<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364</id><updated>2011-12-14T19:16:35.295-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Work at Home with GandHMarketing</title><subtitle type='html'>Blog for Vortex Marketing Group, CashFlowPC and YourTechMall.  Business opportunity to work at home with  an organization that provides: training, tools and resources free to all members.  Work at home is rewarding when the right tools are applied.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-116397696707950094</id><published>2006-11-19T14:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T14:56:07.096-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Your business Secure? Are You Sure?</title><content type='html'>The internet today is an one awesome place!  Virtually anything you want to know, see or buy can be found with just a few keystrokes and mouseclicks.  All the good things that we use everyday to enhance our lives can be accessed here.  Along with all that good comes the bad and the ugly.  The cyber-attacks against our personal and family security is quickly getting to be an epidemic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those attacks happen right in our own homes and businesses, invading our privacy with potential to wreak havoc on our lives. Our very own computers are being used to attack other people, businesses, and even our nation itself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The average Internet user is not even aware of these threats and has no idea about the dramatically increasing risks they face when connected to the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.yourtechmall.com/affiliatewiz/aw.aspx?A=32788&amp;Task=Click"&gt;INVISUS Direct Campaign for Internet Safety Awareness &amp; Protection&lt;/a&gt; brings critical awareness to individuals, families and small business owners, and provides access to the necessary tools and ongoing expertise to secure their computers and stay protected. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are invited to join the many thousands of others who have tested their computers,discovered these threats are real, and taken the necessary steps to protect themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-116397696707950094?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.yourtechmall.com/affiliatewiz/aw.aspx?A=32788&amp;Task=Click' title='Is Your business Secure? Are You Sure?'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116397696707950094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116397696707950094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-your-business-secure-are-you-sure.html' title='Is Your business Secure? Are You Sure?'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-116335784681484004</id><published>2006-11-12T10:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-12T10:57:27.243-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Unique Links</title><content type='html'>We have discussed the need for tools and resources to create&lt;br /&gt;success with our work at home business.  Some tools require&lt;br /&gt;much attention to be effective while others are less hands&lt;br /&gt;on.  The tools that are best suited for the work at home &lt;br /&gt;worrior are those that offer the residual type effect.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mentioned to you previously, the future of email marketing&lt;br /&gt;is changing.  Like most tools, email marketing is evolving.&lt;br /&gt;While I study this evolution, I discovered that this new&lt;br /&gt;form of email marketing can provide long lasting and very&lt;br /&gt;effective results.  Imagine creating an email ad one time,&lt;br /&gt;posting that ad one to &lt;a href="http://www.mastersafeadlist.com/VortexMarketing"&gt;Vortex Master SafeAdList&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then a single click a couple times a week to relist that&lt;br /&gt;ad.  What makes that so wonderful?  &lt;b&gt;Unique Links!&lt;/b&gt; That's&lt;br /&gt;right.  Each ad you post will generate a unique link that&lt;br /&gt;can be tracked in the Search Engines!  Just think about that&lt;br /&gt;for a moment.  Simply post an ad and keep it active and you&lt;br /&gt;have a link on the search engines that will continue to &lt;br /&gt;send traffic to your web site for as long as the the ad is&lt;br /&gt;active.  As a work at home marketer, time is critical, here&lt;br /&gt;is an opportunity save time and gain residual benefit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want more?  Automate the submission process and ensure your&lt;br /&gt;ad stays active!  &lt;a href="http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/MSALS.html"&gt;Automate Your Submission&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-116335784681484004?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.mastersafeadlist.com/VortexMarketing' title='Unique Links'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116335784681484004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116335784681484004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/11/unique-links.html' title='Unique Links'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-116206160117904634</id><published>2006-10-28T11:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-28T11:53:21.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The future of e-mail style marketing</title><content type='html'>Not to long ago I told you about the future of safelist marketing.&lt;br /&gt;The SafeAdList is truly becoming the what we all know we need. A&lt;br /&gt;way to use our email style marketing skills and ensure that the ads&lt;br /&gt;we work so hard to perfect will actually be read.  For us work at&lt;br /&gt;home worriors we need any edge we can get.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that many of you are used to Safelists and Safelist Submitters&lt;br /&gt;with their Auto systems but you have likely realised that Auto this &lt;br /&gt;and Auto that is not getting your ads read. The Safeadlists and Master&lt;br /&gt;Safeadlists were created to bring back responsive advertising for YOUR &lt;br /&gt;work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next step is to offer a submitter to automate everything possible &lt;br /&gt;without loosing responsiveness to YOUR ads. This submitter has been tested &lt;br /&gt;and approved by many of our existing members, about 5% of them found &lt;br /&gt;that they did not have the time to view other members ads and we wished &lt;br /&gt;them luck with the 'Post and Run' sites.  Realise what your ads can truly &lt;br /&gt;achieve by actually being read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Test Drive the Submitter of the future: &lt;a href="http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/MSALS.html"&gt;Click here NOW to Improve you ad response!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-116206160117904634?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://contactsplus.safeadsubmitter.com/' title='The future of e-mail style marketing'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116206160117904634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116206160117904634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/10/future-of-e-mail-style-mar_116206160117904634.html' title='The future of e-mail style marketing'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-116138719323022273</id><published>2006-10-20T15:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-20T16:33:13.263-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What does every work at home marketer need?</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Tools!&lt;/b&gt;      Duh!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every one who has worked an internet business&lt;br /&gt;for more than a day or so knows that you just&lt;br /&gt;can't do it without the right tools, the right&lt;br /&gt;resources and the training to use those tools&lt;br /&gt;and resources.  The work at home industry is&lt;br /&gt;growing faster and faster everyday, and the &lt;br /&gt;only way to stay ahead of your competition is&lt;br /&gt;the proper use of the proper tools at the proper&lt;br /&gt;frequency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have been involved in the work at home &lt;br /&gt;business for some time and continue to pay for&lt;br /&gt;tools that take more of your profits than you&lt;br /&gt;think is fair, take a look at the Vortex CashFlowPC&lt;br /&gt;Marketing Resource Center.  The resources are &lt;br /&gt;free to all Vortex Marketing, CashFlowPC and&lt;br /&gt;YourTechMall members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are just starting your work at home venture,&lt;br /&gt;visit the Resource Center and find what tools are&lt;br /&gt;available to you free as a Vortex Marketing, CashFlowPC,&lt;br /&gt;or YourTechMall member.  Learn how to use those&lt;br /&gt;tools to improve your rankings and sales.  These&lt;br /&gt;tools are &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; program specific.  That is, you&lt;br /&gt;can use these tools to market any product/program or&lt;br /&gt;service you like.  Go here now to activate your membership&lt;br /&gt;and take your work at home business to the next level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vortexmarketinggroup.com/rp/activate.asp?id=33535"&gt;Yes, Activate My Vortex Marketing Voucher Now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;br /&gt;George&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-116138719323022273?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.vortexmarketinggroup.com/rp/activate.asp?id=33535' title='What does every work at home marketer need?'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116138719323022273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116138719323022273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-does-every-work-at-home-marketer.html' title='What does every work at home marketer need?'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-116093594766423316</id><published>2006-10-15T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-15T11:12:27.676-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What the heck is MSAL?</title><content type='html'>We have discussed marketing tools here in some detail.  We&lt;br /&gt;have talked about e-mail marketing and link marketing tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have recently discovered a new tool for your work at home &lt;br /&gt;arsenal.  If you don't want to deal with all the e-mail that &lt;br /&gt;comes with an effective safelist campaign, don't want to have &lt;br /&gt;to validate the hundreds of accounts that are necessary for &lt;br /&gt;effective safelist campaigns?  Want a guarantee that the ads&lt;br /&gt;you work so hard to perfect will be read?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the next generation of safelist advertising.  The &lt;br /&gt;Master SafeAdList! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Master SafeAdlists are so powerful that they guarantee, &lt;br /&gt;that members Ads will be read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The script is designed so that only ACTIVE members may &lt;br /&gt;participate. If a member fails to stay active, their &lt;br /&gt;membership is revoked automatically by the scripts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They have created an enviroment where members become part of &lt;br /&gt;a community, and once again enjoy meaningful and responsive &lt;br /&gt;advertising. More importantly, THEY GET THEIR ADS READ!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the next generation of e-mail marketing:&lt;a href="http://www.mastersafeadlist.com/VortexMarketing"&gt;Vortex Master SafeAdList&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-116093594766423316?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.mastersafeadlist.com/VortexMarketing/' title='What the heck is MSAL?'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116093594766423316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/116093594766423316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-heck-is-msal.html' title='What the heck is MSAL?'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115887793490088682</id><published>2006-09-21T14:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T15:32:14.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Long Awaited Launch</title><content type='html'>The Long Awaited Launch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Standby!  On Monday September 25, 2006  the online marketing&lt;br /&gt;community will experience a new growth spurt.  Watch your&lt;br /&gt;e-mail, and traffic exchanges.  The new YourTechMall will &lt;br /&gt;satisfy &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;all&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; your "High Tech" needs.  Don't be left in the dust, &lt;br /&gt;become a front runner! &lt;a href="http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/VoucherActivate.html "&gt;Own YourTechMall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;br /&gt;George&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115887793490088682?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/VoucherActivate.html' title='The Long Awaited Launch'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115887793490088682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115887793490088682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/09/long-awaited-launch.html' title='The Long Awaited Launch'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115852381107797707</id><published>2006-09-17T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-17T13:10:11.096-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Man and His Vision</title><content type='html'>This past week I had the incredible fortune of talking to a&lt;br /&gt;man, that is significant because I had come to believe that&lt;br /&gt;this was more than a mortal man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our conversation taught me a couple things; The most important&lt;br /&gt;of these is that this is truly a man, a human being, with &lt;br /&gt;genuine passion and belief in his vision and a burning desire&lt;br /&gt;to help those who share that vision.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another lesson, listen and learn.  Sounds obvious, and trite &lt;br /&gt;to some, however, when the conversation ended and I had a &lt;br /&gt;moment to reflect on the statements made and the notes taken, &lt;br /&gt;I realized that much of what I know about this business is &lt;br /&gt;secondary to a need for helping others succeed.  This man has &lt;br /&gt;brought meaning to the term: &lt;i&gt;"Socialized MLM"&lt;/i&gt;.  He &lt;br /&gt;practices what he teaches! That is, help the weak to succeed &lt;br /&gt;and we all succeed!  It just can't get any better than that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;Over the past 7+ years Joel and his team developed a system;&lt;br /&gt;a system that has caused awesome growth in the work at home&lt;br /&gt;online MLM opportunities.  He has shared that system with&lt;br /&gt;anyone who can "see" the vision and act on it. This system;&lt;br /&gt;Vortex Marketing Group, is a team of loyal and committed &lt;br /&gt;novice and expert internet marketers and work at home &lt;br /&gt;netrepreneurs.  This system not only believes in a deversified&lt;br /&gt;revenue protfolio, it encourages and assists in the development&lt;br /&gt;of multipile income streams.  There is a strong belief in this&lt;br /&gt;organization that we have the tools and the resources coupled&lt;br /&gt;with the strength derived from the &lt;i&gt;"TEAM"&lt;/i&gt; that we can bring any&lt;br /&gt;product and/or service to the market place and profit from it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My belief in that vision is so strong that I want to practice&lt;br /&gt;what I have learned from Joel.  Go here:&lt;a href="http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/VoucherActivate.html "&gt;Activate Now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you have activated the voucher that I have reserved for you,&lt;br /&gt;you will have access to all the tools and recources at the disposal&lt;br /&gt;of this incredible team.  You have my personal pledge to assist you&lt;br /&gt;in building your legacy team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;br /&gt;George&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115852381107797707?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/VoucherActivate.html' title='A Man and His Vision'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115852381107797707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115852381107797707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/09/man-and-his-vision.html' title='A Man and His Vision'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115797149786315819</id><published>2006-09-11T03:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-11T03:44:57.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Let's Take A Moment</title><content type='html'>Let's take a moment today to honor all &lt;br /&gt;those who suffered as a result of the &lt;br /&gt;events of this day five years ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respectfully,&lt;br /&gt;George&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115797149786315819?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='Let&apos;s Take A Moment'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115797149786315819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115797149786315819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/09/lets-take-moment.html' title='Let&apos;s Take A Moment'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115784943757699604</id><published>2006-09-09T17:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-09T17:50:37.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Temporary or Permanent?</title><content type='html'>If you recall, we talked about the three key elements in &lt;br /&gt;search engine ranking and rating: Optimization, Popularity&lt;br /&gt;and Traffic.  Posting your link everywhere you can will&lt;br /&gt;help boost your Popularity.  All search engines factor in&lt;br /&gt;the kind of sites you link to.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many different types of sites that you can use to&lt;br /&gt;link your work at home business and gain the needed &lt;br /&gt;popularity.  The two primary types of linking are:Temporary&lt;br /&gt;and Permanent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have talked about the use of FFA sites.  These are &lt;br /&gt;Temporary links, your link will stay on the board until &lt;br /&gt;enough other posts "push" you off.  Your link could be on &lt;br /&gt;the board for several hours or several minutes depending on&lt;br /&gt;the popularity of the that particular FFA site.      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you choose FFA posting as one of your marketing tools,&lt;br /&gt;just as with safelists, more is better.  Again, as with &lt;br /&gt;safelists, submitters are highly recommended.  Use as many&lt;br /&gt;submitters as you can find.  A word of caution: it is very &lt;br /&gt;tempting to submit multiple times.  If you are going to &lt;br /&gt;submit to FFA sites more than once in 24 hours, use a &lt;br /&gt;different link and email address.  FFA sites will consider&lt;br /&gt;it SPAM if you post more frequently than once in a 24 hour&lt;br /&gt;period. You will risk getting your ip address banned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pixle Pages are examples of Permanent link sites.  Most &lt;br /&gt;pixle pages offer free listings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By now you are looking at the temporary links such as FFA&lt;br /&gt;sites and permanent links like pixle pages and scratching&lt;br /&gt;your head.  You just can't imagine why in the world any one&lt;br /&gt;would want to advertise on a site that will hold your link&lt;br /&gt;for for a few minutes, or one that no one can see any way!&lt;br /&gt;Those little boxes on the pixle pages are useless right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think again.  Each time the site you post to, FFA or Pixle&lt;br /&gt;Page, you rattle the web and the spiders come running. Then&lt;br /&gt;each time someone else posts, they come running again! Each&lt;br /&gt;time they come, they index the site and recognize your your&lt;br /&gt;link!  Wa la your popularity increases.  So you see, a free&lt;br /&gt;pixle spot that human eyes cannot read, yield the same &lt;br /&gt;benefit ( in SE terms) as the paid spots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have covered many different types of tools and resources&lt;br /&gt;that the work at home enthusiast can use to boost their &lt;br /&gt;marketing efforts.  You can go out now and search the web&lt;br /&gt;for the tools you think you need and spend days, weeks or&lt;br /&gt;even months learning how to use all you have accumulated,&lt;br /&gt;or, you can visit here and shorten the learning curve!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/VMGSPLASH.html"&gt;Free Tools,Training and Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until Next Time,&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115784943757699604?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='Temporary or Permanent?'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115784943757699604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115784943757699604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/09/temporary-or-permanent.html' title='Temporary or Permanent?'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115160957949048404</id><published>2006-06-29T12:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-29T12:32:59.500-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More about links</title><content type='html'>Please forgive the spelling issues!  I really do know how to &lt;br /&gt;spell role!  Sorry about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last time we talked a little about link marketing in &lt;br /&gt;general and touched a little on getting the engines to know &lt;br /&gt;that you are there.  We said that if you are using an affiliate&lt;br /&gt;site (one that you do not control) you will not be able to &lt;br /&gt;optimize the site yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't lose (not loose) hope!  There are other ways for the work&lt;br /&gt;at home business owner to get recognized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the most popular ways to do that is through a submitter.&lt;br /&gt;SUBMIT your site via a submitter to some Engines. There are some &lt;br /&gt;When you auto submit your link make sure you use an email account &lt;br /&gt;that you access frequently. You usually receive validation links &lt;br /&gt;from many of the Engines you must respond to in order to validate&lt;br /&gt;your submission.  I would strongly recommend that you hand submit&lt;br /&gt;or manually submit to the larger engines (google, Yahoo and MSN).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are any number of submitters out there to chose from, some&lt;br /&gt;are very simple to use, others are very complex.  I suggest you&lt;br /&gt;choose one that fits your knowledge and experience level. One thing&lt;br /&gt;to keep in mind when submitting your work at home site to the &lt;br /&gt;search engines, you must be patient!  Indexing can take as little&lt;br /&gt;as a week or as long as several months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be very careful when selecting a paid submitter, there are many &lt;br /&gt;that will promise to get you crawled today or within a week.  If &lt;br /&gt;it sounds to good to be true,...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next link marketing tool we will look at is the dreaded&lt;br /&gt;Traffic Exchange.  Yes, this is not only a valid tool, but&lt;br /&gt;a very effective tool for the work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traffic Exchanges are great ways to 'drive traffic' to your &lt;br /&gt;sites for a number of reasons:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Most Exchanges offer free memberships (free is always good)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. They are easy to use for all levels of experience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. They send hits to your sites 24/7 even if you are not surfing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hits are generated as members surf the exchange and then YOUR &lt;br /&gt;site appears on the surfbar. When you surf you do not see your &lt;br /&gt;own site - you view other members sites. However, when you surf &lt;br /&gt;you rotate sites so that the next in que is sent to the surfbar. &lt;br /&gt;This means OTHER MEMBERS who surf will view your sites for you, &lt;br /&gt;generating hits as the surf rotates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHY bother to MARKET ON EXCHANGES WITH THE SAME LINKS AS YOURS?&lt;br /&gt;This is an excellent question! The answer is is really in two parts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. People need to see sites usually many times to respond. &lt;br /&gt;You want yours in the mix people need to 'see' or 'hear' or 'read &lt;br /&gt;about' sites between 5 - ... times before they respond. Sometimes &lt;br /&gt;a site will push their buttons immediately and people will respond &lt;br /&gt;in less time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Whether or not PEOPLE (or Human Eyes) see your link - the Search &lt;br /&gt;Engine ROBOT EYES do: Whether or not a person saw your site, the SE &lt;br /&gt;did. Your link is entered into the traffic exchange database. Each &lt;br /&gt;time it is brought up by the Exchange script and appears on the Surf &lt;br /&gt;it is as though someone actually 'clicked' on your link. This is one &lt;br /&gt;of the things which make exchanges so very powerfull!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many publications available on the subject of traffic&lt;br /&gt;Exchanges.  There are two that I can confidently recommend, one &lt;br /&gt;written "by a surfer for surfers" and one written by an Exchange&lt;br /&gt;owner, both give ecxellant views, strategies and tips for&lt;br /&gt;maximizing your effectiveness on the exchanges.  I strongly recommend&lt;br /&gt;that you get your hands on these books before you start your&lt;br /&gt;traffic exchange campaigns, here are the links to check out:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/Tony.html This is done by the Surfer.&lt;br /&gt;http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/TERM.html This is done by the owner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next time we will look into some more ways that the work at home&lt;br /&gt;netrepreneur can run with the big dogs on the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;br /&gt;George&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115160957949048404?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='More about links'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115160957949048404/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115160957949048404' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115160957949048404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115160957949048404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/more-about-links.html' title='More about links'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115152541893621418</id><published>2006-06-28T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-28T13:10:18.953-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Link, Link, Whos' got the Link?</title><content type='html'>For the last several days we have have been talking about e-mail&lt;br /&gt;marketing.  If you want to be successful in your work at home&lt;br /&gt;business, you must master at least two of the options we &lt;br /&gt;discussed.  Again, more is better!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we will get into another type of marketing that the work&lt;br /&gt;at home netrepreneur must become familiar with and ultimately&lt;br /&gt;master.  Just keep in mind, most of the "Gurus'" out there &lt;br /&gt;today took years to get where they are.  Some of these techniques&lt;br /&gt;seem very simple and easy to use.  In a few cases that is true,&lt;br /&gt;however, to become truly proficient at any of these will take&lt;br /&gt;time, dedication and the willingness to accept mistakes, learn&lt;br /&gt;from them and go on!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets look at a couple of differences in the two techniques first:&lt;br /&gt;Email marketing is geared for HUMAN EYES, while Link Marketing &lt;br /&gt;targets the SEARCH ENGINES. Many studies show upwards of 80% of &lt;br /&gt;all Internet sales and sign ups come as a result of a key word &lt;br /&gt;search. Our goal is to hit that first page of results when someone &lt;br /&gt;makes a search. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the millions of web sites on the net (and growing every minute) &lt;br /&gt;how do we expect to gain a top 10 position? Well,Search Engines factor &lt;br /&gt;three major elements into their ranking and rating of a website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first is Optimization:&lt;br /&gt;Optimization includes thins like, Having a clear, keyword rich &lt;br /&gt;description in place and a list of keyword relating to your site in&lt;br /&gt;place.  Articles and relevant content that is frequently changed&lt;br /&gt;and/or updated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next is Popularity:&lt;br /&gt;The Search Engines are constantly indexing websites. As they do, &lt;br /&gt;they record any other website links they find on the page they are &lt;br /&gt;indexing. They add them to their database and count the number of &lt;br /&gt;times your site appears as a link on another page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally Traffic:&lt;br /&gt;Engines record how many visitors land on your site aka hits. An &lt;br /&gt;effective way to generate hits is by placing your links on Traffic &lt;br /&gt;Exchanges. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you have your website you must tell the engines that you exist!&lt;br /&gt;You may remember the story I related about when I started my work&lt;br /&gt;at home business.  I won't bore you again, but the same principle &lt;br /&gt;applies to the search engines!  You must tell them where to look for&lt;br /&gt;you. If you have control over your site, that is you own the domain&lt;br /&gt;and add/change the content, there are many ways to OPTIMIZE your page &lt;br /&gt;to attract the Engines to you! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are not in your control of your affiliate sites you cannot &lt;br /&gt;OPTIMIZE the site yourself. Do not loose hope there are many ways &lt;br /&gt;to get on the map with the engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next time we will get into some of the details of link marketing&lt;br /&gt;and the roll it plays in your work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115152541893621418?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='Link, Link, Whos&apos; got the Link?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115152541893621418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115152541893621418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115152541893621418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115152541893621418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/link-link-whos-got-link.html' title='Link, Link, Whos&apos; got the Link?'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115143696527082814</id><published>2006-06-27T12:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-27T12:36:05.280-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Want To Have A Blast With Your Work At Home Biz?</title><content type='html'>Want To Have A Blast With Your Work At Home Biz?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mentioned yesterday that we have two more e-mail type options &lt;br /&gt;that fit well with a work at home business.  ADBLASTERS come in &lt;br /&gt;two forms.  There is the traditional e-mail blaster and the &lt;br /&gt;linkblaster.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The email blasters usually send your email ads to large databases &lt;br /&gt;of opt-in members, sometimes actually to groups of safelists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The link blasters ususally send to FFA and classified ad sites, &lt;br /&gt;sometimes even to Message Boards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which ever option you choose you should follow the same principles &lt;br /&gt;for these as you do with any other Email Marketing resource - &lt;br /&gt;SUBJECT LINES that intice people to open and read your ad, ad copy &lt;br /&gt;with ACTION words to take the reader to your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From personal experience I have noticed that Adblaster members &lt;br /&gt;(the people receiving your emails) tend to be opportunity seekers &lt;br /&gt;as opposed to Consumer Product buyers. With this in mind, you may &lt;br /&gt;want to SLANT your ads toward the Op seeker. You must know your &lt;br /&gt;market and what your market wants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my previous life (the one before my work at home biz) I worked&lt;br /&gt;in the industrial community.  I served as a consultant for &lt;br /&gt;manufacturing, industrial and maintenance groups.  After being&lt;br /&gt;chewed up and spit out several times for providing what the client&lt;br /&gt;needed, I (not so quickly) learned that I am not supposed to give&lt;br /&gt;the client what I (and the rest of the consulting company) know&lt;br /&gt;they need, but what they WANT!  Read that again if you think I &lt;br /&gt;wrote it wrong.  Give the client what they want, not what you&lt;br /&gt;think they need.  I will tell you, the lessons I learned &lt;br /&gt;were: A) Give them what they want, and B) be prepared with the &lt;br /&gt;things that you know that they need. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have found that to be true in this crazy work at home marketing &lt;br /&gt;world we are involved in today.  The customer, or potential customer&lt;br /&gt;will buy or sign up for just about anything they want.  They will&lt;br /&gt;not always sign up for or buy the things that they need (at least&lt;br /&gt;not right away)! So what is the lesson to be gleaned from all this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do your homework, and research your market.  What pushes the buttons&lt;br /&gt;of those that are your potential customers, what is it they want?&lt;br /&gt;Once you know the answer to that, you can be prepared for all the &lt;br /&gt;backend sales of the things that you know they will need based on&lt;br /&gt;what they are buying.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did mention two more options; here is the second:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Free for All or FFA and their cousins Classified Ad boards are &lt;br /&gt;a popular means of posting links free to websites. There are MILLIONS &lt;br /&gt;of boards on the Internet. Many boards belong to large Networks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides posting your links to these sites, you can also JOIN the sites &lt;br /&gt;as a member. Once you join you receive your own board that can be &lt;br /&gt;customized with a banner and/or link. You can then use your board to &lt;br /&gt;promote any business you choose. This gives you a PERMANENT link.&lt;br /&gt;We will talk more about permanent links in the link marketing segments. &lt;br /&gt;You can then promote the board and offer a valuable service to others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most FFA sites also feature a Pro membership which enables the member &lt;br /&gt;to email their ad to those free members once daily. Pro's send their &lt;br /&gt;email ad to those who posted to the site the day before once a day. &lt;br /&gt;Email marketing with Pro FFA sites is almost as popular as using &lt;br /&gt;Safelists. Be aware:  if you try to send more than once a day, you&lt;br /&gt;risk being banned.  If you are tempted to "harvest" e-mail addresses&lt;br /&gt;from these lists, DON'T!  That is Spam, you will ultimately pay the &lt;br /&gt;price!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emails are sent out through an onboard mailer. Each email has the &lt;br /&gt;appropriate disclaimers and opt-out links provided to the recipients. &lt;br /&gt;This ensures every email is CAN-SPAM compliant and protects you and &lt;br /&gt;the program from SPAM complaints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The people who receive your ads are the one's who posted to the board &lt;br /&gt;from the previous day. Every day thousands of people post their links &lt;br /&gt;to FFA sites. Those posters "opt-in" and agree to receive email from &lt;br /&gt;the Pro members in exchange for posting their link to the board. You&lt;br /&gt;should always use you marketing e-mail address when posting to FFA sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next time we will get into the world of Link Marketing.  This is a must&lt;br /&gt;do for the work at home marketer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115143696527082814?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='Want To Have A Blast With Your Work At Home Biz?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115143696527082814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115143696527082814' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115143696527082814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115143696527082814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/want-to-have-blast-with-your-work-at.html' title='Want To Have A Blast With Your Work At Home Biz?'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115134911123577912</id><published>2006-06-26T12:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T12:11:51.246-07:00</updated><title type='text'>There Really Is More!</title><content type='html'>There Really Is More!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is so much more!  I had promised to keep my stories to&lt;br /&gt;myself, but I just can't resist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may recall the way I started my work at home business. The&lt;br /&gt;waiting and anxiety associated with it.  When I finally found out&lt;br /&gt;that I needed to do something to get things moving and help&lt;br /&gt;people find me, I started my search!  What do I need?  Where do I&lt;br /&gt;find it?Of course it had to be free, because I started with a zero&lt;br /&gt;budget.  My sponsor told me I needed money to buy product, Thats &lt;br /&gt;all I had!  The more I looked, the more I found!  What the heck is&lt;br /&gt;all this stuff for?  I thought that the only way to find out was&lt;br /&gt;to download some of this stuff and check it out.  As i started on&lt;br /&gt;my quest for that Golden Fleece, I found thst to get some of real&lt;br /&gt;interesting things, The price was as cheap as my e-mail address!&lt;br /&gt;How bad is that?  No dollar cost! I soon discovered that the value&lt;br /&gt;of my e-mail address, is, as they say,"Priceless!"  But that is&lt;br /&gt;for another day.  Back to the search.  The more I found, the more&lt;br /&gt;I downloaded.  EBooks, software, reports, PDF's, just all sorts&lt;br /&gt;and manner of things.  I just kept collecting as long as it was &lt;br /&gt;free.  Soon I was receiving e-mails from people I didn't know&lt;br /&gt;offering me more free stuff.  After about two weeks on that&lt;br /&gt;journey, I looked at the directory I had saved everything to&lt;br /&gt;and realized that I would likely spend the rest of my life trying&lt;br /&gt;to read or decipher what was there!Now what do I do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, to shorten the story some, I am still trying to read some &lt;br /&gt;of it.  However, during the search, I did run accross a site that&lt;br /&gt;offered me what I needed.  Help in defining resources and &lt;br /&gt;explaining what they do and how they work; showing me tools and&lt;br /&gt;providing the training for those tools and most importantly, they&lt;br /&gt;understood that I was new at this work at home stuff and provided&lt;br /&gt;the support I needed.Here is the site:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/xtreme.html This site is undergoing a &lt;br /&gt;metamorphosis now, but worth a look.  Soon I will explain the&lt;br /&gt;changes and how you can take advantage of the enormous resource&lt;br /&gt;library free!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you can stand it, I will offer you another tool to put in your&lt;br /&gt;arsenal of work at home marketing tools.  A cousin to the safe&lt;br /&gt;lists that we talked about yesterday.  The SAFEADLIST.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Safeadlists are a form of email advertising but without all the &lt;br /&gt;hassel of cleaning up after all the emails. These are fairly new &lt;br /&gt;and not nearly as popular or wide-spread as Safelists these &lt;br /&gt;venues are well worth joining. The original safeadlist provides&lt;br /&gt;for email ads read via an onboard viewer, a banner rotator and &lt;br /&gt;solo ad spots. The solo ads do go to your email address, if you&lt;br /&gt;are interested in these ads you should use a marketing e-mail&lt;br /&gt;address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Master Safeadlists have additional features including an &lt;br /&gt;onboard editor and a paid to view section similar to a traffic &lt;br /&gt;exchange.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While these venues are generally NOT automated like traditional &lt;br /&gt;safelists and submitters, work is in progress for a type of &lt;br /&gt;submitter which will accomodate the safeadlists without &lt;br /&gt;compromising the basic premise: YOUR ADS READ DAILY. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have two more e-mail type options to look at.  We will get&lt;br /&gt;a look at them tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;br /&gt;George&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115134911123577912?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='There Really Is More!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115134911123577912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115134911123577912' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115134911123577912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115134911123577912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/there-really-is-more.html' title='There Really Is More!'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115108591451031514</id><published>2006-06-23T10:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-23T11:05:14.520-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What else is there?</title><content type='html'>What else is there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you made your decission to use e-mail marketing to promote&lt;br /&gt;your work at home business did you know that there is more to &lt;br /&gt;e-mail marketing than sending an ad to your opt in list? (You &lt;br /&gt;do have an opt in list don't you?)  Go here to get an instant &lt;br /&gt;opt in list: &lt;a href="http://www.link.com/tLf/EMsec.html"&gt;http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/EMsec.html&lt;/a&gt; and find out &lt;br /&gt;how to make it a profitable one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now what else can you do while you are waiting for you list to&lt;br /&gt;populate?  One alternative is a safelist campaign.  Safelists are,&lt;br /&gt;very simply, an opt in list.  With some exceptions and variations&lt;br /&gt;basically when you sign up to send ads to a safelist, you also &lt;br /&gt;agree to receive ads from members of that list.  There are all&lt;br /&gt;types of safelists, some are free to join, others are pro only&lt;br /&gt;(pay to join), some offer both types of memberships with&lt;br /&gt;restrictions on free members and/or benefits for pro members.  &lt;br /&gt;Some are credit based (you must open the message and click on a &lt;br /&gt;link to earn credits), you may then use those credits to send&lt;br /&gt;your own message.  You get the idea, be sure you investigate the&lt;br /&gt;list you are interested in and understand all the rules for the&lt;br /&gt;membersip type you are looking for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally speaking, the people who use safelists extensively&lt;br /&gt;do not use traffic exchanges much and visa versa.  Now I know &lt;br /&gt;that statement will raise some comments.  I must say here that &lt;br /&gt;the comment is not intended to ruffle feathers or to promote the&lt;br /&gt;effectiveness of one over the other.  It is simply a statement of&lt;br /&gt;of findings from my own non-scientific studies.  It just means&lt;br /&gt;you must keep that in mind when marketing your goods or services.&lt;br /&gt;When sending an ad to safelists, be explicit with what you are&lt;br /&gt;offering and what the next step is, it is quite possible that&lt;br /&gt;you list member has not seen your website and is not familiar&lt;br /&gt;with your product or service.  Paint a very clear picture &lt;br /&gt;without without trying sell it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is some debate about what is a good number of safelists.&lt;br /&gt;I have to support the position that with safelists, more is&lt;br /&gt;better.  Now you are faced with the daunting task of sign up,&lt;br /&gt;research, validation, writing ad copy submitting and &lt;br /&gt;maintaining the lists.  Then you must be able to maintain your&lt;br /&gt;inbox!  Be sure to use a "marketing" email address for both the&lt;br /&gt;contact and subscription address.  Do not use an autoresponder&lt;br /&gt;address.  The best number of safelists is, as I said, More! Any&lt;br /&gt;number greater than 400 will work for most work at home start&lt;br /&gt;ups.  So how in the world do you manage all that and keep your&lt;br /&gt;business moving forward?  Go here and look into the safelist&lt;br /&gt;submitter: &lt;a href="http://www.link.com/tLf/xtreme.html"&gt;http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/xtreme.html&lt;/a&gt;.  The safelist&lt;br /&gt;submitter is an indespensible tool for the work at home &lt;br /&gt;netrepreneur.  Generally, they will take some time to setup&lt;br /&gt;and work the bugs out, but once it is fully operational, sending&lt;br /&gt;an ad to 400+ lists will require only the time necessary to&lt;br /&gt;update your ad copy and title.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow we will look at some additional alternatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115108591451031514?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='What else is there?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115108591451031514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115108591451031514' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115108591451031514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115108591451031514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-else-is-there.html' title='What else is there?'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115100137337461554</id><published>2006-06-22T11:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-22T11:36:13.386-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Is an Autoresponder Important</title><content type='html'>Why Is an Autoresponder Important &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many online companies and online businesses use autoresponders. &lt;br /&gt;Most people who do any kind of internet marketing swear by them, &lt;br /&gt;and they are an important part of any online email marketing &lt;br /&gt;campaign. This is because autoresponders accomplish a lot of &lt;br /&gt;things for the internet marketer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main goal of autoresponders is to increase traffic to your &lt;br /&gt;site and to turn those potential customers into actual customers. &lt;br /&gt;Any good autoresponder will also capture the information about &lt;br /&gt;the people who come to your site and also help you track how well &lt;br /&gt;your email marketing campaigns and advertising are working. This &lt;br /&gt;way, you know what works and what doesn't so you can market your &lt;br /&gt;business more efficiently in the future. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email marketing is all about building relationships with people, &lt;br /&gt;because most customers don't buy on the first response. Most buy &lt;br /&gt;later down the line, after you have built a relationship with them. &lt;br /&gt;That is the most significant benefit of an autoresponder. Building &lt;br /&gt;solid relationships is what successful online businesses do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good autoresponder will also help you build your mailing list,&lt;br /&gt;especially for those who do a lot of email marketing, or who have &lt;br /&gt;a niche product or service that requires specific niche marketing. &lt;br /&gt;The more email marketing you do, the more business you will have. &lt;br /&gt;You can also deliver newsletters and email promotions to your &lt;br /&gt;current and potential customers. It is a great way to tell people &lt;br /&gt;about your business. Email marketing is one of the most effective &lt;br /&gt;ways to market your business. It's that simple, and an autoresponder &lt;br /&gt;will help you do that. More email addresses mean more potential &lt;br /&gt;customers to start building a relationship with. You may want to&lt;br /&gt;look into picking up a couple thousand or so opt in addresses: go&lt;br /&gt;here and look: http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/EMsec.html.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An autoresponder should also help you manage your email list. It &lt;br /&gt;should provide you with unlimited follow up messages, and handle &lt;br /&gt;all requests to subscribe or unsubscribe automatically. It should &lt;br /&gt;allow you to have multiple lists of customers so that you can &lt;br /&gt;customize the messages that each group receives. The more work your &lt;br /&gt;autoresponder does for you, the more time you have to build your &lt;br /&gt;business and concentrate on selling your product. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autoresponders are not all created equal, however. It pays to do &lt;br /&gt;your homework on the various autoresponders out there and to find &lt;br /&gt;out which one will work best for the type of email marketing you do. &lt;br /&gt;Some autoresponders provide qualified leads; others promise great &lt;br /&gt;technical service and work hard to make sure that if you get a spam &lt;br /&gt;complaint that you get a fair hearing. Many autoresponder companies &lt;br /&gt;also offer fringe benefits such as marketing your business to other &lt;br /&gt;customers of the autoresponder. Whichever one you choose, it should &lt;br /&gt;be cost effective, offer the kinds of services you want and have a &lt;br /&gt;good track record with other businesses that are similar to yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an article I wrote some time ago about the significance of &lt;br /&gt;an autoresponder in the work at home industry.  This is the first&lt;br /&gt;publication of this piece.  I have since become accutely aware of &lt;br /&gt;some issues that face all work at home and e-mail marketers.  These&lt;br /&gt;are not in order of significance, they are equally important.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first one I will mention here is SPAM.  I'll not bore you with a &lt;br /&gt;lot of technical stuff re:Spam, simply remember this: If they didn't&lt;br /&gt;ask for it, it's spam.  That is a little tight, but safe.  If you&lt;br /&gt;Spam, you will not be in business long, it is that simple!  In some&lt;br /&gt;cases you only need to be accused and you can be shut down.  Just&lt;br /&gt;Don't Do It!  E-mail marketing is the life blood of the work at&lt;br /&gt;home marketer, don't be the one to put your fellow marketers out &lt;br /&gt;of business either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second issue I need to mention here is just an expansion on one &lt;br /&gt;of the points made in the article.  Autoresponders are not all created&lt;br /&gt;equal!  There are many free autoresponders out there, most will &lt;br /&gt;include ads for things that are not yours.  If free is your budget&lt;br /&gt;then you will have to live with that.  However, the real key to a &lt;br /&gt;good autoresponder is deliverability and spam claim protection.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maintaining a clean server and relationships with ISP's is a full time&lt;br /&gt;job, to be very good at it is much more than a full time job.  Think &lt;br /&gt;about it like this: You spend a good amout of time writing a killer&lt;br /&gt;ad and send it to your list of 10,000 subscribers.  You are expecting&lt;br /&gt;a reasonable return and click thru rate and when the stats come in&lt;br /&gt;you find that less than 50% were delivered!  What do you think the &lt;br /&gt;impact would be on you clickthru rate?  A fair bet is you just lost&lt;br /&gt;revenue enough to pay several months if not a year of fees to a &lt;br /&gt;reliable autoresponder.  I think you get the point!  This is one of&lt;br /&gt;the best out there: http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/Aces.html.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some variations on the e-mail marketing theme tomorrow.  What&lt;br /&gt;alternatives are there to the traditional e-mail campaign that can&lt;br /&gt;complement and/or substitute for what most of us think of as &lt;br /&gt;traditional e-mail marketing for a successful work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115100137337461554?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='Why Is an Autoresponder Important'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115100137337461554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115100137337461554' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115100137337461554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115100137337461554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/why-is-autoresponder-important.html' title='Why Is an Autoresponder Important'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115092844424297698</id><published>2006-06-21T15:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-21T15:20:44.253-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Must Have/Must Do</title><content type='html'>Must Have/Must Do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been at this work at home stuff for quite some time now.&lt;br /&gt;I have read as much as any one can, given the rigors of the day.&lt;br /&gt;A full time j.o.b., a part time internet business and a family&lt;br /&gt;(yada,yada,yada).  What do you think is the #1 Must Have on the&lt;br /&gt;guru's list to be successful in this business?  A web site? An&lt;br /&gt;autoresponder?  How about a hosting account? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of the gurus' will tell you, "all of the above".  The #1&lt;br /&gt;Must Have for the work at home entrepreneur is DESIRE.  I can&lt;br /&gt;tell you that without the burning desire and a picture of success&lt;br /&gt;imbedded in your brain, you don't have a chance!  If you don't&lt;br /&gt;have that, please stop reading now and move on to what ever you&lt;br /&gt;do to pass the time.  Don't waste any more time here.  If you&lt;br /&gt;think that you have those qualities, your test will come soon&lt;br /&gt;enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much for the lecture, I will proceede as though we have the &lt;br /&gt;necessary emotional tools to get the job done.  Now lets look&lt;br /&gt;at the physical tools necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I look back at the humble beginnings of my work at home&lt;br /&gt;operation, I realize (like a lot of us) "boy if I knew &lt;br /&gt;then......".  I thought I had all I needed to make it in this&lt;br /&gt;crazy world of the internet.  I had a PC, I had an e-mail&lt;br /&gt;address, I had a telephone, what else is there?  Basically,&lt;br /&gt;there is nothing else.  But we are not talking basics here.&lt;br /&gt;As I said earlier, "If I knew then what I know now......".&lt;br /&gt;What was missing, that elusive piece of the puzzle that makes&lt;br /&gt;everything come together?  A simple two word phrase says it &lt;br /&gt;all. "A System"!  You are probabaly saying "what's up with &lt;br /&gt;this guy?" Actually, if you think about it, it is that simple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What am I talking about when I say we need a system?  We will&lt;br /&gt;need to line up the tools, resources (including training), and &lt;br /&gt;the marketing strategy(ies) that we will use to promote our&lt;br /&gt;work at home business.  You may remember that when I started&lt;br /&gt;I waited for the visitors that did'nt show?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must decide if we are going to persue e-mail marketing or&lt;br /&gt;link marketing or some combination of both.  What tools are &lt;br /&gt;available for each type?  What resources are available to &lt;br /&gt;provide the toolos we need?  The tools are endless.  If we are&lt;br /&gt;doing the e-mail route to start, we will need an autoresponder&lt;br /&gt;to handle the followup necessary for success.  We will get &lt;br /&gt;into the details of what to look for in a good autoresponder&lt;br /&gt;tomorrow, for now here is one of two that can be recommended:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.l1nk.com/tLf/Aces.html I will get into the why's &lt;br /&gt;and wherefore's of autoresponders tomorrow, you will understand&lt;br /&gt;the significance of a good autoresponder for your success in&lt;br /&gt;your work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115092844424297698?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='Must Have/Must Do'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115092844424297698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115092844424297698' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115092844424297698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115092844424297698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/must-havemust-do.html' title='Must Have/Must Do'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29955364.post-115084144289088531</id><published>2006-06-20T15:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-20T15:10:42.893-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How Did You Get Started</title><content type='html'>I would like to start by telling a very short story about I got&lt;br /&gt;started with my work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suppose, not unlike many who want to get started working at&lt;br /&gt;home, I did a search on the internet for "work at home&lt;br /&gt;opportunities".  After several weeks of browsing and research&lt;br /&gt;I found one that did not scream "get rich overnight", "make money&lt;br /&gt;while you sleep" or "we do all the work, you get all the money"!&lt;br /&gt;(Sound familiar?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I signed up, and got truly excited when I finally got access to&lt;br /&gt;my replicated website!  I had a presence on the internet!  Now I&lt;br /&gt;could sit back and wait for people to visit my site and start&lt;br /&gt;buying the potions that I was so proud and fortunate (atleast&lt;br /&gt;that is wat my sponsor told me) to represent. After a couple of&lt;br /&gt;hours and numerous excited checks to my "back office", no one&lt;br /&gt;had found me!?  Oh well, I will try to sleep on it and be prepared&lt;br /&gt;to handle the rush in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anticipation and a touch of anxiety combined to ruin that first&lt;br /&gt;night.  I got to my computer as quickly as I could that next morning,&lt;br /&gt;turned on the monitor and booted up.  This is where the anxiety meter,&lt;br /&gt;built in to every computer, kicks in.  For those not familiar with the&lt;br /&gt;anxiety meter; it is that piece of the hardware that senses the anxiety&lt;br /&gt;level of the operator.  It functions on a 1:1 ratio.  That is, the&lt;br /&gt;higher your anxiety level, the slower your computer will function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think you know the rest of the story.  Of course, nothing happened,&lt;br /&gt;no rush of hungry visitors!  What is wrong with all those people&lt;br /&gt;who surf the internet every day?  Why won't they visit MY site?&lt;br /&gt;My sponsor told me that people would be falling over each other to get&lt;br /&gt;my product!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I won't bore you with the remaining details of my first attempt at&lt;br /&gt;my dream of a work at home business.  I will from time to time relate&lt;br /&gt;a story as it may be appropriate and/or relevant to the subject of the&lt;br /&gt;day.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't promise you success, riches, or even an easy time. I can&lt;br /&gt;promise you fundamentally good information, tell you about resources&lt;br /&gt;that work and those that don't, available tools - free where possible,&lt;br /&gt;and most important: I will introduce you to the highest rated, most&lt;br /&gt;successful marketing system, on or off the net!  A simple strategy&lt;br /&gt;devloped so YOU can be successful in YOUR work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow we will look at must have/must do information for success&lt;br /&gt;in your work at home business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Successfully,&lt;br /&gt;George&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29955364-115084144289088531?l=gandhmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.gandhmarketing.com' title='How Did You Get Started'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/115084144289088531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=29955364&amp;postID=115084144289088531' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115084144289088531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/29955364/posts/default/115084144289088531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gandhmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-did-you-get-started.html' title='How Did You Get Started'/><author><name>Hat</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04833646294136065795</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
