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Perry Belcher explains social marketing in a way that is easy to get…

As you may know, I’m a Domain Profits Club member and I offer a service to customize the default website you receive with your membership. Here’s the latest mod!

Before…

After…

(click on the images for a bigger view)

As you can see, this adds individuality to your marketing efforts. Can’t have everyone with the same looking site, right?

If you are a DPC member and wish to have your site modified, please visit this page for details!

Dave, I’m IMPRESSED! I’ve searched high and low for someone who has the qualities and skills necessary to create training videos for my projects, and you’ve surpassed all my expectations. Not only are you a skilled programmer and marketer, but your teaching ability and verbal skills shine through on every video. I’m thrilled with the work you’ve done for me Dave, and look forward to many more projects in the future.

Gene Pimentel
Oswego, NY
http://DomainProfitsClub.com

Dave did some technical work for me and turned what had been a nightmare project into a really fun experience. He was extremely easy to work with, understood the scope and technical aspect of the job, and was very patient in explaining what he was doing. His communication was outstanding, his price was very affordable and the quality of his work was top notch. He exceeded my expectations on every level, and is one of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of doing business with. I now have a reliable person to turn to for techinical and graphic work – something which is very hard to come by online.

If you have been on the fence about what blogging can really do for your business, you need to read this great article posted today over at WordTracker on the subject. Chris Garrett does a great job of laying it all out for you as to why you should incorporate a blog into your business website, and do it now.

http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/business-blogging

Launched February, 2009!

Now you can finally get rid of any excuses you had for learning PHP.

Did you know that PHP can help you save time and, more important, make money? Yep – and my new videos can help you do just that!

Introducing…

“Roll Your Own PHP – Build An eBay Affiliate Website From Scratch Using PHP!”

You will learn:
* How to sign up for eBay and eBay partner network
* How to choose or create a website template (One is provided!)
* How to get the eBay listings and embed them into your template
* Tweaking, saving, and viewing your template
* Plan what you want to change and begin building your settings file
* Take the information from the settings file and apply it into the template
* Set the variables in your settings file
* Save your work, upload, and make sure it all works
* And, some bonus additions – adding side links, and about If/Else statements

By the time you’re done with the videos, you’ll know some PHP and how to build sites like this from scratch. What’s better, is that you can take your new creation, then build and sell ‘em like wildfire – or, you can create your own little network of eBay affiliate websites. Even better, is that you can take this as a foundation and build on this little site framework and make them what you want them to be.

Get it at http://www.RollYourOwnPHP.com

Are you relying solely on Pay Per Click marketing tactics to advertise your website? If you are, the message may not be getting through.

There is a plugin for the ever-increasing-in-popularity FireFox web browser that, when loaded, blocks those “sponsored ads” from showing up on search engines. According to the publisher’s website, 40 million instances have been downloaded to date. That’s a lot of people blocking ads.

This is just one more reason to ensure you have a keyword targeted domain and an optimized website. This will help ensure that you appear in the organic search listings, instead of just being a white space on someone’s web browser.
-Dave

One of the big things today is audio on web sites. Seems like everybody is getting into the game of having their sales message blasted out to the public so that everybody within a 20 block radius
can hear it. While I’m not condemning the use of audio on sites, I think we have to take a good hard, long look at how it is used and how we can use it more effectively. This article is going to look at this issue and hopefully give you a few things to consider.

First of all, audio is not meant to be an alternative to written text. People with hearing problems are not going to enjoy struggling with trying to listen to your sales pitch. They are much more likely to read
your message than to listen to it. So if you are going to have an audio message, a text version of it should also appear on the page as well. This will keep everybody happy.

But the bigger problem with audio is not so much whether or not you should have it on your page, but whether or not it should begin playing the second your visitor hits that page. This is where people
can’t seem to agree on much of anything. So, I’m going to throw my two cents in the ring here. You can dismiss what I have to say if you like, but I think I speak for a vast majority of people with what I have
to say, and that is this.

Fine, you want your audio on your site? Great! Just don’t force it down our throats or into our ears as the case may be. Not everybody wants to hear your bellowing voice the second they reach your page,
and this can be for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is one that I am going to describe below.
Not everybody in this world lives in the same time zone. Aside from that, people have all different hours of the day and night where they even go to web sites. Plus, not everybody’s computer is out of ear shot
of the rest of the house. True story! A man gets up at 6 AM, quietly as not to disturb his
newborn son who is in the bed next to him. He manages to get up and not wake the son. He turns on the computer and goes to his emails. He finds a site that he wants to check out. He clicks on the link and the first thing he hears is this…

“You’ve just made the best decision of your life…”

The message is bellowing out of the speakers at a volume that could shatter glass. Seconds later, the son wakes up crying like a banshee. The man begins to curse at the site and swears never to go to it again. If you think this doesn’t happen often, think again.

My point is this. If you want to have audio on your site, fine. But don’t set it to auto play. If you want people to know it’s there, fine. Put up big billboards pointing to the audio controls if you want with a big
“Click Here” hovering over it like a crow, but please give people the option of whether or not they want to listen to it.

You’ll lose less customers that way.