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Why Suppliers Should Use B2B Exchanges eyword. I will reach them with a COMBINATION of phrases, goals, ideas, specific features if that matches their search. You know that...so quit throwing money at Google, and do your research first! That includes a very objective look at your opp website concepts, context, and words. Best wishes!Business to business e-commerce is on the rise! Worldwide B2B e-commerce revenues are estimated to reach around US$ 2 trillion in 2004. This is a significant leap from last year’s US$ 1.4 trillion. However, according to a recent survey, although, more than 70% of companies have already used Internet as a purchasing channel, a mere ten percent of their overall spending is directed via the Internet! Contrary to popular believe, this means, B2B e-commerce has still large potential to grow.Internet has the capacity of changing the conventional way of doing business. Today, you can not only buy and sell your products and services on the Internet, you can, virtually, shift all your business processes to online so For more details, I will answer sincere inquiries: Lance@yourturntoprosper.com Thanks for reading! Lance Bischoff - Colorado USA (representing Free1up, EDC Gold, Affiliate programs, more) P.S. After looking carefully at over 300 opportunities, I found about twelve that make sense. Of those twelve, the shining star with GREAT promise and unprecedented value (it works for any opp, or for itself) is clearly FREE1UP. Free signup, trial period with active website and backoffice, and very modest upgrade($100 -one-time pass up training sale of only $50 = residuals), no monthly recurring costs, and over 10 other vitally-important features like dedicated server. High on Alexa report How To Have An Online Party Would it surprise you to learn that the game of keywords advertising on Google does not reward you for the highest bids? (Source: Perry Marshall, Chris Carpenter, Bruce Berman, Google tutorials, other...). Right away, the question for us all becomes this: is it worth the money to bid on keywords to get to number one position?Online parties are a great alternative to the traditional home parties done by Direct Sales companies in the past. They are very similar, yet at the same time, so very different.Home parties are just as they sound, A party in the home. They can be very time consuming and require the Representative to be comfortable talking in front of crowds of people, and generally to have products on hand, and demonstrate. No doubt, seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling products is a great way to get sales, but it can also be costly if you must pay for your demonstration products!Online parties are great in the fact that you dont have to worry about how you look or sound, you can even do them in your pajamas (as I have done many times!), Let's pause here and ask some totally different questions. We'll get back to this primal question, I promise. Here we go:
Relevance and context go hand in hand. When I finally got number one on Google for several important keywords, I realized that what I had accomplished had NOTHING to do with those keywords! This is important, read that again. What happened was I had captured a GROUP of keywords, all with reasonably modest bids, that ALSO were reflected, mentioned, used, or described WITHIN the target website AND in the link or links. That pumps you up the line...relevance (I call it context) of words and ideas are complimenting the theme of your page with specific words mentioned ON the page you are advertising. To prove this, I compared high bids (some were three times mine) on my top 3 keywords. I maintained number one position even though I was outbid...why? Because the context of my site related to the ad, related to the link, related to the words bid, related to the words ON the actual site. This brings us to the list I mentioned above. I found out some of my list of keywords had nothing to do with my customers' interest. How do you know? Easy...after some days you'll look at the keywords tab in Google Adwords and see if they got any clicks, or any impressions. If both columns are zero...you have a dead keyword. Get rid of it until you modify your campaign to folks that might relate to those words. Trim it down. Keep it simple. I ended up with 43 keywords, of those less than a dozen are probably even worth my time. Last bullet point above is about how high to go on the bids? You will have brutal competition with others for your chosen opportunity as it relates to keywords. Count on it. I was outbid nearly every day! But, your advantage is to locate the COMBINATION of keywords that can ALL be found somewhere on your site AND on the link(s) or with complimentary context to your primary site. To answer the question is both simple and subtle: net profit equals payout/sale/commission resulting from a CONVERTED sale minus the total costs of that campaign and related overhead/subscription costs of your opp. Balance that against the high bids and it boils down to guesswork: do I bump my bid on "Santa Monica" up 25 cents to $1.75 per click when my competitor pays $5.76? You won't know until you try. The next bidder up may be at $1.85 and you could end up being second or third on Google even staying at $1.75. My point is this...do NOT go for the HIGHEST bid when it gets so crazy you end up swallowing you ad budget. Focus instead on a reasonable guess (Google will red tag your bids to show if you need to bump it up to even be considered), track the clicks and impressions, and make modest adjustments before competing with the desperate opp owner who pays over $10 per click on ONE keyword...that doesn't make sense unless you either have a large payout or generous conversion levels. For my money, I go back to point one. What do my customers want? I am not going to SELL them with a keyword. I will reach them with a COMBINATION of phrases, goals, ideas, specific features if that matches their search. You know that...so quit throwing money at Google, and do your research first! That includes a very objective look at your opp website concepts, context, and words. Best wishes! For more details, I will answer sincere inquiries: Lance@yourturntoprosper.com Thanks for reading! Lance Bischoff - Colorado USA (representing Free1up, EDC Gold, Affiliate programs, more) P.S. After looking carefully at over 300 opportunities, I found about twelve that make sense. Of those twelve, the shining star with GREAT promise and unprecedented value (it works for any opp, or for itself) is clearly FREE1UP. Free signup, trial period with active website and backoffice, and very modest upgrade($100 -one-time pass up training sale of only $50 = residuals), no monthly recurring costs, and over 10 other vitally-important features like dedicated server. High on Alexa reports Affiliate Marketing Ebook – Why You Should Write One will also not help you to write the words "real estate" five hundred times in your content and bid $7.33 per click to get number one position. Besides, is your customer interested in "real estate" or are they looking for "Santa Monica bay condos?" Put yourself in their shoes...what are they looking for. Find words, verbs, phrases, that relate to what they might search for. Consistent themes point to context. Google calls this relevance.Are you involved in affiliate marketing and have enjoyed some success? Have you ever thought about sharing your success and your techniques with others online who are just getting started in affiliate marketing?I think that there is a dire lack of good information for affiliate marketers online and think that there is an incredible need for affiliate marketers to step up and write some new manuals and affiliate marketing ebooks.What would you include in your affiliate marketing ebook?1) Your own testimony. Tell how you started out in affiliate marketing and what some of the pitfalls were when you first got started in affiliate marketing.2) Tell the readers how successful you have been in affiliate mark Relevance and context go hand in hand. When I finally got number one on Google for several important keywords, I realized that what I had accomplished had NOTHING to do with those keywords! This is important, read that again. What happened was I had captured a GROUP of keywords, all with reasonably modest bids, that ALSO were reflected, mentioned, used, or described WITHIN the target website AND in the link or links. That pumps you up the line...relevance (I call it context) of words and ideas are complimenting the theme of your page with specific words mentioned ON the page you are advertising. To prove this, I compared high bids (some were three times mine) on my top 3 keywords. I maintained number one position even though I was outbid...why? Because the context of my site related to the ad, related to the link, related to the words bid, related to the words ON the actual site. This brings us to the list I mentioned above. I found out some of my list of keywords had nothing to do with my customers' interest. How do you know? Easy...after some days you'll look at the keywords tab in Google Adwords and see if they got any clicks, or any impressions. If both columns are zero...you have a dead keyword. Get rid of it until you modify your campaign to folks that might relate to those words. Trim it down. Keep it simple. I ended up with 43 keywords, of those less than a dozen are probably even worth my time. Last bullet point above is about how high to go on the bids? You will have brutal competition with others for your chosen opportunity as it relates to keywords. Count on it. I was outbid nearly every day! But, your advantage is to locate the COMBINATION of keywords that can ALL be found somewhere on your site AND on the link(s) or with complimentary context to your primary site. To answer the question is both simple and subtle: net profit equals payout/sale/commission resulting from a CONVERTED sale minus the total costs of that campaign and related overhead/subscription costs of your opp. Balance that against the high bids and it boils down to guesswork: do I bump my bid on "Santa Monica" up 25 cents to $1.75 per click when my competitor pays $5.76? You won't know until you try. The next bidder up may be at $1.85 and you could end up being second or third on Google even staying at $1.75. My point is this...do NOT go for the HIGHEST bid when it gets so crazy you end up swallowing you ad budget. Focus instead on a reasonable guess (Google will red tag your bids to show if you need to bump it up to even be considered), track the clicks and impressions, and make modest adjustments before competing with the desperate opp owner who pays over $10 per click on ONE keyword...that doesn't make sense unless you either have a large payout or generous conversion levels. For my money, I go back to point one. What do my customers want? I am not going to SELL them with a keyword. I will reach them with a COMBINATION of phrases, goals, ideas, specific features if that matches their search. You know that...so quit throwing money at Google, and do your research first! That includes a very objective look at your opp website concepts, context, and words. Best wishes! For more details, I will answer sincere inquiries: Lance@yourturntoprosper.com Thanks for reading! Lance Bischoff - Colorado USA (representing Free1up, EDC Gold, Affiliate programs, more) P.S. After looking carefully at over 300 opportunities, I found about twelve that make sense. Of those twelve, the shining star with GREAT promise and unprecedented value (it works for any opp, or for itself) is clearly FREE1UP. Free signup, trial period with active website and backoffice, and very modest upgrade($100 -one-time pass up training sale of only $50 = residuals), no monthly recurring costs, and over 10 other vitally-important features like dedicated server. High on Alexa report Substitute Teaching - Who Are You Today? n my top 3 keywords. I maintained number one position even though I was outbid...why? Because the context of my site related to the ad, related to the link, related to the words bid, related to the words ON the actual site.Substitute teaching! How would the world manage without the substitute teacher? School systems would perish, children would be ignorant, contract teachers would have to work all the time, principals would jump off tall buildings and parents would cry.That is why substitute teachers are paid half the salary that contract teachers get. Fair enough; after all, the substitute doesn’t have to plan everything, doesn’t have to attend tedious faculty meetings where the administrator and his most ambitious teachers drone on for hours about nothing. The substitute has it cushy.Well, not entirely. No benefits. The substitute teacher never knows whether or not there will be work the next day; has to be ready to jump into the fray a This brings us to the list I mentioned above. I found out some of my list of keywords had nothing to do with my customers' interest. How do you know? Easy...after some days you'll look at the keywords tab in Google Adwords and see if they got any clicks, or any impressions. If both columns are zero...you have a dead keyword. Get rid of it until you modify your campaign to folks that might relate to those words. Trim it down. Keep it simple. I ended up with 43 keywords, of those less than a dozen are probably even worth my time. Last bullet point above is about how high to go on the bids? You will have brutal competition with others for your chosen opportunity as it relates to keywords. Count on it. I was outbid nearly every day! But, your advantage is to locate the COMBINATION of keywords that can ALL be found somewhere on your site AND on the link(s) or with complimentary context to your primary site. To answer the question is both simple and subtle: net profit equals payout/sale/commission resulting from a CONVERTED sale minus the total costs of that campaign and related overhead/subscription costs of your opp. Balance that against the high bids and it boils down to guesswork: do I bump my bid on "Santa Monica" up 25 cents to $1.75 per click when my competitor pays $5.76? You won't know until you try. The next bidder up may be at $1.85 and you could end up being second or third on Google even staying at $1.75. My point is this...do NOT go for the HIGHEST bid when it gets so crazy you end up swallowing you ad budget. Focus instead on a reasonable guess (Google will red tag your bids to show if you need to bump it up to even be considered), track the clicks and impressions, and make modest adjustments before competing with the desperate opp owner who pays over $10 per click on ONE keyword...that doesn't make sense unless you either have a large payout or generous conversion levels. For my money, I go back to point one. What do my customers want? I am not going to SELL them with a keyword. I will reach them with a COMBINATION of phrases, goals, ideas, specific features if that matches their search. You know that...so quit throwing money at Google, and do your research first! That includes a very objective look at your opp website concepts, context, and words. Best wishes! For more details, I will answer sincere inquiries: Lance@yourturntoprosper.com Thanks for reading! Lance Bischoff - Colorado USA (representing Free1up, EDC Gold, Affiliate programs, more) P.S. After looking carefully at over 300 opportunities, I found about twelve that make sense. Of those twelve, the shining star with GREAT promise and unprecedented value (it works for any opp, or for itself) is clearly FREE1UP. Free signup, trial period with active website and backoffice, and very modest upgrade($100 -one-time pass up training sale of only $50 = residuals), no monthly recurring costs, and over 10 other vitally-important features like dedicated server. High on Alexa report Special Effects are Helping Label Manufacturers Stay in the Game t to your primary site. To answer the question is both simple and subtle: net profit equals payout/sale/commission resulting from a CONVERTED sale minus the total costs of that campaign and related overhead/subscription costs of your opp.It's been a difficult year for the label manufacturer. Price pressure has increased and margins have been under steady pressure. The consumer wants a bargain and labellers are under pressure to provide budget solutions in an ever more competitive marketplace. Naturally, this worms its way down the chain of supply and almost everyone in the self adhesive labels industry is feeling the pinch. At the same time, manufacturers of packaged goods are striving to provide the consumer with an even wider range of products and variants. Larger stock-keeping units in turn means shorter runs for the label printer.Most label printers spend approx 50% of their time on changeovers with label manufacturers going all out to come Balance that against the high bids and it boils down to guesswork: do I bump my bid on "Santa Monica" up 25 cents to $1.75 per click when my competitor pays $5.76? You won't know until you try. The next bidder up may be at $1.85 and you could end up being second or third on Google even staying at $1.75. My point is this...do NOT go for the HIGHEST bid when it gets so crazy you end up swallowing you ad budget. Focus instead on a reasonable guess (Google will red tag your bids to show if you need to bump it up to even be considered), track the clicks and impressions, and make modest adjustments before competing with the desperate opp owner who pays over $10 per click on ONE keyword...that doesn't make sense unless you either have a large payout or generous conversion levels. For my money, I go back to point one. What do my customers want? I am not going to SELL them with a keyword. I will reach them with a COMBINATION of phrases, goals, ideas, specific features if that matches their search. You know that...so quit throwing money at Google, and do your research first! That includes a very objective look at your opp website concepts, context, and words. Best wishes! For more details, I will answer sincere inquiries: Lance@yourturntoprosper.com Thanks for reading! Lance Bischoff - Colorado USA (representing Free1up, EDC Gold, Affiliate programs, more) P.S. After looking carefully at over 300 opportunities, I found about twelve that make sense. Of those twelve, the shining star with GREAT promise and unprecedented value (it works for any opp, or for itself) is clearly FREE1UP. Free signup, trial period with active website and backoffice, and very modest upgrade($100 -one-time pass up training sale of only $50 = residuals), no monthly recurring costs, and over 10 other vitally-important features like dedicated server. High on Alexa report Where to Find a Cash Windfall of $10,000 to $1,000,000 -- You Never Knew You Had eyword. I will reach them with a COMBINATION of phrases, goals, ideas, specific features if that matches their search. You know that...so quit throwing money at Google, and do your research first! That includes a very objective look at your opp website concepts, context, and words. Best wishes!There is a rather famous true story called “Acres of Diamonds”.It is about a successful farmer who risks everything searching the African continent for diamonds. Ultimately he dies sick and penniless, while the new owner of his farm uncovers on his property the largest single diamond ever known to man.Point of fact: After helping hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and business owners, I’ll lay odds that this story is true for YOU in more ways than you are currently willing to admit to yourself.No matter where you are on the success continuum, your ability to generate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in immediate windfall income is well within your reach.I know firsthand, because every For more details, I will answer sincere inquiries: Lance@yourturntoprosper.com Thanks for reading! Lance Bischoff - Colorado USA (representing Free1up, EDC Gold, Affiliate programs, more) P.S. After looking carefully at over 300 opportunities, I found about twelve that make sense. Of those twelve, the shining star with GREAT promise and unprecedented value (it works for any opp, or for itself) is clearly FREE1UP. Free signup, trial period with active website and backoffice, and very modest upgrade($100 -one-time pass up training sale of only $50 = residuals), no monthly recurring costs, and over 10 other vitally-important features like dedicated server. High on Alexa reports, this is the opp to watch. Ignore the pass up critics, this one is worth it and affordable! SPLASH PAGE: WELCOME OPPORTUNITY PAGE- FREE1UP
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