It’s Christmas: time to enjoy the lighter side of life and send crazy Christmas cards around. One of our online friends sent this cartoon to Kevin the Collie (not to me), he obviously thinks the dog is more A list that us. Anyway, in spite of that I felt I had to show you this great cartoon from a friend of mine: For the PC among you, my advice is - relax and see the funny side!!
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Are you fed up with so-called business opportunities that fail? We have reviewed the top affiliate programs on the Internet today, including the Rich Jerk. Below you will find reviews of four solid income ideas that actually work. The key to a making a success of your new business is to know how and where to start. Without guidance and a business plan you can waste time and lose a lot of money. Find out which was the top rated program here.

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Your website needs lots of visitors (traffic) if you are going to make money from it. If you do not have a large advertising budget at your disposal, online forums can be a very effective way of generating quality targeted traffic to your site for free.

Online forums are sites providing a channel for exchanging ideas: there are many thousands of sites, most of which are free to join. They cater for myriad niche interest groups, allowing the enthusiast to find answers to questions or exchange ideas. This offers a good opportunity to promote your website and even share revenue. Some forums now give you the chance to earn a share of the income as a spinoff to your participation in the forum, and as a result Forums can generate significant quality free traffic - real visitors - to your website or blog.

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In my previous post I pointed to some factors that can wipe out your efforts in gaining inbound links to your site. That does not mean that reciprocal linking is any less important. Here are six golden rules for quality inbound linking:

1. Link only to partners whose pages have some relevance to you.
2. Make sure you are not leaving dead links on your site, and of course dump any reciprocals that are no longer being reciprocated.
3. Use anchor text on your links that target your keywords/keyphrases.
4. Ensure that link partners are placing your link on the site and page that was agreed. A PR5 front page with spammy multiple entry ‘directories’ will not help your SERPs results.
5. Webmasters can stop their link pages being spidered by using a ‘no follow’ on the page or in robots.txt, rendering your reciprocal link useless. Always check that their link page is indexed on Google.
6. Use link opportunities to link to all the important pages on your site, not just the home page. This can increase the relevance on the link as well.

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Here is an authoritative view on the things that affect your page rank. A high page rank alone will not push you to the top of the search engines. BUT all those hours you have spent gaining quality inbound links could be in vain if you have overlooked one major element - duplicate content. You can watch the video here, there is some very useful information that you can follow to improve your rank.

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If you are not already an eBay member, you really should sign up now. I use eBay UK as a buyer and seller, and although the income may not change my life I have bought some excellent and hard-to-find items at a fair price, as well as disposing of unwanted stuff at prices that have often surprised me. Most people are very pleasant to deal with and there are safeguards if anything should be problematic. A Paypal account is also a good idea, and gives you extra protection.

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Just a few weeks to go until Christmas, and the latest edition of Internet Business Tips is now available before everyone becomes totally occupied with festive preparations. Here in the UK, Christmas means a two-week shutdown for most businesses, apart from the temples to conspicuous consumptions of course! The shops will only close for one day, even on Boxing Day they will reopen for those essentials we all need - sofas, TVs, etc.

Enough of my Scrooge outburst - why not have a look at the ezine for a good read before the madness begins.
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This is a fun list from Yahoo - feels a bit voyeuristic, but actually a good way to get a feel of the zeitgeist. I guess they are assuming nothing significant will happen between now and New Year (probably true). Looks like these are US based search terms, as there are some names that are unfamiliar to me. Good to see dear Arnie is there in the top politicians’ searches, though. Can we also persuade certain politicians to consider changing career in the other direction, I wonder.
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It’s Christmas season again, which means it’s time for the newswires to be stuffed with company press releases that use yuletide gimmicks to bask their brand in (Christmas) lights. One wireless monitoring software vendor is gunning for press today by informing everyone that Christmas Lights deteriorate your Wi-Fi. Using the software they’re trying to sell, the company concluded that light-up holiday decorations actually degrade your signal strength by 25%, and increase signal deterioration over distance by one-third. Of course there’s an endless sea of things that can impact Wi-Fi signal strength, from low quality baby monitors and metal shelves, to microwave ovens and Bluetooth gear; hopefully the company doesn’t deem it necessary to offer up an inane press release for each.- from Digg
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You may not want to hear this, but most new business are far too optimistic about their prospects:

‘Interesting new research from Gavin Cassar at Wharton, shows that entrepreneurs are overly optimistic when they launch their ventures. In a study that covered 5 years, entrepreneurs were followed to see if their business ideas became real companies, and whether or not their initial expectations were accurate. One interesting result of the research is that financial modeling and scenario planning actually increase over-optimism.

More generally, the findings also show how the use of information may lead the nascent entrepreneur to dysfunctional beliefs. In particular, the use of information in a manner consistent with an inside view, involving the use of plans, projections, or causal scenarios to successful outcomes, is associated with more optimistic expectations in nascent entrepreneurs.

In part, this is driven by Lake Wobegone syndrome - the idea that we all think we are above average at most things. It is also unknowingly driven by the banks, angels, and VCs, who require financial projections in order to analyze a request for capital.

Many financial intermediaries require ventures to submit financial projections in order to be eligible for financing. Such behavior is considered good business practice and not only provides potential financiers with information concerning the investment project, but also signals the competence and quality of the management team. The empirical findings show that the act of preparing financial statements is associated with more optimistically biased sales projections.

Why is this important? Because contrary to what you might read on Digg, starting a business is decision that should be taken seriously, and you have to factor in your optimistic bias.

The paper does point out one thing that lowers the optimism bias - real market data. That’s why the startup process can’t take place in a vacuum. Talk with potential customers, find out what your inputs really cost, and what price your outputs can fetch. See if anyone really likes what you have to offer. Confidence is a good thing for an entrepreneur, but blind optimism can be an expensive mistake.’
From Business Pundit
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Well, nothing stands still. Apparently myspace is no longer the hotnumber - SecondLife is a 3d online planetwhere you can trade, buy property and make money. You can set up a shopfront or kiosk and trade good and services with other second lifers. It is a popular site, with 1.5 million members, and 700,000 visitors in the past two months. There is real cash being spent (via the virtual currency, Linden Dollars) - more than $600,000 in 24 hours. Big names like IBM and Dell are moving into secondlife fast, I suggest you check SecondLife out today, signup for free and give it a whirl.

It may look like an online game but there is nothing geeky about this fantasy world - unlike many other social sites, Second Life is about making money.

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Here are three basic ideas to follow get top google rankings for a newly launched website - they involve some effort, but if you apply them you should get page 1 ranking on Google for your chosen keyword or phrase in three months.

1. Write up to five articles on the theme of your website, optimised with your keywords or phrases.

2. Use the material in the articles as blog posts, posting frequently. You can break articles down into instalments if you like.

3. Once you have used each article, publish it on the main article syndication sites.

4. At the same time, submit the articles to the major social bookmarking sites - there are links to most of these below this post.

5. Publish topical posts related to your website theme on your blog as often as possible.

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I have been reading a thought-provoking piece about the most desired actions for web visitors. Home Entrepreneurs can easily lose track of what they want visitors to do once they land on the site. If you seek sibscribers to the ezine, then say so clearly. If you would like them to click on relevant ads on the page, make it easy to do so, and provide relevant content. Sounds very easy but it is even easier to forget when there are a bunch of things to do to maintain the site and its page rank. If you get time, have a look and see what you think

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Stumbleupon (SU) is one of the top Social Bookmarking Sites, full of intelligent targeted visitors. The number of friends/fans you have is important at SU. If you add me and Kevin the Collie as a friend - and Stumble Upon some of my sites? I will add you as a friend in return. When you have added me, just leave a comment on this post and I will recriprocate. You should see extra traffic to your site very quickly.

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Marketing a new businesses normally means you need to buy some advertising but you are in a new arena where it is hard to know how to use advertising most effectively. For online promotion, Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC), is an obvious route but it could use up a small advertising budget overnight. You need to understand the system before committing your hard-earned money. With a little knowledge, PPC ads can provide a massive return on your investment. I have a free guide by Brad Callen, a leading authority on search engine optimization for business, and it can be yours NOW by instant download. Just go to’Internet Business Tips Ezine’ and click on the ‘Adwords Made Easy‘ link.
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