Interpreneurs

Finding Good Hosting Services by Aleksi Ursin

Many people in this internet-era are having great difficulty finding hosting services for there internet business that are both cheap and reliable. They have questions like: How to choose one? How do I know one is good?

It is not as easy task finding the right hosting, but there are some general guides on what a good service is like. For example:
* General professionalism on their website
* Help is available within 30 minutes 24/7
* Their Team Size? Remember, bigger might not be better.
* Also, you must remember that cheaper is not necessarily better either, as there is a lot of scamming going on hosting business and competition is very fierce.

Someone offering unlimited bandwidth, a huge hard drive quota or something similar which has a clear cost for the provider, is more likely offering you an unstable, or even a scam service. Look for those who tell you that they allocate resources, so that they never oversell even if their all customers would be using everything offered to them. These kind of providers are more likely to be very high quality, thus usually the price is a little bit higher, but you can expect more from them in terms of support, stability & performance. And not to mention REAL value-for-money.

The 3 most important factors you must look for in a hosting service, if your website is to succeed, are: Stability, Support response time & how they respond, and the performance of the service.

Performance is tertiary. Why, you ask? Because stability is the most important factor. You don’t want to be loosing business because your site is not available most of the time, do you? Support comes second because crashes do happen, problems DO occur, and response time of support team is VERY important here.

And, you may value such things as one-man companies, because you know that they are very likely to be able to provide 24/7 help and support, and will also offer a higher quality service, because they can put more time into their customers. They value all their customers because they know who is paying, and who deserves what they are paying for, instead of some half-baked scam service that is wasting both the customers time and money.

Think about how good it would be if he or she support technician even gave you their personal phone number for you to contact them if problems occur, and never charge a dime for using it! Talk about service! This will both reduce your down-time, and any business losses incurred because of this. In fact, artichost.net provides 24/7 LIVE support for all its customers, and will surely be in the running this year to win awards for Best-Service or the like!!

© Aleksi Ursin- ArticHost.net

About Author
Aleksi Ursin is the creator of Interpreneurs and owner of many other websites, on the side of being CEO of ArticHost

How to become a successfull Interpreneur, and become financially free! By Aleksi Ursin

Interpreneur. What on earth does that mean, you are thinking? Well, Interpreneur is derived from 2 words: Entrepreneur, and Internet. An Entrepreneur is someone who creates markets and businesses to fill those markets. Any household dictionary would agree and conclude it’s also someone who assumes the risk of creating those new business’s, ventures, startups. The Internet is, well, you know what it is; you are using it right now! So, putting those two words together gives us a far more important concept. An Interpreneur is someone who creates Internet businesses!

Looking further into the idea of what an Entrepreneur is, Dictionary.com defines it more precisely as someone who starts businesses, builds them, and then sells them, or leads the business towards bankruptcy. In my opinion, this is far from the truth. In my opinion anyone who has his hands in a lot of business opportunities, thinks creatively, and is there for the long term, is an Entrepreneur. How Dictionary.com describes an Entrepreneur is more of a gambling machine. Put money in, get money out, loosing some money each time.

Anyway, you are now wondering, how do I become an Internet Entrepreneur? This can be a very tough question to answer, because it varies from person to person. Other, more specific questions such as:
“How do I make money on the internet?”
“How can I get passive income of thousands?”
Or even, “what exactly IS the Internet used for commercially?”
May pop into your head, and cause all sorts of worrying emotions to cloud your mind. However, regardless of any questions or doubts you may have, the key to it all is this one simple concept:
Success starts from within YOU! Not someone else or circumstances you are in, but within YOU, more exactly within your brains!

What exactly does that mean though? It’s all about the choices you make, the responsibility you take for your life, and whether you have what it takes. But, what it takes is only thinking like successful rich people! Now you are asking, wait a minute, wouldn’t everyone be rich then? No, they wouldn’t, because it’s completely different how the rich and successful people think, compared to a “normal” human.
For example, here is a short story of a fisherman:
A rich man saw a fisherman in the harbor, handling his catch.
The Rich man asks the Fisherman “Would you like to be financially free & rich?”
-Fisherman replies “No, that’s too much work.”
Rich man asks “Why would it be too much work?”
-Fisherman: “Because I’d have to catch so much fish that I wouldn’t have time to do anything else, and even then it wouldn’t be enough”
Rich man looks at his pricing: “Raise your price by 20% and buy more boats”
-Fisherman: “Why would I want to do that?”
Rich man: “By raising your prices you can afford to buy more boats, and one boat catches only this much fish in this time, correct?”
-Fisherman: “I guess you are right, with one boat you have ability to catch only this much fish, but where are you going with all this? I don’t understand.”
Rich man: “You buy more boats, hire men to catch fish for you, and before you know it you have a whole fleet of fishing boats!”
-Fisherman: “But why would I want that?”
Rich man: “That way you can become financially free & rich, without spending your own time to fishing, but managing your business. Being the big boss, just like Ii am!”
-Fisherman: “Aaah, now I understand! That’s absolutely brilliant! Thank You!”

This is an exaggerated example, but you get the idea, yes? Simple fisherman wasn’t used to thinking like a successful person, so he didn’t understand what the rich man told him, something that was very simple for the rich man. So, you see the difference? Now you are thinking that you aren’t as intellect & brilliant as the rich man in this example, am I right? Well you are wrong! It’s just the difference how people think, how they try to find solutions, the questions they ask from themselves!

Don’t go around saying that you are stupid, poor or anything else like that, that just makes your subconscious believe more that you are stupid or poor. Instead, when you make a mistake, and are about to call yourself stupid, instead ask yourself “How can I do this fast & efficiently? How can I accomplish this? What can I do different next time?” It makes your mind think about it from whole different perspective, and results are bound to come up, and your whole view of the world will change!

Another thing you have to do is to take responsibility over your life; it’s you alone who is responsible for your life, so take the responsibility! Another thing you should do, is actually spend time figuring out your dreams & goals, write them down, and draw up a schedule. You should daydream frequently about your dream and how you achieve it!
It prepares your mind for the situations to come; it’s like preplanning for situations to come, coming up with “action plans for possible scenarios” so to speak. This, for example, is what athletes do constantly! Now, when you dream about achieving your goals, make it a big, colorful image in your head, right in front of you, and make it have sounds and clearer and clearer, that reinforces your positive thinking! Now, when you think bad things about yourself, or bad things happen to you: Make them black & white, small, no colors, blurry, then blow those pictures up in your mind! Now you are asking what the hell am I talking about here, right? Nope, this is not bullshit, but instead Neuro-Linguistic Programming, look it up on google! It’s a kind of self-hypnosis, and very efficient to change your life!

It all becomes within yourself, and now I’ve given you the keys to success!

More on the topic, I recommend you read Paul McKenna’s “Change your life in 7 days”, it’s a brilliant book teaching you the basics of NLP and becoming successful. I also recommend you to get books from Napoleon Hill about becoming successful. Remember, it’s not what you know, it’s what you DO that changes your life!

© Aleksi Ursin- ArticHost.net (Article spell checked & formatted by: Joshua D’Alton)

About Author
Aleksi Ursin is the creator of Interpreneurs and owner of many other websites, on the side of being CEO of ArticHost

We are in the best of times and the worst of times for MLM . . . Jobs are scarce, and many people are facing employment insecurity. Time freedom and income freedom, which used to give us our “sex appeal” as an industry, have shifted in their impact. Regular jobs sometimes offer flex-time, which puts a J-O-B on a par with our industry, and the income freedom that you are seeking has remained elusive for many, where as a salary, however meager it may be, is predictable.

Ask yourself these questions: 1. Where is your company headed? (Mission statement, leadership, integrity issues . . .) 2. What is your life mission? 3. Do you have a genuine, trusted role model who exemplifies true devotion to the company and its substance? 4. Is your “mentor” successful on the level you’re striving for? 5. Who is your target audience? 6. How appealing does your product/service appear if you remove the compensation? 7. What is your basis of emphasis — is it about “you” or “them”? 8. How are you planning to upgrade your lifestyle when you double your income? 9. Do you have a clear-cut work program designed to generate your immediate and short-term goals? 10. Is your belief locked in enough to sustain you through disappointments and setbacks? 11. Are you willing to learn to lead from the back of the room? 12. Are you patient? Answering these questions should give you clarity about what you want and what you’re willing to sacrifice to make it happen.

Beginning this business, you are entering what I call the Bun Syndrome. My husband, Taylor Hegan, and I always have what we refer to as “a lot of buns in the oven.” We’ve got “buns going in” (new distributors), “buns cooking” (beginning builders), “buns browning” (leaders developing) and “buns leaving the oven” (advanced leaders on the way to millionaire status). As we are not in the ‘convincing business,’ we expect our team members to participate in leadership mentoring and follow through with commitments on their own. I want to recommend to you a book that I have gleaned insights from and that has expanded my thinking, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell.

Ask yourself one more question, “If you continue to think like you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always gotten. Is it enough?” As I continue to re-invent myself as an industry leader, I realize that I cannot ask people to do what I am not currently doing, nor can I expect them to exceed the pace I set. Even though we have earned over five million dollars with our company and worked our way to the # 1 distributorship production level, we still execute all the elements of the business and continually field test to see what is effective in today’s marketplace.

Everything works some of the time and nothing works all of the time. We must be ever vigilant to examine ways of expanding when the economy fluctuates. It is imperative that you stay open to breakthrough thinking and give the industry a three-year internship commitment. Then, get ready for the most thrilling time of your life.

The MLM business is fun, lucrative, creative, non-discriminatory, rewarding, people-oriented and ever-changing. If you want to attach yourself to a career with no ceiling— you have come to the right place. As a former schoolteacher, I have to pinch myself when I think about the lifestyle that Taylor and I now lead. I make more in a month than I used to make in a year. As you consider your MLM future, remember: “You cannot be anything outside of yourself greater than you are within.” If you truly want to become a millionaire in this, your own mindset and behavior must reflect financial success. Remember: “likes” attract “likes” and “winners” gravitate toward other “winners.” There is room for you in our MLM winners’ circle if you earn your rightful place by becoming a top producer. It is all about LUCK: L aboring U nder C ertain K nowledge The best part is— you create your own luck.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Eileen Silva, Ph.D., N.D. is a metabolic health balancing expert who has appeared on TV and radio talk shows, lectured extensively, and does individual and group weight management consultations, as well as corporate wellness programs. To find out more information go to http://www.easilymakingmoney.com

The Art of Using Blogs to Their Full Marketing Potential by Peter Dimas

As an Internet entrepreneur, you’re more than likely aware of the ability of blogs to increase the bottom line of your e-business. Most everyone who sells online, either their product or someone else’s, or runs a blog that they have monetized with ads from Google Adsense or some other source does some kind of blog advertising because it is free and eventually gets indexed by the search engines, especially when using Blogger.com blogs. However, there are a few ways that you can really use blogs to enhance your business online, and these tips can be used whether you are selling products on your own site or simply running your own monetized blog.

The first thing you need to think about when generating new blog entries is “how do people know that I have any/new content available here?” Luckily, most blog servers and software automatically create RSS site feeds (in the form of a file called atom.xml) that can be sent to the many RSS feed servers available online. Think of it is an announcement to the world through Really Simple Syndication that an update has been made to your blog and everyone should come and check it out. These updates are then posted on thousands of other websites and seen by people who are watching the site feeds for up to date news. This benefits you in two ways: First, it gets automatic traffic flowing into your site (you posted your web address in your blog post, didn’t you?), and second many sites will carry your blog post creating one-way links to your web site. And just in case you don’t know, one way links are the most powerful types of links to have.

However, doing so manually can be slow and extremely time consuming. There are many major RSS feeds available online, and posting your blog to each one each time can take forever. Fortunately, there is an easy way to automate it; a little piece of software called RSS Announcer. To use this software all you do is point it to the URL of your atom.xml file (which is created automatically with virtually all blog software and can be found in your setup), choose which RSS feeds you want to post to, and hit a button. The rest is taken care of for you automatically, and your blog posts are then syndicated across many thousands of web sites. Do you think that might make a difference in the number of visitors to your site?

The next important part of running a blog is always having new and fresh content for visitors to check out. When someone comes to your site or your blog, you want them to keep coming back, and one of the best ways to do that is to constantly update content. The problem is that even the most prolific of writers can’t write more than one or two articles a day, and if you start running several blogs the amount of writing can quickly become overwhelming. I have run as many as 18 blogs at a single time and there’s no way I would ever be able to create enough new content to keep users coming back. This is especially important if your blogs are monetized with Adsense advertising. Let’s say, for instance, that you run a blog about Home Mortgages because it is a subject you know a lot about and are passionate about. In order to produce income you include Adsense on your site, and visitors to your blog read not only your content, but also see ads relating to Mortgages. Some of these visitors are going to click on your ads and generate income for you. In fact, if you’re really good, 20% or more of your visitors will click on an advertisement and put money in your pocket. Soon some money starts coming in and you decide to put up another blog about Refinancing. After a while the blog starts to take off, and more Adsense revenue starts rolling in. At some point, you will find yourself trying to run so many blogs that there is no way you can write enough content for each of them.

Fortunately, there’s an answer for the problem as well. It comes in the form of a piece of software called RSStoBlog. RSStoBlog will automatically, on a schedule that you decide, post relevant content to your blogs either from News sources, RSS Feeds, or search engines. If you’re running a blog about Mortgages, instead of constantly writing new content for your blog, you can automate the posting of Mortgage information to your blog every day, several times a day. How does this benefit you as a blog owner? First, it relieves the burden of having to come up with so much original content by yourself. Second, it will send a “ping” to all the blog directories on every new post alerting them of new content at your blog. Third, if you are running a website relating to your blog, you can post the URL’s of different pages of your website in your blog content, and those pages will quickly be indexed by the various search engines.! Have you seen those advertisements about “get your site indexed in 3 days for only $XX”? That’s how they do it: add your page to a blog and ping the directories. If you’re unfamiliar with this technique it is called Blogging and Pinging, and it is great for getting sites quickly indexed. RSStoBlog lets you do this quickly and easily. For all that it does, RSStoBlog is very under priced. It is definitely worth checking out if you are serious about marketing your websites or monetizing your blogs.

The last problem I’d like to address is that of link building. We all know that one of the keys to a long term search engine optimization strategy is high quality link building. This can include reciprocal links, purchased one-way links with related web sites, or even free links with unrelated websites. Many search engine experts agree that having some links, even if they’re from sites totally unrelated to your own, are better than no links at all. Links to your site are like “votes” that the search engines see as your site containing real content. I assume that the people who run search engines feel that someone who takes time to build links to their site actually wants the site to stick around a while. However, as usual, link building can take a long time if it is not automated in some way.

Now, you’re probably scratching your head and wondering “what does that last paragraph have to do with blogs?” Well, once again a piece of software comes to our rescue to automate our link building. It is called Blog Link Generator, and can be used to quickly create hundreds or thousands of one-way links from blogs relating to your website (or even your own blog). It does this by searching for blogs relating to keywords that you input, and automatically posting to those blogs with a message from you and a link to your website. Let’s say, for example, that you have a website or blog about Car Insurance. You enter the keywords “car insurance” into the software, and it will search through many thousands of blogs relating to car insurance and on each of those blogs post a message from you saying something like “I really enjoy car insurance blog. I have a website relating to car insurance you may find interesting at http://whateversite.com/ . Please come and visit when you have a chance.” This is a piece of software you can use as little or as much as you want. There is no shortage of blogs on just about any topic imaginable, so creating one-way links to your site or blog on nearly any subject becomes extremely easy. Believe me when I say that you will quit before the software does. So as you can see, there are several ways you can add to the power of blogs to bring more revenue to your e-business. Whether it is getting more people to know about your site or simply automating tasks that would normally consume too much time, software products are available to free up that time so you can get to the business of doing more business.

Suggested Resources: http://www.cheapbloglinkgenerator.com http://www.dimasenterprises.com/rsstoblog.html http://www.easyrssannouncer.com

Yours in Success,
Peter Dimas

About the Author

Peter Dimas is a full time Internet and Affiliate marketer living in Las Vegas, NV. He also runs a Search Engine Optimization company which specializes in all types of SEO including White, Gray, and Black Hat tactics. If you would like more information, please contact him here and ask him how he can flood your site with targeted visitors.

Best ways to get inbound links by Kritika

SEO One-way Web Links

I’ve only seen five strategies that really work consistently for getting hundreds of links.

Less Effective One-Way Link Strategies

Yet there’s perennial interest in alternative linking strategies. They range from bad to OK, but none offer as much potential as the five major ways of getting links.

Link farms never seem to die. The latest variations try to pass themselves off as viral marketing, but are really a sort of endless pyramid scheme: you link to me, so I link to someone else, who links to someone else, and on and on down the line. Link farms can get you delisted from search engine indexes, so don’t even try them.

Affiliates can provide you with one-way inbound links if you use affiliate software that links directly to your site rather than through a redirect. But many, many affiliates are now placing all their affiliate links in redirects of their own invention, to help protect their commissions from pirates who will simply apply to the program themselves to get a discount.

Posting to web forums and blogs regularly will get you one-way inbound links, but they’ll only have search-engine value a small percentage of the time. Many blogs and bulletin boards use search-engine-unfriendly dynamic file formats, automatically encase links in script, or use robot instructions to prevent spiders from following links.

Many one-way inbound linking strategies fall into the great-if-you-are-lucky-enough-to-get-it category, such as winning a web award or being featured on a high-PageRank website just for being so great.

Other one-way incoming link strategies are in the this-will-take-forever-to-get-anywhere category, such as offering to provide testimonials to all your vendors in exchange for a link to your site. (Hint: If you can get more than twenty links that way, you probably need to simplify your supply chain.)

Now, on to the five major ways of getting large numbers of one-way inbound links. Some are better than others, but they all have more potential than some of the more madcapped strategies. Of course, none is a good strategy all on its own. You have to understand all five strategies in order to really gain a distinct advantage in the one-way link hunt.

1. Waiting for Inbound Links

If you have good content you will eventually get one-way inbound links naturally, without asking. Organic, freely given links are an essential part of any SEO strategy. But you cannot rely on them, for two reasons:

Unfortunately, “eventually” can be a very long time.

Worse, there is a vicious cycle: you can’t get search engine traffic, or other non-paid traffic, without inbound links; yet without inbound links or search engine traffic, how is anyone going to find you to give you inbound links?

2. Triangulating for Inbound Links

Search engines will have a tough time dampening reciprocal links if the reciprocation is not direct. To get links to one website you offer in exchange a link from another website you also control. This would seem to be a mostly foolproof way of defeating the link-dampening ambitions of Google and the rest. If you have more than one website, you probably are already employing this linking method. There are only a few drawbacks:

You need to have more than one website in the same general category of interest or the links won’t be relevant.

The work required to set up this kind of arrangement and verify compliance is not insignificant. The process cannot be automated to the same extent as direct one-to-one reciprocal linking.

As with traditional reciprocal links, a very big drawback is that the links are mostly on “Resources” pages that are just lists of links. There’s only a small chance of getting significant traffic from these links. Plus, any “Resource” page may well eventually become an easy target for link dampening, if that hasn’t happened already.

3. Submitting to Directories

They are the legendary fairy lands of SEO: PageRank-passing, no-fee-charging, and actually well-run directories of relevant links. Yes, they really do exist. An SEO acquaintance tells me he knows 200 good ones just off the top of his head. Plus, there are other kinds of directories: directories of affiliate programs, of websites using a certain content management system, of websites whose owners are members of this or that group, of websites accepting PayPal, etc. etc.

Ah, a link in a PageRank-passing link directory: it’s a good deal if you can get it. But let’s say you do get links from all 200 such directories and a hundred more from the little niche directories–now what?

4. Paying for Inbound Links

Buying and selling text links on high-PageRank web pages has become big business. Buying good traffic-generating “clean” links is a great alternative to pay-per-click advertising, which confers no SEO benefit. But, there are a number of pitfalls of relying primarily on paid links for SEO:

The cost of the hundreds of links required for substantial search engine traffic can become prohibitive.

As soon as you stop paying, you lose your link–you are essentially renting rather than owning, with no “link equity” building up.

Google is actively trying to dampen the impact of paid links on rankings, as revealed in various patent filings. A website can try to mask the fact that the links are paid, but how well it does that is out of your control.

Given Google’s mission to dampen paid links’ effectiveness, paid link buyers have an interest in verifying that a potential paid link partner is “passing PageRank.” But identifying appropriate PageRank-passing paid link partners is quite a task in itself.

Google also has a stated mission of dampening the value of any “artificial” links. Having most of your links on PageRank 3 or higher web pages would seem to be a dead give-away that your links are “artificial,” since the vast majority of web pages (note: not necessarily websites, but their pages) are PageRank 1 or lower. Meanwhile, buying PageRank 0 or 1 links would have so little impact on a site’s PageRank that it would not be worth the expense.

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