Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Top Misc Content on Internet

Top Misc Content on Internet

On-Site Search Engine Optimization Tips

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

One of the very first steps you have to take in order to optimize a website for search engines is on-site search engine optimization.

Advances In E-Commerce Application Development

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

With the Internet being the best way to communicate between people of different parts of the world, it's not surprising that they started to use this new media to trade among themselves.

When to Get E-Commerce Solutions

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

Do you have a company and you would like to get more clients and more sales? Sure you would.

The Relevance of Custom E-Commerce Development

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

If you own a company or run one, you know that investors and banks care about one thing only: the bottom line. Is the company making money? And how much?

Tax Debt Relief Info

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

The IRS pursues individuals who were not able to file their returns on time. Due to the tough economic times, many people were not able to file their returns and are now suffering from tax debts. You will need all the help you can get with tax debt relief.

Tax Debt Relief - The How To's

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

If you want to file for a tax debt relief, there are some steps that you should follow. If you qualified for loan modification, you can qualify for a tax exemption according to the Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007. These steps can guide through the process.

Tax Debt Relief - Compromise and Penalty Abatement

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

Why must you wait until IRS people come knocking on your door? Oftentimes, piling up your tax debt will lead to more problems, and so you should act immediately to solve it. This is where tax debt relief comes in.

The Most Common Tax Debt Relief

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

It's quite hard to understand the complexities of tax and debt laws. The economic recession has affected many people from the different parts of the world. Because of this, more and more people want to find out more about tax debt relief.

Tax Debt Relief for Americans

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

If you don't want the IRS people to come for you, you should know more about the tax debt relief. Don't allow your tax debts to mount. Americans should not be worried because there are solutions available for you. As long as you do the right thing, you can never go wrong.

Homes for Sale in Anchorage City

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

In this article you will find the information about homes for sale in Anchorage. Read below for more information.

Understanding a Few of Pennsylvania's Auto Insurance Laws

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

Pennsylvania auto insurance is unique in several areas. Allowing Pennsylvania residents to choose their own tort option was a result of act 6 passed in pa over 15 years ago. Several laws the are specific to Pennsylvania auto insurance are covered.

Buying Sarasota Real Estate is a Great Decision for Anybody

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

There are a number of reasons why people are still interested in buying Sarasota real estate. One the best reasons to buy Sarasota real estate is...

How The Zimbabwe Dollar Made History

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

The fall of the Zimbabwe Dollar was dramatic and historical. The path can be traced.

Surviving Family of a Soldier Who Died on Duty Benefits More With Tax Debt Relief

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

A son, father or a husband killed while on military duty is a painful reality. This pain will come deeper if such person has financial obligations to settle prior to this death.

Can Small Business Owners Use Tax Debt Relief to Escape from Extinction?

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 PM PST

Four years ago before the recession your small business was good, this year IRS has noticed you two years of back taxes. Just when you are barely keeping afloat, you have taxed debts that need to be paid. It's time to know the good news about tax debt relief.

Is Reading Blog Posts Worth Your Time?

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:56 AM PST

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If you’re a regular Copyblogger reader, you get good advice about five times a week. Excellent advice, really. Stellar.

Especially on days when I’m posting. (Preens.)

Wait, what was I saying again?

Oh, right. You get really good advice, for free, five times a week. Very frequently, this advice would cost you upwards of $150 an hour for a consultant to tell you the same thing.

So when was the last time you actually put any of that advice into action?

Where’s your follow-through?

Are you all thought and no action?

Many of you might say, “I put advice into action all the time. Why, just last week I read a post right here about how using social media would help my blog, and I went and got right onto Twitter and tweeted all day. And it worked!”

Good for you. But did you do it the next day? Did you do it the day after that? Did you make a plan about when you’d get on Twitter each day, what you’d Tweet about, and how you’d tie that strategy to your business goals?

(And maybe just as important, did you come up with a plan to keep you from doing something other than tweeting all day?)

What about posts that offer advice on what you work at every day?

If you thought Jason Cohen’s post on how to write more magnetic copy seemed like sound advice, did you bring his 10-point checklist to your next blog post and double-check to be sure you hadn’t missed any?

Do you have Dan Zarrella’s post on the hard data behind Twitter headlines in your bookmarks, so you can pull it up and reference it when you want a tweet to spread like wildfire?

Most people don’t actively put a lot of thought into the advice they receive, other than thinking, “That sounds like a pretty good idea.” People read quickly and move on. They have good intentions, but they never do anything about them.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

You probably read blogs every day, blogs on marketing or entrepreneurship or Zen or gardening or getting your dog to behave.

Are you putting any of the advice you read there to regular, everyday use?

Sure, you’re reading the posts, and you’re thinking about the counsel offered. You might even comment. But you probably don’t commit to taking action and maintaining it consistently over at least two weeks to measure the results.

Think about it: Is there an action you do every day that you can trace back to a particularly savvy blog post written by a smart person giving good advice?

If you aren’t consciously putting good advice into action, you might as well not waste your time reading blog posts. You’re not getting anything out of them. Take that time and find something else to do, like shoveling snow or playing Frisbee.

Make a plan

The advice you read on blogs is, by and large, useful. Some of it may be information you already know or tricks you’ve tried in the past. But in general, most highly respected blogs offer nothing but really good advice. They have standards and stick to them, making sure they provide value for the reader.

But you’re the only one who can actually benefit from that value and follow through on that advice. Nodding your head as you read isn’t really enough.

The next time you read a blog post and think to yourself, “I should be doing that,” take action.

Bookmark the post. Stick a Post-it reminder somewhere obvious on your computer. Use red pen. Use big, bold capital letters. Grab your to-do list or scheduler and get that reminder in there.

Tell yourself that you absolutely, definitely, are going put that advice into action. And do it.

This means that if you read a smart blog post about how to write more powerful sales copy, and you know you don’t write very powerful sales copy, you bookmark that post. You take your schedule and block out a 15-minute practice session on powerful sales copy for every single workday for the next two weeks. And when you sit down for that session, go back and look at that post.

Step by step, line by line, apply the words of wisdom to the task at hand. If the post says to check for passive language, check your sales copy for passive language. If it says to use dynamic verbs, check every single verb in that copy to be sure it’s dynamic enough to compete in the next Summer Olympic Games.

Quit thinking about posts and start putting them into action.

Go a step beyond

Got the little stuff down? Scale it up.

I know at least three marketing blogs that, if you were to take their entire archives, have basically given their readers an entire executable marketing plan. The only work is putting all that advice into the right order.

Get a pen and a notepad (or open up a word processor) and start putting the advice in those blog archives into an order that makes sense. Go through every post, and leave out anything that you don’t think will work for you or that doesn’t mesh with your business.

By the time you’re done reading through those posts and putting the advice into action, you’ll have a free marketing plan that would have cost you thousands of dollars for a consultant to lay out for you. And your business will certainly already be benefiting from your active efforts.

That’s the ironic part. If you had had to pay for this advice — if you had laid a cool three grand on the table and received this marketing plan in return — you would damn sure have put at least some of it into action.

Lucky you: you can get that advice for free. But it’s by no means worthless, so put it into action while you can.

About the Author: Start rifling through the archives at James Chartrand’s blog, Men with Pens, for great action-minded freelance writing business advice. You’ll find what you need to rev up your freelance business.

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