Bill McRea

When a visitor lands on your website they are strangers in a strange land until you find a way to put a human face on your business.  Although e-commerce has been thriving for fifteen years or more, there are still people who get very nervous about buying online.  Just knowing that there is a contact number for support where they can reach an actual human being to ask their questions and get live answers can make their buying experience so much more rewarding.

How do you know when it’s time to let someone else handle customer support?

If you are a clickbank vendor who has published a few successful information products, customers will naturally be looking for support whether general customer support, or technical support. If answering these support emails it taking up a lot of your time and keeping you from being able to produce additional products, it is time to consider getting someone other than yourself to handle customer support for you.

Providing in-house support

You can provide in-house support if you have staff people available who can take customer support calls. You can publish the days and times when live support is available, and the times when if people call they will get a recording prompting them to leave a message.  Having a contact number for support does not mean that you must always have someone available live to answer it. When callers reach a recording, it should direct them to how they can use your online support services on your website so that they don’t feel like their concerns are not going to be addressed until they can speak to a live person. If you provide a help desk ticketing system, your contact number for support can become part of the escalation process.

Outsourcing support

If your in-house operation is more lean and you don’t have any staff available to answer phones, you can always outsource customer support.  You can hire a virtual assistant and have your support calls routed to her number, or you can hire a customer support outsourcing company that has a professional call center with operators on the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Outsource support companies can provide a rangel of services such as:

FAQ support (frequently asked questions)

Troubleshooting issues

Resetting passwords

Technical support for software or hardware

It really depends on what the volume of your customer support needs are, and what kind of support you need to provide.

If you plan to scale your company, then customer support is a huge issue that absolutely cannot be ignored. Your customers are responsible for your success. How you treat them will play a huge role in your standing in the marketplace and the ultimate success or failure of your brand.

Internet marketers are often looking for ways that they can make money quickly by leveraging their time, but they should never lose sight of the importance of providing excellent support for the customers they have now so that they will continue to attract more customers in the future.

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Flipping blogs can be a fun way to make some extra money or even create a business, but there are a few common mistakes that newbies often make that can easily be avoided with the correct information. Let’s take a look at those three common errors and what you can do to avoid making them yourself, thus increasing your chances for making more money flipping blogs.

1.       Your blog is in the wrong niche

The popularity of certain niches ebbs and flows. Some niches can be strictly seasonal. Some may be based on a product or a topic that was once hot, but no one is really talking about them anymore. Regardless of the reason, if there are no buyers searching for the content of your niche. Then your blog is in the wrong niche and it will be challenging, if not impossible to sell such a blog for decent profit.

Make sure that when you are flipping blogs the niche and the topic are in demand with buyers searching for that topic. If you find that the popularity of your blogs niche has waned. You can make some revisions and change the primary keywords, and maybe some of the graphics before you try to flip that blog.

2.       The presentation is lacking

Another mistake that people make when flipping blogs is that they don’t pay attention to how the blog looks. First impressions are important both with buyers and with visitors. When flipping blogs you want the blog to look its best. Does the blog have a run-of-the-mill, free theme? Consider hiring a graphic artist to tweak a theme for you, create a nice, new, custom header image and buttons, or better yet, create a whole new, unique theme that is suited to that niche and topic. Go in and make sure that there are no broken links, out of date offers, or anything else that might detract from the site’s ‘curb appeal.’

3. Insufficient proof of the blogs statistics.

When a buyer is interested in purchasing your blog they are interested in learning about the blog statistics right away, so it helps for you to provide lots of clear documentation of the sites Alexa ranking Google page rank. Traffic statistics, and how much income the site produces monthly. If you have Google analytics installed or any other analytics package, you can supply screen shots to illustrate how much traffic the site receives now.

These are just three of the common mistakes that those who are new to blog flipping might make in the process of trying to sell a blog. As you become more experienced you will learn more about what makes a blog more appealing to buyers, and what kind of amenities you can add to increase the value and appeal of the blogs you are selling.

Another way to find out about what blog buyers are looking for is to research the ‘Just Sold,’ pages on Flippa.com. Look at the blogs that have sold recently. Look at the topic, what extras were included, etc. to get ideas to help enhance your blog flipping efforts.

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If you have been searching for online for any length of time, then you know just how challenging it can be to actually find paying work that you can do from home. Yes, finding online jobs can be a challenge, but it’s not impossible. You just have to know what to look for and where to look.

In this article we will explore different ways that you can find rewarding work that actually pays that you can do from the comfort of your own home.

What do you love to do?
Each of us is different in our own way. Everyone has special interests and a passion for a particular topic. Sit down and give some thought to the things that you enjoy in life. What are the things that you most enjoy doing, that you get a great amount of fulfillment from, and that you would be glad to do even if you were not going to get paid for it. Make a list of everything that you can think of, and then narrow it down to the kinds of things that you could earn money from or get paid for.

What would you rather not do?
Just as important as identifying your passions and the things that you love to do, is making a list of the things that you do not want to do. What are those tasks at work that you absolutely dread? Write them down and be aware of what they are so that when you are reviewing online job opportunities you will be sure to avoid those that require you to do things that you do not like.

Begin researching online jobs
Armed with your lists, begin searching for online jobs. A good tip is to get referrals from people you know, or join some online forums and try to get a feel for what work from home jobs that other people recommend. Be wary of review websites because these are often thinly disguised ads for a product. Also be aware that another sales tactic is for one marketer to call a competing product a ‘scam’ to cast just enough doubt in people’s minds to avoid that product.

How to avoid getting scammed online
The best way to avoid getting scammed is to use your common sense. If you want to get paid you will have to do some work. Those ridiculous income claims that promise you the ability to make $8, 621.37 per day while laying around in your pajamas are nothing but hype. Those inflated ads appeal to the greedy side of human nature that is convinced that there is a secret method out there to make a ton of money without having to work for it.

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Squidoo is a web 2.0 content sharing website where you can publish your content for free and take advantage of high quality links back to your website from this high page rank authority site. But it’s also a good place to establish yourself as an expert by creating and sharing quality, relevant content in your niche. Micro Niche Finder is a software tool that can help you select the perfect niches in which to create your Squidoo lenses.

Micro Niche Finder is an easy-to-use keyword analysis tool that helps Internet marketers choose the most lucrative keywords for their online content. Choosing the best keywords helps improve your site’s SEO and it can help boost your search engine rankings.

Google loves Squidoo, so it can be pretty easy to build a few lenses and get them ranked for your specific keywords. There are some people who have lenses that rank higher than their own blog. The trick is to choose the right keywords to create your lenses with.

Getting started with Squidoo

Your first step will be to go to Squidoo.com and set up your profile. It’s free to sign up and it only takes a few minutes. Have your picture handy and a short bio and you can be up and running in just a few minutes.

Next you will start by creating your first lens, but there are a few things that you will want to have prepared before you start and those include the title of your lens and the keywords that your lens content will be based on. Those keywords will become the tags, which is ultimately how your lens will get found within the Squidoo community.

How to use MNF to find good keywords for Squidoo lenses

Make your preliminary list of keywords and then run them through Micro Niche Finder and see what you get. Look for keywords that get a sufficient enough number of searches per day, but have a lower SOC, or strength of competition rating. These will be keywords that you will use to create your lens and you can then use these keywords to come up with additional related search terms that will become the tags for your lens.

Quick tips for creating Squidoo lenses

Choose the right keywords

At the risk of sounding blatantly obvious, take the time to do the keyword research and uncover those gems of keyword phrases that will bring you the organic search engine traffic that you need. Do a quick search within Squidoo for tips on doing Squidoo keyword research.

Keep each lens tightly focused on a narrow topic

Don’t try to come up with an exhaustive, encyclopedic tome on your topic of choice. Come up with a few essential facts and drill as deeply as you can to share some relevant, useful information about your topic.

Use appropriate, eye-catching images

Images help bring the text to life. Humans are visual creatures and we love a good, clear image to help illustrate a point or even to just add a bit of amusement and break up blocks of text. Using images will make your lens feel livelier, so take the time to find some good images.

Participate in the Squidoo community

There are people within the Squidoo community who are very generous and share tons of tips about how to make your lenses better, how to attract traffic and feedback, and how to become well-known on Squidoo. Network with other lens creators and be willing to help others as well.

Creating Squidoo lenses is just one of the many uses for Micro Niche Finder, the powerful yet simple keyword research tool. Visit, http://mcreasite.com/MicroNiche, to watch the five, free training videos on how you can make money using this amazing software today.

The focus of content syndication is attracting targeted traffic. When a visitor finds your content out in the ‘wild’ of the Internet whether it’s on a social media site, or a guest blog post when they read your content and like it and then click on the link in the resource box that brings them back to your website this is the best kind of traffic you can ever attract. These people have read your stuff and decided that it resonated with them. That transaction is the ‘holy grail’ of content syndication that you are seeking. If you can create that dynamic over and over again with new readers you are golden.

Since content is the engine that drives syndication, let’s take a look at some of the kinds of content that you should be creating and sharing to generate the most traffic. You should be creating relevant, accurate, timely and useful content, which can take many forms including:

Videos

Create short, engaging, informative videos containing your primary keywords and a link back to your website. Post these videos on the top video sharing websites.

audio interviews with experts or news makers in your industry

Record yourself interviewing some of the heavy-hitters in your industry and post these on your blog and share them throughout social media. This is an effective way to create valuable content that your listeners will appreciate.

Articles

Articles are time-tested vehicles for content syndication. Write on useful topics and always include a call to action in the resource box.

eBooks

You can pack a lot of information into an ebook along with Marketing information about your website and some of the other products that you have to offer. Encourage readers to share your ebooks and this will distribute your content increasing your reach and exposure.

Ways to syndicate your content that will generate traffic:

Guest blogging

Develop relationships with the top bloggers in your topic or industry. Offer to do a guest blog post for them, which will give them a break but it will also expose the guest blogger’s work to a fresh audience, and give the audience the chance to experience a different perspective. This is an effective way to expand your reach and generate some targeted traffic.

Content sharing websites

Websites such as Scribd, Zimbia, Wetpaint, Associated Content, HubPages, Squidoo, and Slideshare are great places to share your content and generate targeted traffic back to your website. Posting content on these sites also helps to establish you as an expert in your subject matter.

RSS feeds

These automated feeds push your content to visitors who have subscribed to your feed. But you can also take your feed and share it on public rss feed directories, which not only exponentially expands your content’s reach, but this is a fantastic source of relevant backlinks for your website.

Social bookmarking websites

Syndicating your content on social bookmarking sites such as faves, linkagogo, furl.net, del.icio.us, multiply.com, and stumbleupon.com will give you lots of good exposure and generate more targeted traffic. Try using productivity tools such as socialposter.com, which allows you to bookmark dozens of sites at once.

There is so much more to say about content syndication and how you can use it effectively to drive a ton of targeted traffic to your website. To learn more you are welcome to visit, http://www.mcreasite.com today.