I have found a new site called 7 Babes A Blogging.

Looks like a fun site and unlike most blogs is a collaborative effort. 

You may have already read this, if you are an avid blog reader, but some time ago there was a great article on problogger reflecting on some of the opportunities out there to make money blogging. 

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ian_Hollander]Ian Hollander

I often get funny, panicked or inspired emails from my clients or readers at odd times of the day (or night).  Fortunately for them (but unfortunately for me) I am a hopeless insomniac who lives, breathes and loves talking about marketing related challenges.  So as I sat on my laptop the other night at 2am trying to decide what to do next other than get some sleep, I got the following email from someone I had never met, never spoken to, or never heard from before.

“Help!  I need an idea of starting a home based business that makes me money!”

That was it.  And it was signed.  So I’m looking at this and thinking, how exactly do I respond to a somewhat odd and ambiguous request at a time of night when most normal folks are blissfully unconscious and counting sheep?  I thought back to when I first got started online, migrating from a successful career as an offline direct response marketing consultant, the internet was FAR more uncharted territory for business opportunities.  But people are people, and no matter what the medium, a good marketing mind will ALWAYS find easy ways to help people get what they want and need - and in the process, get paid very well for it.

There are so MANY ways to get started online right now and make real money, really fast.  That doesn’t mean it’s easy, because it’s not.  Or enduring, because as anyone who plays this game will tell you, what worked last month might not next.  But armed with a computer, a little creativity and the desire to experiment, ANYONE can get started with almost nothing and be making money in a week or less.

The easiest path?  Find an affiliate product you have an affinity for.  Know a lot about fishing?  Find a fishing product to sell.  Weight loss?  Same thing.  Then very simply identify your easiest sources of low cost traffic - and today, even monumentally different than even a few short years ago, the amount of FREE traffic that you can get from a diverse set of sources is tremendous.  And very, very easy!

Social networking sites, peer file sharing networks and the large contingent of free content publicly available makes putting up your own video blog in an afternoon as easy as simply searching for videos tagged with your topic, cutting a little bit of code and pasting it on your site.  Don’t have a site?  Use one of the plethoras of free ones that will let you piggyback off their virtual rack space!  Squidoo, Wordpress, etc - the list is longer than we have time to list.  You can literally, with a small amount of ambition and a weekend of free time become a publisher of informative, educational and entertaining information that doesn’t’ even have to be yours!  And if you are a little bit more ambitious (and creative) the things you can do in that very same weekend would make the direct mail marketers of yesteryear (of which I was one!) literally, go green with envy.

How about Craigslist?  Talk about FREE traffic!  Try doing the above and start posting interesting ads to showcase your content on craigslist - use a good mixture of content, ads and affiliate programs related to your niche, and if you are making money in three days, I’ll eat this article!

There really are so many great and challenging ways to get started today, from home that it would take hours to list them all - even for an utter and complete newbie.  The opportunities truly are everywhere.  You just need to open up and spot them, and be willing to jump right in when you do!

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By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Michael_Noto]Michael Noto

For those of you who might not know about the Reverse Funnel System (RFS), it is an online marketing system developed by Ty Coughlin.  It has been garnering rave reviews from the top of the network marketing industry for a couple months now.

Why all of this hype and excitement over one of the many online marketing opportunities out there?  This article will explain why the industry has been clamoring for an opportunity like this.

The best way to really understand how revolutionary the Reverse Funnel System is happens when you compare it to traditional MLM business opportunities.  The Reverse Funnel System is a highly automated, and high converting sales and marketing system.  It has eliminated the following for its users, hallmarks that were synonymous with old fashioned MLM:

• Hotel “colt” like meetings

• Products that are hard to pitch face to face

• Pressuring family and friends to buy products or become involved as a business partner

• Spending money on expensive seminars

The Reverse Funnel System has basically taken the drudgery associated with MLM and replaced it with a fully automated sales and marketing system.  The RFS has taken away any possibility for the human element and/or any learning curve to cause any problems when building your organization.  This fact makes the system more duplicable to new users and helps an owner grow their organization (downline) much quicker and more efficiently.  Driving traffic to a website is the only thing a new owner has to concentrate on, RFS does the rest for you.

My hope is that this article gave you insight on to how the Reverse Funnel System stands above any other online or network marketing opportunities out there today.  Keep one thing in mind, although the RFS is highly automated and gives you every chance to succeed, hard work and dedication is still needed to achieve great wealth and success.

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Author: Imran Khan

Email marketing is a flexible and powerful method of marketing products and services. This electronic form of direct marketing has already started replacing paper based direct mail.  According to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), about 4.3bn marketing emails were sent in the UK, compared to 5bn direct mail in the year 2005. For the first time in 2007, email marketing has overtaken direct mail in terms of volume, according to the latest National Email Benchmarking report produced by the Direct Marketing Association’s Email Marketing Council. No wonder, email is creative, timely, measurable and cost effective.
 
What you should consider when planning you email marketing campaign
 
Personalisation - This is the best way to increase the response of your email marketing efforts. Greet and address recipients individually with their name, this will help you speak directly to your targeted customers/audience. Use first names for your existing customers to make the email message personal and use surnames in formal email messages. Personalising email marketing messages brings one-to-one marketing communications a step closer.
 
Email Versions - You must design your email message to read and display properly in preview pans, blocked images and the text base readers. As best practise, email shouldn’t be more than 600 pixels in width and must be compelling form the first line. Don’t rely on images; always include text and an online version of each email. Give users choice to receive text or HTML version.  In HTML emails avoid using external CSS, if you have to use CSS style then always use inline styles and don’t forget to use short and descriptive ALT attributes for images.
 
Email Goals - Add a clear call to action point(s) in your email messages. Call to actions should be very clear and your message should tell the user what to do in response to the message in easy steps. Too many links and offers could distract users. Call to actions should be simple as “Click here - special offers for cardholders only”.  If required, create specific landing pages according the requirements of the email marketing campaign. Using the brand name in the subject line will increase the user comfort, trust and will maximise the open rate.
 
Clean List - It is very important to keep your email list clean. A clean list will help to built good relationships with ISPs (internet service providers) and will also improve the qualified response of your campaigns. CAN-SPAM dictates a clear and working unsubscribe link therefore clearly describe the un-subscription method in the email and explain the un-subscription process. Check the inbox regularly for bounce back email addresses. Remove un-subscribers and bounced emails periodically for an improved and clean list.
 
Avoiding Spam - You have to be very careful while sending your marketing messages through emails. Spam filters are getting smarter every day. Your email could be trapped in spam filters if you use keywords like cheap, $, guaranteed etc. Full image base emails also could raise flags for spam filters. Adding text within the HTML body will help to pass the spam filters; more text means more chances to pass the spam filters. Test your email before you broadcast it. You can get accounts with different email service providers such as Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google Mail and send test email messages. You have the technically correct emails if your message lands directly in the inbox.  One way to ensure that your subscriber will receive your future emails is by sending them a plain text email and asking them to add your email address in personal white list/safe contact list.  
 
Metrics - Track individual email messages technically; such as open rate, bounce rate, un-subscribers, click through rate and delivery rate. Once you track emails, then you need to track the marketing output metrics to measure the success of email broadcast campaigns such as revenue generation, revenue per email, ROI (return on investment) per email, total orders/registrations and total leads.
 
Mailing Frequency - It is not easy to find out the right frequency that keeps your subscribers engaged without annoying them with too many emails.  One way to find out is by review your broadcast data and to look at trends in you open, unsubscribe and complaint rates, if you see a decrease in open and an increase in unsubscribe and complaint rates then you should review your mailing frequency and improve the email content.

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About the Author:
Headland Multimedia  is a full service digital marketing agency providing a wide range of solutions from strategic thinking to the deployment of advanced ecommerce solutions. We are specialists in  email marketing  and providing email marketing solutions throughout the UK.