I spoke over the telephone to one of those call centres from abroad.  Now, I’ve nothing against those who speak with an Indian accent just as long as I an understand them. [...]]]> I never knew how much I relied on Broadband connections until I lost mine last week and am still without it now.

I spoke over the telephone to one of those call centres from abroad.  Now, I’ve nothing against those who speak with an Indian accent just as long as I an understand them.
I was finding it awfully difficult to communicate the guy at the other end simply because his accent was so strong. 

Obviously mine was too because he kept asking me to repeat what I’d just said and also ‘misheard’ several points.

Understanding your words is one thing but understanding exactly what you mean is a difficult task for someone who’s never lived in UK and understands our way of putting things, language wise.

Anyway, it was a Monday evening in the UK, about five minutes to midnight when I finally decided to call Virgin Media about my intermittent Broadband connection.
I’d be happily downloading files when I would notice that the little green line had stopped moving.  This kept happening and so I eventually called support.
After finally understanding my problem, we had a call booked in for an engineer to visit my home and fix the Internet connection.
Friday morning was the earliest that he could manage. 

Five days of ‘now you see me, now you don’t’ broadband is not funny.

Thursday evening it switched off altogether, totally dead.

Friday morning the engineer didn’t turn up.

Obviously, the Indian guy did not understand my problem or he didn’t understand how to book an engineer properly, one or the other, probably both.

Anyway, I called Virgin Media support once more enquiring as to where the engineer was.  ‘There was no engineer visit booked in for you at all sir’ was the reply to my enquiry.
The following Tuesday was the only available slot for the next attempt.  Could I stand four days without the Internet?  I had to  as it was what we  in the UK call a Bank Holiday and nobody calls to repair a broadband fault over this period.

Come Tuesday, the Virgin Media engineer called at 8am sharp.  Rubbing by eyes and adjusting my dressing gown, I let him in.

He repaired the fault immediately as he knew what the cause was.  It was the green box.

Outside of my home is a metal green box with all the connections of my neighbours who were also on cable TV, broadband or telephone.

Apparently my connection, known as a Siamese board (as it has two parts) had been unplugged from inside this green box and moved to a lower location.

The connections are supposed to be made in a certain configuration in order for the voltage to be uniformly distributed to each connection, however, the ‘contracted in’ engineers don’t subscribe to this method of connection and simply plug both boards into ANY available slot.

This may well mean moving my broadband board to a lower position in the cabinet and this is what causes my broadband to either be intermittent or not work at all.
It NEEDS to be in position number TWO at the top of the cabinet.

The engineer explained that every time another household in the street get a problem, their boards get moved into a different location which, in turn, means moving someone else’s.  This, more often than not, cures the problem …. for a short while.

The contracted in engineer can book the job as completed and book off home early.

Then, after a few days, the problem arises on the other person’s connection.  And so it goes on.

And on.

Nearly all call-outs come down to simply moving someone’s connection to another slot in the green cabinet. 

What’s the answer?  The engineer said, ‘Every time you see a Virgin Media van outside with someone messing with the green box, go out and tell them NOT to move your card out of slot two, otherwise the same thing will happen over again’.

Great, there am I paying a premium price for 50mb broadband and I have to stand guard outside of my house just in case some unscrupulous engineer wants to perform a quick fix and slide off home early.

British workmen, ‘eh?  I bet they don’t get this trouble in India.

Advantages:

Return on Investment ————————— [...]]]> There are many advantages and disadvantages involved when
comparing PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising and SEO (Search Engine
Optimization). I will outline the advantages and disadvantages
below:

Advantages:

Return on Investment
—————————
CPC is a very effective marketing tool. The efficiency of the
advertising is easy to track, therefore making the return on
investment (ROI) figures easy to determine. ROI is determined by
how many click-throughs resulted in a sale. Unlike print
advertising, where a company may spend thousands of dollars on
one ad that very few people may see, CPC allows business owners
to see exactly how many people clicked on the ad and what
percentage of those decided to purchase something. If the revenue
exceeds the costs involved with getting the customers to the
site, then the business is making money.

Auto-Bidding
—————————
Many CPC engines are now offering "auto-bidding" to make things
even easier for their clients. If Company A puts in a maximum bid
of 10 cents, they have determined their limit per click. However,
at the moment they may only be paying five cents. If Company B
decides that they want to move to the number one spot and ups
their click-through rate to six cents, the auto-bidding feature
will up Company A’s bid to seven cents so that they will remain
in the first position. And they didn’t have to constantly monitor
the situation.

Attracting Visitors
—————————
CPC is the most direct way to attract visitors to a site.
Choosing specific keywords means that you can specifically target
different types of consumers based on which keyword they type in.
By promoting more targeted keywords, you are much more likely to
attract someone who is interested in purchasing, rather than
promoting a broad search term in which individuals tend to type
when they are looking for information only

Increasing Branding
—————————
50% of sales occur when a customer visits a Web site for the
first time. The other 50% generally occurs on subsequent visits.
If a customer sees a company listed at the top of the sponsored
links section, chances are that business will get the sale. But
even if the sale isn’t made right away, there is still the
advantage of branding — building awareness of the site for
future needs.

Having Full Control
—————————
Advertisers choose the terms that describe their company; what
the cost of the term is worth; how much they are willing to pay
each day; and how long the campaign will last. All of this is
managed on their own time, not set by deadlines created by an
outside source.

Disadvantages:

Budget Limitations
—————————
Because businesses only have so much to spend on their
campaigns, they need to set a budget for not only how much they
will pay for each click, but also what their daily maximum will
be. Because there is a set limit on the money that can be spent,
this also limits the amount of exposure the ad will have. Once
the daily maximum has been reached, the ad is no longer shown and
potential customers could be lost.

For those on limited budgets, this can mean that some of the
larger players will gain more exposure because of their financial
ability to pay more per click. But having the budget doesn’t
necessarily mean becoming number one. It takes patience,
determination, creativity, keyword selection and daily analysis
to be successful.

Just Looking…
—————————
Just because someone clicks on a link, it doesn’t necessarily
mean that they will buy. Some people are just doing some research
and may click through to see what else is being

Click-Fraud
—————————
It is said that anywhere between 10-15% of all clicks you
receive is click-fraud. This means that you only have 85% of your
clicks to try to convert a visitor into a customer. Click-fraud
will always be around as your advertisers click on your ads,
click-farms exists, and people continue to use the content
networks. If you want to limit the amount of click-fraud, avoid
the use of the content network as this traffic is where most of
the click-fraud is derived.

All in all, both methods can be very effective, however you are
at the mercy of Search Engine algorithms if you decide to use SEO
techniques. One day you could have a top-listing and then the
next day it could be removed from the search results entirely.

For Help, or personal coaching on creating your advertising
campaigns we highly suggest the two following resources:

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http://internettweet.com/go/beatad
http://internettweet.com/go/wau
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I bet I know the answer! I think most of us would have to admit that we don’t always spend much time on the download pages.

After all, we already made the sale right? [...]]]> Today I want to ask all my blog readers a simple question…Are you using your download pages to their full potential?

I bet I know the answer! I think most of us would have to admit that we don’t always spend much time on the download pages.

After all, we already made the sale right? We deliver the product and thank them. What else is there to do?

Well, actually a lot! Because most of us should know that it’s easier to get someone to buy another product after they just purchased one.
After all, that’s the point of one time offers right?

Well, now you can give your customers another chance to give you money, and also give them something extra just to say thank you.
Instead of me explaining it, just check out the information at:

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I have personally started using this, and I encourage you to have a look as well…

Kinger!

Internet Marketing is like any other business [...]]]> Does everyone that attempts to become an Internet Marketer
succeed? No, in fact approximately 90% of all Internet Marketers
fail. Why is this? I have given this a lot of thought and come up
with a few answers as to why so many people fail when trying to
become a successful Internet Marketer.

Internet Marketing is like any other business – it requires a
lot of work. People that get into Internet Marketing may think
that it is the “easy street” to success and wealth, but this is
far from the truth. There are many programs that “entice”
people to sign-up with the thought that they will be able to
“get rich quick”. Well, I can tell you from experience, if
you are not willing to think and work hard, whether it be a
retail business or an Internet Marketing business, chances are
very good that your business will not flourish to its full
potential, often times not succeeding at all. If you are willing
to dedicate a bit of time to this then you are that much more
likely to become successful within any business, especially
Internet Marketing.

Another reason that many people fail is because they don’t
understand who their customers are. The problem is many new
advertisers’ set-up a webpage or campaign trying to deliver the
wrong audience the wrong product. Image trying to sell lemonade
to someone on a snowy day in Chicago? This is the same mistake many
new marketers are making by not targeting their audience. They
are spending their time and money with no return.

Having the ability to connect with your customers and determine
what they want is a key to becoming a successful Internet
Marketer. What does the customer really want? In essence, you are
a customer yourself so this should be very easy.

There are proven success techniques and strategies that can give
you the upper hand to become part of the 10% that do become
successful. In fact, there is one report that will help you
eliminate your competition and learn the best advertising
techniques. It is called “Beating Adwords” …

(http://internettweet.com/go/beatad),
and if you have it in your library, you are much more likely to
succeed. Starting out as a new marketer with no knowledge of the
industries or how to make the Internet your profit engine is one thing.

Starting out with a solid Internet Marketing foundation that consists
of valuable Internet Marketing techniques and strategies is a formula
for success.

Get yourself a good resource to build your foundation, and then
begin building your business using the strategies that you have
learned. Internet Marketing is not difficult and with a little
work and some creative thinking you can make some great profits
online.

Does everyone that attempts to become an Internet Marketer
succeed? No, in fact approximately 90% of all Internet Marketers
fail. Why is this? I have given this a lot of thought and come up
with a few answers as to why so many people fail when trying to
become a successful Internet Marketer.

Internet Marketing is like any other business – it requires a
lot of work. People that get into Internet Marketing may think
that it is the “easy street” to success and wealth, but this is
far from the truth. There are many programs that “entice”
people to sign-up with the thought that they will be able to
“get rich quick”. Well, I can tell you from experience, if
you are not willing to think and work hard, whether it be a
retail business or an Internet Marketing business, chances are
very good that your business will not flourish to its full
potential, often times not succeeding at all. If you are willing
to dedicate a bit of time to this then you are that much more
likely to become successful within any business, especially
Internet Marketing.

Another reason that many people fail is because they don’t
understand who their customers are. The problem is many new
advertisers’ set-up a webpage or campaign trying to deliver the
wrong audience the wrong product. Image trying to sell lemonade
to someone on a snowy day in Chicago? This is the same mistake many
new marketers are making by not targeting their audience. They
are spending their time and money with no return.

Having the ability to connect with your customers and determine
what they want is a key to becoming a successful Internet
Marketer. What does the customer really want? In essence, you are
a customer yourself so this should be very easy.

There are proven success techniques and strategies that can give
you the upper hand to become part of the 10% that do become
successful. In fact, there is one report that will help you
eliminate your competition and learn the best advertising
techniques. It is called “Beating Adwords” …

(http://internettweet.com/go/beatad),
and if you have it in your library, you are much more likely to
succeed. Starting out as a new marketer with no knowledge of the
industries or how to make the Internet your profit engine is one thing.

Starting out with a solid Internet Marketing foundation that consists
of valuable Internet Marketing techniques and strategies is a formula
for success.

Get yourself a good resource to build your foundation, and then
begin building your business using the strategies that you have
learned. Internet Marketing is not difficult and with a little
work and some creative thinking you can make some great profits
online.

Sincerely,

Martyn Brown, Editor – Internet Marketing Bugle

PS: For Help, or personal coaching on creating your advertising
campaigns I highly suggest the two following resources:

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http://internettweet.com/go/beatad
http://internettweet.com/go/wau
—————————–

1. Set your initial goal. ——————————————— Whether you want to generate $100 per day [...]]]> Today I am going to discuss the 5 main steps to online
marketing success. If you can follow these steps, you will become
successful online. I use these techniques and they are also used
by several other successful Internet marketers who pull in
thousands a day. .

1. Set your initial goal.
———————————————
Whether you want to generate $100 per day or $1000 per day, the
first step is to set a goal for yourself. Often times you will
find it most effective to set short term and long term goals.
This will allow you to obtain small successes while still
recognizing the big picture as to where you want to go. Those who
become successful within Internet Marketing, or any business,
have set goals and persevere until they achieve these goals.

2. Research and Select a Niche Product to Promote.
———————————————
Would you buy a car without researching it before hand? Probably
not. Do your research prior to selecting a niche to promote.
Often time’s people get way over their heads before they have a
solid understanding of how they are going to make money within a
niche.

I highly suggest researching industries, products, competitors,
advertising costs, and overall opportunities prior to commencing
any advertising campaign. You can research markets using the
following guidelines:

3. Find Profitable Keywords
———————————————
You will need to research keywords and the average CPC over an
industry before you begin promoting it. Some industries have
thousands of keywords, while some are so specific that only have
a handful of keywords. A smaller industry can convert just as
well as a large one, so don’t be fooled by industries with
keywords and low traffic.

4. Find High ROI Affiliate Programs.
———————————————
The last research step is to find suitable affiliates merchants
within the industry that you want to promote. There are many
affiliate networks that have thousands of affiliate programs
across different industries. These include:

-CJ.com (Commission Junction)
-Linkshare.com
-ClickBank.com

If you are promoting products through a PPC engine such as
Google Adwords or Yahoo! Marketing, you will need to make sure
that the affiliate program will pay high enough to make it
profitable. You typically want to stick to programs that pay over
$15/commission. Alternately you can join a program like
Wealthy Affiliates and use their recommendations on products
that they have tested.

5. Start an Advertising Campaign
———————————————
Once you find a product that you want to sell, you’ll want to
create an Advertising program for it. I suggest promoting the
product using Google Adwords or Yahoo! Marketing as these are the
highest converting PPC engines available.

The following are 2 resources that I highly recommend. These
resources focus on teaching you how to create successful
advertising campaigns:

For Help, or personal coaching on creating your advertising
campaigns I highly suggest the two following resources:

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http://internettweet.com/go/beatad
http://internettweet.com/go/wau
—————————–

I personally am a member at Wealthy Affiliate and I would not
have experienced the same amount of success without the support
of Kyle & Carson, the resources they provide, or the
assistance that many of the fellow members at Wealthy Affiliate
have given me. My forum ID is martyn01202 if you do decide to
sign-up and want to say hello.

Take the Leap
———————————————

Once you have accomplished the previous 5 steps, it is up to
you to take the leap.

How long have you been working your online business? And [...]]]> I’ve been looking around for an affordable course for beginners
or for those who just aren’t earning anything from their marketing
efforts.  So please let me ask you …

How long have you been working your online business?
And how profitable are your ventures currently?

I truly hope you are in the small percentage of people who are
actually making money rather than just spending it all the time. If
not, I want you to know two things:
First – you’re not alone! Most people who are trying to operate an
online business are failing miserably.

Second – it absolutely does NOT have to be this way!
You see, there is a very specific reason most people don’t "make
it" Johnny. It’s not laziness and it’s not lack of money
to invest.

Most people fail because of a lack of knowledge. It doesn’t matter
how hard you work or how much cash you invest, if you don’t
understand what needs to be done and even when it needs to be done
you’re in BIG trouble!

Without a real formula to follow most people just wander hopelessly
until they finally give up in despair.

But those marketers who do have access to a REAL system not only
make good money, they make it quickly and without a lot of strain.
In fact with the right information in your possession you could
literally be seeing a profit in a matter of hours!

I’m willing to bet you’d love to get your hands on the truth about
what it takes to earn a real income online. And I’m excited to tell
you that’s what this email is all about!

My friends and Internet marketing pros Ian del Carmen and Tim
Whiston have recently put the finishing touches on a system they
call the 48-Hour Profit Plan.

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http://imbugle.com/48pp.htm
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How is this formula different from other courses intended to help
you make money?

First of all, it actually works. It’s a blueprint that Ian and Tim
use themselves to create new, highly profitable Web ventures on a
regular basis.

And it’s so easy to grasp even a newbie can pick it up and see real
results in record time. This step-by-step course is designed to
walk you through EVERYTHING you need to know and do to get a
full-blown Web business up and running in just two days!

That almost sounds a little crazy huh? But I’ve seen this material
myself and it’s pretty amazing stuff.

Check it out…
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
—> http://imbugle.com/48pp.htm
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Ian and Tim have packed a full suite of detailed PDF lessons,
thorough video tutorials, and pre-built Web & product modules into
this ultra-compact and incredibly powerful system for success. And
they backed it with a 100% 90-day money-back promise! (which I’ll
personally underwrite).

If you aren’t absolutely thrilled with the way your business is
running at this time please stop what you are doing and get the
full details on this course with the link right below

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
—> http://imbugle.com/48pp.htm
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I know you’re going to be excited about what you see. And I further
know this material can change your life – it’s really that great!
Now, as you know, I don’t recommend something unless I’ve used
it myself and, in my experience, can see that it is useful to subscribers.

This clearly is useful where, if I had to criticise, I would say that the sound
quality on the videos could be better BUT the information revealed is accurate
and is what I am doing in order to bring in fantastic earnings from my own
products.

Therefore, I recommend viewing the website where you too can discover
how to get your product up and running in just 48 hours.

Well, even with my 1000s of followers, it made little difference to my bottom line when I consider all the hours that I put into updating it, even with the occasional automatic updating software.

I know that many [...]]]> I must confess that in recent months I haven’t given Twitter the time that I used to give it.

Why?

Well, even with my 1000s of followers, it made little difference to my bottom line when I consider all the hours that I put into updating it, even with the occasional automatic updating software.

I know that many of my subscribers have felt the same way.  Just work out how many hours you spend messing with Twitter and see what you get back in sales or traffic to your website.

Now, in more recent months, I’ve been hearing about a piece of kit called ‘Twittollower’ which is an online system for getting you followers very quickly.  Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking, the same as I did when my inbox started filling up with offers to go and read about the software pre-launch, I thought, NO! not again … more Twitter stuff that doesn’t work.

Twitter began getting very funny about people who would follow others by the truckload hoping that they would follow back.  I don’t blame them either.
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The problem was, the followers were not targeted very accurately to your niche and all you ended up with were loads of followers who weren’t really interested in you or your products.

So, seeing Twittollower launched on 1st Feb 2010 made me wonder what all the fuss was about, after all, it was just another ‘quick fix’ to get followers, wasn’t it?

I decided to sign into it after a regular student of mine gave me his honest opinion after I asked him what it was really like.  There was I waiting for him to tell me that it was crap when he started to give me the run down of how each day went by with a noticeable difference to his sign-ups and response rates after posting to the followers that Twittollower had gained him.

Unique visitors from Twitter were appearing on his statistics for his blogs and websites.

He was even able to install a plugin to his Wordpress blog that automatically sent his posts to Twitter in order to have something for his followers to read and also have links for them to follow.

The good thing is, you simply don’t have to look for followers, the Twittollower system find them for you based on your niche.

All you do is open a brand new Twitter account, do nothing with it yet, open a Twittollower account, follow three simple steps and leave it.
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You still make the usual posts to Twitter but your followers will come in their droves.

I decided to sign up on behalf of Internet Marketing Bugle readers to see if it was worthwhile before they invested in it themselves.

What was the result?

Fascinating, to say the least.

People were following me immediately and, what’s more, taking an interest in my posts.

Each hour the number of followers increased.

24hrs on and my following figure stands at 120 and I didn’t do a thing as Twittollower did it all for me, sending traffic to my site, non stop.

I have taken screen shots to prove to people that this really was the case.
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I have made a few tweets, of course. Although they have been mostly generated by a plugin on my WordPress blog that tweets an announcement that I’ve made a new post.  You’re shown this plugin by the nice people at Twittollower, it’s free to install and use.

Finally, if you’re thinking that you could do what Twittollower does, only for free, well, here are two alternative views;

The first is that while you can add followers for free, adding over 130 per day would be both mind-numbingly boring and time-consuming.  I certainly wouldn’t consider it a good use of my time and  I’m sure most effective marketers would feel the same.

Free has its place, but not if getting free costs you in other ways.

The second view is that you have to remember that Twittollower guarantee to get you 2000+ new followers each month.

If you think of each follower as a sales lead, that means each lead has about a 3 cents acquisition cost. And that is outrageously cheap!
Of course, once you have them, you have them forever, so you pay to get them once, but can profit from them over and over again.

The launch price is in operation up to the 5th February only, so get in right now before the price rise.

Click the link below to find out all about Twittollower:
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