No another guide. Well that may be but having a lot of background knowledge on a subject is pretty essential don’t you think? Especially if your talking about an investment option that you will have to shell out some money and have decent expectations on ROI. So I present to you my simple guide to shopping carts. A short and sweet write-up about what your shopping cart solution should be.

Adding a membership site to your current business is a great way to increase that bottom line and make more money. And just about any business model or type of website can benefit from a membership site. Let’s take a look at how to set up your own membership site.

#1 – Understand how membership sites make money. Members are the ultimate captive audience. Better than a lead list, your members have proven they’re interested; they’ve practically committed themselves to being loyal customers. That means each and every new product or service you offer is going to have a stronger conversion rate with your members.

Repurposing your content makes good business sense. It’s a good way to squeeze out as much value as possible from your current content. And repurposing also helps your customers by providing fantastic content in a variety of ways.

Here are a few ideas to help you repurpose your content:

Recycle. There’s no need to just use great content once. Recycling your content benefits everyone in a positive way. A good way to do this is to think about each piece of content and how you can reuse it.

A few ideas may be:

Many people view the direct sales industry as having a limited market. Direct sales consultants begin with their friends and family, reach into their community but eventually the market is tapped, right?

They’ve run out of new customers and prospects and everyone and their brother has hosted a party, business is over.  However that couldn’t be further from the truth.  The Internet offers a limitless number of consumers.

The good news is that a powerful and selling website doesn’t have to cost much nor does it require a degree in graphic design and advertising.  In fact, many direct sales companies offer website templates and even offer hosting to their consultants.  This means it’s easier now, more than ever, to set up a direct sales website that sells.

A dead link, also known as a dangling link and a broken link, is defined as a link which leads to an error page or a web page or server which is unavailable.  While the occasional dead link may not seem like too much of a big deal all it takes is a single dead link to lose a customer.

A website visitor’s attention span is typically limited to about twenty seconds.  If you can’t capture their attention in those first twenty seconds – click, they’re gone.  They’re onto the next website or gasp – your competition. 

It seems like everyone and their mother (and grandmother!) has a website these days. That’s why it’s important to be able to build a quality website to help promote your business and sell your products. Here are ten quick tips to help even a novice build a quality site.

1. Know your audience. If you watch the latest hot cartoon and then watch reruns of shows from the 60s, you’re probably going to see not only commercials for different products, but they’re going to be totally different styles. In the same way, a website whose audience is older shouldn’t have things that will appeal to teens or a younger generation. Knowing your audience is the first step to meeting their needs.

When it comes to building a website, your domain name could make it or break it. A catchy domain name can help people remember who you are and easily find you to give them what they’re looking for. By contrast, a bad domain name can make your website hard to find, so they’ll find someone else or give up trying. Here are some quick and easy tips to help you pick the name that’s best for you.

Here are some do’s to remember when picking your name:

I was wondering what to write about in the early hours this morning but I found that a healthy dose of rather strange spam in my email today held the answer. The subject to one of my emails read:

“Reanimate that dead fish!”

You’ve got to admit that it’s intriguing if nothing else and I hope that this is a new breed of spam. But I figured that we’d look at what to do with one of your sites when it’s time to reanimate it. The sales might started to run flat, traffic might have dropped, and this is a major site that HAS to pull it’s own weight. So what do you do…?

Learning about CSS…

A short (but good) tutorial on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

http://spider-food.net/css.html

HTML tricks and tutorials…

Over 50 tips and tricks to help you deal with or take advantage of HTML’s little weirdnesses.

http://www.bignos...ebird.com/html.shtml

Free software tools…

Free tools to help you build and maintain your site.

http://www.bignos...bird.com/tools.shtml

Java Script tricks…

A small collection of popular scripts.

http://www.bignos...bird.com/javas.shtml

HTML Tag Guide…

Reference and tutorials on the most used and useful tags.

http://www.bignos...ebird.com/tags.shtml

One thing that I always recommend webmasters do in order to succeed and help secure their place in the future of this business, is to get into a hefty amount of research. One of the best forms of research, that’s always proved invaluable to me and that I couldn’t have made my money I have without, is to check out the sites that are already out there.