Newbie Boot Camp

Turn Your Weight Problem Into a Successful Weight Loss Blog

Mar 1st, 2010 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Turn Your Weight Problem into a Successful Weight Loss Blog

Becoming self employed is not for the faint of heart or those who want to have nothing to do with legal issues, painstaking accounting, or comprehensive business planning. On the other hand, finding the kind of business for which there is still plenty of niche appeal is harder than it sounds. To turn your weight problem into a successful weight loss blog, a budding entrepreneur has to observe a few suggestions, tips and tricks.



Cleaning Up Your Workspace Can Increase Productivity

Feb 11th, 2010 | By Dee | Category: Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp, Odds 'n Ends, Time Management

There is nothing worse than coming into work on monday morning and finding my desk buried in Friday afternoon’s trash. You can help your week start off a lot better if you just do a little house cleaning before you leave work on Friday. Not only will your week start off better but you can relax a bit more during the weekend knowing that you have everything wrapped up at the office – even if that office is in your home!

Here are a few ways that having a cluttered work can affect your ability to do your job effectively:



The Top 5 Newbie Mistakes

Feb 8th, 2010 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

5. Spending money on a pre-made site or traffic - You would be mortified if you knew how many THOUSANDS of affiliates I manage who have been basically hoodwinked into buying a ‘pre-fab’ or ‘cookie cutter’ pharmacy site that looks EXACTLY like *THOUSANDS* of others. They’re told how much money they’ll make, how they’ll have to do NO work, it’ll all be done for them. And, if they spend just a LITTLE more (eye roll) they’ll even have a ton of traffic to their brand new (crappy piece of fool’s gold cyber real estate) site! It’s bull. Trust me, it’s bull. Unfortunately, more than a few have a $10k credit card bill to show for their mistake – I kid you not.



How to Add a Button to Your Sidebar

Feb 6th, 2010 | By Dee | Category: Featured Articles, Html and Design, Newbie Boot Camp

Sidebar buttons are a quick and easy way to affiliate with, promote, or endorse a company or website you believe it.

How you add a button to your sidebar depends in large part on the type of site you have.  For example if you have a WordPress blog then it’s going to be a different process than if you have a HTML site.

Here it is in a nutshell –

First you’ll want to click on the button image and save it on your desktop.  If you’re using Blogger then you’ll have to upload the image into an image host like Photobucket or Flickr.



Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Website and Increase Sales

Feb 6th, 2010 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Website and Increase Sales

A good website can be a great tool for boosting your sales. On the other hand, a poorly made website can turn customers off to current and even future products. Here are some tips to creating a website that will help you, rather than hurt you.

1. Consistent look. Have you ever noticed, while every page of a magazine looks slightly different, there’s generally a consistent organization, color scheme, and overall look to the whole magazine? This helps users who read the magazine find exactly what they’re looking for quickly and easily. In the same way, if you keep your web pages consistent, your customers will have an easier time finding things.



Blogging: It’s All About the Traffic

Feb 1st, 2010 | By Dee | Category: Blogging, Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp

No blog survives without traffic. More so, less traffic only means that the content is not that good. However, there are also instances wherein a great blog does not have enough traffic. The key in getting traffic is to come up with a strategy and make everyone notice your blog. There are a few things that you need to consider with regards to generating traffic to your blog and these are not that different from planning a regular Web site.

The only exception is that blogs can generate traffic a lot faster. What you only need to consider first is your target audience and where exactly you are generating your blog’s traffic.



3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need to Survive Online

Jan 19th, 2010 | By Dee | Category: Affiliate Marketing, Newbie Boot Camp

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.



7 Tips on Finding the Best Host for You

Jan 6th, 2010 | By Tim | Category: Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp, The Nuts & Bolts

1. Before signing up send an email or two to the host you are considering. See how fast they respond. Response time is critical because hosting is an imperfect science. You will undoubtedly run into technical problems at times and you want to be sure you can get in touch with your provider easily.

Perhaps in your first email you could ask what kind of communication they use for support. Do they use a trouble ticket system? Do they use email or have a 24 hour support phone line?



Trial and Errors Dont Be Afraid to Fail

Dec 26th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Life is full of ups and downs, successes and failures. The landscape of business is no different. The longer you stay in the business world, the more likely you are to see that bear out. But, dont hold back your entrepreneurial dreams because of potential failure.

The basis of scientific research is trial and error. You try one experiment and it fails. The next time, you vary one chemical or condition and try the experiment again. Each time that you do this, the end results are recorded regardless of whether they are the results you wanted or not.



Self-Discipline and Persistence in Your Goals

Dec 22nd, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Goals drive us forward in life. They give us a purpose. We get up in the morning and get moving to fulfill our purpose. Achieving goals in life and in business would be difficult without self-discipline and persistence.

What is self-discipline? Think of it this way. You have chores to do around the house. Your parents promise to pay you $20 a month if you do all the chores they ask you to do. In the middle of washing the dishes, you suddenly wish you were lying on the couch watching television. You are tempted to stop but think about all the things you can buy with that money so you stay the course.



NicksTrafficTricks Com | 84 Videos All About Generating Website Traffic

Dec 21st, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp, Traffic Tips

Do you need more website traffic? The solution to getting traffic is NOT another 300 page ebook with miles of useless fluff. The solution is NOT another over priced product that you have to return. The solution is a series of 84 videos that: * Let’s you go at your own pace, watching whenever you want. * Shows you Step-by-Step how to get your site indexed and start getting traffic. * Takes you from Traffic Newbie to Traffic Grand Master! * Teaches you the Secret Traffic Techniques that the …



Making the Most Out of ONE Domain Name

Dec 19th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

You’re starting out and one of the first things you’ll be sorting out is finding a place for all your projects to live. For most of us this means finding some hosting and a domain name.

As you read webmaster forums you’ll probably be aware that webmasters who have been in the business more than a year will likely have a number of domain names. But do YOU really need to get lots of these things when you’re starting out? Definitely not. The webmasters with lots of domain names, like you, probably started out with one name – and made a lot of pages to go on there. So let’s look at how to maximize ONE domain name.



Getting Your New Website on the Fast Track to Success

Dec 18th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

There are many disadvantages that you are faced with when you are building a brand new website. Your site will not have the advantage of being indexed by Google or Yahoo. Other sites have not had the chance to link to your website. Making decisions on which keywords to use is difficult because you do not have any statistics to refer to. Outgrowing these problems takes some time and more than a little effort.



Common Mistakes to Avoid for Successful Blogging

Dec 17th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Blogging, Newbie Boot Camp

Blogging is easy, right?  Yes, for the most part, blogging is easy. However, on the way to achieving your blogging goals, there are mistakes many new and even experienced bloggers make. Here are the most common mistakes to avoid for successful blogging.

#1 – Not publishing often enough or not publishing regularly

If you want to build a community around your blog, the key is to create content on a regular basis. People like to subscribe to their favorite blogs and make reading them part of their daily or weekly habit. If you’re not providing enough content to satisfy their habit, meaning at least one new post a week, then you’re likely going to lose readers. Additionally, more posts boosts search engine results.



Ways to Recognize Work From Home Scams

Dec 14th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Featured Articles, Newbie Boot Camp

Ever heard the phrase, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is?” That is how the work from home scams work. As more and more people are attracted to the idea of working from home, more and more scam artists are surfacing to take advantage. In fact, work from home scams are on the National Consumers League’s Top 10 Frauds list.

So how do you protect yourself? Learn to recognize work from home scams. Here’s how:



Blogging and Making Money

Nov 28th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Blogging, Newbie Boot Camp

Today, there are many bloggers who maintains their blog website as a business. They make money out of blogging. This is a trend widely accepted by online businesses. Capitalizing on blogs, popularity, corporate America has used the opportunity to get closer to their clients and potential customers.

There are many bloggers in the internet that makes a decent living by just blogging. If you want to make money out of blogging, it is important to remember that not every blog is right for making money.

First of all, you should ask yourself why you blog.



The Importance of a Sitemap

Nov 24th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp, SEO

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1) Navigation purposes

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.



Using Your Affiliate Program’s Stats to Make More Money

Nov 11th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

What I wanted to go over today is a few tips on some of the cool things you can get from checking your affiliate program’s statistics pages a little further than just looking at the “sales” column.

What should we be looking at?

The trouble with the making websites with ads on them is that you’re never really sure WHICH pages and ads are actually working. Well, there’s a way around this.



A Metatag Primer

Nov 8th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Using Meta Tags

Meta tags have a very wide variety of uses…from automatically redirecting a visitor to a new page -to- embedding keywords into a page and thus making it easier for people to find you when a particular word is typed into a search engine. Remember to always place meta tags between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of your page. Below is a list of commonly used meta tags as well as descriptions of what they do…

<META http-equiv=”refresh” content=”4;url=http://www.anywhere.com/mypage.html”>

This meta tag tells the browser to automatically go to a specific URL within a defined number of seconds. One of the more useful meta tags.



Choosing a Generic Domain Name

Oct 5th, 2009 | By Dee | Category: Newbie Boot Camp

Whatever level you’re at in this business, chances are you’re not far away from buying your next generic domain name. What do I mean by a “generic domain name“? Simply a domain name (eg. domain-name.com) where you don’t describe a certain niche within the name.

Example niche domain names:

aromatherapy-for-anxiety.com
cutechihuahuaclothes.com
pitbullsaspets.com

Example of more GENERIC domain names:

bestaromatherapy.com
bestpets.com
petsnmorepets.com

Some times you just need a name that you can build a variety of sites or pages under. While you CAN use any domain name and make any site on there, I think it helps to have a general kind of name where you can create sub-folders that then become the niche name.





Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes