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Welcome to my personal SohoMatic web system. My name's Dennis Roeder and this web system can offer you a new mindset so you too can compete in this brave new world with absolute confidence! However, what you may not also be aware of is that this is part of a much larger online marketing system that is designed to help you grow your own online business, whatever that may be. You can use this system to learn how to compete in todays world, but you can also get your very own system just like this to generate high-level premium leads to explode your own online business. So, go ahead! Submit your information here and feel free to follow the links on this site to other great, and informative content!
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1. Generate Leads using Blastomatic Blastomatic is one of the oldest ad submission tools on the Internet. It has, in the last few weeks, been upgraded to a new system. It will still do the same tasks that it did in the past but now it will also supply the user with a multitude of prospect leads.
A very successful ad blaster. You compose your ad and when you are complete you push the button and your ad is submitted to 12 million sites. This creates an enormous amount of back links to your web site.
That is the way it worked in the past and still works that way today. But, in addition you are now able, when you upgrade to the affiliate system, to download the leads that it captures. The affiliate program is a two tier system. You capture commissions from your direct download plus you receive commissions from your second level of members.
You can join for free and blast out your ads. Then if you like the system you can upgrade and download your leads from the system.
Check it out here: http://leads4all.blastomatic.com
Dennis Roeder
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
2. Generate Leads with Blastomatic A big surprise at Veretekk this week. The oldest traffic portal on the Internet just became a profit portal. Which means that you can now not only generate traffic with it you can upgrade and use it as an affiliate program to generate leads and cash.
Blastomatic has always been a very popular traffic portal when used to generate traffic but now it should explode with enthusiastic new life.
Tom Prendergast, CEO and Mike Darling, President of Veretekk.com are continually making everything within the system a better operating machine. Being a member of this system will enhance your abilities on the Internet tremendously.
Blastomatic is here: http://leads4all.blastomatic.com
Veretekk is here: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
http://leads4all.almost-rich.com/
3. Generate Leads and Earn Money One of the oldest FFA pages on the Internet is FreeFFAs. It is a sight that can generate leads in the 1000's for the individual operator. The idea is to sign up for this traffic portal and receive the benefit of the premium leads it generates as additions for your prospect list.
Up until now it has been a system to generate leads and that was its entire purpose. However, now it has been turned into a powerful affiliate profit portal. You can now generate leads of the same premium quality plus you can develop an additional income stream.
The concept is really straight forward with this FreeFFAs affiliate program. When you promote this portal, it will generate leads from prospects that are interested in getting their own Free FFA page through your website. But as a part of the FFA system they receive, they can also download the FFA leads generated by people submitting to the system remotely (of which there can be over 1000 per day that each of these prospects have access to). The free system they receive only allows them to download a single day's worth of these FFA leads.
But, for only $10/month they have the option of upgrading to a paid membership that will allow them to download all of the leads in their system that have accumulated since the last time they downloaded them. This is a BIG difference, and HUGE value, for a very small monthly price.
Think about this -- because, you were the Veretekk.com member that they enrolled under you will receive $5.00 as commission from their upgrade. This is a very powerful concept of the Veretekk.com system and they are adding more Profit Portals all the time.
Dennis Roeder
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
4. Generate Leads You have to generate leads no matter what kind of a business you have. It is a constant process of getting more and more prospects to come to your store and purchase what you have to sell. Whether it be a brick and mortar store or a web site on the Internet you don't make any money until somebody buys something from you.
So, how do you accomplish this constant need to gain more prospects? Well, with a brick and mortar store you have to advertise and get people to come by and look at what you have to sell. When it comes to a site on the Internet you have to advertise to get people to come and look at your web site.
Today there is a shift to the Internet. More and more people are setting up their business from their own web site. So, the concentration is to have more advertising on the Internet. The problem to people just starting to do business on the Internet is how generate leads to look at their site. And, how to go about it without costing them a lot of money.
The best way that I have found is to rely on a company that specializes in lead acquisition and retention. They have gone through the process and know how to go about it with the least amount of trial and error. You see, they have gone through this and are able to show you the best way to go about you task.
You can search for companies that do this at search engines such as Google and come up with a lot of names but you have to do you due diligence to make sure you have a reputable and truthful company with which to do business. Some of them are there to take your money first and some of them are there to do a good job for you. You have to make sure you and tell the difference before it costs you too much.
Dennis Roeder
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
http://www.daroeder.com
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
5. Generate Leads Spam Free When you promote a program or product on the Internet through the use of an email list are you sure that it is Spam free? You can't just purchase a list of e-mails and start promoting to them. If you do you can be accused of Spam (unsolicited email delivery).
So, how do you produce a Spam free email list? If you purchase a list from somewhere on the Internet these people have not agreed to accept emails from you. First, you have to invite them to your list by sending them an offer to join your list. Until they do so they have not given you permission to send them any more emails. If you do send them more emails that is considered Spam.
And, I'll tell you what, if you spend money and purchase a list from a company on the Internet and send them an invitation not very many of them will respond. That is because their email address has probably been sold many times before and they are tired of getting junk mail in their inbox.
There is a way to generate leads with a process that is Spam free. With this system prospects will email you first and all you have to do is capture their email address, save it in your list and start promoting your program or product to them. This will be legal because they emailed you first asking you for your information.
This process would include you acquiring a separate email account to use for this purpose because you will be receiving many, many emails and if you bring them into your primary account you will have a hard time separating out your personal emails from the business list emails.
You will also want an auto-responder to generate responses back to the prospects that request your information.
The way you get people to email you is through the use of traffic portals. These are web pages that offer information, product offers or something of value for FREE. The page will include a capture form on it for the prospect to fill out in return for the offer on the page. When they fill out the form it is sent to you as a lead in your list.
Does this sound like a lot of trouble and time that you don't have or, a lot of technical knowledge that would be hard for you to achieve?
Well fear not. There is already a system set up that does all the above for you. It is a system that has been in operation for 10 plus years. Mr. Tom Prendergast, CEO and Mike Darling, President of Inetekk seen the need for a system such as this and have developed it for their use as well as yours and mine.
There is a free entry level so you can kick the tires and learn how to operate it. If you like what you learn you can upgrade and make it your main opportunity or use it to promote your present business.
Go here to take a look: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
6. Generate Leads that last When you generate leads with a system that gives your prospects something that they need to promote their business they will remain in your contact list. This gives you a chance to become acquainted with them and gain their trust. Eventually they will become interested in your success in doing business and start investigating your products or services.
You can begin by giving away tools and portals that will help them advertise their business such as free classified advertisements or offer them a free page on the Internet that they can set up to promote their business. You may be wondering how you can do this because you may be new to the Internet yourself. You are just getting started and are just figuring out how to do it yourself. You may not know how to build a portal that offers free advertising or may not have the programming ability to offer free pages to other people.
If you are wondering how to go about generating leads this way there is a company that has spent more than 10 years developing a system that will help you in every aspect as far as tools and training is concerned. The system offers Traffic portals, Profit portals, Advertisement portals, Auto responders and FREE around the clock training to help you succeed. You can operate this system as a business of its own or you can use it to promote your primary business.
The purpose of giving this free stuff away is to get the name and e-mail address of the person that is interested enough in the free tools to give their information for it. They need the free tools to promote their online business and you get their information so you can become acquainted with them. Their business may not be doing very good and they may become interested in your business and become your customer.
You can join the system FREE, learn how to use the tools and information through the use of FREE online conference training.
Investigate the possibilities here: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekksplash.html
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
7. Generate Leads that are Yours Exclusively. How can you generate leads to increase the sales volume of your web site? You know that you have to generate leads that have an interest in the product or service that you are offering. Wouldn't it be nice to have an additional 1,000 or even 10,000 new prospects that had given you permission to market to them because they became interested in something that you had offered?
Most leads that you buy on the Internet have very little value so are practically worthless to you. This includes leads that you buy from list companies because the list has probably been sold many times before. These people probably don't even remember what they signed up for and are just tired of getting offers from everybody. So you don't dare call them up because they will bite your head off! They maybe wanted one special offer or a free report but after they submitted their information it got passed around and wound up in the hands of marketers whose product they weren't even interested in.
The best bet is to generate leads for your own prospect list and then guard it because it is exclusively yours (don't pass it around or sell it). The way you enroll these prospects is to give away tools that they need or some kind of special information in return for their name and e-mail address. Then value their name and address like gold because as long as you take good care of them they will remain a good contact in your list.
You can do it the had way by developing your own leads acquisition system or you can use a system that is already in place on the Internet.
The hard way would require several steps and processes to be developed. You would have to design a group of 20 to 50 gateway pages that you can advertise on the Internet. Then advertise these gateway portals to FFA's and Free Classifieds sites so they get passed around. Use a Autoresponder so that when people return e-mails you can capture their information. These e-mails have to be filtered and saved so you have proof that they e-mailed you first in case of any spam charges. These prospects are your contacts because they have responded to something that you had offered and asked for your response.
Or, the easy way to generate leads would be to join a system that is already set up and ready to go. The system is the product of a dynamic duo named Tom Prendergast, CEO and Mike Darling, President of Inetekk.com. They envisioned a system such as this back in 1996 and have been perfecting and upgrading it ever since. Their system includes the tools, portals and online training that teaches you how to acquire leads and attain top positions in search engines such as Google.
The Silver system is FREE so jump in and give it a try:
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekksplash.html
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
8. Generate leads with FFAFarm Submit your link to FFAfarm and generate leads. Your link stays on the FFAfarm indefinitely. On most other FFAfarm systems your link gets rotated off the page and goes away. The biggest challenge with the old method FFAs is they drop your link after 100 or so others have posted. This makes your link virtually useless. By the time the search engine robots check the page, your link has disappeared into the void of the Internet. Not so with FFAfarm.
This assures you a better link integrity by leaving a permanent link to your site, the search engine robots will reward you with better rankings. After a category fills to 100 links, a separate html page with your link is spawned and served indefinitely from our system. Thereby guaranteeing your link a permanent home on the Internet. So, we really aren't a traditional FFA type system. Think of us as a permanent link system. The only limitation is you can not add the same URL twice on the same page. But once the page spawns and a new page is made available, you can link again and again.
When you submit to our system, your submitting to 25,000 plus other sites as well. So with one submission, you get 25,000 unique web urls pointing to your site. Pretty good link popularity, don't you think? Extortion marketing at work, for free.
However, to use our system, you must use a real email address. When you verify that address, be aware that you are giving permission to all the FFA site administrators to send you an email at the most, once a week. Use an autoresponder, we don't care. If your posting with a remote system, that's OK too. We are the friendliest FFA system on the Internet.
Get started right now: http://leads4all.ffafarm.com/
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
9. Generate Leads (Automatically) There is a way to generate leads with the push of a button. The owners call it marketing at the speed of thought. It is marketing with a system that entices prospects to come to you. You collect e-mail address from prospects that have sent an e-mail to you then you have the opportunity to develop a relationship with them and gain their confidence as they get to know you. Let me ask you a question! Wouldn't you rather do business with a person you knew rather than someone you didn't know? I know I sure would.
There are many different methods you can use to market on the Internet but most of them cost you a lot of money and some of them are not very productive when it comes to actually acquiring a valid lead. A few examples of procedures you can set up are lead capture pages, banners, writing articles and etc. But, this takes a lot of knowledge with programming and technology.
The simple solution would be to join a company that has gone to all the trouble to set up all the tools and information you need to generate leads automatically. You will find all the training and information you need to be a successful Internet marketer.
Check it out here: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
10. Generate Leads (How To) How would you like to generate leads by having potential customers contact you instead of the other way around. I refer to this as reverse marketing and there are many approaches you can take if you decide this is the route you want to take. When you are already Internet active the following information is mostly cost free compared to buying e-mail leads that turn out to be useless or buying PPC (pay per click) traffic which turns out to be very ineffective.
Traditional ways to market your web site would involve things like TV spots, print ads, brochures, or other means to generate leads and invite customers to go to your web site for the product or service you are marketing.
An example of reverse marketing would be to install a lead capture form on your web page offering a FREE e-book or report about something that potential customer are searching for at search engines such as Google. When they see the free offer chances are they will give you their contact information in exchange for it.
Another technique would be to post helpful answers to queries on message boards and forums. Make sure it is a post that helps provide useful information and not a blatant advertisement. The strength of this type of reverse marketing is that customers searching the topic can find someone who first demonstrates their knowledge on a topic with helpful information. Most message boards and forums allow you to include your contact information in the signature file. If you have convinced people that you know what you are talking about they will find your signature file and click to your site.
Put up a splash page, gateway page or whatever you want to call it with keyword rich content related to your service or product and include links to your web page for more information. Then promote that page until it comes to the top of search engines.
The web page you developed above can be used in another way, also. This option gets pretty involved but it can be accomplished. It makes the use of FFA's (free classified ad site) but not in the manner that most people think of FFA's. You see most people think that when you submit your ad to a FREE classified ad site that there will be a bunch of prospects read this ad and click on the link to come to your site. Well, the truth is that probable nobody will ever see your ad. It is either rotated off the page before anybody sees it or it is just absolutely ignored.
The real use of a free classified ad site is this: The owners and members of the site use your submission as a tool to harvest your e-mail address and send you their information or offer. Now that you know this you can use it to your advantage. You collect those e-mail addresses from people that send to you and reverse market to them.
You will receive a multitude of e-mails from these sites and from people that have purchased your contact information from them, so before you embark on a system like this you should obtain an e-mail address to use for this purpose and not use you personal e-mail address. If you use your personal e-mail address it will become almost useless pretty fast because, you will have a hard time sifting out your personal mail from the junk mail you receive.
Write articles of interest about your service or product and submit them to article submission sites. You can find many such sites if you do a search for article submission. Search engines such as Google love these sites and spider them often because their content is constantly changing. If you write a good article with good rich keyword content and a keyword attention grabbing title it is pretty easy to land on page 1. You can get many hits to your web page when your article gets listed in one of the first 10 places of a search engine. Make sure you have a lead capture form on you web page to generate leads. Your article will include your contact information in the resource box at the bottom. Most article submission sites don't allow hyper links in the actual article text but you can put all of your information in the signature or resource box at the bottom of the article. If your article is good it may get picked up by a big company or promoter and they have to keep your resource box intact. It could get transmitted all over the Internet and generate leads from an enormous amount of back links to your site.
Reverse marketing techniques are often the most powerful when done well, as people really let their guard down when they are getting the information they need, and often this is what persuades them to buy on the spot when they have a great deal of confidence in the company they are purchasing from.
The main idea of reverse marketing is to put useful content out there where people will find it when they are researching a product or service. Paid links often return poorer results because people do not like to be sold. They want good reliable information so that they can make a decision on their own. People respond much better to content when it's main purpose is not an actual advertisement, but information that demonstrates your knowledge and expertise.
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
11. Generate Leads exclusively yours. If, all of a sudden, you needed to generate leads for your business or affiliate offer how would you go about it? One way would be to search out an opportunity list provider and spend a bundle of money for a list of e-mail leads that are over used and probably worthless. You can buy banners on popular web sites in an effort to generate traffic to your site. You could do a Pay Per View campaign on a company site such as Google Adwords. But, none of these methods seem to be very productive when you are trying to generate leads for your contact list. Besides, they cost a lot of money to implement.
This has always been a problem with businesses that want or need to develop an ever increasing customer base. To increase your sales volume you either need to sell more to your present customers or increase the number of customers that you have. Usually your present customers to not need any more product than what they are purchasing so the best solution is to obtain more customers. And, you need targeted prospects or in other words, prospects that are actually interested in what you have to offer.
Two people with a vision realized this several years ago and were determined to develop an online system that would attract targeted prospects that were specifically yours and do it in such a way that it was 100% spam free. Tom Prendergast, CEO and Mike Darling, President of Inetekk.com were the two men and the system they developed is Veretekk.com.
Their system is a coordination of proprietary software together with the required servers and hardware that make it the most advanced way to generate leads available on the Internet. The system integrates traffic portals, profit portals, auto responders, control panels and everything needed to make it an push button operation for all of their members.
One of the important aspects of the system is a component utilizing web conferencing and has become the backbone for FREE online classroom style training. Members that use the system volunteer as trainers and help new member learn how to use the system to acquire leads and make money.
Did you catch the last statement above that ended with make money? Yes, the system has actually evolved into an affiliate program that can enhance the income of members that are promoting the system.
Take a look here: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
12. Generate Leads. I need leads. You need leads. The need to generate leads demands that there be a reliable means to do this rather than some haphazard hit or miss campaign. If you have been looking for leads on the Internet you probably realize by now that to purchase leads from a list company probably will not produce any valid prospects for you. This is because most lists have been sold and resold to people looking for more contacts in their e-mail list over and over again. The way to generate leads is to acquire your own with a method that has been most most effective, especially, when looking for targeted leads.
You don't have to spend money on e-mail lists or paid traffic to your web site if you know how to use capture portals. These are web pages that describe important information or give away something of value in return for the prospects name and e-mail address. The content of the web page describes something that the prospect is looking for or something that they may want, therefore they are willing to give you their information in exchange. If the web page is related to the material or offering of your main business you then are in a good position to build a strong relationship and keep them as a permanent customer.
Later on I'll tell you about a system already programed to do this but let me outline the steps you might need to go through to accomplish this on your own.
First of all you will want to register an auxiliary e-mail account because you will be receiving so many return e-mails that is would make your primary service almost useless. Then develop 20 40 Internet pages that can be used to capture the name and e-mail address of people that like the offer on them so will submit their information to you. Then you do an Internet search on search engines such as Google and make a list of Free FFA's on which to place classifieds ads. Be sure you use your auxiliary e-mail address when submitting these ads because you will begin getting hundreds of return e-mails from these Free FFA's from people trying to sell you something. You collect all of these e-mails in a list complete with time stamp and domain information so you can prove you did not spam when you e-mail back to them.
Wow, that is just part of the routine and I'm tired typing about it, but I think you get what I am trying to convey to you. It can be accomplish and it has been accomplish by a company that has been perfecting it ever since 1992. So you can tell by the years it has taken what kind of a job it has been. Mr Tom Prendergast, CEO and Mike Darling, President of Inetekk.com envisioned a system such as this and directed their ambition and desires in this direction.
Not only is the tools and information ready for you to register and use they also provide the most elaborate training mechanism available on the Internet today. The whole system is taught and explained by people that use the system on a round the clock schedule. Just take a look at the Calendar at the beginning of your day and decide which class you would like to attend that day and when the time comes just login and learn. It is all Free to members.
To generate leads that are exclusively yours you must go and look at my affiliate page where you will learn that you can generate leads and earn money at the same time.
Start here: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daraoeder.com
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
13. Generate Leads with Freeffas. The task to generate leads for your business or online opportunity becomes a daily routine if you want to expand your customer base. And, what better way to do this than with a website that allows you to download a list of FREE new leads every day for life.
That is correct, it is a FREE system and when you join you can use it every day to download all the prospects that have submitted to the massive FFA system developed by Inetekk.com. Tom Prendergast, CEO and Mike Darling, President of Inetekk.com have been developing traffic portals, profit portals and tools on the Internet since 1992 and continually upgrade their sites to use the most advanced technology available.
The site is very easy to use. After you join you just login into your back office and download the list of e-mail addresses that have submitted since your last visit. You can do this every day if you wish, or every other day. The more days you wait the more addresses there will be for you to download. But, the longer the list the more time it takes to download.
The only thing you have to observe when you use these lists to generate leads is to use accepted practices when sending to the list. You must send an opt-in invitation first before you can consider putting them in your contact list. But, all of the addresses that give you the OK is yours to market to until they opt-out of your system.
After you join the freeffas system and login to the back office you will see the instructions that explain what a spam free campaign involves. There is also information that tells you how to take the burden off you and let a system do it for you.
Start here: http://leads4all.freeffas.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
hhttp://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
14. Generate Leads with FreePage. Do you want to generate leads by hosting your own free web site. You can create and maintain your own pages with this instant Web Publisher. No HTML programming, CGI scripting, or graphic design skills required. Everything is as simple as filling in the blanks. Best of all, with this system there is no cost to you, EVER!
These pages make great Doorway, Gateway, splash, capture or whatever other name you might like to call them. Plus, you can make as many as you want or need and they are all absolutely FREE.
Use these pages to build link popularity to your home page. You can make as many pages as you like because you have the capability of linking them all to each other thus building backlinks to another target link that you are working to the top of the search engines.
It takes some thought, planning and editing to write content just right! Free Page is fully compliant to using HTML code or just plain text. Content is one of the factors you must pay attention to when making a site search engine optimized. As a special NOTE: Free Page also lets you edit your title tags and meta tags which are very important during optimization of your web pages so they reach the top ranking of search engines such as Google.
The backbone of freepage is Veretekk.com and has been in development since 1996. You will have the backing of the latest technology and information available.
Start your first page now: http://leads4all.free-page.net
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
15. Generate Leads with Free Classifieds. Do you want to generate leads to increase the number of contacts you have in your e-mail list. Free classifieds is a very good way to do it.
What you do is place an ad in a free classifieds site and wait for the members of this site to send an e-mail back to you trying to entice you into joining their opportunity. As these e-mails come in you capture them as a lead into your leads list and you then have a right to send them e-mails advertising your site or program.
Many people think that the ad you place on the free classified site is what is going to generate leads for them but the truth is that probably nobody will read your ad. Where the results come from is the fact that you will include your web site and your e-mail address along with the ad. Well, your web site if included here can be used as a back link for search engines, such as Google, as they spider the classified site. And, then additionally your e-mail address will be sold and passed around to many people looking for e-mail lists.
When you are placing your ads look for classified ad sites that do not rotate your ad off the page. 1-family is a site that does this for you. Your ad will stay in place and you can place more ads and link them together if you like.
Go here to ad more success to your advertising: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
16. Generate Leads with a Blast! The way to generate leads with a blast is like this. You write a short line or two advertisement about your business and then press a button that will send your ad to 12 million sites. It only takes a few minutes to do but the results will be amazing.
What you think may not be what actually happens. You may think that your ad will have the possibility of being seen by millions of people because they are looking at one of these 12 million sites and click on your ad. But, in actuality maybe only a few people will even see or read your ad.
So, where is the power in what you just did. It is the power of back links. Every site that your ad was sent to has the possibility of creating a back link for the search engines. And, that is really what you are after. The more back links the search engines find going to your site the better rank you generate.
Blastomatic is an advanced Internet marketing system.
It is push button enabled. No soft ware is loaded to your computer.
There is a Webmaster program available absolutely FREE.
Enter your ad, sit back, and watch as your ad is submitted live to Adlandpro, 1America, 5Starads, Ablewise, ClassifiedsForFree, BestMall, Links2u, FFAnet, DTL Network, Websitings and many more well known major ad sites.
Quit wasting hours, even days, manually submitting your ads to the free classifieds. To submit one classified ad to over 150 classified by hand will take you all day. This system submits to 12 million sites!
Get it FREE here: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
http://leads4all.4f500.com/
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
17. Generate Leads with Free Ads. If you search the Internet you will find that most of the results tell
you not to waste your time with Free For All ad systems. It is my
belief that most of these writers think that a FFA site is there for
what its name portrays. They think that a FFA site is to post your
one or two line ad and then many people will see it as it rotates on
the entry page and come to your site and buy what you have to offer.
But, the reality of the process is that the submitters address is
captured and used by all members of the site to send an offer to your
e-mail address. Then eventually your e-mail address is sold and resold
to people looking for lists to send to. So, before you know it your e-
mail inbox is being filled with 1000's of offers that you don't want
or didn't ask for. If you were smart you arranged for an e-mail
address that was separate from your primary address because you will
probably receive so many return e-mails that your primary e-mail will
become unusable.
In the above example the nay sayers are probably correct when they
advise people not to use FFA's but, why not turn this around to your
advantage. These people in the above example have sent you an e-mail
so you now have a right to send replies to them. All you have to do
is collect their e-mails as they come in to you and save them in a
contact list.
That is where Veretekk.com comes to the rescue. It would be quite a
time consuming job to collect all of these e-mails and save them in a
contact list but, Veretekk has automated this routine to the point
that it is a point and click process.
Veretekk.com has Internet tools set up and ready for you to use and to
join the system and get started is FREE. FREE training, information
and help is right in the back office after you login.
Try it now: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
18. Generate Leads Spam Free! Are you risking the possibility of being accused of SPAM by marketing your business or opportunity to a list of e-mails that you purchased on the Internet. Most of the e-mail lists that you can buy are probably over used or obsolete and you will probably get less than 1 or 2 nibbles on a 10,000 name list. And, then these lists have been sent to so many times that they are ready to bite your head off when you send them yet another offer.
Why not let prospects come to you first. Yes, you read me correct, you should let future prospect come to you first. When they come to you first you know that they are interested in what you have and then you can do business in a friendly and ethical manner.
Now, you are asking, how do I go about getting prospects to come to me and get a consistent flow of prospects into my customer list. Well, the answer is that you reverse market your business or opportunity. By that I mean that you let it be known what you have and when someone gets interested they contact you to send them some more information.
Tom Prendergast, CEO and Mike Darling, President of Veretekk.com knew that this was going to be the way of the future so started building a system that would accomplish this more than 10 years ago. They developed traffic portals, profit portals and all the tools necessary to help anyone become a success on the Internet. All they had need to do is use the system.
Talk about autoresponders, submission tools or FREE instruction for search engine optimization of your site so Google, Yahoo and others will list it on page 1, you have it with the Veretekk.com system.
With Veretekk.com you are never alone. Every affiliate is more than willing to help you in whatever way they can.
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
http://www.daroeder.com
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
http://www.daroeder.com/splash/veretekk.html
19. Generate leads with giveaways. A very effective way to generate leads on the Internet is to put up a web page and give something away in return for the recipients name and e-mail address. The more value there is to the item being given away the more likely prospects will give up their name and e-mail address for it.
The most popular items to be given away are software, e-books or information that can just simply be downloaded by the prospect from your site. Other possibilities would be vacations, television sets, electronic products or online tools of some kind.
The complete system would be a web page with a capture form on it. The prospect fills in the form and clicks on the submit button. The prospect then receives instructions on how to acquire their free item and their name and e-mail address is added to your contact e-mail list.
Dennis Roeder
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
http://www.daroeder.com
20. Traffic Portals Generate Leads. You can use traffic portals to generate leads. This is a special kind of traffic portal. It is kind of like a landing page or capture page if you want to refer to it that way. Anyway, it is a page on the Internet that gives something away in return for the surfer leaving their e-mail address.
Inetekk.com is a company that supplies many of these pages as a benefit of belonging as a member. Each page has a different function. Some of them gather prospect leads for you and some of them offer a free gift such as a vacation or computer. Use it to generate leads for your primary business.
You can try the system out for free by joining at the following site:
http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
21. Spinning your wheels to Generate Leads? There is a big snow and ice storm here in the Kansas City area and I was sitting here thinking that to generate leads is kind of like getting groceries in a snow storm. That is you know what you want to do but when you try to go you just sit and spin your tires.
To generate leads for your business or business opportunity means you want to do something that works not something that you spend a lot of money on and get very few prospects. Buying leads is one that way that is not very productive. Pay Per Click can become very expensive and Traffic Exchange clubs take an awful lot of your time for very few prospects.
Generate leads this way: Join a company for FREE that will provide you the traffic portals, tools and free training to acquire your own exclusively yours leads.
Join http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
22. Waiting for something to happen? Are you waiting for people to find your web site? What you need to do is generate leads so you can tell people where your web site is. You can have a very good looking web site with everything ready to go and if nobody knows how to find it you will have no traffic.
Don't worry, help is here. There is a company that has all the tools and information you need to get new customers and advance your site on search engines.
Online conference training, information, traffic portals, autoresponders, tracking and etc. to generate leads that are yours exclusively.
Try it for FREE: http://leads4all.veretekk.com
Dennis Roeder
Do you have a plan in place to generate leads for your business? Any
business whether online or a brick and mortar store needs a continual stream of
new customers. You can either buy these leads at a very expensive cost and not
very effective or you can generate leads yourself.
By far the best way to generate leads is to initiate a campaign to discover
them yourself. This way they are exclusively yours and not a large group of
prospects that have been sold to many different companies looking for new
customers. You see, when you buy a list of e-mail names this list may be very
old and probably has been sold to many different clients in the near past. That
is how list companies make their money. It is not by coming up with a specific
one time list for your use only.
So how do you generate leads on your own. Well, let me tell you. First you
need to develop a group of pages, sometimes called splash or landing pages,
that you can promote on the Internet that will entice people to fill in a
capture form. In return for their name and e-mail address you give them
something of value (information, software or a service). Then you have to
advertise these pages so that you get people to come and look at them. If what
you are offering on those pages are appealing enough they will give you their
name and e-mail address in exchange for the information or service you are
offering.
Sounds like a lot of work doesn't it? Well, it is and it takes a lot of
knowledge and expertise to get a system such as this up and running. Most small
companies or start up businesses just do not have the time or personnel to spend
on this. Good news! There is already a company that does all of this and you can
join it for FREE. They have set up all of the tools and portals needed for a
business to generate leads and build up their customer base. They have
information, tools and all the training necessary for anyone that wants to learn
how to operate the system in a short period of time.
24. Generate Leads and communicate. How do you generate leads so you can introduce new customers to your business or online activity? One way is to buy them but, that seems to be a method that does not prove very profitable now days. Most of the leads you buy are over used and obsolete and they get irritated when they receive an e-mail from you or don't want to talk to you when you call them on the phone.
To generate leads on the Internet has become a very specialized task. You need to know what you are doing and how to go about it. It takes a process of traffic portals with lead capture forms and a reverse marketing technique.
All of the tools to generate leads and the training to do it are supplied by a system named Veretekk.com. A system that has been in development since 1996 and utilizes the most advanced technology available to produce uniquely yours leads that will enhance the business that you want to grow.
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1. SpiderWeb Will Rock the Web Whoa Baby! This blog is getting whiskers. Anyone that has followed my path will know that I now have been heavy into educating myself about Internet marketing. Thus, the reason for no posts.
But I have been busy and on assignment. One of the keepers is a beta program known as The SpideWeb Marketing System. If you have seen it in passing, but did not consider it...time to time warp for a reconsider. I think this is going to be the next big monetizing scheme for the web.
Many have tried to create a self-sustained or auto-pilot system. This puppy started out with 12 streams of income, but now has 22. I have a gut feeling it's going to be a winner.
It still is in beta, so do get in now to position yourself. Leave a comment if you want to join my team. It's no cost, but I also don't need any slackers. Yes, I will drag you along, but you have to do exactly as I say and follow a plan of action.
This is a heads up on Mark Wielgus at 45n5.com. Mark is on top of online trends, and I am here to tell you that he researches, tests, and reports on things you will come to appreciate on a daily basis. All the information in this post was gleaned from 45n5. My belief is that Mark combines some marketing savvy with geekdom knowhow. He even writes simple, but useful utility programs and then gives them away for free on the blog. Here is a recent link to one he dubs "Keyword Scrubber".
45n5.com has turned into one of the few blogs I simply must check out on a daily basis. Now Mark is committed to deciphering Affiliate Marketing as a top priority. Another project he is combining with this effort is his personal mission to produce and post a video every day in 2008.
I think with 365 videos in the planning, his little experiment is one to watch for trends, plus the techniques, tips and tricks he is bound to uncover along the way. So, if you want to make 365 videos in one year, watch this guy in 2008 and I think you will learn something.
This is not for a lack or loss of interest, but merely a necessity of time management. Regardless, my blog niche revolves around the central theme of mobility and using technology to be independent. So, you can always check back here and/or catch my more frequent updates at the Rugged Notebooks or Digital Nomads sites. My plan this year is to move to private domains.
One thing I have been doing is writing more focused posts...themed, if you will, or a series of posts on a subject of interest. Recently, this has had a major slant towards telecom, and in particular new gadgets like MagicJack and VoIP telephoney solutions like Google GrandCentral.
I am finding that being more focused on a particular subject area makes it easier and more interesting to research, test, review, and write. I think my readers appreciate it a well and it is helping in the SERPS.
If you are still blogging, drop me a line and let me know how you are getting on. There seems to have been a drop in the number of friends I met online in 2007 that have continued to blog, or scaled back like I have. -Digital Nomad
I saw this over at the BigString 2.0 website and thought it was good advice. BigString is an interesting concept in itself, which I will let you discover for yourself. These 12 items have been edited somewhat, so not to get dinged for duplicate content. There were some typos in the original text anyway. Enjoy.
1. Do not send email when you are angry. Wait until you calm down before you send that email. Feelings and thoughts can be difficult to interpret and easily misconstrued.
2. Never send a sarcastic email that could be taken out of context. Sarcasm and email do not mix. You can easily offend someone in an email without intent to do so.
3. Do not send email gossip. You never know where the email will end up. Just make a commitment to yourself not to participate in any gossip.
4. Never end significant relationships via email. Email is the equivalent of an electronic paper trail. Not good for any sour ending, whether business or personal.
5. If you don't want your boss or coworkers to see it, better not send that email from work.
6. Never put anything in writing that may come back to haunt you. A good overall policy. Not just for email.
7. Never, ever, hit âReply to Allâ when you just want to send an email to one individual.
8. Donât email pictures of yourself to others. Especially, online acquaintances and complete strangers.
9. Donât make promises or commitments via email that you cannot or will not keep.
10. When you send attachments, be sure that you have selected the correct files and documents.
11. Good advice from New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, âNever write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.â
12. Try BigString recallable email. If you do happen to make errors...the recallable, erasable, and non-forwardable features will help to correct such mistakes.
I have had a few email exchanges with Mark, and these are a few of his cautionary thoughts by way of how he has explained the ideas behind how it should work. Most people will not succeed with this mashup concept, or any other website scripting without the underlying concept and knowledge (or experience from learning) of how to build such a niche site.
Cranking out "out of the box" and rubber stamp solutions is what everybody else is doing. Doing the same thing that everyone else is doing online will bring the same results...which happens to be not making any money online. This also happens to mirror Einstein's theory of insanity, and he was no dummy. It's also making many people wealthy for some pretty worthless online information products.
So, if you use the script out of the box, most of your money will be made from luck or successful keyword research (aka) what words and topics you use to build these niche minisites in mass production.
Now is the time to learn. Take the time to consider doing it right. - Digital Nomad
A 25 Year Old Entrepreneur Making a Living Online from Home
You probably have read about or heard of The Rich Jerk and Chis X of Day Job Killer. If not you better stop and do a Google search right now. About 2 years ago, Holly Mann, a young mother started to successfully market directly against high profile Internet marketing gurus like these guys.
Living in a foreign country with no job and few resources, Holly decided she could research, design, and deliver a kinder and gentler approach to online marketing. Evidently she found her niche selling "How-To" information, because she has become successful in a short period of time (well, a couple of years).
"Honest Riches 2" is a 95 page proven guide. Holly shows all the techniques she has used to make money online through affiliate programs starting with no website and no start-up money, then on to free websites that can easily be setup with little or no experience, including free advertising that most people don't know or think about.
Yes, it seems possible to make money online and work from home just about anywhere (Holly lives in Thailand), but don't quit your day job just yet. You need a system and you need the right tools and knowledge to be successful. Changing your career is a life altering decision.
Before taking the leap, do plenty of due diligence and adequate research for information and resources about starting an online business and becoming an online entrepreneur. This e-book is geared for beginners, but is a valuable resource for all online marketers. No "get-rich-quick" schemes here....like any real business endeavor, it involves some effort and some work. But you will learn strategies and techniques to start making money right away.
To read more about Holly Mann techniques and other online marketers, visit Thank You Holly Mann.
After many attempts at beating a dead horse, everyone involved in the Agloco fiasco can now uncross their fingers. It ain't gonna happen. Even John Chow has finally admitted defeat along with almost 30,000 signed up in his Agloco network.
Here is a partial screenshot of his last post on the subject, and here is a link to the post about the Agloco demise at TechCruch. Like John says...it shows that all those MBAs don't always muster up success, even the second time around. For posterity, watch the video on the Agloco viewbar attributes, and think about all the gurus that were on board for this.
It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.
I have been searching heavy for the folks that are making it online and not the wannabes. One such source is 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. This guy tells it straight. You have to hunt an peck to find the good stuff, and you will have to piece it together, but I think a good start is on this website.
Mark will show you how to find a niche, create a website in 10 minutes, and then shove it in the pipeline with some SEO tricks. Theoretically, there is no reason why you could not do this everyday for a month and then have 30 minisites up and running for affiliate programs in thirty days. That's if you want to have a website between you and the merchant.
I am finding that you maybe don't even need a website to market affiliate programs, but you do have to commit to spending some money for Google Adword campaigns. Better have a pad and pen ready.
There is always something to learn. Take the time to learn something new each day. - Digital Nomad
Anything that goes viral online can be fun to watch, but sometimes it's even more exciting if you are part of the effort with some skin in the game. The Thinking Blog will make you think about many different things, and it will also make you think about viral marketing with the chance to start the new year right with a new laptop computer as part of an online promotion.
You should know Ilker Yoldas as a website developer and graphic designer. Ilker is also a professional blogger. A great combination for promoting ideas and new products online.
The Thinking Blog celebrates its first anniversary with an online giveaway to help get a new product line of rugged computers noticed online and hopefully taking it viral. Few things work as good as "FREE", except maybe these two words combined: "FREE COMPUTER".
The giveaway rules from Ilker state, "To enter our giveaway, all you have to do is write about it in your blog. Ensure you have two links on your blog post, one link with rugged related keywords to RuffPC.com (e.g. "rugged computer", "water resistant laptop", "spill proof notebook", and the likes) and another link to this giveaway post."
With a worldwide entourage of blog buddies and faithful readers, some bloggers become the experts of online marketing by disclosing this online information by showing you what to do. "TTB" is in this category with over 1600 subscribed RSS readers and several thousand new and returning visitors to the blog each day.
To win the free laptop giveaway at The Thinking Blog you have to participate by writing a review in your own blog post. This promotion is being sponsored by Ruff PC, and the computer giveaway is worthy of your participation.
The computer is a brand new, rugged, water resistant laptop called the RuffBook Tech. This road-worthy laptop has a magnesium alloy case, and is built to survive the harshest conditions.
Stop reading about it in this post, and go read the complete entry rules at The Thinking Blog. Now go get your chance at owning a new rugged laptop before the end of 2007. Also, congratulate llker by leaving a comment or two on the blog.
Happy Anniversary! -Digital Nomad
Related Links:
www.thethinkingblog.com or email: ilker@thethinkingblog.com Contact: Alan Shad, President: www.ruffpc.com Telephone or email: sales@ruffpc.com
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I wanted to make a quick update in reference to writing and submitting Pillar Articles to article directories vs. the chore of "Feeding Blogs" with endless content. This test is progressing nicely. I have submitted 5 pillar articles since about the middle of last month.
I know this is working, as I have been posting less to all the blogs I author in varying degrees as a test. This has not affected the blog traffic much at all. Traffic is actually improving, according to StatCounter and Alexa for two of the blogs that I author. One averaging over 10 page views per visitor at the time of this writing.
It may also be that I am now writing better, more focused content, since I do not feel pressured to try and post something every day for the sake of trying to post so frequently.
The five recent pillar articles have been downloaded for publication over 100 times in less than 30 days, and this is just for GoArticles. I periodically will submit similar articles to several of the more popular article directories.
OK. You can "stop feeding your blogs" now, and you also can stop making endless comments on popular blogs, trying to get made a "Fav" on Technorati, and otherwise making the meter go up on metrics that have much ado about nothing when it comes to quality traffic.
I think submitting to article directories will also create better traffic with better long-term and permanent links.
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Here is possibly a way to secure a domain name when you are in a hurry, and at the worst an extra free email account. You can use your own domain to create a personalized email address for you, a business, or anything else through an AOL service called My eAddress. You have up to 100 invites for others to get their own email address on your domain. The free service is called AOL My eAddress.
Just a few comments and cautions from the TOS. You have to give out quite a bit of personal information, like a valid cell phone number in the US or Canada. Additionally, if you use the "Bring your Own Domain" option, you can use any hosting company you like while using free email service from AOL. However, if you choose the "Popular Custom Domain" option, you will be stuck with AOL as the administrator for the domain, so you will not be able to host a website at that domain.
This could be a catch 22 for your future plans, so please read the "Terms of Service" carefully at AOL My eAddress.
Bouncing around the blogosphere, you may find that many of the well known bloggers are coming to the same conclusions that I already have. Get back to basics, don't worry about PR, Technorati, or Alexa ranking...and concentrate on traffic.
For some people this still means spending horrific amounts of time networking and hitting the social network scene. I am more convinced that writing pillar articles for submission to article directories is a much better approach.
This involves spending more time on research and organizing your thoughts far enough into the future to determine how you can approach a particular subject. You need to write for yourself, but you also need to write about things other people will have an interest in reading.
In many ways this is much better than the prospect of having to write posts just for the sake of writing a post. I know at many times people get a writing block, or just get bored, or even fed up with the notion that they have to "feed the blog" (I think I just coined a useful phrase).
Some of the additional rewards of pillar articles, is that your writing will be more involved and engaging, you will be building authority in one or more areas of personal interest or a niche, and you will be expanding your own knowledge base as you research and process information.
Additionally, you will have a greater chance of having your articles republished elsewhere on blogs and mentioned in references in such a manner that they are permanently linked back to your blogs and websites. Go plant some seeds for future traffic building, and resist the urge to "Feed the Blog".
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The Death of Page Rank! Everyone is complaining about their PR, or Google Page Rank dropping. I say, "Get over it and move on". As I wrote in a recent post about traffic strategy, it is becoming more obvious all the time that all these ranking metrics really prove is nothing...unless you want to post and brag about how you make the meters move.
Just like Technorati, or Alexa ranking, PR has little or nothing to do with traffic and successful marketing. Anything ill-gotten is just that, "ill-gotten". So, if you have spent months or years gaming the system, don't be surprised to see what your true worth might be in the Blogosphere and the Arpanet.
Take a deep breath, get back to work...and try to learn how to add value to your online projects and for your readers and visitors. Like the book says "Do What You Love, and The Money Will Follow."
I think that all this nonsense is amazing to the true online marketers that know how to push the buttons to make things really work. It once again boils down to Niche, Traffic, Monetization, with the actual "Product" bringing up the rear.
Maybe backwards of how the analog world works, but after all it is a "Market of One" when it come to the Internet and online marketing. Build a better mouse trap and you will be found.
Besides, you really can't toss rocks at Google for trying to plug holes in the dam by making the PR rank more honest. More fun for gamers, too, who just have a burning desire for shortcuts and beating the system.
Now we can all look forward to posts on new theories, new techniques, new ebooks, new widgets, new podcasts, new videos, new ezines, new seminars, new gurus, and new yearly conventions. Page Rank is alive and well, it just no longer is what it had become.
Apologies in advance for all the cliches. - Digital Nomad
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It's the middle of the weekend, so no heavy thought riddled posts today. Just some fun and games to let your mind roam a little. Maybe this should become a habitual weekend exercise to post about. Find something that is lighthearted, but still interesting and write a quick post about it.
I have had this bookmarked for some time, and today finally tried out PhoneSpell.org. Oddly enough, my telephone number does not spell anything. What are the chances of that. I tried both 7-Digit and 10-Digit combinations. This is no joke. Mouseover and click to see larger in a new window.
Oh well, give PhoneSpell a link up and see what you come up with for your numbers. It may give you an idea for a new blog or domain name, jog your memory for a new marketing approach, or just make you laugh. Maybe we can resurrect the notion of the "enum" network.
Sometimes we just need some levity. While you are there, check out the Voice Nation link at the bottom, and help PhoneSpell pay some bills.
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Are you lost in the blogosphere? Tired of posting and timestamps? I have been doing some experimenting with the different blogs that I write, including analysis and research about blogs versus websites. This has involved researching the current methods to create traffic, which everyone and their brother has rehashed in posts and how-to SEO ebooks and seminars.
You know, like leaving comments on blogs, posting frequently, writing interesting posts, viral contests, linkbating, joining social networks, etc. These all do work. The caveat is that if you are using some of the monetization schemes that everyone writes about, you first have to have a presence with regard to a Techorati rank, and Alexa rank, or both to get in the game.
The long and the short is that both of these ranking systems have little to do with making money in my mind. I personally have no interest in PPP, PPC, PPA, or any of the advertising schemes that require tons of time and effort. It is a double edge razor blade in my opinion, because you have to spend an unbelievable amount of time socializing and creating backlinks. It also is why bloggers burn out fast.
Technorati is notoriously bad for not sending traffic. And get this...everyone that measures traffic knows that bloggers don't click on ads or text links. So what is the point of pandering to other bloggers in the blogosphere to get their traffic. Even Darren Rowse has recently admitted that Adsense income was no longer worth cluttering his Problogger blog up with ads.
I can almost guarantee that if you spend much of your time in forums and social networks to gain popularity, you will have little to show for it except some nice ranks and bragging rights. All this indicates that it's time to get back to the idea of selling a niche product or service (a real product that fills a need) using a static website and driving traffic to that website. That is what online marketing is about. By best accounts, only a few dozen bloggers make a full time living out of 100 million blogs. Not a very good business model if you ask me.
A good Technorati and Alexa rank may be giving you the illusion that you are successful. The same is true for frequent posting. I have deliberately cut back on posting to see what would happen. You guessed it...Technorati and Alexa ranks drop like a rock, and very quickly. The effort to maintain your rankings is an endless nightmare of posts to blogs, and posting comments to social networks and forums. It is like being a shark, stop swimming and you die.
I am beginning to think a better approach is to use your blogging as part of a network traffic strategy to create desirable traffic. I also am going back to writing "pillar articles" for article directory submission. These end up as permanent links and keep on giving for years to come.
There are only four things that matter in online marketing, and they are in this order of importance:
1. Niche 2. Traffic 3. Monetization 4. Product
Notice that the product is the least important thing. Unless, you just write for kicks or the truly original purpose of blogging...to keep a journal, my money is on investing time online that will produce recurring revenue and better return on your investment of both time and money.
What are your thoughts or experience?
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If You Work in Difficult Conditions, Then A Rugged Laptop May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
Rugged laptops are not cheap, you may know that already since you are interested in them. And they also don't come with the same configuration as the other commercial laptops you may be used to. What you get instead with a rugged laptop, is the possibility and flexibility to work in a lot of tough locations on difficult weather. That is the real value of a rugged laptop, value that earns all the money you may have paid for it.
If you work in a place where you find one of the below listed conditions, then you should really consider buying a rugged laptop:
Liquid All Over (including on your rugged laptop)
Rugged laptops have sealed keyboards that won't let the water or any other liquid to seep inside. Also, the ports that you will find on a ruggedized laptop are usually protected by efficient covers that keep the liquid away from connectors so you won't experience any unpleasant situations in wet environments.
Strong and Persistent Vibrations
Rugged laptops were designed with this issue in mind, they have strong components, a hard drive that resists to strong vibrations, things that commercial laptops don't do. Put a normal laptop in a vibrating environment and you may have the surprise of loosing data. Not with a rugged laptop.
They are also tested for...
Drops, Drops, Drops
During a work day you may drop your rugged laptop more than once. You should know that all the components inside it are strong and tested to withstand a strong impact: CPU, hard drive, optical devices, etc. The rugged laptop case is also strong not easy to break.
Electromagnetic Fields
Commercial notebooks won't perform well near an electromagnetic area such as radio transmissions, power generators, etc. A rugged laptop was actually designed to work in such environments, environments where commercial notebooks may actually stop working.
About the author: John Smith is the editor of MagicLaptop.com. Read the complete guide on "How To Buy A Rugged Laptop" www.MagicLaptop.com
Do you have a list of bloggers you like and want to recognize? This is what my Saturday Shoutouts project is all about.
This is where I give people a mini review as a mention in a weekly post, and then Stumble, Netscape, use other bookmarks, and write a few comments to their blog posts.
This week will be fairly brief with four bloggers instead of the targeted five blogs I attempt to call out each Saturday afternoon. Charlene is recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month by doing a pink overhaul at her Casual Keystrokes blog. Scott is happy to be an S.O.B. at Finding Your Marbles (great name for a blog). Then David points out the marketing value of YouTube in a post on Social Media Optimization, and there is Ilker at The Thinking Blog, who is always thinking for us.
Leave a comment and let me know what you are up to with your blogging efforts.
Doing a recent search on "SOHO", the obvious acronym for Small Office/Home Office (assuming that you are not from New York City), I came across this website for the SOHO Phone Guide.
It is a good example of "soft selling" and using what looks like a free consumer information guide to steer readers to a commercial enterprise. In this case, a shameless plug for Onebox. In my early marketing days before the days of the Internet, this may have also been referred to as an advertorial. A thinly disguised attempt at making an advertisement look like editorial content.
In this case the marketing message may be useful for those that are lazy, or perhaps less adept a putting some of the free online telephony solutions together for use in there small business adventures.
I was a Onebox early adopter when it first came online, and prior to it becoming a paid service. All-in-all, still a good option for those willing to pay a monthly fee for unified messaging and a one number follow-me type telephone service.
Once again time to acknowledge new friends and blogs worthy of note and interest. As is the new twist, you should get 3-4 extra links from being mentioned in my Saturday Shoutouts. Not sure why, but Shoutwire was being obstinate last week. That bookmark has been replaced with a bonus link. You also get a few comment or two on your blog and another Stumble for being picked.
This week we have Patrick from Top Secret Blogger and advice about staying on topic, John the Cow man is proud of his new look at John Cow Dot Com, and thoughtful design with Dawud at DawudMiracle. Round it out with what's up about music and cats at Wtfzup, plus Wendy at the new eMoms at Home (and Dads with Dawud again).
As might be expected, I too need the favors of social media networking, and those beloved comments on my personal blogs at the links that follow. -Digitalnomad
Here are a few other online Video Messaging systems I should have mentioned in my last post about TokBox. Everyone that uses the tried and true Skype will know that they have video capability. Other contenders are OoVoo.com, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and many others I don't care to mention or promote.
Festoon,Inc. had a plug-in for video chat that supposedly worked with both Skype and Google Talk, but the free download is no longer available (website www.festooninc.com domain expired 8-30-07) .
The best of the lot is said to be SightSpeed. Below are two promotional screenshots from the Skype and SightSpeed websites to give you an idea if what to expect.
Sorry to say that I am behind on my testing, and hope to report my personal findings in the near future. No doubt that as telephones and computers continue to converge there will be more "Talk-and-See" options, just like predicted in the Dick Tracy comics and Flash Gordon movies from the 1930s.
This was noted on Jimmy Huen's Blog some time ago last month, and I must admit I was intrigued. Also a little bit embarrassed as I did not have a video camera to test it out. I finally ran out and bought a camera (still in the box).
I do fancy free or near free telephony and communication solutions, and probably will end up building my own private network one way or another. The idea of video chat will certainly figure into those plans. I want to be able to at least have this capability with a rugged laptop and some wireless solutions when on the road.
I still have not had a chance to test TOKBOX, but wanted to at least post about it, and then I can come back and do an update. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch also has said some nice things about it.
"While there are plenty of video chat products out there on the market, including Skype, most of them require at least some software download to the computer. Something about the simplicity of TokBox, which is entirely a web application, suggests it might get very popular very fast."
Here are some Saturday Shoutouts featuring new blog buddies that are always there when you need them. These blogging bright spots help to boost the morale of those around them. There are many, so this will be the first of several posts.
As an added bonus I also have cast some Reddit votes, Shoutwire (or something else special) for individual posts I have read on your sites. I hope this gets you some extra juice to your blogs.
Should you be inclined to return the favor, I have listed embedded links to all of my personal blog endeavors below to make it easy. Thanks for being there.
Well not quite everything. I had not updated this blog since sometime in August until today. In the process of checking my stats on Technorati I came across this anomaly.
As you can see from these screenshots taken today, I have two Technorayi scores. One says that this blog is in the Top 10K with a rank of 7,680, and the other screenshot shows this blog ranked at nearly twice that number with a rank 14,659. This descrepency occurs by clicking on different links within the Technorati UI.
I actually discovered something was wrong when I was checking the stats for JaKelDaily.com. I usually make the top comments there each month, and keep tabs on Jason. I new something was awry, because Technorati shows Jason's blog with an authority of "1" (-1-) and a rank of 3,915,745. Statistic that keep getting worse instead of better.
Many people get bent out of shape over Technorati stats and the ranking system, and for some good reasons. This is why I have in the past called Technorati the Illuminati of the Blogosphere.
Very mysterious, very secret...and probably part of a worldwide blog conspiracy. Just joking! This has to be part of an update glitch. Let me know your thoughts, and if you have had similar experiences.
"Archives", or archiving for most blog platforms is something that for the most part happens automatically in the background with no action or "command" necessary for it to take effect. This is similar to auto-save. New bloggers can simply read about it when starting a new blog, set up their archive preferences...and then forget it.
First let's look at the concept of a "blog archive". As you might expect, it simply means a system to file or store blog posts for future reference. Since blogs were first written and intended to be more or less online personal journals, blog posts naturally were first archived in a reverse chronological order.
This makes some sense, as anyone reading your blog for the first time would probably want to read the current or most recent post. This submission would then be auto-archived by first the day, then the week, and then the month, and eventually the year.
Most blogging platforms display the archives in a sidebar, with some ability for you to control how the archives are listed, and how these lists are displayed to readers.
Anyone that has been blogging for any length of time, probably refers to their archives on a regular basis without thinking much about it. This comes in handy when you are linking to a past post as an update, for reference to create deep linking for SEO purposes, or as a continuation of a series for a particular subject of your blogging niche.
The beauty of blog archives is that you really don't have to think about them once you set up your preferences, but they are always there. This is not much different than the concept of doing automatic backups of your important computer files for permanent media storage.
It is easy to just think of a blog archive as a record of your blog posts for long-term or permanent storage for future
It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.
Anything that goes viral online can be fun to watch, but sometimes it's even more exciting if you are part of the effort with some skin in the game. The Thinking Blog will make you think about many different things, and it will also make you think about viral marketing with the chance to start the new year right with a new laptop computer as part of an online promotion.
It's the middle of the weekend, so no heavy thought riddled posts today. Just some fun and games to let your mind roam a little. Maybe this should become a habitual weekend exercise to post about. Find something that is lighthearted, but still interesting and write a quick post about it.
Sorry to say that I am behind on my testing, and hope to report my personal findings in the near future. No doubt that as telephones and computers continue to converge there will be more "Talk-and-See" options, just like predicted in the Dick Tracy comics and Flash Gordon movies from the 1930s.
