Increase Website Traffic with Adcubes

Adcubes is one of the best "million dollar hompage 2.0."
The idea is simple and straight foward. The Earlier the Better.
Each time the ad price will go up one more dollars. Meaning the value of the adcube keeps increasing.
So far they sold 50 something adcubes. Looks like it works well. I would invest if I have some product to sell. Something priced not very high. $5-10 worth product can be sold easily this way.
And something like affilate program sign-up will be good too.

11 Ways To Improve Landing Pages

11 Ways To Improve Landing Pages

You’re about to launch a big online marketing campaign complete with media buys, search engine placement, banner ads and blog buzz. You’ve tested your creative and your clickthrough rate is strong. You know once you go live, tons of targeted traffic will be hitting your site.

Time to sit back and relax, right? Not quite yet.

Conversion’s the Word

Upon arriving at your site, you want the visitor to do something (e.g., register for your newsletter or buy your product). Your site is not successful until that desired action is taken. When a visitor takes that desired action, you’ve had a conversion. If you have millions of visitors coming to your site daily and no one converts, not only do you have an unsuccessful marketing campaign, but also a big hosting bill.

Attracting traffic is easy. The tricky part is converting it. And that’s the purpose of your landing page.

What is a Landing Page?

A landing page is the page visitors arrive at after clicking on your promotional creative.

Your landing page has to convince the visitor to stay and (depending on your goal):

• Fill out a form (but people hate filling out forms)


• Provide personal details (but people hate getting spammed)


• Buy something (but people hate being scammed)


• Read a lot of information (but people really hate reading)


• 

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Intel Core 2 DUO VS AMD Quad Core

Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday pledged to release a version of its upcoming enthusiast desktop product, for less than $1000.

AMD quad core sounds more powerful but there are no comparison between two. Looks like we have to wait and see.

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Kazaa and Music Industry Settle in Court

The legal settlement calls for Sharman Networks, the developer of Kazaa, to pay four major music labels over $100 million dollars for proliferating music and movies without permission. Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music all seek damages.

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20 Pro Web Design Tips

The difference between a good web designer and a great one is the ability to know how to take short cuts and save time without compromising the quality of work. Pixelsurgeon’s Jason Arber has put together 20 top tips and tricks you should be using to give your work that all-important professional edge

1. Planning

When you’re itching to get started, it’s easy to overlook the most obvious step: planning. Whether it’s drawing wireframes and site diagrams in OmniGraffle or Visio, or even on a scrap of paper, you’ll save time by having an overview of your design at the site and page level before you start building. Obvious errors can be detected and solved before it’s too late to go back and it makes explaining your ideas to clients and colleagues a lot simpler than waving your hands in the air.

2. Do it by hand

Although there are some excellent tools around for building web sites, such as Adobe GoLive and Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Dreamweaver, professional code monkeys prefer to code by hand. Are they crazy masochists? Quite possibly.

There’s only one way to learn HTML, and that’s to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with some actual code. But fear not: HTML has one of the easiest learning curves you’ll ever come across and you can create a basic web page with only a couple of lines. Writing code by hand also ensures that you write the leanest code possible, which is the ultimate aim of all HTML geeks.

Don’t throw out that copy of GoLive or Dreamweaver just yet. Both applications have excellent code writing environments, and have useful features, such as collapsable blocks of code and split views so you can code and see the results at the same time. If you want to try the code-only route, then any text editor that can save in the basic .txt format should do, but Mac users might want to check out Bare Bones Software’s BBEdit, and Windows users should give the freeware AceHTML editor from Visicome Media a whirl.

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Small business ebook - free

Small Business 2.0

Stephanie Diamond's new free ebook, Small Business 2.0 is here! It's not a comprehensive study of the impact of Web 2.0 on the future of business. It's a look at how new online marketing tools can skyrocket your small business TODAY.
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Yahoo Launch a New web 2.0 style Homepage

I like using Yahoo UI library these days. Yahoo just lauch their homepage with this cool style. I like that.

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Fancy voodoo pc laptop

Voodoopc is very unique company and it does make decent and nicely designed pc and laptop. Their idea is that some people want more than just pc come out of factory.

Steve Jobs choose to sell another CRT monitor imac

Steve Jobs wasn't not quite cool back then. Isn't he?

$899 iMac specifically for schools and students, replacing the eMac, which was the company's last remaining CRT-based model.

The move is part of an industrywide trend both in computers and televisions toward the use liquid-crystal display, or LCD, monitors, which are sleeker, less weighty and more power-efficient than their older CRT counterparts.

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How To Do Viral Marketing - 2

Viral Marketing Defined

What does a virus have to do with marketing? Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands, to millions.

Off the Internet, viral marketing has been referred to as "word-of-mouth," "creating a buzz," "leveraging the media," "network marketing." But on the Internet, for better or worse, it's called "viral marketing." While others smarter than I have attempted to rename it, to somehow domesticate and tame it, I won't try. The term "viral marketing" has stuck.

How To Do Viral Marketing - 1

The term "viral marketing" is offensive. Call yourself a Viral Marketer and people will take two steps back. I would. "Do they have a vaccine for that yet?" you wonder. A sinister thing, the simple virus is fraught with doom, not quite dead yet not fully alive, it exists in that nether genre somewhere between disaster movies and horror flicks.

But you have to admire the virus. He has a way of living in secrecy until he is so numerous that he wins by sheer weight of numbers. He piggybacks on other hosts and uses their resources to increase his tribe. And in the right environment, he grows exponentially. A virus don't even have to mate -- he just replicates, again and again with geometrically increasing power, doubling with each iteration:

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In a few short generations, a virus population can explode.

Apple OS X users' wish list for new version

A lot of MAC fans are longing for new OS X release and they are eagerly suggest features and functions they want to have for new one. Even though it is going to be very soon to be launched they still ask more about it.

A columnlist in Macfixit.com just posted his wish list for New Mac OS X Leopard.

mac.column.ted: A "Small" Mac OS X Leopard Wish List

more comment from other user

Authored by: FixMaX on Friday, July 07 2006 @ 09:11 AM PDT
Here is mine:

1. Make column navigation work. Currently, if you try to do it, it simply does
no work. Clicking a folder and then hit a key or a eries of keys does not go to
the appropriate file or folder in column view. It works the first time, but not
the subsequent ones.

2. If you change the name of a file or folder and include dots, the Finder locks
and you cannot edit files or folder names until your force quit Finder or
reboot.

3. I do not want to see the usless "Recoverd files" folder inside the Trash
every single time that I reboot.

4. Last but not least, make Spotlight to work without previous indexing. Just
to search file and folder names at least. And, please, please, please, do not
require a indexing from scratch every time that you disable/enable Spotlight
or every time that you clone a Mac using the migration assistant. Indexing
500 GB volumes takes 24 h!!!

Officeguns + Officegunners

Don't be too serious about this you might kill someone at the office.

Officeguns

New Translation for Real Estate Ads for Small budget Renters

For any of you just entering into the rental market and can’t spend $2,000 a month please feel free to use my translation guide below:

Cozy = Small
Quaint = Busted
Conveniently Located = On a busy main road tucked in between a halfway house and a bus terminal
Charming = Small & has not been remodeled since the civil war
Has Character = Slightly overpriced and has a bathtub in the Kitchen
Great View = It’s on the third floor and you can’t move anything bigger than a folding chair up the stairs
High Ceilings = Old and the wallpaper looks like a fat girl after Liposuction
When the agent says “one small thing” = There is a old lady on the first floor with 15 small yappy dogs who bite, hump legs and have mange
Pool & Gym = crappy apartment complex and they will raise your rent after the first year
Convenient Non Permit Street Parking = HA! Good luck dipshit
Conveniently Located near a laundry mat = no washer/dryer or hookups
Convenient (Agents love this word) = Not Convenient
Affordable!!! = Wall to wall stained pink carpeted, wood paneled piece of shit!
Garden Level = Basement with tiny windows and you better be an Oompa-Loompa
Great Deal!!! = The landlord is a crack head, a pedophile or both
Anything with *** = ***Don’t Bother***

Thanks for reading folks, if I have helped one person it was worth it.

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21 Ways to Bring in the Business

Despite your desperate hopes and prayers, business isn't just going to wander into your business. You need to get out there and hustle, and we've got the tips to help you do it.

We've found the perfect marketing solution for you. First, close your eyes. Now hug your computer monitor. Using top-secret technology developed at the Entrepreneur.com laboratories, we'll instantly transmit lists of bottomless-pocketed customers to your brain and your homebased business

eepybird diet coke and mentos exposition

The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes. It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, brought to you by the mad scientists at EepyBird.com.

Discover Card Aims Small Business

Discover Financial Services LLC was introducing on Monday its first credit card for small businesses, aiming to make it easier for owners and their employees to pay their bills.

The Discover Business Card will carry cash-back bonus rewards like those offered on Discover's consumer cards, said Roger C. Hochschild, president and chief operating officer of Discover Financial.

In addition, he said, small businesses will be able to obtain fee-free checks to pay merchants and suppliers who don't accept credit cards. The checks will show up on the small business' monthly card statement and be eligible for rewards, he added.

small businesses owners, who can qualify for credit limits of up to $50,000, also will be able to get cards for their employees and customize the limits on them, he said.

"This is a single payment option for businesses that will solve some of the core issues they have and transform the ways small businesses pay for purchases," he said.

Discover Financial, which is based in Riverwoods, Ill., is a business unit of Morgan Stanley, the New York-based investment bank.

Discover is the latest card company to beef up its offerings to the fast-growing small business category. Bank of America, which is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., recently introduced a free payroll product for its small business customers. Other card issuers have changed award mixes.

Sastry Rachakonda, director of Discover's business card program, noted that just 10 percent of small business spending currently was via credit cards, making it a potentially strong growth market.

He said small businesses customers will have online account management tools and will get quarterly and annual statements that can be used for tax preparation.

Fake Luis Vuitton made in China

China Should stop this SHADDY business RIGHT NOW.
Last year, the home entertainment giant began selling selected movies with price tags of only US$2.75 (euro2.19) in major Chinese cities, aiming to carve out a market for relatively affordable but high-quality, legitimate versions of movies in a sea of counterfeit products selling for less than a dollar.

"The reason why piracy's come along is that there weren't enough products at the right price soon enough," said Tony Vaughan, managing director of CAV Warner Home Entertainment Co., Warner Bros.' joint venture distribution company in China.

Warner's strategy has been "to build a legitimate, viable offering for the Chinese consumer," he said.

U.S. Fights Flood of Fake Goods

By the time David S. Pearl II finally saw one of the knockoff versions of his company's refrigeration testing devices, the damage had been done.




For more than 35 years, Uniweld Products Inc. had painstakingly built its reputation in the air conditioning hungry Middle East. But as the cheap counterfeits entered the market, sales plummeted. Workers were laid off, consumer confidence destroyed.

The reason for Uniweld's misery sat before him, just out of an express-mail package: a Chinese-made, nearly identical version of the real thing, one of a flood of pirated American products, the bulk from China, that the United States blames for costing thousands of jobs, robbing companies of profits and seriously harming the U.S. economy's ability to compete.

In Pearl's case, the bogus equipment matched the original right down to the name, trademark, address and phone number of his manufacturing company's headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The differences, though, were crucial: The fake products cost half as much as the real ones, and they didn't work. Pearl estimated that over the years Uniweld lost well over a million dollars, a significant amount for a small company.

"You look at them side by side, it is absolutely amazing how well they copied them, and it's scary," Pearl, Uniweld's executive vice president, said in a phone interview. "The United States is a country of thousands and thousands and thousands of small businesses, who employ the majority of the employees in the country. For them to be hammered by Chinese counterfeits is a serious problem."