Start Your Internet Business (google adsense) Using Free and Open Source Tools

By Eugene Ye

  When you’re starting a new business venture on a next to nothing budget, it’s wisest to use free and open sourced tools on the Internet. The Internet has a plethora of tools to use, and just because the sources are free, doesn’t mean they are useless.

Free html editors such as Kompozer and NVu can help you build websites from scratch and make them user friendly and easy to navigate. There is some research and self education to be completed to successfully pull it off, but follow these simple steps and suggestions and you’ll fly through it with ease.

Let’s say you’ve decided to use Kompozer to help you build your website. This html editor will give you step by step instruction as to how to begin your initial set up. It is designed to be used with ease for any non-technical person who wants to create a professional looking website without needing to know what web coding or HTML is. This complete web authoring system combines web file management and web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage- now called Microsoft Expression, Adobe DreamWeaver and other professional programs. This free service should definitely be used by the new and less experienced. There will be no guessing or misunderstandings of what is to done.

Something you should definitely consider when creating your new web project are using the most popular key words out there to draw attention and/or traffic to your site. Keyword research is the single most important task when developing a new web page. Knowing how to go about finding them is something else, and this is when you should use yet another open sourced tool. Wordtracker provides a free key word research tool that will aid you in finding just the right key words to describe and use on your web site. The Google sandbox checker tool can also assist you in checking to see if your site’s keyword(s) is in the Google sandbox.

Marketing your website through the use of articles and posting them onto articles directories or blog sites are an effective way to get the word out about your site. Online advertising is very easy to do and doesn’t take more than a few minutes to complete; depending on what you are promoting. Once you begin blogging or writing articles, you can post your website link or ads into your blogs. This will help generate activity when someone is searching a topic with keywords you have used for your blog and your link will pop up.

You may also use videos, audios, and ebooks to market your website. To do so, programs such as OpenOffice, Audacity, and Camstudio should be utilized to get you up and running in no time. These programs are fairly easy to use and again are free open sourced tool. All you have to do is download the program(s) from the Internet and begin to create your master piece. Remember to keep it interesting and market your product or web page in a way that draws traffic to your link.

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Eight Powerful Questions That Will Change Your Life
By Jan Marie Dore

  One of the keys to living a life of passion and purpose is discovering your unique brilliance and living it. Many of us have wondered ‘what is the meaning of my life’ and ‘what am I here to do’.

One of the skills I have developed as a business coach is to ask provocative questions that challenge people to think beyond the ordinary and discover their own personal vision for how they can make a difference in the world. I ask my clients to think about what’s really important to them, what they love to do, and what energizes and inspires them.

The following are some of the most thought provoking questions I ask my clients to consider. These are great questions to ponder and journal when you feel a little stuck or frustrated. They will give you a better perspective, clarity, and direction about your life as you live it each day.

Take the time to really listen to your answers from inside as you would listen to a dear friend. Tune into your authentic inner voice. Have an inner dialogue with yourself to determine the answers to what your vision is of what’s possible for the world.

1. What is my personal definition of success?

2. What am I passionate about? What lights me up and brings me joy?

3. What are my special gifts and talents and how am I using them every day?

4. Does my work currently bring me meaning and fulfillment and allow me to express my uniqueness?

5. What do I often dream about doing that I have never done?

6. What is my BIG vision of what’s possible for the world? How can I make a difference?

7. Which three personal qualities do I value most, and how deeply am I expressing them in my relationships and in my work? (examples: truthfulness, love, spontaneity, fun, leadership, inclusiveness, mastery, positive attitude, presence, joy, creativity, peacefulness, committed)

8. What would I want to be written on my obituary or said about me in a eulogy?

Once you have your answers to these questions, ask yourself what actions you could take to make these changes and to give your gifts and talents fully to your work and to the world. Most often, it’s the smaller steps we take on a consistent basis that bring about renewal, rather than major changes.

Think about what you could do today to move you closer to where or how you want to be. How do you want to be living your life next year? What do you want more of or less of in your life? What do you need to start or stop doing? What changes do you need to make in your work, relationships, and physical environment?

These questions can be revisited from time to time for fresh insights. Make a commitment to listen to your answers and act on them. Be guided by your own inner wisdom and longings.

Are you living the life you thought you’d be living?

Take the time to reevaluate where you are and where you’re going, and what you want out of life. Nothing is more interesting than your own life. Become fully engaged in your present. Start to live your life by design rather than by accident.

Set your intention, follow your intuition, and be on the lookout for clues and coincidences that will change the direction of your life. Take a risk. Think outside the box. Dare to live a larger life.

Start each day with an intention and a commitment to achieving the positive shifts you want in your life, and watch for miracles to happen!

Jan Marie Dore publishes the newsletter and blog “Success Secrets for Professional Women”. She teaches solo professional women marketing and sales strategies to attract new clients, grow their business, and make more money in less time. sign up now at my website which is at http://www.femalepreneurs.com/ezine

Small Business SEO: Can You Really Afford it?
By seomul Evans

  Let’s face it, when you look at it on paper, SEO is an expensive endeavor. Whether you do it yourself, use the services of a consultant, or hire someone else to do it for you, the cost can be overwhelming.

In fact, some SEO experts charge as much as $500-$1000 per hour. It is such an involved process that the price tag is understandably pretty significant. As a small business owner, you have to decide whether search engine optimization is worth the expense.

Can you afford to invest in SEO services? Can you afford not to? The key to affordable SEO is an efficient balance of necessities, time, and budget. Here are three things to consider as you decide whether SEO is right for your small business.

Necessities of SEO

Search engine optimization is a huge process, but not every component of SEO is necessary for every campaign. It’s no secret that the most fruitful campaigns utilize every type of marketing available, but doing everything doesn’t necessarily equal success. If you make sure that you’re doing the right things at the right time, then you can save time and effort while still creating a successful campaign.

Time to Invest in SEO

Time is the single most important aspect of SEO. It’s simply a time-consuming process. If you’re not spending your own time doing it then you’re paying someone else for their time.

Because time is your most valuable resource, one of the most important decisions you’ll have to make is which projects you’ll take on first. Prioritizing your tasks will help you make good use of your valuable time. Tackle your top-priority tasks first and save the less-important ones for later.

As you consider your use of time, also keep in mind that SEO is part waiting game. Anytime you think about Organic search engine optimization, you have to remember that SEO results take a significant amount of time to show up online. Make sure you understand just how long it might take and how it will affect your business. Depending on the industry and the competition, better rankings take 4-6 months

SEO Budget

This is the primary factor in determining whether you’ll spend your own time doing SEO or hire someone else for the use of their time. But don’t let budget be your only consideration. Also keep in mind the value added when a professional takes care of your web optimization tasks.

Determine the value added by an SEO professional by considering the quality of work and the potential of the search engine optimization work to get results for your business, however, more money doesn’t always guarantee a better product. On the other hand, remember that you often get what you pay for.

You can only determine the true cost of SEO by looking at your return on investment. Remember that the true value of search engine optimization is greater than the sum of its parts. Even a small increase in time, money, and energy invested can net huge results. By investing whatever you can, whenever you can, and wherever you can, you can potentially see a big difference in your business’ success. Reinvesting your returns can lead to even more success, and SEO suddenly doesn’t look so expensive anymore.

The Cost of Doing it Wrong (Doing it Yourself)

And while it may be tempting to do SEO yourself, small business owners should especially consider hiring an internet marketing agency or search engine optimization expert. Small businesses are already at a disadvantage when it comes to SEO simply because of size and budget.

Don’t risk putting yourself at an even greater disadvantage by doing it wrong or by inadvertently utilizing tactics that could harm your ranking or even get you banned by search engines like Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Even if you choose not to hire an SEO expert to take care of all of your optimization tasks, consider hiring a consultant to check the work you’ve done. This is a good way to keep careless mistakes from happening over and over again.

Seomul Evans is a senior SEO with “SEO 1 Services” a Dallas firm providing Small Business SEO and free internet marketing articles.

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