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Concentric Small Business Web Hosting

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Reviews & Interviews | Posted on 19-08-2008

Today the marketplace of World Wide Web hosting is in great demand and increasingly web hosting suppliers are being established. And it’s hard to choose which one to choose. I recognise there are many free web hosting suppliers out there. But the trouble of free web hosting is you get restrained bandwidth and hard disc space and so this can not of value to use.

Now, whenever you planning to begin a small business online then you will require more bandwidth and hard disc space along with additional features for your small business hosting. At concentric  you will be able to get lots of features such that as web hosting, domain name registration, email hosting and freebies like junk e-mail filters and computer virus protection. And so, anybody who are seeking small business hosting, www.concentric.com is for you.

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Cool Website Friday - Wagwire.com

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Cool Website Friday | Posted on 15-08-2008

WagWire offers up an easy way to add audio messaging to your web log, internet site or even net profile like Facebook. It enables your visitants to leave you audio messages on a click of a button.

The setup is reasonably simple and should take you around 1-2 minutes. After you’ve registed, go to plugins section and make a button for your site. Once it’s ready merely copy the code and paste it to your web sites template file. Done, now anybody who visits your internet site can leave you an audio message.

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Free Ebook Friday - The Complete Guide to Squidoo Marketing

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Free Ebook Friday | Posted on 15-08-2008

Welcome to the 5th free ebook friday. Last week we brought you The Complete Guide to Bum Marketing which you can still download. This week is the turn of The Complete Guide to Squidoo Marketing. Members of Squidoo can use it to promote just about anything they want from a book to a website or charity. Squidoo is made up of different pages created by members and are known as Lenses.

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Everybody is Lazy Occasionally - Use it to Make Money

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Misc | Posted on 13-08-2008

Dont you like active labor? I do not believe anybody wishes to work, but regrettably our income has to come in from somewhere! Occupations for idle people do not generally pay much, but you are able to earn decent revenue online, all without being forced to leave your home!

What is this about?

You are able to make money online by applying whats known as online “GPT” services. These internet sites will pay you revenue to complete offers for them. An offer can  be a survey, joining up for a free internet site, or even a mailing list. You will be able to even test out new products and free trials, and all whilst getting paid! Its entirely free, and so it is not as if there is any danger involved in doing this.

How much can I make?

You’ll be able to expect to make upwards of $10+/hr when you master it. You’ll be able to earn additional money if you do the higher paid offers, a few paying out upwards to $20. For each one offer it requires around 2-5 minutes to finish. I’m idle myself at times, and i can assure you these are the best way to attain revenue in the minimum amount of work, assured.

How do I get my money?

You receive a check or some also pay via Paypal with your full amount of money each month. These are one of the ideal jobs for lazy people, since the most work you will be doing is walking to the postbox to retrieve your money!

Is this a scam?

No. GPT web sites have been about for a long time, and their business enterprise plan assures that they will not close down. The primary web site I use has disbursed millions of bucks over its life. It has been around for over two years and becoming more powerful day-after-day. 100s of people are earning revenue on these websites , and so can you!

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In My RSS Reader This Week - 11th Edition

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Weekly Links | Posted on 10-08-2008

Its sunday again and time for the 11th edition of in my RSS Reader. This week instead of showing you the posts i enjoyed most this week i am going to just post a selection of posts that the titles caught my eye.

8000 New Followers on Twitter in One Day - Thenextweb.org

Feedburner is Driving me Crazy - Dailydollarreport.com

10 Bots to Help You Get The Most of Twitter - Makeuseof.com

Stumbleupon Removes 200 Friends Limit - Mixedmarketarts.com

Newsgator The Most Complete RSS Solution - Makeuseof.com

Twitter Attacked by Virus Hackers - Bloggingtips.com

And here are two popular post from this blog this week.

Grow Your Technorati Ranking

Free Ebook Friday - Complete Guide to Bum Marketing

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Social Media Marketing(SMM) What Are The Benefits

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Social Networking | Posted on 09-08-2008

Social Media Marketing or SMM for short, what is it? SMM is a marketing technique that allows you to promote a website or product through the use of social media websites. SMM will bring you traffic, links and attention and is a very effective form of marketing.

SMM is particularly useful when you want to publish your articles on Ad-sharing websites such as Triond.com or for selling your products. SMM is often overlooked by people as they either have no knowledge of it or simply believe it doesn’t work.


But what are the benefits of SMM?

Its Cost Effective - Most of the time SMM is totally free if you use websites such as Digg and Reddit to name just a couple.

Fast Turnaround – Hitting the home page of many of the social media websites will instantly send thousands of visitors to your website.

Influence on rankings of search engines - Campaigns of social media marketing make available for their customers, many back links to benefit your business in search engine ranking.

Online conversations related to the brand - The campaign advertises a product more than the traditional methods. You have to put across a message to the end user related to the product, who in turn spreads the efficacy of that product more effectively. This way you socialize with people, build a strong rapport with them, and ultimately get traffic to your business web site.

Trust - Instead of buying a product from any unknown company, buy from a company, which people recommend. You get to meet the initiators through Social media marketing, who played a major role in the overall purchasing process.

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Cool Website Friday - Yoono.com

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Cool Website Friday | Posted on 08-08-2008

This weeks Cool Website Fridat features Yoono.com. Yoono is a new way to create and maintain your Internet Favorites, to share them with a large user community and with the possibility of always having them available from any computer connected to the net.

Some of the Features of Yoono.

Stay Tuned In - Get live updates from your friends.

Take Control - Message friends, upload and more in your favourite networks.

Pick the best - Instant suggestions of websites, photos, videos and music all in one place.

Show what you mean - Drag and drop in IM sessions.

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Free Ebook Friday - The Complete Guide to Bum Marketing

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Free Ebook Friday | Posted on 08-08-2008

Welcome to the fourth free ebook friday on the general marketing blog. Last week we gave you The Ultimate Guide to Yahoo Answers which is still available for download. This week it is the turn of The Complete Guide to Bum Marketing.

If you are prepared to read and learn then you will learn just how you can earn some extra income for doing nothing more than sitting on your back side.

That is why we call it Bum Marketing otherwise known as Affiliate marketing. The main thing here is that it is a much easier way to make money than affiliate marketing itself.

A lot of people begin affiliate marketing without a clue on what they are doing, they don`t know how to advertise and get sales and so simply give up without having made any money what so ever.

When using Bum marketing you can and will generate sales to your affiliate products.

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Check For Duplicate Content When Blogging

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Reviews & Interviews | Posted on 07-08-2008

Have you ever thought whilst writing a blog post that you might have already blogged about it in the past? I know I have and this is where this plugin comes in handy. Thanks to MaxBlogPress and there Duplicate Post Checker plugin I no longer have this problem.

The plugin will check as you are writing your post to see if the post already exists on your blog. Another good thing I like about this plugin is that it finds similar posts already on your blog making it easier for you to link to relative content.

You are going to write about a post but you are in doubt about whether you have already created a similar post. If you write a new post which is very much similar to the post you have written previously then this will certainly annoy your blog readers.

What you can do is you can use this plugin to check other similar posts you have already written to make sure that you can write entirely original content on the same topic without making it look like a duplicate of another post already published.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Create a Top 10 List

Posted by User ImageDavid Hobson (Check Me Out) | Posted in Lists | Posted on 06-08-2008

Many of the most popular posts on blogs and on sites such as Digg are Top 10 lists. If you choose your subject wisely and research it before making your post you are pretty much guaranteed a good response.

So what reasons could there possibly be to creating a good Top 10 list? I have come up with 10 that I think are the perfect reasons for starting one.

1. You gain expert status

2. People remember you. A good top 10 post will keep you in the minds of your readers.

3. A Top 10 list can lead to other projects.

4. They can become passive.

5. They can be made into a series.

6. They are easy to absorb.

7. They are easy to read.

8. They are really good marketing tools.

9. They can go viral.

10. Finally they are bloody addictive.

All in all a top 10 list can be about anything you want if it’s interesting it will succeed.

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