Avoid Email Marketing During the Holidays

During the holidays, people tend to be away from their computers and not check their email regularly.

This means they may get your message when they return together with a ton of other mail that has piled up during the holidays. Chances are all but the most important messages will be deleted in a rush without a second look.

This is why you should

• avoid sending your email marketing campaign during the months of December, January, July and August.

Of course, exceptions to this rule are not only possible but sometimes mandatory.

Address Recipients with Their Name in Email Campaigns

If I get a bulk email, it feels much less bulky if it greets me with my name. I feel more like myself, less like a number — and I’m more likely to read the message, maybe risk a click or two.

If at all possible, you should

• personalize your marketing mails to
• greet and address recipients individually with their name.

Often, you will use the first name only, but for some campaigns the last name will be more appropriate.

More tips for email marketing tomorrow.

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Every online business owner has to start somewhere, and usually the very beginning of their online business endeavors start with the creation of a website. The usual questions arise first, such as – What is HTML? What is PHP? What is CSS? And of course, What is web hosting?

Many small business owners would like to diversify their revenue streams by broadcasting their products or services to the entire world. Even people that have owned storefronts for twenty years or more may have no clue how to do business online. Regardless of the task at hand, you never want to make a large investment without assurance that you could potentially receive a substantial return on your investment. Purchasing a web hosting plan is certainly not easy, especially when you are not familiar with the various options you have to choose from. If you fall under this category then you may want to consider shared web hosting as a starting point for your online business.

Minimal Investment – Maximum Learning Opportunity

Since you are just getting involved in the industry of online web hosting, you may want to try a cheap hosting plan that will give you the chance to learn without spending a lot of money to do so. Although shared web hosting does not offer a lot of server resources in comparison to other hosting plans such as dedicated and VPS hosting, it does provide all of the resources needed to run a small business online. Shared web hosting plans can be purchased for as little as $5 per month from some companies, and most companies include free 24 hour support. If you are trying to use shared web hosting as a way to learn the web hosting industry then I would strongly recommend starting with shared web hosting as a way to learn the ins and outs of the web hosting industry.

What Do You Need to Learn?

There are a lot of things for the new online business owner to learn, especially if you are planning on being successful and performing to the best of your ability. The first thing you need to learn about is how to use your web hosting control panel effectively. Your control panel is like the backbone of your website; without it you would not be able to control your website. Updating content, organizing content, and every other aspect of website management and operating has to be conducted within your web hosting control panel. Once you learn how to operate your web hosting control panel you can move on to promoting your website.

Downside of Shared Hosting

Unfortunately, like everything else shared hosting has a downside. The main downfall of a shared hosing plan is the lack of resources, which ultimately causes your site to operate slowly. However, with a shared web hosting plan you also have to share your IP address. This means you will be sharing responsibility with other people. In other words, if someone that is sharing your IP address gets deindexed from Google, then you run the risks of having the same thing happen to you. The best solution would be to start with shared hosting, and once you have become comfortable with your control panel, you can upgrade to a more comprehensive hosting plan.

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Traditionally dedicated servers have been used by businesses to store their confidential information. These servers allowed companies to securely retrieve and manipulate files on an exclusive connection.

This popular type of hosting has spilled over into the gaming industry. A growing trend is using dedicated hosting to house online games. Since the popularity of online games has significantly grown, the need for this service is also constantly growing.

Popular Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft is situated on multiple dedicated servers to accommodate the millions of players and resource-intensive graphics. Of course these gaming companies opt for the best equipment and service to ensure maximum uptime.

In the past, it was possible to run a game server in a household. As gaming technology has grown, a single residential connection to a server will not be reliable enough to handle the thousands to millions of players online.

When shopping for a dedicated gaming server, there are a few factors that must be considered including:

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Since many online games are in a first-person three dimensional environment, the amount of RAM and the speed of the CPU are imperative to reliability. Today’s graphics are so resource intensive, a large quantity of RAM and multiple CPU’s are a must.

Another major factor is the amount of disk space available on the server. Many hard drives must be available as a contingency for traffic spikes and the addition of new players. Also bandwidth should be unlimited due to the amount of players logging in 24/7 from every corner of the world.

Pricing can be a complete deal-breaker. Most clients highly base their decision on pricing alone. Make sure to understand the price of everything and ensure there are no hidden charges and fees so there are no surprises when the bill comes.

Finally it’s imperative to have a top-notch data support team. In the case that a major issue arises, the support team must be diligent and efficient at targeting the problem and concocting a solution. On that note, access to backup and recovery servers are vital.

Dedicated servers that host online games must maximize their uptime with quick support solutions when the systems go awry. These gaming companies rely on their dedicated hosting providers to supply top notch quality, speed and support ensuring customer satisfaction.

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1. Merge of WordPress MU + WordPress.org

For those of you who do not know what WordPress MU is, you do not need to worry at all. WordPress MU is a similar platform to WordPress except it allows users to run multiple sites under one installation. WordPress.com is running on WordPress MU code base. Matt Mullenweg announced the merge news during WordCamp San Francisco 2009. After a year of hard work, Automattic staff and WordPress core developers finally did it.

What does this mean for you?

You can now have multiple sites in one installation. For example we can have showcase.wpbeginner.com with one WordPress installation if we want. What are the possible outcomes? If you have one site now, and you do not want to add more sites later that is perfectly OK. Nothing will change for you. If you are running on WordPress MU, after the upgrade your sites will remain the same. Nothing will change for you.

The bottom line is that nothing will change if you don’t want it to change. This feature is just an add-on that will help users who want to have multiple sites. It will also help WordPress MU users because this will allow them to use all WordPress.org plugins without hacking them.

Domain Mapping – If you are a WordPress MU user, or if you have used WordPress.com in the past, you know that there is a way to have top level domains for your network sites. WordPress.com allows users to upgrade their subdomains to a custom domain. This feature will NOT be included in the core. You can still use the plugin to make it work.

Cross Network Search – If you do decide to have numerous sites under one install, cross network search is not a built-in feature. It may become a core feature in the future, but in WordPress 3.0 this will not be possible. Although you can still use the plugin to make it work.

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2. Better Navigation Menus

Custom Woo Navigation will be included to the core in this release in order to allow for better menu management. This menu system has the drag and drop ease of the widget management screen, it could combine Pages, Categories, and Links. It also allows the ability of re-ordering, along with submenus, and hiding specific Pages or Categories from the menu altogether.

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3. Custom Post Types

There was a big hype about this feature when WordPress 2.9 was being released. Due to some technical difficulties, this feature did not make it in. Well the wait is over because it will be included in WordPress 3.0. Combining Post Types and Taxonomies will make WordPress a much more robust CMS option. This feature will allow you to have different type of posts for example Portfolio listings, Products, and then Normal posts.

Note: This feature is not to replace the use of categories. You should still use categories. This feature will allow a different way of sorting/display and enable other CMS options in WordPress.

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4. New Default Theme 2010

Bye Bye Kubrick Theme. Welcome 2010. WordPress 3.0 will come with a new default theme known as 2010. From this year on, the goal is to have a new theme for every year. Wondering what the new 2010 theme would look like?

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5. Custom Background Support

Support for custom background can be called by adding this line in your functions.php:

add_custom_background();

Once you add that code, you will see a screen in your admin panel that will let you upload a custom background image which will replace the default grey background. It will only work in this theme and other themes that support this feature.

6. Author Specific Templates

We know that in WordPress 2.9 there was an option added which allowed designers to create category templates using the slug fore example category-slug.php. In WordPress 3.0, you can create specific templates for each author. The function get_author_template(); has been expanded in wp-includes/theme.php.

In WordPress 3.0, you would be able to name files like author-syed.php.

7. Ability to Choose Username When Installing WordPress

As of now, WordPress automatically assigns the first user with the username “admin”. If you have read our 13 vital tips to protect WordPress Admin Area, or sat through any of Syed’s Security Presentations, you would know the importance of this feature. Now the hackers cannot guess your username because it will no longer be “admin”. Before those who did not change their default username were helping the hackers by giving them half the answer.

8. Welcome Guide in Every Installation

In the past, WordPress always lacked something which was very crucial. A welcome guide which would help users get familiar with using WordPress. Many users complained regarding this issue, so in WordPress 3.0 there will be a Welcome Guide to guide new users.

9. Canonical Plugins

Have you used a plugin that you loved, and the author discontinued providing support. No bug fixes, no upgrades, and the plugin initially breaks in newer versions. This is a common issue therefore with WordPress 3.0 there is a mission that Jane Wells is carrying which is to unite the plugin authors and come up with canonical plugins. Canonical plugins are developed by a community instead of one developer, so if one person steps down, the plugin does not die.

Lets hope this idea works because it will be great for the community.

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What is Tweetmeme?

Tweetmeme tracks the most popular links on Twitter every 5 minutes.

It aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular by analysing links that people have “tweeted”, organising and categorising them – delivering streams of the most popular.

Step 1: Click the green tweet button (in red box)

Step 2: This pop up window will pop up and click blue tweet button.  Your title post will appear automatically on your  twitter account

It’s an interesting sneak peek into popular culture and what people are talking about and you can use it to add your content to the mix.

See that little green and white button at the top right of this post?

That’s a Tweetmeme button. If you have a Twitter account you can click on this button and descriptive text with a link back to the page will appear in your Twitter update box.

You can add the button (for free) to your website content so that visitors can simply and easily share your content – widening your distribution and driving more visitors to your website.

Interesting ?? It’s incredibly easy to setup and there’s also a downloadable plugin for wordpress. So get your tweetmeme and lets twitting

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When browsing through the offerings of various web hosting companies you are sure to notice that some offer UNIX hosting and others offer Windows. Some hosts even offer a choice of the two operating systems. What are the differences and which one is better?

First of all, when choosing a host, it doesn’t matter what kind of operating system you develop your web site on or what you use on your own computer. Web sites hosted on both UNIX and Windows servers are universally accessible because the data they serve is identical. The difference lies solely in the software used to serve that data.

In terms of reliability UNIX systems have a slight advantage. They are known to extremely stable and able to run for years without rebooting. Windows is also very reliable – slightly less so than UNIX but still able to handle the demands of modern web sites.

The majority of web hosts use various flavours of UNIX like Linux and FreeBSD. These operating systems are free and reduce the costs of a hosting operation. Windows costs thousands of dollars so some hosts charge extra for Windows accounts if they offer both types.

As well as being free, Linux and the other UNIX varieties are open-source software. Anyone can alter the source code and make improvements, updates, and additions. There is a large pool of dedicated enthusiasts who use their free time to work on this software. Windows, on the other hand, is Microsoft proprietary software so users are dependent on Microsoft to release updates. There is no way for an individual user to modify the code.

The main difference between the two types of operating systems is the type of software each can run. Windows is suitable for Microsoft products such as MS Access databases, ASP for delivering dynamic content, and VBScript for site enhancements. UNIX cannot accommodate these technologies so if you absolutely need ASP or VBScript you should pick a Windows host. UNIX hosts deliver dynamic content by using software such as PHP, CGI, and MySQL – technologies which are also available on Windows hosts.

Windows is necessary for hosting Windows media files such as videos and audio. Other types of media such as MP3, Flash, Shockwave and Real can be handled by either UNIX or Windows. Websites created in Microsoft FrontPage (a graphical HTML development package) can also be hosted on either type as long as MS databases or dynamic content are not included for use on a UNIX host.
Which is Best?

Before deciding which type of hosting to use for your website, consider carefully what kind of technologies you will need. Do you need a dynamic site?  Will you have multimedia content such as streaming video or audio?

Both UNIX and Windows can provide dynamic content with PHP, MySQL, as well as CGI, and there are thousands of dynamic scripts readily available. Multimedia can also be hosted by either type of server, although Windows media (WMA and WMV) need to be hosted on a Windows server.

If you absolutely need Microsoft databases, ASP, and Windows media you have to go with a Windows host. Otherwise most websites are probably better off with a UNIX host. The advantages of UNIX over Windows include greater choices in web hosts, slightly better reliability, and (sometimes) cheaper hosting costs.

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Affiliate Marketing as we know it is a very competitive gig. Infact 95% of the people that have ever tried affiliate marketing before have completly given up because they do not see the results that they would like within a week or
so.

So What Is Affiliate Marketing?

* When you go out and find companies that are willing to pay you money with high percentages for each sale that
you produce for them.

The benefits of being an “affiliate marketer” are as followed:

1. You absolutely DO NOT need your own website
2. You DO NOT need your own product
3. Everything is completely done for you, the only thing that you need to know how to do to {make money from home} with affiliate marketing is how to get the word out there which I will explain in greater detail below.

Everyone is often misled when they hear the word “making money from home” or affiliate marketing. The reason being is because so many people are ripped off by these programs because they don’t know what they are doing once they join an online program.

There is tons of money to be made in [affiliate marketing] BUT you have to know all of the in’s and out’s of things. For example like how to get ranked in the search engines so people that are searching for stuff like “making money from home” or affiliate marketing get brought straight to your site. Once they are there and visiting your own affiliate website, you will then more then likely reap the rewards with your cut of the profit, putting more money in your pocket day in and day out.

What Is The Number 1 Way To Cash In Big With Affiliate Marketing?

The most used way of marketing online that I’ve seen over the years is strictly through Google Adwords. A ton of  affiliate marketers use this program because it is laser targeted traffic and will give you the quick and instant cash that everyone wants and needs. But don’t be fooled with this awesome tool, you have got to know how to use it effectivly and get the best bang for your buck so you are not over spending money on marketing that you could be keeping in the bank. There are free trainings on the Google Adwords website that fortunatly NOT alot of people know about, I highly reccomend that as a great starting point.

Choosing Your Affiliate Marketing Website

The reason I have chosen this particular website to market is one because it is new to the internet world. If you find
“money making programs”, [affiliate marketing] prgrams that everyone and tons of people have already seen 9 times out of 10 they are automatically going to click away from your site, and that is going to put a huge hole in your pocket as far as marketing costs. You want the “affiliate site” to catch your eye, because if it doesn’t why would it catch anyone elses? You want the site to look clean and unique something that even you have never seen before. Once you have successfully looked over everything that is on the affiliate site, every site that offers other people to sell there product there will normally be a link at the very bottom or on the side that says AFFILIATES. This is where you will go and sign up for your FREE affiliate account for that particular company. Clickbank, Commission Junction, PayDotCom, as well as Payzeeno are among the 4 best types of affiliate sites that I would recommend.

Anything and any program within Affiliate Marketing that is new to the industry is set up to make huge money for anyone that is willing to put in a little bit of time and patience into marketing the specific program. So if you want to
reap the rewards and start making money from home with these new products or services take a closer look into
exactly what you can do to start making money at home today. You need game plan before you start.

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