Get Closer to Online Marketing Opportunity

Online marketing, also known as internet marketing, web marketing, internet advertising, or e-marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the internet. When applied to the subset of website-based advertisement placements, internet marketing is commonly referred to as web advertising.
The internet has brought us many special benefits to marketing, one of which being lower costs for the distribution of information and media to a global consumer. The interactive nature of online marketing, both in terms of providing instant response and eliciting responses, is a unique quality of the medium. Online marketing is sometimes considered to have a broader scope because it refers to digital media such as the internet, e-mail, and wireless media.

Online marketing is relatively inexpensive when compared to the ratio of cost against the reach of the target audience. Companies can reach a wide audience for a small fraction of traditional advertising budgets. The nature of the medium allows consumers to research and purchase products and services at their own convenience. Therefore, businesses have the advantage of appealing to consumers in a medium that can bring results quickly. The strategy and overall effectiveness of marketing campaigns depend on business goals and cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis.

Internet marketers also have the advantage of measuring statistics easily and inexpensively. Nearly all aspects of an Internet marketing campaign can be traced, measured, and tested. The advertisers can use a variety of methods: pay per impression, pay per click, pay per play or pay per action. Therefore, marketers can determine which messages or offerings are more appealing to the audience. The results of campaigns can be measured and tracked immediately because online marketing initiatives usually require users to click on an advertisement, visit a website, and perform a targeted action. Such measurement cannot be achieved through billboard advertising, where an individual will at best be interested, then decide to obtain more information at a later time.

Implementing Your Marketing Strategy

Developing and implementing a strategic marketing plan is an essential part of your Internet success. Your plan must include both short-term and long-term strategies in order to succeed. Short-term marketing strategies are those that bring you a temporary boost in traffic. Although these techniques are very important to your overall plan, they are only a temporary traffic source and must not be solely relied on.

Short-term marketing strategies include:

• Purchasing advertising

• Discussion groups

• Search Engines

Long-term marketing strategies are those that bring you a steady stream of targeted traffic over time. These strategies will continue to produce results even years down the road.

Long-term marketing strategies include:

• Opt-in Lists

• Freebies

• Content

By creating and implementing a balanced marketing strategy, using both short-term and long-term strategies, you will drive a steady stream of targeted traffic to your web site.
If you use this simple formula when creating your Internet marketing strategy and excel, you can literally guarantee your success.

Daughter - John Mayer

Genoa VS AC Milan 2-0 ( Memalukan...)

Belum terhapus dari ingatan kekalahan menyakitkan pada pertandingan perdana AC Milan melawan Bologna, Milan kembali harus menelan pil pahit kekalahan 2-0 pada pertandingan tandang Seria A melawan Genoa, 14 September 2008.

Sepanjang pertandingan, nama besar AC Milan dipermalukan oleh pemain-pemain hebatnya yang seperti tak mampu berbuat apa-apa untuk menjebol gawang tim Genoa. Malah AC Milan harus ketinggalan terlebih dahulu di babak pertama akibat kesalahan Danielle Bonera yang tak mampu menjaga Sculli, sehingga Sculli dengan bebasnya menjebol gawang Milan yang dijaga oleh Abiatti.
Pada babak ke dua, Ancelotti memasukkan Clarence Sedoorf mengantikan Ronaldinho, dan Marco Borriello yang menggantikan Shevchenko. Namun, tak satupun peluang yang tercipta mampu menyumbangkan gol. Serangan AC Milan yang dipimpin Kaka terlalu monoton, tidak menggigit. Malahan para pemain Genoa mampu mengancam lewat serangan yang dimotori oleh Diego Milito, hingga akhirnya pada menit 89, legenda hidup AC Milan, Paolo Maldini dengan usia yang terlalu tua untuk bermain bola, berbuat kesalahan dengan men tackle Diego Milito di kotak penalti. Oh my God, AC Milan kalah lagi.

Tampaknya, Ancelotti harus bekerja keras lagi untuk meramu formasi yang tepat untuk bersaing di serie A.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Optimize Your Website

Page Rank is Google's way of giving a specific value to how popular your website is. It is based on the number of "votes" other websites cast for your website. A "vote" is simply when another website places a link on their website that is pointing to your website. Generally, the more "votes" or links you have pointing to your website, the higher your Page Rank (PR) will be. Page Rank is 1 of the many factors that Google takes into account when ranking websites.

If you're anything like me, you've probably created a brand new website, submitted it to a few search engines and hoped that people would mysteriously show up at your site and buy whatever it is you were selling. After a couple of weeks go by and only a few stray people show up at your website, you decide to try and "optimize" your website around your main keyword in hopes that you just might rank well in 1 of the millions of search engines. Another couple of weeks go by and still no luck. At this point you probably give up and decide to either build another website around a different target market or just lose all hope and quit. Well, news flash, as you've probably figured out by now, this is not the way to go about doing things, so let me give you a specific example of what your very first steps MUST be when creating any website.

There were two types of search engine optimization:

1. Onpage Optimization
2. Offpage Optimization

Offpage optimization is THE most important aspect of ranking well in ANY search engine, period. It's critical you know this. For offpage optimization...

• You must have links pointing to your website.
• These links must include your main keywords in the "anchor text".
• It's best to get links from the exact same websites that the top ranked websites have their links on.
• Try to get links from as many different IP Addresses as possible.
• It's best to have close to the same % of links containing the specific keyword you're trying to rank well for, as the top ranked websites.
• You can write articles and submit them to websites. Include a link to your website in the footer of your article.

Onpage optimization is still important, but just not nearly as important as offpage
optimization. You should do both.

• Include your keywords in your page title
• Use the '|' symbol to separate words
• Use only your main keywords. Don't use filler words. The '|' character will act as
  a filler
• Use header tags
  
• Bold, italicize, and underline some keywords
• Place your main keyword at the beginning and end of your webpage
• Include your keyword in the copyright footer of your webpage
• Use image tags and include your keyword, plus the word "image" or
  "graphic" etc.

That's the basics of SEO that you MUST do to rank well.

By Brad Callen

Built to Last - Melee

Built To Last adalah single kedua dari album Melee yang kedua, Devils & Angels, yang dirilis tanggal 16 Januari 2007. Videoklip dari lagu ini sangat unik, karena beberapa dari moment dalam videoklipnya mengingatkan kita pada moment romantis dari berbagai film klasik, diantaranya Say Anything, From Here To Eternity, Ghost, Brokeback Mountain, Titanic dan lainnya.

Band asal Orange County, California Amerika ini benar-benar menawarkan konsep musik yang sederhana dan apa adanya. Keceriaan begitu tercermin dalam vokal yang disemat Chris Cron (vokal, piano, gitar) dalam nada-nada lagu Built To Last, ditambah dengan perpaduan simple rock instrumen rajutan Ricky Sans (gitar), Ryan Malloy (bas) dan Mike Nader (drum), so i finally made a conclusion for this song....A must hear!!!

CCleaner 2.11.636

As you already know Windows has a tendency to get slower over time. CCleaner is a freeware designed to reduce this effect by deleting files that you don’t need and removing invalid entries in the registry. After running CCleaner you will have a faster and more reliable computer, and you will even get more disc space!

CCleaner cleans the following:

• Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
• Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
• Recently opened URLs and files.
• Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
  Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more...
• Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.
  Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... Backup for registry clean.
• Windows Startup tool.

I've been using CCleaner for a years now, and i think that CCleaner is getting better and better by its own auto update. There is a new CCleaner release every month so remember to update CCleaner!

The registry cleaner part of CCleaner is not the best registry cleaner out there, but it’s good enough for a normal Windows user. Remember that this piece of software is free! Also available in many different languages.

Download CCleaner 2.11.636 here:

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Evolving Marketing Strategy

By Shelley Lowery
Evolving a great and successful marketing strategy is the most important part of your online success.

In order to succeed, you must evolve and implement a strategic plan that includes a great product and or service, a web site specifically designed to sell, and of course a killer marketing strategy.

What should I sell?

Your first step will be to either evolve a great product of your own, or simply locate quality products and/or services you can market via affiliate programs.
If you’re just starting out, it is highly recommended that you start out marketing quality products and/or services that are already developed. This will provide you with the ability to earn while you learn, as most quality affiliate programs provide you with marketing and advertising information to assist you.

What is an Affiliate Program?

When a company provides you with the ability to sell their products and services and they pay you a specified commission on each sale, they have what is known as an affiliate program.

One tier affiliate programs pay commissions on one level. For each sale an affiliate makes, they will receive a commission. For example, if a company offers their affiliates a 30% commission and their product sells for $39.99, for every sale you make, you would receive a onetime $12 commission.

Two tier affiliate programs pay commissions on two levels. Affiliates will receive a commission for each sale they make and for each sale their recruits make, which means you would have to get others to join the affiliate program.
Two tier affiliate programs usually divide the commissions over the two levels. For example, if a company wants to give their affiliates a total of 30% commission for each sale, they would offer a 20% commission on their first level sales and an extra 10% commission on second level sales. If their affiliate makes a $39.99 sale, they would receive an $8 commission. If one of their recruits makes a sale, they would receive an additional $4 commission.

Developing Multi Streams of Income

The key to developing a successful Internet business is to create multiple streams of income. You must not solely rely upon one stream of income, as you will literally be placing all of your eggs in one basket.
By developing income from multiple sources, when one source is having a slow period, the other sources will help to supplement.
You must first decide upon your target market and offer products and/or services that will be of interest to your market. In addition, the products and/or service you’re offering should be closely related. For example, if you’re selling computers, you could also offer printers, Internet service, software, etc.
Once you’ve decided upon your target market and what type of products and or services you’d like to sell, your next step will be to locate quality affiliate programs.

blogging for bucks (part 3)

When you first put up a web site of any kind - blog or nonblog - it’s like putting up a billboard in the desert. A new site is invisible until somebody links to it and looks at it. (Does an unvisited blog really exist?)
I should note that new blogs in hosted services such as MSN Spaces, Yahoo!360, Blogger.com, and TypePad suffer through shorter periods of invisibility than blogs hosted on independent servers (WordPress and movable type blogs). Hosted blogs get a push toward visibility by the host services, which spotlight new sites and new entries and also by circles of friends that often surround new blogs in Yahoo! 360. In these cases, a new blog can get an instant to hold in the blogosphere. Even so, the principles of visibility described in this section apply to, and can be practiced by, any blogger on any platform.

The key to visibility is links. People find online destinations through links. Traffic is driven by links. Every ambitious blogger wants links leading to the blog’s home page or its individual entries. In the quest for linkage, two important arenas exist:

1. Links on other blogs
2. Links in search engines

Links on other blogs are powerful, and there are two kinds. First, gaining a link in another blogger’s blogroll (the list of favorite sites in that blog’s sidebar) means continuous promotions for your blog, in some cases repeated on every page of the other blog. Blogroll links usually lead to a blog’s home page (the index page). Second, getting linked in another blogger’s entry as a citation for that entry promotes something you said. These links are extremely targeted and can bring bursts of traffic. Such a link can be an endorsement or an argument against something you posted in your blog; either way, you gain some degree of notoriety and visibility. Citation links usually go to one of your entry pages.
You can gain visibility in the blogosphere and start getting linked on other blogs in two ways:

1. Ask for links.
2. Write a good blog that naturally draws attention.

blogging for bucks (part 2)

Now that blogging is famous, it has become commercial. Those of us who were online when the World Wide Web was introduced saw the same transformation. The web started as a free, unexplored medium populated by the primitive sites of early adopters. For the most part, those sites were lists of links to other sites, with a bit of commentary — sound familiar? The first web sites were similar in spirit (if not in design) to today’s casual blogs. It didn’t take long for the commercial potential of the new medium to explode into reality. Likewise with blogs.

You can make money on the internet in four basic ways:

1. Sell a product
   
2. Provide a service
   
3. Sign up subscriptions to content
   
4. Run ads
   

Some sites manage to conduct online business in more than one of the four basic ways. Currently, commercial blogs are adsupported, for the most part. Just as many thousands of small webmasters have earned online income from running ads on their nonblog sites, bloggers are doing the same thing. And with the emergence of some high-profile blogs attracting millions of readers, a few bloggers are making very good money.

Blogging is a legitimate and maturing genre of publishing. Some companies hire professional bloggers (or pro writers who have never blogged and learn on the job) to produce corporate blogs in the same way that these companies hire copywriters to produce marketing brochures. That is one path for writers who want to ply the blogging trade. Then there are the blog networks, which are pushing the envelope of the blogosphere as a publishing force. The entire venture (again, like a magazine) is supported by advertising. Magazines also sell subscriptions; blogs don’t do that yet, but it’s not beyond the imagination. So, advertising is the business format of necessity if you are to make any money from your blog. But before discussion of advertising options, you need to know the other half of the blog marketing equation. Like two sides of a coin, earning money from a blog requires two considerations:

1. Visibility: Ad revenue depends on site traffic (lots of readers), and site traffic depends on making the blog visible. Several skills and tools go into site visibility, and having a general understanding of them can help your site even if you never run a single ad.
2. Monetization: I have a friend who laughs every time I utter the word monetize. I don’t blame him for getting the chuckles over such a geekspeak term, but that’s what everyone calls it when a site earns money. Something that previously generated no income has been monetized.
   

blogging for bucks (part 1)

This information is for the most ambitious loggers who believe that their entries are worth money. Well, why shouldn’t they be? Your blog is internet content, and Internet content has a value. How much value you realize from your blog depends on several variables, the most important of which is traffic. The more traffic there is passing through your site, the more chance you have to turn those eyeballs into money.

Does this all sound too mercenary? That’s fine, too. Many people who write personal blogs have less interest in making money from their online diaries than they do in selling stale bread. I don’t mean to compare your blog entries to stale bread. Perhaps that wasn’t the best analogy. My point is that blogging started as a giving activity, and it still is for most individual bloggers. For most people, trying to generate a revenue stream (as they say in the business world) from their hobby blog is not worth the trouble.

But an equally valid point is that any site with even a handful of readers can serve as a modest home business. Making money can be a hobby, too, even if your ultimate goal is just to cover blogging expenses. In the case of a basic TypePad account, as an example, that means earning a few dollars a month from your blog. I know people who never imagined they would turn a blog into money, tried it, and did indeed recoup those few bucks every month. Chances are good that a few dollars per month is the high end of a blog’s earning potential — let’s be realistic. But the attempt has the side benefits of making the blog a little more professional in appearance and making the blogger a little more professional, too. If you’re making 50 cents a month to start,
you might be motivated to reach one dollar, and move forward from there. In the effort, you’re likely to make your site look better and explore the marketing tricks that bring more traffic. With more traffic comes more influence in the blogosphere, and suddenly you’re on your way to the next level in the blogging lifestyle.

PTC...

Paid To Click or PTC websites are the easiest simple way to earn money online. These kind of websites let you make money without extra effort, require no skills, and are free. All you have to do is click a few ads, read a few mails or complete a few surveys.
Many PTC websites require you to click on an ad and view it for about 30 seconds to get paid. When your account balance reaches the minimum payout value, you can request for a payout. Payments are generally made to a PayPal or AlertPay account. Staying active in a number of these programs lets you earn steady and regular online income. However, due to the boom in PTC industry, there are more scam sites out there than genuine ones.

Below is my PTC list...

AC Milan 1st match: below the expectation...

First match of AC Milan in Serie A season 08/09 against Bologna was failed to meet the expectation for AC Milan fans.

The new AC Milan star, Ronaldinho was in good debut performance but could not prevent AC Milan slumping to a home defeat from Bologna at San Siro Stadium on Sunday. In a highly contested match, it was the Serie A newboys who did just enough to secure the 2-1 slight win.

Marco Di Vaio gave Bologna a lead on 18 minutes. Massimo Ambrosini succeed to equalise the score on 41 minutes. Ronaldinho created two nice crosses for veteran striker Filippo Inzaghi and another for second-half substitute Andrei Shevchenko, who comeback from Chelsea after two years, but neither could finish. In the end Francesco Valiani won it for Bologna 11 minutes from full time with a thunder shot from 25 yards outside the penalty area. The goal really knocked the wind out of Milan’s sails and they created very little for the remainder of the game. Bologna held out comfortably in the closing stages to record a shock win.

The Rossoneri will take encouragement from a brilliant debut by Ronaldinho, which bodes well for the season ahead, but they will be disappointed with losing their seasonal opener.

This was just a bad start for AC Milan, but i'm sure the Rossoneri will fight hard to reach their expectation this season. Come on, Ancelotti! Show the world that AC Milan is the real champion!

Viva La Vida - ColdPlay

This is a great song from ColdPlay that i used to hear when i need to boost my energy...
The confident theme of their music in this song have invigorated ColdPlay's rock-lite reign.
Love it man!!!



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Pemanasan Global (Global Warming)

Komunitas para ilmuwan telah mencapai suatu konsensus yang kuat mengenai perubahan iklim global. Saat ini bumi semakin panas dari sebelumnya. Pemanasan ini terutama disebabkan oleh emisi dari karbondioksida dan gas rumah kaca lainnya yang berasal dari aktivitas manusia, termasuk di dalamnya proses industri, pembakaran bahan bakar fosil dan perubahan tata guna lahan, misalnya deforestasi atau penebangan hutan.
Proses yang cenderung kontinu dari kenaikan emisi gas rumah kaca ini akan berdampak pada pemanasan yang cukup tinggi pada akhir abad 21. Titik proyeksi kenaikan suhu global yang diperkirakan sekarang adalah antara 1,1oC hingga 6,4oC pada tahun 2100. Pemanasan ini akan membawa dampak buruk bagi bumi, dimana akan terjadi kenaikan permukaan air laut yang secara berangsur-angsur akan menenggelamkan daerah pesisir dan meningkatkan erosi pantai dan biodiversitas, dan juga beberapa potensi lain yang membahayakan kesehatan manusia dan kelestarian lingkungan hidup. Mengatasi perubahan iklim bukanlah suatu tugas yang mudah. Untuk melindungi diri, lingkungan, dan ekonomi kita dari berbagai efek perubahan iklim, kita pada akhirnya harus mengurangi emisi dari karbondioksida dan gas rumah kaca lainnya.