Webmaster discussion on numerous topics including Website design, programming, hosting, server administration, search engines, and operating systems http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:38:44 -0500 1440 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=85188 Wowow, I'm using this tools. Its really awesome and all will do automate

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MKV (.MKV) is a new video and audio container format similar to AVI, but with several new features like support for OGG audio, Variable Framerate Video. Matroska (MKV) is an open standards project. This means for personal use it is absolutely free to use and that the technical specifications describing the bitstream are open to everybody, even to companies that would like to support it in their products. The most common use of .MKV files is to store HD video files.

To sum up, MKV file is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles screams, allowing the user to store a complete movie with subtitles or CD in a single file.

Although most standalone players now support the AVI format, thus far MKV support is still rare. So for most players you need convert the MKV format to the common formats.
Here I’d like to introduce four wonderful MKV converters.

No.1 Tipard MKV Video Converter for Mac
It can convert MKV to AVI, MP4, WMV, HD videos as well as other popular video formats on Mac like HD H.264, HD AVI, HD MPG, HD TS, HD WMV and MOV, etc, or get MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC or M4A music file from MKV, MPG, WMV, MP4, AVI files with a few steps.



This MKV video converter for Mac also has powerful editing functions such as effecting, trimming, cropping, snapshot and merging files into one.



No. 2 Tipard MKV Video Converter

It can easily convert MKV to AVI, MPG, MP4, 3GP, HD videos, etc and extract audio from MKV and other videos to AAC, AC3, AIFF,AMR, AU, MP3, M4A, MP2, OGG, WMA, WAV etc for your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, PS3, Xbox and other MP4 Player.



Its editing functions are effecting, trimming, cropping, snapshot and merging files into one.



No. 3 Aiseesoft MKV Converter

It can help you convert MKV, MPG, WMV, MP4, and AVI to the proper formats playable on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, and other MP4 Player etc. It is really outstanding MKV Converter.
No. 4 Aimersoft MKV Converter
It is designed to help you perfectly convert MKV files to all various popular videos Such as AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, ASF etc. It also supports HD AVI, HD MP4, HD WMV, HD MOV, HD ASF as output formats.
No. 5 4Easysoft MKV Converter

It is quite useful software to convert MKV files to MP4, AVI, 3GP, FLV, Divx, MP3, M4A, WMA etc. This MKV file Converter is designed to convert MKV files to the video and audio supported by most media players like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Archos, BlackBerry. So you can convert MKV files to YouTube, QuickTime and share with more friends in the world.

If you need mkv converter, any one is OK.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:30:08 -0400 84923 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=84863 Firm Monster. Thanks.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:46:34 -0400 84863 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=84817
The first step in finding the best tax services for your needs is deciding what level of help you require. Perhaps you simply need someone who can file a simple tax return but has to wade through your slightly disorganized accounting documents, or maybe you have a number of employees and need assistance sorting out their tax withholdings or you may even want all of these tax services, and more. The size of the tax services company may also be an issue. You may want one person to be able to perform all of your tax work, especially if you are only a small business owner or you may want a team of tax professionals and you want to find tax services that have a number of specialists available. Once you have identified the type of tax services then you can begin your search more easily. Your available tax services budget is obviously going to be an issue but you should try to allocate as much money as possible to ensure that you can afford the best possible tax services. Remember that you can incur heavy fines if you have incorrectly filed your tax return or are late paying any type of tax that your business is liable for.

Apart from professional qualifications and references one of the most important points to consider when assessing which of the tax services companies you want to use is whether you feel comfortable with the person you are dealing with. At the end of the day you are going to trust them with your financial records and it is essential that you feel that you can depend upon the person.

Every business, at some time, needs the help of some type of tax services at some stage. Large organizations usually have their own tax services department with accountants and tax lawyers but small companies often have to hire tax services on a regular basis to help keep their tax returns and other issues in order. It is important to know how to find the best tax services, no matter what type of business you are involved with.]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:58:16 -0400 84817 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=84379 Top 10 Firefox Browser Plugins
By Donna Gunter © 2009 OnlineBizU.com



About a year ago I fired Internet Explorer as my primary browser. Why? Because it crashed on me constantly and took forever at times to transition from one site to another. I've found the Firefox browser much more user friendly, especially given the number of plugins that have been developed for the browser.

The ability to customize Firefox with these plug-in extensions is what makes this open-source browser so special. However, there are so many available options for plugins, it's tough to know what's worth installing and what will be a complete waste of your time.

There are lists of Firefox plugins that have been created citing the best extensions for web developers or for a better YouTube experience. However, I wanted to create an everyday list of my best choices just for the ordinary online business owner.

Out of these, here are my top 10 Firefox extensions:

1. Adblock Plus. If you have ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on a site that often take longer to download than everything else on the page, install Adblock Plus and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu, and the banner won't be downloaded again.

2. Colorful Tabs. This simple add-on makes a strong colorful appeal. It sets each tab to a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface. After a long day of research when you have lots of browser windows open, this makes online page viewing easier on the eyes.

3. ColorZilla. ColorZilla puts an eyedropper icon in your status bar. Click it and you'll get a crosshair cursor. As you run this over a Web page, the RGB values of the pixel under the crosshair will display in the status bar, both as three separate values and as a hex value (e.g., R:255, G:255, B:255 | #FFFFFF). I use this all the time if I'm trying to match colors; i.e. a font color to an the primary background on an image, for example.

4. GMail Manager. This Gmail notifier is great if you have multiple Gmail accounts. It allows you to receive new mail notifications along with viewing account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

5. MeasureIt. After installing this extension, you'll have a small ruler icon on the left side of your status bar. When you click on it, your browser window will fade out a little, and you'll have a crosshair cursor. Drag the cursor over a section of the screen that you want to measure. Next to the box is its height and width, measured in pixels. I use this all the time when trying to measure the size of images. When you're finished, just hit the Escape key to turn it off and return to normal viewing of the page.

6. Quirk Search Status. Search Status allows you to see how any web site you visit is performing. When you land on a page, SearchStatus lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google and Linkscape), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa and Compete), so providing a balanced view of site efficacy. I use this all the time to determine whether a site has enough traffic to warrant accepting a joint venture proposal.

7. Scrapbook. ScrapBook helps you to save Web pages and easily manage your saved collections. Major features are: saving web pages or snippets of a page, saving a web site, organizing the collection in the same way you do bookmarks, full text search and quick filtering search of the collection, and editing of your collected pages.

8. Session Manager. Session Manager helps you manage your Firefox tabs. If you visit the same sites every day, all you need do is open all the sites in separate tabs and/or windows, and then use Session Manager to save the session with a distinct name. Then, you simply go to Tools > Session Manager, pick your session, and all the windows and tabs open up just as you saved them. And, Session Manager tracks your sessions as you surf, and if Firefox (or your system) crashes, you can recover the selection of tabs you had open when it crashed.

9. Tabs Open Relative. Tabs Open Relative makes all new tabs open to the right of the current tab, rather than at the far right of the tab bar. This reduced a huge annoyance I had with how the Firefox browser worked.

10. XMarks. XMarks (formerly Foxmarks) provides seamless bookmark synchronization between your computers and browsers via their synchronization server. Your bookmark (and optionally password) data is securely stored and backed up on their servers and is available online, as well. After you install the add-on, click on the notification to set up Xmarks and start backing up and synchronizing your bookmarks. Install Xmarks on each computer you use, and it seamlessly integrates with your web browser and keeps your bookmarks safely backed up and in sync across all of your computers. Secure Password Sync is an optional Xmarks feature.

Note: To locate these, search for the plug-in extensions here: addons.mozilla.org

If you don't currently use Firefox as your browser, perhaps this list will convince you to give it a try. I have liked my experience so much with Firefox that I won't ever use any other browser.

About The Author
Online Business Coach and Internet Marketing Strategist Donna Gunter helps service business owners automate their Internet marketing. Would you like to learn the specific Internet marketing strategies that get results? Discover how to improve your visibility and get found online by claiming your Free gift, TurboCharge Your Online Marketíng Toolkit, at: TurbochargeYourOnlineMarketing.com]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:27:32 -0400 84379 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=84084 Successful Website Design Criteria
By David Smith © 2009



We believe you don't start the design of a new or revised website by sitting down with the designer and coder of the website. Rather, we recommend you review the approaches, ideas, processes and other methods listed below to determine if they apply to your situation.

Think about your audience. Are they looking for immediate answers and solutions? We bet they are. Most likely these visitors to your website are very much like you. Chances are you use the Internet more than other types of media to search for information. If a web page doesn't "grab your interest" within 8 - 10 seconds after landing on it... you move on!

As a "first step" we suggest that you start by reviewing the questions listed below. We are convinced that once you get to the last question... you will have a list of action items identified that will greatly improve the productivity of your current website. The success or failure of the site and/or business may very well depend upon the decisions you make after reading these questions.

What Do You Know About Your Clients and Prospects State of Mind?

When visitors land on your website, they have very little time to read what you say. They have a need for information or a product and don't want to listen or read verbose descriptions and comments. You have about 8 seconds to engage them and get them to take action. Do most visitors land on your website wanting:

1) information,
2) a "quick fix",
3) a bargain,
4) a large selection,
5) or a telephone call, etc.?

It is imperative to know the answers to these and many other questions BEFORE you design the pages within your website.

Do You Make Website Visitors Feel You Can Satisfy Their Wants and Needs?

Landing on any page within your website [especially the Homepage] must make the visitor know that you understand their needs, business, wants, and desires. The more you put yourself into the "mindset" of the website visitor, the better chance you have of converting their visit into something you want to happen i.e. buy, complete a contact us form, bookmark the page, pick up the phone and call you or any other method of measurable conversion.

What Approach Do You Take When Developing Pages Within Your Website?

What do you think you would want from your website if you were the prospective visitor or client? Assume you don't know as much information as you want in order to make an informed decision. Talk to these visitors in a language they will understand. If visitors want more insight or information, tell them to click on the more info link or give you a call. They will follow your direction ONLY if you have built some level of trust or understanding.

What are You "Selling" to the Website Visitor?

Are you focused on telling them about your product or service or are you making them understand that choosing your firm will deliver that special feeling they are seeking by making the purchase? Are you sure that you made the visitor know that you understand their needs, wants, problems, etc.? What techniques did you implement to get your points across?

How are You Going to Get the Visitor to Stop and Think About Your Service or Product?

Remember... they are ready to pass by your website in a blink of an eye. What are you going to do to engage them? The answer you come up with will be critical to the success you have in gaining their confidence enough to buy or call you. Make sure what you say is NOT the same old thing they are used to seeing or reading on other websites. Be boring and you lose! Address the issues that appeal to the visitor and they WILL STOP! This is hard work... but worth the effort.

What Kind of "Call to Action" Statements are You Placing on Your Website?

Turning a visitor into a prospect or client is one of the most critical actions of your website. How will you engage them? Once they know that you understand their needs and wants, they are more inclined to follow your CTA direction. Call to Action statements are critical to the success of any website's conversion. Guide them in a manner that is more telling, rather than selling. Don't be afraid to be assertive.

How Does Your Website Address the "Who Are We" Issue?

Again, it is about making the website visitor feel confident that they are choosing a reputable firm or organization with which to do business. They need to read about your success. This can be done by exhibiting your affiliation with associations, awards won, satisfied client statements, client success stories, examples of your work, etc. Show them you are a "player" in your industry.

Are You Prepared to Answer: "What Makes You Different"?

What have clients and prospects said about you and your company? Have they applauded you for your approach to doing business? Did they say you made them feel like you understood their needs and wants? Think back to the reasons clients buy from you. How did you meet their needs and wants? Give your prospective clients reasons to do business with your firm.

A final thought...

Make it your primary goal to understand the potential client. Look at your website through that client's perspective. Who are they? What makes them different? What do they individually want and need? Be informative... do more telling than selling. They will "get it" and appreciate that you have made them an educated buyer. Finally, tell them what you want them to do next. Get them to take the first step and be ready to deliver on the expectations you have set throughout your website!

Finally, be sure to hire Internet marketing professionals to do the job if you don't have the capabilities in-house. Too much is at stake to leave this part of your business to chance! We are pleased to provide you the insightful comments contained herein.

About The Author
We have 11 years of Internet marketing experience re building successful website promotíon programs and meeting the challenges of appealing to today's Internet visitor in the current economic environment. Call us at 631-423-0815 for further discussion on how we might be able to assist you and your team or to review the Full list of PDF documents on Internet Marketing and Conversion techniques. InternetConsultingAndCoaching.com]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:30:04 -0400 84084 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83866
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Thanx]]> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:17:27 -0400 83866 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83528
Outlook categories: standing on the position of the reader select the appropriate plug-in, the realization of some functions, the more prospects visit the blog plug-ins open more slowly, so the better the prospects of plug-ins.

1.WordPress Related Posts, for the realization of the article page and feed the relevant articles of the function, although by WordPress original function related to the article, but still can not insert articles Feed.

2.WP-PostViews Plus, for statistics on the use of plug-ins under the cache of each article to access the data can be generated by year, month, or a whole list of articles click on the most.

3.WP Super Cache, the cache from a WordPress plug-in programmer, which can effectively reduce the number of database queries and improve the speed of open blog.

4.Yskin’s wp-CJK-excerpt, based on the home page in Chinese Wordpress Abstract toolbox output plug-in, with a new algorithm to control the output text page summary of the number of words or paragraphs.

5.Better Feed，Feed, Feed enhanced customization, each article in the rss after the copyright notice, article information, statistics and other code.

6.SRG Clean Archives, used for years in detail the number of archived articles on the list, please onlookers, I believe the archive page.

7.Use Google Libraries, the blog if you use the JavaScript, AJAX, that is, directly from the Google AJAX Libraries in load, speed, and less host load, you could host more than what Google’s servers?

Background categories: face the administrator with the choice of search engine friendly, to help administrators get more useful information.

8.Some Chinese Please! Anti-spam comment plug-ins. Shielding the contents of the message is not written in Chinese and trackback, basic does not manslaughter. The main post to deal with machines, human-like machine SPAM epic post if perseverance, you will bother to delete it manually, but also worthwhile people braved the dangers of broken fingers keep the Ctrl + V.

9.Limit Login Attempts, WordPress plug-in security. Defense used to guess the administrator password flesh, in a certain period of time for input to reach a certain number of incorrect password automatically lock the account and mail the Super Administrator.

10.No Self Pings, not ping its own, that is not in the list to receive comments from other articles of their own trackback.

11.Super Switch, the closure of the WordPress features you do not need to reduce the database size and speed up the background.]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:55:02 -0400 83528 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83527
Usually expert bloggers have cited two main reasons that can be responsible why people fail to make money through their blogs. Some bloggers think that as soon as they would start blogging, the readership will grow instantly and make money from immediate effect. When such unrealistic expectations are not met, people loose hope in blogging concept. Another vital reason why blogging fails is lack of proper planning. Therefore prepare a good plan and follow it so that you earn profits out of blogging.

Having a strong readership is the key to churn out money out of blogging and is very important too. If you want more number of advertisers to pay for your blog, then get more traffic on it. Although it may seem easy but its not an easy cup of tea to build up good readership. You would find many new blogs coming up everyday, so in order to survive the competition you need attractive style and quality content. One needs to also know about effective ways for blog marketing.

Many times bloggers devote enough time in writing quality blogs but do not invest required time for marketing it. This sometimes despite being of good quality fails to get the intended readership. Although regular updating your blog is also essential, as it keeps your blog content rich from SEO point of view. But if you dont get people to read to what you write, there is no use of updating it. If you desire to increase the view ability and traffic at your blog section than start marketing it today and get the increased traffic.

But dont keep unrealistic expectations of achieving success overnight even if you hire someone expert in marketing. You need to invest time and hard work in order to establish yourself online. Work consistently in order to achieve your goal. You can also set some goals for your company so that you get the enough viewership and attract more. Thus blogging can serve your purpose and fetch profits if done with patience and in correct manner.]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:52:54 -0400 83527 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83450
Sound confusing – sloppy – unethical – old?

Believe me – it's none of the above. The key phrase is "when done properly". Sure, you could just slap the sales page up on your own domain and try to sell the product – but chances for financial success are pretty slim when you do that.

What you need to do is rewrite most PLR ebooks. Now, it's not as hard as it may sound at first. All the research has already been done for you. If you chose the right product it should be reasonable well organized and "clean".

What's left for you to do is easy.

1)Rename your PLR ebook
2)Rename all of the chapter headings
3)Reorganize the content to fit your vision of how it should read
4)Now go back and rewrite and add (or delete) content. This is, of course, the hardest and longest part, but by renaming all your chapter headings you already know where you want to go with each section. It's more like writing a series of articles than it is writing an entire 30-60 page ebook.

You will want to make sure that all of the information that you are providing is current and reliable. That all links are still working and if they are affiliate links, make sure that YOUR affiliate ID is inserted I place of the existing ones.

Add new or updated graphics, graphs and illustrations.

Your primary purpose is to be inserting YOUR personality and YOUR view of the subject matter into the new ebook. Remember your value. YOU are the teacher. We all know that each person has a slightly different way of learning and it is completely possible that you will be the one – that YOUR EBOOK – will be the key to unlocking a bit of useful information for someone else.

Rewrite your PLR ebooks with pride and with the intent of offering valuable information to your readers and you will have a good ebook at the end. Don't consider pricing until after you have completed the rewriting process, so that you don't start to write for profit, rather than writing for the purpose of helping out your readers.

The entire process will take awhile – up to two weeks, but this is vastly shorter than the months it could take to write from scratch. Modify the sales page with your new product name, new graphics etc. and your in business as an ebook author!]]> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:22:52 -0400 83450 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83449 This will be the first article of a 3 part series on the big question what makes a successful (as defined by profitability) blog or mini site. I believe there are 4 components and the series will contain 1 article on each of them.

Let's get started.

The first key to the success of a blog or mini site is that it has to target a group of people (a niche) who are hungry for information of a specific nature. In other words, I'm talking about the selection of your niche.

The group of people that your blog or mini site targets has to be a group of people who have problems. Problems in the sense that they are looking for a solution to something, looking to improve something. Furthermore, in a great niche, that SOMETHING, is something that causes pain. Financial pain, physical pain, emotional pain, some sort of pain, for the simple reason that people who have pain are the people who will want to buy solutions to that pain, and hopefully from your website.

If that sounds a bit sick, trying to exploit people with pain, it's not. It's called marketing. You've had marketers doing it to you your whole life and you probably never even knew about it, why can't you do it too? And what's more, you're actually going to provide these people with a real solution, so you're being helpful!

Anyhow moving on.

So you're looking for a group of people with a problem, but that's not all.

Your next concern has to be whether there are enough of these people searching for solutions to their problems on the internet. How many is enough you ask? It's a good question. With certain kinds of sites, all you need is 10 visitors to your site a day and you can turn a nice monthly profit. Other niches and products that you promote you might need thousands per day. It all depends on what you sell, and who to, AND how much commission you make when you sell to them.

The things you should do are look at the search volume, as indicated by a tool like Wordtracker. Here you're simply looking at how many searches per day a particular keyphrase gets in the search engines. Then after that, you want to look at whether there are other sites or blogs that are competing in the same niche.

Contrary to what alot of people think, NO competition isn't necessarily a good thing. NO competition could and often does mean that it's not a profitable niche. What you actually want is SOME competition, but CRAPPY competition that you can DESTROY by making a better site, providing better content and in a better way.

The final piece of the puzzle of finding a good niche, is whether the niche has a quality product for you to promote. You need something to sell to these people, that is high quality, has great marketing material (sales letter etc, so it will convert your traffic well) and pays a decent commission.

This is of course assuming you're looking at the affiliate marketing model of making money with your blog - which I suggest if you're looking to retire from your job and earn a full time passive income, you SHOULD be. There are other ways to make money where you might think about some different factors in your niche selection.

So if you can combine all of the above factors when selecting your niche, you'll be giving yourself and your new blog the best possible chance of success. I hope you've found this valuable.]]> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:19:30 -0400 83449 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83448 Blogging is one of the most effective marketing tools online. We have heard this number of times but are often at a loss as to how to go about blogging to be successful.
It is absolutely vital to go about blogging in the right manner in order to see results.
For example, if you are writing a business blog, there are three aspects you need to keep in mind in order to be most effective. These include content, frequency of post and blog distribution tactics.
•Content must be rich and well researched. It must provide valuable inputs and information to the readers.
•Updating the blogs frequently is very important as it keeps the interest of the readers alive. Blog popularity in fact is determined by the frequency with which blogs are updated on the site. If you can manage to get your blogs updated a number of times in a day, you can be sure of getting your blogs included in the Google News Index. This ensures being ranked in the Google Search Engine almost immediately.
•Similarly it is important to distribute your blog in a proper manner for best results. It is possible to promote blogs through web site linking, search engines, traditional directories as well as blogospheres as compared to the websites which can only be promoted through search engines. This is the reason blogs are popular marketing tools. You can ensure your blogs are picked up swiftly by newsfeed subscribers through site search engines such as Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc and also RSS search engines like Feedster, Bloglines, Google Blog Search and Technorati.

Optimizing your blogs effectively online is also possible through other significant procedures such as –

Give maximum importance to keywords as you blog. Use titles that are relevant to the blog post. It is also vital to archive posts in the meta description tag and the title tag by text linking the post titles with the help of a constantly updated blog software.
Post blogs on current news related to your industry making sure you provide valuable inputs and comments.

Write crisp and concise articles giving rich opinion on your industry. This will help you come through as an expert in your field. Teaser articles can be linked to your original content on the website too.
When you are linking, take care that you link to sites that are similar in theme to your blogs and site. This way there are chances better sites that notice your link will approach you for linking back.
Make sure your blogs are submitted to all the directories and search engines where you website links feature. It is a good idea targeting blog or RSS specific search engines and directories.

It is possible to trackback to blog sites or news with the help of a comment system. This way you get to create links to your blog from sites that have high traffic.
Guest blogging is another excellent method of promoting your blogs. You can similarly invite other guest bloggers to your site as a return favour.
It is an excellent idea taking the help of various tutorials and eBooks such as Blueprint Guide on Blogger. With the help of this book, it is possible to learn what blog is all about and all the nuances of writing and marketing an effective blog.]]> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:18:42 -0400 83448 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83312 I have a cool information on colors. I would like to share this with you guys. Designers use different color concepts of their own choice. There are specific color palettes, codes which can enhance the look and feel of your website and make browsing more enjoyable.
Check these links below:

http://goinside.com/98/4/colors.html
http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/
http://www.colourlovers.com/
http://www.neteffect.dk/colormatch/

(These are no affiliate links)

I hope, the links will help you widely next time you design your website.
]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:41:06 -0400 83312 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=83111 Edited: spam]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:07:30 -0400 83111 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=82524
Joel]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:24:14 -0400 82524 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=82459 Which Website Visitors Are Potential Clients?
By Jerry Bader in Featured



With today’s website tracking software and services you can find out a lot about the people who visit your website. You can learn where they’re from, what kind of browser they’re using, how long they stayed on your site, and a whole lot more. But what all this high tech intelligence won’t tell you is what kind of people they are, and how likely they are to be transformed by your Web presentation from viewers to customers.
Your ability to convert website visitors into clients depends on your ability to find the soft underbelly of their subconscious desire. After all, if someone is happy with what they’ve already got, they don’t need you, but if they were truly one hundred percent happy, they wouldn’t bother coming to your website. Therefore every visitor that comes to your site is a potential client whether they know it or not.

The Setup’s The Thing

Your website presentation has to find that annoying little subconscious scab just under the surface and pick at it until it becomes a full blown irritation that fosters discontent and a desire for change. That discontent is your opening to make your value statement.
We refer to this process as The Setup. Like any good presentation you cannot, or rather should not, just blurt out how great you are, but rather you have to set the scene. Like any good story, the punch line, moral, or payoff only works if it is properly setup. Far too many website presentations suffer from premature pitch climax.

The ability to transform viewers into customers requires patience. Entrepreneurial companies tend to view the setup as a waste of time, and they fear losing viewers before they ever get to the so-called “good-stuff.” But without a proper setup, an audience is just not primed to accept what you have to say.
You can’t sell anybody anything unless they understand they’ve not been getting everything they need and deserve. That understanding creates dissatisfaction with your competition and opens the audience’s minds to what you have to offer. In short, the setup needs to touch a psychological nerve.

The Customer Is Always Right – Not Quite

We’ve all heard the expression, “the customer is always right.” The fact is the customer is not always right, and in many cases they don’t really know what they want or what they should have; and sometimes even when they do, they resist it because of a variety of misinformation, misunderstanding, self-doubt, and preconceived notions of conventional wisdom. It’s your website presentation’s job to set visitors on the right path.

Being The Expert Inspires Confidence

You’re supposed to be the expert in what you do, and if you are, you need to have the ability to dig deeper into what people really want, need, and desire. I am always reminded of friends of mine who hired an interior decorator to furnish their new home. The decorator asked them what kind of furniture they liked. They answered that they were looking for Colonial, to which the decorator answered, “No you aren’t. What you want is Country French.” And after he showed my friends what he was talking about they quickly agreed. The decorator knew his business and understood the clients. Yes the clients liked the idea of the homey Colonial look they’d seen, but not being furniture experts they didn’t understand what the options were, and what kind of furniture best suited their lifestyle and budget, while still providing the homey rustic but comfortable aesthetic they wanted. Customer satisfaction is about providing what the client really wants and not necessarily what they say they want.

Learn How To Communicate So Audiences Get It

Let’s face it; we all like to read about how the digital revolution has opened up the business world to more audience influence, but the fact is people are influenced and manipulated and desires created through marketing and advertising as much as ever. How many website owners actually benefit in any meaningful way from social networking and search optimization, or do they do it because it’s expected and promoted by proponents as the tactic du jour.

If you think a particular song you like is played on a thousand radio stations because it’s good, or even because it has a following then you are living in a fantasy world. If you thing the vast majority of viral videos produced by corporations go viral all by themselves then think again.

Audiences are being manipulated and transformed into customers all the time, not because companies responded to what the public says, but rather to how the public reacts to various communication and marketing stimuli. What’s truly amazing is how bad companies are at doing it. With all of the television industries’ research into viewers, they still fail to deliver consistent quality programming that people want to watch. Every Fall new shows are yanked faster than a Nolan Ryan fastball, but the same crappy commercials live-on for what seems an eternity. Television viewers are a captive audience and if they want to watch their favorite show they have to tolerate the commercials (PVRs aside), but the Web is different. If your website presentation stinks, nobody is going to stick around to absorb the smell.

Web Television Convergence Has Arrived

If you think of your website presentation as nothing more than a digital brochure, you’re already behind the curve. Welcome to the Web on TV.
All you need is a laptop computer or one of the new gaming consoles attached to your big screen TV to access the Web on television. And as network programmers scramble to get their acts together more and more people are opting to spend their television time on the Web. Kind of makes you rethink what kind of website presentation you should be offering. It’s time to start thinking of your website as your own business channel and the content on it as programming. It’s the future and it’s here, now.

Who Visits Your Website?
Before website visitors can be transformed into clients, we have to understand who they are in terms of their mental outlook or frame of mind when they first arrive at your home page.

1. Accidental Tourists
Accidental Tourists are website visitors who find their way to your website by serendipity. Your company’s link may have come up in a search for something mentioned on your website, but not something that’s a core element of your business. But just because these people didn’t really intend to visit a site like yours doesn’t mean they’re a waste of time. Perhaps they never thought of using your product or service, or perhaps they never realized how much they really wanted what you have to offer. If your website presentation is exciting, meaningful, and entertaining you at least have the opportunity to plant the seed of desire for your product or service.

2. Brain Pickers
Brain Pickers show up at your site with little intention to buy anything, in fact they’re there to pick your brain and find out how to do what you do for themselves. But if you’re truly an expert at what you do, you at least have the opportunity to show these people that what you offer is special, and doing it right requires a company with your skills and resources.

3. Penny Pinchers
These guys are looking for a bargain. You are on a list and they are checking out who is offering the cheapest solution to their problem. But not all Penny Pinchers are penny-wise and pound-foolish, some, just need to understand why you’re the best at what you do, and why what you are charging is the real bargain.

4. Tire Kickers
The Tire Kickers love to look but rarely buy. They want what you’ve got but they just can’t make the commitment to buy it. They visit your website a hundred times, each time pressing their noses against the virtual storefront window trying to make a decision that rarely comes.
It’s up to your website presentation to push them over the edge. If they want what you’ve got, you can sell it to them. All you need to do is find that soft under belly of desire that gets them eager to spend their money.

5. Missourians
These guys want what you offer but need the reassurance of some practical input to get them to buy. The desire is there, but it’s frustrated by their mental need to justify the purchase with practical excuses. “But Honey, I know little Johnny is only three, but think of the eye-hand co-ordination he’ll learn playing these video games.” People ultimately buy what they want, and rationalize the purchase with logic and reasoning, but without desire, no amount of statistical evidence will work.

6. The Enemy
If you’re any good, you’ll have plenty of competitors hanging around your website looking for ideas they can use. It’s all part of the game. Better to be out there showing people what you’ve got than hiding, afraid someone might take advantage. Besides if you’re really good, you’ll always be at least one step ahead of the competition anyway. That makes you the leader and them the follower. And everybody wants to do business with the leader.

7. The Needy
The Needy crave what you’ve got but need a lot of reassurance, handholding, and customer support. These guys have the potential to be good customers but your presentation has to make it clear that you’ll be there to answer questions and concerns and not just leave them in the lurch like so many other Web-based businesses do after they’ve got the sale.

In The End
If you’re fed-up with social networking self-gratification, frustrated by ever changing site optimization requirements, and ineffective advertising then it’s time to re-evaluate what your website presentation says and how it says it.

In the final analysis it’s all about communicating your emotional value proposition using your most important venue, your website; delivered in the most engaging, informative, and memorable manner that compels your audience to pay attention to your marketing message, and act upon it.

Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia, a website design firm that specializes in Web-audio and Web-video. Visit www.mrpwebmedia.com/ads, www.136words.com, and www.sonicpersonality.com. Contact at info@mrpwebmedia.com or telephone (905) 764-1246.]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:21:02 -0400 82459 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=82288
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As we all know, the economic crisis broke out in the US at first, and the US is the world’s economic superpower, and its giant demand for foreign-made goods has helped to revive overseas manufactures. In this sense, US economic recession infulenced all the countries over the world.

Recently, more and more news reported that the American economy is showing increasiong signals of recovery. In the second quarter, for example, the US GDP decreased by 1 percent year on year——slower decrease from the 6.4 percent drop in the first quarter. In real estate market, housing prices also witnessed their first increase in the last two years.

But we should know that the stimulus projects by the federal government have made all this happen, the stimulus projects could not work without borrowing money. It’s estimated that this year’s federal deficit will amount to $18 trillion The huge federal debt forces the government to pay off interest with taxpayer money. Furthermore, too much debt portends to undermine investor confidence in buying U.S. Treasury securities. The empty national treasury will not be the only bad end result. U.S. consumers will remain shackled with a highhousehold-debt ratio and most probably not be likely to produce large purchasing power anytime soon.

Some experts say the government stimuls project is exerting its maximum power at the present stage, and that its influence will die out by next January. If this is true, will the economy fully recover in less than the four months left?

Moreover, 59 percent of American people believe the government is being far too loose in its spending, and predicts that it will get more and more difficult for the Obama administration to ask for money from Congress in the future.

For these reasons, it is premature to say the recession is over—when we do not know how much deeper it could go. Indeed, when it comes to making a judgment on the current economic situation in the United States, we should be more prudent than ever. Turn off the lights when you are away, cut down the living expenses, take bus instead of by taxi, those are what we can do from now. Moreover, some wise female cut down their expenses on clothes and accessories. For example, they prefer by the classical styles to the fashionable dress, wear different colors of silicone wristbands instead of jade, gold, silver bracelets. They are much cheaper and environmental.Some people and companies print the words “I need a job, please help me” or “be union and prudent to ge through the economic crisis” on the lanyards to do advertisement…. Please kindly to share your way in such a difficult period with us. Let’s work together to get it though!


]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:02:14 -0400 82183 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=81694 10 Tips For Creating a Brilliant Landing Page
By Joanna Colek © 2009


Building a great landing page should be on top of your priority list if you want your website visitors transformed into customers.

While a great looking website can grab the attention of your visitors, a strong landing page will keep them involved and get them to buy your products/services.

Wikipedia defines a landing page as:

The page that appears when a potential customer clicks on an advertisement or a search-engine result link. The page will usually display content that is a logical extension of the advertisement or link, and that is optimized to feature specific keywords or phrases for indexing by search engines.

Wikipedia's definition sums it up nicely but there is certainly more to a great landing page then relevant and keyword rich content. Here are 10 things that you should be looking at when optimizing a landing page:

- Relevant Content

A landing page's content should be directly related to organic search results, PPC campaign, anchor text in inbound links and any other targeted inbound advertising, online and offline. If people don't get what they expect, they will be more likely to leave.

- Multiple Landing Pages

A landing page shouldn't necessarily be your homepage. In many instances a homepage is a good landing page. However, for more targeted traffíc and better results, you want a landing page to be focused on a specific offering and specific call for action. To accomplish this, a given website should have multiple landing pages. Create some deep link landing pages that will focus on a specific proposition and your conversion rate will be higher.

- Focus on Functionality

More and more visitors seem to judge the professionalism and credibility of a site by its design. To satisfy this, many website owners concentrate on the design aspect instead of focusing on its functionality. A well-designed landing page is essentially worthless if the prospect can't accomplish anything. While I wouldn't suggest skimping on the design, it shouldn't be your priority. Focus on the exact steps you want your visitor to take and design a page with that in mind.

- Call To Action

You got visitors to your landing page, now direct them to take action. Make it clear and highly noticeable without overwhelming your audience. Whether it's a sign-up form or a "buy now" button, make it the focus of your page.

- Send a Clear Message

Keep your landing page clean and clutter free so your visitors stay focused on your message. Emphasize the biggest reasons that they should carry out the applicable call to action with larger text, contrasting colors, images. Make it easier for them to scan the content by using lists and getting right to the point.

- Provide Incentive

Bribing your visitors with freebies and samples is a proven method of enticing them to sign up. Provide more than your competition but don't sell yourself short either. Provide a list of reasons why your offering is better and what exactly the visitor can expect. Provide references and testimonials.

- Make Visitors Stay

Avoid sending your visitors to another page unless it is absolutely necessary. That includes any internal navigation as well as external banners. If you eliminate all distractions and limit navigation options, you stand a better chance of keeping your visitors around.

- Simple is Better

Make it easy for your visitors to complete the action you want them to. Less confusion and decision making for your visitor means better conversions rate for your landing page. Don't provide multiple choices and throw in optional extras. Focus on the pitch the page was created for.

- Power of Freebies

Everyone likes free offers. They are hard to resist and can be a powerful conversion tool. Whether a call to action is free or something free is receíved as a result of carrying out a call to action, it certainly doesn't hurt. If your competition charges for something and you provide it for free, you'll win the customer. Remember, just because you make a free offer doesn't mean that it shouldn't be quality.

- Testing

In a recent post "How to Turn Website Visitors into Buyers", I've stressed how important testing is in finding out what your visitors like. Testing various text, call to action forms, layouts will give you a true idea what produces the best results as far as conversion.

Using a tool like Google's Website Optimizer you can easily monitor the conversion rate, bounce rate, and tons of other useful metrics found in most modern day web analytics apps. Using these metrics you can easily figure out which version will be your optimal page, one that maximizes the results.

Creating a successful and effective landing page takes a lot of work but should be the focus for anyone involved with a website. Whether you are a website owner, web designer, web developer or a web marketing specialist you must be aware of the components that comprise a solid landing page. After all this can mean a website's success or failure.

About The Author
Joanna Colek is the owner of Joanna Ciolek Web Design Studio, based in North Denver, Colorado. She offers affordable, custom and effective web design services to small business owners.]]> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:17:30 -0400 81694 http://www.dreamteammoney.com/index.php?showtopic=80651
Anyone recommend a program?

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