by: Steve Shaw
According to many market forecasts, 2004 is likely to be a buoyant year online. These are my top tips for making the most of it, and ensuring a happy, healthy and prosperous 2004.
1. Seek out new markets and niches, and make them work for you.
This is a simple technique to find profitable niches for your business. Download the free Good Keywords software from goodkeywords.com - this is a virtual crystal ball into what you should be...
Five Ways to Make Money With ClickBank
Five Ways to Make Money With ClickBank by Steve ShawClickBank not only allows you to accept credit cards on your web site without the need for a merchant account, it also provides other ways in which you can generate income - in this article, I'll highlight five different ways you can start making money with ClickBank by the end of today.1. Become an affiliate for ClickBank productsYou can easily sign up as an affiliate via http://clickbank.com and then take a look through the full range of...
Five Ways to Market Your Ebook - Virally!
Five Ways to Market Your Ebook - Virally! by Steve ShawI'm sure we've all heard of 'viral marketing' - the first question is usually 'What is it?' (and I won't insult your intelligence by telling you it's nothing to do with ill health).In brief, you can apply the term 'viral marketing' to any strategy that encourages others to pass on your marketing message. This can result in exponential growth of traffic to your web site, and therefore to your ebook sales levels as well.A viral marketing...
How I Write Articles For Profit
How I Write Articles For Profit
by: Steve Shaw
Most Internet marketers worth their salt know how effective articles can be to generate promotion for their web sites. The major problem for many is simply writing the article.
This article shows you the exact steps I usually take to construct an article to achieve maximum publicity for my web site. By following this model you will be able to do the same quickly and easily.
1. The Big Idea
The very first stage is to get the basic theme of...
How To Submit Articles For Massive Traffic
How To Submit Articles For Massive Traffic by Steve ShawCopyright © 2005 Steve ShawAs you perhaps already know, article submissions can drive a huge amount of traffic to your web site for months if not years. The first step is obviously to get a good article written, with a suitable resource box at the end containing a link to your site to drive traffic to your site. But without submitting your article effectively, all this hard work will be of little benefit.In this article, you're going to...
How To Use PopUps With Google Adwords
How To Use PopUps With Google Adwords
by: Steve Shaw
One of the common issues that marketers face when using Google Adwords, is that the use of popups on the target page for their ad is not permitted. Many Adwords advertisers just completely remove popups from their web site, which can not only significantly damage the profitability that results from other traffic sources, but, as we shall see, it is also not entirely necessary. This article looks at alternative solutions, which when...
Simple Changes To Make Your Web Site Sell
Simple Changes To Make Your Web Site Sell by Steve ShawCopyright © 2004 Steve ShawSo you have a web site, you have traffic, but it doesn't ... well ... sell? But what can you do about it? Often some very simple changes to your web site can mean the difference between success and failure. Based on my own experience and extensive testing of what works and what does not, here is a quick list of simple changes you can make to turn your site around and rapidly improve your profit levels.1. Are...
Stop Spam: How To Escape The Spam Hell-Hole
Stop Spam: How To Escape The Spam Hell-Hole
by: Steve Shaw
If you're anything like me, you're pretty sick of it, and just want it to stop. What? Spam, of course. This article gives you a solution to radically, and quickly, reduce the amount of spam messages you receive to a bare minimum.
Personally, I get hundreds of unsolicited spam emails every single day, inviting me to enlarge this, reduce that, pay off my debt with another debt (how does that work?)... you know the type.
I'm also...
The Lowdown: How To Create And Send HTML Email
The Lowdown: How To Create And Send HTML Email
by: Steve Shaw
I am frequently asked how to create and send HTML email, usually with regard to how to broadcast it to a mailing list. This article presents the various options available to you.
How to create HTML email:
Creating the content of an HTML email is very similar to how you would create a basic web page. Just use your normal web page editor, such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver (or even Notepad can be used, in conjunction with a browser...
The Single Most Important Ingredient For Building Your Business
I've spent the past couple of weeks building a shed in my back garden. Already I hear you ask, what does that have to do with business? As I was building the shed, I realized how similar it was to building a business. Wait, and I'll explain more.
Metaphorically speaking, building a shed is very similar to building a business. There are many ingredients that you need, and missing any one of them out will mean the results will range from achieving nothing to the disastrous. But one ingredient...
Why You Should Ignore This Advice
Why You Should Ignore This Advice
by: Steve Shaw
Doesn't make too much sense does it? Am I really going to give you some advice that asks you to ignore the advice I'm giving you? Well, that's not strictly true. I am however going to show you how to qualify the advice you are given, so you can sort the wheat from the chaff, and help you to survive the information overload on the Internet.
Firstly, you need to find out who is giving the advice. Are they speaking from a position of...
Your E-Business Strategy: Is It Love ... Or Fear?
Your E-Business Strategy: Is It Love ... Or Fear?
by: Steve Shaw
I read recently that every human thought originates from either love or fear. The more I thought about it, the more true it became. I began to apply it to business - after all, every business success or failure originates ultimately from human thought. This article examines the effects that love or fear can have on your e-business - is it love, or is it fear, that dominates the way you do business online?
If it's fear, you...
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