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Welcome to my personal SohoMatic web system. My name is Don Jeffre 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 sites.


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1. The Platinum Control Panel

The Platinum Control Panel
The Team is built and in training with The Godfather!

The core purpose of the PCP is to build top ranking search engine sites. Veretekk's goal from the very beginning was and is to deliver a system that produces leads for you effortlessly. We call them premium leads because they are not bought and sold. They are generated with your Veretekk system.

The key to Internet business is being found by someone looking to buy what you offer for sale. Sounds easy enough, doesn’t isn't. The quest to gain sales is what generates unsolicited phone calls, email spam and spam faxes to this day. But when someone wants to buy a product or service, 99% of the time they consult the search engines and if you are there when they do and have what they are looking for, you get the sale.

The Platinum Control Panel gives owners the power to set up Veretekk Gold accounts in minutes. This is important as we move forward toward the launch date of the Veretekk V2.0 system. That system will be very sophisticated with greater configuration requirements. You will have a distinct advantage having a Platinum Control Panel

The Platinum Control Panel opens up unlimited possibilities for your Internet Marketing goals.

We now have a team of about 100 Platinum Control Panel owners. The results are already starting to occur. Bottom line, Plats are getting the Gold upgrades in record numbers. Because Plats super charge Gold accounts. Get on the team or find a Platinum Leader now. This is all in preparation of launching the massive V2 project in March, 2010.

To join my PCP team, simply upgrade to Veretekk Gold and I will add you to my Platinum Control panel.

Don Jeffre
501-796-2525
Skype: revenue4u



2. Leadsomatic, a Powerful SEO Tool for Low Budget Marketing

The real value of Leadsomatic lies in its use as an SEO tool, much more so than simply using the ad blasting feature. Leadsomatic automatically posts your text ads with links to 2 billion sites across the Internet. To get maximum results you need to write keyword rich text content and link that text to your marketing site. Many people fail to take the time to research keywords or to even fully understand what a keyword is.

As used here, a keyword is simply any term that somebody would type into a search engine. Long tail keywords are almost always better than short tail keywords. The term "leads" is a short tail keyword, whereas "double optin business leads" is a long tail keyword. The more specific your keyword, the better your results will be. Linking your website to the right keywords can provide a major boost in traffic. Leadsomatic has a built-in keyword tool that allows you to check your keywords for popularity before you submit your ad.

Using Leadsomatic is a 3-step process: you first check your keywords, then submit your site to the 40 top search engines then you blast your ad. With 2 Billion sites in its database capable of receiving remotely submitted ads, of course several different kinds of sites will be in the mix. Since the submitter does not use e-mail, no spam is involved.

Leadsomatic has two levels of membership. The free option offers use of the search engine submission tools. The paid level costs $10 a month and provides the additional ad submission and keyword features. The paid level also entitles members to promote this tool to generate a residual income. It's a steal at the $10 price.

The purpose of Leadsomatic is simple – to pour traffic, leads and sales onto your website. Leadsomatic is an advertising and marketing tool that posts your ads to over 2 BILLION sites, submits to over 40 of the top search engines and also serves as a keyword checker tool.

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3. Free MLM leads

Try These Free MLM leads Resources

Many places online will sell you MLM Leads. A few places still offer free MLM Leads. Here is a short list of places where you can still find free MLM Leads. All you need to do is sign up at the site.

Free MLM Leads

Free MLM Leads

Free Web Directory Submission

Free Search Engine Submission

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4. Proper Keyword Selection is Critical to Marketing

Proper Keyword Selection is Critical to Marketing

Plain and simple, picking the right keywords can produce success and profit. Picking the wrong keywords produces failure. The more time you spend researching your keywords and selecting the right ones, the better chance you have of making some money.

Picking the right keywords does not mean using the same words as the big sites you are competing against. The keywords they use have a lot of money behind them and you probably do not have the advertising budget it takes to compete with them so be smart and find those long-tail keywords that are somewhat less popular but will nonetheless get you enough traffic to get some customers and make some money. Longtail keywords are usually three of four words and will work better for you than shorter keyword selections.

To illustrate this concept, do a search engine search for a short keyword, like leads for example. You will find millions of references to such a general term. Then add some more words to the description, such as optin MLM leads and you will see that the number of sites competing for it is fewer. Then try double optin mlm leads, and you will find even fewer listings. The point is that the longer strings of words still produce lots of searches although fewer than the short word strings. Unless you own a major corporation with abundant advertising finances, you will never be able to own those short tail phrases. By being practical and entering the race you can win, your chances of success are dramatically improved.

Here is a list of tools that is useful in researching keywords.

Keyword Discovery
Wordtracker
WordZe
Google Keyword Tool
SEO Digger
Overture/Yahoo Keyword Selector
SEO Book Keyword Tool
KeywordSpy
SpyFu
Digital Point Keyword Suggestion Tool
NicheBOT
AdGooRoo SEM Insight

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Don Jeffre
501-796-2525
Skype revenue4u


5. Free MLM Leads

One of the most challenging tasks faced by online businesses is to find qualified free MLM leads. Many websites offer to sell leads and do a thriving business doing just that. Many new MLM businesses that are just getting started lack the capital to buy leads and rely on free sources until a little money starts rolling in.. I put up a new Wordpress website to provide information on where to find free MLM leads to use for your business.

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Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
501-796-2525
Skype: revenue4u



6. Make Money Online

The Money Machines primary purpose is to help you learn and empower you to develop an alternative form of income. It is not a dream anymore, it is a reality. I urge you to take a brief moment to take this tour that can help you take control of your life and become financially free at the same time

Money Machine is a directory of ways of making money online and working from home with affiliate programs, make money working from home today with us. Take the survey first then we will direct you to programs for your benefit. These programs often referred to as affiliate programs or working from home programs can be very profitable and make you substantial amounts of money. Bookmarking this money making site or adding this web site to your favorites is a good idea!

To view Todays Top Ten Affiliate Programs and ways of making money and working from home take the survey. To view work from home programs by category or to submit your own work from home program please go to leads.

Do you want to quietly make a nice living from home, working mostly online, for the rest of your life? Until recently, only my closest friends and family knew about what I do. I dont drive a Ferrari or wear $5,000 suits but I will never have to worry about money again, thats for sure. And its all possible because I discovered you can: -Get paid to take online surveys and make money working from home. -Make money and work from home and participate in focus groups and make money -Get paid to take phone surveys and you can make a nice income -Get paid to try new products (and keep the free products too) -Get paid to preview new movie trailers.

This system will teach you how to earn awesome cash from any computer connected to the Internet, anywhere in the world. You can work more from home than I do (which wouldn't take much) and make more than I do. That is up to you. This does work and it is really inexpensive to join, a great way to make money working from home. Get started now by taking this survey.

Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525



7. Free SEO Training

One of the most challenging tasks faced by marketers is how to optimize your website so that you can take advantage from natural traffic. Artificially produced traffic such as traffic from traffic exchanges simply does not convert to sales well enough to be worthwhile, or to justify the time spent producing it.

To produce natural search engine traffic, such as from Bing or Yahoo, you need to optimize your website. You could research the subject of Search Engine Optimization for many months and barely scratch the surface of this subject. That is very time consuming and is hit-and-miss at best. Fortunately there is a better and quicker way.

Veretekk Marketing System offers free search engine optimization (SEO) training and is free to join. The advanced marketing technology of Veretekk allows you to take complete control of your marketing efforts. They have tons of training and support available to help you learn to market effectively online.. They also have a dedicated staff of expert trainers ready to step you through every detail and ensure you will succeed. Training is available 24/7 in the webinar conference rooms in the back office.

With a premium (paid) membership in Veretekk you can take advantage of the portal marketing technology offered, including over 20 traffic portals and over 20 SEO portals.

SEO Portals are designed specifically to aide with Search Engine Optimization (SEO), not lead generation or direct marketing. As with all portals you have full control over the content (displayed text, hyperlinks, title/meta tags, photo upload, etc.) which makes these websites a powerful addition to your portfolio of SEO tools. Utilizing these portals allows you to expand your control out to over 40 different domains!

Veretekk offers a free lifetime silver membership and you can sign up for free today. There is absolutely no cost, just sign up and explore all they have to offer..

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FreeFFAs Business Leads | Produce more Lead | Home Worker Leads Free Home Base Business tool provides over 1000 quality contacts each day.

Leadsomatic Ad Blaster | Post Your Ad | ad submitter software Premier service submits ads to over 2 Billion websites online.

Vereconference VOIP Conference Room | Hold online webinars | Videoconferencing Free 3 seat VOIP conferencing system. Larger rooms up to 2000 seats

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Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email Me



8. How to Do Business in Foreign Tongues

How to Do Business in Foreign Tongues

Hi Affiliates;

As an affiliate, you will often get business leads from people who live is strange far away places. Please do not panic. Not everybody who joins your team will have English as their native tongue. You start to worry that language will be a problem but you should not be overly concerned. Remember that the Veretekk website that these folks signed up on is written in English. It stands to reason that anyone signing up speaks and reads a little English, at the very least. Many school systems around the world teach English as a second language, much like USA schools teach Spanish, French and Latin, among others. You will often be suprised to find that your leads speak very good English.

Furthermore, there are some really excellent online translators to translate the written word into English or back into the native tongue of your lead. If verbal communication becomes a barrier, try writing instead.

http://translation.langenberg.com/
http://www.free-translator.com/
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
http://www.freetranslation.com/
http://www.worldlingo.com
http://translation.langenberg.com/
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
http://translate.google.com/#
http://translation2.paralink.com/

Please add these links to your favorites/bookmarks. Several of these sites have a discovery feature so even if you do not recognize the language you are seeing, the translator will identify it for you. In simplest terms, there are about 6 billion people living on planet Earth. About 300 million people live in the USA and that represents a mere 5 percent of the world market. Who on earth would turn their back on 95% of the potential clients out there? With a little extra effort, you can learn to market your business to a bigger world.

Warm Regards
Don Jeffre



9. Have You Posted Today?

Hi;

One of the most essential parts of marketing online is linking. Building links to your website, whether it be a Veretekk portal or your business site, is critical to getting traffic and finding customers. Links from other sites are like votes. Links from websites with trust, authority and rankings will positively impact the way search engines position your site. Obtaining backlinks is perhaps the most crucial aspect of marketing any website.

There are many ways to obtain backlinks, depending on the situation. If you own the website, you can exchange links with other website owners, and have your links added to their site while they add your link to their site. If you are promoting an affiliate site, you may not be able to exchange links because you have no provision for adding links to most affiliate sites.

For affiliate sites, one of the better ways to create links is to post entries to forums and blogs. If you are a Veretekk Gold subscriber, you have a Blogfather blog already in place for your use. If you are a Silver subscriber, either consider upgrading to Gold, or go to Google Blogger and get a free blog. Once you have a blog, post it regularly with fresh content for best results.

Thousands of online forums exist on the Net and almost all of them offer free membership. All forums have rules in place and it is extremely important to read and follow the guidelines. Some forums allow open ad posting, while others allow more subtle forms of advertising by allowing links in signature files only. Regardless, these links are indexed by search engine spiders and will quickly appear in search engine results. I am posting a list of advertising forums below. Most or all of them allow direct ad posting and also use signature elements. This list is by no means all inclusive.

My suggestion would be to sign up for a few of these forums and get some ads out there in cyberspace. Increase as you go to improve your marketing results.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions.

Don Jeffre
501-796-2525
Skype revenue4u

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10. China Harvest Ministries
China Harvest Ministries is a ministry that helps the Chinese orphans, feeds the poor and helps the Chinese Christians. This ministry and many other ministries need your help.  
Ministries, Chinese orphans, China orphan,China Harvest Ministries  

http://www.chinaharvest.org/
 
Rick Haynes


11. Marketing Down Under

Marketing Down Under

If you live in Australia or New Zealand and have ever wanted to create a successful work from home online business, you have come to the right place. Internet marketing takes more than a fancy webpage or sophisticated online marketing tools. It takes experience - which can take you years to develop... or... which can be provided to you by others - expert trainers ready to help you meet the goals for your business, whatever your business may be. Thats what Veretekk is all about, free leads and community. The journey starts with a single step... is today the day for you?

Every year, thousands of marketers turn to Veretekk to accelerate the building of their products and services. Using our Veretekk automated leads and Search Engine Optimization service, subscribers receive from our proprietary technology, the finest entrepreneurial premium leads.

One of the worlds most successful businessmen was being interviewed. During the interview the interviewer asked... "How did you do it? Whats the secret of being successful in business?" The entrepreneur replied... "Well, it is simple really. I just buy something for one price and sell it for a higher price."

As you read through this web site, you will discover that the answer the businessman gave was a great answer! It doesnt matter if you have been in business for 20 years or are just starting out. To be successful, you must know how to make a profit; how to buy low and sell high. There is no other reason for being in business. You can start off in business because it is something that you enjoy, something that your mum or dad did, however, ultimately you are in business to make money.

So why do some people succeed and others dont? As you read you will get the business principles necessary to understand how to make a profit in any business. This includes any business you start on the Internet. There are people who start businesses on the Internet and then do absolutely nothing. And I mean, they do not even monitor their site for opportunity nor do they communicate with others to create opportunity. This is a lot like whispering down a well about your business. The only thing thats visible is your rear-end and no one can hear you!

Do not let this happen to you... Having a business on the Internet is just like having a business anywhere else. The same principles apply. Most important of all are generating MLM Leads and turning leads into customers. To be successful you must get leads and turn some of these leads into customers.

Veretekk connects you directly with these active prospects in three steps: Prospects complete an online Request-for-Service form from one of over 20 Traffic Portals. Once in the automated professional marketing system prospects information is verified and then added to your Premium leads control panel. Matched prospects, including their full contact information and survey results, are immediately uploaded to your management control panel exclusively.

As you read through this web site you will get an understanding of whats required to get leads and turn them into customers. Also there are tons of examples that you can relate to in everyday life together with many other great ideas that you can put into your business immediately.

Just a glance at the full Gold System in action with 42 fully configurable lead capture pages to promote your business online, will make some peoples heads spin. Unlike any other web traffic or live leads program, Veretekks unique system provides you with the most targeted, exclusive and timely prospect to help improve your marketing ROI, shortening your growth cycle within. Automatically submit your ad and get leads the system automatically generated.

So get ready! You are about to get a lesson in business like never before!

Don Jeffre
Email Me
Vilonia, Arkansas
United States



12. SFI ACN Sales Leads
SFI ACN Sales Leads

We are living through some tough economic times. The stock market is in the tank. Energy costs are on the rise. Food prices are rising rapidly. Joblessness is at an all time high. The cost of travel, whether by car or air, is way up with no end in sight. Many households are barely hanging on. Are you feeling the pinch? If so, you are not alone.
 

Now more than ever, a home based business can provide the supplemental income you need to make ends meet. I would guess that you already have a business of some kind either planned or in place. Am I right?
 

To be successful in any home based business, one thing is for certain. You need sales leads and lots of them.  Wikipedia defines a sales lead as:  A sales lead is the identity of a human or entity potentially interested in purchasing a product or service, and represents the first stage of a sales process.

One of the best mlm leads sources I have found is called Veretekk. This company wrote the book on recruiting leads. It doesnt matter whether you need free opt-in prospects or you are trying to recruit business leads, Veretekk is the answer. When you sign up for a silver Veretekk system, you get the marketing power of Veretekk for one of two reasons.  Either you want to produce business leads or you want to use the search engine optimization features to move a website up in the search engine rankings. Maybe you want both.
 
As a silver (free) subscriber, you can produce some limited results in both the leads and SEO areas without paying. If you want to learn how, begin attending as many of the Veretraining classes on different subjects as you can. The classes cover the specifics on how to apply the Veretekk features to your business situation. The classes also cover the limits of the trainee system and the clear advantages you will have as a paid gold subscriber.
 
As a free (Silver) subscriber, you can begin recruiting other silver members on your first level under you. These silvers are premium leads that you can promote any business you like including SFI and ACN, among others. The commissions from Veretekk are nice too. Speaking personally, as a gold member, my Veretekk system has been paying me for over three years now. The commissions cover my monthly membership and put money in my pocket. Believe me, if I can do it, so can you.

Final thought: Having a Veretekk system is a lot like having a Corvette in the driveway. It is nice to look at, but until you fire it up and put it in gear, you wont feel the power.
 
Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email Me
 


13. Are FFAs a Scam?

There was a time in Internet history when Free-For-ALL (FFAs) pages were one of the best advertising mediums available to the average marketer. Those days are now gone and the Internet has sprung many better forms of advertising on us so FFAs have all but ceased to exist. There are a few diehard companies out there still hawking FFAs as a way to advertise but these companies have hidden agendas.

The companies still perpetuating the myth that FFA advertising works, still find plenty of Internet novices willing to fall for the ads that often read Post Your Ad to 100,000 places. This sounds great so why not give it a try? What many don tell you is that most FFAs have a page of links, usually 100-150 slots and each new post is placed in the top slot. As additional posts are made, your listing keeps moving down the list until it reaches the bottom and drops off. With the volume of posts, your ad will only be on the list for a matter of a few minutes. So you post and your entry is promptly processed to the bottom and away it goes. That might give you some value if the FFA ad boards were still around, but they are long gone and are not seen by human eyeballs anymore. So, if they are useless, why are they still around?

What most FFA companies wont tell you is that these services do provide an advertising medium but not in the way you think. They sell FFA systems to FFA Page Owners as a reverse marketing technique. When someone posts, they are granting permission for the FFA owner to reply to their post with an ad of the owners choosing. That is where the real advertising value is with FFAs. Youve probably heard the terms "Silent Sales Force" and "Viral Marketing" on other peoples websites. Well, this is where it all started. For the FFA Page Owner, a steady stream of e-mail leads is being supplied in real time.

A popular FFA offers the following it their sales pitch: "Your very own, no-hassle, maintenance free, SELF PROMOTING, FFA Network "Top 100 Links Page" that will send out YOUR SALES LETTER to up to 100,000 or more visitors daily. You can edit your sales letter at any time you like." Folks, the 100,000 visitors they are referring are you if you are posting to these places. There is a saying "Host. Dont Post" often heard among FFA subscribers.

Let’s be clear, the FFA Networks do work for reverse marketers who are savvy enough to take advantage of them, but wont help posters much, The FFA Page Owners know where the true value lies in FFAs and now, so do you.

Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant



14. Business Leads

Business Leads 

FreeFFAs is a free source of business leads for your business. They give you free email leads in exchange for your patronage. FreeFFAs offers you one day’s worth of business leads (usually about 2,000) once per month as an incentive to try the leads. Most marketers find that these mlm leads work better than expected. 

If you try them and like the results, FreeFFAs offers a paid membership for $10 per month. As a paid member, you can collect about 2000 business leads daily or a total monthly volume of about 60,000 leads.

When you are ready to explode your network marketing program you will need this service. Rely on FreeFFAs for exclusive one-on-one qualified mlm leads to grow your business to the next level. Sign up (It’s free) and check out all your options once you get inside your FreeFFAs control panel. No worries about rejection with any of the leads this system produces because they are exclusively yours. Find out why they have loyal subscribers going back 5 years or more. With this system, you get complete satisfaction. 

No more endlessly placing ads hoping a handful will actually visit your site and actually fill out your form, no more emailing thousands of business prospects hoping a small percentage will visit your site or hoping your site won’t be shut down for spam! 

Oh and by the way, FreeFFAs takes privacy seriously and does not disclose your information to anyone ever. That means sell, give away, trade or make available by looking the other way. They don’t do it, period! 

You can trust FreeFFAs like thousands of other subscribers do to propel your business to a new level. They offer you a wide variety of automated lead systems to suit your needs, costing you less than a hamburger costs you per day!

Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525



15. MLM Eats Its Young!

With the present state of the economy, more and more people are turning to the Internet as a source of extra income. Newcomers who journey through the work-at-home opportunities are often taken in by the promise of overnight riches from some of the unscrupulous snake oil salesmen out there. The budding entrepreneurs eagerly join and pay the entry fee for the latest get-rich scheme and are puzzled why there is no real program or support system available once they have paid their way in. Sadly, many will fall victim time and again until they finally develop a healthy dose of skepticism about MLM or they simply give up. This can be likened to the animal kingdom where adult animals are found to eat their young. Online marketing can be a jungle but dont give up for there is hope.

Veretekk Training is different. The first thing to understand about the Veretekk marketing system is that it is a system, not just a program. It is designed to provide the tools and training a marketer needs to promote a primary business on the Internet. The comprehensive training covers a whole host of subjects that can best be understood by thinking of it in terms of a college. Like any university curriculum that offers many subjects, you pick the ones that meet your immediate needs, while leaving other subjects for future study as the need arises. Over time your knowledge of  marketing techniques, lead generation, keyword selection and search engine optimization will grow to the point that you are confident in taking on any challenge. I would be very surprised if your income did not rise alongside your marketing skills.

The training offered is live webinar sessions, taught by a team of volunteer instructors who are also experienced members of Veretekk. Sessions are scheduled and times are posted on a training calendar. Many classes are also recorded and are available for viewing in the back office. The recorded sessions are ideal for members with irregular schedules. Sessions are scheduled and times are posted on a training calendar available to members in the back office of their affiliate websites.

The training covers a large part of what a marketer needs to know to earn money online. Some examples include: Reverse Marketing and Harvesting Tips on how to generate more Premium Leads, Know your Keywords, WordPress Blogs,  Building a simple capture page, Creating a capture page, Sequential emails and Veremail form code for a TrafficSwarm Campaign, and many others.

I almost left out the best part. Nearly every training class they offer is made available to free members. Yes, it is a fact. If you are new to working online, do yourself a favor. Join as a free Veretekk member and learn how to build confidence and profit into your online marketing business.

Don Jeffre
Veretekk Gold & Platinum Control Panel Owner
501-796-2525
Email



16. Top 10 Reasons to Join Veretekk!

1. Free LIVE Interactive Webinar Training!
2. Sequential Auto-responders mean your prospects automatically get your message.
3. Self-generates leads so you never buy leads again.
4. All prospects are first processed into verified premium leads. Certifiably 100% Spam free.
5. The system posts millions of adsfor you.
6. Portal technology is used to reach into the mainstream of the top search engines.
7. "Set and forget" design produces targeted prospects and is push-button simple to use.
8. Boosts your primary business while providing an extra income for you.
9. Veretekk offers lifetime Silver membership for free.
10. Huge Social Networking V2.0 upgrade coming in January.

Visit now and get your free lifetime membership.

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email

17. Free Lead Generation

Free Lead Generation

Are you ready to quit your home based business? Have you discovered that it is a lot harder to find decent business partners than you were led to believe? Before you throw in the towel, take 5 minutes to check out a program that has turned things around for thousands of marketers. It could be the answer you have been searching for.

Free premium leads are almost impossible to obtain on the Internet today except by using the Veretekk Marketing System. Most free leads on the Internet are merely lists of names and email addresses that have been sold and resold so many times and now are given away free as an inducement to signup to a website.

Veretekk uses hundred of websites scattered all over the the Internet and the world. People sign up to these sites and voluntarily provide their contact information in exchange for the great free services that the Veretekk Portals offer. The Veretekk member receives the hot free lead information in its Veretekk market center and can contact the fresh hot premium lead, for free, within minutes of having submitted their contact information.

“Veretekk is the best proven, double opt-in fresh free lead generation system in the world today," said Foley. Thomas Pendergast and Mike Darling are the creators behind this amazing free lead generation system for MLM and Internet Marketers. Veretekk has been responsible for the success of countless Internet marketers and MLM home-based businesses for more than ten years.

Caution: Veretekk requires you to learn the system. This takes time and effort. Full training is available via web casting 24/7 for your convenience but you will need to attend the webinars to learn how to market your business using Veretekk. You will then need to follow through and apply the techniques we teach you. This is not a "Get Rich Quick" or "Earn While You Sleep" opportunity. To succeed with Veretekk or any online business, you have to supply the desire and work at least as hard as you would in a brick and mortar business. If you have failed in the past due to a poor work ethics, chances are you will not succeed here either.

If you are ready to end the pattern of online failure, sign up for free today. There is absolutely no cost. If you market online, you need Veretekk in your arsenal.

Sincerely,

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525



18. Blogfather-Get a Free Blog Here 
Blogfather-Get a Free Blog Here

What is a blog?

Wikipedia: A blog (a contraction of the term “web log”)[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Why do you need one?

>A weblog is a very powerful way to advertise your online business. Regularly posting original content to your blog is is pure gold to the search engines. The links you include in your entries are great backlinks for your marketing pages and can move your website higher in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). This makes your website easier for prospective buyers to find resulting in higher sales. Doesnt every business needs more customers?

Why choose BlogFather?

>If you have ever wanted to carve out your own little place in the online world, a personal blog site is just what you need! With Blogfather, You can create your own blog and its totally free. You can post your personal blog about any subject you like. It can be used to keep relatives informed about important events each others lives. You can also use it as a fantastic form of advertising to promote your business and to bring customers to your doorstep.

BlogFather has been designed to be incredibly easy to use. Even the more un-technical people find it as simple as “point and click!” You can be up and running with your very own personal blog in less than 10 minutes.

Additionally, your BlogFather site is a powerful Traffic Portal allowing you to give away free blog pages. It comes complete with all of the publishing tools needed for anyone to set up and maintain their very own personal Blog. BlogFather advertises and generates leads for your Home Business.

Get your personal blog today free!

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email Me



19. Free Search Engine Submission 

Free Search Engine Submission

Many of us routinely submit our websites to the search engines, like Google, Bing and Yahoo. This is an essential to getting your site listed so it will appear in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). These submissions give the search engines a steady flow of leads to use for whatever purpose they choose.

Suppose there was a way for you to own a search engine of your own. Would the lead list it produced be of value to you? Of course it would. Well, today I am going to tell you about a search engine that you can own and the price will astound you, it is absolutely free! Interested?

You can indeed have your very own free search engine; it is called ETracking Search Engine. It is the worlds first self-replicating search engine is an extremely viral tool that allows you to generate massive leads directly, as well as indirectly by giving away additional eTracking search engines.

This Inetekk exclusive search engine combine’s chaos theory with viral technology and is 10 years ahead of any type of lead generating system on the Internet today. This site can easily become a massive verified lead generator for free. It is self replicating, comes with live training and runs on over 200 servers. If you want your own eTracking system, it is free. If you want a portfolio of lead generators like eTracking then you need to sign up for a free Veretekk system.

Inetekk has been building lead and marketing systems on the Internet since 1998. Inetekk and Veretekk were created by Thomas Prendergast and Mike Darling. With a combined expertise that started when the Internet was born in 1991, these guys represent over 200,000 hours of Internet and computer technology and have set the standard for Internet marketing.

Developers of the first and only double opt-in, verified and 3rd party verifiable email systems; Inetekk forged the only secure privacy based email system on the Internet. Inventors of the first online application, first self replicating website and first self replicating PDF e-books, this company have been destined to empower the little guy from its very inception. You have everything to gain by joining the affiliate program for free.

Free search engine

Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant
Skype: revenue4u 501-796-2525
Email Me



20. How to Build a Bigger Downline

How to Build a Bigger Downline

There are literally hundreds of programs online that will offer to build your downline for you and most of them will find you a few raw leads but that is hardly a team, although it is a beginning. Gathering leads is only the start and probably the easiest part in a team building effort.

Then the real work of training and molding your team must be undertaken. In many cases, these new people will be inexperienced and will need extensive training in everything from e-mail to effective writing, from advertising to marketing, and from lead capture to search engine optimization. If you try to take on this task yourself, you will spend all your time conducting classes and own your business will suffer and probably fail because you are preoccupied with training your team of new people.

It gets worse, while you are busy trying to teach these people, a good number of them will not be making any money with your opportunity yet, and will be lured away by the lure of making a fast dollar by the latest flavor-of-the-month opportunity that just launched. I have been going through this cycle for years and getting nowhere.

Fortunately, I finally found an answer to this problem and I would like to share it with you. But first, the solution has been there all along and is not a new upstart program offering overnight miracles. The program offers a free lifetime membership and has been around for over 10 years. This amazing business provides hundreds of hours of free training every month and the training is offered on a training calendar so the student can pick classes they need at the times they desire.

Classes are conducted by volunteer business entrepreneurs with many years of experience on the subjects. The classes are conducted on the company’s website through seminars commonly referred to as webinars.

The company provides lead generation and follow-up tools that are easy to set up. The tools include autoresponders, spam free bulk mailers, lead gathering, marketing classes, contact managers, a lucrative compensation plan and much more. The system itself is promoted as the way for your new distributors to have quick success and build their own business.

In summary, this wonderful business can become your downline training agent and can provide about 90 percent of your team’s needs. The time you save will allow you to focus on the business of making money, while at the same time; provide superior results in helping you build your team.

Still haven’t guessed the lead generation and marketing training business I am referring to?

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email Me



21. Find Hidden Niches with Google Wonder Wheel

Find Hidden Niches with Google Wonder Wheel

I just learned about a keyword tool that Google has called the Google Wonder Wheel so I decided to check it out and see what it is. I found a YouTube video that explained the tool at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGxOPUNzBj4 . After watching the video, I had no trouble finding the tool and found navigation with the Google wonder wheel is easy and with few clicks anyone can find its way to the exact term he is looking for and the exact results.

The Google wonder wheel is a new tool that has only been around since May 2009 and I am not sure why it took me this long to discover it. The Google search is the only search provider I have used for years now,  so why start using this new Google tool?

The regular Google Search works fine for ordinary searches but can be too general for researching keywords and phrases when setting up a website to target a particular niche. I have been using such supplemental tools as Good Keywords, Keyword Explorer and WordTracker, among others for this research, many times spending hours on this research. Google Wonder Wheel reduces the research down to just a few minutes and seems to give excellent results.

Wonder wheel is a very quick tool for keyword research and it will get you at least in the stadium, if not always to your specific seat. You will, of course, want to do some supplemental research, your due diligence, to verify the keywords fit the niche you are after.

Please keep in mind that the innovations that Google provides are indeed essential for marketing on the Internet, but do not forget that Google, like any "For Profit" enterprise such as Microsoft, Yahoo or others, has profitability in mind in whatever they choose to do. Check the Wonder Wheel quick results against other tools and resources to insure your final selection fulfills your expectations.

Don Jeffre
Independent Consultant
Veretekk Marketing
Email
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
 



22. Amway Quixtar PAP MLM Leads

Amway Quixtar PAP MLM Leads

Conventional advertising methods such as traffic exchanges, safelists and ezines are becoming time worn and no longer produce the kind of sales results that they did in the past. Even when you do find a customer with these methods, you probably get someone who makes a single purchase but has no real interest in working your business. Does this sound familiar?

FreeFFAs is a free source of marketing leads for your business. We give them to you for free in exchange for your patronage. We give you one day’s worth of leads (usually about 2,000) once each month as an incentive to try our leads. You get a list of everyone who posts to our entire system and full access to our submitter for posting to millions of systems and sites! Live help everyday in our training forums. It’s all free!

Oh and by the way, we don’t sell your information to anyone either, ever! That means sell, give away, trade or make available by looking the other way. We don’t do it, period! We take privacy very seriously at Freeffas.com.

FreeFFAs gives away FFA systems for free. This is an excellent source of leads for work at home moms (WAHMs)to get business leads, MLM leads or any type of marketing leads. If you like the results, we offer a paid membership for a measly $10 per month. As a paid member, you can collect leads daily for a total monthly volume of about 60,000 leads or more per month.

When you are ready to explode your network marketing program, you will need our services! Rely on us for exclusive one-on-one qualified mlm leads to grow your business to the next level. Sign up (It’s free) and check out all your options once you get inside your FreeFFAs control panel. No worries about rejection with any of the leads this system produces because they are only yours. Find out why we have loyal subscribers going back 5 years or more. With our system, you get complete satisfaction.

Say goodbye to endlessly placing ads hoping a handful will visit your site and actually fill out your form. No more emailing thousands of people hoping a small percentage will visit your site or hoping your site won’t be shut down for spam!.

Trust FreeFFAs like thousands of our subscribers do to propel your business to a new level. We offer you a wide variety of automated lead systems to suit your needs. The cost is a mere pennies per day.

Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant



23. Free Web Conferencing System

Free Web Conferencing System

Are you looking for a powerful, easy to use, interactive online VOIP conference system? The VereConference System is designed to meet the needs of major corporations all the way to home based businesses - regardless of what you are promoting. VereConference is a reliable, no nonsense, easy-to-use, 100% web based conferencing service that you can use right NOW... without spending a penny.

With todays advanced technology, it is frustrating to be disappointed by one VOIP system after another. Most simply do not deliver, or else they lack critical features required to ensure your business will be successful. Others have a quality product, but charge a fortune to use it. VereConference is the best of both worlds: a superior high-end VOIP system that you can use for FREE! Outstanding training sessions are available for people purchasing a room to learn from top Vereconference trainers, the best ways to utilize a web conference room for effectiveness.

Tom Prendergast is dedicated to providing people with the tools and training they need to pursue an online business. His knowledge and vast experience in programming and search engine optimization lead people in the right direction to building strong home businesses. The technology behind Vereconference is immense, but the fact remains that it is one of the easiest systems to navigate. Mike Darling has seen that the back office of Vereconference is seamless from one end to the other.

Don Jeffre, a Veretekk Platinum Control Panel subscriber, states: "The Vereconference system is an indispensable part of my training program for members of my team. Anyone not using it is doing things the hard way."

This 21st century technology is bringing people to the realization that there are much better ways to communicate than the telephone. From cost effectiveness to easy operation, Vereconference stands head and shoulders above the rest.



24. Why choose Veretekk?

Why choose Veretekk?

If you have a business on the Internet that needs leads, then you should look to Veretekk. Lets face it, lead generation is one of the most daunting tasks all Internet marketers face. The sellers of leads want you to believe you have to buy leads. I say “Road Apples” to that notion.

Lets take a closer look at what Veretekk is and how it can benefit you and your business. To start with, Veretekk is a lead generation system that allows you to send traffic to your business website using their marketing portals. One portal lets marketers submit ads to millions of pages with just with one click. Another portal offers free mlm leads and a third offers free classified ads. In all, Veretekk offers over 20 portals, each tailored to a specific aspect of helping you build a list of interested prospects for your business.

You can simultaneously use Veretekk to promote your own business while at the same time using it as a business opportunity for other marketers. You can make the service available to them for their business leads as well as an opportunity for them to make money too.

The filtration process built into the lead generation insures that leads are screened so that many of the Looky-lous and tire kickers are purged and the remaining leads you get will be motivated and serious about working with you.

Veretekk offers auto responders which are an excellent way to follow up with leads and develop relationships with them. The Internet can be impersonal and future follow-up is one of the most important things you can do to build your business.

Therefore Veretekk is not only supplying you with the leads, but also giving you an auto responder to follow-up with them. If you currently have an autoresponder, you can redirect any leads you get from the Veretekk opportunity directly into it as well.

All Internet marketers online today need more leads! Regardless of how experienced you are there is something with this system that can benefit you. For example, they offer a weekly live webinars also known as Veretraining that you can attend for training. Their classrooms have provisions to archive classes for future training too. All Veretekk leads are verified by a third party so you eliminate all spam complaints and do not run the risk of having your Internet business shutdown by your ISP.

One other thing is this excellent program offers an affiliate commission program where you can earn money for referring new members. They offer a generous pay plan that allows you to build a downline team and make even more money.

Veretekk is a live community. Would you rather be involved with others as you learn to succeed on the Internet or go it alone with a manual?

Veretekk is the most advanced state of the art marketing system on the Internet. Because of this, it can be overwhelming at first glance. But relax, Veretekk will help you learn it one step at a time. Veretekk gives you the Free Silver system so you can take your time to learn how to make it work.

25. Free Lead generating Search Engine

Free Lead generating Search Engine 

You can now have your very own eTracking search engine and there is no cost. Your eTracking site is more than a basic search engine. You can submit your website to eTracking, but you can also get your very own search engine! 

Billed as the worlds first self-replicating search engine, this portal is an extremely viral tool that allows you to generate massive leads directly, as well as indirectly by giving away additional eTracking search engines. This tool represents real SEO power and can easily become a massive verified lead generator and a source of mlm leads for free. It is self replicating, comes with live training and runs on over 200 servers. 

Listed in the back office in your eTracking portal is all the people (i.e. leads) who have submitted to your search engine. Their information is available for you to contact them and promote your business. However, be careful to follow the rules when contacting these leads. 

The Chief Executive Officer of Inetekk, Tom Prendergast and the President of Inetekk, Mike Darling, created the Veretekk Marketing System to help anybody promote their business on the Internet and offline. Veretekk has combined chaos theory with viral technology to create this a leading edge traffic portal.. This technology is exclusive to Inetekk, the inventors of Veretekk. 

If you want your own Free Lead generating Search Engine , sign up for free. If you want a portfolio of lead generators like eTracking, then you need to join Veretekk.

Don Jeffre
SEO Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email



26. My Top Links Page

My Top Links Page

 

Affiliate Site http://revenue4u.veretekk.com

1st Classifieds http://revenue4u.1-family.com

BlogFather http://revenue4u.blogfather.net

Computer Giveaway http://revenue4u.computer-giveaway.net

Daily Message Online http://revenue4u.dailymessageonline.com

eTracking http://revenue4u.etracking.net

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VereTracking http://revenue4u.veretracking.com

WebCatch http://revenue4u.webcatch.net

Blastomatic http://revenue4u.blastomatic.com

Free FFAs http://revenue4u.freeffas.com

Leadsomatic http://revenue4u.leadsomatic.com

VereConference http://revenue4u.vereconference.com

Veretekk Down Under http://revenue4u.veretekk.com.au

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Almost-Rich http://revenue4u.almost-rich.com

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BlogFreeRadio http://revenue4u.blogfreeradio.net

BlogNewsRadio http://revenue4u.blognewsradio.net

Blogomatic http://revenue4u.blogomatik.com

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ePopMail http://revenue4u.epopmail.com

Incomeomatic http://revenue4u.incomeomatic.net

iWealthOnline http://revenue4u.iwealthonline.com

Lead-Sources http://revenue4u.lead-sources.net

My-Free-Biz http://revenue4u.my-free-biz.com

MyFreeSearch http://revenue4u.myfreesearch.net

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Success-Leads http://revenue4u.success-leads.com

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ZeroDebtGroup http://revenue4u.zerodebtgroup.com

 



27. MLM Leads

Leadsomatic is s one-of-a-kind advertising program, and is easily one of the best available today! This unique promotion tool is really simple to use. Write your ad and Submit. Writing your ads in Leadsomatic is as easy as writing a quick note.

Leadsomatic has two levels of membership. The free option offers use of the search engine submission tools. The paid level costs $10 a month and provides the additional ad submission and keyword features. The paid level also entitles paid members to promote this tool to generate a residual income. Its a steal at the $10 price.

The purpose of Leadsomatic is simple – to pour traffic, leads and sales onto your website. Leadsomatic is an advertising and marketing tool that posts your ads to over 2 BILLION sites, submits to over 40 of the top search engines and also serves as a keyword checker tool.

The people who visit your advertised sites are highly targeted, as they first read your ad and then click on it. It’s the same kind of traffic as you get from PPC engines, only much cheaper. Leadsomatic is comprised of SEO and keyword ranking along with now famous “The Hammer” - the submission tool developed by Inetekk for Veretekk.

how it all works: SEO – Your custom ad, along with your link is submitted to various top search engines, and the ad is used, along with the keywords used in the ad, to produce links to your site. These links increase the popularity of your site with the search engines. You can use the built-in keyword ranking tool to make sure that you’re ranked adequately with your keywords. To increase the ranking for the specific keywords that you want, you can make more ads and keywords to submit your site.

Anyone can sign up at absolutely NO COST and start using the great automated lead generating tools offered by Leadsomatic to promote a business online.

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email


 



28. Free Classified Ads


The only way to keep up with the latest about free classified advertising is to constantly stay on the lookout for new information. If you search the Internet for Free Classified Ads, you will not have any difficulty finding 1-Family Classifieds.

First Family Classifieds system is the world’s leading provider of online classified ads. In this fast growing market, First Family is the only serious choice for online classifieds, and the only classified ad system that runs on hundreds of servers, allows remote submissions and has over 30,000 individual classified sites and continues to grow exponentially.

First Family classifieds offers free advertisement for business opportunities, personal ads, automobiles, real estate, and much more. Place your ads in more than 30,000 sites. There is no limit to the number of free ads you can post. Renew them as many times as you want.

What is one of “the most popular” traditional marketing tools used by small business to reach HUGE audiences with minimal investment? Classified Advertising!

Why are Newspaper Classifieds joining the migration to the Internet? Knowing that classifieds draw targeted consumers, 1st Family offered free classifieds long before newspapers thought of putting their content and their classifieds online. They were the first to figure out what grabs eyeballs -classifieds. The online portals also had another advantage - traffic.

Classified advertising is not only a valuable marketing tool offline, it is also a powerful way to reach thousands of potential customers and generate incredible profits ONLINE… all with very little or no investment! There are all kinds of predictions about what the on-line medium will mean for the future, but one thing is certain: It’s a medium made for classified listings—i.e., for helping people effectively buy and sell things. Web search engines will enable a user to quickly search for the job listings, homes for sale and available automobiles.

Because classifieds represent a significant percentage of most dailies’ advertising revenue, the era of Web classifieds is being met with major concern from mainstream newspapers. When people ask, “How will individuals without access to a computer get these classifieds?” The audience will follow the database. If the best classified database is on the Web, somebody will find a way to make money providing that information to people, maybe even by printing out classified listings at Kinko’s. That is why, in the near future, the Web will effectively eliminate classified advertising as the most significant revenue source the newspaper dailies have.

And....1-Family Classifieds is one of the oldest and most established classifieds on the Internet. But the best thing is it is absolutely free to place as many ads as you want. Got something to sell or say?  Give this a try. You might be surprised at what you find there!

When word gets around about your knowledge of  free ad sources, others who need to know about Free Classified Ads will start to actively seek you out.

Post a free ad

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525
Email

29. Get Free Leads

Get Free Leads

FreeFFAs is a free source of marketing leads for your business. They give the free leads to you in exchange for your patronage. FreeFFAs gives you one day’s worth of business leads (usually about 2,000) one time a month as an incentive to try the leads.

If you like the results, they offer a paid membership for $10 per month. As a paid member, you can collect quality contacts daily for a total monthly volume of about 60,000 leads. That’s a bargain.

Oh and by the way, they don’t sell your information to anyone either, ever! That means sell, give away, trade or make available by looking the other way. They don’t do it, period! They take privacy very seriously at Freeffas.com.

When you decide to expand your network marketing program, you will need their services! Rely on them for exclusive one-on-one qualified mlm leads to grow your business to the next level. Sign up (It’s free) and check out all the options once you get inside the FreeFFAs control panel. No worries about rejection with any of the leads this system produces because they are exclusively yours. Find out why they have loyal subscribers going back 5 years or more. With this lead source, you get satisfaction.

No more endlessly placing ads, hoping a handful will visit your site and actually fill out your form, no more emailing thousands of people hoping a small percentage will visit your site or hoping your site won’t be shut down for spam!

None of these systems use ANNOYING popup or pop-under pages, drop ad ware, spy ware or hijack your browsers when you visit. Plus there is no advertising clutter either.

Trust FreeFFAs like thousands of subscribers do to propel your business to a new level. FreeFFAs is part of a massive Internet marketing machine designed for your success. They offer a wide variety of automated lead systems to suit your needs costing you less than the price of a hamburger per day!

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525



30. Powerful Free Ad Submitter

Powerful Free Ad Submitter

What is Blastomatic?

Blastomatic is the original ad submission marketing tool, created by Veretekk, which has been used by thousands of marketers worldwide. In their heyday, ad blasters were quite popular among marketers and many similar products offered free ad submissions so that begs the question: “Why has this free ad blaster software endured while many others have gone out of business and are no longer available?”

The answer to that question lies in measuring the claims against the actual results. Many defunct ad submitters simply did not measure up to their claims. Savvy marketers are far too intelligent to be fooled by products they see as time wasters, products that simply do not produce sufficient benefits for the time invested. This suggests that through empirical evidence*, we can conclude that Blastomatic does deliver on its claims, at least well enough to survive to the present and beyond.

What claims does Veretekk make about Blastomatic, one of its flag ship free marketing tools. A typical Blastomatic ad often contains the following:

Blastomatic: Most companies charge a fee and provide an inferior service! Blast-o-Matic is different. You get the latest state of the art blasting tools for.... FREE!! By using Blast-O-Matic you will literally be creating millions of links pointing to your website - automatically! It is one of the best ways to get traffic to your website. We dare you to take the challenge to find a better deal than Blastomatic.... Its.... FREE!!

From my experience of over 5 years with this ad blaster tool, I found it to be an effective, yet FREE online ad submission service that will submit 12 million of your ads, in less than ten minutes, to all the major free classified ad sites, link sites, and boards across the Internet. You simply enter your ad, sit back, and watch as your ad is submitted live out across the Internet. I currently have over 30K backlinks to my main site and a significant portion of those links are due to my daily use of Blastomatic in my marketing program.

Should you take my word for this information? Of course not, if you want to discover whether this form of cheap web promotion will work for you, get a free membership and try it for yourself.

*From the Miriam Webster online dictionary empirical means: 1 : originating in or based on observation or experience 2 : relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory 3 : capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment.

Don Jeffre
Marketing Consultant
Skype: revenue4u
501-796-2525



31. How a Blog Can Seriously Help Your Business

How a Blog Can Seriously Help Your Business

If your business website doesn’t have a blog, get one. A blog, if done right, can act as a direct and indirect mechanism that brings large amounts of qualified visitors to your site, many of whom may become customers.

This is mostly related to the way blogs interact with search engines and the traffic I am speaking of will come from search engines, mostly Google.

Before I explain how you can do this to help your website, let me first give some background on how search engines work, Google in particular.

When it comes to optimizing your website (or blog for that matter) for search engines you must always keep in mind two things: on-page optimization and off-page optimization.

On-page optimization is the elements of a Web page that better optimize it to be found and ranked well in the search engines. These elements can include on-page content such as the actual sentences and paragraphs on the page, the headlines (or headers or Hx tags), the links, the links’ text, the title tag and much more.

Off-page optimization means the things that are done on sites besides your own, namely link-building. Off-page optimization is the process of creating links (or causing others to create links) on other websites that point to your site. Inbound links as these are often called have a major impact on how well you rank in search engines. Generally speaking, the more inbound links, the better. But the quality of the sites with these inbound links, or the way the search engines perceive the sites, is even more important.

To rank on the first couple of pages on the search engines requires work on both on-page and off-page optimization.

Two additional and important pieces of information that you’ll need to understand are related to site content and internal links.

Search engines also very much love new, original and quality content, and they like to see your website regularly adding this kind of new content. You don’t need to add pages every day, just add pages at the same rate over time. So if you add a page a week to your site, keep it at around that same pace, or increase or decrease gradually.

A website can be considered a living entity in a sense. It certainly shouldn’t be static. It should grow over time. And the fantastic thing about content is that the more of it there is on your site, the more chances you have of getting found in the search engines.

The idea that inbound links help your search engine rankings that I explained above can be extended to your own internal pages as well. In other words, the more links to a particular page coming from other pages within the same site will boost that page’s rank as well.

Think of it this way. If you had a ten page site, including a product page and every page on the site contained a link to your product page and, if all other things were equal, your product page would rank higher than the rest of your site’s pages (besides the home page which is given a little extra weight).

Now let’s consider what would happen if there were only you and your competitor in your industry (if only that could be true!) and your site still had those ten pages while your competitor’s site contained one hundred pages. Furthermore, your competitor set it up the same way as you where he added a link to every page on his site that pointed to his product page. If all other things were equal, his product page would outrank your product page every time. Why? Because he had 100 internal links pointing to his product page and you only had 10.

If you put all these pieces together now, on-page optimization, off-page optimization or link building, content creation and internal linking, can you begin to see why a blog may be a good thing? A blog helps with all of these.

A blog that is regularly updated is providing a mechanism for adding fresh content on a regular basis. Plus, it’s so easy to use a blog that anyone can use them, so even if you or your employees don’t know a thing about Web pages and HTML, you’ll still be able to add new content to your site.

Consider this. If you add fresh, quality content to your blog on a regular basis by writing posts, something the search engines love, and within each post you link to an important page within your site, let’s say your product page for instance, you’re now building links to help your rankings using your blog. With this additional link your product page gets that much more boost in the search engines.

Remember how I explained that links from within your own site help your rankings? Adding links within your blog posts pointing back to your other important pages that you want to rank well is a great way to help your rankings.

And every time you publish a new post, you’re giving the search engines one more entry point into your site. Your site will quickly get bigger, and with each new page your site gets more visible.

Keep in mind that the links you make within your blog posts should be relevant. Only link to your product page from a post that has to do with your products. And also, blog posts ought to be useful to your site visitors. The less you talk about your products and instead offer useful, free information that people can use, the more traffic and repeat visitors you’ll get.

Remember that people really don’t care about you, your website or your products, they only care about how you can help them. If you sell furniture, a blog post about how to find the best deals on furniture would be far better than a post about how your chairs are the best in the world.

One important thing to remember is that if you plan on creating a new blog for your business as a way to augment your website be sure you put the blog on your actual domain. This means that you would not use a remote service like Blogger.com. Instead, you must have the blog on your business website’s address (or domain). For example, if your website address is http://www.yoursite.com/ then your blog should be located at http://www.yoursite.com/blog or http://blog.yoursite.com/

By adding a blog to your business website you are creating a way to get more traffic. You’ll get direct traffic from your posts, which get indexed by the search engines and drive traffic to your site from searches. And, you’ll get indirect traffic from your other site’s pages ranking well in the search engines because they have links pointing to them from your blog posts.

You’ll be regularly adding fresh content to your site, which search engines love, thereby creating more ways to be found in the search engines at the same time. And each post provides a new opportunity to create a link or two to other pages and blog posts on your site, thereby boosting those pages’ rankings.

Like I suggested at the beginning, if your business website doesn’t have a blog, go get one.


Jason O’Connor is a Web business and marketing professional who produces The Net Gazette, a free online Web business and marketing periodical. The Net Gazette covers topics that range from blogging for business to Twitter. Read the September edition or visit the main website at www.thenetgazette.net.



32. Free Web Site Advertising

When most people think of Marketing, what comes to mind is usually basic information that is not particularly interesting or beneficial. But theres a lot more to Marketing than just the basics.

If you find yourself confused by what youve read to this point, dont despair. Everything should be crystal clear by the time you finish.

Viral Marketing sounds scary, doesn’t it? The first time I heard this term I thought someone should be visiting the doctor’s office. It never occurred to me that this had anything to do with the internet. When it finally did dawn on me that this was a site promotion technique, I didn’t have a clue as to how powerful it could be.

I began my relationship with this odd sounding technique by installing greeting cards on my site. I know it sounds small, but greeting cards are actually one of the most powerful techniques of all. Why? Because everyone seems to want to send ecards to their friends, lovers and relatives. Each card contains a link back to your site, which tends to produce visitors.

My next exposure was something called “tell a friend”. This is a simple script, installed in less than an hour, which allows your visitors to, well, tell their friends about your site. This is an excellent way to get people to visit, as virtually everyone will do something that their friends recommend. I’ve found this does not produce an incredible amount of traffic, but considering only an hour was put into installation, it’s not bad.

Another viral marketing technique which I’ve tried is creating an bulk email service. I signed up a couple of domains which allows me to give away web-based mailboxes and allow people to send messages to theirname@... Since every single email that is sent from this mailbox contains a link back to my site, it tends to produce some traffic.

Another common viral marketing technique is electronic books. In fact, this is now the big rage. Just create an e-book and give it away! Everyone will want to download it, pass it on to their friends and add it to their own websites for others to download. The truth is that a good e-book, like anything else, will indeed do exactly that. And, of course, a bad ebook will sit there and rot.

Another great viral marketing technique  is creating a freeware program and giving it away on your web site. Of course links to your website are scattered throughout the program. This tends to produce quite a few visitors, assuming the program is any good.

The same kind of thing can be done with free CGI scripts. You offer the script without warranty on your site, freely given to anyone who wants it. Allow them to post it on their site for free download also. Before long, you could find yourself getting a steady stream of visitors looking for those scripts.

Another excellent viral marketing technique is to write articles and post them on the web, allowing other sites and ezines to post them as well. A small word of caution here: I know from experience this can produce phenomenal amounts of traffic very quickly so be prepared.

I’m sure you can think of dozens or even hundreds of other ways to get in on this bandwagon. I’ll tell you one thing that I’ve learned - the search engines are worthless in comparison to link exchanges and viral marketing. Also, I’ve found these techniques are much more fun and much less prone to the whims of some search engine company.

You cant predict when knowing something extra about Marketing will come in handy. If you learned anything new about viral marketing in this article, you should file the article where you can find it again.



33. Is Veretekk Training Right For You?

Is Veretekk training right for you?

The first thing you should understand about the Veretekk marketing system is that it is a system, not just one program. It offers a whole host of features that can best be understood by thinking of it in terms of a college. Like any university curriculum that offers many subjects, you pick the ones that meet your immediate need while leaving other subjects for future study as the need arises.

The training offered is live web training sessions, taught by a team of volunteer instructors who are also experienced members of Veretekk. Sessions are scheduled and times are posted on a training calendar. Many classes are also recorded and are available for viewing in the back office. The recorded sessions are ideal for members with irregular schedules. Sessions are scheduled and times are posted on a training calendar available to members in the back office of their affiliate websites.

The training covers a large part of what a marketer needs to know to earn money online. Some examples include: Reverse Marketing and Harvesting Tips on how to generate more Premium Leads, Identities, Folders & Message Rules In Outlook Express, Take the SEO Preparedness Quiz, Marketing Strategies, Know your Keywords, WordPress Blogs, Building a simple capture page, Creating a capture page, Sequential emails and Veremail form code for a TrafficSwarm Campaign, and many others.

Don Jeffre
Veretekk Mentor
Platinum Control Panel Owner



34. Do Not Buy Leads Yet!

Do Not Buy Leads Yet!

Many marketers find themselves spending huge sums of money buying business leads from online lead suppliers. Money spent on leads must initially come out of the entrepreneurs pocket because this cost is necessary to obtain prospects up front to get the business started. What is worse, many of the purchased leads obtained from vendors simply do not produce sufficient sales to cover the purchase costs of the leads, much less produce a profit.. If you need better quality leads and are tired of paying for inferior quality, do not despair, for there is a better way.

Before considering where to obtain leads, every marketer should understand that building a relationship with a prospect is absolutely necessary to success. You cannot expect a stranger to do business with you if they dont even know you. When you meet someone for the first time, you know very little about them. As you talk and get to know each other, your interaction leads to a better understanding of who the person is, their goals, aspirations, and interests. This two-way street forms a relationship where they grow to trust you. This relationship should be treasured and nurtured as it grows and develops. This rather obvious building process is often overlooked when marketing products to a prospect and leads to failure of the relationship and produces few if any sales. In short, develop the relationship first, and the sales will follow. Dont rush the process or you will become like a used car salesman in the eyes of a prospective business client.

Are you beginning to understand why I say "Do Not Buy Leads Yet? Really, you may not need to buy them at all. You possibly already have enough leads in your contact manager to produce a good level of sales. The secret is getting to know your leads. Take the time and enough effort to do that and you will be amazed at the results.

I am a proud member of Veretekk Marketing System. You can join as a free member and look at all the lead producing tools and techniques we offer. We have four traffic portals where you can get free leads. We have portals where you can give away vacations, mentoring, advertising, directory listings, free web pages and much more to obtain leads who are actually interested in having an Internet business. Our system has a full fledged contact manager, unlimited auto-responders, and bulk e-mail systems.

For example, our FreeFFAs portal is a good source of leads that can propel any business. You will need a good autoresponder system like the one at our Veremail to process these leads. Trying to handle the huge quantity of leads by sending e-mails individually is futile. Just write one set of autoresponder e-mails and it will serve you thereafter and as you get your leads you can simply upload them into an autoresponder like Veremail and the rest is automated and involves no personal effort at all.

You will need a large mailbox and one of the best is found at Google. It is called gmail and is a free service. Just sign up and you are ready to market to the masses like the big boys do.

Warm Regards
Don Jeffre Marketing Mentor
501-796-2525
Skype revenue4u
Email Me



35. The Money is in the List

The Money is in the List

You constantly hear that the money is in the list and nobody helps you build it better than Veretekk’s Veremail system. Using verification technology, Veretekk keeps you safe and secure so you can focus your energies on marketing your business. It is the one stop solution for internet marketers allowing you to leverage yourself in a way that no other online system does. From first contact to ongoing permission marketing, the Veretekk system seamlessly integrates your online marketing efforts, saving and maximizing your time.

If you are working a multi level marketing program, one of the big concerns is often whether you will receive spam complaints. Many ISPs will discontinue a customers internet service if spam allegations are found to have merit. This can be a real business killer if you happen to live where all internet service is obtained from a single provider.  Your Internet based business could be destroyed overnight under these circumstances. Having a successful home based business depends on uninterrupted Internet service. Veretekks Veremail service with its built in safeguards is the answer.

A good, reliable Auto-Responder and Email system are essential requirements for Internet Marketing. You must have a some way to contact the Visitors and Prospects that come to Your Web Site, Or, respond to Your Classified Ad , FFA post, or squeeze page

Veremail provides everything you need and includes 24/7 live teleconference training to teach you how it works.

Don Jeffre

Veretekk Mentor



36. Our Advertising Cooperative Has Launched

Our Advertising Cooperative

A Special Announcement

We are Gold members of Veretekk and have decided to form a co-op and pool our advertising efforts toward growing our respective businesses. The following URLs will be added to a rotator and advertised so that our team will achieve symmetrical growth.

Webster defines symmetrical as: affecting corresponding parts simultaneously and similarly.

By using this approach, we will direct our advertising efforts so that all members will simultaneously experience near equal growth in their downlines. If this team approach appeals to you, you are welcome to sign up under any one of the URLs and join us on the road to group success.

http://moneytalks.veretekk.com

http://tykayjr.veretekk.com

http://jmbestleads.veretekk.com

http://fdrivera.veretekk.com

http://trivita101team.veretekk.com

http://advitaenergy.veretekk.com

http://catesmarketing.veretekk.com

http://ezpowerline.veretekk.com

http://networks.veretekk.com

http://lifeline.veretekk.com

http://secretcash4u.veretekk.com

http://revenue4u.veretekk.com

These members have been added to my Platinum Control Panel so they will receive better positioning on Google.

Don Jeffre
Gold Member
1-501-796-2525
Skype: revenue4u



37. My Veretekk Testimonial

My Veretekk Testimonial

This is Don Jeffre (revenue4u) and I have been a Veretekk subscriber since the days of Permaworld, before the Veretekk affiliate program began in 2005. I have watched the program evolve from its infancy to the powerhouse marketing package we have today. The evolution continues with the just completed platinum control panel and the implementation of version 2.0 on the horizon. Wow, what a ride.

The one constant throughout the nearly 5 years has been that the power of the gold system has increased at least tenfold while the cost has remained the same. Where else are you going to find the marketing power of the gold system offered anywhere at any price. The answer is nowhere. A few years back a program called Referralware gave Veretekk some good competition. Yes, I was also a member of that one. The battle was waged and the victor emerged. The vanquished Referralware program was put out of business. Veretekk is still standing and getting more powerful all the time.

All this marketing muscle cannot help you unless you apply it to your online business. Are you still a free silver subscriber still trying to earn a living online without ever spending a dime. How is that working for you? That was a rhetorical question because we both know the answer. I liken a silver system to a first bicycle with training wheels. You cannot win a race against 10 speeds on one of those. Your silver membership is a training-wheels membership so you can look over the gold system. The gold system is where the real power is found.

Forget about looking at the gold system solely in terms of cost. Instead, do a cost-benefit analysis. Weigh the monthly cost of gold against the benefits. Shop the market for contact managers, autoresponder, lead generation tools, ad submitters blogs, RSS feeders, conference rooms, SEO tools and a comprehensive live training package where you learn how to use these features. I think you see my point. The gold system represents real value at a bargain price. Join in the excitement by upgrading to gold today and put your business on the fast track.

Don Jeffre, Vilonia, AR.
Veretekk


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1. Freelance writing jobs » The Ruggedized Laptop Computer Value Proposition
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2. Tips for Business Success in Today's Tough Market Place
By Storm Castle

Does your company do business to business prospecting? Have you ever considered using an outbound telemarketing company? If you are wondering if your business will be able to endure the current economic troubles, this article is exactly what you need to read. There are six tips that can help your business find success even in a bad economy.

The following six tips are ways your company can not only survive, but thrive during tough economic times. Increasing your marketing budget, using the power of leverage, focusing your efforts where they will be most effective, properly training your employees, providing excellent customer service and keeping a positive attitude are all ways to keep your business profitable in difficult economic times.

The first way for increasing profits during a recession may sound backwards, but increasing the amount of money you spend on marketing your business instead of reducing it is one thing that can help your business make a profit during a recession. Countless businesses make the mistake of considering their marketing an expense instead of an investment and wind up destroying their businesses by cutting back in this area.

The second tip is to use the power of leverage by hiring a business to business prospecting company to do outbound telemarketing for your business. This helps your team use their time more wisely.

The next tip is to focus your efforts where they will be most effective, which is spending time closing sales. When the telemarketing programs do their job effectively your team can spend the majority of their time making sales which means increased profits for you.

The fourth tip involves properly training your employees to work with the highly qualified leads they receive from these lead generation companies. Proper training will help them make the most of these leads and sales will go through the roof regardless of what is happening in the economy.

The fifth tip for business success in tough economic times is to provide excellent customer service. Getting repeat business is much more cost effective and profitable than having to constantly prospect for new business so it is vital to keep your current customers happy.

The sixth and final tip for business success in tough economic times is keeping a positive attitude. People have a tendency to create the exact amount of success they believe they will and your positive attitude will be reflected in your employees' attitudes and achievements as well as your own.

Implementing the six ways listed above can help your business to increase profits during a recession. Business to business prospecting is one area to concentrate your marketing efforts in since this will make four of the six ways happen. Then all you have to worry about are the last two ways including treating your clients to outstanding service and maintaining an optimistic outlook.

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3. 4/15 Yahoo! News: Work from Home
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Career Step Partners with HCIT Solutions to Provide Training in Jamaica (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 15, 2009 at 3:01 am

Career Step has recently partnered with HCIT Solutions to help develop the Jamaican medical transcription field within the growing global healthcare industry.

Favors-n-Gifts.com Responds To Demand For Personalized Party Favors (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 15, 2009 at 3:01 am

Favors-n-Gifts.com caters to the high demand for personalized party favors with different customization options and lower prices.

Freelance writing jobs grew 500% in past year, according to oDesk (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 15, 2009 at 3:01 am

oDesk oConomy reports that freelance writing jobs, including technical writing, business writing, blog and article writing, editing, and translation services are all part of the growing demand for online jobs found on oDesk.





4. Secret Exposed: How the Google Search Engine Really Works
By Henry Zeng

While we don't often think about - or even care - how the Google search engine works, it is very important for an online marketer who is using search engine optimization, or natural search marketing for their online business to understand the basic principles that drive Google.

There are three main parts to Google: Googlebot, The Indexer, and the Query Processor. Each of these three parts is crucial to online businesses, believe it or not. Let's take a deep look at each of these Google elements to see how they work.

Googlebot is the search engine spider that comes to your website and spiders your pages. It isn't an actual spider, of course.

It actually works more like a web browser by calling a server and requesting pages, and downloading them - just as you do when you open your browser, type in an URI, and then the web page loads.

Googlebot, however, is run by big number of computers and performs this task much faster than one user could on their home or work personal computer. And Googlebot doesn't know if a website exists until a URL is put into their Add URL form, or until they find a link point to that site on another web page.

When Googlebot comes to a page, they take all the links from that page, and put them in a queue for crawling, and repeat this process over and over again. Once Googlebot has found a link, and downloaded the page, it hands that page off to the Indexer.

The Indexer stores the pages in Google's Index Data base. The Index then sorts all of the pages in its data base, alphabetically, by looking at all of the keywords on the pages. The Indexer does not pay any attention to what Google calls stop words, such as is, on, or, why, how, etc. It just pays attention to more important keyword type words.

The Indexer, after Indexing pages, waits for the Google Query Processor to ask it for a list of documents. A keyword is given to the Query Processor, which in turn asks the Indexer for a list of stored websites contain that keyword.

The Indexer then supplies the Query processor with a list of the documents, and the Query processor presents the documents to the user who requested the keyphrase.

You see, each element is important to the others. It all starts with the Googlebot finding your web page link on another site, or by you going to Google and using the Add form to submit your site.

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5. Google Voice Application will soon arrive in iPhone and iPod Touch
By Haven Frbiz

GrandCentral Phone Service as a voice of the recycled products, Google introduced at the beginning of Google Voice Services, which provides integrated voice telephone service, including all the features of GrandCentral (useful for SOHOs).

In addition, Google will also provide a voice mail features automatic text copying, as well as send and receive text messages, Google voice communications will also be recorded with the Gmail integration implementation. Users can make free calls to any number in the United States.

Like Gizmodo, according to reports, Google Voice will soon appear in the form of application at the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application will include a dial-up, and it can be set aside (from Google Voice your number), and the iPhone will make its own bilateral linking.

It can also dial-up and cell phone, and contact list to work, while sending SMS. Google Voice also includes standard features such as phone logs, voice mail and so on.

The latest model stars Netbook - X-Slim and really drive map Wind U123 has just emerged, both CULV notebook using Intel's ultra-low voltage processor, running Windows Vista Home Premium system, only 0.7 inches thick, 2.8 pounds, is the MSI Dell used to combat the Adamo's flagship product, version with high prices also reached a level of more than 1000 U.S. dollars, the minimum should have 700 U.S. dollars, this series of products will also have 11.6, 14 and 15.6-inch version, let us Figure it together!

GIGABYTE is expected at the end of the second quarter with the cottage Internet Protocol of the Company products will be delivered, and the deal will allow Gigabyte notebook sales doubled compared to 3 last year! Last year, the Gigabyte notebook sales are only 15 million units, while in 2009 this figure grew to around 50 million units.

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6. 4/10 Yahoo! News: Home Biz SEO
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Get #1 Rankings On Google with 10-Step Laser-Targeted Search Engine Optimization Tutorial (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 10, 2009 at 3:01 am

Since 2006, Matthew Bredel has built a successful online, home based business that's growth has depended largely on page 1 Google rankings and other SEO organic traffic. The SEO Exciter Series outlines many of his personal strategies in getting top search engine rankings for some of today's most competitive search engine keywords.





7. 4/9 Yahoo! News: Technology and Telecommuting
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For Businesses to Grow in a Fledgling Economy, Turn to Technology and Telecommuting, Says E-Geniuses (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 9, 2009 at 3:05 am

Leading L.A.-based computer repair service company E-Geniuses illustrates how businesses can utilize technology and telecommuting to not only survive the economic crisis but to grow in a down market.

New Google Alerts Third-Party Add-On Boosts Marketing Intelligence Access for Small Businesses, Busy Pros (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
April 9, 2009 at 3:01 am

Developed by Adam Green, 'Mr. Google Alerts', AlertRank makes it easier to track, sort, rank and analyze Google-indexed news, blog postings and social media alerts




8. Adelaide Small Business Need SEO
By Dr S Ausman

There are no secrets on how to rank high with the major search engines because effective search engine optimizations are now immense. What is search engine optimization? Before we discuss that thing, you have to understand first how search engines work and a bit of know-how.

Search engines are into providing their users with the most relevant and up-to-date information to match the search term that was used. They are sophisticated pieces of technology which allow users to quickly find relevant websites by searching for a word or a phrase. Search engine results are useless to users if the information doesn't relate to the search term, or if the results are old. People expect the most up-to-date and fresh information that is useful to them.

Updating your website everyday and adding some materials will help you get noticed by the search engines. So, if you are going to sell any type of product or service online, you have to optimize your website for the search engines, in order to boost traffic and sales. It is because over 90% of your business will likely come directly from search engine results. And for that reason, it is absolutely important to optimize your site for search engines for you to have the greatest deals in the entire world.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process by which webmasters or online business owners utilize strategic copy to augment their website's status. It is certain that the internet has grown so fast over the years and the competition for the best search engine position has created an enormous market. Therefore, better understanding the fundamental elements of Search Engine Optimization is vital for an online business' success.

Making use of effective search engine optimization techniques will improve the page rank of your website. There are many tricks that can be used to increase page rank; the most effective method is to provide high quality content consistently. This seems like a simple concept but there are many websites that fails to provide content that visitors find interesting. Sites which provide content that are interesting, well-written and regularly updated create highly engaged visitors who are more likely to return to the website in the coming days. So, if you can set your website apart from those boring, lifeless sites then do it. You'll surely have a step closer to achieving high page rank through search engine optimization.

The next significant factor for an effective search engine optimization is to include keywords and phrases within your content. To make sure that you are properly targeting your market, you have to make sure that the keywords and phrases you have on your site are the keywords and phrase that your site is actually optimized for. The more keywords you use in your content, the more likely it is that online visitors will find your site when they do some research with those words. If you are unfailing with these techniques, then your overall search engine optimization will increase, boosting your page rank.

You should also have to develop a linking strategy as a part of your search engine optimization. Not only does this provide free advertising for your site, but it makes the impression that your site is imperative because of its affiliated links. For each link that you have pointing back to you, that is another chance for your potential customer to find you. The more inbound links that you have pointing to your site, the higher you will be ranked in the search engines.

Another is to develop a content stratagem. People who get to search from the internet are looking for information. The more information you provide for them and the more helpful it is, the more likely you will make the sale. Writing articles is the most effective way to build up content for your site. When writing articles to post on your site, make sure that you develop a clear means of arranging their content. You can do this by simply adding a new page to your site. This will allow room for extra articles to be added as you write them, and will allow you to build up an archive of articles which will maintain to draw online visitors. Make sure also that you have included your archived articles in a directory that is next to the root web of your site so that the search engines will catalog your online articles.

Always keep in mind that search engine optimization methods are important in developing your site's status. With that thing in mind, make sure that you write high-quality, keyword rich content and link your site to and from a deliberate family of other sites. These things will help improve your site's popularity and coerce increased business through your online business.

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9. 4/6 Yahoo! News: Mobile Internet
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Peplink Launches Enterprise Grade 3G Load Balancing (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
April 6, 2009 at 7:53 am

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.----Peplink, the pioneer in Internet link balancing and failover solutions, today announces the release of its Balance 20W mobile load balancing router. Peplink's innovative new product gives Internet reliability to mobile and remote locations where it is not currently possible.



10. Get More Business with Autoresponders
By David Jessee

These days, most everyone is familiar with an autoresponder, although many don't know why they are beneficial to businesses. If you aren't familiar with autoresponders, you would probably find yourself amazed with them. An autoresponder can help your business by automatically emailing your clients and customers with a preset message that will help to increase your sales.

An autoresponder can help your list of clients grow, even send each one of them their own personalized email message. If you choose, you can also follow up each individual email with repeated emails, varying the content whenever you wish. These programs will also allow you to keep track of conversations, and send out broadcast email messages whenever you have news or new products to offer your clients.

As research in the past has shown, personalized email from autoresponders is a great way to boost your business. When you send a personalized email to one of your clients, the autoresponder by can address him or her by their name - which always makes a customer take notice. While you could do this yourself using traditional email, it could take you a few hours if you have a long list of customers.

Autoresponders make sending personalized email a snap. All you need to do is set up your email template, then select where you like the name to go. You can add everyone in your customer list to the autoresponder, which makes sending emails a snap. Once you have everything ready to go, all you need to do is send out the emails with one simple click. Best of all, you don't have to set it up again when you need to send out broadcast messages.

Although there are some people who will buy products after one or two emails, most people require about seven or eight emails before they will purchase anything. Autoresponders can really help you there, as they will do all of the emailing for you. You dont have to keep sending manual emails or anything like that. All you need to do is set up the email address, type in your preset message, and then feel free to send it as many times as you like.

Through the use of an autoresponder you can really boost your business. If you run an Internet marketing business, this tool will prove to be invaluable. You can spend less time sending messages and more time doing what you enjoy. If you've never tried an autoresponder before, you owe it yourself to check out everything they will do for you and your business. Online businesses can get a lot of emails on a daily basis, which is where the autoresponder will really start to shine and show you just how great of an asset it really is.

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11. Work at Home News Front
Verbal Communication Skills Lacking in Some Job Seekers; Media Consultants Offer Job Interview Preparation

Landing a new job is hard work. Just getting through the first interview is a challenge especially for a professional who's been laid off from a position he has held for years. Media consultant Suzanne Spurgeon says, "Interview skills get rusty if you don't use them.

The AA'S £6.2BN Summit Paper on Curbing Motoring

As world leaders gather today at the G20 summit to discuss the global financial crisis, the AA's own president, Edmund King, is reminding motorists that with rising motoring costs upon us, it has never been a better time to shed the pounds. Drivers could save over £6 billion per year by following the AA's money saving tips.

Anti-Phishing Working Group Leading Initiative to Stop Consumers From Falling Prey to Money Laundering Scams

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & LOS ALTOS, Calif.----The Anti-Phishing Working Group announced today a new public education initiative to deliver free counter-crime video instruction to consumers.









12. Adwords Management - 7 Keys to Success: Part 1
By George Kristopher

Most people advertising in Adwords today don't realize that they are losing tons of customers and leads all due to the fact that they don't know the 7 Key things they must do to set up a successful adwords campaign. If you follow these 7 key steps to setting up your adwords campaign, not only will your ad show up a lot higher in Google, but you'll also pay less per click than people advertising below you! Applying these 7 Crucial Steps will increase the amount of clicks you're getting per day and at the same time decrease the amount of money you're having to spend now!

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Optimize your ads for Google The structure of your ads play a huge role in determining how much you pay per click. Just like in step #1 Google is obsessed with "Relevancy". Google's idea of a perfect ad actually has the keyword that was searched on show up twice in the ad; Once in the ad title, and once in the ad text. If Google see's that your ad displaying for the keyword, "injury attorney" actually has the keyword "injury attorney" appearing in your ad title and inyour ad text then Google is going to reward your ad for being perfectly relevant to the keyword that was searched on.

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16. Google Gets Voice
Google GrandCentral has grown all up is being relaunched as Google Voice. This service will continue in beta testing with many new features. Grand Central was a start up "one-number access" telephone service that was purchased by Google soon after its debut.

This service will be styled similar to the Skype telephony business model, in that some of the calls are free, and international long distance will be offered at attractive rates way below what normal phone charges would be. As an example, calls to Canada reportedly will be one cent per minute.

This will be a great service for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small office/home office workers, which now includes distance workers, telecommuters and digital nomads. Get in line and queue up for a free Google Voice number.

From The Blogosphere:

Google Voice Blog: Moving to Google Voice!

We are happy to announce that we have made a number of improvements to GrandCentral and are relaunching the service as Google Voice.

Google Voice Speaks of World Domination

Google Voice is a free service that offers "one number for life," so I recently came across your blog and have been reading along.

Get Ready For Google Voice

The folks over at Google are working on a new project called Google Voice. According to the Google Blog site the first beta testing will be for GrandCentral [...]




17. Depression Cooking Teaches
Check out Google Trends this morning, and you will see that Great Depression Cooking tops the charts. The television news anchors are starting to own up to the fact that we are in a depression, and not just your ordinary run of the mill recession.

Imports are down 24% and the economy in the US alone shrank over 6% in just one month. If you think there is any good news in this, it probably is only the fact we need to learn to individually become self reliant again. We can't sustain an economy where the only growth is in government.

If you have already lost your job, and are scratching your head as to what you will do when the unemployment insurance runs out, you may have figured out that it probably won't be a job like you had before. We are headed back to a more mercantile style society, where we each make and trade goods and services. Do you believe you can now start your own small office-home office based on new skills found learned and linked on the Internet?

If you are on your own SOHO quest, you may want to consider investing in and learning about working online. In many ways it is a quite separate and parallel economy. Almost unrelated to what is happening in the real world sector.

An alternative avocation is taking up the art of Depression Style Cooking.




18. 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 investigating. One of the schemes is a beta program known as The SpideWeb Marketing System. If you have seen it in passing, but did not consider it...keep looking. This had the potential to be the next big monetizing scheme for the web.


Many have tried to create a self-sustained or auto-pilot system. This supposedly started out with 12 streams of income, but now has 22. I have a gut feeling you have to work it like any other business.

It still is in beta, so don't hope for much. I had numerous conversation with the owners and management team of this system about creating an inner circle training program. Alas, everyone wants something for nothing. You can generate free leads, but then you have to know what to do with them.

Check out my blog on the subject, too, at "The SpiderWeb System Information and Reviews".


19. How to Produce 365 Videos in One Year
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you have been involved in the blogosphere for long, you know that many bloggers are gravitating towards video aka Video blogs, Vlogs, Vidcasts, or a Video Podcast.

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.



20. Prioritize Your Blogging for 2008
(Archived in: Social Media Marketing Social Media Optimization)

Welcome to the New Year! I have been spending the last week planning for 2008, which has included changes to my blogging style. If you follow my blogs, you know that I have decided to concentrate on Digital Nomads and The Rugged Notebooks Blog as my main focus for blogging, and with less frequent posting to this blog and The Sovereign Journey.

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


21. Twelve Step Program for Email Addicts
(Archived in: Online Usability Reviews)

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 ‘Reply to All’ when you just want to send an email to one individual.

8. Don’t email pictures of yourself to others. Especially, online acquaintances and complete strangers.

9. Don’t 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, “Never 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.



22. How to Build 10-Minute Affiliate Website Mashups
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

If you are searching for ways to be innovative with your online marketing, then here is another plug for many of the ideas featured at 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. No, this is not a paid post.

This is the good stuff, it's an addendum to the post on "30 Websites in 30 Days", and Mark calls this his YouTube-Ebay-Amazon Affiliate Website Mashup Thingy.



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


23. A SOHO Reprise of Honest Riches System
(Archived in: Online Income Reviews)

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.


24. John Chow Calls It Quits on Agloco
(Archive in: Weblogs and Business)

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.



25. How to Build 30 Websites in 30 Days
(Archive in Ecommerce SOHO Online Usability)

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


American Jobs: Going, Going...
Jane Birnbaum
2005
Reprinted from: AFLCIO.org

Corporations are escalating efforts to ship out jobs that pay well and build the middle class—and now they are aiming their axes at workers in the nation’s fast-growing white-collar sector.

The U.S. recession that began in March 2001 officially ended in November 2001, say the National Bureau of Economic Research and other analysts.

So why are so many workers still out of jobs?

“We’ve declared victory over the recession, and we’re still laying off a couple hundred thousand workers a month,” says Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.). “If it weren’t so painful for so many people who are out of work, it would be hilarious. But it isn’t.”

The U.S. economy has 3.2 million fewer jobs today than it did when President George W. Bush took office, including 2.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs. Bush appears headed for the dubious distinction of being the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over a decline in total employment during his term in office.

In the past three years, nearly one in five U.S. workers was laid off from the job, according to The Disposable Worker: Living in a Job-Loss Economy, a Rutgers University¡V University of Connecticut report released in late July. Among workers laid off from full-time work, roughly one-fourth were earning less than $40,000 annually, the report finds.

In July, a total of 15 million U.S. workers were either unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to job hunt, according to the Labor Department.

In contrast, within a year after the official end of the last recession in March 1991, the nation had embarked on six straight months of solid job growth.

This time, say economists, there are crucial differences: Companies are sending well-paying manufacturing and service jobs to countries with few, if any, protections for workers and the environment. And these jobs are probably not coming back.

“The movement of jobs and production overseas is handcuffing the recovery,” according to Mark Xandi, chief economist at Economy.com, as quoted in the New York Times.

“With NAFTA, the World Trade Organization and other trade deals of the last decade, American corporations are now tapping into a global supply of workers who can be trained to do everything from design to production, maintenance to marketing,” says Jeff Faux, economist and founding president of the Economic Policy Institute. “And while these workers become more productive, their pay doesn’t rise, because in many of these countries, to be a labor organizer means you risk winding up in a ditch with a bullet in your head.”

American jobs sent out of the country aren’t likely to return anytime soon. “As long as employers can take advantage of much lower labor costs in other countries, there’s no compelling reason to bring back many of these well-paying jobs,” says Ron Hira, an engineer and assistant professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology. “Policymakers seem to be at a loss as to what to do about this problem.”

Meanwhile, the Bush administration directs multimillion-dollar tax cuts to the wealthy while supporting trade laws that encourage offshore outsourcing. And even as Bush opposes unemployment insurance extensions for some 1 million Americans who have exhausted their benefits, his administration refuses to embrace job-creating programs that would repair the nation’s infrastructure and help balance devastated state budgets.

“The Bush administration doesn’t seem to care about jobs,” says Center for Economic and Policy Research co-founder Dean Baker. “To retain and create jobs, there have to be policy changes, and I don’t think this administration is willing to make them.”

Manufacturing: America’s Foundation Is Crumbling
Photo Credit: Bill Burke/Page One
“American taxpayers...do not want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of their jobs.”
—USWA President Leo Gerard

Manufacturing jobs traditionally have provided high wages and good benefits that allow workers to care for their families. But 2.5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since President Bush took office in early 2001.

Multinational corporations are transferring jobs to countries where workers earn low wages and have few or no protections. And small U.S. businesses are laying off workers or shutting their doors because they can’t meet foreign competitors’ prices.

African American workers have been hit particularly hard. Because of manufacturing job losses, the unemployment rate among African Americans is rising twice as fast as it is for whites and faster than in any downturn since the mid-1970s. “The number of jobs and the types of jobs that have been lost has severely diminished the standing of many blacks in the middle class,” says William Lucy, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and AFSCME secretary-treasurer.

Manufacturing job loss starts the downward spiral

The loss of good manufacturing jobs has ripped apart communities and permanently lowered living standards for families throughout the United States, including in Rockford, Ill., 70 miles from Chicago. The northern Illinois city is historically second only to Cleveland as a center for machine tooling, the making of tools used in machine manufacturing.

Machine tooling, which traditionally employs the most highly skilled manufacturing workers including members of the Machinists and UAW, is the bedrock of America’s manufacturing industry.

But the bedrock is crumbling. The Rockford area lost more than 20 percent of its manufacturing jobs—about 10,000—between May 2000 and 2003, according to MBG Information Services President and Economist Charles McMillion’s analysis of Department of Labor data.
General manufacturing jobs have been among those lost in Rockford, including jobs held by Steelworkers Local 745 members at the Goodyear tire plant. USWA members at Goodyear now number 750, down from 1,650 in 1999, before the corporation shipped the jobs to Asia and South America.

But most manufacturing jobs lost in Rockford have been in machine tooling. At Greenlee/Textron, which makes drill bits and tools for electrical contractors, about 180 Machinists now represented by IAM Local 1553 are employed today, down from about 900 in the late 1980s. The 112-year-old crown jewel of Rockford machine tooling—Ingersoll International—declared bankruptcy this spring and laid off 300 employees in Rockford and 70 in Michigan, leaving only skeleton crews of managers and a few contract workers.

“The lesson of Rockford,” says Faux, “is it disproves the free traders’ argument that America could afford to lose manufacturing jobs in areas like textiles and steel because we would ultimately triumph in global competition by making the things hardest to make. In fact, those things are machine tools—and we’re losing them.”

A loss of manufacturing jobs reverberates throughout the community—and ultimately the nation. When manufacturing factories aren’t being built, maintained or expanded, jobs disappear in areas such as construction.

“Our union has about 30 percent unemployment,” says Mark Bramble, business agent for Electrical Workers Local 364 in Rockford. “Guys burn through their unemployment, lose all their benefits, get divorced and then go where the grass looks greener or settle for working as a greeter at Wal-Mart.”

A question of national security

There’s a sense of betrayal in Rockford these days. “Free trade was sold to America with the line that it helps us export more goods,” says Eric Anderberg, who manages his family’s 37-year-old machine tool company, Dial Machines Inc. “But what’s happened is the exportation of our jobs and means of production so multinational corporations can exploit foreign labor and sell their goods back to us.”

Today Dial employs 40 workers, down from 75 in the late 1990s. It recently lost work to a lower-bidding Czech Republic manufacturer that nabbed a contract making parts for a supplier of General Electric Wind Energy Corp.

Anderberg and other Rockford employers worry that a Chinese government-owned machine tooling company, which already has bought two divisions of Ingersoll International, may now be poised to buy another—one containing intellectual property, including high-level research and design and military technology. “I cannot understand how our government can justify not only the debasement of our manufacturing industries but also our national security in a time of war,” he says.

The Rockford community and U.S. national security would get a boost from Buy America provisions House Armed Services Committee Chair Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) added to legislation authorizing the 2004 Pentagon budget.

Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.), who represents the Rockford area and helped write the bill, says, “The Pentagon wouldn’t care if everything it buys is made in China.” Joined by armsmakers such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the White House says the Buy America provisions are “burdensome, counterproductive and have the potential to degrade U.S. military capabilities.” But the administration does not mention jobs.

“American steelworkers are also American taxpayers, and they do not want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of their jobs,” says USWA President Leo Gerard.

White-Collar Jobs: America’s Growing Export

Ask anyone which sector of the U.S. economy comes to mind as the most likely to be shipped overseas, and chances are he or she will say manufacturing.

But though the United States lost 2.5 million manufacturing jobs since the Bush presidency beginning in 2001, U.S. corporations now are racing to outsource white-collar jobs—including work in computer sciences, engineering, entertainment, financial and medical services—to countries where workers earn far less.

Terry Antisdel was a Chicago-area engineering associate for Lucent Technologies Inc. and its predecessor AT&T for 35 years until his entire 42-member International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 81 was laid off in July. He figures his job will end up in India or China. “The words management used were a 'less-expensive offshore site,’ ” recalls Antisdel, who estimates Lucent will send a total of about 5,000 U.S. jobs offshore this year. “I feel let down,” he says. “Companies used to provide jobs for people, but now they’re just there to give money to executives, board members and shareholders.”

In late July, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), a Communications Workers of America affiliated group that helps high-tech workers win a voice at work, released a tape of a conference call in which IBM’s top human relations executives discussed transferring 3 million U.S. service jobs to countries such as China and India by 2015.

Testifying in June before a House Committee on Small Business investigating the globalization of white-collar jobs, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees President Paul Almeida said, “If these cost-saving jobs shifts are taken to their logical extreme, even American corporations should be wondering where their future consumers will be located and how they will buy the goods and services.”

A Forrester Research study predicts U.S. employers will move about 3.3 million white-collar service jobs and $136 billion in wages overseas in the next 15 years, up from $4 billion in 2000.

White-collar jobs going and gone

The jobs already are leaving. By the end of this year, General Electric will have sent a total of 20,000 aircraft and medical research and design jobs to India and China, according to Business Week. And the Accenture consulting firm, which incorporated in Bermuda after splitting from Enron accountant Arthur Andersen, plans to send 5,000 accounting and software jobs to the Philippines in 2004, the magazine says.

According to WashTech, Microsoft plans to eliminate at least 800 full-time call-center jobs near Dallas and shift the work to India and Canada in the next fiscal year. It would be the largest one-time firing of full-time Microsoft employees in the company’s history. WashTech says a Microsoft senior vice president recently urged company managers to “pick something to move offshore today,” though Microsoft publicly has repeated it will not lay off U.S. workers and send the jobs offshore.

While the Bush administration remains silent about offshore outsourcing, states such as New Jersey are considering corrective measures. New Jersey legislators acted after the state outsourced the electronic administration of welfare and food stamp benefits to a company that then sent the jobs to India. When New Jersey citizens called to ask about benefits, they were connected with Indian workers who gave Americanized names.

A bill authored by state Assembly member Linda Greenstein (D) would have required such offshore subcontractors to disclose to New Jersey residents their employers’ true names and locations. But even this common- sense measure had no chance in the face
of massive opposition launched by Indian and American corporate interests, such as Verizon.

“We got a copy of an e-mail Verizon sent managers in New Jersey, thanking them for sending 1,800 e-mails opposing the bill,” says Don Rice, CWA’s New Jersey legislative coordinator. Activists and legislators hope to bring the bill to a vote before the legislative session ends this year.

U.S. security at stake

Offshore outsourcing of white-collar work also raises security concerns. U.S. firms are sending mapping and other such work to India, Pakistan, China, the Philippines and other countries with lower labor costs, says John Palatiello, administrator of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services.

“This practice raises issues regarding access to data about the location of¡Kcritical infrastructure by individuals in foreign countries who have not been through any degree of security clearance and where control of access to data simply does not exist.”

Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union address made clear the danger of access to data by unfriendly foreign operatives: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears....We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water facilities¡Ksurveillance maps of American cities and thorough descriptions of landmarks in America.”

Activists are demanding Congress review trade and tax policies that encourage white-collar offshore outsourcing. Without government intervention, warns Almeida, “short-sighted corporate policy focused on saving a few bucks in the short run will have an enormous deleterious impact on the entire U.S. economy.”

Low-Wage Jobs: Betray America’s Workers

Photo Credit: Ernie Englander/The New Press

Laid-off U.S. workers thrust into a hostile job market are discovering another ugly part of the American economy: low-wage work that pays too little to keep even a small family out of poverty.

Nearly a quarter of all U.S. workers labor in jobs that pay little but are essential to society. Sixty percent of these workers are female, and many are people of color. They care for nursing home patients and clean offices at night. They prepare food, answer call-center phones and care for our children.

These jobs generally pay less than the $8.85 hourly wage the U.S. government says it takes to keep a family of four out of poverty. Even so, many low-wage jobs offer only part-time hours, with few or no benefits. And workers in low-paying but essential jobs often are treated as disposable, quickly fired if they get sick or stay home with a sick child.

As more good jobs leave the country, the percentage of low-wage jobs keeps growing. By 2010, about 30 percent of working Americans won’t be making even poverty wages, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. A Labor Department list of the 10 occupations likely to show the largest job growth this decade is dominated by jobs that typically pay poorly—food preparation, customer service, office clerking, security and food service.

This world of low-wage jobs and the workers who do them is illuminated in The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 35 Million Americans, published on Labor Day by the New Press. “Traditionally, there was a promise in this country that if you worked hard, you could take care of your family,” explains author Beth Shulman, an attorney and former United Food and Commercial Workers vice president. “That promise has been broken¡Kand we have built our national prosperity on their backs.”

No job is inherently low wage

Workers in low-wage jobs frequently are labeled as lacking skills and in need of training to move into better-paying positions. But while education is a traditional route to higher pay, Shulman contends no job is inherently low wage.
“Take autoworkers, who had horrible jobs that became good ones because of unions and social legislation,” she says. “The same thing must happen with currently low-paying service- sector jobs. In Las Vegas, for example, the housekeeper represented by the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees has decent wages and benefits thanks to unionization.”

Low-wage jobs tend to imprison the workers who perform them because of what Shulman calls a “piling on” of hardships. Workers in low-wage jobs are unlikely to have sick leave or health insurance or make enough money to afford reliable transportation or child day care. At the same time, they are likely to be in inflexible situations in which being late or missing work can result in a quick firing.

“It’s not just that you make less money in these jobs, but you have none of the basic things many of us take for granted, such as health insurance, time to care for a family member, adequate child care, some kind of retirement security, even a telephone,” Shulman says. “And this applies to one in four U.S. workers.”

Gap is growing between U.S. rich and poor

As low-wage work continues to replace jobs that pay well, the U.S. economy increasingly resembles that of a less-developed nation, with a wide gulf between rich and poor. Among all western industrialized nations, the United States has the greatest income and wage inequalities, with the best-paid 10 percent of workers making 16.6 times the amount made by the lowest-paid 10 percent, according to a 2003 analysis by the United Nations Development Program. “That’s the way we’ve been moving for some time now and continue to move,” says Heather Boushey, a Center for Economic and Policy Research economist.

To reverse this trend, the United States needs to change the rules of the game, according to Shulman. “For starters, we should immediately raise the minimum hourly wage to the poverty guideline for a family of four—$8.85 an hour versus the current $5.15 hourly federal minimum wage—and then have automatic increases so there’s not a big political battle every time it needs raising. Then, all Americans should have access to affordable health care. There are a variety of ways to do this, and we should just get it done.

“Finally, all American workers should be able to care for their children—to have access to affordable child care, and to stay with them when they’re sick or go to a PTA meeting without getting fired. The consequences for the children of today’s low-wage workers are enormous—they’re following their parents into this low-wage world.”


Companies in India celebrate
"loss of American jobs"
Mike Crane
December 2004
Reprinted from: Southern Party of Georgia website

In our previous article we reported how various companies in India were employed by the Republican National Committee and the Bush Re-election campaign (see: India claims big election victory and laughs at Americans).

One interesting comment that was documented in that article was:

As Vivek Paul, Wipro VC, said after the Presidential poll, “The elections are over and so is the rhetoric; it will be easier for American corporations to step out with their outsourcing plans.”

Well a little research has found some estimates from within India about what that meant. First and foremost, it means that India is celebrating the "loss of American jobs." Folks, that is the jobs of friends, family or perhaps even your own.

Specifically on November 4, with time zone changes, roughly a day after the polls close the following was published in the India Times:

The industry is quietly celebrating that outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the hot-button issues any more.

And that is why they believe that "it will be easier for American corporations to step out with their outsourcing plans." Does this mean that American companies put their plans on "hold" to minimize the impact on a close election?

But the folks in India gloat a little more:

Of the documented jobs that left the US for other countries in January through March 2004, 23,396 went to Mexico, 8,283 to China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other Asian countries, 5,511 to Latin American countries other than Mexico and 2,933 to other countries.

A brief look at these numbers show what they call a documented American job loss of 48,237 for the first quarter of 2004. On an annual basis this would be 192,968 American jobs. And they expect American companies to now - step out - with their outsourcing plans.

Some will say that 192,968 jobs is not very many. But as you will see in coming articles that is just what is called BPO and is not the whole picture.

Lets look at the effect of three policies that affect American jobs:

  1. Outsourcing - In this article it has been shown that it is at least close to 200,00 jobs a year for the BPO segment and expected to increase
  2. H1-B visa program - allows high tech foreigners to take American jobs here without being counted in immigration totals. Used by many companies to train personnel for their foreign outsourcing programs. There are roughly a million H1-B visas active today.
  3. Legal immigration of about 1 million a year and illegal immigration of about 3 million a year resulting in lower American wages and increased social costs.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are paying the salaries of the elected and appointed officials who are doing this to you. Is this what you want to pay for? If so, why are you reading material on this web site?

If not, you are being ignored!

It should be obvious to all that this trend can not continue forever. Are there any signs that it is getting better:

A recent study of A T Kearney shows that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource to India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component work to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.

That should answer that question beyond a reasonable doubt. Interesting that 15% of the outsourcing chief executives favor Red China! Remember these are the folks that make the big campaign contributions that have so much influence on many of your elected officials. How will you feel when YOUR job is sent to Red China?

If you do not agree with these policies you are being ignored and your elected officials are representing special interests more than you! If you believe that this is a serious problem it is time to get involved now. The longer you wait, the harder it will be stop these destructive trends.

The BPO and your elected officials are doing offshore calculus, are you?

BPO biggies do offshore calculus
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2004 02:13:09 PM]

India’s silicon valley is delighted to move out of the limelight. The industry is quietly celebrating that outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the hot-button issues any more.

BPO bigwigs are already computing the gains from mega-offshoring plans on hold waiting for US presidential race to be over.

Though most of the industry majors refuse to comment on who will safeguard their interests better, they feel that economic benefits of transfer of jobs to low cost destinations will now overshadow the political rhetoric against outsourcing in the run up to the US poll.

The US presidential election was fueling the protests against job losses due to transfer of jobs.

“American law will remain the same and the outsourcing will go up irrespective of who wins. Already, we see our clients getting ready for bigger offshoring plans,’’ says head of a leading Delhi-based BPO firm. Insiders also feel the American clients might be more open to talk about their outsourcing plans to low-cost destinations like India now.

Though Kerry’s tax proposals that seek to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas could deter fence-sitter, analysts feel they are no more than short-term sentiment dampeners. After initially branding the shipping of jobs to countries like India and China as a threat to the US economy, Kerry has gone on record saying he can’t stop outsourcing.

Clearly, what is of greater concern is that a clear decision comes soon, irrespective of whether it favours Bush or Kerry. Though Bush is more popular, the $ 2.6 billion BPO industry is convinced that “it will soon be difficult to differentiate between Democrats and Republicans.

Obviously sector’s fate is closely tied up with the US elections, with US accounting for over 70 % of India’s IT exports. A recent study of A T Kearney shows that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource to India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component work to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.

Of the documented jobs that left the US for other countries in January through March 2004, 23,396 went to Mexico, 8,283 to China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other Asian countries, 5,511 to Latin American countries other than Mexico and 2,933 to other countries.

 


Costly Trade With China
Millions of U.S. jobs displaced
Robert E. Scott
October 9, 2007
Reprinted from: Economic Policy Institute

Contrary to the predictions of its supporters, China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has failed to reduce its trade surplus with the United States or increase overall U.S. employment. The rise in the U.S. trade deficit with China between 1997 and 2006 has displaced production that could have supported 2,166,000 U.S. jobs. Most of these jobs (1.8 million) have been lost since China entered the WTO in 2001. Between 1997 and 2001, growing trade deficits displaced an average of 101,000 jobs per year, or slightly more than the total employment in Manchester, New Hampshire. Since China entered the WTO in 2001, job losses increased to an average of 353,000 per year—more than the total employment in greater Akron, Ohio. Between 2001 and 2006, jobs were displaced in every state and the District of Columbia. Nearly three-quarters of the jobs displaced were in manufacturing industries. Simply put, the promised benefits of trade liberalization with China have been unfulfilled.

As a matter of policy, China tightly pegs its currency's value to that of the dollar at a rate that encourages a large bilateral surplus with the United States. Maintaining this peg required the purchase of about $200 billion in U.S. Treasury Bills and other securities in 2006 alone.1 This intervention makes the yuan artificially cheap and provides an effective subsidy on Chinese exports; best estimates are that the rate of this effective subsidy is roughly 40%. China also engages in extensive suppression of labor rights; it has been estimated that wages in China would be 47% to 85% higher in the absence of labor repression. China has also been accused of massive direct subsidization of export production. Finally, it maintains strict, non-tariff barriers to imports. As a result, China's exports to the United States of $288 billion in 2006 were six times greater than U.S. exports to China, which were only $52 billion (Table 1). China's trade surplus was responsible for 42.6% of the United States' total, non-oil trade deficit. This is by far the United States' most imbalanced trading relationship. Unless and until China revalues (raises) the yuan and eliminates these other trade distortions, the U.S. trade deficit and job losses will continue to grow rapidly in the future.

Major findings of this study:

  • The 1.8 million jobs opportunities lost nationwide since 2001 are distributed among all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with the biggest losers, in numeric terms: California (-269,300), Texas (-136,900), New York (-105,900), Illinois (-79,900), Pennsylvania (-78,200), North Carolina (-77,200), Florida (-71,900), Ohio (-66,100), Georgia (-60,400), and Massachusetts (-59,300) (Table 2A).

  • The 10 hardest-hit states, as a share of total state employment, are: New Hampshire (-13,000, -2.1%), North Carolina (-77,200, -2.0%), California (-269,300, -1.8%), Massachusetts (-59,300, -1.8%), Rhode Island (-8,400, -1.8%), South Carolina (-29,200, -1.6%), Vermont (-4,900, -1.6%), Oregon (-25,700, -1.6%), Indiana (-45,200, -1.5%), and Georgia (-60,400, -1.5%) (Table 2B).

China's entry into the WTO was supposed to bring it into compliance with an enforceable, rules-based regime, which would require that it open its markets to imports from the United States and other nations. The United States also negotiated a series of special safeguard measures designed to limit the disruptive effects of surging Chinese imports on domestic producers. However, the core of the agreement failed to include any protections to maintain or improve labor or environmental standards. As a result, China's entry into the WTO has further tilted the international economic playing field against domestic workers and firms, and in favor of multinational companies (MNCs) from the United States and other countries, and state- and privately-owned exporters in China. This has increased the global "race to the bottom" in wages and environmental quality and caused the closing of thousands of U.S. factories, decimating employment in a wide range of communities, states, and entire regions of the United States.

False promises

Proponents of China's entry into the WTO frequently claimed that it would create jobs in the United States, increase U.S. exports, and improve the trade deficit with China. President Clinton claimed that the agreement allowing China into the WTO, which was negotiated during his administration, "creates a win-win result for both countries" (Clinton 2000, 9). He argued that exports to China "now support hundreds of thousands of American jobs" and that "these figures can grow substantially with the new access to the Chinese market the WTO agreement creates" (Clinton 2000, 10). Others in the White House, such as Kenneth Liberthal, the special advisor to the president and senior director for Asia affairs at the National Security Council, echoed Clinton's assessment:

Let's be clear as to why a trade deficit might decrease in the short term. China exports far more to the U.S. than it imports [from] the U.S….It will not grow as much as it would have grown without this agreement and over time clearly it will shrink with this agreement.2

Promises about jobs and exports misrepresented the real effects of trade on the U.S. economy: trade both creates and destroys jobs. Increases in U.S. exports tend to create jobs in the United States, but increases in imports tend to destroy jobs as imports displace goods that otherwise would have been made in the United States by domestic workers.

The impact of changes in trade on employment is estimated here by calculating the labor content of changes in the trade balance—the difference between exports and imports. Each $1 billion in computer exports to China from the United States supports American jobs. However, each $1 billion in computer imports from China displaces those American workers, who would have been employed making them in the United States. On balance, the net employment effect of trade flows depends on the growth in the trade deficit; not just exports. Another critically important promise made by the promoters of liberalized U.S.-China trade was that the United States would benefit because of increased exports to a large and growing consumer market in China. This market, in turn, was to be based on an expansion of the middle class that, it was claimed, would grow rapidly due to the wealth created in China by its entry into the WTO. However, the increase in U.S. exports to China has been overwhelmed by the growth of U.S. imports, as shown below.

Growing trade deficits and job losses

The U.S. trade deficit with China has increased from $50 billion in 1997 to $235 billion in 2006, an increase of $185 billion, as shown in Table 1. Between 1997 and 2001, prior to China's entry into the WTO, the deficit increased $9 billion per year on average. Between 2001 and 2006, after China entered the WTO, the deficit increased $30 billion per year on average.

While it is true that exports support jobs in the United States, it is equally true that imports displace them. The net effect of trade flows on employment must look at the trade balance. The employment impacts of growing trade deficits are estimated in this paper using an input-output model that estimates the direct and indirect labor requirements of producing output in a given domestic industry. The model includes 200 U.S. industries, 86 of which are in the manufacturing sector (see this paper's methodology appendix for further details).3

The model estimates the labor that would be required to produce a given volume of exports, and the labor that is displaced when a given volume of imports is substituted for domestic output.4 The job losses presented here represent an estimate of what sectoral employment levels would have been in the absence of growing trade deficits.5

U.S. exports to China in 1997 supported 138,000 jobs, but U.S. imports displaced production that would have supported 736,000 jobs, as shown in the bottom half of Table 1. Therefore, the $49 billion trade deficit in 1997 displaced 736,300 jobs in that year. Job displacement rose to 1,000,000 jobs in 2001 and 2,763,000 in 2006. Prior to China's entry into the WTO, an average of 101,000 jobs per year were displaced by growing trade deficits between 1997 and 2001. After 2001, an average of 353,000 jobs per year were lost.

Growth in trade deficits with China has reduced demand for goods produced in every region of the United States and has led to job displacement in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as shown in Table 2A and Figure A.6 More than 100,000 jobs were lost in California, Texas, and New York each. Jobs displaced due to growing deficits with China equaled or exceeded 2.0% of total employment in states such as North Carolina and New Hampshire, as shown in Table 2B. An alphabetical list of job losses by state is shown in Table 2C.

Figure A

Table 2c

Growing trade deficits with China have clearly reduced domestic employment in traded goods industries, especially in the manufacturing sector, which has been hard hit by plant closings and job losses. Workers displaced by trade from the manufacturing sector have been shown to have particular difficulty in securing comparable employment elsewhere in the economy. More than one-third of workers displaced from manufacturing drop out of the labor force (Kletzer 2001, 101, Table D2). Average wages of those who secured re-employment fell 11% to 13%. Trade-related job displacement pushes many workers out of good jobs in manufacturing and other trade-related industries, often into lower-paying industries and frequently out of the labor market.

Some economists have quibbled with job-loss numbers extrapolated from trade flows, based on the presumption that aggregate employment levels in the United States are set by a broad range of macroeconomic influences, not just by trade flows. There is a grain of truth to this—the trade balance is but one of many variables affecting aggregate job creation in the United States.

That said, the employment impacts of trade identified in this paper can be interpreted as the "all else equal" effect of trade on domestic employment. The Federal Reserve, for example, may decide to cut interest rates to make up for job loss stemming from deteriorating trade balances (or any other economic influence), leaving net employment unchanged. This, however, does not change the fact that trade deficits by themselves are a net drain on employment.

Administration officials and other economists have argued that the capital inflow that is the mirror-image of trade deficits supports jobs in the United States by keeping interest rates lower than they would be absent this inflow. During the late 1990s, for example, these capital inflows fought rising trade deficits to a draw in terms of aggregate employment effects, and, through much of the 2000s recovery, interest-sensitive industries (housing and construction, for example) have surely expanded more than they would have absent foreign capital inflows. While these claims may be correct from a simple accounting standpoint, they do not support assertions that trade flows are a useless indicator of job loss.

First, and most simply, it is just not true that foreign capital inflows always make up trade-induced employment losses one-for-one. In the 2001 recession and the jobless recovery following, growing trade deficits accompanied aggregate job loss, even as interest rates scraped historical bottoms. Clearly, low interest rates do not always translate into enough growth in investment and consumption in interest-sensitive sectors to always sterilize the impact of growing trade deficits.

Second, the job-loss numbers identified in this report are a good measure of just how unbalanced the U.S. economy has become due to rising trade deficits. Tradable goods industries have hemorrhaged jobs, while interest-sensitive, often non-tradable, industries have seen rapid growth. At that point in the future when trade deficits begin to close (and this will happen—it is only a question of when and how), the U.S. economy will need to return many of the jobs displaced by rising trade deficits out of non-tradable and into tradable industries. Moving millions of workers back and forth between sectors is no mean trick, and accomplishing it without a recession in between will be hard; trying to do it after another couple of years of deficit growth—and an even more lopsided U.S. economy—will be even harder.

In short, while aggregate employment in the United States may well not respond job-for-job with the numbers reported in this paper on trade deficits with China, these numbers provide insight into how much harder other macroeconomic influences have to work to eliminate the employment drag from these deficits, and they provide a good (and ominous) measure of how lopsided employment growth in the U.S. economy has become owing to the unbalanced U.S.-China trade relationship.

Conclusion

The growing U.S. trade deficit with China has displaced huge numbers of jobs in the United States, and been a prime contributor to the crisis in manufacturing employment over the past six years. The current U.S.-China trade relationship is bad for both countries. The United States is piling up foreign debt, losing export capacity, and facing a more fragile macroeconomic environment. Meanwhile, China has become dependent on the U.S. consumer market for employment generation, has suppressed the purchasing power of its own middle class with a weak currency, and, most importantly, has held hundreds of billions of hard-currency reserves in low-yielding, risky assets, instead of investing them in public goods that could benefit Chinese households. Its repression of labor rights has suppressed wages, thus subsidizing its exports and making them artificially cheap. This relationship needs a fundamental change: addressing the exchange rate policies and labor standards issues in the Chinese economy are important first steps.

April 2007

The author thanks Lauren Marra for her research assistance
and Josh Bivens and Ross Eisenbrey for comments.

This research was made possible by generous support
from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.


Methodology

This analysis utilizes an input-output model to estimate the relationships between changes in trade flows and production that could support domestic employment. The analysis covers trends in goods trade, which is dominated by manufactures. Services trade is not considered because of problems with the data, and because many of the services traded involve returns to capital and intellectual property that have little or no direct effect on employment. In addition, goods trade dominates the nation's international accounts.

This study uses the model developed in Rothstein and Scott (1997a and 1997b). This approach solves four problems that are prevalent in previous research on the employment effects of trade. Some studies look only at the effects of exports and ignore imports. Some studies include re-exports (transshipments)—goods produced outside the United States and shipped through this country to other nations—as U.S. exports. The trade data used in many studies is usually not adjusted for inflation. Finally, a single employment multiplier is often applied to all industries, despite differences in labor productivity and utilization.7

The model used here is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment requirements tables, which were derived from the U.S. input-output tables that are published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. These tables are adjusted to 2000 price and productivity levels (BLS 2007b), in real, chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A base year with 2000 employment requirements was used to estimate the employment content of trade in all years covered in this study. This assumption was needed to control for the effects of technology. This technique isolates the effects of trade on employment from pure technology effects. This model is used to estimate the direct and indirect effects of changes in goods trade flows in each of 200 industries. This study updates the 1987 input employment requirements table used in earlier reports in this series (Rothstein and Scott 1997a, 1997b).

This analysis requires four-digit, trade data based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (U.S. International Trade Commission 2007), deflated with industry-specific, chain-weighted price indices (BLS 2007a), which were updated using industry-specific producer price indexes (BLS 2007b).8 Trade data were downloaded from the U.S. International Trade Commission (2007) Web site in NAICS format. The data for 2006 are preliminary estimates; this report will be updated and expanded when the final 2006 trade data are released in June 2007. State-level employment effects are calculated by allocating imports and exports to the states on the basis of their share of four-digit, industry-level employment for 2000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2001).

The trade data were converted into chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A domestic employment requirements table for a particular base year was used to estimate the employment effects of trade in each year of the analysis, holding technology constant. The domestic employment requirement calculates the labor required to produce all of a given product within the United States. Thus, it reflects the complete labor content of output, including jobs indirectly supported in service industries. The base year of 2000 was chosen for this study because it was an approximate mid-point in the data covered in this study.

CPS data on employment by industry by was collected for each of the detailed sectors in the model. These data were used to calculate each state's share of national employment.

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Endnotes

1. These purchases financed about one-quarter of the U.S. $857 billion current account deficit in 2006 (the broadest measure of all U.S. trade and income flows). But for these purchases, the reduced demand would have put significant downward pressure on the U.S. dollar. A substantial depreciation in the dollar would begin to improve the U.S. trade deficit within a few years.

2. NewsHour with Jim Lehrer transcript. 1999. "Online NewsHour: Opening Trade—November 15, 1999."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec99/wto_11-15.html.

3. See Ratner (2006) for a more complete, technical description of this model.

4. For the purposes of this report, it is necessary to distinguish between exports produced domestically and re-exports—which are goods produced in other countries, imported into the United States, and then re-exported to other countries, in this case to China. Since re-exports are not produced domestically, their production does not support domestic employment and they are excluded from the model used here. See Table 1 for information about the levels of U.S. re-exports to China in this period.

5. This model assumes that everything else is held constant and the results are counterfactual estimates.

6. See the methodology appendix for computational details.

7. Other studies—see California State World Trade Commission (1996), which finds 47,600 jobs created in California from increased trade with Canada alone—have allocated all employment effects to the home state of the exporting company. This is problematic, because the production—along with any attendant job effects—need not have taken place in the exporter's state. If a California dealer buys cars from Chrysler and sells them to China, these studies will find job creation in California. However, the cars are not made in California; so the employment effects should instead be attributed to Michigan and other state with high levels of auto industry production. Likewise, if the same firm buys auto parts from China, the loss of employment will occur in auto-industry states, not in California.

8. Industry-specific producer price indices are unavailable for certain industries between 2005 and 2006. In order to construct price deflators for all 200 BLS industries, we used a combination of commodity PPIs and industry PPIs. For instance, NAICS-based industry 3331 (which maps to BLS industry 72) is composed of agricultural, manufacturing, and mining machinery manufacturing. To compute a price index for this industry, a trade-weighted average of the commodity indices for agricultural machinery and construction machinery was used as a proxy for the industry PPI. Industry PPIs were used wherever available.


Outsourcing Not the Culprit in Manufacturing Job Loss
Wes Iversen
December 9th, 2003
Reprinted from:Automation World
Productivity gains spawned by factory automation are driving a worldwide decline in manufacturing jobs, even in developing nations, says researcher.

For many Americans, the word “outsourcing” conjures up images of manufacturing job decline. But the United States is far from alone in losing manufacturing employment, points out Dan Miklovic (shown above), vice president and research director at GartnerG2, the business research arm of Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. “Recent studies show that manufacturing jobs are declining everywhere,” said Miklovic, during a Nov. 17 panel discussion on outsourcing, part of a Global Media Summit sponsored by Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee.

Over the past decade, U.S. manufacturing jobs have declined by more than 11 percent, Miklovic noted. But at the same time, Japan’s manufacturing employment base has dropped by 16 percent, while the number of manufacturing jobs in countries including Brazil have declined by some 20 percent, he pointed out. “And one of the largest losers of manufacturing jobs has been China,” Miklovic added. “We like to pick on China and say that all of these jobs are going to China, but they’re losing jobs in manufacturing as well.”

The reason for the job losses? Miklovic summed it up in one word: automation. Through automation, he said, “we are really doing a good job of improving the productivity of people.”

Miklovic reminded media attendees at the panel session that 25 percent to 30 percent of the U.S. population was at one time involved in agricultural jobs. But today, only 3 percent of Americans work in agriculture, yet they have turned the United States into a net agricultural exporter, he noted. “The same thing is now happening in manufacturing,” Miklovic said. “Through automation, through improved productivity, we’re driving the number of jobs down on a global basis.”

Job loss in India

Confirmation came from another panel participant, K. Muralidharan, senior general manager for Sundram Fasteners Ltd., a major Indian automotive parts manufacturer. In India, he said, growing use of automation is holding down manufacturing job growth despite the large amount of outsourcing work that is flowing to the country. “I find that outsourcing in India has actually cost jobs in Indian industry, though in the long term, it will probably have a positive effect on employment,” Muralidharan said.

Manufacturing employment remains at about the same level in India today as it was during the recession of the late 1990s, according to Muralidharan. “The Indian economy is booming now, and it is predicted that in the next five years, the curve will only be upward. But still, the jobs and employment are not really growing at the same pace,” said Muralidharan. “The economies of scale that have been created due to outsourcing from developed countries have forced Indian industry to take on automation heavily, which was not the case about 10 years back,” he said.

GartnerG2’s Miklovic noted that the use of automation contributes to a cyclical situation in many industries. When a U.S. manufacturer develops a new product, for example, the company has first-mover advantage for a time. But in the next phase, when other manufacturers enter the market, competition often shifts to price. In response, some U.S. producers may move manufacturing offshore to developing nations, to take advantage of lower labor costs. However, said Miklovic, they frequently find that the level of automation and technology available in developing nations is less than that of the United States.

This means that U.S. manufacturers who then invest in sophisticated automation technology at home can gain the upper hand for a time over lower-priced imports, thanks to the higher quality product allowed by the automation, said Miklovic. But the automation technology used in the developing nations eventually catches up, giving products produced there the advantage, he added.

“We see this in semiconductors all the time,” Miklovic said. “Semiconductors typically have been produced in Japan and Taiwan. But now there is a booming semiconductor market that’s starting in China.” While the density and sophistication of semiconductor chips produced in China cannot yet match that of Japan and Taiwan, said Miklovic, China’s technology is moving in that direction.

“Automation only works for a period of time,” said Miklovic. The lesson for manufacturers is that they must continually reinvest in automation and innovation, he said. “If you stand still, ultimately you lose.”


Inetekk a USA company
Thomas Prendergast
Fall 2007
Corporate Site: Inetekk.com, Inc.
Inetekk was built in America by Americans!

All programming done by Americans
Sure it cost us more to build the Inetekk technology by ourselves and outsourcing to US programmers and US software developers. The prospect of sending our work abroad was never a consideration. Primarily doing so we lose the security of proprietary development to another country were we have little if any legal control regardless of how cheap that option could be. Then quality and communications is another factor, but we are also sensitive to doing business within our culture because of the process of getting what we are looking for and having the ability to have laws in effect that protect our interest in getting just what we are paying for.

Customer support by Americans
We are constantly getting offers to do our work at deep discounts by these foreign nationals, primarily India, but we are not cheap price motivated. Even our support service is run by Americans in America. We may ad to our support from Australia, but that is because they can offer the needed time frame for that region, not a cost consideration, so we can offer 24/7 seamless support for our clientele. Plus we have many Australian and New Zealander subscribers using our services and we love their accents.

Collocation in San Jose, CA USA
When we first started building the Inetekk systems, we went from a shared server in Florida to needing our own servers. We could have co located our servers in a foreign company for 1/3rd the cost but we realized by doing so our proprietary technology and secured databases would be at risk. Not a good idea. So we contracted with a well know company in San Jose. This was expensive but a very good decision. As the Internet has grown, the necessity to keep your data well secured is of the utmost importance and again, keeping this service local has proved to be a very good decision.

Servers built in USA
As we started building our server farm, again quality and service were the key issue. We went to a local shop in San Diego and hired them to build them. The first server, unaware to us, was built from foreign parts and within weeks the server started having failure issues. From then on we have demanded that all parts be US made as best we could and we have never had issues since. Our farm now runs with US made servers like NetAps, Intel, etc.

IT services by Americans
As with any server farm and web systems, having good IT professional's is imperative, and again, we hired US IT database engineers and server engineers. Same reason as our security is key and far more important than cost. For example, to use foreign IT services cost around $10 per hour. US costs are around $150 per hour. In my humble opinion, you get what you pay for.

The bottom line is future forecasting. I subscribe to the belief that our customers deserve the very best. Not only in the quality of the service, or the best customer support, but also security and the dedication to keep Inetekk around for the long run delivering the very best.

It seems the the big corporations in the US have lost sight to this fact and are all heading for serious issues as they continue down this road to losing control of their companies to the quest for seeking the lowest prices regardless. Take the Mattel toy company for example. Not long ago all their toys were US built. Today, they have lost major market share because the toys the sell now coming from Red China are toxic and low quality. It is scandalous that our children are getting toys painted with lead paint.

The future is at risk.

Thomas Prendergast
CEO
Inetekk.com, Inc.


Your job is secure if you are your boss
Bill Repp
October 14, 2007
Reprinted from: commercialappeal.com

Q: I've been out of work for nearly five months, and the prospect of getting a job in my field (mechanical engineering) doesn't look good -- unless I want to move my family across the country. I've always wanted to have my own business, but I'm worried about the comparative lack of job security that goes with it. What's your opinion? I'm over 50 and in good health. -- Deidre N.

A: You have a lot going for you: you've always wanted to have your own business, you're over 50, and you have good health. Security? You don't have it now, and you didn't have it when you got laid off. I don't think there's anything more secure today than working for yourself. Companies will cut any costs they have to just to stay in business, and the popular trend for the past several years has been to cut staff -- fast. And consider this: when you work for someone else -- big company or small -- only a few people -- your boss and one or two more managers -- control your future security. But with your own business, if you lose a few customers, you still have others to back you up. I've always thought that having my own business gives me more security, not less, than I'd have if I worked for someone else.

Another stunning fact of life: at 50, you're more likely to be more successful at hiring yourself than trying to convince someone else to do it. Fortune magazine once ran a cover story: "Finished at Forty," detailing the corporate trend of hiring younger people. As one CEO put it: "Why should I hang on to someone who's over 50? He's tired of the long hours and wants to spend more time with his family. He probably hasn't kept up with the newest technology. I have to pay him $75,000 a year or more, and he argues with me. I can hire someone in his 30's and pay him $35 to $40,000. He'll work 60 to 70 hours a week without complaining, and he won't argue with me. This is a no-brainer."

What Do YOU Want?

My best advice: do what feels right for YOU. When you're motivated and committed to a career you really like, the money and security usually take care of themselves. There's a big difference in putting in 50-60 hours a week into a job you love, and one you just feel so-so about. If you don't look forward to going to work when you get up in the morning, you're in the wrong job. Life is too short to work at a job you don't like.

Think carefully about how you want to spend one-third to half of the rest of your life (your waking hours). It you really think it's time to have your own business, then write your answers to these questions. They'll also form the foundation for a good business plan -- an absolute must if you want to succeed.

How would you describe your business (name, location, product/service?)

How would you describe your total target market -- the customers who will be willing to pay you for your products/services?

What industry, local, or consumer trends or needs will you react to?

How would you analyze, and then describe your competition (how many; current prices; their strengths/weaknesses)?

What are your marketing and business goals?

What are your first-year growth problems -- and how will you solve them?

What finances will you need to start the business and keep it going until it can stand on its own? How will you get them?

What's your operating plan for the next five years? (At least half of the new businesses started each year fail within the first 12 months. You must plan for a long-term business.)

What's your management plan to control and develop your basic operation/service?

What equipment, inventory, labor, space, overhead do you need?

Talk to Your Banker

Once your business plan is ready, prepare your personal financial statement (all your assets and liabilities). Next. prepare a projected balance sheet and profit and loss statement for your business -- at least for the first year. Then it's time to meet with your banker.

A good banker can advise you on the likelihood of your succeeding in getting a loan. He or she can point you in the right direction to get additional information. An excellent source for learning about starting your own business is on-line: Search for "sba.gov" and you'll discover a site that has all you need to know to write your business plan and finance your business. You'll even have models of nearly 100 business plans to study and benefit from. The rest is up to you -- and your energy and commitment.

Bill Repp is president of Organization Development Group, and has extensive experience in creating and delivering programs in marketing, communication, team building and business writing. E-mail Bill Repp at billrepp@rochester.rr.com


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