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Promotional Products + Direct Mail = Responses
We receive so much advertising today, through the mail, e-mail, the Internet, television, radio, and billboards. We learn to tune certain messages out and choose carefully what we open out of our mailboxes. Many pieces of mail are sent straight to the garbage without a second look. As a marketing professional whose job is to grasp customer attention and generate responses from direct mail strategies, this can be a challenging task. However, there are some possibilities that should not be overlooked. Promotional products can make the difference. It’s true. It has been proven- by leading experts in the field of market research. When a company includes promotional items along with direct mail sales letters, response rates increase dramatically. Consider the following:1. Mailed promotional gifts solidify your business’ name in the minds of prospective clients. They remember you. When children need back-to-school clothing, recipients are more likely to remember you based

case you can expect the keywords extracted from your page's text to be used in indexing anyway!

This is exactly why, you will see an increasing amount of SEO community folks telling you to stop even thinking that the "keywords" tag ever existed.

I am more of a conservative nature when it comes to SEO and my philosophy is that whatever page element is not known for sure to penalize your search engine ranking, should be left, just in case things change, or even just for some smaller and less important or known search engines (the entire world seems to be concerned solely with Google toda

Backing the Bookmakers as a Sports Betting Affiliate
It may seem hard to believe but there are ways to earn money through sports betting sites without having to wager a penny. The online sports betting affiliate program is different to most of the others available to potential affiliates for a number of reasons. Of course it shares the one fundamental basics of the program, which involves the free exchange of advertising material in exchange for space on an affiliate website. Then when an affiliate attracts a new player to the external sports betting site, they receive their reward usually in the form of a percentage of the money generated or on some occasions an up front cash payment.However the sports betting affiliate program does hold some integral differences to the others available to Internet users. Because new affiliates have the option to claim a percentage of a player's money lost to the site, the affiliate becomes a toned down version of the bookmaker. For as long as a player is a member of the site and utilises it, t

META tags are a way for you to define your web page and web site to the outside world. You can declare the keywords and description, which help your placement in search engines. In addition, you can specify who owns the copyright, how often the page is to be visited by search engines and many other useful pieces of information.

Please understand that META tags are just notes, little snippets of information that you chose to put into a page, for informational purposes. META tags are not necessarily recognized by search engines as vehicles for ranking, although some still do read them and use them. Also, search engines (especially Google) constantly change their views on META tags and constantly make decisions whether to even read them, or totally disregard them.

Important side note: Many make the mistake of putting the TITLE tag into the META category. Folks, the TITLE tag is not a META tag, but a crucial element of every web page. If your page does not have a title, it becomes one of the 30 million meaningless Untitled Documents.

So are there any tags that make a difference in terms of search engine placement?

The misuse of META tags was the main reason for which search engines do not rely on them so heavily any more. Unscrupulous webmasters used META tags to mislead the search, in order to artificially inflate the number of visitors. In the past, META tag optimization was the key-point in any search engine optimization strategy. Today, other factors (like link popularity) are far more important. Many SEO (Search Engine Optimization) gurus tell you not to ever again bother with META tags, totally forget they ever existed and focus on links.

My personal opinion is, if it matters only 0.05%, then why not use them, since it's just a simple "type and forget" deal anyway and does not require that much work? Similarly to the stock market and investing strategies, a tiny 0.05% can actually help in the long run. In today's competitive internet, where your site is just one out of billions, every bit helps.

Several Web search engines, such as InfoSeek and AltaVista, still recognize META elements with NAME values "description" and "keywords". The words listed in a "keywords" tag might be used (and perhaps emphasized) when indexing documents. However, generally such keywords are useful only if they occur in the normal text of the document too, and in that case you can expect the keywords extracted from your page's text to be used in indexing anyway!

This is exactly why, you will see an increasing amount of SEO community folks telling you to stop even thinking that the "keywords" tag ever existed.

Strategic Business Planning - Don't Plan to Fail By Failing to Plan
Developing a Strategic business plan is a crucial element in determining your ongoing business success. You can maximise business growth and minimise risk through effective strategic and contingency business planning. Plans do not have to be set in concrete. On the contrary, flexible business planning and goal setting is an essential part of business development and ongoing success.Sharing our plans with business associates and staff is extremely powerful. We need to demonstrate that we are operating our businesses, however large or small, with accountability and fair prudence. Effective business planning should not just be for funding purposes or satisfying our bank manager. It should be the bedrock of successful business management. A workable and communicated plan becomes a statement of intent. It is a shared vision that the whole business, the staff and associates, are able to support.What to include in your business plan:Strategically, it needs to project th

hem. Also, search engines (especially Google) constantly change their views on META tags and constantly make decisions whether to even read them, or totally disregard them.

So are there any tags that make a difference in terms of search engine placement?

This is exactly why, you will see an increasing amount of SEO community folks telling you to stop even thinking that the "keywords" tag ever existed.

Business Coaching #2 - Work-Life Balance & Fulfilled Living
The first time I heard about the term work-life balance I was surprised that anybody even thought of balancing the two. Wasn’t that like counting apples and oranges? Still, the idea was quite exciting and I thought I’d explore it a bit more:I thought long and hard about what kind of working hours I wanted to have, what kind of office, how many people. By means of visualization all of that became a clear image that I was drawn to. I could see myself in a setting being fulfilled and happy with the way I lived and worked. Interestingly enough my enjoyment of the visions lasted only until the moment I realized that all my dreams and visions had come true! There is a Chinese curse: May you reach all your goals – that is exactly how I felt: empty and cursed - dreamless. So I pondered what I could do differently.First of all I learned that constant striving for new actions creates a mess of outcomes that are not necessarily beneficial. It is like attempting to weave a rug usin

ch engines do not rely on them so heavily any more. Unscrupulous webmasters used META tags to mislead the search, in order to artificially inflate the number of visitors. In the past, META tag optimization was the key-point in any search engine optimization strategy. Today, other factors (like link popularity) are far more important. Many SEO (Search Engine Optimization) gurus tell you not to ever again bother with META tags, totally forget they ever existed and focus on links.

This is exactly why, you will see an increasing amount of SEO community folks telling you to stop even thinking that the "keywords" tag ever existed.

Do You Really Care What People Think?
You had better care! Because what people think usually leads to predictable behaviors that can really affect your business, non-profit or association for better or worse.Look at your employees. If they believe you really don’t care about them, your organization’s productivity can take a nose dive.And what about customers? They had better remain convinced of the value of your products and services or off they go to a competitor.Even prospects constantly need to be made aware of your product and service values or you’ll never get them as customers in the first place.And seriously caring what key groups of people think about your organization doesn’t stop there.You’ll have trouble hiring and keeping employees if area residents don’t see your organization as a good place to work.Same with minorities if, true or false, the idea takes hold that you discriminate in your hiring practices.And don’t forget the need to be ab

eal anyway and does not require that much work? Similarly to the stock market and investing strategies, a tiny 0.05% can actually help in the long run. In today's competitive internet, where your site is just one out of billions, every bit helps.

This is exactly why, you will see an increasing amount of SEO community folks telling you to stop even thinking that the "keywords" tag ever existed.

Be Realistic When Selling on eBay
As some of you know, I spent many years buying and selling both on and offline and several of my products are based upon my own experience in this area. I know that the vast majority of my customers and subscribers have an interest in trading whether it be on eBay or at the local market but more and more I am seeing people with completely unrealistic expectations of what they will be able to do. Most commonly these unrealistic expectations are in respect of how much it actually costs to purchase specific products and what they can then be sold on for.I regularly get emails from people who want to know where they can purchase products such as mobile (cell) phones, new release DVDs, Playstation games and similar at, say, a 50% discount to resell on eBay. The fact is that such a thing is not available - it is a simple case of supply and demand and competition.Take DVDs for example, most people think that these are excellent products to resell on eBay because they are ve

case you can expect the keywords extracted from your page's text to be used in indexing anyway!

This is exactly why, you will see an increasing amount of SEO community folks telling you to stop even thinking that the "keywords" tag ever existed.

Keywords are separated by commas and may be considered case sensitive by search engines. If the same keywords are repeated too often in the META element, some search engines will not index the document. Search engines typically only process the first 1000 characters of the keywords list. So, if you use keywords, do it carefully, as this is one element that can actually get you penalized.

On the other hand, a "description" tag should be used, since many (but not all) search engines show this info as the abstract for the document when returning query results. But you should also take into account that many search engines just take the first few words of the document, so you might include a short summary into the document body right after the main heading.

To avoid being truncated (that is, cut) by search engines, the description should be brief - no more than 200 characters.

Let's clear one more common confusion: The META tags affect the way your document is indexed when it is included into a data base of a search engine. However, it will not make a robot find the document when it searches candidates for inclusion into a data base. Therefore, if you think the document is important, and especially if there are not several links to it in other documents, consider submitting those pages to the search engines manually.

When I first started studying META tags and took a closer look, my first question was why some pages use the META NAME format, while others use META HTTP-EQUIV for the same stuff.

Here is the technical explanation of the difference between the two formats. Afterwards, I'll try to translate this into English.

Begin technical explanation:

The difference between NAME and HTTP-EQUIV is that the latter has a special significance when documents are retrieved via HTTP, whereas the interpretation of NAME attributes is up to each particular browser or other program which processes HTML files (although some common practices may emerge and might be standardized later). HTTP servers may use the property name specified by the HTTP-EQUIV attribute to create an RFC 822 style header in the HTTP response. (RFC 822 is the electronic mail protocol used on the Internet.) The header name (which is case insensitive) is taken from the H

HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.otheradded.com/article/78051/otheradded-A-Practical-Guide-to-Meta-Tags--Name-or-HTTPEquiv.html">A Practical Guide to Meta Tags - Name or HTTP-Equiv?</a>

BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.otheradded.com/article/78051/otheradded-A-Practical-Guide-to-Meta-Tags--Name-or-HTTPEquiv.html]A Practical Guide to Meta Tags - Name or HTTP-Equiv?[/url]

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