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ArticleSphere Blog

ArticleSphere.com has just launched its ArticleSphere Blog.

ArticleSphere Blog will keep you abreast of the lastest developments in ArticleSphere.com as well as interests pertaining to Author/Writers, Publisher/Webmasters and general website visitors.

Todate, it has already received rave reviews.

To find out more, visit ArticleSphere Blog today.

ArticleSphere.com Featured As SiteProNews "Site Of The Day"

SiteProNews has selected and featured ArticleSphere.com as its "Site Of The Day".

=> http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2005/nov/16.html

ArticleSphere.com has created quite a buzz in the article directory sphere since its official launch in mid Oct. 2005.

Within a short span of about a month, it has garnered more 2,000 quality articles from about 600 expert authors, and growing from strength to strength.

If you're an Author/Writer, you'll want to submit your articles to ArticleSphere.com today to gain massive exposure, position yourself as an expert in your field, and drive free targeted traffic to your websites.

If you're a Publisher/Webmaster, ArticleSphere.com has a wealth of quality articles for you to reprint free of charge.

=> Visit ArticleSphere.com today.

New Article Search Engine Directory Solves Website Traffic Generating Problems

A New Article Search Engine Directory - ArticleSphere.com - has just been launched.

ArticleSphere.com recognizes the problem most website or online business owners face in generating targeted traffic to their websites, and it has a powerful and cost-effective solution in Article Marketing.

It is an online one-stop source of quality content. A free article search engine directory or hub that brings writer/authors and publishers together. Although it has just launched, it is already growing rapidly. It allows writers/authors to submit their articles to the directory, and publishers to search the directory for quality articles for reprint, all free of charge.

If you are a writer/author who wish to gain massive exposure, position yourself as an expert and driving free targeted traffic to your websites, and/or, if you are a publisher or webmaster seeking quality content for reprint, visit Article Search Engine Directory at ArticleSphere.com today to learn more.

Boost Your Online Sales With Joint Ventures

One of the fastest and most profitable way to skyrocket your online sales and boost your profits is to create alliances through joint ventures. The reason this is so is that joint venture utilizes the powerful marketing concept known as "leverage".

The beauty of joint venture is that it benefits all parties; it's truly a win-win business proposition. You win, your joint venture partner wins, and your customers and subscribers win. Furthermore, it's extremely low cost and low risk, and is one of the fastest way of bringing your product to market by using other people's resources.

Do it right, joint ventures can literally explode your sales and profits in short order.

Learn more about joint ventures

Free Link Popularity Check

Amongst others, Link Popularity is one of the key factors search engines, in particular Google, use to determine a website's ranking in its Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).

Link Popularity refers to the number of links or votes that search engines have found linking to your website. Generally speaking, the higher the number of links that point to your website, the higher your link popularity and hence the higher your ranking in the SERPs. Of course, besides Link Popularity, factors such as Link Reputation, Onsite Optimization and other factors play a part in your website ranking too.

Here's a useful tool that'll allow you to easily determine your website link popularity for free. You'll be able to easily ascertain the overall visibility of your websites in the following search engines:

AllTheWeb

AltaVista

Google

HotBot

Msn

Yahoo

as well as

Alexa Ranking

Google Pagerank

You can do a live Link Popularity Check for unlimited domains, including your competitors, and have the results displayed to you in real-time. You can also export the results in text, excel or XML format, or have it emailed to you instantly.

==> Click here now for your free Link Popularity Check!

The Money Is In The Backend

This is something you'd want to pay special attention to as affects your bottomline.

Regardless of what business you're in, and regardless of whether you're marketing your products and services online or offline, it's in your interest to remember that:

"The Money Is In The Backend"

The problem is, many business owners in their quest to acquiring more customers, often neglect or just don't recognize the importance and power of this marketing concept. It's a critical error and most unfortunate.

What then is a "backend"?

Why Is The Money In The "backend"?

Click here now to learn more about The Money Is In The Backend

Build Trust And Watch Your Online Sales Soar!

What is one of the greatest keys to boosting your online sales?

It's about TRUST.

Trust is closely associated with credibility and is absolutely crucial in doing business. This has been so since the time people started transacting with each other.

Trust is especially vital in internet sales because of the very nature of the internet which lacks face-to-face interactions and the cues and clues of the offline business world.

As an online business owner, your ability to establish your credibility and build trust will go a long way in boosting your onlines sales...

Read more on how to establish your credibility and build trust

NEW! MarketingSphere Free Classifieds

Post your Classified Ads at MarketingSphere for free:

==> http://www.classifieds.marketingsphere.com/classifieds.cgi

Besides having your Ads displayed at MarketingSphere, you can also get a free posting to the global network search engine too - your ads will be visible on over 3,100 more free sites.

The following are the various categories you can post your Classified Ads to:

Advertising

Promotion, Software, Services

Cars For Sale

Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles

Computers

Computers, Hardware, Software, Etc.

Financial

Services, and Investments

Health Nutrition

Vitamins, Get Well, Self Help

Mail Order

Mail order publications, income opportunities
Everything but the kitchen sink

MLM

Multi-Level Marketing, Consumer Direct Marketing

Services

Professional Services, Services offered

Business Opportunities

Work at home, income opportunities

Commission Sales

Affliate programs, reseller programs, sales

Dealerships

Franchises, Businesses for sales, Lease

Freebies

Free Stuff, promotional material, discounts

Home Business

Home Based Business, No investment/low investment

Miscellaneous

Everything but the kitchen sink

Publications

How Tos, Information

Real Estate

Houses, Land for sale

==> Post your Classified Ads at MarketingSphere Free Classifieds

PayPal Alternative?

Here's a new online payment processer that'll be launched in the month of June 2005.

It's a fast, fun, secure way for people to spend, send, receive, do just about anything with money, online. It can be used to purchase goods on eBay®, Yahoo Auctions®, or any number of other consumer-driven sales sites. It can also be used to electronically zap green to a friend, or have green zapped to you.

It allows you to zap all over the world. It's accepted in every country.

Sign-up for a free account before June 1st, 2005 and be rewarded with $25. You'll also be rewarded for people whom you refer.

Click here to open your free account using the promotion code: validate

Instant and Low-Cost Internet Business

One of the reasons that prospective internet business owners are not able to get their online business up and running is the lack of basic but essential knowledge and skill, such as HTML, setting up merchant account to take orders, setting up autoresponder messages, etc.

Fortunately, here's a solution that'll allow you to have a low-cost and instant internet business. You can create your own internet business with:

• NO Inventory



• NO handling of products



• NO expensive merchant account requirements



• NO huge investments



• NO HTML knowledge or experience required (everything will be setup for you!)



• Runs on Auto Pilot!



• Very HIGH profit! (earn up to 75% in sales commission)



• Your own Portal, reselling over 10,000+ Digital Products and Services!



• Your own Ezine In A Box that automatically follows up with your visitor and closes the sale!



• Your own articles directory to make your visitors keep returning back to your website



• Add as many of your own pages through an easy to use control panel! - A complete website building system at your finger tips

Click here to get your solution

The Most Cost-Effective Traffic Generation Tactic

Much has been discussed about online traffic generation, in particular, targeted traffic. This comes as no surprise as targeted traffic is the life-blood of any online business.

You're in business to create customers, and no targeted traffic means no customers, sales and profits. The result of this is that your online business will eventually go to the wall.

Much as the importance of targeted traffic is recognised, many are in a dilemma as to which traffic generation tactics to employ to effectively achieve this end.

There're many ways to generate and drive targeted traffic to one's website, but the most cost-effective and powerful tactic, to my mind, is none other than that of "building an army of affiliates"...

... Learn more about the most cost-effective traffic generation tactic

Customer Service - Key To Business Success

Customer Service is one of the greatest keys to your business success.

It can literally make or break you. This is so because your entire business, marketing, sales and profits depend on your customers. You're in business to generate profits by selling products and/or services to people who need and want them. Customers want to know how you can make their lives better or easier and/or how you can relieve them of their pain...

Learn more about customer service!

Unique Selling Proposition - Your Competitive Advantage!

Businesses that are no different from their competition will just merely get by. They capture only a small portion of the marketshare and their failure rate is generally high.

So how can businesses differentiate themselves? They can do this by creating what's called a Unique Selling Proposition or USP.

What's a USP and why should business owners absolutely need to create one?

Learn more about Unique Selling Proposition!

MarketingSphere Featured In CNET Networks

MarketingSphere is now featured in CNET Networks.

=> MarketingSphere as seen on CNET Networks

CNET Networks has selected MarketingSphere as a source of business news and resources alongside ArriveNet, Forrester Research, Gartner, BBC News, Forbes, Yahoo News and a few other high profile corporations.

My Articles are now published in CNET Networks, here's a screen shot:

=> Larry Lim's Articles as published in CNET Networks

Reverse The Risk And Boost Your Profits

Risk Reversal is one of the most powerful ways to increase your sales and boost your profits.

Risk Reversal means that you assume all the risks associated with the purchase of your products and/or services, and your customers none. This can be achieved by providing an extraordinary guarantee.

It applies to both online and offline business, but is particularly crucial to an internet business because of the absence of face-to-face interaction...

Learn more about Reversing the risk

Internet Market Selection

What is the central message of the marketing concept?

In essence, it's the need for businesses to identify and attempt to satisfy the genuine needs and wants of tightly defined target markets better than its competition.

As such, you can't treat the entire market as a homogeneous group of prospects, and your marketing efforts should be market-oriented as opposed to product-oriented.

Therefore, in selecting your market, you should be concerned with those commercially attractive sectors in market segments within the product form...

=> Internet Market Selection continues...

Which Web Host Should I Go For?

Of late, a number of you have written me seeking my advice as to which web host you should host your websites with.

Here's my stand:

Of those web hosts mentioned that I'm not familiar with, I'm in no position to comment. What I can say is that I personally use ehosting4U from the "Ultimate Marketing Center" with great satisfaction.

As of now, my entire network of websites is driven by the "Ultimate Marketing Center".

Here's what it provides:

1. 500MB hosting space
2. Hosts up to 5 domain names per account
3. Unlimited sequential autoresponder messages
4. Unlimited Ad tracking
5. Affiliate management system
6. Products with resell rights...
... and more.

This is value for money considering the monthly hosting fee it charges, but what's paramount is the superior customer service support.
=> Ultimate Marketing Center

Customer Lifetime Value - The Key To Maximizing Your Profits!

Customer Lifetime Value is the key to maximizing your profits.

It's an extremely powerful marketing concept.

From understanding the Lifetime Value of its customers, Companies have experienced exponential growth. Your understanding of your Customer Lifetime Value will help you grow your business, online and offline, faster than your competition as it forces you to combine marketing with great customer service to acquire and keep customers for life...

Click here to continue reading:
Customer Lifetime Value

Is It Still Possible To Make Money On The Internet?

Many people are saying that the internet is dead. So is there still money to be made on the Internet?

The answer is a definite YES.

Research shows, time and again, that consumers want to spend more online, and that the internet is fast becoming an integral part of their lifestyle and it'll continue to be so. Internet consumers are cautious and they want sites that are credible and worth shopping before they part with their money.

The traditional brick-and-mortar rules of business still apply to internet business. It's prudent to remember that the internet is not your business goal; it's a medium in helping you achieve your business goals.

Adhere to my following Rules and you'll be on your way to building a viable, sustainable and successful internet business...

To continue reading, click here:
Make Money On The Internet