Nine Indisputable Rules for Creating A Killer Website by Caterina Christakos 1) Keep it simple. Movies, audio and animation may be cool but if it takes your user more than 10 seconds to download they are gone. 2) Make it easy to navigate. If they can't find their way around your website they will leave. Keep the links visible and each page compact. They do not want to have to look for your links. 3) Keep banners to a minimum. Don't bog your site down with banner ads. One or two are fine but that is it. 4) Pop Ups... [Read more].

When I was young, my Dad used to take me fishing. It didn't take too many trips out on that little motor boat to learn that the ocean is a very BIG place. Even though I knew there were millions of fish swimming around, there was no guarantee that we'd go home with a bucketful at the end of the day. We would have to use a variety of bait and fishing techniques to make a catch. Marketing your business on the Internet is a lot like going fishing. There are millions of potential customers ("fish") surfing around out there,... [Read more].

Please feel free to publish this article and resource box in your ezine, newsletter, offline publication or website. A copy would be appreciated at mailto: info@lessonsfromthefront.com. Push vs. Pull Advertising - Understand the Consequences for your Product or Service You will save yourself a considerable amount of time and money if you first determine your product's (or service's) suitability for "pull" and "push" advertising. Pull advertising is geared to draw visitors to your website when they are actively seeking your product or service. Prime examples of pull advertising are search engine optimization, cost per click search engines, directory listings, yellow... [Read more].

If you've been lurking in the various forums and newsgroups devoted to webmastering, you could hardly fail to notice the heated debate going on at this time. No, it's not which is the best browser. This debate is about web servers. More precisely, which one is better: Apache or Internet Information Server (IIS). To tell you the truth, I've used them both (and a few others as well) and the simple plain truth of the matter is these two web server platforms are really functionally equivalent. Ease Of Use IIS is much easier for the novice as operators can maintain... [Read more].

You've made up your mind. You want to have a website to represent your business. The next decision to be made . . . who should you hire to develop your site? There are many people capable of building their own personal sites. They can put cute little comments and pictures of their pets or kids up for you to enjoy. But, when it comes to having a website that will be a form of marketing for your business, you want someone with experience. Someone who has an understanding of the Internet and what is the best way to boost... [Read more].

"The All Important Question: Crack It" (c) Copyright S. Kumar 2002 http://www.learnhomebusiness.com The all important questions is: "Do we have to believe EXACTLY what the known gurus have to say, follow them blindly as per their dictum and LOOSE Money? Recent developments have proved that small website owners loose money by blindly following gurus without a second thought. It's a self-imposed trap! *Before you fall into Impulsive-Money-Parting ways, consider these suggestions* ____________________________________ Check --Before Joining An Affiliate Program What is a good affiliate program? Check for these 8 attributes before you think of joining a program. If you score 5... [Read more].

If not, then you should be. They are much more effective than traditional online classifieds mainly because they are more targeted. How many ezines do you think are out there in internet world? I really do not know. But it has got to be tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands. Guess what? Most of them have a subscriber base of fewer than 2,000 and very few people are targeting this subscriber base. The big boys are just targeting the large subscriber ezines. There is a huge market in getting your targeted ezine ad to tens of thousands of... [Read more].

1. Free Classifieds: If you have the time to post you ads on classified sites , then this is a good place for you to start. Placing classified ads does work, but this method of advertising will take some time before you will start to see results. You will need to continually submit your ad to these sites , so your ad will stay near the top of the pages of these sites. Not everyone will get the same results with free classified advertising. The results I may get , may not be the same as the type of results... [Read more].

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My favorite business opportunity hands down is Six Figure Income (SFI). This program has been around for many years and there is good reason for this. Clearly explained and realistic, if you give this business a chance to grow and you tend it like you would your most precious garden, a full time income with this business will, without doubt,happen. SFI is free to join with free promotional banners, gateway sites, and printable flyers that you will have no problem getting leads from. You simply generate traffic to your site(s) and SFI does the rest. Even the most seasoned marketer... [Read more].

Spam was not invented on the Internet The Internet just helped give it a name. It's been around for a long time. Essentially spam is unwelcome advertising. The problem with the Internet is that you get a lot of it, and it's VERY LOUD and in-your-face. TV's not much different. Then there's junk mail. Very few people even read it. In an effort to get our attention, advertisers are using the two tools that seem to work best -- loud and obnoxious. Hey, they work, don't they! And whatever works must be okay because more and more people are... [Read more].