It is time to start thinking about trade shows and display booths. I know many people who host kiosks in the malls using display booths. I don't need anything fancy for selling books, but I do love to look at what is available, whether I need it - can afford it - or not. The displays shown at high end trade shows can give the small guys some ideas on how to compete.
The first thing is to consider yourself a real business that needs to be nurtured and promoted. Most small business owners never consider trade show booths or designer booths - costing them thousands of dollars in leads.
Show exhibits can be used in travelling trade shows or in a retail store - at a fraction of the cost of hiring a retail store designer. The 'secret of the game' is to give consumers the experience they want. When consumers are happy, they buy, and as the large online shopping stores are teaching us, the consumers don't care where they shop - as long as they get the desired experience.
What is a Professional Editor?
I work with several excellent editors.
We always come into contact with people who claim to be editors but don’t have a clue what the job entails. I decided to write a short tutorial to help writers learn how to hire an editor.
Why Hire an Editor
A professional editor, whether academic, fiction/publishing, or business editor talks the lingo, knows the trends, understands the styles, and structure demands.
The important thing to remember is that no one can edit all styles, even if they have a BA in English and are multi-published. I work with people who write for academic purposes. They include writing text books, essays for university students, speeches, and content for schools. At the most, editors can memorize 3 or 4 styles: MLA, APA, Harvard, British, New York, Medical, Scientific, Chicago, etc. There are 18 recognized ‘main’ grammar and style in the USA alone. No one can know them all.
There are also various vernaculars. Newspapers and most web writing is written at a grade eight level. Fiction novels have several vocabularies based on the genre.
Thrillers and literary are written at a post secondary level of English. Romance, mystery, fantasy are all written at a high school level. Historical novels bastardise English to mimic ancient dialects.
Structure is vital. Each of the fiction genres have a specific story arc structure that controls the flow of plot and character development through the book. The novel should also explore the human element. A writer who doesn’t have a solid understanding of the trials and pain of human life, different personality types, character archetypes, relationship counseling and shelf growth cannot promise to write a fiction novel which will be received favorably from publishing houses.
Types of Editors
There are different types of editors. A line editor knows all the different grammar styles and can write in several vernaculars. They can fix grammar mistakes without changing the writer’s style. Most of today’s editors are amateur line editors. They will look for tense variations, sentence structure that ventures from the acceptable style, spelling that is ‘wrong’ for the current country of publication, or typos.
Proofreaders do not change grammar, syntax, or prose. They only look for typos, missing periods, homonyms, etc. Most proofreaders can use the tools available with today’s word-processing software and finish a manuscript in less than 3 – 5 hours.
A full length book that is 99.99% accurate can still have 30 mistakes. This is tolerated in fiction, but is not in business or non-fiction writing.
Content editors know all about ACTs and Story Arcs. They can map a novel, outlining the character growth. They know where things should appear, how long conflicts and scenes should be. Ask a content editor who Joseph Campell is and they will talk about the hero’s journey and mythology.
A fiction editor should be a content editor and line editor. A great way to find a good editor is to ask them what story arc they use, do they have a preferred character growth arc, and how many of their client’s books are published.
Never focus on how many of their books are published – because they had a professional editor helping them.
A non-fiction editor should have a basic understanding of the industry. They will prefer the APA or Harvard style of grammar. (Chicago/Showing is for fiction). Just asking an editor what style they use, and why, can separate the pros from the amateurs.
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Advice-Tips-Resources
If you want to learn the 'ins and outs' of investing in Forex, property, or stocks without feeling pressured to buy, then visit www.getrich.net. Ray has a great website with more than 100 articles to help you learn 'how to invest smart.'
We always come into contact with people who claim to be editors but don’t have a clue what the job entails. I decided to write a short tutorial to help writers learn how to hire an editor.
Why Hire an Editor
A professional editor, whether academic, fiction/publishing, or business editor talks the lingo, knows the trends, understands the styles, and structure demands.
The important thing to remember is that no one can edit all styles, even if they have a BA in English and are multi-published. I work with people who write for academic purposes. They include writing text books, essays for university students, speeches, and content for schools. At the most, editors can memorize 3 or 4 styles: MLA, APA, Harvard, British, New York, Medical, Scientific, Chicago, etc. There are 18 recognized ‘main’ grammar and style in the USA alone. No one can know them all.
There are also various vernaculars. Newspapers and most web writing is written at a grade eight level. Fiction novels have several vocabularies based on the genre.
Thrillers and literary are written at a post secondary level of English. Romance, mystery, fantasy are all written at a high school level. Historical novels bastardise English to mimic ancient dialects.
Structure is vital. Each of the fiction genres have a specific story arc structure that controls the flow of plot and character development through the book. The novel should also explore the human element. A writer who doesn’t have a solid understanding of the trials and pain of human life, different personality types, character archetypes, relationship counseling and shelf growth cannot promise to write a fiction novel which will be received favorably from publishing houses.
Types of Editors
There are different types of editors. A line editor knows all the different grammar styles and can write in several vernaculars. They can fix grammar mistakes without changing the writer’s style. Most of today’s editors are amateur line editors. They will look for tense variations, sentence structure that ventures from the acceptable style, spelling that is ‘wrong’ for the current country of publication, or typos.
Proofreaders do not change grammar, syntax, or prose. They only look for typos, missing periods, homonyms, etc. Most proofreaders can use the tools available with today’s word-processing software and finish a manuscript in less than 3 – 5 hours.
A full length book that is 99.99% accurate can still have 30 mistakes. This is tolerated in fiction, but is not in business or non-fiction writing.
Content editors know all about ACTs and Story Arcs. They can map a novel, outlining the character growth. They know where things should appear, how long conflicts and scenes should be. Ask a content editor who Joseph Campell is and they will talk about the hero’s journey and mythology.
A fiction editor should be a content editor and line editor. A great way to find a good editor is to ask them what story arc they use, do they have a preferred character growth arc, and how many of their client’s books are published.
Never focus on how many of their books are published – because they had a professional editor helping them.
A non-fiction editor should have a basic understanding of the industry. They will prefer the APA or Harvard style of grammar. (Chicago/Showing is for fiction). Just asking an editor what style they use, and why, can separate the pros from the amateurs.
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Advice-Tips-Resources
If you want to learn the 'ins and outs' of investing in Forex, property, or stocks without feeling pressured to buy, then visit www.getrich.net. Ray has a great website with more than 100 articles to help you learn 'how to invest smart.'
Inbound Links are Like Friends
Page rank is important. But, inbound links should be seen as friends. Good ones will lift you up - bad ones will pull you down.
Ecommerce businesses who have a shopping cart or ebusiness needs to increase traffic. They need more exposure. Pro Bloggers need higher page rank so they earn more money from their blogs. A PR3 blog will earn about $5 a post. A PR6 will earn $40.
This is a good article but I think that #5 can be written in more detail. A blog or website should be built around less than 20 keywords. Keyword phrases are better than keywords. It is also important to make sure that you have keyword anchored text inside the content. This is the best place for link building - inside the article.
This article also tells you that you need to build links but not HOW to build links. I wrote an article a couple days ago on that topic. I've written seven, but you need to know about link quality and link rank before you can build a link building campaign.
Better Search Engine Ranks - 5 Tips to Get In Good with Google
If you want a successful website, then you'll have to take search engine rankings if you want the free traffic that the search engines can provide. As one of the most popular search engines, receives over 300 million searches per day and has literally billions of pages in the Google index. So, you definitely want to get in good with Google for success on the web. Let's talk about how you can get better search engine ranks with Google. Here are a few tips that can help.
Tip #1 - Use Keywords in the URL - If you want better search engine ranks with Google use your primary keywords in the URL. When you make the website name or even when you create other pages to the website, using specific keywords in the URLs can definitely help you get better search engine rankings with Google and other search engines as well.
Tip #2 - Use Keywords in Page Names - As you create content for your site, name each page after the primary keyword for that page without overdoing it. Your visitors should be able to instantly tell what the page is about from the page name. But don't go overboard with long-tail phrases because if they are too long they can get cut off in search engine results. Overly long page names can also be penalized by Google and other search engines as spam.
Tip #3 - Use Keywords in Web Content - While you shouldn't totally jam your content full of keywords, using your keywords throughout your content and articles, will help you achieve better search engine rankings.
Tip #4 - Build Back Links - Link popularity is critically important. You need to make building back links a priority if you want to get in good with Google. There are a variety of different ways that you can build up links that point back to your site. You can use Forum posts and press releases but the method I highly recommend is article marketing.
Tip #5 - Theme of the Page and Entire Site - The theme of your site and each page should be in agreement. Instead of jumping from topic to topic, it is best to keep your site and each page focused on one theme to get better ranks with Google. While your site does not have to be one single, narrowly focused topic, it should not stray from a central theme of related topics.
Want more traffic to your site without paid advertising? Bruce Nolan helps you solve your traffic problems by harnessing the power of article marketing at http://www.bestarticleblog.com/
Free SEO Tool: Keyword Analyzer
It is very hard to learn how to manage keywords properly. Most people either use too many, or two few. The optimum is 3 - 5% keyword density. More than 7% density, repeatedly through a website can seriously damage the Google Page Rank.
However, this is most important when writing free content and press releases. There is a free Press Release SEO Toolthat will help make sure your articles receive the exposure you need.
It is easy to use, nothing to download, and doesn't require HTML knowledge. Just paste your article and let the tool calculate the keyword density percent. That is all. You can adjust the article to fit the search engine rules, and tweak out words that might confuse search engines.
Example, let's say that your keywords should be photography. But, after using this tool, you might find that your highest keyword is your home town. This means that search engines will bring up your press release for people looking for things in your town, and may never bring it up for people looking for photography.
This is one of the most invaluable tools I've found for web marketing and small businesses.
However, this is most important when writing free content and press releases. There is a free Press Release SEO Toolthat will help make sure your articles receive the exposure you need.
It is easy to use, nothing to download, and doesn't require HTML knowledge. Just paste your article and let the tool calculate the keyword density percent. That is all. You can adjust the article to fit the search engine rules, and tweak out words that might confuse search engines.
Example, let's say that your keywords should be photography. But, after using this tool, you might find that your highest keyword is your home town. This means that search engines will bring up your press release for people looking for things in your town, and may never bring it up for people looking for photography.
This is one of the most invaluable tools I've found for web marketing and small businesses.
How to Pick a Networking Group
When small businesses work together they can level the playing field, giving each member a chance to survive on the Internet. If you surf the net you’ll find tons of joint ventures and large networking groups. The foundation is solid. Their theories work – to a point.
Most programs fail because they are comprised of thousands of small business owners who are only interested in promoting their products. No one attends meetings to buy, or to help others. They just want someone to help them with their venture.
Make Your Own Networking Group
The best groups are 3 – 12 people. Anything larger attracts the ‘free loaders’ who sap the groups resources and move to the next group. The theory is simple. Each person spends 3 – 5 hours a week marketing their own business, hunting for resources, learning new theories. If each member uses that 3 – 5 hours as part of a group, one person looks for resources, one person learns, one person promotes, they can expand their abilities by x5.
Example: Person A builds 10 inbound links in an hour. Instead of building for themselves, they build 3 links for 4 different members. Each member builds links for each other. 4 people building 3 links for each member, including themselves, equals 16 links ...not the original 10. Each member makes 2 extra links, but they earn 6 extra links.
This can be done using training, building resources, building websites. Each member can bank time into the skills they know best.
A Right Way and A Wrong Way
The biggest mistake is bringing together a few dozen people, charging a fee, and then waiting for something to happen. It won’t. This type of group usually frustrates the members leading them to believe it is a scam.
Large groups will work, but only if everyone book hours. Lets’ say you (member A) want a website made. Member B makes websites. Member B wants marketing, which Member C can do. Member C needs 10 articles written, which member A does.
This will work, but only if there is a forum or group where someone is in charge. Maybe the person in charge can bank their ‘hours’ by helping the others. Keep the group manageable like happens at www.divanetworking.blogspot.com where less than 20 members work to build each other’s page rank and traffic.
Most programs fail because they are comprised of thousands of small business owners who are only interested in promoting their products. No one attends meetings to buy, or to help others. They just want someone to help them with their venture.
Make Your Own Networking Group
The best groups are 3 – 12 people. Anything larger attracts the ‘free loaders’ who sap the groups resources and move to the next group. The theory is simple. Each person spends 3 – 5 hours a week marketing their own business, hunting for resources, learning new theories. If each member uses that 3 – 5 hours as part of a group, one person looks for resources, one person learns, one person promotes, they can expand their abilities by x5.
Example: Person A builds 10 inbound links in an hour. Instead of building for themselves, they build 3 links for 4 different members. Each member builds links for each other. 4 people building 3 links for each member, including themselves, equals 16 links ...not the original 10. Each member makes 2 extra links, but they earn 6 extra links.
This can be done using training, building resources, building websites. Each member can bank time into the skills they know best.
A Right Way and A Wrong Way
The biggest mistake is bringing together a few dozen people, charging a fee, and then waiting for something to happen. It won’t. This type of group usually frustrates the members leading them to believe it is a scam.
Large groups will work, but only if everyone book hours. Lets’ say you (member A) want a website made. Member B makes websites. Member B wants marketing, which Member C can do. Member C needs 10 articles written, which member A does.
This will work, but only if there is a forum or group where someone is in charge. Maybe the person in charge can bank their ‘hours’ by helping the others. Keep the group manageable like happens at www.divanetworking.blogspot.com where less than 20 members work to build each other’s page rank and traffic.
Don't Ruin Your Success
Answering these questions will tell you what type of work at home business you will succeed at, and whether you are predestined to run your own business, or work with an organization. Everyone will have some of these to a greater or lesser extent. The ability to succeed is based in our ability to take an honest look at ourselves and prevent our weak personality traits from sabotaging our success.
1. I don’t read self help books, or I read self help books but they don’t help.
If your marriage is on the rocks, then you try to fix what is wrong with your spouse. If you are not being promoted at work, then it is because people are against you. You have lofty goals, but something always gets into the way.
There is no right answer to the above. It is the attitude that is pulling you down. Your boss may be against you, but your unwillingness to admit that you have faults and work ‘hard’ to fix them (no matter how hard it hurts) is what is ruining your chances of success.
2. You let your emotions make decisions for you.
You are going to buy a car. You walk into a lot and walk out with a car. You never sit down and calculate the true, long-term, cost of the car. You drive it and then buy – trusting your 10 minute drive to tell you everything you need to know about the make, model, manufacturer, and resell value of the car.
You stay in an unsatisfactory job for years because you are afraid that you’ll not measure up when you go to interviews. You would rather not try than have your feelings hurt.
These people find it easy to start a project , but they rarely finish them. They may write a book, but they won’t edit it. They will set up a web-business, but won’t do the internet marketing.
3. You are afraid of making choices.
You date for years, always wondering if this is the right one, will something better come along, what happens if they change after marriage.
You won’t leave a bad situation – marriage – job – house – because it is a decision. This is especially dangerous when combined with a person who lets their emotions make decisions for them.
3. You are motivated by an emotional need.
You can be motivated by guilt
Your house is perfect because it makes you feel better than others
You write a book because authors are special
You fix things to keep others from being angry
You do without to keep others from being angry – you don’t like to rock the boat.
You can easily be emotionally blackmailed. You hate saying ‘no’ to anyone.
These emotional needs always pit us against others. We are always striving to be better than others. We may even have a victim complex, where we feel needed even thought we are being victimized.
4. Low Self Esteem
I am never doing enough
I let everyone down
I am always saying sorry
1. I don’t read self help books, or I read self help books but they don’t help.
If your marriage is on the rocks, then you try to fix what is wrong with your spouse. If you are not being promoted at work, then it is because people are against you. You have lofty goals, but something always gets into the way.
There is no right answer to the above. It is the attitude that is pulling you down. Your boss may be against you, but your unwillingness to admit that you have faults and work ‘hard’ to fix them (no matter how hard it hurts) is what is ruining your chances of success.
2. You let your emotions make decisions for you.
You are going to buy a car. You walk into a lot and walk out with a car. You never sit down and calculate the true, long-term, cost of the car. You drive it and then buy – trusting your 10 minute drive to tell you everything you need to know about the make, model, manufacturer, and resell value of the car.
You stay in an unsatisfactory job for years because you are afraid that you’ll not measure up when you go to interviews. You would rather not try than have your feelings hurt.
These people find it easy to start a project , but they rarely finish them. They may write a book, but they won’t edit it. They will set up a web-business, but won’t do the internet marketing.
3. You are afraid of making choices.
You date for years, always wondering if this is the right one, will something better come along, what happens if they change after marriage.
You won’t leave a bad situation – marriage – job – house – because it is a decision. This is especially dangerous when combined with a person who lets their emotions make decisions for them.
3. You are motivated by an emotional need.
You can be motivated by guilt
Your house is perfect because it makes you feel better than others
You write a book because authors are special
You fix things to keep others from being angry
You do without to keep others from being angry – you don’t like to rock the boat.
You can easily be emotionally blackmailed. You hate saying ‘no’ to anyone.
These emotional needs always pit us against others. We are always striving to be better than others. We may even have a victim complex, where we feel needed even thought we are being victimized.
4. Low Self Esteem
I am never doing enough
I let everyone down
I am always saying sorry
Test Your Ability To Succeed
Can you tell if you are able to run a successful home based business? The answer is yes. There are behavior patterns and a personality type that will make it easy to build a successful home based business. This doesn’t mean that you can’t build a successful home based business without having the ‘personality type for success.’ It just means that you’ll have to make adjustments and focus.
With the work at home professional, it isn’t so much the personality type that predestines someone for success, but their personality traits. These outweigh social status, education, or experience.
Every personality type has the ability to succeed in business. They all have strengths and weaknesses. While the true leader who works independently and is focused on work – not easily distracted – can succeed faster, this doesn’t mean that the artistic or amiable personality types won’t do well.
The first step is to determine what your personality type is. There are several ways to measure personality type, and many titles, but they all break down into 4: logical, driver, amiable, artistic.
Leader
A true leader is someone who brings out the best in others. They are not the type to become loud or abusive if others are not doing things ‘their way.’ They naturally know how to make others feel good. In fact, their goal is productivity, and they are willing to invest in others, mentor, train, and swallow their own frustrations to reach the goal of maximum productivity.
These people often fit well into a network, and have others who are ‘loyal’ to them. They may not know why others ‘flock’ to them, but they can establish a network where everyone succeeds. This is opposite of the ‘salesman’ who drains others for their own success. The salesman uses charisma, and feeds on other’s emotional weakness to get what they want.
Problem Solvers
The driver personality type holds both the leader and problem solving traits. It is important to know that the driver does not define people who bully, manipulate, or coheres people to do a job. The driver refers to someone who can motivate themselves. They do not stop work because it is ‘the end of the day.’ They are organized and can work for 8 hours without being distracted. If they are responsible for home and business, then they work through business hours, and then do the housework – they don’t try to blend both.
Thinkers
The successful entrepreneur doesn’t buy into the emotionally hype. They don’t buy a vacuum because the sales man says ‘how much do you love your wife.’ They don’t buy into a work at home scheme after seeing a picture of a man on a tropical beach doing nothing. They get all the facts and figures.
They don’t look for the easy way. They look for the way that works.
Risk Takers
They are risk takers, high in self confidence, and self motivated. Jumping into a business venture without research is not taking a risk. Building the tools needed to succeed and then jumps into a highly successful fields.
Mature
It is naïve to think that you can start a business and start making money immediately. The successful person will have read enough books on their topic before going into business. You can assess a person’s ability to succeed fairly accurately by asking 2 questions. First, have they read a book on running a business? Two, do they just start working and expect they can succeed on their current knowledge. If the answer is no to the first, and yes to the second, then they will wait a long time to succeed.
The entrepreneur doesn’t waste 3 – 16 months doing ‘what they think is right’ before they (in most cases) accidentally discover why they are failing.
Determined
They are determined. If a program doesn’t work, they start learning. They don’t quit. They will have a set of goals, and even an exit plan. Their projects usually work because they have a plan – in writing. They have created a business plan. They have prepared themselves for success.
Most people push themselves through a business to a certain point and then hit a dead wall because they don’t know what to do next, and they don’t know why their project is not working, so they quit and try the next thing that ‘looks good.’
If you give each of these a 1 – 10 scale, and then put yourself on the scale realistically, then you’ll be able to measure your natural ability to succeed. If you rank lower, then you need ‘aids’ like schedules, books, courses, and networking groups.
With the work at home professional, it isn’t so much the personality type that predestines someone for success, but their personality traits. These outweigh social status, education, or experience.
Every personality type has the ability to succeed in business. They all have strengths and weaknesses. While the true leader who works independently and is focused on work – not easily distracted – can succeed faster, this doesn’t mean that the artistic or amiable personality types won’t do well.
The first step is to determine what your personality type is. There are several ways to measure personality type, and many titles, but they all break down into 4: logical, driver, amiable, artistic.
Leader
A true leader is someone who brings out the best in others. They are not the type to become loud or abusive if others are not doing things ‘their way.’ They naturally know how to make others feel good. In fact, their goal is productivity, and they are willing to invest in others, mentor, train, and swallow their own frustrations to reach the goal of maximum productivity.
These people often fit well into a network, and have others who are ‘loyal’ to them. They may not know why others ‘flock’ to them, but they can establish a network where everyone succeeds. This is opposite of the ‘salesman’ who drains others for their own success. The salesman uses charisma, and feeds on other’s emotional weakness to get what they want.
Problem Solvers
The driver personality type holds both the leader and problem solving traits. It is important to know that the driver does not define people who bully, manipulate, or coheres people to do a job. The driver refers to someone who can motivate themselves. They do not stop work because it is ‘the end of the day.’ They are organized and can work for 8 hours without being distracted. If they are responsible for home and business, then they work through business hours, and then do the housework – they don’t try to blend both.
Thinkers
The successful entrepreneur doesn’t buy into the emotionally hype. They don’t buy a vacuum because the sales man says ‘how much do you love your wife.’ They don’t buy into a work at home scheme after seeing a picture of a man on a tropical beach doing nothing. They get all the facts and figures.
They don’t look for the easy way. They look for the way that works.
Risk Takers
They are risk takers, high in self confidence, and self motivated. Jumping into a business venture without research is not taking a risk. Building the tools needed to succeed and then jumps into a highly successful fields.
Mature
It is naïve to think that you can start a business and start making money immediately. The successful person will have read enough books on their topic before going into business. You can assess a person’s ability to succeed fairly accurately by asking 2 questions. First, have they read a book on running a business? Two, do they just start working and expect they can succeed on their current knowledge. If the answer is no to the first, and yes to the second, then they will wait a long time to succeed.
The entrepreneur doesn’t waste 3 – 16 months doing ‘what they think is right’ before they (in most cases) accidentally discover why they are failing.
Determined
They are determined. If a program doesn’t work, they start learning. They don’t quit. They will have a set of goals, and even an exit plan. Their projects usually work because they have a plan – in writing. They have created a business plan. They have prepared themselves for success.
Most people push themselves through a business to a certain point and then hit a dead wall because they don’t know what to do next, and they don’t know why their project is not working, so they quit and try the next thing that ‘looks good.’
If you give each of these a 1 – 10 scale, and then put yourself on the scale realistically, then you’ll be able to measure your natural ability to succeed. If you rank lower, then you need ‘aids’ like schedules, books, courses, and networking groups.
Using Writing as a Cancer Theraphy
Writers have long known the health benefits of writing. The medical world is discovering the benefits of writing as a theraphy. Writing can even reduce the stress and severity of cancer, according to the journal The Oncologist. They claim that the younger a person is, and those recently diagnosed, were most likely to benefit.
The key is to write thoughts and feelings, or the cognitive processing and emotions related to cancer. The patients who just wrote about facts showed no health benefits.
Twenty minutes of expressive writing can change 49% of people and how they feel about their thoughts on the illness, while 38% said their feelings towards their situation had changed.
Writing can reduce stress and helps people come to terms with things that happen in their life. This empowers them, brings closure, and helps calm people. Anyone can start writing in a journal. IF you cannot write, then make an audio recording of your journal.
The key is to write thoughts and feelings, or the cognitive processing and emotions related to cancer. The patients who just wrote about facts showed no health benefits.
Twenty minutes of expressive writing can change 49% of people and how they feel about their thoughts on the illness, while 38% said their feelings towards their situation had changed.
Writing can reduce stress and helps people come to terms with things that happen in their life. This empowers them, brings closure, and helps calm people. Anyone can start writing in a journal. IF you cannot write, then make an audio recording of your journal.
Living Debt Free is Possible
It is possible to live debt free. I did everything the 'right way' the first time and ended up bankrupt. Now, 5 years after buying a house I am only $70k in debt and expect to be out of debt in another 5 years. All this with an income of less than $40k a year. It is possible.
You can pay your mortage off earlier. In fact 1/2 of your mortgage payment is interest. There are ways to pay a mortgage down fast by reducing the interest you must pay. We pay weekly, but we also pay a couple thousand off a year. This doesn't seem like much, but it makes a dramatic difference in the amount we must pay.
Learn How to TERMINATE Your MORTGAGE and Live Debt Free!. You can. All you need to do is learn the ins and outs of a mortgage and how they are managed.
You can pay your mortage off earlier. In fact 1/2 of your mortgage payment is interest. There are ways to pay a mortgage down fast by reducing the interest you must pay. We pay weekly, but we also pay a couple thousand off a year. This doesn't seem like much, but it makes a dramatic difference in the amount we must pay.
Learn How to TERMINATE Your MORTGAGE and Live Debt Free!. You can. All you need to do is learn the ins and outs of a mortgage and how they are managed.
Dangers of Illegal Link Building
Link building will build web popularity, Page Rank, and increase where you appear on the SERPs (search engines results pages). But not all links will benefit you. In fact, some of them can damage your SEO efforts.
Off Topic Websites
Link farms, link exchanges and off-topic websites that are thinking quantity vs. quality can actually damage your efforts. According to the Google webmaster guidelines, reciprocal linking can get you banned.
"get thousands of back links to your website for only $39.95 per month"
Translate this into SEO terms means, pay $39 a month and the company will ensure you will get banned. If your PR is dropped to 0, or if you are banned, then just toss the domain name and start over.
Another way to get banned is to submit to search engines every month. Submitting once every six months is safe.
Buying a high PR domain name can also be dangerous. The Black Hat SEO shysters know how to make money building links. They can sell PR7 links for a few hundred a month. But, they also know when their domain name is about to be banned.
Buying into a high PR domain name before researching it can spell disaster for your Internet Marketing campaign.
If you are banned, file a re-inclusion request and pray. Apologize for violating the terms of service. Eliminate the instances of abuse. Give it a few weeks - but don't hold your breath.
If you even 'think' that something is going wrong, and it isn't your fault, then contact the search engine and throw yourself on their mercy. This is far more successful than waiting until they ban you.
But, as my mother said, 'it's better to be safe than sorry.'
Off Topic Websites
Link farms, link exchanges and off-topic websites that are thinking quantity vs. quality can actually damage your efforts. According to the Google webmaster guidelines, reciprocal linking can get you banned.
"get thousands of back links to your website for only $39.95 per month"
Translate this into SEO terms means, pay $39 a month and the company will ensure you will get banned. If your PR is dropped to 0, or if you are banned, then just toss the domain name and start over.
Another way to get banned is to submit to search engines every month. Submitting once every six months is safe.
Buying a high PR domain name can also be dangerous. The Black Hat SEO shysters know how to make money building links. They can sell PR7 links for a few hundred a month. But, they also know when their domain name is about to be banned.
Buying into a high PR domain name before researching it can spell disaster for your Internet Marketing campaign.
If you are banned, file a re-inclusion request and pray. Apologize for violating the terms of service. Eliminate the instances of abuse. Give it a few weeks - but don't hold your breath.
If you even 'think' that something is going wrong, and it isn't your fault, then contact the search engine and throw yourself on their mercy. This is far more successful than waiting until they ban you.
But, as my mother said, 'it's better to be safe than sorry.'
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