========================================== Business Marketing Bulletin ========================================== April 1, 2008, Issue #95 Terri Seymour, Publisher http://www.seymourproducts.com mailto:terri@seymourproducts.com © 2008 All Rights Reserved Worldwide ========================================== In This Issue ========================================== 1. Top Sponsor Ads 2. Privacy Policy 3. What's New? 4. Freebies & Biz Helpers 5. eCommerce Marketing Tip 6. Feature Ad 7. Feedback 8. Article: 5 Essential Blogging Tips For Bloggers 9. Feature Ad 10. This 'n That - Little Bit of Everything! 11. Subscription Management & Contact Info ========================================== Top Sponsor Ads ========================================== Are Your Ducks In A Row? If you are you trying to establish or promote your online presence, try cutting your time and effort down to "must have" results. 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The current federal rules on sales tax collection for Internet and catalog sales are pretty simple: if you buy something from a business operating in your state, the business is required to collect the sales tax and send it to the state revenue office. The Supreme Court created an exception for most small Internet and catalog sellers because it would be very difficult for them to collect in 15,000 tax jurisdictions in the 45 states with sales taxes. This problem is less daunting to large retailers. A number of state governments and big retailers want to change federal law to impose sales tax burdens on all Internet sellers, regardless of size. Many small business sellers believe a new tax collection system would drive up costs, be very difficult to comply with, and could reduce Internet business opportunities and affect consumer prices. eBay has helped hundreds of thousands of small business entrepreneurs use the Internet to reach buyers across America and around the world. 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BMB goes out to 990 subscribers. ========================================== Freebies & Biz Helpers ========================================== I just joined a new social networking site. It is called 'The Internet Marketing JV Social Network'. Meet with other internet marketers and help each other promote and build your business. http://jvnetwork.ning.com/?xgsi=1 ****** Free ezine ad swap program http://www.ezinead.net/ ****** Follow these guidelines to improve your Google ranking http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 ******* Free Download: ooVoo 1.5.1.97 Connect with your friends, family, and business associates with high-quality video and sound. http://www.oovoo.com/ ****** Write Better Ads - Do It Free! http://www.WriteBetterAds.com ========================================== eCommerce Marketing Tip ========================================== Always use testimonials to help build your business. Whenever someone emails you to let you know how happy they are with your service, product, ezine, etc. Ask their permission to use that feedback. Post it on your site, run it in your ezine, add some good ones to your busines cards, flyers, brochures,etc. I always look for testimonials when visiting a site and I am sure a lot more people do as well. Never delete feedback!! ========================================== Feature Ad ========================================== Amazingly simple Automatic income! If you want an amazing income source you must see this! This short movie will change your life and income FAST! YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO SEE THIS. http://viralurl.com/ct/NES ========================================== Feedback ========================================== Please send in your comments, suggestions, questions, etc to mailto:terri@seymourproducts.com?subject=feedback We appreciate all feedback, good or bad! I am a subscriber to your excellent Business Marketing Bulletin. It’s a fun, informative Bulletin, and I find it very helpful. * Syd I have been going over and over your site. May I say it is VERY IMPRESSIVE! I am so excited about finding you! * Carolyn Thank you for your reply. I read your free book last night. It was wonderful. I enjoyed it. I also found on your site that you have a wonderful variety of ebooks. The best I've come across! * Toni ========================================== Feature Article ========================================== 5 Essential Blogging Tips For Bloggers by Wayne Tully Blogging has fast become an online business venture all on it's own, bloggers are writers who write blog posts on their own blogs and they share something unique with other related niche bloggers and webmasters out there, they have the passion to carry on with blogging, no matter what. It's estimated that over 70% of blogs are left and abandoned online, this is a waste of server space obviously, but what of the initial spark of trying to make something work online, writing online in blog form takes time to build up, but it is well worth doing as it can raise your profile and credibility in your niche market area quite quickly if you do it right. Here are a collection of some of the best tips I have found in the area of blogging: 1. Email a new reader of your blog When you have a blog established, you may get readers to your blog as this is the ultimate purpose of your blog, so when you do get these readers, why not email them and welcome them to your blog, this could work in many ways, first it could make them think, that was quick I only just subscribed to this blog last night and then the blog owner is emailing me welcoming me to his blog, so they might spread the word of your blogs content to their friends who may also be interested, so it's a good strategy to employ. 2. Join a couple of forums related to your niche. Getting to know your niche market better by visiting a few forums online in the target market that you will hopefully dominate or be a key player in is something that is well worth doing, you can link to your blog and profile page in your signature line (this is a unique sentence that includes your blog link & a description about you or an opportunity.) Participating in forums and getting to know the top members and key players is what you should be trying to achieve for maximum networking potential. 3. Interlinking archived posts from your own blog and others, If you have alot of posts, you could consider linking to past posts that are related to your main topic, so that you can provide further information and this helps to build your seo ranking for your blog, you can add links within your blog content or at the end of your posts for further reading, just remember that every post on your blog is and should be like a webpage of it's very own, so target your keywords as such. 4. Planning your blog posts well in advance Planning of your blog posting is a really easy way of simply coming up with a blog title and then just running with it online to see what you can write about, if you are knowledgeable about the subject matter then you will make this task even easier, I often look in forums, if posters ask questions and discuss certain areas of your niche this is always a basis for some quality blog posts, try it and see what you come up with. 5. Blog commenting on other blogs not just your own Try and comment on other peoples blogs, maybe you have never visited their blog before and you could maybe introduce yourself in the comment or just interact with the discussion thread at hand, a word of warning though, forcing promotional copy and paste sales copy in a comment is not good for your potential and essential commenting, as what you need to establish is that you have read and liked the blogs content and you deliver a comment that says so or that is genuinely inspired by the blogs content. You can add these blogs that you find to your feed reader so you can keep up to date with these blogs when you can and interact with them on a regular basis. Remember that blogging is a long term process usually and it can take time to build up your blogs traffic, so just write useful content and keep blogging. About the Author Wayne Tully an artist, writer/niche blogger and affiliate marketer who does many online business ventures and earns a reasonable income online as a result. http://www.earningprofitsonline.com/2008/03/creating-your-blog-posts-with-targeted.html ************** If you would be interested in any of my articles for reprint or reference you can see the complete list at http://www.seymourproducts.com/articles/index.shtml Feel free to use any of the articles you feel are appropriate for your business. According to superstition, why must you hold your breath while going past a cemetery? mailto:terri@seymourproducts.com?subject=answer ========================================== Feature Ad ========================================== Just launched this month, Bee Gift Emporium's monthly membership~Bee Treasures! It is $14.97 a month. However, if you sign up before May 1, 2008, your cost is only $9.97 a month. You will receive a newsletter, FREE gift each month and more! 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