The Secret To Branding Your Name On The Internet

 

Branding your name (or your pen name) is very important on the Internet, no matter what niche you’re in.  You need to establish yourself as an authority in your market, because people trust authority figures.

They trust their recommendations, they trust that their products will be of good quality, and they trust that they have integrity.  It also lends credence to the buyer that you’re a real person – not just some nameless, faceless entity trying to sell them something on a static, automated website.

Social Bookmarking To Build Links

Social bookmarking is extremely popular with marketers in every niche.  Social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, and Technorati allow users to add links to sites they like and other visitors can grab those links and add it to their own lists, making your URLs go viral.

Social bookmarking sites can be great for getting traffic to your own domains.  You can bookmark your sites yourself and then hope others will share the links and in some cases vote your entries up, like Digg users will do.

Why You Must Have Multiple Income Streams

With all the news about recession circulating about, having multiple income streams is no longer considered as a luxury. It is now a necessity for most people, for employees like us. You see if you will only rely on your monthly salary, it can be very risky. This goes true, especially for people who are living on their own or who are the sole breadwinners of the family.

Don’t Let AdWords Get Out Of Control

AdWords can be a very difficult thing to master.  A lot of people have to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars before they learn to make a profit.  Some people are never able to become profitable, and give up after losing a considerable amount of money.

In order to have the best chance at being profitable, you have to learn to be extremely vigilant about your campaigns.  You have to monitor them carefully, and always end campaigns that stay unprofitable for a long period of time.

4 Unique Ways to Get Backlinks

This is a guest post written by John Burnside

For those of you that don’t know already a backlink is a link from one site to another. These links can bring you traffic directly and also they can help you to rank higher in the search engines. For those of you that do know I am sure you know all of the common ways to get backlinks. Things like do follow blog commenting and forum posting. I am going to try and give you a few ways that you may not have thought of to get a solid backlink or 2 to your site.

Back To Basics: Finding A New Designer After Several Years

One of the hardest things to outsource is your graphics design. You can find article writers, data entry assistants and other things much more easily but graphics designers are so much harder and require a lot more thought.

I have had to start again with a graphics designer recently after working with him for sometime. In fact he designed the DSM Publishing website and many of my sales pages for different products and services. When I looked recently on his portfolio page the majority of the work shown was my own so I must have been quite a customer of his!!!

Answering The Question: What Do You Do For A Living?

When you make a living online, a lot of people won’t understand what it is you do.  Some of them will think you’re nothing more than a spammer – just because you work on the Internet.  You might even run into people who automatically assume you’re into promoting porn, because they think that’s all the Internet is used for!

You need to be prepared to deal with people like this.  Some of them may even be close friends and family members who are simply ignorant about the various marketing uses for the World Wide Web.

What’s The True Cost Of Outsourcing?

So many new marketers are reluctant to outsource, because they don’t like spending the extra money.  They think it would be a waste of cash to pay someone else to perform tasks they can do themselves.  But that thinking is very flawed.

The top marketers you know today have teams to help them go from the conception of an idea to a product launch.  But before they could afford a staff, they used freelancer to outsource the more insignificant tasks while they worked on building a bona fide business.