Monday, April 27, 2009

How to Write Your “About Me” Page

There are four main questions that readers want answered on your About Me page:

1. who you are…
2. your expertise and how it addresses…
3. their problem or goal, and how they can…
4. contact you

Here is a sample “About Me” page that answers these questions:

Hi, I’m Jane Smith and I write TransitionMomBlog (who Jane is) to help women make the transition from full-time mom to successful entrepreneur (the reader’s problem or goal). I started TransitionMomBlog in 2004 (Jane’s expertise – shows she has been blogging for two years) to help other women deal with the sometimes overwhelming prospect of starting a new business while still running a household (how Jane helps them overcome their problem or achieve their goal). Prior to raising my family, I spent over ten years as a teacher, corporate trainer and workshop leader (Jane’s expertise, both as a mom and a business person). To contact me, please email XXX (how to contact Jane).

How To Increase Your Chances of a Twitter Follow Back


In my post on how I got 5,000 new Twitter followers in six days, I said the easiest way to get new followers is to follow them first. The hope is the person you’re following will follow you back. However, this doesn’t always happen. To increase the chances of a Twitter follower back, keep the following tips in mind.

Have Some Tweets Ready To Read

If you’re brand new to Twitter, the first thing you should do is seed your profile page with some interesting tweets. Put yourself in the other person’s shoe. You follow them and they come to check out your Twitter profile and see an empty page with no tweets. Would you follow that?

The concept works the same way with a blog. Before you do any promotion, you want to make sure your blog has some quality posts up. No one wants to see an empty blog and no one will follow a Twitter account with zero tweets. Well, maybe a bot will but who wants a bunch of bots following them?

Maintain a Safe Following to Followers Ratio

To help control spam, Twitter placed a limit on how many people you can follow. The limit is 2,000 or 110% of your followers, whichever is higher. If you have 10,000 people following you, you can follow a max of 11,000. If you have 10 people following you, you can follow a max of 2,000.

Just because Twitter allows a new account to follow 2,000 people doesn’t mean you should do it. While you can use auto following software like Twitter Snipe to follow a ton of people in one day, most will not follow you back if your following to followers ratio is out of wrack.

I’ve seen tons of Twitter accounts following 2,000 people but only have a handful followed back and those are probably bots. It’s pretty clear to a real person what is going on when he sees an account with 2,000 following and zero followers.

If your Twitter account is fairly new and you only have a handful of followers, the easiest way to destroy it is by suddenly following the maximum number of people allowed. Start off small and slowly add people on a daily basis. As your account gets bigger you’ll be able to increase the number and still maintain a nice following to followers ratio.

Upload a Picture To Your Profile

A picture is worth a thousand words. Putting a picture of yourself in your Twitter profile will greatly increase your chance of the person following you back. While there are Twitter marketers who will post a photo of a hot babe or some strange avatar, I really recommend you post a picture of yourself. This helps to build trust. The exception to the rule is if the Twitter account is a corporate one. In that case, a company logo will be fine.

Have a Great Bio

The first thing a user is going to read when he visits your Twitter profile is your bio. Chances are, the decision to follow or not will be based on what your bio says. Don’t just put up any old thing. Spend some time to write a really nice bio that tells the reader what you’re all about. Originally, my bio had some smart ass remark about making money online by telling people how much I make online. Since then, I have changed it to the following.

I am best known for showing the income power of blogging by taking my blog from zero to over $40,000 per month in two years. Visit JohnChow.com for more info.

In addition to the bio, you should make sure everything else is filled in. This is especially true for the link to you blog. Your Twitter profile can be a source of great traffic. A good percentage or users checking out your profile will click through and check out your blog. My Twitter profile sends almost 1,000 referrals to my blog everyday.

Article by Jhon Chow dot com

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Basics of Affiliate marketing


Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of Internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies, and in-house affiliate managers, specialized third party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner.

Affiliate marketing—using one website to drive traffic to another—is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers.[citation needed] While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers' marketing strategies.

Why this blog ?

Dear Friends,

I have created this blog to teach many many friends how to earn while passing your time on Internet.

I have seen many teenagers are just passing time on Internet but they are very creative and intelligent, I thought to guide every body to use their intelligence and earn some money out of it.

I would like to make this blog as forum for all those who are serious to earn their living on Internet.

Above all learning never ends, It is a ongoing process till we leave or quite.

Thanks a lot for reading me !

Have a nice life!

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