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		<title>Update Your Websites Content &#8216;Automatically&#8217; 24/7 Using RSS(Real Simple Syndication) and RSS Feeds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RSS(Real Easy Syndication) is the newest kind of content syndication to hit the Web and is widely turning into the most effective known method on-line to deliver recent targeted content to your web site(s) to no matter audience you are targeting twenty four/seven/365.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RSS(Real Easy Syndication) is the newest kind of content syndication to hit the Web and is widely turning into the most effective known method on-line to deliver recent targeted content to your web site(s) to no matter audience you are targeting twenty four/seven/365.</p>
<p> Now for those of you who aren&#8217;t quite up to speed on &#8220;RSS&#8221; here&#8217;s the basic definition &#8212; RSS is an acronym for &#8220;Real Easy Syndication&#8221; or &#8220;Rich Web site Summary&#8221;, and also the .XML extension is the format used for distributing your news headlines via the Net, which is known as &#8220;Syndication&#8221;.</p>
<p> &#8220;Syndication&#8221; is where the TRUE power of RSS is unleashed, obtaining your message or info across the internet in an INSTANT to websites, your subscribers and/or readers.</p>
<p> Why is this such Smart News for website homeowners who publish content on a Daily or Weekly basis for there audiences?</p>
<p> Simple.</p>
<p> By having &#8220;RSS&#8221; plugged into your website with targeted RSS feeds you will currently have an endless offer of Fresh targeted content delivered to your web site for your guests and/or subscribers 24/7/365 without you ever having to lift a finger.</p>
<p> Just imagine how a lot of time what would prevent and the way it&#8217;d allow you to concentrate on different necessary tasks connected to your business.</p>
<p> Time is one thing we tend to are always fighting for and since web surfers primarily come back on-line seeking &#8216;Data&#8217; it will be a very time consuming ordeal to accommodate on a Daily or Weekly basis.</p>
<p> The opposite nice thing about &#8220;RSS&#8221; is it will keep the &#8216;Search Engine Spiders&#8217; coming back back a lot of frequently since &#8220;RSS&#8221; automatically updates your selected feeds &#8216;Daily&#8217; with Contemporary targeted content.</p>
<p> And if you know anything about Search Engines then you may understand that they LOVE contemporary content to digest.</p>
<p> Now that you have got a general idea of what &#8220;RSS&#8221; can do for you and your website(s), your in all probability wondering how you can use this right currently and where to search out these ever thus valuable &#8216;RSS Feeds&#8217;.</p>
<p> The answer is easy &#8212; &#8216;Article Directories&#8217;.</p>
<p> Now, not all &#8216;Article Directories&#8217; have adopted &#8220;RSS&#8221; at now However they will soon catch on once they see the price RSS offers there publishers(you) and readers.</p>
<p> Below I&#8217;ve got listed some &#8216;Article Directories&#8217; offering RSS feeds in each category under the sun for you to settle on from.</p>
<p> Currently, all you wish to induce your hands on(if you don&#8217;t already) may be a &#8220;RSS Reader Script&#8221; and have it put in on your server therefore that you&#8217;ll display the &#8216;RSS Feeds&#8217; on your web site(s).</p>
<p> All you have got to try and do may be a simple search on Google using the  keyword &#8220;RSS Reader Script&#8221;.</p>
<p> Once you&#8217;ve done all that and updated your website(s) pages with your RSS code, you can currently simply sit back, relax and let RSS(Real Easy Syndication) do all the work for you 24/seven/365 while you go specialize in different important tasks.</p>
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		<title>Boost Your Traffic and Adsense Profits with Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you aware of how vitally important and valuable CONTENT is to your online business and adsense web site? Of course, content can do additional to build your business and adsense profits than simply about any different resource or service available.
 Following could be a list of five key ways that that content will facilitate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you aware of how vitally important and valuable CONTENT is to your online business and adsense web site? Of course, content can do additional to build your business and adsense profits than simply about any different resource or service available.</p>
<p> Following could be a list of five key ways that that content will facilitate build your traffic, adsense profits, subscribers, and customers beginning today!&#8230;</p>
<p> 1. Boost your search engine ranking and daily visitor count by posting keyword wealthy articles and content on your web-site. For example, if your business involves offering info and services related to adsense, posting adsense connected articles and content can attract unlimited prospective customers on an everyday basis!</p>
<p> 2. Generate double or perhaps triple the number of newsletter subscribers you do currently, merely by giving content in the form of &#8220;special reports&#8221; or manuals as bonuses for subscribing to your publication. Folks love freebies, thus provide them what they wish and watch as your results increase!</p>
<p> 3. Produce an automated money flow by using content to formulate multi-part email training courses with connected internet-website or affiliate links &#8220;sprinkled&#8221; throughout each course. Use an autoresponder service to automate the delivery of your coaching course (like a five part coaching course delivered over a 5 day amount).</p>
<p> Training courses can also serve as glorious bonus offers for your prospective newsletter subscribers.</p>
<p> 4. One amongst the foremost important keys to a successful on-line business is not JUST having a mailing list or newsletter subscribers&#8230; It&#8217;s regarding building a trusting relationship with your subscribers. By sending informative articles (content) to your list on a regular basis you will establish yourself as an knowledgeable on your topic of business, furthermore gain the trust of your subscribers over time. Thence, your subscribers will be EAGER to take advantage of your &#8220;paid&#8221; product and repair offers. (Simply make certain that you just NEVER use the connection you develop with your list by offering merchandise or services of poor quality just to make a quick buck!)</p>
<p> If there is one &#8220;constant&#8221; in Web selling, it&#8217;s this: A cultivated list of subscribers is as smart as money in the bank. Write that down and never forget it!</p>
<p> 5. Another glorious method to get no value traffic is by submitting prepared-created articles to &#8220;content hungry&#8221; internet-website and newsletter publishers along with your &#8220;resource box&#8221; attached. A resource box is nothing a lot of than a little three-six line &#8220;bio&#8221; regarding you and/or your web-website &#8211; including a link to your website (or even instructions on how to subscribe to your newsletter)&#8230;</p>
<p> When submitting or giving your article(s) for reprint purposes, simply build positive to specify that every article is to be reprinted &#8220;as is&#8221; with your resource box attached.</p>
<p> &#8230;Even one article will go a LONG means towards generating no price traffic and guests for you. Just imagine your article being sent out to a newsletter subscriber base of one hundred,000 people &#8211; many of whom can be reading YOUR included resource box and clicking on your URL to find out more regarding what you&#8217;ve got to offer!</p>
<p> Well there you have it, 5 positive ways that to make your online business exponentially with the help of articles and content&#8230;</p>
<p> With the declining effectiveness of many of the web advertising ways that we tend to&#8217;ve relied on in past years, content is solely strengthening its position as the ultimate KEY to generating unlimited traffic, adsense profits, subscribers, and customers!</p>
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		<title>What Does Subliminal Message Do To People?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard about &#8220;subliminal messages,&#8221; but what do they really mean? To the average individual, it can conjure up images of mind control, manipulation, and in some cases, even alien encounters in pop-culture movies. In truth however, by using a subliminal program to redirect the mind, you can harness subliminal power, as a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have all heard about &#8220;subliminal messages,&#8221; but what do they really mean? To the average individual, it can conjure up images of mind control, manipulation, and in some cases, even alien encounters in pop-culture movies. In truth however, by using a subliminal program to redirect the mind, you can harness subliminal power, as a latent and potentially exploitive bit of matter that sits in the center of the cortex of the brain, just waiting to be unleashed.</p>
<p> Let&#8217;s look at an example of a person who has been suffering from an addiction for many years. This addiction can range from anything like overeating to nicotine addiction to sexual addiction. What we should understand is that the addiction is not in the actual substance of the product; the actual food, the actual nicotine or even those base components in the addiction. The most important ingredient when analyzing an addiction is the intangible one that has been rooted deep inside the brain. What happens with addiction is that the mind associates the euphoric feeling of the addiction, instantly registering associations on a basic emotional level. The chemical reactions and the good feelings that are released when someone smokes a cigarette are registered inside the brain and are immediately associated with the cigarette.</p>
<p> What happens next? The brain is exposed to a dangerous formula and because this is tied to emotions as well, it is processed directly in the subconscious mind. This means that it gets trained in the cyclic nature of the brain. It gets processed and evolves as a mental process and finally morphs into a full blown addiction and becomes critical to our body process.</p>
<p> So how do you train yourself to respond to subliminal messages and where can they be hidden? A subliminal program can be inserted into a movie, inside images and sounds. You can add subliminal messages to audio recordings, such as a subliminal MP3 or CD, which can be listened to anywhere or anytime that is convenient for you. You can listen to these messages even while driving your car. When you need to remain alert, subliminal messages can be sent to your subconscious mind. Even while walking, watching TV, working or reading, you can be absorbing these messages.</p>
<p> Positive subliminal thoughts are positive phrases that are directed to the subconscious mind in the form of a subliminal program to try to re-program the way the mind thinks. When your subconscious mind is programmed in a positive way, you receive positive results. It does not matter if your mind is contaminated with negative thoughts, you are a free to decide what is it that you want from your life, and re-programming the mind is the best way to banish those negative associations.</p>
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		<title>Internet Marketing:  The Central Component</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you hear the term &#8220;internet marketing&#8220;, what do you think of?
 For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs.  All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you hear the term &#8220;<a title="internet marketing" href="http://internetmarketing.BryanEllis.com">internet marketing</a>&#8220;, what do you think of?</p>
<p> For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs.  All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.</p>
<p> At its core, internet marketing is about these things:</p>
<p> * Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal<br /> * Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet<br /> * Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market<br /> * Collecting information about your target market (also known as &#8220;leads&#8221;) for follow-up and conversion into sales<br /> * Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads</p>
<p> Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.</p>
<p> My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing.  Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent.  The &#8220;permission&#8221; aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.</p>
<p> My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list.  When you have thousands of loyal subscribers &#8211; as we do &#8211; and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.</p>
<p> However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.</p>
<p>  Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.</p>
<p> While there are many more aspects to internet marketing than just permission-based email marketing, email has definitely been the cornerstone on which our business is built.</p>

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		<title>Email Marketing&#8217;s Role In Internet Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you hear the term &#8220;internet marketing&#8220;, what do you think of?
 For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs.  All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you hear the term &#8220;<a title="internet marketing" href="http://internetmarketing.BryanEllis.com">internet marketing</a>&#8220;, what do you think of?</p>
<p> For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs.  All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.</p>
<p> At its core, internet marketing is about these things:</p>
<p> * Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal<br /> * Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet<br /> * Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market<br /> * Collecting information about your target market (also known as &#8220;leads&#8221;) for follow-up and conversion into sales<br /> * Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads</p>
<p> Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.</p>
<p> My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing.  Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent.  The &#8220;permission&#8221; aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.</p>
<p> My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list.  When you have thousands of loyal subscribers &#8211; as we do &#8211; and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.</p>
<p> However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.</p>
<p>  Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.</p>
<p> Even though there are more sides to internet marketing than just email marketing (permission based), email has been the foundation that our business sits on.</p>

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		<title>Use Plain Talk in Your Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it. Most advertising out there is just not very good.  It&#8217;s a fact.  When you open the Yellow Pages, can you really tell that much of a difference between the ads?  What about in the newspaper?  How many of them actually &#8220;build a case&#8221; for whatever it is they are selling and convince [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Let&#8217;s face it. Most advertising out there is just not very good.  It&#8217;s a fact.  When you open the Yellow Pages, can you really tell that much of a difference between the ads?  What about in the newspaper?  How many of them actually &#8220;build a case&#8221; for whatever it is they are selling and convince you that they are the people you should buy from?  Today, we are going to discuss the most important thing you need to look at when writing your ad. </span> <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>Make sure your writing style is simple and conversational</strong>. Don&#8217;t write like an English professor; instead, write the way you talk. This is the biggest trap of all for most people&#8211;that is, they start writing and all of a sudden all these big, fancy, flowery words start coming out all over the place. They use words that they wouldn&#8217;t normally use in everyday conversation in a million years. Complicated sentences and weird words make it sound like you&#8217;re intelligent, true enough. But on the other hand, they don&#8217;t sell. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Rosser Reeves, one of the great advertising minds of the mid 1900&#8217;s said it best when talking about many advertising copywriter&#8217;s fondness for writing flowery prose instead of straightforward copy that sells. Reeves gives this little analogy: <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve got $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly, for reasons unknown to you, your advertising isn&#8217;t working and your sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family&#8217;s future depends on it. Other people&#8217;s family&#8217;s futures depend on it. I walk into this office and sit down in this chair to write your advertising. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Do you want masterpieces? Do you want glowing things that can be framed by copywriters? Or do you want to see the #!@%$*&amp;#@! sales curve stop going down and start moving up?&#8221;  Do you want the dang sales curve to stop going down and start moving up? That&#8217;s the bottom line here.</em> And in advertising, you&#8217;ve got to divorce yourself from the idea that was drilled into your head in high school English class about writing. Go against everything you learned and make your writing style simple and conversational.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">To give you a better idea about writing in simple terms, let me take you on what might at first seem like a strange tangent, but you&#8217;ll soon find out will be very helpful in your learning to use plain talk. We are going to have a lesson in speaking Chinese. That&#8217;s right, Chinese. If you can speak this exotic language, people are impressed and think you must be really smart. After all, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world, right? Well, that&#8217;s right and wrong. It&#8217;s true that learning to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">read and write</span> all those strange little Chinese characters is very difficult. But <span style="text-decoration: underline;">speaking</span> Chinese&#8230;learning how to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">say</span> the words and sentences, on the other hand, is actually surprisingly easy. What does that have to do with you advertising? The very elements of Chinese that make it easy to learn to speak&#8211;once you understand them&#8211;will help you become a better writer of English. If you could apply the Chinese way of talking to our own language, then without much effort you could form the habit of simple, clear, picturesque talk&#8230;and ultimately, your simple, Chinese-like writing will help you make more money. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><img title="Chinese" src="http://resultsmarketing.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Chinese_410-150x150.jpg" alt="The simple language of Chinese" vspace="3" width="150" height="150" align="left" />I&#8217;m going to assume that right now all you know about Chinese is Kung Fu and Chow Mein, and you probably not too interested in adding to your Chinese vocabulary.  So we&#8217;re going to do the next best thing: we&#8217;re going to study Chinese from the outside, so to speak, and get a basic idea of how it&#8217;s put together.  That will then bring us a long way closer to plain English.  That may sound odd to you.  Chinese, to you, is an exotic language, written in weird Kanji characters and spoken in a sort of sing-song.  It&#8217;s true that the meaning of spoken Chinese words depends on musical &#8220;tones,&#8221; which does add one element of difficulty to learning spoken Chinese. Chinese is hard to approach; it has a sort of Chinese wall around it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But if you looked a little closer, you&#8217;d find that Chinese is really simple.  Think of other languages, and what makes them difficult: conjugations, irregular verbs, subjunctives, genders&#8211;and a whole host of other nasty grammatical nightmares. If you&#8217;ve ever studied any language other than Chinese, then you know that it&#8217;s grammar that makes learning them hard. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">That is the beauty of Chinese. It is known as a &#8220;grammarless&#8221; language.  The list of the things it does not have is unbelievable: it has no inflections, no cases, no persons, no genders, no numbers, no degrees, no tenses, no voices, no moods, no infinitives, no participles, no gerunds, no irregular verbs, and no articles.  There are no words of more than one syllable, every word has only one form, and all you have to learn is how to put these one-syllable words in their proper order.  To make it still easier for you, this proper order is the same as the usual order in English: subject, predicate, object.  You may wonder how it is possible to talk in such a language so that other people understand you; and maybe you think this must be the most primitive, uncivilized language of the world.  It would be a common error: up to about a hundred years ago all language experts agreed that Chinese is the &#8220;baby talk of mankind.&#8221; They were wrong: it is the most grown-up talk in the world.  It is the way people speak who started to simplify their language thousands of years ago and have kept at it ever since.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For, thanks to research, we know now that thousands of years ago the Chinese language had case endings, verb forms, and a whole arsenal of unpleasant grammar.  It was a cumbersome, irregular, complicated mess, like most other languages&#8211;including English.  But the Chinese people, generation after generation, changed it into a streamlined, smooth-running machine for expressing ideas.  It&#8217;s just like the camera&#8211;remember the commercial? It&#8217;s so advanced, it&#8217;s simple. This isn&#8217;t just a figure of speech: the main principle of modern Chinese is exactly the same as that of modern machinery.  It consists of standardized, prefabricated, functionally designed parts.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">In other words, Chinese is an assembly-line language.  All the words are stripped to their essential meaning and purpose, and put together in a fixed order.  Word order is as all-important as the order of operations on the assembly line: if you line it up in any other way it doesn&#8217;t work.  If you wanted to say, &#8220;I am going to go home&#8221; in Chinese, you&#8217;d say &#8220;WO HWEI JYA&#8221; which literally means &#8220;I Go Home&#8221; That&#8217;s it. You wouldn&#8217;t even have to say &#8220;I&#8221; because it would be understood. You could just say &#8220;HWEI JYA&#8221; or  &#8220;Go Home.&#8221; And everyone would know exactly what you meant. See, there are no filler words. If you wanted to say, &#8220;I will be going home,&#8221; You&#8217;d still just say, &#8220;Wo Hwei Jya&#8221; which is again is literally &#8220;I go home.&#8221; If you wanted to say, &#8220;She has six books&#8221; You&#8217;d say &#8220;Ta you leo ge shu.&#8221; That literally translated means &#8220;She have six book&#8221; What&#8217;s more, the <em>she</em> doesn&#8217;t even mean she. In Chinese it could mean he or she or it. There&#8217;s only one word for all three of them. The meaning is determined by the context.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So in summary, what they&#8217;ve done in Chinese is strip all the words to their bare meaning and put them together in a simple, predetermined order. They&#8217;ve lost most of the filler words that don&#8217;t really mean anything. English: These words account for over 50% of all words; they don&#8217;t exist in Chinese.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, that&#8217;s enough Chinese lessons. So let&#8217;s see what we can learn from what you now know. You need to take the &#8220;It&#8217;s so advanced, it&#8217;s simple&#8221; Chinese philosophy and integrate it into your advertising writing. Why? Because when you&#8217;re talking to your prospects, you can&#8217;t bog them down with all the flowery jibber-jabber that just takes up time, makes them use extra brain power, and doesn&#8217;t add any additional meaning to what you&#8217;re saying. You&#8217;ve got to strip your words down and use plain talk to clearly, concisely, and quickly communicate your point. It is essential to powerful advertising communication that you &#8220;<strong>Say it well</strong>.&#8221;  Use plain talk and you&#8217;ll be well on your way to doing just that. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Shakespeare, who was one of our most prolific and enduring writers, used approximately 22,000 different words in his published works. Well-educated people today, use about 5,000 different words when speaking and about 10,000 in their writing. Most of us have a &#8216;working vocabulary&#8217; of 2,000 (which means that there are over 788, 000 words that are gathering dust on the shelves of our minds). Of those 2,000 words, the most commonly used are: <em>the, of, and, to, a, in, that, is, I, it.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&#8220;Those ten little words (and I <strong>do</strong> mean <em>little</em>), account for 25% of all speech.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">&#8220;There are fifty words, which make up 60% of everything we say &#8211; and only <strong>two</strong> of these have more than one syllable &#8230; &#8220;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(If you want a list of 50 most commonly used English words, <a href="http://mistupid.com/facts/page023.htm" target="_blank">click here</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;">KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><em>This article was written by Rich Harshaw.  May not be used in part or as a whole without prior consent.</em></span></p>

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		<title>Is Permission Email Marketing In Trouble?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the rising concern of Spam Filters/Blockers, Blacklisting, Bounce Backs and CAN-SPAM Act laws, email is sadly becoming a VERY unreliable vehicle to deliver your marketing messages to your customers, therefore, resulting in "Time Wasted" and "Loss Of Profits".  RSS Autoresponders offer an ideal solution to the email marketing dilemma.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Top 10 Reasons WHY RSS Autoresponders Are Becoming a Permission Email Marketers BEST Friend</p>
<p>Published by Cory Threlfall<br />
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<p>With the rising concern of Spam Filters/Blockers, Blacklisting, Bounce Backs and CAN-SPAM Act laws, email is sadly becoming a VERY unreliable vehicle to deliver your marketing messages to your customers, therefore, resulting in &#8220;Time Wasted&#8221; and &#8220;Loss Of Profits&#8221;.<br />
Is there a solution to this never-ending concern for Permission Email Marketers?</p>
<p>You bet there is. They are called&#8230; &#8220;RSS Autoresponders&#8221;.</p>
<p>You read right, RSS autoresponders. They&#8217;ve now taken the newest technology (RSS &#8211; Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication) that hit the net and turned it into a permission email marketers dream come true. And&#8230; the cool thing about RSS autoresponders is they work much like a traditional email autoresponders, just with a few different features and benefits.</p>
<p>Time is something I value dearly, as I&#8217;m sure you do as well, especially when you work so hard on an email to your subscribers, I would think you would want to make sure it reaches them.<br />
So&#8230; for the rest of this article I&#8217;m going to give you the&#8230;</p>
<p>                                 Top 10 Reasons WHY &#8220;RSS Autoresponders&#8221; Are Becoming a<br />
                                               Permission Email Marketers BEST Friend</p>
<p>&#8230; and WHY you should seriously consider the switch if your a Permission Email Marketer.<br />
The Internet is changing, so we must change with it.</p>
<p>So, with that said, lets get down to business by going to the first and my MOST favorite reason.</p>
<p><em>Reason #1</em> 100% delivery rate of your messages.<br />
This is probably the single most BIGGEST benefit you&#8217;ll receive by using an RSS autoresponder is getting 100% of your marketing messages in front of your prospects and/or existing customers.</p>
<p><em>Reason #2</em> Blacklisting is the thing of the past.<br />
Never worry about being Blacklisted again because of someone else using your shared server and sending SPAM emails through it and getting you Blacklisted as the end result.</p>
<p><em>Reason #3</em> Forget CAN-SPAM and Email Laws.<br />
You can now forget about all the email laws and CAN-SPAM because now they no longer apply to you because you are no longer an email publisher, your a RSS publisher.<br />
There&#8217;s a BIG difference.</p>
<p><em>Reason #4</em> Subscribers can Opt-In via web forms or links.<br />
This is a critical feature to have with RSS autoresponders because it will allow an easy switch by simply replacing your email web forms with RSS web forms on your website(s). Plus, this will make sure there won&#8217;t be any confusion for your potential subscribers with some new Opt-In method.</p>
<p><em>Reason #5</em> Personalize your out-going messages.<br />
That&#8217;s right, you can personalize your out-going messages with custom data fields of your choice, just like a traditional email, giving your marketing message a professional look and giving you more credibility as a professional marketer.</p>
<p><em>Reason #6</em> Write freely with all the forbidden email words.<br />
Now you have the freedom to write using any Word or Phrase you wish without the worry of SPAM filters/blockers intercepting your messages and labeling it as &#8220;SPAM&#8221;, and still have your message achieve 100% delivery rate to your subscribers. Isn&#8217;t that great or what?</p>
<p><em>Reason #7</em> Unlimited message delivery.<br />
Like I said earlier in the article, RSS autoresponders work just like traditional email autoresponders with the same functions. What I&#8217;m saying is, you are able to set-up unlimited timed sequential autoresponder messages that will automatically follow-up your leads for you at your desired time or dates. And, the real cool thing here is, you&#8217;ll be able to sleep knowing 100% of your messages are reaching your potential customers.</p>
<p><em>Reason #8</em> Broadcast as often as you like.<br />
With RSS autoresponders, you are also able to broadcast to your subscribers as often as you like with your marketing messages and/or special offers just like traditional email autoresponders.<br />
The only difference is, 100% of your marketing messages are reaching your subscribers, meaning, more profits in your pocket.</p>
<p><em>Reason #9</em> Many options for managing your subscribers.<br />
Just like traditional email autoresponders, RSS autoresponders also give you many different options for managing and editing your subscriber lists. I won&#8217;t go into a lot of detail on this simply because it basically works the same as an email autoresponder list manager.</p>
<p><em>Reason #10</em> Ad tracking and report generation.<br />
You can even track who, where, when, what week or month your subscriber subscribed and much more using RSS autoresponders, giving you valuable statistics and information about your subscribers and much more.</p>
<p>I think these 10 reasons I just outlined above are in my mind pretty beneficial to a Permission Email Marketer wouldn&#8217;t you think?</p>
<p>In conclusion, I would have to say that the BIGGEST benefit to RSS autoresponders is that they GUARANTEE 100% delivery on your marketing message to your subscribers, saving you valuable time and frustration, and giving you the edge you need in order for you to make the most Profit from your broadcast. The technology is here, so we must adapt.</p>
<p>This concludes the &#8220;Top 10 Reasons WHY &#8220;RSS Autoresponders&#8221; Are Becoming a Permission Email Marketers BEST Friend&#8221;.</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of years, the Internet has seen a new trend develop which was rapidly adopted by internet marketers and savvy (although mostly corporate) marketers.  This trend became known as Web 2.0 and has become the term used by most people when they discuss alternative Internet marketing strategies. And, although Web2.0 has become [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the last couple of years, the Internet has seen a new trend develop which was rapidly adopted by internet marketers and savvy (although mostly corporate) marketers.  This trend became known as Web 2.0 and has become the term used by most people when they discuss alternative Internet marketing strategies. And, although Web2.0 has become a common buzzword, we find many do not really understand what Web 2.0 is all about. This may be the reason why small business owners have been slow to utilize this effective means of marketing.</p>
<p>The simple answer is&#8211;Web 2.0 really is the humanization of the Internet. It allows us to connect people together. Web2.0 enabled platforms depend on individual users to generate high quality content by contributing their unique skills and feedback while interacting with other members.</p>
<p>The basic principle behind these social websites is to encourage public feedback and contribution for the greater good of all. Socially interactive websites that focus on a specific theme have been flourishing in recent times and have captured the attention of Google and other search engines. The purpose of a search engines is to deliver quality relevant content based on keywords entered into the search box.</p>
<p>Web 2.0 marketing techniques are based on the premise that when you request your users to generate and add to your content bank, you will inevitably attract the attention of Google and other search engines, get ranked higher organically and thereby improve traffic to your website and subsequently sales.</p>
<p>Some of the frequently used Web 2.0 techniques are blogging, video marketing, social bookmarking, back linking, podcasts and RSS.</p>
<p><strong>Video marketing</strong> can be the most important arsenal in a small business marketing plan. It allows the seller to describe his business in a way that connects with prospects. I can be produced easily-even inexpensively&#8211;and uploaded quickly to various internet video sites. Fact is, people like to do business with people they are familiar with. A video ad will facilitate this in addition to being awarded with high search engine ranking. Your own infomercial can give you visibility you would not otherwise enjoy.</p>
<p><strong>Really Simple Syndication (RSS)</strong> permits users to subscribe to a web page so that they can get new content as soon as the original page is modified.</p>
<p>These are just some of the ways by which you can attract traffic to your website and business. Once you have established your credibility, your audience will start believing that they can depend on you as their supplier for their needs.</p>
<p>It used to be that prospective buyers relied on sellers for product or service information. Back then, the seller had the power because he was in control of the sale situation.  Not so anymore. Now, when faced with making a purchase, we go on the Internet to research the product or service, find out the availability and misc. options and of course where we can get the best price before ever stepping foot into a store or order online.  Guess who has the power now?</p>
<p>Sadly, the shroud of mystery surrounding the principles of Web2.0 and the perceived notion that marketing on the Internet is very expensive has prohibited many small business owners from harnessing the power of exposing their business on the Net. No so anymore, now you can have a <a href="http://resultsmarketing.biz/click?u=http%3A//www.thenewrulesofmarketing.com/&amp;t=Web2.0%20friendly%20website" target="_blank">Web2.0 friendly website</a> and a <a href="http://resultsmarketing.biz/click?u=http%3A//www.thenewrulesofmarketing.com/video&amp;t=video%20ad" target="_blank">video ad</a> for very little money, effort and time. If you do nothing else marketing-wise you would be well advised to consider Web 2.O &#8211; it&#8217;s here to stay.</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you own a local business?  If you do, then your business absolutely MUST have a website - if you&#8217;re hoping to remain competitive in your marketplace that is.  Many small business owners don&#8217;t realize this, but local search is rapidly becoming more and more commonplace and growing at the tune of 34% a year.  They think, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you own a local business?  If you do, then your business absolutely MUST have a website - if you&#8217;re hoping to remain competitive in your marketplace that is.  Many small business owners don&#8217;t realize this, but <strong>local search is rapidly becoming more and more commonplace and growing at the tune of 34% a year</strong>.  They think, “sure, if you&#8217;re doing business online like Amazon or eBay then obviously you need a website.  But I&#8217;m not selling my products or services online, just locally, so I don&#8217;t have any need for a website.”  That sounds sensible at first glance, but they couldn&#8217;t be more wrong.</p>
<p>Times have changed, and the way people get information has changed, too.  Radically.  Ten years ago, a local company could get by without a website.  Back then, the Internet was new, and not every family had a computer hooked up to the worldwide web.  And, for many of those people who were online, the Internet was sort of exotic – it was something of a hobby.  They would spend their online time in chat rooms talking to new friends all over the world, or looking for Beanie Babies on eBay, or downloading the latest cool game. </p>
<p>But somewhere along the way, three things happened –</p>
<p>1. High Speed Internet Access got cheaper, and replaced dial up for the majority of users.<br />
2. Almost every home in America is now connected to the Internet.<br />
3. Google became THE dominant search engine</p>
<p>What does a High Speed Internet connection have to do with anything?  A lot.  Ten years ago, most people had dial up connections over a standard phone line.  That meant that most of the time they weren&#8217;t hooked up to the Internet, and connecting usually took several minutes. And surfing was slow.  In other words, if they needed to look up the phone number of a local company, it was much easier and faster to just grab the Yellow Pages.  Besides, back then, few local companies had their own website.  But these days, in most homes, there are several computers hooked up to the Internet 24/7, with a high speed DSL connection.  Tens of millions of people in America spend several hours a day in front of their computer, using the Internet.   Almost every home in America is now online, and the vast majority of them are using high speed Internet connections.  That&#8217;s the first two radical changes.</p>
<p>So what does Google have to do with anything?  Well, in a word, everything.  Ten years ago, there were lots of search engines – Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Netscape, AOL, and scores of others.  And there still are dozens of search engines.  But hardly anyone uses them.  What more, hardly anyone uses print directories such as the Yellow Pages anymore, yet many small business owners still spend thousands of their hard earned cash on advertising that doesn&#8217;t produce revenue.  Want prove?  When last did you pick up the Yellow Pages?</p>
<p>Google came along around 1999, and they just completely took over the search engine business, practically overnight, because they were so much better than the others.  Probably 85-90 percent of all searches these days are Google searches.  And Google lists everything, <strong>including local businesses</strong>.</p>
<p>Are you starting to see the big picture?  Ten years ago, most people still weren&#8217;t on the Internet, and now they are.  And today, instead of being an expensive, slow moving toy, the Internet has become an integral part of their lives.  Now, with a click of their mouse and a few keystrokes, they can find any information they need in about 5 seconds.   Why get up, hunt down the Yellow Pages, dig through its hundreds of pages until they find “muffler shop”, when they can just type in “their city muffler shop” and have all the information they need without leaving their chair?</p>
<p>Well, most people won&#8217;t leave their chair.  They&#8217;ll just go to Google.  Which means that the Yellow Pages are yesterday&#8217;s news, and if you don&#8217;t have a website for your business online, you are missing out on huge numbers of leads and customers.</p>
<p>Any local business that doesn&#8217;t have a website has got two choices – get a website, and get one soon, or plan to eventually go out of business. It&#8217;s just that simple.  What&#8217;s next?  Check out part two of our report or visit <a href="http://www.thenewrulesofmarketing.com">www.thenewrulesofmarketing.com</a>!</p>
<p>Or next post will discuss why having a &#8220;Google-friendly&#8221; website is of utmost importance, so be sure to check it out.</p>

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