How to boost your PPC scores

Category : Marketing Your Business Tips, Uncategorized

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Boost PPC scores instantly

Most of you already know by now, the importance of  it generating website traffic in order to sustain your business. If you run out of traffic to your website, then it is nearly impossible to still be in operation a few months down the road. After all, the lifeblood of your business IS traffic. Cut out this regular flow of traffic and your business soon becomes malnourished.

So what do you do?
You concentrate on joint ventures, Search Engine Optimisation,  Social media marketing, article marketing and so on. But what if you want INSTANT targeted traffic?

The one ad method i want to tell you about is the Pay Per Click Google Model. I LOVE this method, in fact, for my other online business, ArtisanPieces, for every ONE dollar that i invest into PPC, I make back about EIGHT whopping dollars in pure clean profits.

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RADICAL-yet-effective way to land your dream job?

Category : Personal Branding

Other people’s vanity can land you a job- Your DREAM job. How?

Let’s take a tip from the Google Adwords trick-book.

For those of you not familiar with pay-per-click models on Google, look at the image below. (But if you are not familiar with Google, then you’re in trouble!)

Image Credit- MywSiteam.ie

Alright- the search results you see in the yellow box are free or organic results, meaning they are there at the top because Google perceives them as important enough to be there FREE. The ones you see on the right columns are PAID advertisements, using a pay per click model.

One person used this PPC model to get FOUR interviews of of five that he aimed to get, and got TWO job offers. Great conversion rate huh? The best copywriters would be envious!

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Lifestyle Design Tip- How to outsource your marketing

Category : Lifestyle Design, Marketing Your Business Tips, Outsourcing Your Work, Uncategorized

How to Outsource Marketing

The fact of the matter is that during these difficult economic times, many of us have had to revise our career goals and even go into business for ourselves.  Let’s face it, the only person you can trust to provide yourself with financial stability is you, and that is why over the last couple of years small business start-ups, new home-based businesses and other forms of entrepreneurship have exploded.  Unfortunately, while many people have the drive necessary to be their own boss, in today’s fast paced world, the only way to be successful is to get yourself out there; a daunting task for those new to the game.

Marketing is essentially (for me at least) the most important aspect of making profits with your business. I have seen businesses selling nothing interesting, but have managed to make millions due to their excellent marketing strategies.

That is why outsourcing your marketing is such a great way to maximize your business’ potential.

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Creating Killer marketing for your start-up business using Facebook

Category : Marketing Your Business Tips

Excuses for failure in entrepreneurship marketing.

Most small businesses cite one reason for their inability to stay in business past the first few “start-up” years. They feel the need(more like desire) to have the funds available in hand to conduct mega advertising campaigns on radio, tv and printed media. There are 2 fiercely opposed camps when it comes to the cost-effectiveness of social media vs traditional channels of marketing.

Cost-effectivess of using social media for marketing

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Business Tip #1- Start handing out your Personal Brand!

Category : Marketing Your Business Tips, Personal Branding

Personal Branding Tips for your business

Today I will share with you a method that my employer and I have been using recently to spread word about our business, as well as our personal brands.

The online forums has been recently so clogged up with internet marketing ideas, suggestions, and advice that traditional marketing models has been relegated to the lower rungs on the marketing forums. I log on to the usual suspects such as Warrior Forum, V7n, and so on, only to find rehashed advice given by forumites only interested in increasing their forum post counts and gaining backlinks.

So today I promise there will be NO internet marketing advice for you. Just a quick guide on an activity that we have been doing increasingly to market ourselves.

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Maren Kate has launched a business/outsourcing consultancy!

Category : Lifestyle Design, Marketing Your Business Tips, Outsourcing Your Work, Personal Branding

In my previous post, the founder of www.escapingthe9to5.com was featured as one of the MUST-READ blogs in this niche.

Just today, I received an email(via subscription) that she has launched a service which

A)Helps other businesses which has hit invisible plateaus to break through the barriers with her radical, out-of-this-world innovative thinking.

B)Assists you in achieving a “rock-star” brand which is so essential nowadays, in an increasingly crowded marketplace with everyone clamoring for consumers’ attention.

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Related blogs that REALLY inspire me. You will love reading them too!

Category : Lifestyle Design, Marketing Your Business Tips

Today i just want to share with you the blogs which have impacted me in one way or another, either by inspiring me to continue doing what I love, or just because they contain AWESOME content.

There are 6 here right now in my head, but I will be adding to this list whenever more pop in.

1)Escaping the 9 to 5

This Blog is run by Maren Kate. My blog was created WHOLLY because I was inspired by what Maren has achieved and the great content on her site. The title of the site says it all- One of her aims is to help you escape the mundane, unnecessary 9 to 5 cycles.

This blog is great for- Those of you who want to learn how to create your own businesses to finally break loose from the cruel shackles of employment

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The 4 Hour Work Week Outsourcing -Difference between Outsourcing and Out-Tasking

Category : Lifestyle Design, Outsourcing Your Work

I am sure you have read Tim Feriss’ book, the 4 Hour Work Week (Outsourcing Tips, Lifestyle Design Tips and so much more)

Ok, this blog is strongly for outsourcing. But I admit, at times, I out task rather than outsource.

Confused? Let me explain.

Hover your mouse over the main menu which says “entrepreneurship modules”

Don’t click on it! Just hover the mouse over it. You should see a drop down menu. Well, when i used weebly.com to create my previous sites, creating a drop down menu was a given, but using a wordpress platform was a whole different animal altogether!

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10 tips to increase “stickiness” of your blog or website

Category : Marketing Your Business Tips

The “stickiness” factor is very important if you wish to establish a respectable-sized readership. “Stickiness” refers to how long a reader decides to stick on your page and be thoroughly engaged with the contents of your site or blog.

The main theory in support of  stickiness is that the longer a visitor stays on your site, the higher the chances of developing a loyal subscriber to your posts, and higher chances of monetizing the blog. After all, visitors who visit your site more often, and for longer periods each time, tend to buy more often than sporadic visitors who exit your website after 30 seconds

Below are some tips on how to increase the stickiness of your blog/site

1)Amazing content

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How losing initially can create HUGE profits in the long term

Category : Income Generation, Marketing Your Business Tips

Does the title even make sense? I mean, how does one make money long term if they start out by losing?

The secret is simple. Google for “loss leader strategy”

For example, if you are a new player in the market, and want to get more customers for your new business, you have got to do something unique to differentiate yourself from the competition. Let’s say you are selling ebooks online. You priced them at $47 each initially, but find that sales were lagging and very slow.

So what do you do?

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    Hi everyone! My name is Imran and I welcome you to my site. My aim is to enable individuals to liberate their lives and break the 9 to 5 cycle.

    My current business endeavours include ArtisanPieces Art Gallery, Saga Coaching Singapore and co-managing an education centre as well as an events management company. I am currently employed part time as a Managing Partner of SDG Asia. Feel free to browse through the articles on this site!