Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Get Your Adsense Account Unbanned In 5 Easy Steps


1.Try and determine why your account was banned. This is important because you need to know what happened before you can gather evidence. Google will not always tell you and many times they’ll tell you it’s because of “Invalid Clicks” which can mean anything under the moon. I’ve heard of accounts being banned because of a sudden increase in clicks due to a site hitting the front page of Digg and because a previous owner of a domain had his Adsense account banned.


2.Contact the Google Adsense team and be nice about it. If you’re email starts with “You Jerks at Google Banned My Account For No Good Reason,” then you’ll not likely get it unbanned before Hell freezes over. Your emails should be very nice and non-judgemental. Assume it was an honest mistake by Google, because it may very well have been.

3.Provide Proof Of Your Innocence.If you have a good idea of why your Adsense was banned, offer to give it to Google. This could be everything from server logs, a letter from the webhost or a WhoIs file. Be nice and politely show Google where they went wrong.

4.Have some patience.The folks at Adsense won’t be tripping over their self to get to your case. I’d be sending follow up emails every other day or so and checking on the status of the human review. Remember to keep them nice and polite. You may also want to keep offering to give them evidence. Try and show you really want to help in the investigation.

5.Persistence pays off. If you give up only after an email or two, then chances are you may never hear from them again. Stay with the follow up emails! Eventually they’ll get tired of you and either give you a Yea or Nay. Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the oil!

How to Get a Google Adsense Account Quickly and Easily


Are you having trouble getting your website approved? Here is a perfectly legitimate way to get your Google Adsense account quickly and easily.

If you are having trouble getting your website to comply with Google Adsense's terms of service ( https://www.google.com/adsense/terms ), you may face some disappointment when you receive an email from Google saying that your site has been rejected.
If you are serious about making something out of Adsense, don't give up. Here's how you can get your Google Adsense approved easily.

Sign up for a Google blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com and start submitting some quality entries. To be on the safe side, submit at least 10 entries or more. Make sure that your blog's content abide to Google's TOS. Now you can start submitting the site and apply for Google Adsense.
This way, you don't have to worry about how ads appear on your sites and whether they comply to the guidelines. The chances of getting approved are not guaranteed but I have several personal friends who have gotten their adsense account in the exact same manner.
Now, they are regular bloggers and their entries just kept growing. Promote those blogs a bit and they too can start making some adsense revenue.just having a blog. You can now place your adsense code in all your websites. Here's some advice.

Please make sure your websites comply to Google's TOS, especially if they have been rejected by Google before. Also, DO NOT click on your own ads unless you are truly interested in the product. Finally, do not spend time trying to figure out how Google adsense red flag accounts. I strongly suggest making better use of the time to come up with more content for the website.So there you go, start a Google blog and apply for Google adsense. Once approved, you can use the Google adsense ID and start posting articles here to earn some additional revenue :)You may also setup a separate channel to watch your adsense traffic on this website.
Good luck to getting your Adsense account!


Saturday, October 10, 2009

How to Do it Yourself Direct Mail



Instructions

Step 1
Size:
Direct mail advertising pieces cover a wide range of materials from a small postcard to a folded brochure. To qualify for postcard rate your mail piece must be around 6 inches wide and 4 inches tall. For any larger sizes you may need to weigh cost versus speed of delivery. Larger postcards, flyers and brochures can be mailed either first class with a higher cost, in order to have all the non-deliverable cards returned to you for database clean up. You may choose the cheaper but slower option of standard bulk rate, but in order to do so you must comply with all the Post Office’s regulations.



Note that letter size or larger pieces have to be folded, tabbed and designed a specific way in order to go through the Post Office.



Step 2
Mailing List:
Once you have determined the mailing piece size gather your mailing list. Most likely you have it in some kind of computer data format. It could be an Excel spreadsheet, Access database, or a Word file, or perhaps it was provided to you as pre-printed labels.

For prospecting you may also want to consider purchasing a mailing list that can be tailored to your specific target. The more specific the demographic – gender, age, interest, income, etc. – the higher the cost will be. When purchasing mailing lists expect about 90% accuracy, meaning that 10% will no longer be a valid company or address. Some lower quality mailing lists can have an accuracy rate as low as 50%.



You must pay attention to duplicates. In addition to being an unnecessary expense, it may also annoy any current or prospective customers. You may manually go through your list or if it is too large there is software available to check for duplicates. Most mailing software will have this feature included.


Step 3
Addressing:

Your choices here vary too. You may handwrite the address, use pre-printed labels, or print directly on your mail piece using an ink jet or laser printer. In order to qualify for any discount at the post office your addresses must comply with CASS and PAVE guidelines which ensure that the address is valid and correctly written, sorting is done properly and the address contains the plus-4 zip code, carrier route information, and is bar-coded to be machine-readable.



There are many vendors out there who can provide you with this software. Without exception these are all subscription-based software, updated every 2 months as they get the address change information from the Post Office. As of 2009 the yearly subscription fee ranges from $2,000.00 to 8,000.00 based on the versatility of the software.



Step 4
Delivery:
To keep it simple you can just affix the proper non-bulk postage stamp on your pieces and drop them in a mailbox. In order to save on your postage you have to comply with a few rules. Before the Post Office accepts your pieces you must apply for 1 or 2 permits.

If you are planning to mail both first class and bulk mail pieces there is a separate permit for each. As of 2009 the fee is 185.00 for each. The permit number you are given must be printed on all the mailed pieces. You must take your mailing to the same post office where your permit was issued. All pieces must be sorted by destination and placed into Post Office provided trays. If your mailing goes beyond a certain radius you must also put your trays in a sleeve and secure it.

Also note that the Post Office will only accept checks for bulk postage, no cash or credit cards.


Step 5
Savings:
The obvious question is how much can you save by making your mailing Post Office friendly? Well, here is an example: 3000 - 6x8 inch postcards will mail as of May 2009 for $1,320.00, plus the cost of printing the cards and labels. By using the CASS and PAVE verification to remove duplicates and bad addresses, this list usually gets reduced to about 2600. The best rate after proper sorting and using standard bulk mail would be around $585.00 a whopping saving of $735.00! Of course there is the initial investment of permits, software and added labor but in the end if you are a committed direct mailer your investment will yield a pretty nice return.

Step 6

Outsourcing:
There is also the option of outsourcing your direct mail campaign. Check that the company who is doing the job has the proper experience in order to ensure that you are getting the best postage rate. Try to avoid companies that charge a flat rate since the postage costs can vary based on the address list. Insist that the company returns to you all bad addresses and duplicates if any, so you can update your mailing list.

Also, ensure that the company will provide a copy of the postage statement that accompanies your mailing to the Post Office. There should be no sales tax charged on postage since that is a non-taxable item. If you do your homework in finding a reputable company you can greatly reduce your involvement, your cost and the anxiety of the direct mailing experience.



How to Advertise Yourself


Advertising yourself can help with friends and work. Both are essential in making most out of your life. Learn more in the article.

Instructions.
Step 1
What do I mean when I say to advertise yourself? The way you dress and the way you speak are accurate representation of how you view yourself.

When you dress in jeans all the time, to me, that represents that you are down to earth. If you dress up even when you are not at work, that represents that you feel important and you have a statement to make. Dressing down in sweat pants and tee shirts represent comfort in any given situation. All these scenarios are indicative of attire while you are not at work. Business attire is quite different than the home apparel.

Step 2
Lounging around the home is the best time to see how you advertise yourself. The choice of clothing can accommodate your mood at that particular time. If you have to go to the store do you keep what you are wearing on, or are you the type of person that changes no matter what?

Step 3
Additionally, the way you speak is a good indication of how you advertise yourself. That could include the work and non work arenas.

If you are with your friends and some of them curse, and that is the norm, then the colorful metaphors espoused are indications that comfort is the standard. If you are offended by cursing and people do it around you anyway, perhaps you need to find either new friends or change your attitude and accept the fact that people are going to curse despite how you feel about it.


Step 4
Speaking to people can make them learn a great deal about you. What type of person are you? Such as being open minded, close minded, intelligent, ignorant and a host of other attributes. If you tend to use ‘big’ words, then the assumption is that you are smart. However, you need to make sure that your choice of words corresponds to what you are trying to say. The right words can give the appearance or illusion that you are smarter than you really are. There is a perception that people with a large vocabulary usually make more money. Why? They are under the assumption that the more words you know, the smarter you are, the better you will do at a job.


Step 5
In addition, the words you use do advertise your educational level. That does include self taught too.

If I converse with a person and they seem bright and articulate, I would presume they have had some educational background. I have been surprised several times that they had no formal schooling but were self taught and read a lot.


Step 6
Let me state right here that I could care less the educational level that you are. Everyone can learn something from each other no matter how much or how little education you had received.

The art of advertising yourself is dependent upon your attire and the way you speak. It might not be accurate, but perception makes reality. The choice of clothing reflects your mood and or how you feel about yourself. The choice of words can be construed germane to your educational level. However, not everything is made in stone. There will always be exceptions to the rule. Being prudent helps in any given situation.




Monday, September 28, 2009

Advertise yourself


Doing just all of the above will be a waste if you don't tell the world about your online identities and presence so they can check you out. Try these proven but mostly under-utilised methods:


Your business card: Let it mention links to your profile, blogs, personal websites and addresses on the net. If it gets too cluttered, highlight only the most important.

Your email signature should also carry all these links; there is no problem of space here unlike in a business card. Every time someone gets a mail from you, let them link further to you at the click of the mouse.

Promote your blog: Blogs attract traffic on their own if the subject matter is popular and regularly posted. But this may take a long time. Visit other blogs on related subjects, and leave comments on posts there -- and add a link to your blog too. Also talk to other blog owners and carry links of each other's blogs on your respective ones. This will drive traffic to your blog and also boost your search engine rankings.

Check yourself on Google: Search for yourself from time to time, and see where you figure on Google. Go for do-it-yourself or professional Search Engine Optimisation -- these are structured ways you can use to boost your rankings. There is enough guidance on the net to tell you more about this.

Create a brand when you don't need it

Don't set out on a branding exercise only when you need to switch jobs or meet any other career goal. For best results, do so when you don't need it, because opportunities usually come knocking without an appointment and you should make it easier for them to find you.

Using the resources available on the internet gives you a chance to brand yourself and become more visible to the world that matters.

E-brand yourself


Branding yourself does not mean you have to put up billboards of yourself around town. The virtual world is your magic lamp; do the following and see how you stand taller among your peers.




~ Set up a public profile: The starting point. Go to a professional networking site, LinkedIn strongly recommended, and create an account. Fill out everything about yourself in detail as required, including your special achievements and skills. Get people to post recommendations on your profile. LinkedIn allows you to have a URL with your name as a part of it like http://linkedin.com/in/vinaymehta: get it and point people to this link. Make sure you also build a quality network of contacts -- this will show who you know and who knows you. At a glance others will know all about you professionally.



~ A personal blog: Get yourself one; these are free and can be set up in minutes on sites like Rediff, Blogger and Wordpress. You can also get a domain with a custom name, even your own, which is a good idea. Talk about one subject you feel strongly about -- it could be about your professional expertise, public interest issues, travel, a hobby or anything else. Set up multiple blogs if you have the capacity to maintain the same. When deciding a subject area, ask yourself this question: Will anyone care to read about what I am writing? Go ahead only if the answer is in the affirmative. Stay clear of personal ramblings -- what you write will reflect on the kind of person you are and how you think.



~ A personal website: It could be an extension of your blog or a separate one. Let it be like your online CV covering academics, career path, testimonials, photographs, achievements, skills, published works, links to your blog and work-related sites and other relevant information. Make sure your website and blogs are well designed -- select neat templates and inviting colours. Don't be flashy for the sake of it.



~ Write for publications: Look for any available opportunities to write for websites, newspapers and magazines -- people will notice you and this will add to your profile. Media outlets are always open to accepting columns from experts and knowledgeable professionals.



~ Be on social networking sites also. Show yourself to be multi-dimensional. These sites, unlike professional networking ones, are more about your personal side like your hobbies, holidays, family and friendships.



~ Show yourself to be an expert: There are many online forums where you can participate in Question and Answer sessions. Join the ones where business subjects are discussed; there is none as powerful as the one on LinkedIn.com. When you share your knowledge, people start recognising you for your expertise in your area of work -- and you don't know who may want to connect with you and send an opportunity your way.



~ Network, network, network: Develop relationships with as many people as you can, with diverse backgrounds and not just relevant to your own industry. Everyone has a contribution to make. And the internet, especially through social networking sites, allows you to do so without moving away from your desk.




Get ahead at work, E-Brand yourself!


It is not who you know or what you know, but who knows what you know.




Would you agree with this statement? One would assume so. If people don't know what you are worth, it is unlikely you will make much progress in your chosen profession.



How do you get the word out though? And make a strong case for yourself? No genie will come to your rescue. But there are magic lamps out there to make a brand out of you -- as long as you know how to rub them right.



Why do you need to brand yourself?

When people want to associate with you professionally, they need to be comfortable knowing who they are dealing with. This could be for a job, a contract, an assignment or a partnership or investment in a venture. The greater your personal brand equity, the bigger break you could get.




Tuesday, September 15, 2009

MARKET RESEARCH

MARKET RESEARCH
Ever wondered how the likes of IMRB and Nielsen carry out market research and polls on behalf of companies? They usually design suitable forms and send out people to gather responses from people. And then charge clients a hefty fee after they have processed and analysed the same.
You could do something similar for a much smaller fee. The consumer demographic these companies seek are usually to be found on communities like Facebook, Orkut, Ryze and LinkedIn. You can tap into these with online polls, surveys or even focus group interactions. Many of these sites offer easy to use polling tools, or you can use services like Zoomerang, SurveyMonkey and ConstantContact. These are mostly free for at least the basic functionalities, and charge a small fee beyond that.
The results may not be as scientific as what some of the bigger agencies, but they can still offer some valuable market insights for companies. And the turnaround time can be very low. Clients can always follow it up with more detailed surveys if need be.
You could go a step further and start generating industry specific surveys and selling these for a fee. They may not have been commissioned by a single client, but you could earn some good money even if you succeed in selling these to enough organizations.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

OFFLINE BUSINESS OUT OF ONLINE CLASSIFIEDS

OFFLINE BUSINESS OUT OF ONLINE CLASSIFIEDS
Which sites have proven to be the most successful commercially in India? Jobs, property and matrimonials top the charts and have already knocked the wind out of many a newspaper who relied on these segments as the mainstay of their revenues.
Where do you come in here? You can leverage these to service a client base not comfortable or knowledgeable about the net. And in India there is a sizeable population of this kind. And that is why you still have offline service providers for these segments despite the popularity of the sites. Here are some specific services you can provide:
Property: Indians are still vary, with justification, of property deals. They prefer dealing with real persons as middlemen and the person could be you. Sites like Magicbricks and IndiaProperties are rich with a database of both prospective tenants and buyers as well as properties on offer. You can tap into these and offer your services. There is no longer a need to send someone scouting all over town looking for vacant properties up for letting or sale. Your net connection and telephone can do most of the work, with visits scheduled once talks make headway.
Matrimonials: You could help people post on matrimonial sites and collect responses on their behalf – even providing print-outs of ‘matrimonial resumes.’ All for a fee. And commission from the site if they have such a facility.
Jobs: Start you own part-time placement consultancy. Again, like for properties, candidates and employers are all there. Use your social media networks to further tap into a global talent pool. And earn a fee every time you help place someone.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Find clients anywhere in the world

Find clients anywhere in the world
Being global in its reach, every country in the world is probably represented on social media. Yes, there might be a skew in favour of some countries and sectors but the network plays out not only for direct leads, but in being able to direct you to the relevant ones through referrals. Go and mark your footprint in newer territories before others do.
Small businesses can help each other
Small business owners use LinkedIn to forge informal alliances with other entrepreneurs who may complement what they are doing and for providing leads to one another in non-competing situations. They meet here, share prospects, learn from each other and get to know of markets in regions otherwise inaccessible. It is like a business chamber for them.

Small businesses can help each other

WHY SOCIAL MEDIA WORKS FOR SELLING
There are several ways by which you can get social media to help you with the selling process. It can complement what you are already doing, or create altogether new opportunities for you. And you can do it from office if this is a part of your day job, or just in your spare time from home.
A market in itself, and more
Users of LinkedIn and Facebook tend to be those with relatively high purchasing power, representing a huge market opportunity in itself. Many of them are also well-placed to help you get your foot inside the right doors. Most importantly, they are key influencers in the market: the people they live and work with represent consumer segments with high purchasing power and further influence.
Social media can be your salesman and brand manager thrown into one – as long as you stay within the rules and code of conduct of these sites.
Everything starts with the quality, and sometimes size, of your contacts on these sites. In some ways, it can be said that your network determines your net worth.

Finding a job you love

Finding a job you love
“Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” – Confucius


If you want a job you love, at a remuneration you feel you deserve, you can take one of the many possible routes. The old fashioned ones are floating your resume amongst placement consultants, looking up newspaper career supplements, going to job sites or just asking around. All of these may work up to a point but they come with limitations.


The jobs on offer may not be what you like. Or not have the flexibility to make you happy about the prospects. More importantly, they may never come up on any of these forums. Your ideal position might be floating somewhere and you would be wandering elsewhere, and paths may never cross. Worse, the job may not yet have been formally defined by an organization but would be created if they were to meet someone like you. Again, what if you never meet?




This is where it helps to moonlight on social media. This includes not only professional networking sites like LinkedIn but social ones like Facebook too. Here are some sound reasons why these work:

Casual talk leads to things: When you network on these sites, it is akin to meeting someone offline at events or one-to-one and having casual conversations. You never know how one thing might lead to another, just like in the real world.


Explore one another: When you meet someone with the agenda of recruitment on the table, a certain level of stiffness and formality comes into play. However, social media allows one to know more about the other without alerting each other. Going through each other’s profiles and contacts, and even connecting with the latter to know more, takes care of a lot of groundwork initially and saves any awkward moments later.

Run background checks: Profiles and contacts also allow both sides to run a background check on one another and arrive at some conclusions, if not all, before further discussions.


Even Facebook speaks a lot: Your Facebook profile may be mostly about your personal life, but they are still a reflection on the kind of person you are. Just because you meet someone at a poolside party for the first time does not stop you from having some professional conversations and forming opinions about the other person. So it is for Facebook.


Discover a love for a job you did not know existed: More often than not, we know we are unhappy in what we are doing but do not know what will make us happy. This is where social media can help again. You may discover things people are doing or offering to others to do, and it may just strike a chord somewhere within you. Only when you hear of these could you realize that this is what you would love and have the capability to do so, or be able to learn how to go about it.


Your CV is not condensed: You can create an extensive CV effectively in the form of your profile, and interested users can filter the same for the desired

Thursday, July 23, 2009

THE HOW OF E-BRANDING YOURSELF

THE HOW OF E-BRANDING YOURSELF
Branding yourself does not mean you have to put up billboards of yourself around town. The virtual world is your magic lamp; do the following and see how you stand taller among your peers.


Set up a public profile

The starting point. Go to a professional networking site, LinkedIn strongly recommended, and create an account. There are others too out there, but LinkedIn is by far the most effective and a market leader. It is to networking what Google is to search.


Being on LinkedIn is like being at a business conference, and a meeting, and a job interview - all at the same time. 24x7. Someone, somewhere is looking at you through your profile – the part where you post relevant information about yourself after creating an account. It has almost become standard practice to check one’s profile (if they have one) on LinkedIn whenever a professional acquaintance is created. As a professional, someone is looking at you, whether you want them to or not. While they are at it, you might as well put your best face forward. Through your profile. So make sure your profile is well dressed for the occasion.


When you create your profile, keep the following in mind:

Vanity URL: LinkedIn allows you to have a URL with your name as a part of it like http://linkedin.com/in/rohitkachru. Get it and point people to this link.
Your professional ‘headline’: Its like a tagline below a brand. Make yours with no less an impact than Nike’s ‘Just do it.’ In a few words say what you do. Be creative; go beyond ‘Senior Manager – Logistics with a chocolate company.’ Try something like ‘I ensure your date gets her chocolates.’ Every time your name pops up, your professional headline tags along. Make it wink at people; tempt them to come to you.

Summarize your professional experience and goals: This is the part likely to be read most by those looking at your profile. In a few lines write about what you are all about – your professional experience, your goals and a mention of what you are doing at LinkedIn. Don’t hesitate to cover what you are looking for or are interested in. Treat it like it is your 30 seconds in the spotlight.

What specialties do you have in your industries of expertise? If you have some special experiences or skills, this is the place to mention it. Just saying ‘Newspaper Designer’ may not be enough – be specific about the systems you are most adept at and the creative elements you can be trusted to handle.

And the same goes for any profession you are in – engineering, healthcare, software, sales, etc.


Work Experience: Not only does this convey where you have worked in the past and in what capacity, but also provides an opportunity to connect with current and past colleagues who have the same companies mentioned on their profiles. It also makes reference checks easier.


Education: Like your career information, telling the world about your educational background can also be important to those wishing to associate with you professionally. And it also helps you connect with those you went to school with.


Websites: If you have any personal and work websites or blogs, you can provide ready links to those from your profile. These can also be links to your portfolio, RSS feeds, photo galleries, videos on YouTube or any other web resource.

THE WHY OF PERSONAL BRANDING



THE WHY OF PERSONAL BRANDING
There can be several compelling reasons why one needs to work on their personal brand equity including:
A feel of who you are: Similar to a company's brand, it gives people a feel of who you are. This is particularly important in this world of freelancers. Personal branding has always been important, sort of like ‘honour’ and ‘pride’ in the olden days. And then the Internet and media took over, not to mention we can't carry swords or revolvers anymore. The personal brand comes into play more and more as our physical contact with clients and business contacts becomes more brief, and often through some form of media other than in person.

Showcasing experience and abilities: Employees no longer work at the same company for the life of their career, and many don’t even stick to the same professions. The exposure and diversity they experience is very unlike what the earlier generations were exposed to. An online personal brand can thus be a showcase of one’s experience, capabilities and reputation.


Positioning: Most people do have their own vision of how they would like others to perceive them whether or not they are adept at personal branding. When one goes about personally branding oneself, it makes one’s efforts to implement that vision more efficient, and more likely to succeed. Especially when one wants that unique positioning to distinguish them from other people.


Publicity: This is about communicating to others in a believable and convincing manner ‘what it is that one is all about.’ It is not about shouting ‘Hey everybody, I am a Super Hero’ from the top of the roof on a regular basis. It is about creating opportunities for people to see one fly, see them save damsels in distress or watch them leaping tall buildings at a single bound when they do. In other words, getting others to notice what you achieve.
Putting a value to your worth: One always has a perception of one’s own self-worth. And then there is the market reality of supply and demand. Eventually what matters is how ‘scarce’ an item the Personal Brand succeeds in convincing that it is. And thus negotiating the best deal for oneself when it comes to remuneration, bonuses and fee.


Making people like and trust you: All things being equal, people will do business with someone they know, like and trust. Your personal brand, your online identity (as long as it's congruent) is a major way that people can get to know you, like you and trust you.
Putting a spin to self: In a way, personal branding is putting a spin on the self. Essentially, we are all politicians and we are all running for something. How well we spin determines how long we run.


Personal Branding is the most effective way to accelerate awareness of who you are, what you stand for and why others would want to connect or interact with you. Importantly, it flags the specific audience that you are trying to reach and helps them to perceives you in the most consistent, focused and relevant way. With a defined personal brand image and positioning, then everything you do and say can be directed to enhance and grow your identity and credentials among those most critical to you.
Courtesy : Digit Magazine CD

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Get work sitting at home

Get work sitting at home

Outsourcing is not reserved for just big firms like GenPact. Professionals around the world are making primary or secondary careers out of bidding for assignments from home from clients globally through websites enabling such a marketplace. And Indians are uniquely positioned to successfully bid for many of these, especially technical ones, for the same reasons that have made the country’s software industry what it is. High skills and lower rates are still in fashion.




E-brand yourself to professional success

It is not about who you know or what you know, but who knows what you know.

Every professional who has a healthy opinion of his or her capabilities will vouch for the statement above. So many of us miss out on growth and income opportunities in our careers only because we did not work on our personal brand equity.


Being successful is all about differentiating yourself from others. To do that you must brand yourself, just as any other entity (whether that be by way of logo or just reputation). There is no way you can present a well-rounded perspective of your personality, drive and positive qualities in a few hours or even a few months. Accumulating due credit for what you accomplish takes branding of some sort

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Affiliate Marketing

You want to dabble with e-commerce but are not inclined to tie up with vendors, process payments, fulfill orders and manage complex books of account? Go for affiliate marketing.


This is how it works: You tie up with an online merchant like a computer store and carry ads of the latter on your blog. When any of your visitors clicks on these ads and makes a purchase with the merchant, you get a commission. It is all easily automated with a simple code you embed in your site.




WHERE IS THE MONEY?


Many individuals and organizations around the world have made thriving businesses out of content packaged in formats mentioned above. Much of it comes with a price tag, which can vary from a under a dollar equivalent to hundreds or even thousands of dollars. All depending on the nature of the content and target audience. When you sell books through the PoD model, the service provider quotes a price for printing and delivery and your margin can be any mark-up you decide for yourself.


Alternately, e-magazines and some other forms of content are also suited for advertising. Since the recipient is clearly identifiable, and circulation accounted for, advertisers can pay per view or download and thus maximize return on investment.






Courtesy:
Digit

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

E-Commerce

Do you have a product or service to sell? If your blog has the audience, why not make a sales pitch while you have their attention? Make it attractive for them to buy from your blog than other outlets by throwing in discounts and freebies.

What if you don’t have something of your own to sell? No problem. Sell stuff on others’ behalf. If you have a blog on mobile phones, contact Nokia or their distributor to offer a special deal on your blog for a given product. Once you receive an order and have processed the payment, you can pick the stock from the distributor and dispatch to the customer. You do not even have to bear the risk or investment required in carrying inventory.

Likewise, what you can sell is limited by your imagination. If you have a travel blog, sell packages at prices better than all others. An auto blogger can sell accessories for cars. A books site can offer books on discount.

You can choose to offer only a limited selection of popular products, or even set up a full fledged online store. All depends on what you can gear yourself to manage. At the same time, you need not always offer stuff to match your content. An auto enthusiast is a very likely buyer of laptops. Why not offer these to customers on an auto blog?

Affiliate Marketing

You want to dabble with e-commerce but are not inclined to tie up with vendors, process payments, fulfill orders and manage complex books of account? Go for affiliate marketing.

This is how it works: You tie up with an online merchant like a computer store and carry ads of the latter on your blog. When any of your visitors clicks on these ads and makes a purchase with the merchant, you get a commission. It is all easily automated with a simple code you embed in your site.




Courtesy: Thinkdigit

Advertising

This is what we have all grown up believing since the dotcom got associated with stories of riches. Get the eyeballs, advertising will follow and you can live it up. This is how all media survives. If you have the audience, advertisers cannot ignore you.

The simplest way to start is to sign for a service like Google’s Adsense. Acting as a middleman, Google approaches advertisers all over the world and automatically places ads on blogs and sites that sign up with them. The advertisement that gets displayed is contextual to the content on the site, and it is all done automatically.

All you need to do is create a free account and get a code from them that you place in your site program. And the ads will start coming up. The more the number of people who view or click on the ad, the more revenue you generate.

It sounds great in theory but you have to have a lot of traffic to earn enough to feel good about. Few people know how Google decides the percentage to share with you, but it is a very small one for sure. The few cents you get per click will add up to something chunky only if you have people queuing up to read your blog. Not the smartest way to monetise your blog.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Marketing for your blog

Setting up a blog is as easy as it gets—getting traffic is another proposition altogether. Yes, blogs by their very nature are supposed to be search engine optimization ready but there is a catch: Your blog needs to break free from the millions of blogs jostling with each other for attention. And till you don’t get traffic, you cannot make money from a blog. At least through some of the direct means.


Promotion
If every good product sold on its own, advertising would not have been a career option. Even when you have hit the sweet spot with your product, you need to promote it. Try these ideas—based on a mix of conventional thought and the science of how bits and bytes behave in cyberspace:

Get other sites to link to you: In an ideal world, everyone you want will link from their site to yours. Poof, and you could be in business overnight. The more blogs and sites that link to you, the better you fare in search engine rankings. If wishes were horses! Keep trying, and you will have sites linking to you over a period of time. It may take a year or longer of blogging for things to start happening for you. Remember, other sites will link to you only if your content is good. Period.


Get yourself some links: Till WSJ.com does not link to you, visit the site and other blogs and leave comments on topics of shared interest—with your link. This is one way to generate some traffic faster - find blogs in your niche area and leave meaningful comments on posts with your blog’s address.


Link to others, selflessly: Provide links to blogs you like without expecting anything in return. These respective blog owners might come visiting to know about yours and someday do something for you too.
Grab all the free ad spots to publicize your blog: These include your visiting cards, email signatures, letterheads, mobile messages, bumper stickers and other such communication. Let your emails end with a prompt to a recent post of yours relevant to the recipient.


Be proactive: Respond to all those who leave comments on your blog or seek further information - make their effort seem valuable. Let them feel a part of your blog community and they will tell other people about you.


Send out mails: Mine every email address you have in your desktop and workplace, and send a message. Pitch specific posts, not necessarily your blog, to entice greater interest.


Make friends in the Blogosphere: And write guest posts and comments on each other’s blogs. Exchange links, too. There is no such thing as being competitors here. You have to realize you cannot be selfish—it is all about give and take to get ahead.


The title of your post matters: A simple yet overlooked factor that makes a big difference. Most people read blogs on RSS (really simple syndication) feeds. The title helps them decide whether they want to click on it or move to the next entry on the feed. Also include keywords in your title that people are expected to be searching for.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Publishing and selling E-content

If you generate content on your blog or at work, there could be a market for these if re-packaged differently.

We all complain of information overload and never know what to read and what not to read. The problem is rendered acute not so much by the amount of information but the formats these are delivered in. Blogs and websites are fine but they are difficult to navigate. They have all kinds of content, and that too keeps getting pushed down as more comes in every day. It is not always possible to track content daily and you may miss out on important stuff. One also needs to be online to read it all. Bookmarking or mailing pages to oneself is cumbersome too.

Get into e-publishing content that is downloadable on demand, can be stored for offline consumption, is portable across various media and can even be printed. This includes:

E-Magazines: A PDF compilation of content on a given topic.


E-Books: Not all books lend themselves to being published on paper, or being distributed through conventional channels. These books can be as small as ten pages or running into hundreds. Topics could include any that come to mind: programming guides, travelogues, cooking, self help, fiction, non-fiction etc. If you have knowledge on a given subject like, say, fighting spam, you could write a book on it.


Print on Demand: If you have gone ahead and produced a book, there may be cases of customers wanting a hard copy of it. If you print these yourself, you will be straddled with inventories in multiples of a thousand, the minimum print run. This obviously makes little sense unless you are sure you will be able to sell these. Print-on-Demand service providers like Pothi.com (http://pothi.com) in India and Lulu.com (http://lulu.com) in the US can print even one copy at a time for your customers. Of course the pricing varies accordingly but is only a small fraction of what you would pay if you went to a regular printer to print one copy.


Podcasts are audio recordings that can be downloaded and played back on a computer or any audio device like the iPod. Content can be interviews you conduct with people, educational or informative programs, or entertainment or anything that lends itself to being listened to for the desired results.
Videos, like Podcasts, can be created for similar purposes. In addition, they are highly suited where you have to show visuals or when it helps to add faces to voices.
Webinars are more like online events where a people participate from all over the world for a real time discussion or to listen to an expert. These are usually announced in advance enabling people to register and add to their schedule.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Schoolarship

SCHOOLARSHIP ( UNDER TEST and AS DRAFT)
There are lots of individuals or NGO's which are working in social sector. Education is the most important factor for the development of people. Education is most donated sector all over the world. Specially country like Nepal which lacks basic need of life. There are lots of people who never saw the school. We are getting million and million of dollar for education. We can see lots of programme which are running by local organisation. During my work as I worked most of time as individual I met some nice people who beleive me and they also agree to help poor childreans who want to study. So they made me as mediam to help them There are nealy 10 students who are getting partial schoolship for study. In this blog I am going to write their details. I will also write details about the persons who help to get better life to some of Nepali students.

Monday, June 22, 2009

HELP ME TO GET HELP

Friends from Sankhu- Want to Earn Dollar on free time?
Online Earning is really easy. We all can earn by giving sometime on net. All we need a computer and internet connection. Online earning is the product of new technology. We all want to use internet and today is the age of information and technology. So we all use internet and in the same time we can also help our friends by seeing their ads.
All we need lots of friends who really think seriously about online earning. We need to make big circle of friends. Who help others to get help self.

Process
All you need a gmail account first. If you already have gmail account then you can start bloggging.. To make a blog account you can go to www.blogspot.com you can use you gmail user name password to creat account. After creating blog account you try to make a simple blog or website. It is really simple. You can write about anything. Try to put some interesting things so that lots of people will visit your page. After creating blog you can create adsense account. It is also easy step. Go to Adsense and again you can use same gmail ID for user name and password. In form you have to put web address. which you created on blogspot. You account will approved with in 3 days. After you get adsense account you can get advertise from google adsesne. You can put those advertisement on your blog and you can easily publish post.. You refer your blog among your friends. When your friends see you blog and clicks on advertisement on your blog you will earn money.. So it is really simple step. If you need any help you are most welcome...

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

First Day I am trying

Finally now I again trying to do something best to earn online by the help of google adsense.. I will update my site after i get account from google.. Online Earning really nice to see lots of people making money which is unable to earn by normal job. I am still trying to get the ways of making money. Today I did some steps that will help me to make some money.
In most of cases there is problem of language and computer knowledge. Most of people don't know how the adsense works?. There are lots of site which always shows they pay but most of them do not pay anything. When I first try to do adsense I had no idea about it. After 2 years I got little idea. But it is not as easy as it described.. But I need to earn at anyway. So think anyone who want to earn little on net. It is best way if we can get anything on net..






Online Earning

Thank you for visiting my site. This is Anup Shrestha from Nepal. This is my story about how filling when I have free time I always try to make some money.. I went from a low-paying dead-end job with terrible hours to making good money working from my home computer. This resulted in less stress, a higher income and, best of all, more time to spend with my family.

I always try to earn money. And I know lots of people who make money. so I also try lots of time in internet. I hope from now I will make money instead of earn.. We never can earn enough money unless we start make money....




Saturday, June 13, 2009

GI system- Anatomy

INTERACTION BETWEEN HUMAN BODY AND DRUGS
Introduction



Drugs are the substance that are used to treat a disease. These are chemical substances derived from different sources (living or non- living things) which are sued to alter the functions of living/ bacterial tisseus by reacting with them.
Uses of drugs
Drigs are used for:
1. Diagnosis of diseases
2. Prevention of diesases
3. Treatment of diseases.


This chapter deals with the relationship between drug and the human body; the mechanism of drung' action, uses of drugs and the body's response to drugs.
Drugs are prepared in laboratories and experimented so that they are free of unacceable toxic substances which can harm the clients. Then only they are approved for use of human. The study of action of drug in man is called clinical pharmacology.

Clinical Pharmacology can be divided into two brances.
1. Pharmacokinetics.
Means what the human body dees to drungs it is the study of the movement of drugs in the body.

2. Pharmacodynamics
Means what a drug does to the human body. The knowledge about pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics is essential to know how the drugs are used for the best advantade of the patient.

Protein Binding

Most drugs bind to proteins, either albumin or alpha-1 acid glycoprotein (AAG), to a greater or lesser extent. Drugs prefer to be free, it is in this state that they can travel throughout the body, in and out of tissues and have their biological effect. The downside of this is that they are easy prey for metabolising enzymes.

As you would expect, more highly bound drugs have a longer duration of action and a lower volume of distribution. Generally high extraction ratio drugs' clearance is high because of low protein binding and, conversely, low extraction ratio drugs' clearance is strongly dependent on the amount of protein binding.

Why is this important? If a drug is highly protein bound, you need to give loads of it to get a theraputic effect; as so much is stuck to protein. But what happens if another agent comes along and starts to compete with the drug for the binding site on the protein? Yes, you guessed it, the amount of free drug is increased. This is really important for drugs that are highly protein bound: if a drug is 97% bound to albumin and there is a 3% reduction in binding (displaced by another drug), then the free drug concentration doubles; if a drug is 70% bound and there is a 3% reduction in binding, this will make little difference.

The drugs that you really need to keep an eye on are: warfarin, diazepam, propranolol and phenytoin. For example, a patient on warfarin is admitted with seizures, you treat the patient with phenytoin, next thing you know - his INR is 10.

The amount of albumin does not appear to be hugely relavent. In disease states such as sepsis, the serum albumin drops drastically, but the free drug concentration does not appear to increase


Degree of ionisation

This is really important with regard to local anaesthetics. The essential fact to know is that highly ionized drugs cannnot cross lipid membranes (basically they can't go anywhere) and unionised drugs can cross freely. Morphine is highly ionised, fentanyl is the opposite. Consequently the latter has a faster onset of action. The degree of ionisation depends on the pKa of the drug and the pH of the local environment. The pKa is the the pH at which the drug is 50% ionised. Most drugs are either weak acids or weak bases. Acids are most highly ionised at a high pH (i.e. in an alkaline environment). Bases are most highly ionised in an acidic environment (low pH). For a weak acid, the more acidic the environment, the less ionised the drug, and the more easily it crosses lipid membranes. If you take this acid, at pKa it is 50% ionised, if you add 2 pH points to this (more alkaline), it becomes 90% ionised, if you reduce the pH (more acidic) by two units, it becomes 10% ionised. Weak bases have the opposite effect.

Local anaesthetics are weak bases: the closer the pKa of the local anaesthetic to the local tissue pH, the more unionised the drug is. That is why lignocaine(pKa 7.7) has a faster onset of action than bupivicaine (pKa 8.3). If the local tissues are alkalinised (e.g. by adding bicarbonate to the local anaesthetic), then the tisssue pH is brought closer to the pKa, and the onset of action is hastened.

ADVERSE REACTIONS TO DRUGS

An adverse reaction to a drug has been defined as any noxious or unintended reaction to a drug that is administered in standard doses by the proper route for the purpose of prophylaxis, diagnosis, or treatment. Some drug reactions may occur in everyone, whereas others occur only in susceptible patients. A drug allergy is an immunologically mediated reaction that exhibits specificity and recurrence on re-exposure to the offending drug.



Classification of adverse reactions to drugs
Reactions that may occur in anyone

Drug overdose -Toxic reactions linked to excess dose or impaired excretion, or to both
Drug side effect - Undesirable pharmacological effect at recommended doses
Drug interaction - Action of a drug on the effectiveness or toxicity of another drug

Reactions that occur only in susceptible subjects

Drug intolerance - A low threshold to the normal pharmacological action of a drug
Drug idiosyncrasy - A genetically determined, qualitatively abnormal reaction to a drug related to a metabolic or enzyme deficiency.
Drug allergy - An immunologically mediated reaction, characterised by specificity, transferability by antibodies or lymphocytes, and recurrence on re-exposure
Pseudoallergic reaction - A reaction with the same clinical manifestations as an allergic reaction (eg, as a result of histamine release) but lacking immunological specificity


Incidence

Adverse reactions to drugs are very common in everyday medical practice. A French study of 2067 adults aged 20-67 years attending a health centre for a check up reported that 14.7% gave reliable histories of systemic adverse reactions to one or more drugs. In a Swiss study of 5568 hospital inpatients, 17% had adverse reactions to drugs. Fatal drug reactions occur in 0.1% medical inpatients and 0.01% of surgical inpatients. The main drugs implicated are antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Adverse reactions to drugs occurring during anaesthesia (muscle relaxants, general anaesthetics, and opiates), although less common (1 in 6000 patients receiving anaesthesia), are life threatening, with a mortality of about 6%.

Numerous mechanisms have been implicated in adverse reactions to drugs. However, these mechanisms are not fully understood, which may explain the difficulty in differentiating drug allergy from other forms of drug reactions and in assessing the incidence of drug allergy, evaluating risk factors, and defining management strategies.