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Starting A Skateboarding Business On A Budget
If it was up to many skateboarders, they would do nothing else but spend eight hours per day skateboarding. Many people consider skateboarding more than just a weekend hobby. Many skateboarders enter competitions and other events to earn money. But how does one make this a full-time career? There are a handful of alternatives for a skateboardprenuer.

Friendly Systems Celebrates 25 Years as Business Software Provider
Atlanta-based Friendly Systems Celebrates 25th Anniversary as a Top Performing Sage Software Authorized Partner and business consultant.

Agency Management Roundtable Brings Online Marketing Seminar to Scottsdale
Agency Management Roundtable (AMR) to Partner with Interactive Marketing Agency Sitewire in two-day Online Marketing Seminar

AirClic and Thornberry Partner to Integrate Mobile Business Process Solution into NDoc® Clinical Point of Care System
Thornberry first home health software provider to offer AirClic-Enabled workflow solution for home health agency and hospice field staff.

General Graphic Announces Addition of Intimus Business Card Slitter
General Graphic is proud to join forces with Martin Yale, an innovator in paper trimming and cutting equipment.

Hot Business Trends for 2004… And Beyond: Maybe One Will Turn Into a Creative Business Idea for You
I always look forward to the December issue of Entrepreneur magazine. That's the issue that features the publisher's annual pick of hot businesses, markets, and trends for smart entrepreneurs – or those who aspire to be.

Orange County, California Recruitment Company Embraces Part-Time Working Mother Business Model
New survey finds that 60% of working mothers prefer part-time.

Tag Cloud Module? Innovative Idea for Your E-Business
You, as the owner of online store, are constantly looking for some fresh, innovative ideas to make your store more attractive for customers. There is a new trend which is called Tag Cloud Module. It offers quite interesting approach for web site navigation and provides visitors with instant illustration of the main topics of your sites content.

5 Common Problems Overlooked By Business It Networks.
IT Networks though simple, require extensive planning to ensure stability, yet we often encounter businesses that are acquainted with the imperative role networking plays in the efficient functioning of their company.

Low Cost Internet Marketing Solutions
Thanks to Internet this world became an enterprise which is open for all, and as a result it has become very important and often necessary for businesses to further expand their consumer targets and their services to the online market It is certainly so for home based businesses

A Fresh Breeze is Blowing in the Stale Online Property Rental Business
KwikRents.com, a rental site created specifically for property managers and realtors, officially launched last month in Las Vegas at the National Association of Realtors Expo. "It was nice to finally find a rental site that addressed my needs as a single-family property manager, not just those of the mega-complexes. Kwikrents.com is quick, affordable and simple," said Roger Skaggs, a show attendee and user of the site.

Home Equity Lines Of Credit For Starting Your Own Business
Home equity lines of credit can provide you with all the financing and flexibility your new business project requires to start growing. All the initial steps for starting your own business can easily be financed with the funds obtained from a home equity line of credit and the flexibility for repayment will provide you with the ease you need to concentrate specifically on your business instead on repaying the loan. The characteristics of home equity lines of credit are perfect for this purpose.

Does Your Business Really Need A Website?
Website, website, website, everyone says you need one. But do you really? It all depends.

SINOL USA, Inc. and Strategic Pharmaceutical Advisors, Inc. to Enter a Marketing Agreement for SINOL Nasal Spray
Strategic Pharmaceutical Advisors (SRxA) and Sinol USA, Inc. announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding signifying their intent to enter into a marketing agreement for SINOL Nasal Spray, an all natural, capsaicin-based product for fast relief from allergy and sinus congestion and headaches of all types.

Dr. Emil Chynn Featured on FOX News (WNYW-TV) Park Avenue Laser Vision Center Recognized for Creative Internet Marketing
Dr. Emil Chynn of the Park Avenue Laser Vision (PALV) Center recently appeared on Fox Weekend News on Saturday, June 28, 2008, as a featured guest to discuss the issue of offering his patients discounts for posting videos of their laser surgeries on the popular video sharing site, YouTube. Dr. Chynn explains on the segment that he uses this promotional technique as a way to reach people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who frequently use the Internet and may be interested in laser vision surgery.

Viral Marketing Tips: Greeting Cards

When we speak about viral marketing, we are not talking about the newest disease. We are not talking about a Mad Cow Disease variant or something that you need to be vaccinated for. In fact, we are not referring to a disease at all.

What we are talking about is literally the most powerful traffic generation technique available on the internet. Viral marketing is so powerful that it makes the search engines look small and insignificant in comparison. Even link exchanges, as powerful as they can be, wilt into oblivion in comparison.

What you do with viral marketing is create something, anything, that visitors will want to give to other people. This thing, whatever it is, contains a link and perhaps a short advertisement for your website, ezine or ebook. So far so good, this is just good marketing. The viral part comes in because the people who receive these items want to give them to other people, who in turn want to give them away also.

So you see? What you get is an explosion of marketing for a very small price. It's actually kind of like an avalanche, in that you throw a snowball down a slope and it just grows and grows until the whole mountain of ice and snow is tumbling down.

One very cool viral marketing technique that any web site can take advantage of is greeting cards. I'm sure you've run across these all over the web. You select a graphic (a drawing, photo or other image), perhaps a sound file and add some text. This is sent to one or more people via email. These people open the email and click on a link to view their card. They, of course, have the option from here to visit your web site and perhaps send additional cards to other people (or back to the sender).

If your cards are good enough, you can find this technique alone will generate an incredible amount of traffic. Of course, you have the same problem with greeting cards that you have with your web site - you have to get people to it to begin with. Once you do that, however, you will find that it becomes more or less self maintaining. The more traffic you get the more you generate. Just make sure that all of your greeting card pages are listed in the search engines, well displayed on your page (and perhaps all of your pages) and advertised elsewhere as much as practical.

In fact, it's a good idea to spend as much or more time marketing the greeting cards as the rest of your site, since these tend to create visitors exponentially, while your site is linear.

How do you put greeting cards on your site? First, pick a theme or two. If your site is about model railroads, for example, you might get some photos of trains and train sets; you could include vacation photos, cute animal pictures, scanned drawings or anything else that you feel would make a good card. Just remember to honor copyrights - make sure you have the right to make copies of the materials before you use them.

Once you have a theme or two, you need to find a greeting card service. I've experimented with a few options. I've tried hosting it entirely on my own site, and what I've found is it is difficult to maintain. I've also tried it completely hosted on another site and found it is too restrictive.

The service that I settled upon is called CyberGreeting Network - http://cybergreet.net/. This company, in my opinion, provides the best of both worlds (local and remotely hosted).

The pages, images and sound files are stored on your own web site. You can tailor these all that you want so they blend with your pages perfectly. This is the perfect freedom, and as long as you set up the form properly all will work fine.

How do you do this? You download a template file (as explained in their instructions) and modify it to suite your needs. This may require a little effort on your part (as well as some skill with HTML) but the end result will be worth it.

The remote part of the product (which is free, by the way) is the piece that actually formats and sends the card. You see, on your page you get the visitor to supply the answers to a series of questions in a form. The form data is submitted to a CGI routine which puts everything together into a greeting card. Your visitor simply answers the questions and presses submit. You pass all of this to the routine, which then sends the card to the destination.

I was able to get half a dozen pages of greeting cards working perfectly in an afternoon. These remain on my site, and serve me well by creating a steady, growing stream of traffic. I think you would do well to take a look and determine if this will work for your site as well.

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