While we are always enthusiastic about blogging a new product, some excellent marketing tools and strategies, the newest making-money-online program and touting the latest e-books or products, we may appear over shouting in our blogs and lost the basic of good blogging.  Now and then I would receive email that bring me back to the proper path. One email came in recently reminds me of the basic of blogging. I would love to use his gentle reminders by employing four key words. Essentially these four key words would determine whether you are reader-centric or ego-centric.

Money - Is your blog filled with loud audio, distracting animations and effect, with that loud-crying advertisement pointing at your readers’ face? If your readers feel that about your blog, then it is high time to look into your monetizing strategy. Your blog is suppose to provide some form of solutions to readers when they click in. Maybe it is high time to gently show how your readers can benefit themselves by your solutions, suggestions.

Ego - As a writer we have the tendency to be egoistic, or ego-centric. We have the control over what we want to write and therefore we may forget what the readers need, want or enjoy to hear. It is high time to give them what they want, write with them in your mind.

Promotion - There is no doubt that we need to promote our blog. However, I have come across some gurus advocating “spicy headlines” that invoke readers to click their posts or blogs. Some others employ sexy avatar pictures, women in scantly clad clothings as header images to entice subscribers and spike in traffic. I believe in the traditional way of promoting through ezine articles submission, pinging, exchanging of links, proper and sincere commenting on others’ blogs. These type of promotions maybe slow, but the effect will last if our take care of our contents, writing for the needs of our readers.

Widget - widgets are helpful but should never be too distracting. A clean blog is always a better blog than one crowded with too many widgets, too many animations and/or ads.

I write to remind myself. I write to allow my readers to critique my blog. I write to give my readers a happy reading and learning experience. Cheers to all my readers.

A young blogger’s choice:

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This Western Massachusetts town, Montague, seems to be blessed by God.  On a Tuesday morning, cash fluttered down to the delight of the townfolks.  But their joy was short-lived as the money, totalling $1,100, belonged to a 83-year-old Mary Olive Corbiere.  While taking her shopping bags from the shopping cart into the delivery truck, a wind gust pushed the shopping cart to the back of the truck.  Somehow the shopping cart got stuck in a rear wheel before the truck pulled away.  The cart, with her purse inside, was dragged for some distance before it finally burst open, sending the fluttering currency to the delighted people who missed no chance to grab them.  Fortunately, for the poor old lady, the townfolks returned the cash to her after the police department appealled to their sympathy.

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Trading, business, transaction, commerce or whatever name we call them, works on the principle of supply and demand. On the two sides of a coin of supply and demand, it is hard to debate on which is more important than the other. The relationship of the two is often intricate and will largely determine the marketable value of the two.

The graph here illustrates this relationship in commerce. I would like to write about the relationship between bloggers and advertisers in the light of this graph. The perfect equilibrium will be at the intersection of the two curves. Any variation will cause excessive supply or unwanted demand or the other way round. What is the situation currently in respective of bloggers and advertisers? Are there more bloggers than advertisers? Without taking any statistic, I believe I am correct to say that there are definitely much more bloggers than advertisers. In such situation, when the supply of bloggers far out-numbers advertisers, it creates a vacuum of surplus. We hear advertisers insisting on blogs with PR3 or better. So is it true that advertisers are spoilt for choice in their selection of bloggers to help them with advertisement? This seems generally so.

However, I would also iterate that bloggers who write quality contents are not easily found and are the rare species. I am of the opinion that PR is not the ultimate measurement of blogs’ quality. How many times have you discovered some excellent blogs with great contents and then realize they don’t even have any PR? PR complex aglorithm is designed to thwart and outsmart deliberate engineering or manoeuvring of some people, and to some degree it has been successful. On the other hand, it can be too mechanical to qualify blog contents of their literate and inspirational value. Beside, the current PR system most people are familiar with, is in my honest opinion, very subjective and bias. Basing on PR to scout for quality bloggers will only be successful to a limited degree.

Hopefully, there are more measuring systems designed to qualify blogs more objectively soon. The real worth of a blog should not be gauged only solely from the number of back links, the traffic per day, page loads or some statistics, although these are some definite forms of measurement. I would wish one day some one is talented enough to come up with software sophisticated and intelligent enough to qualify a blog based on its contents, the intrinsic and aesthetic value that the particular blog brings to the readers, the inspirational value and motivational factor that the blog can provide. To this aim, I aspire to continue to provide quality contents.

Blogger Selections Of The Day:

The conference calls are a facility rendered by the cell phone companies to its users. The credit card culture is very much a part of fashion today even in third world countries. The debt consolidation loans are offered to business men to avoid the chances of bad debt, it’s a kind of debt help given to businesses. The home mortgage facility must be carefully read and examined before the use. To apply for a credit card one doesn’t have to do much of documentation these days.

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Word Of Mouth Advertising Part 1 Here.

None of us can deny the importance of advertisements.  Whether you are offering a product or some services, you will need to have advertisement as one of your channels to get to your prospective clients.  Modern era witness advertisement in massive scale, from the giant billboards across the highways, to the fascinating neon-light signboards brightening the surrounding competing for attention, to the very much sponsored radio channels and TV programs, advertisements have become a way of life for people in the rural and more so for the people in the urban and the cosmopolitans areas.  We are constantly bombarded with advertisements so much so that the stimuli from them , in some significant way, have infiltrated our subconscious mind, molding our behavioural pattern, buying habits and formulating our thought patterns.  We are influenced by advertisement no lesser than our children.

However influential these form of advertisements maybe, they remain passive and may become oblivious to some after a while.  The one powerful form of advertisement is actually word of mouth advertising.  I could recall many incidences in my life when I was very much coerced, at time willingly persuaded, to buy some products, use some services, watch a particular movie simply because a friend, a mentor or someone told me of their experiences and feeling after they have gone through themselves.  MLM marketing strategies centered around this word of mouth advertising, one gets two, two get four format to some success.  So much so that they trumpeted this as the only form of business success module.  I always wonder that if this should propagate in their so called perfect formula, generating a perfect pyramidal formation, who would be the last in line?  Would they be happy to do so staying forever last when there are no more other people to come in the fold? Goodness me, I wouldn’t know when and how this pyramid will collapse. 

Nonetheless, nobody should ever undermine the power of word of mouth advertising.  And to be effective in the word of mouth advertising one has to identify who are most proficent in this art of advertising.  Coming from the finance services industry, I can fully understand and I have the statistic to show that not all agents or brokers are highly effective word of mouth advertisers.  It is generally true that 20%  of the agency force will end up getting in the 80% of the total business volume, and in that 20%, again it is segregated into the 20% of the most highly effective agents who will rack in the 80% business.  Little wonder all agency managers would be looking for the super-achievers to be in their teams.  These elite communicators must have ways to connect to people, their charisma so easily permeated out to their audience and in no effort influence them to certain decision.  We witness these super effective communicators in the physical business world as well as in the cyber realm.

Fortunately for some of us who are less articulated, there is still hope in becoming successful in business offline and online.  I am talking about viral marketing, word of mouth advertising combining with the powerful and effective viral marketing system.  Viral marketing would likely work if we are discipline enough to let at least 3 persons know of our products or services.  Joe Girard, the author of the book Worlds Greatest Salesman once said in his book that everyone on the average knows 250 people in his life.  This has become Girard famous Law of 250.  His thoughts were that if you just make 1 person mad or upset, they will go out and tell 250 other people what a klutz Joe Girard is, and then each of those, will go tell 250 of their friends the same thing.  Conversely, if you treat everyone with respect and honesty, they will praise Joe Girard to 250 of their friends. “It doesn’t take a mathematical genius to know that Girard’s Law of 250 is the most important thing you can learn.”   That is the power of word of mouth marketing, that is precisely how viral marketing spread like bush fire in an arid desert.  Humble and little souls as we are, let us be reminded that we have at least 250 friends whom we can trust, share and recommend them products and services we believe honestly. 
 

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Colours attract attention! There’s no doubt about this fact. The wise adage says, a picture says a thousand words. I would add a colourful picture says even more. God has created us with a keen sense of sight to appreciate the nature around us. With the creation of cameras, be it mechanical, electronic or digital, few will fail to record the beautiful things around them in films or in digital forms. Many will likely print their colourful selection for posterity. Little wonder photo studios are sprouting like mushrooms after rain all over the world. Nowadays, every average family would have at least a colour printer in his home, making printing and ink industries one of the fastest growing businesses. Choosing printers and ink cartridges can be a tedious and confusing job as there are too many varieties and brands in the market. Carrot Ink has come up to offer their best premium ink without the premium price tags. Their quality printouts will be the best testimony to their commitment to produce ISO 9001/9002 standard quality ink cartridges and premium inks. Their motto Top Quality Services Seal The Sales indeed says much about their quality products and services.

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While there are many form of advertising and each of them as effective as another if used properly.  Classified Advertising, Ezine Advertising, Pay Per Click, Link Exchanges, Writing Articles and Co-Registration are all different forms of advertising used by many internet marketers, each one bringing different desired results.  There are many ways to increase the amount of traffic to your website, and one of the most effective methods is known as viral marketing.

To use viral marketing to it’s fullest potential, you’ll want to employ many different techniques into the marketing plan of your site.  Some include great looking graphics, pre written emails, integration marketing strategies, pre-written articles and blog posts, etc.  All of these will help to increase the traffic to your site by offering incentive for your existing members so they will do the work for you.But one of the best and under-utilized viral techniques of them all is by providing a simple way for your existing members to tell their friends about your product or service.  Trusted endorsements by friends is the best form of advertising bar-none.

And what’s even better is it costs nothing to implement.  Many tell-a-friend scripts have came out and have been effective to a certain degree, but they lacked the features necessary to cause a viral wave of traffic that we’d all love to experience on our sites.

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With both our audio and visual senses tuned to the stimuli around us, it’s so much easier to remember things that we hear as we see. Little wonder we remember tv commercials so sub-consciously. This brings to my current post. If you need to market your products or services be sure to have audio and visual forms of communication. And if you are a Company that need to keep in constant contacts with your customers and sales staff at different locations across the world, you need to have powerful AV system in place. One such powerful AV system is provided by MegaMeeting.

MegaMeeting has the most Powerful Video Conference Software. All you need is internet browsers, a broad-band connection, ordinary microphones and headsets and a web or video camera (optional if you don’t need to be seen) you can have audio and video web conferencing using with MegaMeeting most unique powerful software.

MegaMeeting Powerful Video Conferencing Software can allow you to web-conference with up to 16 individuals. PLUS unlimited number of secure Web Conferencing users can see those 16.

Using MegaMeeting Web Conference Software, imaging you are able to video conference with all you sales staff over the world to tell of the latest product from your Company and pep them for increasing their sales.

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“A picture speaks a thousand word” - That’s why sms has evolved into mms, audio programs into video. This day, it will unheard of should a speaker uses only his voice to do the entire presentation on stage. Even pastors and preachers are audio/video presenters nowadays.
Would be easier for your to hear me and remember if I were to tell you that -you can work leisurely at home, make tons of money online, get your beautiful dream house, go holiday anywhere you want, when you want, drive fast car, enjoying your family - or would the following slide show catches your attention easier and help you remember more?

Maybe I should conduct a poll on this.

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