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1. Everyday Weight Loss Advice
Everyday Weight Loss Advice 8

Welcome to another in my ongoing series of weight loss advice. Once again, we will explore some of the many ideas you can implement in your life to help you with your weight loss program. Let's get started. Today we'll continue our focus on exercise.

1. It is important to stop exercising when your body has had enough. There is no sense in pushing it. When you have worked out for a considerable time, your body will start giving you signals. Heed those signals. This is particularly true in the initial stages. Take it one step at a time. Stop when you are out of breath or when a certain part of your body tells you that it has had enough. It is the cumulative amount of exercise over time that will help you with weight loss. Take it slow and easy.

2. If you want to increase your exercise time or the number of reps you do, do it gradually and not in sudden steps. This is easier said than done. Most of us have such hectic schedules that we think it is quite impossible to fit in time for exercise. This could not be further from the truth. Your body needs proper exercise. Just do it!

3. Select an exercise pattern to suit your lifestyle. All of us have different lifestyles and professions, so there is no sense in trying to follow the book strictly. Try to follow an exercise routine that is suitable for you. You have to understand that, even more important than the exercise itself, is sticking to it. So unless you choose something that can suit your lifestyle, you are not going to stick on to it.

4. Are you standing right now? Don't just stand there. Walk!. If you can walk around then do so. Do not stand in a fixed position. Pacing around is a good thing to do. If you are thinking deeply about something, try pacing around, it will aid in your thinking.

5. Are you sitting down? Don't just sit there. Stand up! If you can stand, then do not sit. The golden rule is to choose a position that is less comfortable.

6. Are you lying down? Don't lie down. Sit! The rule that we mentioned above rings true here as well.

7. Stop being a couch potato. It is the easiest thing in the world to become a couch potato: that shapeless thing that sits or reclines on a shapeless chair in front of the television and stupidly munches away at something fried!

If you are inclined to become a promising old couch potato, break the habit. What is the best way to do that? Take away that favorite chair of yours. In fact, it would be a very good idea if you could keep a chair that isn't too comfortable in front of the TV. This will discourage any tendency to become a couch potato.

I hope these daily advice articles are helping you with your weight loss program. Keep up the good work!

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2. Work At Home Business Advice
Work At Home Business Advice: Increase Your Profits With These 10 Tips
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

Welcome to another work at home business advice article. Today, let's look at more ways to increase your profits.

1. Gain an advantage over your competition by finding one benefit your competition doesn't offer. Use this as your main selling point (your Unique Selling Proposition).

2. If you don't already do so, start publishing an ezine for your work at home business. Design this ezine so it creates multiple free advertising streams. Ask readers to forward it to people they know, offer ad trades, etc.

3. Allow your website visitors to subscribe to an update ezine. Anytime you make changes to your web site they will receive an informative email.

4. Focus any articles that you publish on information that is relevant and important to your readers and other ezine publishers in your market. Your articles will get published more often. This means free publicity.

5. Use problems in your niche to attract online traffic. Find a common online problem and use your work at home business website to solve it. People will visit and see your ads.

6. Have an informative FAQ page at your work at home business website. Anticipate questions your prospects or visitors may have; this will help improve your sales ratio.

7. Improve your negotiation skills. This will improve your business because you're always negotiating ad swaps, supply prices, joint ventures, wages, etc.

8. Want to beat your competition? Give away a similar product or service that they charge for. It could be add on products, warranties, servicing, etc.

9. Build a larger online community by giving your visitors bonuses for participating on your message boards, chat rooms or forums. Try free products, ads, etc.

10. Instead of starting an affiliate program, start a referral program. Give people discounts and free products for referring people to your site.

Stay tuned for more work at home business advice in future articles in this series.

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3. Everyday Weight Loss Advice
Weight Loss Advice for Every Day 7

Welcome to another article in my series of weight loss advice for every day. Today we'll look at exercise in more detail. We all know that exercise is an important part of any weight loss program.

1. Check your weight before you start your exercise routine and keep checking for changes. But do not expect a radical change immediately. It might be one or two weeks before you notice some weight loss. In fact, your weight may increase for a bit as you turn fat into muscle. However it is crucial that you continue to monitor your weight. Even a few pounds or inches lost is a big achievement.

2. When you do notice a change, reward yourself. Now, don't go for some goodies like chocolates or sweets. After all, this is a weight loss program! Maybe you could go for a movie or buy yourself something like a new dress or a trinket. This is something that can keep you going.

3. You can take a day off from exercise every week. This is not just a very good idea but it is part of the exercise routine. Your body needs a day off from an exercise routine.

4. Exercise outdoors as often as possible. There are two advantages of exercising outside. One advantage is that it gives your body a chance to get much needed fresh air and sunshine. The second advantage is that the surroundings keep you perked up and it is a break from remaining cooped up all day long

5. Try to collect some information about exercise. There are a lot of things that you can do at home. Extensive research has been done on exercise and plenty of this information is easily available. You can try browsing the net or getting a book or two on how to exercise at home. This information will be useful to you to know how much you need to work out on each specific exercise in order to burn off the desired number of calories.

6. Try to get somebody to exercise along with you. It should be somebody committed to exercise and/or weight loss or else your interest might dwindle. One of the advantages of getting a committed person to exercise with you is that it keeps you going. There may be days when you feel just too lazy to crawl out of bed in the mornings. On such days, the knowledge that somebody is waiting for you is enough to slide out of bed. Another advantage is that you can discuss your progress and fears with another person and be a sympathetic listener to the other person as well. This is a great way to get motivated your self.

In the next article in this series, we'll continue looking at exercise, an important part of your weight loss program.

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4. Tips to Make Money Online
Tricks to Make Money Online
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

Wouldn't it be great if you knew some easy tricks to make money online on the internet? Now, the word "tricks" implies a short cut or a cheat of some sort. As a general rule, using a short cut is bad news for anyone looking to build an online business. Building an online business properly requires a plan, then a foundation, and then a structured system of making money.

However, there are some "easy" tricks to make money on the internet. The word "easy" is a bit of a misnomer here - each of these tricks will require that you know exactly what you are looking for and that you have some skills to pull them off.

For example, Ebay recently changed its policies so you can no longer sell digital products in auctions. A lot of people went out of business overnight. The more savvy Ebay marketers used a great trick to keep using this service - they now offer their digital products as physical products in the form of CD's and DVD's. To save even more time with this trick you can use a product fulfillment service to take care of everything for you.

This change actually made things better for the marketers who did not give up. Now there is a lot less competition, so there is a much higher conversion rate for the products.

This is a good example of 'going with the flow' in an online business. Instead of throwing up your hands and saying "I'm out of business", these business owners looked at the problem and said "How can I sell the same products in a different manner?". This is how you operate an online business. This is how you make money online.

Next is a neat trick to make money online through Clickbank:

- Find a product that is selling well (high gravity).
- Grab yourself a domain name that incorporates the name of the product.
- Install a Wordpress blog on that domain.
- Write a Press Release announcing the site and submit it to one of the online Press Release Services.
- Write an article to review the product and post it to the blog.
- Hire someone (or do it yourself) to write 10 articles related to the product for you and add them to your blog on a regular basis. Make sure your affiliate link is in the article somewhere. This is common practice for affiliate marketing.
- Now here is the real trick: rewrite those articles at least 50% and then submit them to article directories, including a bio box which sends people back to your website.

You will find you can make money online very quickly this way.

Another trick to make money online:

- join a CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) program.
- create an ebook full of relevant information about the CPA offer you want to promote.
- Add your ebook to as many free ebook directories as you can find. Inside your ebook have a statement saying that the book can be distributed or sold by anyone. This will create a viral effect and your ebook will be floating around all over the internet bringing you CPA cash for years to come.

And, of course, my favorite trick to make money online:

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5. Everday Weight Loss Advice
Everyday Weight Loss Advice: Creating your Weight Loss Program

So, the time has finally come that you realize that you need to lose weight. But, what plan will you follow to help you with your weight loss goals?

There are a certainly lot of plans and methods available on the internet to help with weight loss. Have you ever thought about creating your own plan for weight loss? Weight loss programs can serve as motivation and as a guide for a lot of people, and have helped them realize their goals for weight loss. Programs for weight loss, whether they be local or online, can give you a plan to follow. You may also like the idea of doing your own thing.

So how should you proceed with the creation of your own weight loss program?

Well, the first thing to do is educate yourself. Become familiar with the different types of diets that are out there. Be aware of fad diets, and supplements that can do more harm than good. After doing some reading, you may find yourself putting together several components from different diets, thereby building your own unique diet.

The most important thing is to eat healthy, no matter what diet you pursue. When creating your own weight loss program, you need to eat healthy, and avoid situations and ideas that will cause you to not eat enough. Calories, fat, carbohydrates and sugar are all important in your diet, and it's important to not eat too much - or too little - of any one food. Depending on your personality type, you may be able to allow junk food in your diet once in awhile, rather than eliminating it forever. Or you may allow yourself cheat days every so often.

You need to keep a close watch on your diet.

No matter what kind of weight loss program you decide to follow, it is important to keep track of what you're eating. Keeping a journal of calorie intake, along with sugar and fat intake will keep you aware of what you consume. It also helps you in real life: soon you'll have all kinds of food and the caloric content memorized. Big bonuses if you weigh and measure everything - after a bit of time you will be able to eyeball anything and know how much you're getting.

You must exercise to lose weight.

Exercise is important. But don't let having to exercise along with dieting put you off from starting a weight loss program. It is perfectly ok to start a diet and then begin exercising down the road. If you are obese, you will most likely not be able to do much exercise anyway when first starting out. But stick with it: as your weight loss adds up, you will be able to exercise more and even like it.

You may not like the idea of visiting a gym an exercising around other people. That's fine. There are lots of home exercise programs and equipment you can use. Your best bet; just start walking! Everyone can do that.

It can he difficult to stay motivated to exercise. If you need support, ask friends, your partner or a coworker if they would like to accompany you. Get an "exercise buddy" and challenge each other to go a little further or do a few more reps each day.

Put your weight loss program in writing.

If you have a plan of action for your weight loss program, write it down! Record any exercise you participate in, as well as what you eat. It can be a great motivator as you try to improve with each passing day. Also be sure to measure and weigh yourself no more than once a week. It is a great motivator to see those pounds dropping off and the waist getting thinner.

Creating your own weight loss program can be a challenge and a huge motivator for you to succeed with your weight loss goals. I hope you are successful with your weight loss program.

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6. Make Money Online Advice
Make Money Online Advice: Autoresponders
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

Are you trying to make money online with a home business? One of the many ways to get your message out and promote your products is to use email autoresponders.

Listed below are 10 innovative ways to use your autoresponder to help you promote and sell your home business products so you can make money online.

1. Use your autoresponder to collect leads. Your autoresponder will provide you with an email digest of the email addresses of everyone who requests information.

2. Use an autoresponder to publish a price list of all your products and services. You could also include order forms, product descriptions, and other sales material.

3. Publish free reports in autoresponder format. These reports should be related to your home based business or your website. Giving away free stuff will quickly increase your traffic.

4. Use your autoresponder to publish a survey to collect vital customer satisfaction information. This type of information will help you serve your customers better.

5. Instead of answering every customer question that's emailed to you, publish a "Frequently Ask Questions" in your autoresponder. This will save you time and money.

6. You could publish your home based business testimonials or endorsements in autoresponder format if you don't have enough room in your ad copy. It's more effective to include all of them.

7. Provide back issues of your ezine archives in an autoresponder. This will give your subscribers and web site visitors easy access to them.

8. Publish your entire web site in autoresponder format. Sometimes visitors don't have enough time read your entire site. They could print it out and read it offline.

9. Do you publish an ebook? Offer it in autoresponder format. Your visitors won't have to download it or have the software to read it right away.

10. Publish the terms and conditions to any business transactions in autoresponder format. This could include return policies, purchases, refunds etc.

Think out of the box and you can come up with more creative ways to use your autoresponder to market your home business products and services.

Stay tuned for more articles in my series of advice for online home businesses. Now go make money online !

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7. Everday Weight Loss Advice
Everyday Weight Loss Advice

Here we are again with more everyday advice to help you with your weight loss plan.

1. Do not completely deprive yourself of the foods that you love. Go ahead eat them, but only for flavor and only once in a while. There are many things which you have to avoid from your diet but which you may have an undying craving for. Do not avoid them altogether. You could call them cheat foods and indulge in them once in a while. But take care just to tingle your taste buds, don't overeat. Instead of that, share them with others.

2. Watch your intake of fat. Each fat gram contains 9 calories. By reading the total calories on a food item and knowing the quantity of fat, you can estimate the % of fat, which should not exceed 30% of the calories from that food.

3. Go easy on salt. Too much salt is one of the causes of obesity and high blood pressure. Make it a point to really cut down on salt. Try to bring down your salt intake to half of what it was last year. Here's a great tip: make a cup of tea out of ground parsley and have a cup once a day. This will reduce your salt cravings over time.

4. Use cholesterol free butter. Bear in mind that small changes like this can go a long way towards helping with your weight loss.

5. Stop frying food! Try baking food without fat. Baking is a far more healthier method of preparing food than frying. Baking requires less oil or fat.

6. Use a non stick frying pan for your cooking so that you do not have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much oil as possible and a non stick pan is one solution to this problem.

7. Boil your vegetables instead of cooking them. Even better, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating your vegetables raw, try steaming them without adding anything at all. This is probably the healthiest way to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other vegetables.

8. Carry parsley with you. Parsley is an excellent food to munch on in between meals. Not only is it good for you, but it is also a perfect way to freshen your breath.

That's all my advice to help you with your weight loss plan for today. Stay tuned for more!

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8. Work From Home Business Advice
Work From Home Business Advice: Sell Your Products Now
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

Welcome once again to my ongoing series of work from home business advice. Today we're going to look at 10 ways to sell your products now. We'll discuss ways to design sales pages:

1. When writing the copy for your ad, try to make your reader visualize that they have already bought your product. Tell them what results they have gotten and how it makes them feel. They'll become emotionally attached before they buy.

2. Turn your ad into an article. This could be a story or a how-to article. This will lead them into your ad without knowing it's an ad. They will already be interested when they get to your sales pitch.

3. Show your reader that they are getting a bargain. For example, tell them the usual price you sell your product for is $97. Then tell them if they order today they can buy it for $69.97. A little-known tip here: if you end the price with the number 7, you will get more sales.

4. Direct your ad headline to your target audience. Your readers will feel important and belong to a select group of people who buy your product. For example; "Attention! Resale Estate Brokers! Discover A New Way To Increase Your Sales Ratios!"

5. Tell your reader how fast they can receive your product or service. Their buying decision may be based on how fast they can receive your product. They may need it by a certain deadline.

6. Benefits are the key to selling anything. Always use bullets to highlight the benefits of your product or service. Make them stand out in your ad. You can use dots, dashes, or circles to highlight them.

7. Give a money back guarantee that overdelivers. Instead of the normal timed guarantee, give them extra back. Tell them they can keep the free bonus or give them double their money back.

8. Offer surprise bonuses. This will raise your reader's curiosity and make them want to buy so they can find out what the surprise bonuses are.

9. Let your reader know this specific package will not be offered again. It is important to create urgency so that people will buy now. You can always sell the same product with different bonuses or at a different price.

10. Give them a couple of tips in your ad that will help them with their problem. This will give credibility to your work from home business, and gain your reader's trust to buy your products or services.

I hope you have found this short list to be of use. Stay tuned for more work from home business tips in future articles.

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9. Everday Weight Loss Tips
Everyday Weight Loss Tips

Here we are once again in my ongoing series "Everyday Weight Loss Tips". Here are today's tips:

1. Believe it or not, you will each your weight loss goals if you make carbohydrates 50 to 55% of your diet. It is a myth that you should try to avoid carbohydrates when you are on a diet. Carbohydrates are a ready source of energy. But be sure to pay attention to the quality of the carbohydrates.

2. Proteins should make up 25 to 30% of your diet. Various processes are taking place in your body. Things are broken down and being rebuilt. Resistance has to be built up, recovery from disease is needed. For all this the body needs plenty of proteins.

4. Fats should only be 15 to 20 % of your diet.

5. Consider adopting a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is a very healthy weight loss plan. There are a lot of advantages of keeping to a vegetarian diet. Make non-vegetarian food a weekend or once in a while event if you find it impossible to give up eating all that meat.

5. If you do eat meat, choose white meat rather than red meat. White meat, which includes fish and fowl, is much healthier than red meat, which includes beef and pork.

6. High fiber multigrain breads are better than white breads. This is a great way to increase the fiber content in your diet.

7. Reduce or eliminate your intake of pork. Pork is not something that can help you with your weight loss goals. So the less pork you eat, the better chances you have of losing weight. Remember that pork includes the pork products as well, like bacon, ham and sausages.

8. Limit your sugar intake. If you can't have things unsweetened go for sugar substitutes, or, better yet, Stevia.

9. Graze 5 to 6 times a day. Instead of sticking to just three meals a day, try grazing. Grazing means try having 5 or 6 smaller meals instead of three king sized meals. It is an excellent way of eating smaller quantities of food.

Stay tuned for more everyday weight loss tips in future articles.

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27. Business Opportunity Leads Tips
Business Opportunity Leads Tips: 3 Quick And Easy Ways To Build A Profitable Opt In List
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

There are all sorts of ways to generate leads for your business opportunity. In most cases, you will then funnel the email addresses of the leads you capture into an email autoresponder series, also known as an opt-in list.

Have you read countless articles, sought expert advice and read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists? Have you followed their advice to the T and you still weren't able to make a profit?

So what could have gone wrong? Why have others succeeded where you have failed? The most common mistake is that you dove right in. You chose a topic which you thought could be quite popular and would earn you money. This just not the case. Just because you wrote people from the list doesn't mean they are going to buy instantly.

Here are some ideas for rejuvenating your opt-in list. For those who are just starting out, here are three quick and easy ways to build a profitable opt-in list.

1) Get your customers to trust you and your products first. Just launching your opt-in list will not make you an expert and a believable seller. Start a blog and write many articles first before you start an opt-in list. Write about the topic you know and have started and used for your site. Visit forums first to gain knowledge about your customers, about their wants and needs and target those wants and needs.

Join forums from other sites as well. Provide expert advice and recommendations. When you feel that people trust you already, you will be able to start your own opt-in list. You can build a base as well with other forum users. You can ask them to join your list. Friends are always good customers. Put up a link to your site so that they may be able to see what your business is all about.

The money will only come in when the consumers and subscribers believe and trust you. They want a product or service that will be good value for their money. People are not going to buy something on your recommendation if they don't know you.

2) Find a product or service that people want and need. Although it may not be your forte, if you provide a service and product that you have researched and learned about, you can make it successful.

While it is true that it is best to sell something that you have an interest in, there are not many people who have the same interest as you if you decide to sell something that is not entirely popular or profitable. Do your market research well and you will see the profits come in. Provide your subscribers with promotional material that they can actually use and spread around.

3) Make friends with other opt-in list users. This is beneficial especially if it is someone who has already launched a successful opt-in list. These are people that have the experience in this venture and experience is still the best teacher. While there are many articles available for you on the internet to use, there is nothing like getting a first hand account from someone you trust.

Experienced opt-in list users will be able to tell you what to do and what not to do because they have gone through it. While different situations occur for different people, the general concept can still be very helpful. There are many things to avoid and these people will be able to tell you which ones.

Building a profitable opt-in list doesn't just happen overnight. A lot of preparation and effort goes in upfront. Opt-in lists are built from scratch. As your list grows, you should also maintain the quality of your list. Keep it organized and manageable. Get or hire help if need be, just make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will be willing to buy from you.

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28. Business Leads Tips: Wow Your Customers
Business Leads Tips: Wow Your Customers
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

Are you a small business owner who runs your own retail store? Once you have put strategies in place to generate leads and turn them into customers, what are you doing to turn those customers into loyal customers?

Whether your retail store is a small convenience store or a specialty store, like one that sells collectible figurines or plus size clothing, you will likely have some type of competition. There is a good chance that most of your competition will come from large businesses such as department stores; ones that have more financial resources at their fingertips. Although it may seem like your competition has the advantage, it doesn't have to be that way. There are a number of different ways that you go about "wowing" each and every one of the customers who walk through your door, to the point where they will be a returning shopper.

When it comes to "wowing" your customers, the "wowing" process isn't actually as hard as you may believe it to be. For instance, the first step is to make sure that your store is completely clean and free of debris. If you have shopping carts, you will want to make sure that your customers can push a shopping cart down each of your aisles, without running into merchandise or boxes on the floor. You will also want to make sure that your store shelves are organized in a nice, professional matter. The last thing that a consumer wants to do is shop at a retail store that leaves them feeling unclean or dirty. You want your customers to walk into your store and say "wow."

Another way that you can go about "wowing" your costumers is by just being nice to them. It really is as simple as it sounds. In today's society, where everyone is in a rush to get things done, we often forget to be kind and polite to others. The best way to "wow" your customers is to treat them with kindness. You will want to make sure that all of your employees greet your customers as soon as they walk into the door, ask them if they need any help finding anything, and thank for them for their business after being checked out. Just being kind and compassionate to your customers is a great way to "wow" them and bring them back for more kindness, especially since that kindness is now missing from many big box retailers.

Another simple way that you can go about "wowing" your customers, is by offering them free discounts or savings. You may want to think about making coupons that can be handed out to all of your customers, preferably those who end up spending a certain amount of money, like fifty dollars or more. Moneysaving coupons are actually used by many shoppers, but most have to actually go searching for them, as most retailers don't hand them out free of charge. Giving your customers moneysaving coupons is a great way to give your business a good public perception and it also tends to up your chances of returning customers.

These strategies are just a few of the many that you may want to take when looking to "wow" your customers. What you need to do is look at it from the perspective of your customer. If you were to walk into your store, what would you want it to be like and how would you like to be treated?

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29. Business Opportunity Leads Tips
Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Viral Marketing
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

Viral marketing is a great lead generation strategy for online businesses. Here are some of my thoughts on this strategy:

Creativity is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition for business on the Internet today. With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed.

It doesn't matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website: if people don't know that you exist, you are not going to make it big. Worst of all, you business could fail miserably.

There are many different methods of getting noticed online. One of these is called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral usually depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business.

Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing, also known as Viral Advertising, is a marketing technique used to build public awareness of a product or company. Viral marketers use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product, by promoting other forms of addictive media that people love to pass on to their friends and acquaintances. The media will normally contain some subtle form of advertising for the company or product in question.

In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because it is relatively low cost. Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates to help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.

Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential leads. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

Most sites and companies these days use some form of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story - many ideas are still out there. Create a buzz. Hollywood has this down to a science. Ever notice how many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had much success with it. A classic example is Microsoft's Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.

Now it's your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your business.

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30. Business Opportunity Leads Tips
Business Leads Tips: Solving Writer's Block
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

One of the most effective strategies for generating leads for your business is to brand yourself on the internet as a leader or expert in your chosen market. And there is no better way to do that than to write articles consistently and post them to article directories and blogs.

But writing about the same thing day after day can get tiresome, and you will often experience writer's block - what on earth am I going to write about today?

Here are 5 easy ways to get your creative juices flowing:

1) Always keep a diary or a journal with you

Ideas can be triggered by anything you may hear, see, or smell. Your senses are your radar in finding great ideas. Write all of them into a journal and keep it with you for future reference. You may also write down anything that you have read or heard. Someone else�s ideas could be used to develop your own ideas and this is not stealing. Remember that ideas and creativity can come from anywhere; it�s the development of the idea that makes it unique.

One thing I do is check online news items at Google every day for keywords that are relevant to my chosen niche. A good news item can trigger an article in which you give your view of whatever was reported.

2) Relax and take time to sort things out.

A jumbled mind cannot create any space for new ideas. You must have a clear mind if you wish to have your creativity up to full speed. Get rid of all obstacles that can be a hindrance to your creativity. If you are bothered by something, you cannot force your mind to stay focused.

Try to relax whenever you can and think about your experiences and interactions with others. Your experiences are what shape your mindset and your opinions, and these will be reflected in your writing. Try to discover yourself, find out what triggers your emotions. Discover what inspires you and what ticks you off. You can use these emotions to help you in expressing yourself and your ideas.

3) Create a working place that can inspire your creativity.

Your working place can be quite a hindrance if it doesn't make you feel happy or relaxed. Creativity comes from being in a good state of mind and a messy workplace that causes distraction won't be conducive to firing up your creative flow.

Surround your working place with objects that make you happy and relaxed. You may put up pictures, objects that inspire, or anything that can get your creativeness cranking. A clean and well organized workplace also gets rid of distractions and unwanted hindrances. With a good working place, you can work in peace and never notice the time pass by.

4) Set the mood.

Setting the mood requires you to just go with the moment or to induce yourself to feeling what makes your mind works best. Finding out what makes you tick could help you find ways to get your creative juices flowing. Set the pace and tempo for your mood and everything else will follow.

5) Go on a getaway and just do something crazy.

Letting yourself go and have fun produces adrenaline that can make your imagination go wild. Take an adventure or a solemn hike. Whatever it is that is unusual from your daily routine can take the rut out of your schedule. In no time at all, your creativeness will make use of that experience and get your imagination to go on overdrive.

Writing consistently does not have to be an onerous task. Over time you will find that it actually becomes much easier. The key point is to do it!

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31. Business Opportunity Leads Tips 080809
Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Why Do I Need a Website Anyway?
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

You've no doubt seen it said again and again that a website is an indispensable tool for generating and maintaining leads for your business. If you are a brick and mortar business, you may think that you don't need a website. Why would you need one?

The 20th century internet boom showed us that even the smallest of businesses needs a website to compete in today's market. As we entered the 21st century, this became even more apparent as everyday people gained internet access and started searching for products on services online. Over 90% of all American families have a home computer, and some form of internet access, whether it be dial up or high speed broadband. Out of those 90%, over 65% will search online first when making a new purchase or hiring someone's service. If those numbers alone do not convince you to build a website for your business, then these reasons should:

1) Sell your products online
The ability to sell your products online, typically using an online shopping cart or eBay, could greatly increase your sales. Your products will be seen in more than one place, giving you greater exposure. Plus, the overhead of displaying your products in an online shopping cart is FAR less then in a conventional store.

2) Provide information that you would not normally be able to
You do not want to clutter your physical store with posters that talk about the history of your business, your mission, policies, etc. If your physical store looks cluttered, then it will hurt your business. A website can be organized in a neat manner with all the information you wish to have displayed. Plus, providing information about your business will make the customer feel more informed, which in turn will make them more likely to do business with you.

3) Websites are global
A website is globally accessible, provided your domain name is known or searchable. Can you name one of form of advertising that is available to anyone in the world, 24 hours a day? You may gain clientele that you would not normally be able to market to in the "real world."

4) Website are cheap
Sure, initially it will cost you some money and time to create and setup your website, but once your website is up, it will remain up as long as you keep paying for hosting and your domain name, which averages about 6 dollars a month. You cannot place an ad in the local newspaper for 6 dollars a week, much less 6 dollars a month.

5) 24 Hour Product Purchases
Clients will be able to view your store and contact you 24 hours a day. Your business probably has set hours in which you are open. Once you close your doors for the day, no other customer can come in and make a purchase. With a website your products are available for purchase 24 hours a day.

6) Minimize customer problems and questions
Again, this goes back to the information situation. If a client has a problem or question about your products or services, instead of tying up your phone line and time, they can go online and read the information that you have provided, or at least direct them to a website that can help them. For example: If you sold them a Sony Walkman, you can direct them to the Sony website for any troubleshooting.

7) Keep Up With Your Competition
Chances are, your competition has a website. The amount of businesses with a website are on the rise. With numbers reaching 80%, you cannot afford to NOT have a website, because chances are your competition already has a website.

Bottom line: your business needs a website!

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32. Business Opportunity Leads Tips
Business Opportunity Leads Tips: Website Mistakes
- by Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master

Your business opportunity website can be a great source of leads for your business. But you must be careful about how you design and manage your business website these days.

The website boom of the early 21st century showed us that the business world was indeed ready to enter into the world of the internet. However, times have changed, and many of the websites have not changed with it. Here are a few mistakes that website owners make in today's internet culture:

1)Infrequent updates
To have a website that gains the most business, you must have the best, most up to date website possible. If a visitor feels that you do not properly maintain and update you website, then chances are they will leave and find a similar business that does. Make sure you update your content on a consistent basis.

2) JavaScript pop ups
A JavaScript pop up is a notification window that opens when you visit a website that presents a message or advertisement and has an "ok" button at the end. This was extremely popular during the website boom, but quickly become a no-no, mainly because people over used it. Not only would they add the pop up to the main page of their website, but they would also add one to each and every sub page. Typically these pop ups did not contain any information that would be viewed as important to the viewer. This was annoying then, and is much more annoying now. If you have a message that MUST display to the user before they can go further on your website, then a JavaScript pop up may still be a good option, but I strongly caution you to not overuse it, if you use it at all.

3) Heavy graphics
You have to remember that a percentage of your visitors will be on a dialup connection, which means they will have trouble downloading your website if you have a large number of graphics on your website. Unless your website is in flash, I would try to avoid using any type of animated graphic, since they typically have large file sizes. Remember: people are not looking for fancy graphics, they are looking for information.

4) Using heavy, high contrasting colors
This was another thing that was popular during the internet boom that quickly become unpopular due to overuse. It was once believed that high contrasting colors would grab the users attention. While this may be true, I do not recommend using this technique. People are looking for information. Use of high contrasting colors cheapens the look of your website and makes it very unprofessional.

5) Cluttered pages
If your website seems be cluttered, visitors will be less likely to view further into your website, especially if they think they will have to weed out the information they need from the information that is useless to them. You do not want to have too much information on each page, and you never want more then one topic on each page. A good navigation system will eliminate any problem you have.

6) Lack of a navigation system
Many websites created during the internet boom lacked one of the most important parts of a website: a navigation menu. Once a visitor clicked on a page they were taken to a new page without a way to return or access additional pages within the website. A navigation menu ensures that the visitor will be able to view