How do You Market Your Business With Your Blog?

Professional blogger Darren Rowse answers that question with 13 tips for businesses wanting to use blogging in their marketing mix. Among the suggestions:

• Be Useful
• Be Personal and Professional
• Don’t Be Afraid to Sell, but Don’t be too Salesy
• Link, Link, Link
• Integrate Your Blog with your Website

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And if you're interested in learning more about making money with your blog, check out 3DayMoney by professional blogger David Risley who'll teach you his secrets on how to make money on the Internet.

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Business Opportunites for Those Marketing to Seniors

Have a product or service that caters to seniors? Then get ready for a business explosiong. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world’s 65-and-older population is projected to triple by midcentury, from 516 million in 2009 to 1.53 billion in 2050.

Not so good news though if your market is the under 15 crowd. Census experts predict that the population under 15 is expected to increase by only 6 percent during the same period, from 1.83 billion to 1.93 billion.

In the United States, the population 65 and older will more than double by 2050, rising from 39 million today to 89 million. While children are projected to still outnumber the older population worldwide in 2050, the under 15 population in the United States is expected to fall below the older population by that date, increasing from 62 million today to 85 million.

These figures come from the world population estimates and projections released through the Census Bureau’s International Data Base. This latest update includes projections by age, including people 100 and older, for 227 countries and areas.

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How to Grow Traffic to Your Blog

So, you've got a blog and now don't know what to do huh? Well here's some good news.

Yaro Starak offers a great free video on how to grow traffic to your blog. Among the tips, release free reports. Watch the complete video for all the tips and learn how to grow traffic to your blog.


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Need Web Hosting? We've Got a Deal for You

For those entrepreneurs not online yet, here's some good info on how to save a ton of money on your Web hosting, while receiving top-notch hosting service. And if you already are online, you better read this as well. It'll probably save you money!

Entrepreneur's Tips has learned of BlueHost, which provides Web hosting and a bunch of related services for your Web site for as little as $6.95 per month with free set-up! Among the features you get:

• ite Promotion Package
• Free eCommerce/Cart
• Free Blog, Forum, Board
• 24/7 Support

Plus you get unlimited hosting space, unlimited domains and unlimited file transfer. Wow! Talk about a great deal. If you'd like to take advantage, click here to sign up for BlueHost.

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Use a Private Label Right eBook to Increase the Bottom Line of Your Business

There are many ways that you can use a private label right (plr) eBook to help you make money with your business. Many people don’t realize how the plr eBook can help their business. There are a lot of successful people who are using private label rights eBooks in their business because they have learned how to use them to their advantage. You can use the plr eBook for your business to if you learn what the successful business owners know.

The secret to using the private label right eBook is to use them in a lot of different ways that will grow your business or make you money. Here are some of the ways that you can use a plr eBook to help your business make money for you.

One: You can use more than one plr eBook that you can package together in a package and use it as an incentive for people to buy a product from you as a bonus that they would get once they buy the product.

Two: You can also bundle the private label right eBook with other plr eBooks and then sell them as a package of useful business tools.

One thing you want to remember about using the plr eBooks this way is that you need to check with each of the eBooks to find out if there is a restriction on what you can do with it. Some of the private label rights eBooks will tell you that you can’t take apart an eBook and you can’t bundle it in a package with other eBooks to sell. So it is important that you check each eBook for these restrictions.

Three: You can take the eBook and rewrite it in your own words. This will do two things. It will give you your own unique product while saving you the time of writing the eBook from scratch. It will also mean that it is in your own voice which can be powerful if used right.

Four: It will also give you a plr eBook that is unique that you can use an incentive for people to sign up for your newsletter. By growing your opt in list you will be growing your business and this will mean you will have a way to make money with your list later on with other private label rights eBooks or other products.

There are so many ways that you can use the private label right eBook to make money. You just need to learn all you can about how other people are using a plr eBook to help them make their money. Once you know this you will be able to start using them for your business and you can watch your money start to grow.

Summary: There are many ways that you can use the private label right eBook to help you make money. You need to find out how others are using the plr eBook for their business to help them make money. Learn about four ways to use for private label right eBooks for your business.

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White Paper: Best Practices for Developing a Web Site

According to a White Paper from Internet.com, "Best Practices for Developing a Web Site," just because Web sites are easy to build these days, it doesn't mean it's easy to build a quality Web site that meets your business objectives.

Before developing your next Web site, or redesigning an existing site, you might want to download this Internet.com eBook to guide you through the process and plan your project, whether you're developing a site in-house or outsourcing the project.

The White Paper includes sections on developing your Web site strategy, defining the site's concept, finding a home to host your site and more.

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Product, Price, Place and Promotion -- The 4 P's

Here's a good article from a recent e-mail newsletter from Kevin Nunley, aka Dr. Nunley, on the 4 P's of marketing.

According to the good doctor, before you start marketing, there are a four things you have to know.

"They're called the 4 P's, and marketing experts around the world consider these essential points before putting any marketing concept into action.

• Product - What is your product and how will you position it in the market? How will it be packaged? Does it have unique features and benefits? These are just a few of the questions you must ask yourself to define your product for perfect marketing placement.
• Price - You have to decide on the amount you will charge for your product, but this task is not as easy as you might think. You must consider what your customer will pay, the price image you want to maintain consistently, what your competition charges, and much more.
• Place - This includes position in the market, as well as how you will distribute and place your product.
• Promotion - Now we're getting into the actual marketing of the product.Promotion includes everything from advertising to networking,newsletters to classified ads. Ask yourself which vehicles of promotion will best serve your purposes.

"Once you have used the 4 P's to define your product, price, place and promotion, you can start marketing. If your first attempt to marketing the product doesn't work the way you hoped, go back to the 4 P's and reevaluate until you find the marketing system that works for you."

Kevin writes YOUR sales letter, article, press release, or web site copy. See http://DrNunley.com

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Five Tips to Getting That Ebook Written

Here at Entrepreneurs Tips, we've always wanted to write a book. As we're sure you have too. So, why not start with an ebook? It's a whole lot easier to self-publish and the demand is huge.

According to Jeff Smith with the Infoproduct Marketing Insiders blog, there are five (5) things you can do to help yourself get started writing your ebook. They are:

• Plan to address a desired outcome
• Start with an outline
• Get your first edition to market fast
• Focus on your Title
• Then, give it a "full, frontal assault"

Smith adds that "You may be shocked to realize that many 6-figure and 7-figure ebook and info product marketing professionals started from scratch with no experience in writing, publishing or internet marketing and yet completely turned their life into a highly rewarding, fun, exciting and extremely profitable information publishing enterprise. You can do the same by paying particular attention to these 5 secrets to writing and publishing top selling ebooks."

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Home-Based Top 100 Competition

StartupNation, a site for entrepreneurs and small businesses, announces the 2009 Home-Based 100 Competition, a ranking of outstanding home-based businesses and the people behind them.

If you’re proud of the business you run from home, give it a shot and enter the competition! It’s your chance to be in the spotlight.

Entries are accepted until the end of September. The 100 winners are published in mid-November. If you’re one of them, you’ll receive priceless exposure in the media and be positioned to take your business to the next level.

Enter your business at StartupNation. Upon completing the online form, you’ll receive an e-mail with instructions on how to add a compelling description for your business and an image (photo, logo, etc.) to your contestant’s profile. This information will ultimately be displayed on StartupNation for visitors to see, comment on and vote on.

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America's Most Promising Companies

The Entrepreneurs editor of Forbes.com tells you what you can to do better your business, and become one of America's Most Promising Companies.



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You Gotta Learn How to Say "NO"

Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, authors of "Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success," write that once you've tamed your inner-guilt monster, you are ready to welcome that most wonderful of words into your vocabulary.

"We're certain you barely use it. But it's a potent combination of two letters that could routinely save our sanity. Go ahead. Say it. You know the word we mean."

NO.

Read the complete article here.

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As Your Mom Said... You Need a Good Night's Sleep

Entrepreneurs are known for being creative and working hard, often too hard. Now comes word of a new study that reinforces what our mom's use to tell us about getting a good night's sleep.

According to researchers, sleep is good for your memory, but the sleeping brain seems to store only the most useful information. Using data from a group of 44 college students aged 18 to 22, the study findings showed that when a good night's rest follows a period of learning, sleep can preserve the most important memories for as long as four months.

The findings are scheduled to be presented this Thursday at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting, in Seattle.

"Think of sleep as a period of memory consolidation, where the sleeping brain calculates what is most important about a memory and selects the best candidates for long-term memory, study author Jessica Payne, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, explained in a news release from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine."

So go ahead... work hard and play hard, but be sure to get enough sleep as well. Otherwise you won't be able to remember all those great ideas you came up with!

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Seven Tips to Jump Start Your Social Networking Success

Nancy Marmolejo writes that if you think MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites are just for kids, then think again.

"Authors, entrepreneurs, entertainers, non-profits, and businesses are using social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook to promote who they are and what they do. Having a professional social networking presence can build platform, sell books, attract attention, and generate leads for your business. When used correctly, it will boost your visibility and credibility generating the results you want."

Marmolejo says there are seven expert tips to jump start your success in social networking.

• Maintain a Relationship Building Mindset
• Be Professional
• Suit Up and Show Up
• Make it Easy for People to Learn More About You
• To Have a Friend, You Have to Be a Friend
• Balance the Personal and the Professional
• Don't Be Afraid to Delegate!

Read the complete article here.

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What You Should Find if You Google Yourself

Ever Googled your own name? Most people have at some point, and there's a good chance your customers have Googled your name, too.

According to Scott Ginsberg, author of eight books, an award-winning blogger and the creator of NametagTV.com, you want to make sure that what they find about you in Google makes them want to do business with you. Ginsberg wants four things to happen:

1. Search results.
2. Silent dialogues.
3. Immediate action.
4. Contact.

Read the complete article for all the details.

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Zipcar Creates iPhone Applicaion... How About You?

Okay, this story is specifically about Zipcar and their new iPhone application, but we hope the specifics about how Zipcar created an iPhone application will spur your creativity into the possibilities of how you can use an iPhone app to market your business.

According to Springwise, the app was created through a partnership between Apple and Zipcar, the new application will allow users of Zipcar's car-sharing service to use their iPhones to find, reserve and unlock vehicles. Specifically, the application puts the iPhone's GPS to work in locating the closest Zipcars, indicating them with coloured pushpins on a map; users can then use it to reserve the vehicle they want. Once they're close to their vehicle, the technology will even beep the horn of the reserved Zipcar and unlock it.

Moreover, more than 25 percent of Zipcar members say their "life is on their iPhone," according to Zipcar CTO Luke Schneider, so tapping the brand clearly makes good sense from a practical perspective.

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How to Create the Best Headlines to Promote Your Product or Service

If you sell a product or service you know that regardless of how good your product or service is, that you have to create the excitement for potential customers to want to buy from you. So how do you create headlines that will being them in?

In this quick video, Internet marketing expert Nick James offers the five rules of creating successful headlines. The top tip? You have to appeal to your reader's interests! They want to know what's in it for them, so you have to provide the benefit(s) your product or service has to help them achieve their goals.

Watch the video for the other four tips.

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Make Better PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint presentations are a great way to support a speech, visualize complicated concepts or focus attention on a subject. However, a bad presentation can achieve the opposite. Badly designed slides with too much text or bad graphics can distract or worse, irritate the audience.

The fine folks at MakeUseOf.com came up with this great article featuring 10 PowerPoint tips for preparing a professional presentation.

Among the suggestions:

• Pick an easy to read font face.
• Consistently use the same font face and sizes on all slides.
• Carefully use color to highlight your message!
• Keep It Straight and Simple.
• Have more images in your slides than text.
• Keep your audience in mind.
• Know your slides inside out.

And these are just a few of the fantastic tips to help you make your next PowerPoint shine.

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Twitter's Still the Buzz... 7 Lessons Learned

David Jackson, on the StartupNation marketing forum shared a post with seven lessons learned from using Twitter. Among the ideas:

• You need to have a clear and concise vision how you're going to use Twitter.
• The people who are the most successful on Twitter give value.
• You have to participate.

Jackson adds that Twitter works. "In the approximately 4 weeks I've been using Twitter," he said, "I've increased my affiliate sales and my traffic. I've made invaluable business contacts and a few friends. That being said, Twitter is not a panacea. It's a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. And it's only as effective as the person using it."

Read all seven Twitter tips.

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