25/11/2008 by FeedCrazy.

From now on a knowledge of the internet will be essential. Search engine optimisation using YouTube is much easier and very inexpensive for the ordinary person and small business, and almost free! So, the game has changed for mainstream advertising in a very short space of time.

Getting higher ranks in the SERPs is extremely difficult, even to the professionals, making it almost impossible to compete with the established websites in niche markets. So, traditional advertisers will need to continue to buy banner ads, and click per action systems owned by those already well established in cyberspace.

One of the main difficulties faced by any entrepreneur is that advertising has changed and evolved over the last few years. It now includes visual, audio and electronic media.

In fact, if you do a Google search for advertising, you may feel overwhelmed by all the options available to you now — if you just look at the options for your Website you’ll find popups, popovers, audio messages, flash video, RSS, even animated “sales people” that can be programmed to appear right on your Website and interact with your customers. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg!

So is traditional advertising — which includes billboards, radio, television, newspaper and magazine — dead?

Not by a long shot. According to one top advertising mogul, traditional advertising methods are still around because they still work.

The trick is to figure out who your target market is, what they want, and how they look for that information.

Mark Twain said, “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”

If you know customers, you can spend your advertising dollars on the mediums they use to look for answers.

If your customers are senior citizens who are not online, then focus the majority of your advertising dollars on the newspapers, magazines, television, and radio that they are reading, watching or listening to.

If your target market is working parents, you need to know how, when and where they get their information. Is it on the Internet? What radio stations do they listen to? What magazines are they reading? Do they watch television? When? Why?

So what are your best options for creating an effective advertising campaign?

Here are some simple steps:

1. Know your audience. What do they want? Where do they shop? What do they read? How old are they? Where do they hang out? Do they need your product or services? Can they afford your product or services?

2. Know your competition. Be prepared to do a little detective work. What are your three main competitors doing to advertise? Where are they advertising? How often? What types of advertising methods are they using? How long have they been running? Are you reaching the same audience? Is your message different?

Look at what they’re doing right, and figure out creative ways that you can make your advertising just a little bit better, or differentiate yourself from the crowd.

3. Next take a look at what the “big dogs” in your field are doing, and see if you can adapt some of their methods to your target audience and your budget.

4. Know your message. What exactly are you trying to say? What do your customers want to hear? Why should they buy from you, and not someone else? Make every word count.

Chances are, your customers are much more tech-savvy than they were five years ago, or even one year ago. The Internet has made unbelievable amounts of information accessible, but it also has contributed to the “information overload” consumers complain of. Marketing and advertising feed.

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09/11/2008 by FeedCrazy.

Shared web hosting is where many web sites reside on one web server. Each web site occupies a portion of a web server but operates independently from all other web sites on that server. Shared hosting is a perfect solution for small companies. Reseller hosting includes host unlimited number of domains. Shared webhosting is the most widely used web hosting service. Shared website hosting permits more than one site to be hosted on the same server.

Free web site hosting is not the right choice for any web site, so as you will lose more than get. A domain name and paid, but cheap web hosting is a must for any serious company venturing into the web. Free instant hosting setup. Free web hosting directories that also are new on the internet are not as reliable as the paid hosting directories that are online for many years.

Free web page hosting has one fascinating advantage and - it is FREE. Though there are so many disadvantages that this large gain loses its attraction.

Web hosting services are a vital part of bringing a website to the Internet. In order for a website to be available online, it has to be hosted somewhere.

Web hosting services are such as domain registration, traffic reporting, and disk gap are just a little of the considerations when choosing at the provider. Web hosting services are companies that provide server space for web sites, email, and other online systems. They house racks of computers of computers and communications equipments in controlled facilities called data centers.

Support is everything - this is what you will hear often. The fact is that the service is unusable if you do not receive competent support in a timely manner - your site is not opening and your mails are not delivered. Support is by e-mail, and reviews say questions are promptly answered. Some base plans include 1 GB of disk space and a monthly bandwidth of up to 20 GB and this is more than enough for the majority of personal, enthusiast and small professional websites.

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24/10/2008 by FeedCrazy.

I have a subscription with Lifestream (why not it is free!) and I post a lot of my RSS Feed activity there. It is fascinating how the power of RSS woks to update their page of my feeds and daily activity is sohown as Feeds get updated with content. I really do recommend a Lifestream member account and a quick peak at my feed shows me what I have done that day and a few days back with no effort.

Take a look the feed link follows:

http://lifestream.fm/rss/raddie

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23/10/2008 by FeedCrazy.

I have been posting Videos (well more like slideshows mostly) for about a year to my Google Account and here is the link to take you to my pages of videos on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/stevideome/videos.rss

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19/10/2008 by FeedCrazy.

Take a look at Mixx it is another social bookmarker quite quick to use and provides each user witha feed as follows:-

http://www.mixx.com/subscriptions/comments/feed/3f694c6737d6c56dd6da1adb1726a0517c5c0f6e

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19/10/2008 by FeedCrazy.

I bookmark regularly on Oyax, I don’t know much about the service but I do keep a number of bookmarks for inetresting subjects on that service. The feed link follows:-

http://www.oyax.com/feed/stevelast

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22/09/2008 by FeedCrazy.

I have been posting to Technorati for some years and have some good bookmarking and blog listings. The feed can be accessed at http://feeds.technorati.com/faves/stevelast?format=rss . The Management at Technorati has produced and refined a very useful site and the bookmarks you’ll find on technorati are high quality. Great Web2 Site!

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12/09/2008 by FeedCrazy.

I have been using My Google Bookmarks Feed for some time and the feed has grown quite surprisingly large. OK. Google again I hear you saying. Is there anything on the web they son’t do? Well it ses not! Google bookmarks are really easy to enter, and although there is nothing that particularly stands out it is a really useful place to keep listing your favorite web sites and pages.

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27/08/2008 by FeedCrazy.

I have always liked to use Del.icio.us. It was one of the first Social Networking Bookmarking sites and is still one of the best. I regulalrly bookmark as the WasteMan, just like in my Wastersblog. Anyway, you will find my Blog Posts bookmarked on their feed and other site when I pass by. Here is the feed for me as WasteMan!

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