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Online Beginners – Build a Successful Business Online From Just a Few Traffic Building Techniques

You only need to have real success in a small number of traffic building areas to achieve a successful business online. It is a serious mistake to try to tackle too many things at once and find that you don’t do any of them properly or only half do them so you don’t find out if they could work.

The real problem is that there are so very many ways of making contact with people via the Internet so it is easy to be tempted into trying everything. Even if you’ve got great products and a great website you’ve got to get traffic to that site.

When I first started online, I signed up for one expensive video course which listed 17 main ways of generating traffic and went into considerable detail on most of them. The course instructor said that you should only select some of these and become an expert in them before moving on to others techniques.

Sound advice, but despite that I still tried as many as I could to find out what suited my style. Unfortunately, I didn’t even become a ‘Jack of All Trades’ because of insufficient technical knowledge. So I just kept spinning my wheels for months by trying one method and then another and then back to one I had tried before.

Finally I decided to try to define what sort of traffic I really wanted when I eventually got some experience. I tried to identify what areas I should really be concentrating on given my lack of skill in such things as video marketing, which I was told is the big one for the future. Maybe it is, but it would be a good idea to catch up with the present first if you’re a beginner online!

Obviously, having taken an ‘educated’ guess at the visitor profile I should be targeting, I was able to eliminate some of those 17 ways of generating traffic ether because they didn’t fit the profile I had thought up or because they were too difficult.

By this time, I had virtually gone full circle with traffic methods but having done so I’ve come back to good old fashioned keyword research which is the basis of so many other traffic techniques. I know this sounds elementary but it’s so easy to get confused by all the ‘novelty’ methods that experts throw at you every day.

Therefore, I recommend that you spend quality time on keyword research for your niche and then concentrate on Article Marketing and posting on Forums. The best method I’ve discovered is to use Google’s AdWords research tool which is great for finding keyword phrases that are frequently searched but which have relatively little competition according to the indicators on this site.

But in addition to Articles and Forums, advertising sites like Craigslist, USFreeAds and maybe BackPage might be good – they are only classified ads but have a huge circulation and they are easy to use. Again keywords can play a major part.

Whatever methods of traffic generation you use, you must have a good looking website so that visitors will want to see what you’ve got for them. I’ve found that as an online beginner, I didn’t know what a good website consisted of so I got a professional to build one for me.

Unfortunately, I ended up with a website that looked good but definitely wasn’t in tune with the style of the site content. Even worse, I didn’t know how to tweak it and I certainly dare not carry out any major alterations. Once again the experts had got the better of me!

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Acai Berry – Its Past, Present and Future!

Its Past

The acai berry pronounced as “ah-sigh-ee” has been around and used as health supplements for thousand of years now but it was only in the 90′s when it was introduced and used in the Western world. Even before it was discovered by health experts and medical researchers, acai berries were already known to possess incredible health properties. The Amazonians were the very first people who used the miracle fruit. They used it as a cure for different kinds of ailments. It is also estimated that around 2000 known rainforest are used by the indigenous tribes for medicinal purposes. The Amazon is known as the world’s largest rainforest bordering eight different countries and possessing the highest diversity of freshwater fishes and birds and housing around one third of all the species of animals and plants that ever live on earth.

This fruit is only one of the thousands of fruits that have been discovered in the vast region of the Amazon. There are many tribes living in the Amazon and the Shuar tribes were one of the many tribes that kept the use of this fruit for medicinal purposes for centuries now. The Shuar medicine people or the doctors in this tribe are called the “uwishin”. They use medicinal plants to cure ailments and they are also the people who know even the deepest secret of the Amazon. Because they know everything about the Amazon, the “uwishin” are also the ones who discovered the fruit. They tried using it the first time and from then on, they knew that this fruit possesses natural antioxidant and cholesterol controller properties. According to the “uwishin”, the acai berry can help reduce the bad cholesterol deposits and increase the good cholesterol. The Amazon tribes knew of these acai berry properties and in addition, they also discovered that the acai berry helps build and boost the immune system, protect the heart, fight infection and control and prevent prostate enlargement. Aside from medicinal purposes, this fruit also served the tribes men as a great energy food.

Its Present

After the Amazonian tribe discovered the benefits of the acai berry, it was introduced to the Western world. The acai berry was first used by the modern people as an energy drink patronized mainly by surfers visiting Brazil. The acai berry was even used by the beach boys as a natural Viagra. Because of its growing popularity, the acai berry gained the attention of medical researchers and health experts and from a plain ordinary energy drink, it is now considered a miracle fruit. The importance of this frut is now greatly recognized not only by the Amazonians but also by almost all people who believe that health is very important in one’s life.

Its Future

This product is quite new in the market but the demand is rising since more and more people are now getting hold of this miracle fruit. In a few more years, the importance of acai berry as an antioxidant and health supplement will definitely be recognized by all people. Why not? It is the only fruit that is rich in natural vitamins and minerals that the body needs. It is rich in fiber, protein, vitamin E, essential omega oil and other minerals. It’s not only good to remove the toxins and poisons in the body, it can also help prevent cancer and has natural anti-aging properties.

What more can you ask for? The Amazonians have enjoyed the acai berry for a long time. It’s high time that you take advantage of all the benefits of acai berry for a better and healthier future!

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5 Methods to Use For Advertising a Home Business Online

Do you have a home business and need to start getting traffic to it so you can make money with your business? Then you need to know some of the best methods you can use for advertising a home business on the internet.

There are many different methods that can be used to advertise any business online. If you are serious about achieving success with your business here are some of the best ones you definitely want to use.

One: Article marketing – This free method is very effective for getting traffic and repeat traffic coming to your site. The good thing about articles is that by just writing one and submitting it different places it can quickly spread all over the internet without any other help from you.

The more articles that you write and submit to article directories and other places online the more traffic you will coming to your business.

Two: Blogging – Because search engines love blogs that have fresh content on a regular basis this is a very good way to use. Blogs are good for getting free search engine traffic now and in the future.

Three: Social networking – There are many social sites that you want to join and become active in. The more you socialize and don’t blatantly advertise your business the more traffic you will see.

You can advertise but you want to do it subtly so you don’t get kicked off the site. After all it is called a social site for a reason.

Four: Email marketing – This is a very effective method that you want to use to advertise your business. You want to set up a newsletter and then use an autoresponder to deliver it through email to your subscribers.

You also want to use your email signature file to advertise your business each time you send out an email.

Five: Forum advertising – Find and join forums that are related to your business. Set up your signature file in each forum you join because this will do your advertising for you. Each time that you get involved and make a post or answer a question your signature file will be attached and available for everyone to see.

Now that you know what some of the best methods are to use you want to start using them one at a time to get them bringing traffic to your business. Before adding another one method get one working effectively and before you know it you will have a marketing arsenal that will bring you constant traffic so you can make great money.

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