Posted by Erin Johnson On Jul - 9 - 2010
If you want to make money with an online business you need a business model in place and then drive traffic to it.
Many marketers are not making much money online because they don’t have a system in place. Imagine how easy it would be if you just focused on driving traffic to a website and just rake in the money? Life would be a lot simpler!
Here’s 7 things you need to build such an online system. Complete these and you’ll be ahead of 90% of marketers online.
1. Squeeze Page
Set up a squeeze page to build your list of subscribers.
2. Video on squeeze page
Place a professional video on your squeeze page to increase the number of visitors subscribing.
3. Autoresponder Series
Design a series of emails to follow up with your subscribers. Build the relationship with them first and then start selling to them.
4. Creat
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Posted by Ashley Wilson On Jul - 8 - 2010
A report released on Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s shows that consumer credit lines showed drops in defaults in the month of May. Bank card loan defaultsdropped from 9.1 to 8.9 percent. First and second mortgages dropped from 7.2 to 3.4 percent and 2.9 to 2.4 percent, respectively. And defaults on auto loans dropped to 1.8 percent, lightening 10 basis points.
The report notes that the reason we’re seeing a decline in defaults is because consumers are making a concerted effort to bring down their debt levels after struggling through the financial crisis. (Market Watch)
Posted by Jessica Thompson On Jul - 7 - 2010
Ever want to pay it forward, but don’t know how? Lucky for you, philanthropy isn’t just for donors with deep pockets. Even in a down economy, everyday people are pooling resources to maximize the impact of their own donations—both in their own communities and beyond. Today on Credit.com, Christopher Maag writes about “a new breed of Web sites and charitable organizations [that] has sprung up in recent years to bundle small investments into high-impact philanthropy.”
There are many ways to work the collaborative giving angle. Microfinancing site Kiva.org, for example, allows donors to loan money to small businesses worldwide—one potential recipient requested $675 to buy more material and expand her carpet weaving business in Kabul, Afghanistan—with the opportunity to receive their loan money back without interest. Donorschoos
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Posted by Jessica Thompson On Jul - 6 - 2010
If you plan to pay back a credit debt, but do not have enough cash for it, then there is one way that you could possibly try, and that is a 0% balance transfer. This is a scheme that credit companies promote to attract potential customers and to maintain the debt held within the accounts. To repay the credit of the previous account, you can take out this new credit card account with 0% interest and repay the previous credit debt.
This scheme however doesn’t last for long and has a limitation of only 6 months or at most one year. After this time you have to pay the required interest, so use the months effectively for repaying the debts. T
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Posted by Erin Johnson On Jul - 6 - 2010
There are courses, books, and hundreds of online resources devoted to Google AdWords and how to use them to drive targeted traffic to your website. What concerns me is that sometimes people waste time dong all of this research and optimizing their Google AdWords and not optimizing their website.
If the content of your website is not compelling and relevant to your target market then you are wasting your money trying to increase your traffic. Not only are you wasting time and money but if your website is full of compelling content that is updated frequently then you will naturally increase your traffic for free.
Here are a few ways to beef up the content of your website so that using Google AdWords will be more effective if not increase your traffic naturally.
1. Make sure that your content speaks directly to your target audience.
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Posted by Emily Robinson On Jul - 5 - 2010
In the wake of my blog entry yesterday about the way in which Goldman’s interaction with AIG (AIG) helped to exacerbate the financial crisis, I got a very interesting email from a former Goldman (GS) employee:
Insofar as the law is never going to be perfect, it’s certainly good that we are nice to our neighbors even when the law doesn’t require it, but when you find yourself saying, “Yes, this action was legal and within the rights of the agent, but helped precipitate great social harm,” you’re looking at a good candidate for a change in institutions, and legal institutions, for all their shortcomings, are the easiest ones to change. Ratings-based collateral deals might be a good target for regulation; the big liquidity hit that a credit downgrade can cause feels like exactly the sort of creditor-run that bankruptcy is supposed to prevent.
I like the idea that contracts concerning collateral should not reference credit ratings. In general,
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Posted by Ashley Wilson On Jul - 4 - 2010
It is always a welcome break to take a vacation and enjoy the sunny skies or the blue seas, or simply just walk around aimlessly in a new place. While you are enjoying your vacation, it is also a wonderful idea to save money, and that to while staying at a hotel. Here are some simple steps that help you save an extra dollar and add to your savings:
Decide in advance: It is always good to decide well in advance your vacation destination. You can book well in advance or decide to travel during off season. Get a seasonal discount as well as avoid the crowd.
Stay multiple nights: It makes sense to stay multiple nights at the same hotel. Sometimes you get better rates for room nights as well as an incentive in the form of gas cards, or free parking.
Book a package deal: These days one can get a good package deal bundling hotel stays, travel and ground travel.
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Posted by Jessica Thompson On Jun - 28 - 2010
The world of credit-related Web sites is as varied as it is vast. You can buy your credit reports and credit scores online. You can check your property’s value and monitor your credit online. You can monitor your FICO scores and file credit report disputes online. Most credit professionals are aware of all of these Web sites and what they offer.
That’s why the past week has been so interesting to, well, me. And when I say “me” I mean me, personally. I sold the domain Scorewell.com after owning it for almost eight years. Clearly with a credit scoring background I registered the domain with the intent to someday do something at that site. Perhaps I’d start a credit score blog or a build a retail Web site selling credit related services.
Of course I did neither. With a busy personal life and a busier professional life I was unable to leverage the Web site domain name, which is why I was open to the idea of selling it.
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