Blogging has become the social networker’s way of connecting to his audience. Still, many business owners are hesitant to use blogging as a marketing tool for two primary reasons:

1) Many business owners don’t understand the power of the blog.
2) Others ask, “What the heck is a blog?”

Blogging is a public journal on the web that takes on the personality of the author. A lot of individuals use blogging as a way to express their thoughts about anything to the public at large. For just a few moments, I want you to open your mind to the possibilities of what blogging can do for your business.

If you own a business and you want to attract more customers, blogging will establish you as an expert — the expert — in your niche market. Think about it. Let’s say you sell building supplies, and you’ve decided to use blogging as an extension of your store. What better way to let customers know you and what you have to offer than to journal about do-it-yourself projects?

Here’s how it works. Each week, choose a topic that is of interest to your target audience. For instance, you can write about how weather stripping can save up to 15% on your heating and cooling costs. This is fairly simple to do yourself, and you can write a short how-to blog about weather stripping. Since your store sells the supplies your customer needs to do the project themselves, they can conveniently order online while the idea is fresh in their minds.

Blogging works well because it’s casual. You don’t have to have an English degree to be a good blogger. In fact, it works better if you just start writing and let it all hang out. Here are a few key points you need to know if you want to use blogging to sell more merchandise.

* Let your personality shine. The best way to write a blog is to just sit down and let the ideas flow as naturally as they would in casual conversation. Your goal is to make a personal connection with your target audience, so you don’t want your blog to read like a textbook.

* Keep your entries short. Give your readers something quick to read. Focus on one topic that you can talk about in 500 words or less.

* Put yourself in your readers’ shoes. Listen to your readers and write about what they’re interested in.

* Keep your eye on the money. Customers love to buy, but they don’t want to be sold. Use your blog as a soft sell technique.

Blogging has become the 21st century’s marketer’s weapon for increasing profits. Establish yourself as an expert, include a short biography that tells readers who you are and a little about your business, and include a visible link that takes visitors to your online store. By taking a few minutes each week to make a virtual connection with your customers, you can stay first in your customers’ minds and they’ll reward you by buying what you have to sell.

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© 2008 NiggyBuzz.com

ClickBank users might know how important those eye-catching sales pages are.

Same with so called Splash Pages. And this is when Floating Action Button comes and is very useful!

You can see it in action here – I just added floating button to this blog with hope to get more email subscribers.

I wanted tell you about the service I use. EXPLODE Your sales conversions and email lists, by adding the new Floating Action Button to Your websites and/or blogs. This brand new technology will grab your website visitors by the eyeballs and turn them into a stampede of hungry buyers.

Here are just some of the amazing features you get with the Floating Action Button :

• Use easy Plug n’ Play Button wizard or simply paste in Your own code;
• Choose from wide selection of cool buttons and opt-in graphics or simply link to Your own;
• Create multiple Floating Order Buttons, Opt-in Forms, HTML Snippets or any combination You can think of;
• Full control over the look, feel, placement and scroll speed of Your Floating Buttons;
• The Floating Action Button will work on any type of web site – yes it will also work on Your self-hosted blogs;
• And You get Step-by-step video instructions on how to use the Floating Action Button to increase Your conversion rates.

Floating Action Button software is yours for only $47 dollars, but right now there is a SALE – get it for just $27! Increase your monthly income!

And for those who are interested – I will keep you updated on how good (or no) Floating Action Button works for me.

© 2008 NiggyBuzz.com

Basically, PayDotCom is very similar to a well known program called ClickBank.

It’s an affiliate marketing program for both – vendors (sellers) and affiliates.

As a vendor you can sell your products and services through PayDotCom online marketplace, and let them take care of all your affiliate needs.

Advantages of PayDotCom are:

• Purchases pay instantly to your PayPal account.
• Sell physical products and Digital Goods.
• Collect Subscriptions for your service or membership sites.
• Get Paid Instantly.
• No Pre Approval.
• Stats Tracking.
• Promotional tools for your affiliates.
• Create a new product line in 60 seconds.

With PayDotCom, your customers can pay you via your PayPal account. They can use their available PayPal funds or they can use their Checking Account, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and other credit/debit cards that they have added to their PayPal account.

You can set the suggested retail price for your product to ANY price that you like. PayDotCom does NOT set a price limit on your products.

PayDotCom Vendor Accounts are free. You can get a free Vendor account to sell your product and if you want start more than 1 product line, then you’re able to buy a Premium membership ($29, One time fee).

As an affiliate you can promote products found in PayDotCom marketplace and earn commissions. You can earn sales commissions up to 80% by linking your customers to any of products and services in the marketplace.

Under each product or service in the marketplace you’ll see a description of the affiliate program. Just click on the description to promote that product or service.

What I like here is that some vendors has added their own promotional materials – like emails, banners (various sizes), so you don’t need to spend time by creating your own banners for programs. But to say truth – not all vendors has done this yet, so…

The Vendor will pay you your commissions each month by mass pay to your PayPal account or by check. The Vendor chooses how to pay you. You must have an account with PayPal to get paid if the Vendor does not choose to send checks.

PayDotCom’s fee to the Affiliate is $0.50 to $1.50 for each transaction – based on the sale price of the product/service sold.

Fee Schedule:

Sale price $0.01 to $10 – Fee $1.00 – Split by Vendor and Affiliate 50/50
Sale price $10.01 to $20 – Fee $2.00 – Split by Vendor and Affiliate 50/50
Sale price $20.01 and over – Fee $3.00 – Split by Vendor and Affiliate 50/50

© 2008 NiggyBuzz.com

Who can earn by using this new feature? Basically, everyone who have an account there and the website which uses feeds (just like blogs).

You can display the BidVertiser CPC ads in your feeds, as well as get access to various multiple-subscription Feed Widgets that will help you publicize your new feed.

Here is how it works:

1. Login to your publisher account and click “Add New BidVertiser”. During the Public Beta, you may also click the “Public Beta” link. If you are new to BidVertiser, click here to create a publisher account.

2. Make sure you are under the BidVertiser for your Feed tab.

3. Provide your feed URL and title and click Next.

4. Verify your feed ownership by adding a temporary post with an unique verification code.

5. Choose your favorite multiple-subscription Feed Widget and add it to your website or blog. Detail instructions for each of the major blog platforms is provided as part of the process.

You’re done!

Good luck and if you will try this option, don’t forget to come back and tell me here about your success!!!

© 2008 NiggyBuzz.com

ContentLinks are contextually relevant keywords discovered in real time on a publisher’s web page that are automatically turned into a link to the most relevant and highest paying text ad from one of Kontera’s thousands of advertisers.

What ContentLink can do for you? Kontera’s ContentLink In-Text Advertising solution lets you monetize your content in real-time, enabling an incremental increase in ad revenue by providing a new source of untapped ad inventory that does not compete with the other ad programs running on the site. ContentLink also creates a valuable user experience by serving relevant and informational ads that match the user’s interest and frame of mind.

How Kontera’s contextual analysis engine works:

Extraction: A typical analysis process begins by extracting all the relevant page content and attributes, including: text, HTML properties, location on a page, URL, Title, Meta tags, custom meta tags, etc. Every such attribute conveys a specific weight to the algorithms that analyzes the data.

Discovery: The extracted data is then scanned through the discovery process in relationship to the proprietary taxonomy and via a dynamic part-of-speech analysis to identify keyword relationships and significance.

Classification: The page and its best matching keywords are classified with their best matching topics, and both keywords and topics are scored for relevancy.

Ranking: The resulting output of keywords and topics are then ranked, based not only on keyword and topic relevancy but on other parameters also, such as: topic and keyword conversion rate and clickthrough rate, advertisement CTR and conversion; and revenue potential.

Self-Learning Optimization: The self-learning and tuning module automatically performs yield management and optimization based on real time user reactions to specific keywords, topics, and ads as they relate to specific web pages and topics. In-Text Ad impressions are then re-distributed in order to assign more impressions to the terms that are performing better.

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© 2008 NiggyBuzz.com