Recommended Home Business

How To Make Money With Scrapbooking

e-book by ScrapBookingProfits.com

I thought I would highlight an e-book for a Home Business anyone can start - Scrapbooking! This e-book will give you step by step information on how to create a successful Scrapbooking Home Business.

You'll be told Where to get your hands on FREE scrapbooking layouts ... over 2,000 pages of instant "print your own" scrapbook supplies ...

FREE samples ... tips ... alphabets ... frames ... clip art ... templates AND SO MUCH MORE! You'll also be told how to SAVE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS ON MATERIALS! Where to go to in order to get merchandise at BULK reductions. Plus learn How to market your business on the internet (even if you’re a complete "computer dummy").

Scrapbooking is a great business and it's booming! Everyone is getting back to trying preserving those wonderful memorable family moments and a well designed scrap book can do that for them. Imagine you supplying them the layout and cute graphics to help enhance their family scrapbooks? This e-book will show you how to do this successfully. The price of this e-book is less than $25 plus it comes 12 additional marketing, advertising and business e-books.

New Articles Added in the WAH Business Mall

I will start to put up brief lead in article write up for the numberous articles that have been submitted for publication in the WAH Business Mall.

The articles in the database are available for reprint as long as you leave everything intact and provide the resource information, you can reproduce the articles in your e-zine, printed newsletter or magazine or your website. Please make sure to give credit where credit is due.

How To Organize A Seminar Or An Event
Resource by Matt Bacak

Seminars and events have always been implemented as a holistic experience to participants. Thus, organizing an event requires extensive planning and preparation with most work implemented at least a few months before the actual event. Most of the time, seminars seem to run like clockwork with all events flowing . . . . Click to read more

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Why Your Internet Business Is Like The Stock Market
Resource by Patty Gale

As savvy stock market investors know, chasing after the one "hot stock" with the possibility of bringing instant riches is not a wise idea. You know the old saying, "Don't put your eggs in one basket". This type of thinking carries a high risk. If your stock goes up and you are smart enough to sell, then you've made money. Click to read more

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School Fundraisers - How To Raise Twice The Money With Half The Sweat
Resource by Travis Sago

Finding the successful keywords is crucial in order to get not only a lot but the right quality. If your members, parents or donors wear clothes, watch t.v. or read books you have the beginning ingredients to a sweet recipe for a great year-round school fundraiser.
Click to read more

Slow Computer, slow page load?

I use up my temporary internet file cache almost every other day and then wonder why the heck my computer is not doing what I want it to do, which of course is to load the webpages I want as soon as I click on them.

Sometimes I'm working on a webpage and my copy and paste doesn't work. I try to send emails and the Outlook takes forever to send the message and of course there's the hundreds of emails that I receive everyday and those created in html that takes more than 5 seconds to load.

If you're anything like me when I want to check out a site or send out an email or do anything on my computer I want it done immediately.

Well, unfortunately my husband says that's impossible with the amount of things that I do on this computer, not to mention the amount of email that's saved for later viewing, lol . .

Thank God I have someone who can tell me what the problem is.

The Temporary Internet Files is there for a good reason. It stores all of the places that you've visted, yes your history of internet surfing and of course depending on how many days you have set it, it can take up quite a bit of space.

Why does it keep these pages for you? Well, for the same reason why I'm writing about it, so I can access it immediately. You see the computer holds this history so when you want to see it again, it'll load it up really quickly because it's already been cached in your computer.

However, because I develop websites, every single time I click on "Preview" in my Front Page editor, my computer automatically creates a Temporary Internet File of the page that I am trying to preview.

If your household is like mine, we have more than one person using the computer. Fortunately, my kids have their own computer now and my husband and I share the new one. Only two people shouldn't create that many temporary files right? Wrong, he's a programmer so he's on this as much as he can doing stuff that takes up so much time. He is pretty good about dumping the "Trash" but just not the Temporary Internet Files".

I've made it a habit now to make sure I delete at least a few thousand emails that I get every day, just deleted over 3,000 the other day and today my computer is slowing down again. I hate emptying the Temporary Internet Files. Why? Because it can take over an hour just to do that function.

So, if you're having problems with slow computer system and it's not a virus, it's your Temporary Internet Files. Make sure to empty it at least once a week of you love to surf the net, maybe twice a week.

How do you delete your Temporary Internet Files? Do the following:

With your Browser Open
Click on "Tools"
Then click on "Internet Options"
Under Temprary Internet Files
Click on "Delete files"
A pop up window will open click on "OK" don't tick the box that ask you to delete Offline content, someone might have sychronized a website for offline work.

Once you click on OK your computer will start the slow process of deleting all of your Temporary Internet Files.

That should speed up your internet connection a little.

If you've got a lot of saved emails, save them to your computer or better yet, open up your Notepad and copy and paste the important information you need and save it as a Text Document in your computer. Delete all emails that you don't need and this also should help your computer process faster.

I'm currently deleting my Temporary Internet Files. Of course this means I can't do anything for awhile but publish this post.

Inbound Links

Exchanging links, banners and traffic is one of the fastest way to get your website noticed before the search engine sends their robot spiders to catalog any website.

It's pretty easy, join some webrings, submit link exchange forms, join banner exchanges and when you've done say . . . maybe 20 of them in one day, you think, ahhh a job well done!

Well, that depends on whose point of view, lol . . since we highly want Google to give us its blessings, then it is "IT" that we need to satisfy. How does Google or the many search engines give us their blessings for a job well done when we exchange links and so forth? Giving us high ranking position in the search result pages when our keywords or keyword phrases are used in the search criteria of major search engines. Whew! Long sentence!

What has this got to do with link exchanges? A heck of a lot!

The habit of most web masters is to seek out and populate the internet with their link exchange information.

Question here is this - Is your submitted text that describes your site title and site description helping you receive the ultimate search engine nod? What about a wink?

Here's one of the algorithm that the major search engines use to program their robot spiders.

Read the keywords, make sure that the site complies with keyword density, make sure that the content pertains to the site keywords and make sure that the outbound links are related to the site content, make sure that the internal links provides keyword text, make sure that images have description, make sure that the site does not have hidden text in small print with the same color font as the background . . . . okay, there's more for this string, but you get the picture.

If it is so important that you create your website to fulfill your most important keywords and keyword phrases and these keywords and phrases and written in the visible text content to fulfill keyword density. What makes anyone think that submitting their site for link exchanges allows you to veer off what you've written down on your site title and meta tag description?

Inbound Links is what I'm talking about, these are links created of your site on other websites.

The way you write your Site Description is important. The text you write for your description is important. The way they link to your website is important.

Each of these will help build your site ranking with the search engines.

Fulfill Link Popularity - Fulfill linking to websites with like content - Fulfill your keyword search engine page rank popularity.

In summation this is how you should submit your site for link exchanges.

Use your page title wisely. It should contain your main keywords or keyword phrase. It should be no more than 15 words and no more than 84 characters including spaces and symbols.

My main keyword phrase is "work at home business", I've changed my site title several times and is now using this title " Work at home business, direct sales work at home job leads, work at home directory."

Use your text description wisely. Like in the title it should contain your keywords or keyword phrase, no more than 28 words and no more than 164 characters including spaces and symbols.

I do a lot of link exchanges but I tend to do only text link exchanges. They are more beneficial than image links.

When you submit your site for link exchanges make sure you utilize your title well, the search engine robots will read it when spidering the sites you've linked to.

My site would be linked like this in the textarea below.<a target="_blank" href="http://www.my-biz.net/">Work at home business, direct sales work at home job leads, work at home directory</a>

Work at home business, direct sales work at home job leads, work at home directory

Notice that the clickable link has my keywords and when these keywords or keyword phrases are used as a search criteria it will be brought up in the page results of search engines. Imagine submitting your site to text link exchange websites that have like content. It will help boost your link popularity, fulfill one of the major criterion of search engines to link to like sites, and help give your search engine page ranking a boost when all your link exchange text coincide with your main keywords and keyword phrases and if your site title is used as the clickable link.

The thing to accomplish is that you want your site using link text that is in relation to your main keyword target. You want the search engine to give you points for spidering websites that have your link and keywords associated.

You will want to do the same exact thing for your site description. Use your keywords as often as you can.

Exchange with as many websites that have similar contents to your websites but make sure that you not only get "Inbound Links" but effective inbound links to help your search engine page ranking.

Networking why it's important for your on-line business

Networking is crucial for many reasons and can help your business survive on-line. There are so many websites that are created by web developers or novices each and every day. 10 years ago, it was an average of 5,000 new websites per day. Can you imagine how many are coming up every day now? Especially in this day an age where the need to be a stay home parent is more of a priority than to increase one's financial gain. Life has made many of use want to provide a better foundation for our children, spend more time with our better halves and create the family scenario that once we saw on television years ago.

Okay, I'm getting a bit nostalgic, lol . .so the point I'm getting at is that we now use our computers not just to surf for information, but as a means to generate income. So, the website is built, but their aren't many visitors and guess what that means no generation of income.

This is the reason why networking and belonging to internet groups is a crucial ingredient when doing business on-line. When we use to hear the old cliche "the world is your oyster", well, it really is if you're on-line. You can make an impact as well as make contact with people you may never meet from all over this globe. Someone in Canada might be looking for something you provide or you might find someone who is at the other end of the United States that can produce your products or provide you with products that you may not have known about if you didn't network or join internet groups.

I must warn you however, that within these groups still lies the human trecherous minds of those that will do anything to get ahead and some forget that their is someone with feelings using the keyboard. Yes, I'm sure there are many of these types of people you may have come across, but if you can ignore most of them and brush them off like a grain of sand, you will find many jewels in these types of forums.

I belong to several wonderful forums on-line that have netted me with some great networking partners and friends.

Network with other small business owner's and get your business promoted with AdlandPro's Traffic Exchange free advertisement program. You are allowed to build your own personal webpage and post your classfieds and meet some really great small business owners in this forum. It doesn't hurt that you can get your advertisement posted once a month to their network of members for free either, lol . .

List Dot.com will allow you to Network and send your business ads to your Opt-In List. This is free and you can send out messages to those that opt-in to your list that will be advertised for free.

Join one of the fastest growing networks on-line. Create your own advertising area, join hundreds of topic specific groups to fit your specific business needs. I belong to several groups at Ryze. I must warn you though, you'll receive a ton of messages once you sign up for groups. Make sure that you change your profile where you only receive messages from messages you've posted or you will be bombarded with hundreds of emails. A bit of a nuisance, but not bad since you will meet many new faces and it is a great way to advertise your business for free.

Well, there is quite a bit more places that I can write about, but for now this will have to do. Network and meet people on-line by joining networking forums, bulletin boards and internet groups. You'll be surprised at how fast your website will get viewed and the worst that can happen? You may actually start getting more sales!

Almost forgot, I should mention my WAH Business Ad Promotion Group. Okay, not exactly a networking group, but you can save discounts on advertising on my network of sites. But, this is not why I'm mentioning this group. I am going to create an e-coupon book to be given away for free in the beginning of October just in time for the biggest shopping days of the year, Christmas! This group will be provided with details on this project so if you want to get your business noticed, you may want to join this free group.

Until I think of something else to write! Enjoy your day!

Hiring a Professional to create your Website

I've always found it amazing at the amount of money that many I've come across have paid to get their website created. Unfortunately, I hear stories where the web designer didn't do exactly what they wanted; took their money and didn't want to complete it unless they forked up more money; or they can't do any maintenance on their site because they don't know how to do simple maintenance.

These have been the kinds of stories that I've heard since being on-line. Hence, one of the biggest reasons why I decided to become a web developer. I don't think many understand that there is a vast difference between a web designer and a web developer. Now, this might piss off many with the Web Designer title, but I've visited many web designers sites and their portfolio of clients and have found that although the site looks nice enough the html source is not well developed to fulfill the at least most of the search engine criterion.

A web designer is a graphics designer with some advanced html skills. A web developer is proficient in advance HTML maybe not every single aspect but they also know how customize and install scripts as well as PHP or ASP driven program, they are the ones that will make sure that their client understands the need to create keyword density web pages, install static html link exchange programs, insert alt tags for links and images, create a navigation hub that will be easy to use for their client's site visitors, insert all necessary meta tags, help provide clients guidance and information to survive on-line or at least make sure that they know how to get their site seen by the internet surfers before the search engines actually catalog their site.

Their is a myth that many web designers believe. You cannot get a Google Page Rank of 3 if you haven't been on-line for a year. Well, the WAH Business Mall was officially launched on June 1st, 2005. However, before the launch 30 days to be exact the Page Rank indicator that I put on the home page came up with a Google Page Rank of #4. This is also the same story with the Mom Biz Network which is not completely done yet.

How then do you know if you're hiring a Web Developer that knows what they're doing or just a Web Designer who is great at creating graphics and has maybe some advance knowledge with HTML?

Before you send your money to anyone that tells you they can create your website, please do the following:

1. Ask a lot of questions, I know you might not know the type of questions to ask. But, do send your would be web developer samples of websites you would like developed for you. This will give you an idea of how much they'll charge you.
2. View their website source code. This will tell you a lot of how they really develop webpages. Meta Tags are not just keywords, title and description. There is so much more that can be added to help your site get cataloged by the search engines and in it's proper categories as well as the ever important meta tag that tells the robot spiders to come back to your site to read all of your new additions to re-catalog it again. How do you view their source code? Click on "View" which is located at the top of your browser window, then click on "Source" in the drop down window. You'll see the html source code that is used for creating any website.
3. By all means follow the links provided on their portfolio of clients. Check out their html source codes as well.
4. What kinds of terms are they offering when it comes to their graphics? Will they give you copyright of the images and graphics created specifically for your site? This is something very important to know, some may turn around and tell you that you cannot have another web developer re-do your website because they not you own the copyright of all the images created specifically for your website, that you have already paid for.
5. How many layout choices will they give you? This too is something you need to know.
6. Get all prices up front, be careful of the hidden charges. I've heard many stories where shopping carts were installed and when the client asked why the site graphics and color theme didn't match their site, they were told that would be another charge. Don't fall into this type of hidden after you hire cost. Ask for all pricing up front.
7. Put down a down payment, do not send all of your money up front. This is a big no, no. This is how many get burned. Yes, you can sue, but technically they have you beat before you even think of suing them. You see, in order for you to sue anyone who is not in your state or county, you need to go to their court to process and get your results. Yes, it's a bit unfair, but until their is an Internet Court, there really isn't much of a recourse to getting your money back. You can report the business to Better Business Bureau, tell all your friends about them, but as far as getting your money back, well . . How do I know these things, well aside from being a law buff, I have many relatives that are lawyers and have had to write up many different types of documents filled with law jargons that many wouldn't understand. The law is there to protect the consumer but on the internet it is a bit hard to chase someone you've never met. So, be very careful with your money and how much you pay up front for this type of work. Many will allow you to put down a percentage of the work before getting started, some will tell you that they want a certain amount after the work has started and of course the rest of the balance immediately after you've approved the work.

Okay, I discussed what you should do, but please be aware that a web designer or a web developer can also only go by what you tell them. A web developer will:

1. Answer all of your questions to your satisfaction.
2. Want to call you on the phone to make sure that they understand all of the emails that they've received from you.
3. They will ask lots and lots of questions, which might be confusing to you, but this is necessary.
4. Have an enormous amount of patience because many clients do not understand the machinations of creating a website. It may require a lot of explain on their end, but explaining to make the client understand is part of the job.
5. Require payment from you before a job is started and require payment from you at least 24 hours after the job is completed.
6. Require you to answer their messages as soon as possible. This means answering the questions that is asked in their messages and making sure that you reply with the message they sent originally so they know what you are answering. Maybe this is tedious but you need to remember you may not be the only client they're working with at the time. This type of message reply will keep your site creation fresh in their mind and if you reply as soon as possible they don't need to try to figure out where they were at when you replied to their message.
7. Fulfill 3 criteria's: 1: Develop a website that is easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing in appearance to your site visitor; 2: Develop a search engine friendly optimized website to fulfill most of the major search engine criterions; 3: Client Satisfaction.

These are just some of the things that you should know before you hire someone to create your website. Do your homework first. Search the internet for the type of sites that you want created. Make sure you know exactly the type of text content you're going to have for each of the webpages you're going to want created. Compare pricing and type of work done. Know exactly what you want as far as how many webpages, names of your webpages, categories for your site and what kind of programs you want installed. If you want to install a shopping cart, please check them out to see which one you really want to use. All shopping carts have demo sites and feature listing for their products. If you want to be able to maintain your site afterwards, which I highly recommend then you should check out the Content Management Programs. These have many features that allow you to add your own content as well as adminster who can access these content all in one control administrative panel.

One more thing, make sure that you hire someone that will make you a real homepage. What I mean is one that is search engine friendly, does not have frames, in-line or otherwise and does not just contain your "enter" image or word. Your homepage should be rich in keyword density and provide proper meta tags for the search engines. Do not have them create just a "doorway" page, many of these barely comply to the major search engine criterions.