Date September 8th 2003
Volume 1
Issue #22
Mal Keenan
publisher@home-business-tips-newsletter.com
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/

By Subscription Only!
truth4u@getresponse.com

If you prefer to read this newsletter online:
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/current.html

To advertise in this newsletter:
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/advertising.html

You are receiving this newsletter because you requested a subscription. Unsubscribe instructions are at the end of this newsletter.

===================================
IN THIS ISSUE
===================================

=> A note from Mal Keenan (Newsletter publisher)
=> This Issue's Sponsor
=> Feature Article
=> Tidbit of the Week
=> Home Business Blog Musings
=> Free Products, Services, Downloads
=> Guest Article
=> Words of Wisdom
=> Classified Ads
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information

===================================
A Note from Mal Keenan
===================================

Greetings friends,
As always a warm welcome to all our new subscribers since our last issue.

Well I just checked my bank balance today and unfortunately I'm definitely still not rich. How about you?

I guess I'm patiently waiting for my search engine ranking to explode. I'm slowly but surely moving up the ranks for some of the most popular "work at home" search terms on all four of my sites:
http://www.freeadvertz.com/
http://www.workfromhomebiz.biz/
http://www.workathomebiz.info/
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/

I have been doing this diligently over the past few months through a twin approach of reciprocal linking coupled with optimizing my site for the search engines.

The search engine submissions and optimization is done using Webposition Gold:
http://www.workathomebiz.info/webposition.html

And I use Linkmanager to manage all my reciprocal links:
http://www.workathomebiz.info/linksmanager.html

Through this strategy I have seen my website hits to all my sites steadily grow. If you have any questions on how best to go about this strategy then please don't hesitate to email me. ;-)

Til next time

Your friend in success

Mal Keenan
http://www.freeadvertz.com

P.S. If you are serious about owning a home business then Stone Evans will set one up for you FREE:
http://www.workathomebiz.info/pluginprofitsite.html

P.P.S
Please pass this newsletter on to everyone you know;-).

===================================
VISIT OUR SPONSOR
===================================

FREE Traffic!
There's a new, fully automated traffic-generation system that can send 1000s of targeted prospects to your website, every single day, for FREE! It takes just 5 minutes to set it up, and it's totally "viral" ... Check it out and create a FREE account at:
Click >> http://www.workathomebiz.info/swarm.html

===================================
FEATURE ARTICLE - Turn Prospects into Buyers
===================================

By
Leva Duell

It may take 4 to 7 visits before your web visitors buy from you. New information, regular changes, and updates keep visitors coming back to your web site. As your visitors develop confidence in you, they will be more likely to buy from your products or services. Follow these tips to keep prospects coming back, win their trust, and increase your online sales.

Capture your visitors' email address

Collecting email addresses is essential to staying in touch with your prospects. Provide a free report or subscription to your ezine (electronic newsletter) to capture your visitors' email address. Follow up with ezines, offer more valuable information to establish credibility, inform them of what's new on your site, and invite them to return to your site.

Provide valuable information and benefits

If your visitors don't see anything that interests them, they will go to your competitors and may never come back. If you provide plenty of valuable information and benefits, they are more likely to bookmark your site and come back later.

Update regularly

Studies show that people spend more time at a site that changes regularly.

1. Make changes and provide new, original, and useful content often. 2. Update your web site at least once a month, even if the changes are minimal. Make small changes, e.g. updates, new articles, a tip of the week. 3. Keep all information current. 4. Indicate the items you updated. 5. Mention that you are continuously adding new information. 6. Ask visitors to bookmark your site and come back for new information.

Content that attracts prospective buyers back to your site

1. Updated information (e.g. industry information).
2. Timely information (e.g. events schedule, class schedule, articles, tip of the day/week).
3. Updated product (e.g. latest edition of your book, updated virus software).
4. New product (e.g. new software demo).
5. Quality freebies (e.g. free reports, tips, and electronic books; free pictures and graphics; free samples, book excerpts; free templates, software, sounds, and videos.
6. Go to this resource page to see more examples of freebies at
http://www.FiveStarWebDesign.com/links.htm.

Provide valuable content and update your site regularly to gain your visitors' trust, keep them coming back, and turn them into repeat customers.

------------------------------------------------------

About the author:
Leva Duell, Carlsbad, CA, US Web Design Built on Proven Marketing Strategies! Leva Duell, Web Designer/online marketing consultant. Visit http://www.fivestarwebdesign.com and http://www.profitablewebstrategies.com FREE monthly ezine "Profitable Web Strategies." Subscribe today and get a FREE report, "10 Easy Ways to Skyrocket Your Online Sales."

Visit their site now:
http://www.profitablewebstrategies.com

============CHECK THIS OUT==============

FREE Classifieds.
Post your ads to 2222 sites with ONE CLICK:
Adland Pro

===================================
TIDBIT OF THE WEEK
Send your home business tidbits to
readers@home-business-tips-newsletter.com
===================================

Did you know that using purple text on a website sales page has been known to increase the number of buyers? Well you do now:-)

Use it sparingly, don't plaster it all over the page or it will look like a psychedelic nightmare.

In case you're intersted the code for purple text is: (#990099, R=153 G=0 B=153).

===================================
Home Business Blog Musings
Visit My Home Business Blog: Click Here Now!
===================================

Most Recent Blog Entries

===================================
FREE: Products, Services, Downloads
===================================

Keywords - The Key To Success!
http://www.vitaltools.com/downloads/E-keywords.exe

===================================
GUEST ARTICLE - The Power Within
===================================

By
--- By Julie Fuimano

At a recent outing, a woman seated near us lit a cigarette. My 7 year-old-son commented to her, "Smoking is bad for you." At which the woman replied, "Yes, so make sure you never start."

Every day you wake up, you make literally hundreds of choices. You choose your mood and your attitude. You choose what you wear and how you style your hair. You choose to brush and floss your teeth - or not. You choose what to have for breakfast or to skip it. You choose to yell at your kids for being late or at your spouse for leaving a mess. You choose to get hugs and kisses from everyone before you leave for work. You choose your route to work and you choose to enjoy your drive - or not.

Everything you do, say and think is a choice. Some of the things you do regularly, you do automatically - out of habit. This can make it seem like you don't have a choice. But the choice still exists. With some effort, you can change any habit, including smoking. You always have a choice. The power is within you.

The Power Of Awareness Creating habits is effective. You learn to do something a certain way and continue to reinforce the behavior by doing it over and over again. For a while, this habit may add value to your life. And until the moment you become unhappy with the results, you may never think to question how you do things.

Creating habits is very efficient for us as humans. The conscious mind can only focus attention on one thing at a time so if you can learn to do certain things automatically, your conscious mind is free to focus on something else. So naturally, you are always creating habits.

Habits left unchecked aren't always helpful. A habit you formed when you were a child may no longer serve you as an adult. Even a habit you created a few months ago may no longer be needed. Becoming aware of your regular habits will bring them into consciousness. Then you can evaluate them for effectiveness. In other words, by paying attention to how you do things and to the outcomes you are getting, you can change what you are doing in order to get different results. If you continue to do things the way you've always done, you'll continue to get what you've always gotten. So if you're not happy with your results, you need to change your actions that are giving you those results.

By vigorously identifying and qualifying your personal habits, you become empowered. Awareness is powerful because we can't choose to do something different if we're not aware of what we're doing in the first place.

The Power Of Choice With awareness comes choice. At any given moment, you can choose a different path. The choice is yours.

You can wake up one morning and decide to be a nonsmoker for the day. What would that be like? What would be different if you were a non-smoker? If you make different choices about health and caring for yourself, other things will become important and smoking will no longer fit into your self-definition. Do that for enough days and it will become habit. (In this example you may find that the actual quitting of smoking occurs after you've spent enough time re-defining yourself, which could take several months.)

You choose whether to be nice or to be sarcastic, to love or to withhold love, to take care of yourself or to please others, to blame others or circumstances or to take responsibility. Everything is a choice. You choose a life or a lifestyle. You choose how you spend your money and what to save. People will live in avoidance and denial for years rather than make a choice. This is itself a choice. Are you choosing to live a lie? Will this permit you to live the life you most want?

Awareness doesn't mean you have to do something different. It does mean that you can do things different. Awareness provides you with choice. If you operate under the notion that there is always another way of doing something and of thinking about something, you empower yourself with choice. Choosing wisely can be challenging for many people. You can learn to make better choices by learning to choose integrity and to honor your highest self with every choice you make.

The Power Of Responsibility You alone are responsible for your life experience. If you are not happy in some area of your life, you have the power to change it. You don't need to do it alone; that's where a Coach can help. You must make the decision to take hold of the steering wheel of your life. You have to sit in the driver's seat. If you believe you're only a passenger in your life, you'll never be completely happy with your results.

You are amazing! You can accomplish whatever you can dream of, commit to and follow through with. Accept responsibility for all of your choices. Choose to become more aware of how you think and the impact of your actions in your life and in the lives of everyone with whom you're in contact. You deserve a great life and to experience personal fulfillment and happiness every day. Only you can get you there. Choose well.

---------------------------------------------------------

About the author:
Julie Fuimano, MBA, BSN, RN is a Personal & Career Coach and Author. Julie's passion is coaching her clients to stop struggling and start enjoying their lives and careers! How do you want your life to be different? What needs to happen for you to be happy with your progress? For your free consultation, visit Julie at http://nurturingyoursuccess.com, or call her directly at (484) 530-5024.

===================================
WORDS OF WISDOM
===================================

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

-- Unknown

===================================
CLASSIFIED ADS
===================================

Ad #1
600,000 DAILY On AUTO-PILOT...Sign Up Now To The Worlds GREATEST Website Submission Service!
http://www.freeadvertz.com/submit.html

Ad #2
"Pocket $1,000 cash profit in 5-15 days days, then watch it explode - risk free - using the same Internet 'quick cash' method others invested $3,500 to discover! We can HIGHLY recommend this.
http://www.freeadvertz.com/mininggold.html

Ad #3
For more traffic. More visibility. More profits and sales.
http://www.workathomebiz.info/happeneurs.html

Ad #4
Earn $1000'S with your Internet connection and 5 hours a week
Do you want?
__ to be financially independent ($37,000 a month)
__ to quit your job and be home with your children ($3,700 a month)
__ just need some extra money to buy groceries ($370 a month)
__ I am a skeptic, I have been burned so many times, I hardly allow myself to dream anymore.

Click below for more info:
http://www.wealthlink.com/ksherman

===================================
Subscriber Management / Contact Information
===================================

Copyright 2003 - Mal Keenan All Rights reserved
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/

List Maintenance:
Subscribe: truth4u@getresponse.com

Archived issues of this newsletter can be found at:
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/archives.html
Mal Keenan
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/
Email: