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Monday, July 16, 2007

Web Hosting Features To Look For

When you are looking for a professional web hosting service, you
want to look for certain features and services. Do not worry about
knowing exactly what all the technical terms mean, just look for them!
You should always shop around, phone the hosting companies and ask
questions as part of your qualification process.

1. Reliability and Speed

Look for a hosting service that owns their own equipment, with
high-speed connections to multiple Internet backbones, backup power
generators and backup systems in place. The hosting company will
generally brag about their high-speed connections and will usually
guarantee 99% or better availability of your web site.

Many hosting services are operated by resellers. This can be a good
thing if they bring better and more knowledgeable support to their
resold services. Unfortunately, many resellers do not really have the
resources or knowledge to adequately support you.

Years in business are something you should take a look at. Three years or more is a pretty good yardstick of reliability.

If they offer a trial period, take advantage of it and actually try the service out.

2. Operating Systems

Do they use a standard operating system configuration that they keep
updated on a routine basis? If they do not, you may have trouble
getting newer scripts to work. On Linux servers, look for Red Hat,
Mandrake, Debian, SuSE, Slackware and CentOS. You can visit
www.kernel.org to find out what the latest stable version of Linux is. On Windows servers, look for recent Windows operating systems with all
patches kept current. If they do not publish this information, email or phone them to find out.

3. Language and Database Support

They should support the key programming languages and databases that
are used by newer scripts and should keep these up to date as well. On
Linux you should look for PHP and Perl at the least. For a database,
look for MySQL. You should be allowed at least one database. You should
have your own CGI Bin. On Windows systems, look for MS Access at the
least and MS SQL Server for power and speed. If you want to use the
Microsoft .NET framework, your hosting will need to support that.

4. Support

Check their support. The minimum support is email support. The
better hosting services provide 24/7 email, ticket system and live
telephone support. Actually try their support and see if they respond
quickly enough for your needs and if their support staff is helpful and
knowledgeable.

5. FTP Access

Many inexpensive hosting services do not provide FTP access. You
will need FTP access if you plan to add much material to your website
or if you need to install scripts on your website. Also check that you
can change permissions on your files via FTP or through SSH.

6. Email

How many email accounts do they provide? Are they POP email
accounts? Can you add forwarders and email aliases? Look for web mail
access as well. The better the service, the more options they will
provide for email.

7. User Control Panel

Look for a comprehensive user control panel that allows you to
manage your hosting account. The better control panels also provide
automatic script installers like Fantastico or Elefante. Cpanel, Ensim
and HSphere and Plesk are all well known and well supported. There are
many more control panels than these and they are good too, but you
should probably check them more thoroughly and take a look at their
demo system if they have one.

8. Domain Names

You should be able to host at least one domain name. The better
hosting companies will generally allow you five or more domain names.
There should be no restrictions on sub-domains.

9. Statistics

Does your hosting service include a statistics program so you can monitor your website traffic?

10. Disk Space

The absolute minimum is 50 MB, but you should be paying very low prices for that little disk space.

11. Bandwidth

The main difference between the basic and expensive plans of any hosting service is the amount of bandwidth allowed per month.

To figure how much bandwidth you need, multiply your visits per day X page views per visit X average page size X 30 days.

Example: 100 visits per day, 5 page views per visit, with a page size of 45 kb: 100 X 5 X 45 KB X 30 = 675,000 KB = 675 MB.

Try to get as much bandwidth for your dollar as possible, but beware
of web hosting services that offer unlimited bandwidth. Read the fine print and their terms of use carefully. There is usually some kind of restriction that you will need to be aware of.

Make sure you read up on how they charge you if you exceed your monthly bandwidth and what upgrades they have available.

12. eCommerce

If you plan to run a shopping cart or secure payments or data
transfers on your website, you need to make sure that the hosting
service supports SSL.

Some Closing Thoughts:

Typical prices for professional level hosting range between $6.99
and $45.00 per month for a reasonable level of disk space and bandwidth
on shared hosting. Below that you are asking for trouble because they
probably do not make enough money to adequately support their
equipment, systems or you.

Windows servers are usually more expensive than Linux servers
because the Windows operating systems are not open source. The hosting
company has to pay for using them.

When you are comparing plans, keep in mind that you are getting a
better deal at $25 per month for eight domain names than $10 per month for one.

When you are looking for hosting don’t be afraid to ask
questions. Good hosting services have no problem directing you to
helpful information or answering your questions in a way that you can understand.

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Distributed by Hasan Shrek, independence blogger. Also run online business , matrix, internet marketing solution , online store script .
Beside he is writing some others blogs for notebook computer , computer training , computer software and personal computer

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10 Proven Ways To Accelerate Your Profits

By Jeff Casmer

1. Make copies of your web site in many different languages.
This’ll allow foreign speaking people to read your web site and
advertisements.

2. Give your customers a surprise bonus for buying.

When you give customers more than they expect, there is a good chance they will b.uy from you again.

3. Send greeting cards offline or online to customers on holidays.
You’ll get the chance to i.ncrease your orders by including your
ad inside the card.

4. Market your products or services to your target audience. For
example, don’t try to sell a football in a cooking magazine.

5. Give people the option of buying other products or add on
products when they decide to b.uy your main product or service at the
point of sale.

6. Think of new ways to attract people to b.uy your products or
services. You could add on extra f.ree bonuses, delivery options,
payments options, etc.

7. Give other businesses the option of selling your product. It
could be a simple joint venture deal or an affiliate/associate program.

8. Follow-up regularly with all your prospects and current
customers. When people see your ad more than once they are more likely
to b.uy.

9. Learn sales ideas from reading and studying other business’
advertising and marketing material. It could be ads, brochures, tv ads,
sales letters, etc.

10. Educate yourself with new strategies to i.ncrease your sales.
You could take classes, subscribe to e-zines and magazines, read books
or ebooks, etc.

Quote of the Day:

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something
for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s
pain, life is not in vain.” — Helen Keller

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How I Get 76 Out of 100 People To Read My Offer With These Six Simple Secrets

By having a good amount of traffic to your website will allow you to
build an opt-in and grow the list from there. This allows you to have a
good list of loyal followers anytime you want to make an offer.

People in the subscribers are people who are interested in what you
are offering them i.e. valuable information, freebies, etc. But that
does not mean that every single one of your subscribers will be reading
what you sent them.

Many marketers have just built a list based on giving a free gift or
for a promotional discount and such. This caused many subscribers to
treat them like cyberspace waste and delete them without even opening
them.

But you change all that. You do not want your readers not to open
your email because your emails are not interesting enough. You will
need to arouse their curiosity so that they will open your email and go
to your website to take a look at your offerings.

Here are six secrets to remember when you are writing your subject
title of an email. I used them myself and you can increase your email
response up to as much as 76%.

1. Well Thought Out and Well Written Subject

By giving a great and well written subject, you can be sure that
your recipient will open them up. This is so as a well written subject
will most probably be what your recipient is interested in.

2. Short and Concise

This is important to catch the attention of your recipients so that
they will immediately open your email to take a look. Plus, it should
also provide a summary of the email content.

3. Tickle Curiosity

You will have to force an emotion out of your recipients so that you
can literally force them to open the mail. A certain emotion and
curiosity has to be generated from them just by reading the subject
heading. It is essential to use specific words to get the reaction you
need right away.

4. Tips and Methods

Informative subject lines are also very good to create the desire to
click on them. An example of this is using keywords and keyword phrases
such as, “How to”, “tips”, “Guides
to”, Methods in and others like that.

5. Questions

By using questions, you will be able to provoke curiosity. People
are naturally curious and once posed a question, even if they secretly
answer it, they will want the answer. If possible, it will be even
better if your email content directs them to your website saying that
the answer can be found there.

6. Shock

Using shock is a nice tactic to pique your readers’ attention.
For example, if you deal with car engine parts you can write in your
subject, “Announcing the new engine that uses no gasoline, It
runs on water”. This will definitely create enough curiosity for
them to click open your email.

So by using all these six simple secrets, you will be able to
increase your responses to your offer and your readers will be highly
motivated to take action such as buying your products. Thus, you will
definitely benefit from the eventual increased sales.

P.S. Check out site out now! => It has 8 very
powerful videos teaching you step-by-step on how to create killer
emails that get your readers pumped up and ready to take action on your
offers anytime you want them! (Oh…by the way, I managed to get
them for you for FREE!;-))

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10 Tips to Write a Great Compelling Headline That Pulls & Build Your List

Brian Lam April 10th, 2007

One thing that always makes a difference to whether you are getting
30 - 50 plus subscribers a day to only a mere 3-5 subscribers a day is
your headline.

Don’t you underestimate the power of headlines

Powerful internet marketing experts will just tweak one of their
headlines and they can generate more sales than they are having
currently.

So how do you want to create the so called perfect headline?

Well, I have some 10 headline tips for you:

Make sure that headline arouse your target market readers’
curiosity i.e. it can be posing a question to your reader so that they
would want to know more
Ensure that when you try reading it aloud, does it sounds alright to you or does it just sounds too fake/spam?
Think about this after reading your headline: Will your reader want
to read the next paragraph or even the next line if they want to know
more about what you headline is saying.
Make sure your headline is in Bright Red or Dark Red Color
Make sure your headline is in Bold
You can put quotes signs => “ at both the
beginning and at the end of the headline. For e.g. “Do you want
to lose weight and be able to eat what you like everyday?”
Always Make Sure You Capitalize Every First Alphabet Of A Word In Your Headline Like This.
Start your headline with your reader’s name if possible
Your headline should be to convey your most powerful benefit of whatever product or services you are offering
Use compelling words such as “Discover”, “How To” and “Warning”, etc

These headline tips can be applied to both your webpage or your
emails to increase your opt in rates and also your email open rates.

But just by following these tips is not enough because you will not
know how much your headline will be converting unless you test it out.

For those of you who knows how to split test headlines, basically it
is just a test on two copy with only the headline changed and getting
the results of the headline. You can find out your sales and opt in
rates or practically anything with split testing.

But for some of you who would want the easier way out of tedious but
profitable testing and tracking, then I have found you a free tool
which can check your headline and rate your headline accordingly to
different standards such as professional copywriters and such.

However, one limitation of this tool is that it can only check 20
words at one time. But you can always easily solve by splitting your
headlines and test it.

Click here to access the free headline analyzer tool

If you want a comprehensive giant headline swipe file that has all
the proven and tested headlines of the copywriting experts then you
might like to check out this giant headline swipe file.

Or if you want more automated and those direct and simple comments
that is personalized to your whole copy, then you might like to check out this great salesletter software that helps you check with the many historically profitable ads.

Well then, hope this copywriting headline tips will help you improve your copy.

Best regards,

Brian

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Gary Halbert Has Passed Away….

It was so sad when I heard of Gary Halbert had passed away on April 9 when I was browsing some forums.

Gary Halbert, probably one of the most creative and amazing
marketers and copywiters to ever grace the halls of direct marketing
has died… and no details on what caused his death or when any
services will be held…

If you want to know what he is all about, you might like to take a look at all his works at his site at:

Copywriter - Gary Halbert’s Newsletter Archive

I’ll always remember him though…

Regards,

Brian

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10 Order Pulling Ways To End Your Ad Copy

Brian Lam July 6th, 2007

1. Make your reader visualize they have already bought your product
in your ad. Tell them what results they have gotten and how it makes
them feel. They’ll already become emotionally attached before
they b.uy.

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

3. Make sure you show your reader that they are getting a bargain.
Tell them the usual price you sell your product for is $99. Then tell
them if they o.rder today they can b.uy it for $69.95.

4. Direct your ad headline to your target audience.

Your readers will feel important and belong to a select g.roup of
people who b.uy your product. For example; “Attention!
Accountants, Discover A New Way To I.ncrease Your Client Base!”

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

6. Use bullets to highlight your product or services benefits.
Benefits are the key to selling anything, make them standout in your
ad. You can use dots, dashes, or circles to highlight them.

7. Give a m.oney back g.uarantee that surpasses a normal one.
Instead of the normal timed g.uarantee, give them extra back. Tell them
they can keep the f.ree bonus or give them double their m.oney back.

8. Tell your reader they’ll receive surprise bonuses.

This’ll raise your reader’s curiosity and make them want to b.uy so they can find out what the surprise bonuses are.

9. Let your reader know this specific package will not be offered
again. You must create urgency so people b.uy now. You may always sell
the same product but not with the same bonuses or price.

10. Give them a couple tips in your ad that will help them with
their problem. This will give your business credibility and gain your
readers trust to b.uy your products or services.

Quote of the Day:

“Adversity and loss make a man wise.” — Welsh proverb

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2 Easy Surefire Low Cost Web Site Traffic Promotion Tactics

Brian Lam July 9th, 2007

The most important factor of success is not having a web site or a
product. It is rather the ability to promote your web site in a low
cost way which means low cost web site promotion tactics that really
works.

If you are one of those who already have a continuous stream of visitors to your website then I will say all the best to you.

But if you are one of those who need help in the promotion, or are
often impatient to promote their own product or just lack the knowledge
to properly market themselves.

Then here are two easy low cost web site traffic promotion tactics that can help you achieve the level of success that you want.

This low cost web site traffic promotion tactics consists of two
aspects – Search Engine Submission and Ranking. Both aspects have
the same impact on the market of your web site that is the way which
your products are presented to catch people’s attention.

#1 Easy Low Cost Web Site Traffic Promotion Tactic – Search Engine Submission

The most important thing in this method is the act of filling up and
submitting your information to various search engines. There are two
types of Search engine submission – manual and automatic.

For a low cost web site traffic promotion tactic, using automatic
submission will be more cost effective as a software program will
assist you submitting your information to many other search engines.

#2 Easy Low Cost Web Site Traffic Promotion Tactic – Ranking

This really just means the numerical position in which your web site
appears on a search engine, based on your web site’s criteria.

Some search engines will rank accordingly to how many other web
sites are linking to your web site pages. The leading web sites on this
order would eventually fulfill a low cost web site promotion tactic.

There are also other types of inexpensive web site promotional
tactics which you can use to boost traffic to your site such as banner
advertisements, classified ads, text links and section sponsorship.

Banner advertisements can be pop ups or pop unders for web pages or
sometimes in another window. Text links and sponsorship may cost more
but these tactics are really marketing to a targeted audience.

Even if you may find your low cost web site traffic promotion
tactics may be insignificant in traffic building, always remember that
it all adds up and will make a huge difference to your traffic, sales
and profits eventually.

Don’t waste time and find your own affordable low cost web site promotional tactic of your choice today.

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Web Hosting Features To Look For

10 Proven Ways To Accelerate Your Profits

How I Get 76 Out of 100 People To Read My Offer With These Six Simple Secrets

10 Tips to Write a Great Compelling Headline That Pulls & Build Your List

Gary Halbert Has Passed Away….

10 Order Pulling Ways To End Your Ad Copy

2 Easy Surefire Low Cost Web Site Traffic Promotion Tactics

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