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Jan 12 2012

SEM Business Blueprint – Part 1

Despite the economic decline the internet is booming and in many way prospering from the decline as many companies are now selling more online as overheads are vastly reduced. This is turn creates demand for others who work online such as web designers, graphic designers, SEO specialists and SEM experts. If you are motivated and willing to develop new skills there is a new career waiting for you and if you read the rest of this article I will prove it!

I have run my own SEM Company for a good few years and by trial and error have developed techniques that work. SEM, SEO and SERPS may sound to say the least very technical but in real terms it is all about building quality links. To optimize any webpage there are online programs that analyse the page and tell you what to change, which makes this task so easy. Keyword research is also simplified as there are dozens of great tools online that will analyse an initial key phrase you enter and find you less competitive key phrases to target.

Building quality links does take time but again there are methods that most use to build links quickly.

Now as a novice you are never going to compete with the big boys online who perhaps have a team of link builders plus have the funds to outsource to even more link builders. For competitive online sales of global products that sell online forget it and leave the big boys to cream the profits. Let look a little close to home though and find dozens of clients in dozens of niches that are crying out for your services.

As a good test case let’s use local florist’s shops. If you check through you local phone book I will guarantee there are dozens of florists in your city.

Most of these nowadays will have websites although most of these websites will maybe have poor designs and no SEO / SEM work done on them. In real terms they are lost on the internet and are not generating sales. Find though one of these florist that does have a decent website and has a decent Alexa rating (search Google). If you check the source code of this site and check the meta keywords and search these in Google you will then know what keywords are bringing in the traffic. Now find 5 florists in your area with decent websites who don’t rank on the first few pages of Google. Trust me there will be plenty. With a few days training in SEM / SEO / SERPS and yes you can learn the basics in a few days you will have the knowledge to get one or more of the florist’s websites onto page one of Google and so improve their sales. As you are dealing with an ultra micro niche for florists in a city this is an easy task!

Just generating an extra one sale per day for the florist from their website could increase their revenue by thousands over a year. Trust me I know this as I have helped many local businesses improve their search engine ranking. For improved sales you are able to charge a decent fee and you can make a decent living from just a dozen clients a year!

Check out part 2 of this article when I review a case study from one of my actual clients so you get a much better understanding.

Jul 23 2010

Travel Brochure Templates – How To Travel Agents Can Find the Right Template For Their Business



If you’re looking for information on how to find and use travel brochure templates, then you’ll want to read this article. Specifically, the goal of this article is to be able to help you find travel brochure templates that will make your message draw attention, get read, and have your audience respond favorably. Take the following advice into consideration, and apply it to your specific situation to reap the benefits of using a high-quality travel brochure template.

If you’ve done a search for travel brochure temples, you’ve probably found dozens of them. Some of them you can get for free, but a good high quality one probably requires some sort of investment. In general, you do get what you pay for — I’m not saying there aren’t great free travel brochure templates out there, but they are hard to find. And time is money, too.

Before searching for any travel brochure templates, first consider your budget.

Second, think about what your travel brochure template needs to do in order to accomplish your objectives. This planning should also be done before you start searching for any travel brochure templates on the Internet. You will find that you won’t be distracted and potentially make the wrong decision if you simply do some basic planning first.

What should you plan for? Simple — take your audience into consideration, and figure out what they would like to know most about your travel service, and then put that into the brochure in an attractive way. Once you have got a basic idea of how your going to do this, then finding the right travel brochure templates is as easy as pie.

Finally, remember that a brochure is only as good as the message it communicates. Travel brochure templates are used as a medium to communicate a specific message to your audience. The greatest design in the world won’t help a poor message, yet a strong message will be heard and responded to quite favorably, even if the design is less than adequate.

In conclusion, I’ve given you some simple pointers to use when evaluating different sites for travel brochure templates. Whether you go for the paid ones, or the free ones, you need to have the end result in mind, before you start to begin your search for travel brochure templates. Use the advice given above to help you decide which brochure designs are right for your needs.

Jun 24 2010

Sell Yourself Like a Papaya Tree



The papaya fruit got me thinking about a few things. You see, in the middle of that luscious piece of fruit there are literally dozens of little seeds.

But they all started from one tiny little seed. In fact, the whole papaya tree which contains hundreds of papaya fruit which contain hundreds of seeds, all started from one tiny little seed.

It’s really quite mind blowing, isn’t it. One seed creates a tree. One tree creates hundreds of papaya’s. And those papaya’s go on to create hundreds of trees. But let’s consider something else. Probably 99% of those seeds fail to germinate… get washed away by the rain… die before they live their full potential.

And isn’t the marketing world the same? You have to send hundreds of letters in many cases to get a response. You have to talk to a number of people to generate a sale.

Hundreds of people need to click on your Google AdWords to get a handful of people to your site… and many people need to see your site before a sale or quote is generated.

But here’s something to keep in mind. You cannot force a seed to germinate. It either does or it doesn’t. And you cannot force someone to purchase your product or service. They either will or they won’t.

You can nurture a seed. You can give it the environment it needs to grow, the same way as you nurture a client. But you cannot force. However you can decide to place more seeds. Remember, the more seeds you plant and the better you are at planting them, the more abundant your harvest will be

Jun 16 2010

Conflict Diamonds

Conflict diamonds are called such because these diamonds came from conflict-ridden countries that suffer from terrorism and human right abuses. Conflict diamond are also otherwise known as blood diamonds, because many people have died or have been killed by several groups that want to control the diamond trade in Africa. The money from conflict diamonds is also used to fund illegal activities for military and terrorist groups in different African countries such as Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia. The citizens of these countries then suffer at the hands of these groups.

For these reasons, it is important to stop the sales of conflict diamonds. There are efforts being made by the United Nations, including several South African countries, to stop this kind of trade. The South African countries determine all the origins of the rough diamonds in the market, then stop its refining process and distribution if it is established that it came from conflict areas.

They have devised a process known as the Kimberly Process, which aims to track the rough or uncut diamonds that enters another country. The shippers then have to provide documentation proving that these diamonds did not come from a conflict country before being allowed entry.

Despite all the potentials being seen in the Kimberly Process, not all countries are participating in this program. You should note that this is quite normal because the Kimberly Process is a comprehensive program that requires the complete cooperation of dozens of governments and agencies for it to work perfectly. Not all countries can agree to all the terms of the Kimberly Process. You should also note that despite all these setbacks, the Kimberly Process has achieved remarkable developments in stopping the trade of conflict diamonds. In time, the Kimberly Process can be a significant force in minimizing the illegal diamond trade.

While there are programs being implemented to stop the illegal diamond trade in Africa, consumers should also do their part in stopping these activities by avoiding the purchase of conflict diamonds. Currently, the retailers of diamonds cannot give consumers the assurance that the diamonds they are buying did not come from a conflict area. However, consumers have the power to change that – if they demand the necessary information that can prove that the diamonds they buy did not come from an illegal trade. The act of demanding information alone sends an important message that consumers are not willing to settle for blood diamonds. Changes in the way diamonds are traded will not happen instantly. But when consumers are committed, it is inevitable that change will happen and lives will be saved.

There are consumer programs being implemented nowadays to assure the consumers that the diamonds they are buying are not conflict diamonds. One noteworthy program is a Canadian program named Voluntary Code of Conduct for Authenticating Canadian Diamond Claim. This program verifies that a diamond came from Canada and not anywhere else. Similar programs should be implemented worldwide to ensure that there would be no more conflict diamonds for sale in the future.

May 09 2010

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