Top 13 Tips from expert SEO bloggers

The most vital thing for a business is to drive a promotional campaign of awareness among the targeted audiences. The online business also works along the same traditional lines; it needs promotions and the awareness among the related clients.  To effectively create awareness among the users about your products and services on the webpage, search engine optimizers experts are the best people for generating required awareness and bringing clients to your webpage. Here are a few SEO blogger tips for the success of your blog:

1. Always bold your keywords and place tags around the keywords on every page. But, do not put the tags everywhere with the keyword. A rare tag on the page will attract the crawler to look in your page carefully.
2. Create deep linking for the all the WebPages on your website to bring in the required traffic from all around the internet. The more keywords you have, the more clients you can attract, but make sure the keywords are related to your products and services.
3. Become a foreigner for the blog owner with the address from UK or Canada. It will help your cause a lot and most of the clients will be visiting your blog for appropriate guidance and getting information.
4. Social bookmarking is also very important for the blog. Link the blog and the webpage with the social media websites to help navigate the users to your webpage for the products and services that they may be interested in. There are so many social bookmarks that can help generate lot of traffic for your business.
5. Writing newsletters and ezine articles provide you with the opportunity to create awareness and allure the targeted clients. The ezine links stay alive for longer times and gives more awareness to the customers.
6. Develop the text links and image links all together but try to put your text link ahead of every link to navigate the user to your website. People glance late to the image button and catch the text in first look, therefore, put your text navigational buttons ahead in the source code. The search engine robots also follow the first link they find on a page.
7. Multiple domains will also serve your cause by linking them all to one back source. If you are tackling many topics which could support its own website independently, it will be beneficial to have multiple domains because search engine list the domains once per page on the result pages. On the other hand, if you have more domains with one main link it will be listed multiple times, resulting in more traffic generation.
8. Exchange your articles with others to display and create more awareness with back linking and vice versa.
9. Put your links with the title as well, because it will bring in the impaired users.
10. Do not overburden your webpage with anchor text, because it will not help your cause it will just allow a chance to search engines to go away and put you down in the bottom of the rankings.
11. An easy site map to navigate directly to the desired page will also keep the interest of the user and keep them on your webpage.
12. Use the best webpage design with colorful firework to lure fancy clients.
13. Use less complex web architecture for easy loading and to avoid the wastage of user’s time.

Author bio:

This is a Guest post by Rajkumar blogger from India and blogs at http://www.seoblogonline.info/

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10 Characteristics of an Effective Blogger

Whether you are blogging for leisure or with business motives, blogging is not a simple task. Successful blogging require immense dedication and devotion from your part. In order to succeed in this endeavor, you would have to chalk out some effective methods that would make your blogging regular and pave a way for you to produce quality work. Rather than looking at these attempts as a ready made solution, look at them like strong foundations that you are laying for your blog to build up on.  Here are 10 effective characteristics that you might want to inculcate to be a great blogger and run a successful blogger.

Regularity

Being regular is not just good for your blog but it’s also good for you in terms of becoming a great blogger. This doesn't mean you have to blog every day. This simply means that you cannot neglect your blog all together for days or weeks.

Search for Fresh Content

Constantly being on a lookout for fresh content also means that you would be sharpening your mind with new ideas from time to time. Apart from helping the blog grow, this would also help in increasing your intellectual instincts.

Staying Motivated

Even if it’s tough initially, make sure that you force yourself to sit down and blog regularly. If you have decided that you would blog on a weekly basis, no matter what happens, make yourself stick to that routine.

Goal Setting Mindset

It’s important to set milestones and work towards them. This could be in terms of attracting enough traffic for your website or in terms of achieving a specific number of posts or covering a range of topics. No matter what your milestones are about, make sure you regard them with importance.

Communicating with the Audience

By communicating with the audience through forums or commenting, it would be far easier to know their opinions as well as their needs. This would make it easier for you to focus on areas that need improvement.

Making Technology your Friend

It’s important to use various innovations that have been made in the blogging arena. By using these tools, you could enhance your blogging experience as well as make sure that your readers get complete satisfaction.

Staying Current on your Subject

Whether you are blogging about photography or cooking, it’s important to stay aware of the trends prevailing in the industry. Although you do not have to stick to these trends all the time, being aware of them would help you blog better.

Be Open to Changes

If you have been blogging for a long while, think about the changes you could bring about to your blog. This could be in design, content or just structure. This would give you a sense of novelty.

Taking a Break when Its Time

Over working yourself would get you nowhere. Treat yourself with breaks from time to time to escape monotony and constantly stay motivated.

Believe in Your Endeavor

Believe in your work and you most certainly will succeed someday. Without this belief, any attempts to blogging would be futile.

Author Bio:

This is a guest post by Ravan Part-time blogger from India who blogs at http://www.techiestate.info/

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How To Snatch Google Adsense Approval Within Two Working Days

Each and every online marketer desires to get plenty of bucks. Millions of bloggers shows interest in incredible adsense advertising which the best place to get handsome money through advertising Google products and services on our live websites. Everyday many dummy bloggers dreams get ruins by the several disapproving from adsense team as Google adsense approval is not an easy task. They had kept some norms which they strictly follow and they ask us to follow the same.

Some precautions one should take care while applying adsense account application:

Things which is matter why Google rejected your adsense application:

Domain URL & Domain Age:

This is the first and most important part to keep in mind. Google always provide priority to the top level domain like .com and other extensions. One should avoid the free sub domain url for applying with adsense . Most people do this to avoid the expense for the tld’s domain and hosting. Google also see whether present domain urls are static or dynamic. I mainly prefer one should have static url which seo friendly.

Domain age of any website measures it online presence and trust to the end user . So one should atleast complete a threshold period of 6 months which Google ask. But it will be much better if we apply a domain having age of at least a year .

Unique Content is the king :

It is said that unique content is the king for any site to come up on top in Google and major search engines. That is very much true because Google loves unique content. Google has always tried its best to provide the relevant results to the end user. So he always gives priority to the updated unique content. So unique content also has a great role for adsense account approval.

So one should always update his website with the latest content every time.

Collect a few  amount of quality web links:

Prior sending application to Google adsense one should gather an ample of quality relevant backlinks. Getting backlink means not just that scrap link quantity. I am talking about the links which have both good alexa and page rank. Make sure one should not keep loads of high pr links or just buying links

Keep some social site like facebook, twitter, linkedin to spread the website content on these social platforms easily.

Do not keep any adult related backlink or site as it violates the TOS of Big G.

• Keep The Website Design Simple
• Keep the navigation menu simple.
• Make a separate page for privacy, disclaimer and ownership confirmation page.
• Keep the who is record matched with the adsense form filling details.
• Make about us page also to describe your or company profile.

If you keep this in mind for adsense application then adsense team won’t reject you. Incase if they reject, you should not get disappointed, make yourself again and rectify the errors and try until you get the result in your favor.

Author Bio:

Myself Sadique Shaikh,simple guy making handsome green on internet and wish to help others 
who wanted to learn hot topic with latest news and updates on how to earn money on net. 

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SEO and link building policy 2012

SEO is basically a technique to increase the ranking of the website of a particular organization or business. SEO is mainly done using plenty of schemes and to play around to promote more of your website you need to build sufficient content or links so that your business is prop up more and more. One of the ways by which you can do this is by following the link building policy.

What is link building policy- the rating of a website is the main way to make it visible in the top few pages of the search engine such as Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, etc. this is mainly done by techniques of SEOand Link building techniques, which is nothing butconstructing more and more acquaintances and friendly  links. By doing this you endorse your products ideas to more and more audiences as well as more customers.

Few link building tips:-

Updates- keep posting updates of your products on each and every website you have a link on. This will gather more attention to your website than the usual. Try to post as much content as you can of the latest offers provided by your business organization and also update them at regular intervals.

Participate- try contributing in small functions by offering your products as tokens of appreciation or as gifts in any social gathering. This will again build up your link and is an important tip for link building policy.

Use maps- we are not talking about the regular site maps, we are talking about the office or business organization locations on a world map. By adding this feature to your website you will attract more customer and users to your company and you will also be able to accelerate the rate at which a person hits your company site as you provide all the directions to your office and its linked details.

New domain names- always try to keep domain name in such a way that it is closely associated to your working environment or your company’s name or the type of products your organization produces. Domain names not only makes an interesting effect but it also puts a long lasting image in a users mind if at all the domain name is attractive and eye catching. Because most of the time people don’t even look up to the url name, they simply get their work done and move on.

Keyword- the main thing which your website content should contain is the keyword which people mostly hit during searching on any topic. By increasing the concentration of keywords in your content will make it appear more on top of any web searches. So try using various popular keywords and try updating them on regular basis.

Suggestions and discussions boards- a very good habit of a website developer is to make space for the people to put their comments and suggestions or complaints. Doing this will not only help the users to know more about the site but will also be a means of indirect communication to the company management. Discussion forums usually act as a guideline if the user doesn’t know much about the side. Also sometimes through the discussion boards there are plenty of keywords appended to your website without your knowledge that ultimately improves your per person hit and your rank.

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9 Useful Online Resources for Blogger Templates

Bloggers everywhere have chosen to use Blogger.com because it is free and easy to use. Just because bloggers have chosen an inexpensive route to publishing their thoughts on every subject under the sun doesn't mean they want to look cheap. Choosing to give a blog a unique appearance will boost reader interest and attention. To bring a new look and new life to your blog doesn't require either cash or high tech computer designing skills, thanks to these nine free and practical resources.


1. Start With A Tutorial On Uploading Templates
For the blogger who is an amateur with templates, Isnaini Blogger-templates is a great place to start. Besides offering 71 different templates, the focus of the site is to teach bloggers how to effortlessly upload their template of choice with an easy to follow tutorial.


2. Choose Something Specific From A Wide Variety
BTemplates offers over 600 choices of stylized, themed templates. Finding the perfect template is easy, with six different ways to narrow the search. If the aesthetic aspect is most important, browse by color and style. If practical layout points are more important, look by column number, right or left sidebar position and a fluid or fixed width. The templates can also be browsed by their popularity.


3. Classic, Easy To Personalize Styles
At Gecko And Fly , you can choose from a wide variety of templates. Most of them focus on classic, professional simplicity, but more fun styles are also available. You will also find tutorials on how to tweak, personalize and update the appearance of your blog further, among a great list of other computer related tutorials. Browse, improve and enjoy!


4. Hundreds Of Fun Templates
If you want something interesting, unique and exciting, take a look at AllBlogTools  . An estimated 2000 templates are available from many different designers. Styles range from professional and classic to cute seasonal styles to bright and exciting trendy looks. Since each designer has different tastes and skills, there is a template for every blogger.


5. Fun Choices In Color And Theme
FinalSense  makes it easy to bring a new look to your personal blog. Choose from more than 300 different templates in every color scheme and theme imaginable. If you have something specific in mind, browse the template choices by the available categories, from multiple columns to architecture to sports to nature to classics. 

6. Specialized And Fun Templates

BloggerTheme  brings you lots of different choices for lots of different needs. Each look is very distinct and personal, giving your blog a tailored look. Templates are offered for other blogging platforms as well, so make sure the style you pick is designed for a blogger.com or blogspot.com based blog.

7. Sleek, Easy To Read Looks

FreeBlogger-Templates  offers a few beautiful templates. Mostly nature inspired, these templates have a main focus of providing an easy to read look to your blog. Though practical, they are stunningly gorgeous as well. Look in the archives for more options.

8. Top Notch Templates

Instead of having a goal of a huge selection, BloggerTemplates  focuses on keeping up to date a small number of high quality templates that are fresh and personal. A few other tips are available, like how to display a video on your blog at a desired size.

9. Multiple Columns

If columns are important, check out 5ColumnTemplate . While there is only one template, it comes in five variations with colors and column size shaken up a little. Don't be put off be the basic appearance of the site. Five columns are incredibly useful and not too difficult to manage. You can change your fonts to something more professional as well.

No matter where you discover your new template or which style you choose, enjoy the discovery process. Credit your source and share what you learn with fellow bloggers. Since the templates are given free of charge, pass what you have gained on to others. Whether you are a personal blogger with a small following of family and friends or write for your business and have a large readership, give your audience a little fun every couple months by updating the appearance of your blog. Keep your blog fresh, both in looks and your writing!

James Adams spends most of his time blogging

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Brand Marketing Via Internet: Viral Opportunities For Your Brand

The internet is much like the local spot in your community where everybody who is anybody hangs out; only it is much bigger with millions of users, reaches across the world, and includes billions upon billions of websites to hang out on. This huge meeting place provides so many different opportunities for your business, and your brand. Using it correctly to harvest its extraordinary power is the way to climb to success in the internet brand marketing world. You must know what users want, how they want it, and what will entice them to come and get it. Without a good call to action, those exposed to your marketing efforts may not yield very impressive results.

Social Media: The Hottest Place For Brand Marketing In 2012

Social media is widely used, as many users of the internet have some sort of a social media account. If you are considering social media, then your choice marketing platforms could be Facebook, Myspace, Myyearbook, dating websites, Linked-In, Youtube, Twitter, and many others. Social media assists your brand in going viral, or spreading rapidly from user to user when shared in other words. This viral effect has made social sites a prime target for nearly any company, business, product, and brand. Since users of these sites are going to share almost anything that interests them, it is your job to create a marketing campaign that will attract the attention of your audience, and cause them to want to share your brand, product, or business with their friends. Doing so will result in tons of free advertising for your brand. You should also make your brand as unique as possible, and set it apart from your generic competition.

Blogs And Their Power

Blogs have also evolved into social media hybrids, allowing users to communicate with their individual blogs and commenting systems. Blog are different from typical social media, in that it allows you to share full article entries for the benefit of your brand. These can then be shared across social media sites; if you are writing entries to share with other social sites, you should ensure that you write articles loaded with helpful information, which users will feel obligated to share with their friends. Creating useful, unique, and interesting content is the best way to increase your traffic.

Offline Tactics Still Hit Home, and Can Be Used To Boost Web Marketing

Of course, many offline tactics still reach large audiences. You can give them a reason to visit your website, boosting your online marketing efforts. Phones are still the most common form of communication between people; not the internet. You can obtain free 08 numbers like those from 08direct in order for your interested audience or clients to reach you via telephone. Even then, you can redirect them to your website. Use any and all marketing tactics (not just online efforts) to increase your online web branding efforts in order to take your web branding to a whole new level.

This is a guest post by Sarvesh. He writes on the behalf of 0800numbershop, your one stop place for 0800 numbers.

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Four Social SEO Mistakes you need to Avoid

First off, what precisely is social SEO? Social SEO could be a hybridization of social media selling and SEO. the 2 disciplines are literally rather more intertwined than some marketers could believe and it not is sensible to control them in separate silos.

Fragmentation of your on-line selling efforts typically suggests that your actions are not being properly leveraged across varied platforms, resulting in a diluted and confused whole messaging strategy.

However, simply because you acknowledge that social media selling and SEO go hand-in-hand that does not mean there are not pitfalls you must watch out to avoid. Here are four social SEO mistakes to observe out for:

1. Using Social Media As An Advertising Vehicle

Please do not flip your social profiles into a soapbox to sell your product.

Most social media interactions are being driven by the patron. Social profiles are an excellent thanks to interact and interact your target market, build your on-line whole presence (with a well optimized profile), share and promote your content and far a lot of however they're not an advertising medium for your company.

Businesses that which use social media solely as a platform to sell their products/services quickly learn that nobody is listening.

2. Assuming Social Profiles can Replace Your web site

At the opposite finish of spectrum, there are a couple of corporations that invest most time/effort/manpower into their social profiles that they conceive to essentially abandon their company web site in favor of their Facebook page.

This move may prove deadly for your company. you do not very own your Facebook page, Facebook will. they need the facility to clean up your page swiftly or rationalization. Where would that leave you and your company?

Not to say that i feel Facebook is leaving anytime soon, however imagine if Facebook vanished off the face of the world tomorrow. If your entire internet presence was designed on the social network it'd vanish too.

3. Expecting Overnight Success

Both SEO and social media are incredibly long run processes. Joining the 2 along does not create them any shorter thus do not expect instant success.

Too several website house owners are during a hurry to prove ROI (which is understandable in today’s economy), however it implies that long terms comes are typically sacrificed for brief term gains. that's no thanks to reach the web marketplace.

Social SEO needs a relentless and dedicated effort so as to assist your on-line business thrives.

Remember, social media is made on real relationships (even if they're online) with real folks. You cant force somebody to interact together with your company on-line, thus you have got to allow them enough time and enough incentive to trouble.

4. Targeting the incorrect Audience

One of the fundamentals of selling is to spot and perceive your target market. If you do not have a firm grasp on who you're making an attempt to achieve all of your messaging can fall on deaf ears.

When it involves social SEO, you not solely got to apprehend who your audience is, however you furthermore may got to learn their on-line behaviors. you would possibly be making an attempt to sell product to IT administrators, however how will the typical IT director use the web? What sites do they visit? How comfy are they with social networking? How do they seek for things? Knowing how your target market interacts with the net can assist you position your web site within the absolute best means.

Social SEO has the facility to radically improve your on-line whole presence when managed properly. It takes the most effective of social media selling and SEO and fuses them along for a fair stronger campaign. However, there are lots of opportunities to form an easy mistake that might limit or derail your campaign entirely. attempt to keep these four in mind when executing your social SEO campaign and you may be far better off.

Author Bio:

Kristina is a freelance content writer by profession. Blogging, SEO and Internet Marketing are her topic of interest.

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5 Essential SEO Skills You Require To Implement

There are ton of queries relating to successful ability sets of Search Engine Optimizers. To answer all these days a successful SEO should be an integrated digital marketer, i.e. one who has data of on-page SEO similarly as alternative integrated ways. This means, 5 main SEO skills are needed.

Technical SEO

SEO isn't concerning simply keyword search and wordsmithing (thinking stuff). it's concerning creating the websites higher at the page similarly as at server for reinforcing up the chance of being found and obtaining a lot of traffic and conversion. In reality, it's sensible given that you have got learnt everything concerning technical SEO, sitemaps, server side settings, server response codes, and rewrites, etc. This really helps you resolving all the key problems.

Social Media promoting

Social Media has become a section of the routine. however it doesn’t mean presence at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter; if truth be told, it’s concerning obtaining traffic from social sites. you'll be able to generate traffic by improving videos on YouTube, by creating fan acquiring plans and by developing the Twitter followers. The combination between Social media and SEO is increasing rapidly so you bought to start out performing on it immediately.

Link Building

With growing variety of social media platforms, the possibilities of building links have gone some way up recently. Today, an extended lasting link are often engineered through the olden day directories, credible with high PR websites, association sites, additionally to short term links like blogs, bookmarking, content syndication and Twitter. With all the external link building, internal link building is additionally crucial which might be achieved by using your own platforms or social media platforms like Facebook page. With such a lot content developed by your external link building team, internal link building won’t be abundant of a tangle.

Usability & data Structure

Site usability is incredibly essential for contemporary SEOs because it describes, if the data provided on the web site is helpful for the users, the positioning is straightforward to use and navigate, and the way the objects ought to be placed at the page.

To have the info on data structure is crucial too, because it is all concerning organizing crucial data & content on the web site, determining folder structure and also on labelling components of the web site. This can be the purpose where several SEOs are weak; particularly if keyword to IA approach is concerned.

With huge competition, the eye of users diverts, that’s why it becomes crucial to not lose your guests.

Content promoting

Your web site content will get you plenty of visitors or lose them utterly. Content promoting are often classified into 2 main errands: content creation and content distribution.

SEO has to realize each methods however you want to act as a filter and adopt solely those concepts which might extremely add significance to go looking engines and users. For this, you may realize some skills helpful like finding content gap, keyword analysis and distributing content.

Conclusion

SEO could be a groomed trade currently with a lot of target results and ROI. a radical data of internet analytics and metrics is mentioned here, however abovementioned skills are necessary for all gift and future SEOs.

Author Bio:

Sandipan Mukherjee is a 23 year old blogger from Durgapur(India). He is the owner of Crystal Articles and iTechboy. He blogs at Technozeast and Techfume.

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Publish your Google Docs into you WordPress Blog

Google Docs is an online service provided by the Google.  Using Google Docs you can easily manage your spreadsheet, documents, presentation and forms without paying anything. Using Google Docs you can publish documents into your WordPress blog. You can publish your Google Docs document into the WordPress either by using embed code or by copy pasting them into your blog. Before sharing the document you must check the privacy of your document. If your document is in private mode then you can’t share it. So to share the document change it’s privacy mode into public mode. The Process of sharing your document depends on the document type. Now I will explain you the process of sharing Google Docs document with the WordPress blog.


Sharing Of Google Docs using Embed Code

To publish your spreadsheet into your WordPress blog just open your spreadsheet and click on the “share button “situated on top right corner of your Google Docs page. Then you will get “publish as a web page” option, just click on it. After clicking on “publish as web page” option you will get a window on your screen. You will see drop down list named “sheet to publish”, using this drop down list you can select any number of sheet to be published. If you want to publish the entire sheet then select the “all sheets” option. Just below that drop down list you will get check box if you want that whenever you modify the actual sheet your published sheet reflect those changes then select this checkbox else leave it. Now you will get another drop down list named “get a link to be published data”, just select “html to embed in a page” option if you want the embed code for this Google Docs. After selecting the option in the drop down list you will get a embed code just copy that code and use it in your WordPress blog. I have explained the process of publishing of spread sheet. But to share forms, presentations and other type of document just find the “publish to web option” it will generate an embed code for you, and using this embed code you can use your documents any where in your WordPress blog.

Sharing Of Google Docs using XML-RPC

To share your Google Docs with the WordPress blog just login on your WordPress account then under this site you will get the “writing” option. After clicking on this option you will get setting and in setting just mark the XML-RPC option. Then go and login in your Gmail Docs account and go to the setting option. In the setting option you have to write your display name and then click on “edit info” link. You will get a popup on your screen. Select the “my Own server/custom “option as Existing blog service. Choose “MetaWeblog API “as your API, enter the URL for the WordPress blog on URL option, give your WordPress Blog’s username and password then blog id and at the end select the “check the Include the documentation title when posting” option and click on “test” button. If your all the setting are correct then it will show a popup with ok message else with an error message. Now you can use your Google Docs on your WordPress blogs.

 Sharing of External files 

To share any external file just uploads the file and share it using previous methods.

Summary: The Google Docs is best service for creating online documents and WordPress is one of the best blogging services. So we can integrate both the services to get high secure and effortless method for our blogs.

Author Bio :
I am Nadine Myrick from Passcertification Looking for Passcertificaion  exam assistance? Let’s take benefit of Passcertification self-paced CCDP Certification  training material and clear your IT certification on first try.

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10 Things Bloggers Can Learn From Salespeople

Why on earth should a blogger learn anything from a salesperson? A sales person is someone who rings the doorbell in the dead of the afternoon and bothers people right?

For the most part, yes, the average sales person does get branded as an annoying gnat. However, there are sales people from whom buying something can be entertaining and memorable. These sales people not only make a sale, but create a fantastic impression. Here are 10 things you can learn from such great sales people!

1. They Really Listen

Do you just pitch a product or service without really listening to your potential customer’s needs? A good sales person is not someone who just wants to sell you stuff and make his or her sales average for the day. A good sales person is someone who really listens to you and wants to know about your needs and problems. A good sales person wants to help better your life.

2. They Provide A Great Sale Experience

You must have bought a great many things in your life from salespeople. Some of those transactions must have caused a mute rage in you to pound the salesperson’s head. However, we’re sure you do remember some great, pleasant and even motivating sales experiences. Great sales people know how to create a great experience for you by making you feel at home, taking the time to talk to you, joking with you and cheering up your day.

3. They Establish Great Rapport

Do you go out of your way to make your potential customers feel in synch with you? Do you establish grounds for the same wavelength, creating the notion that you and your customer are alike? This is another great salesperson move. A really great salesperson creates a great rapport with their customers, establishing a common understanding of each other.

4. They Establish Long Term Relationships

A great salesperson does not just make one sale and then ignore their customer. They go out of their way to strive to establish long-term relationships with their prospective customers. They make sure that they ensure their clients’ well being during the long haul. Great salespeople know that their business can flourish only with repeat customers, and therefore they focus on building relationships rather than just achieving numbers.

5. They Don’t Give Up Easily

Great salespeople are tenacious and resilient; they don’t care how many doors are closed on them, they don’t get affected by people who reschedule appointments. They just keep at it, day after day, trying to win over people with newer and better tactics every day. When you hear someone say ‘no’, that’s your cue to keep trying till you make the sale.

6. They Know It Takes Time To Close A Deal

Patience is a skill that great salespeople hone to a battle-hardened edge. All great sales people know it takes time to close a deal; they don’t allow minor refusals to stand in their way or disillusion them. They have the confidence and the patience to wait it out and succeed.

7. They Are Always Closing Deals

Just like successful athletes who absolutely need to win games, successful salespeople absolutely need to close deals. Closing deals is a salesperson’s winning game, something we all understand at a gut level. We all try to win at what we do – whether it is about getting that special date, or that promotion, or get noticed by the boss.

8. They Always Follow Up

Great salespeople don’t just deliver a pitch and sit back on their haunches waiting for you to contact them. They have a finely honed instinct that tells them exactly when and how to follow up. Sales people are always under pressure to deliver and hit the right numbers but they cannot afford to neglect to follow up with their prospects.

9. They Don’t Transfer Their Tension To Prospects

A seasoned and great salesperson is respectful of their prospect. Only really stupid salespeople come across as pushy, aggressive, or disrespectful, showing all their tensions and pressures on the prospect. All salespeople live under pressure but the prospect is not responsible for those. The prospect should only see the suave side of the salesperson and this is what differentiates the mediocre sales people from the really great ones.

10. They Don’t Mind Explaining Product Features Many Times

Not everyone gets it immediately, especially if the product or service needs some level of understanding. An average salesperson will just provide brochures and tutorials and leave it at that, expecting people to use their native intelligence to understand. A great salesperson knows that some people need that additional personal touch and gives it to them. They know how to differentiate between those who need more personal guidance and those who can manage on their own. They make themselves available accordingly.

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BEST DESIGN TIPS TO START A MAGAZINE

BE CONSISTENT

Even if your choice is to break every rule, there has to be a logic behind your choices as a designer. Consistency is not about using similar fonts or layouts throughout the publication; it is all about creating your own personal logic and following it.

In fact, today´s designer´s are creating their own fonts to match the tone, look or topic of a page, so, as long as you have a clue, the magazine´s readers will do as well.

MIND YOUR AUDIENCE

The look of a magazine will make it appealing to a certain audience and unappealing to another. When people often think that it is the content that defines the audience and the design not so much, but people see before they stop to read. If your magazine looks like something that wouldn´t interest them, people will look the other way. It is ALL about first impressions, which brings us to the cover.

DOMINATE THE COVER

The cover is the key element of magazine marketing. This is where most of your designing efforts should go. Your cover design has to be aligned with the magazine´s vision, and it has to use a combination of (short) text and images that is striking, smashing, beautiful, modern, shocking, groundbreaking; in short, it has to be DRAMATIC.

Here is a good example of using a combination of text and images that create great drama. Of course, you don´t need war or danger to create drama. Drama can be in a face and a title, drama can be in a combination of a texture and a font and a certain topic. 

Your goal is to have people not being able to look away from your magazine cover. In terms of photography, you should always go for photos that don´t only look good but also tell a story. If it tells only part of an exciting story, people will be compelled to pick up the magazine, in order to get the rest of that story.

MASTER THE CONTENT-DESIGN DYNAMIC

If you get an article of a million words, and you are asked to create a layout, without any chance of reducing the text, chances are, the text will look crammed into the page. Working closely with the editors means negotiating word counts and spaces as you go. Today, the trend is to leave a lot of white space around text; it creates a cleaner look, and it makes articles easier to read.

In order to make the design of the inside pages of your startup magazine flow, you need to master the dynamic between design and content.

DON¨T UNDERESTIMATE PRINTING

Your most fabulous design efforts will be lost, unless the people at there choice knows what they are doing. When you design professionally, every nuance in color shades, every variation in paper counts.

Your safest bet is to advice your employer to hire only the best printing company and then work closely with them during the mockup and proofing phase to ensure optimum quality.

MIND YOUR COLOR SCHEME

The trend today is to use basic colors from the spectrum of light. Basic colors can make a bold statement. 

I love this grayscale example from CHROMATIC magazine. Simple fonts, simple and perfect composition, text that combines with photo to tell a story, some headlines that create mystery and might excite your curiosity, i.e. Lowercase People; all of this elements combine to make a simple yet powerful cover. 

BE CREATIVE

Thinking outside the box always pays. In the example I am showing you, Hungarian designer Miklos Kiss thought more like “inside the bag.” This totally reminded me of Kramer´s idea about a coffee table book that turned into a coffe table on the TV show Seinfeld. In the case of LACK magazine, the concept was executed beautifully. The magazine becomes both an objet d´art with a sleek modern design, and a practical handbag. As a woman, I can totally appreciate this one.

I´m not saying that you have to create magazines that transform into something else; I am only saying that the more you let your imagination fly, the better.

USE FONTS CREATIVELY

To finish up,  an examples of using fonts to your best advantage, also from LACK magazine.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GREAT ILLUSTRATION

This is my last example, also from LACK. The composition, the illustration and the creative use of fonts make for one of the coolest index pages I have ever seen.

As you can see, starting a magazine is no piece of cake, but it can also be one of the most challenging and fulfilling projects a designer can take on. 

Author Bio:

Veronica is a filmmaker and rather eclectic writer living in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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5 Android Apps for Bloggers

Blogging is now a passion for all the people. Some use it for their personal lifestyle, some go professional, some people blog to get their pocket money. But it’s not always possible to post or manage your blog from a computer. So here are the 5 best Blogging Apps for Bloggers.

Wordpress
Wordpress.org is the most used blogging CMS on web. Wordpress recently launched its Android App on the Android marketplace to have its users use it on mobile. You can do everything from the App. So what are you waiting for, get it from the Android Marketplace.

Blogger
Google's blogger is one of the most used platform for simple blogs. Make everything out of your blogger blog from your mobile phone. Get the app for your Android Phone and start posting your Blogger Blog.

Google Analytics
Check your blog or website's analytics anywhere from your Android Device. Get the G-Analytics app is still in it's beta version and soon will be adding much more features. The app supports charts, secure login with android account manager, Current Stats etc..

Adsense Dashboard
As every blogger, you too would be earning from your blog from Google Adsense. So start checking your Adsense Estimated Earnings, Finalized Earnings, Page RPM anywhere with this app.

Hootsuite
Manage multiple social networks like Facebook, Twitter etc. From a single dashboard. Hootsuite makes that possible for you. And now it has released its Android App to get connected wherever you are. You can schedule your messages for future. Shorten the links with ow.ly

About the Author:
This is an article written by Vikas Bhatt, who runs an Android Blog

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Top 10 WordPress Hosting Services

If you want to make your own website live on internet and accessible for everyone throughout the world, you might need a web hosting service. There are many webhosting companies over internet which provides space on their server. These web hosting companies also provide the internet connectivity to the website owners.

The web hosting services are actually categorized in four different categories- shared web hosting, dedicated web hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting, and Reseller Hosting. Almost every company providing the web hosting services manage all these categories. In this piece of writing we will discuss about some leading web hosting service. When we are talking about the good webhosting services we cannot forget 

Webhostingclue. It is a detailed directory of the best web hosting services available on internet. It provides the solutions to all your queries related to webhosting.  This web hosting service provides reviews, and popular web hosting coupons. You can also check the complete guide to webhosting.

Webhostingclue incorporates the list of the leading and best web hosting services and complete details about them. The list includes the Price, Band, Width, Disk Space, Free Domain, and genuine reviews about the web hosting companies. It also includes detailed information about the WordPress Hosting, Joomla Hosting, Drupal Hosting, Green Hosting, Small Business Hosting, Cheap Web Hosting, Family Web Hosting, Linux Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting, VPS Hosting and Dedicated Hosting.

We will discuss about the Top 10 WordPress Hosting Services in this article. Wordpress is the best blogging tool on internet today. Wordpress has thousands of themes and plug-ins which help you to make your blog unique and beautiful.

However, there are thousands of web hosts providing their services for the Wordress blog, but we will discuss about the best 10 WordPress Hosting Services who have proven themselves in providing the preeminent solutions.

1.BlueHost- It is a web hosting services provider offering the services since 1996. BlueHost has developed goodwill in the market with its excellent services. BlueHost has topped the list of best webhosting services by their award wining customer service system and reliable product. It provides unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space.  

2.WebHostingHub-It is the sister brand of the leading web hosting services InmotionHosting. WebHostingHub provides linux hosting solutions for individual bloggers as well as the small business owners.

3.HostGator- This is a web hosting service offering the services since 2002. It is one of the fastest growing web hosting services in US. It provides both shared and reseller web hosting services. If you are using the services of HostGator, you can access the SiteStudio website designer to design your website.

4.Hostmonster-  It cheaper that HostGator and BlueHost and offers excellent support. 3000Gb of bandwidth and 300Gb of disk space is more than enough to make a good blog. It is the best web hosting services for you if you have a low budget.

5.NetworkSolutions- it is a fully featured web hosting provider, with years of experience and constant support. It is the leading webhosting company providing design services, marketing, e-commerce functionality.

6.iPage- it is the best one for small to medium-sized websites as it is one of the most cost effective web hosting services.

7.JustHost- It is the best choice for the small business websites or individual bloggers. JustHost includes everything you need to begin with your website.

8.PacificHost- This service comes at $2.49/month. It is a full-featured webhost catering both medium sized and small businesses websites.

9.Greengeeks- This is a great Wordpress webhosting service providing the free auto Wordpress scripts and unlimited web space.

10.Dot5Hosting- It is one of the best affordable webhosting services. The hosting package fromDot5Hosting helps individual bloggers and business websites get high powered services. 

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