How Any Blogger Can Beat Wikipedia

How do you beat Wikipedia, the world's number one free
online encyclopedia, managed by thousands of passionate
(and unpaid) editors, and a darling of Google?

In case you didn't realize, Wikipedia already ranks top 10
for almost all popular search engine queries and keywords.
Wikipedia's main page has a PR (PageRank) of 8 and the
English home page has a PR of 9.

Almost every topic and keyword imaginable has been covered
(or will soon be covered) by this digital encyclopedia of
sorts. The fact is they have more in-depth and complete
content compared to your website or blog, and the people
writing this content don't ask for payment. Tying to match
Wikipedia in terms of content integrity and completeness is
suicide.

So how do you beat a giant like this?

The answer is to NOT become another Wikipedia yourself.

Look at it this way - how many people actually read an
encyclopedia?

Are you telling me that just because encyclopedias exist,
no one sells a book? Not in the real world. In the real
world people put encyclopedias in a dusty bookshelf and use
them only a handful of times in a year. But they read
magazines, they buy books, they attend events and they most
certainly read blogs.

The only time you should be looking at an encyclopedia is
when you need a point of reference when writing a serious
publication or thesis. Encyclopedias are boring, and so is
Wikipedia.

So here's Gobala Krishnan's 5-step process to beating
Wikipedia:

1) Improve your writing style

You must improve your writing. If your writing is similar
to the boring (although concise) Wikipedia text, you're
doomed. Inject your personality and develop your own style
of writing. My style of writing is very plain, direct and
personal. Some people choose to write in a more poetic /
scholarly way. Some people inject humor or use harsh words.
Whatever it is, improve your writing because it will set
you apart and create a loyal readership base.

2) Become more opinionated

People sitting on the fence sooner or later fall over. You
either like something or hate it. If you're neutral, you're
Wikipedia. Don't become the best encyclopedia around;
become the most dramatic blogger or writer.

Express your feelings for a certain product or service
you've tried, even if it means you may lose some affiliate
commissions from your honesty. It's ok if some people hate
the way you completely flamed a product or service. In the
long run people will still prefer to read what you have to
say then read a neutral page on Wikipedia.

3) Stay current and relevant

Read up on your industry, and put yourself in a position
where you understand not only the past, but also the
present and future of certain topics in your market.
Wikipedia can't beat you if you can (based on your
established position of an expert in a focused market)
foretell the future and influence others to accept your
views.

As valuable as history is, people care mostly about today
and tomorrow. If you are ahead of the market, or at least
up-to-date with the latest developments, write about it and
let people know.

4) Perfect your personal brand

Make everything you write, everything you sell, your sites
and your design smell, taste and feel like YOU. If it's
consistent enough, the moment someone looks at a site they
would know it's yours before they even read a line of text.
Don't brand yourself as a know-it-all; brand yourself as an
expert in one specific field and people will love you for
it.

Wikipedia goes a mile wide and an inch deep. You need to go
an inch deep and a mile wide.

You are a brand. Market that brand, and your online
business will take a turn for the better. Common marketing
wisdom has already proven the power of unique branding.

5) Don't put all your eggs in SEO

Search engine optimization is great and all, but it only
takes another 9 more Wikipedia type of sites to completely
dominate the first page of Google. There's absolutely no
way you're going to beat sites like that in terms of pure
SEO.

Focus more on social networking, making friends, finding
new business partners, and creating more non-SEO-dependent
sites. There are other ways to get traffic to your blogs
than just search engines, so get creative. If you're stuck
with the idea of "Write great content and the traffic will
come", you're in for a big surprise.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that you cannot beat
Wikipedia (or any other big content site for that matter)
at it's own game. But if you change your game, as far as
your online business is concerned, you'll always win.

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Gobala Krishnan is a blogging enthusiast and direct
marketing expert. Subscribe to his blog at
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You Must Beware Of The Scam Artist

What is a scam artist? I thought long and hard before
writing this article as not to offend anyone. Nobody would
ever be complimented by being called a scam artist. A scam
artist is one who takes your money for product or service
and never delivers anything to you. They run off with your
money to never be heard of or found again. I have found
very few people in the world who are scam artists like that.

It has been my experience that there are similar traits in
a lot people on the internet and I'll let you be the judge
weather or not you call these people scam artists. I
usually find that program jumpers have similar traits and
characteristics to the scam artists or maybe more
resembling a swarm of Locusts. These people are usually
people who jump ship to every new program out there on the
internet. If a new program comes out, they jump in it, take
all you suckers out there with them until they have sucked
you dry and then move on to the next program.

Here is an article I found at
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574486/Locust_(insect
).html Let's see if this resembles any of the so called
"Internet Guru's". Locust (insect), common name applied to
a number of jumping insects and especially to the true
locusts, which are migratory grasshoppers (see
Grasshopper). The true locusts cause great damage to crops
wherever they swarm. Control measures include the spreading
of poison bait and the plowing under of locust eggs.
Infestations threatening large regions of the United States
are combated with insecticides sprayed by planes and
truck-mounted mist blowers provided by joint federal-state
programs.

Aside from the true locusts, the periodical cicada (see
Cicada) is another important insect to which the name
locust is applied. Grouse, or pygmy, locusts are small,
jumping insects that are of little economic importance.
Most species are dark brown and are less than 2.5 cm (less
than 1 in) in length.

Now, does this sound familiar out there on the internet? I
would love to warn you about these people by name, but
would never do that. I will however, give you things to
watch out for and let you be the judge.

If a person has joined 3 or more programs in one year, they
are probably program jumpers, which as we see above, have
similar traits to the locusts and do more harm than good.
These people are simply out to take your money. No wonder
they are making so much money. They have perfected the
locust style of business.

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David Lewis Is A Work At Home Expert Specializing In
Helping Folks Become successful working From Home Through
1on 1 Training, List building, and Driving Targeted Free
Traffic & Advertising.
http://webdoughnow.com/loves/TheGold.html

How to Profit Big with Joint Ventures

In this article I'm going to show you many different ways
that you can find joint venture partners, as well as some
very specific strategies you can use to get your niche
markets top marketers to promote your products and web site.

A joint venture is where you contact a marketer in your
niche market that has an email list of subscribers who may
have an interest in your product. They can be the lifeblood
of your business. Just five decent joint venture partners
who promote your ebook to their email list in exchange for
a commission can put your current income through into
overdrive. Read this newsletter and go out and take action.
I assure you your results will be life changing.

Know Your Conversion Rate

The first mistake newbie's make is they start contacting JV
partners left right and centre before they've even made a
sale of their ebook themselves. This is wrong. Very wrong.
You need to be able to contact a potential JV partner and
be able to tell them how your sites converting. How can you
expect someone to sign up as a JV partner if they can not
see your past success.

Site conversion is simple. It's the amount of visitors to
the amount of visitors who buy. So for example if one
hundred people visited your site and two bought your
conversion is two percent. You want to get at least one
thousand visitors before you know your conversion.

To work out how your sites converting download the software
from www.statcounter.com. Don't worry it won't cost you a
penny. It will up date visits to you site and calculate
your conversion for you.

Offer Large Commissions

Once you know how well your sites converting (if no one's
buying don't even bother contacting marketers. Improve your
sales letter, change your headline, whatever it takes) you
can start contacting JV partners. Offer them more than your
regular affiliates. If you offer your affiliates fifty
percent commission, offer your JV partners seventy five
percent.

You may be thinking "wait a sec those commissions are huge?
I won't make any money myself". This is where so many go
wrong. If people are sending you tons of visitors you can
build your email list and offer them other products in
email promotions, and you can also make money selling back
end products. Remember that old saying "speculate to
accumulate".

Return the Favour

Offering high commissions is not enough. Let them know that
you'll add a message into your auto responder set up so
that you'll market their products via an affiliate link in
your back end. Explain that you'll be setting up joint
ventures with other marketers in the niche so that they'll
get visitors to their site without spending a dime. This is
very powerful.

Using Clickbank

Please, please understand one thing. If you're selling an
ebook on fitness don't start contacting marketers who sell
gardening products. That's just ridiculous. Only contact
marketers who sell products aimed at your niche market and
therefore have an email or customer list of people who may
have an interest in your ebook.

With that in mind start at www.clickbank.com. Click on
"promote products" on the home page and then search the
marketplace for products in your niche. Contact the product
owners and try setting up a JV.

Google "Ezine" Trick

This is a superb way to find marketers with ready made
email lists they can send a promotion to and sell tons of
copies of your ebook virtually overnight.

Go to google and type in "(niche) ezine". So for example if
you were selling a bass fishing related ebook you'd type in
"bass fishing ezine". What you'll get is a huge list of
results of web sites in which people have a bass fishing
email newsletter (or ezine). Obviously they won't all have
one, often you'll get millions of results, but you can
spend a few hours going through the results and get more JV
contacts than you could ever hope for!

Google "Allintitle" Trick

Here's another cracker. If you could find web sites that
have your niche market keyword in their domain name there
might be great potential JV partners? Of course! Go to
google and type in "allintitle: (niche)" So for example if
you were selling an ebook on song writing you'd type
"allintitle: song writing" into google. Go through the
results contacting marketers and setting up hugely
profitable joint ventures.

Leverage Results

Once you set up one profitable JV use the results to start
setting up even more joint ventures. One joint venture will
boost your conversion and your future contacts will be far
more impressive. You can say things like "Joe bloggs from
domain name.com made X amount of sales and earned X amount
from just one mailing to his list". This really is powerful
because it shows people that you know what you're doing.

Now go and take action. You really can set up joint
ventures with any niche markets top guns if you go and
actually do it. Do it today! Good luck!

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Neil Gray will show you step by step how to create a hot
selling internet product in one day without writing a
single word and how to use Joint Ventures to sky rocket
your products and profit. Visit
http://www.howtoboostwealth.com/lightningcash.htm for more
information.

How You Can Build Your Own Massively Succesful Affiliate Program To Promote Your Products or Website

It's common knowledge that a succesful affiliate programme
can significantly increase profits if you have your own
product or service. Many marketers, however, simply don't
set up correctly and miss out by acheiving low traffic and
therefore sales through their affiliates.

I want to use this article to show you how anyone with an
affiliate programme can use some simple tricks of the trade
to move their online business up to a whole new and far
higher level.

Motivate Potential Affiliates To Sign Up

This is the thing that many people miss. It's no good
setting up an affiliate programme with links that say
"click here to sign up" and then leaving it at that. You
must sell your affiliate programme.You should create a mini
sales letter that explains the benefits that the potential
affiliate will gain by signing up. For instance let them
know how much their commission will be and how they can
earn a living promoting your products without ever having
the headaches and expense of product creation or web site
building.

Give Your Affiliates Your Own Marketing Materials To Use

Another common error! Site owners tend to get people signed
up for an affiliate programme and then leave them to get on
with it. Basically they're saying "thanks very much for
signing up, now go and make me rich". It just doesn't work
like that. You have to work hard for your affiliates if you
want them to start making you lots of cash.

Give your affiliate whatever you can create in the way of
email promotions, articles, press releases, pay per click
ads,banner adverts and whatever else you can think of that
will let people promote your site as widely as possible
with no more effort on their part than necessary.That way
all their effort can go into actually marketing your
products and services.

The thing is you could build a nice business for yourself
by writing an article and submitting it to article
directories all over the internet but just imagine the
leverage you would get if you had one hundred affiliates
putting that same article out. Your marketing power has
been multiplied by one hundred and this is the key to
making huge amounts of cash online.

You don't have to create all these marketing materials
yourself if you don't want to. Simply employ someone to do
it for you by going to www.elance.com. The important thing
to remember is that your business will only be really
succesful if your affiliates have good quality marketing
materials at their disposal.

Produce A Regular Newsletter For your Affiliates.

This really gets results. Put your affiliates on to an
email list and every week send them an update on the best
ways for them to market your products and earn commissions.
Let them Know about any new products you've just launched
or any new marketing materials you've just added to your
affiliates area.

A really smart tactic is to run a regular competition. Give
a prize of an additional one hundred dollars (or whatever
you can afford) to your most succesful affiliate. Include
the winner in your newsletter and challenge the other
affiliates to beat them next week.

This is really good psychology as you are motivating your
affiliates to promote your products like mad so that they
will be recognised as being your "number one". Ego can
often be as motivating as money.

Motivate Your Affiliates And Explode Your Profits

In this artcle I've been showing you exactly what you need
to do with your own affiliate programme in order to earn a
serious income online. If you do this properly you will
earn more money than you could ever have imagined. To
recap, in order to overcome the three barriers of starting
an affiliate programme you must..............

Convince people to sign up

Make marketing easy for them.

Motivate them to market as fast and as hard as they can.

This way you'll create a massively successful affiliate
programme which will sell tons of your products without any
real hard work or any costs.

I promise, put one or two of these simple strategies to use
and you will see a big improvement in terms of both
affiliate sign ups, and the rate at which affiliates
actively market your products. Take action and try it
yourself!

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Paul Greaves is an information publisher specialising in
helping people start their own home based business. Now you
know how a succesful affiliate programme works learn how
you can easily create a product for any niche in one day
and how to market it by getting a no cost two hour video on
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"7 Keys to EDC Gold's Success"

You may have looked at EDC Gold a business opportunity or
know someone who is in already. Actually, you've most
likely seen all the advertising out there about people
saying things like "I make $45,000.00 in my first 30 days"
and other kinds of claims.

While not all claims are true, most about EDC Gold are!
Yes, top earners are making $50,000.00+ a month. But no one
has done that in their first month not even the top earners
.So why this much money, why are EDC Gold members most
likely to succeed?

Key # 1 100% commissions from all your sales

From every person you sponsor, you get 100% commissions.
This gives you the greatest chance to succeed online. That
means you could spend $400.00 on marketing per enrollee and
still make $597.00 profit. EDC Gold is the pioneer of this
system and has many copy cats out there already.

Key # 2 Three Price Points

3 price points. $997, $397, $69 are the three different
levels in which you can enroll in. With other programs out
there like Jaguar-Predator Marketing System in which you
their top level is $4000.00, EDC Gold is more accessible
to the masses. This gives you a greater chance to
converting prospects into members.

Key # 3 Owners of EDC Gold Are Accessible.

Michael Corcoran and Craig Garcia have their telephone
numbers available for anyone to call. This is unheard of
and gives the company tremendous credibility and potential
members the security they are looking for.

Key # 4 High Converting Websites

The corporate websites available are excellent and have a
very high conversion ratio. There are over 14 sites
available; some are directed at different niches on order
to respond directly to those markets. You can a look at all
the web site available before you join by taking a free
tour of the back office.

Key # 5 Relevant Products

There are over $20,000.00 worth of e-books and software
that help you and teach you How to promote your online
business. These products correlate perfectly with this
business Opportunity.

Key # 6 Unmatched Training and Support

No other company provides more training for its members
than EDC Gold. One such Training day is given by a publicly
traded corporation that specializes in helping big
corporations with their online marketing especially ad word
campaigns. They also have a direct line with Google. Only a
select few have Google's direct number. Other training
schedules Top income earners in the company. Most are given
by the owners Craig and Michael.

Key # 7 the It Factor.

Some people have "it" some people don't. The "It" factor is
the passion, commitment, Conviction, desire. EDC Gold's
owners have the "it" factor. Just listen in on a training
Call and you can see for yourself. To listen in on an
opportunity call, visit the website below for more
information. With the Kind of training EDC members receive,
any average Joe can make a six-figure income if they have
the desire and commitment.

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Dario Victor Carerra is a successfull enterprenuer who
transitioned from the failing real estate market to a
booming online business. He did not start long ago and has
quickly seen results by learning how to market effectively
using mostly Free advertising. Visit
http://www.IQuitPunchingIn.com

EDC GOLD a Close Look at 1 up and 2 ups Programs

EDC GOLD is a 2 up program that is creating some stir in
the home business industry. What exactly is going on and
what is all the commotion about? I wanted to plunge into
this on behalf of any newbies out there who are looking to
start an internet business. When I first started looking
into all these programs and seeing all this jargon, well,
it left my head spinning. So, what was the difference
between a 1 up and 2 up versus a 0 up and what do all these
terms mean anyway? Is one better than the other?

EDC Gold, Easy Daily Cash, Passport To Wealth, Road map To
Riches, Predator Marketing System, Prosperity
International, Emerald Passport, Advantage Conferences,
Coastal Vacations & Liberty League to name just a few are
what you would consider a 1 up or 2 up program. So exactly
what does this mean? That is where you pass up your 1st
sale to your sponsor (in the case of a 1up) or your 1st and
2nd sale to sponsor (in the case of a 2 up program such as
EDC Gold).

So what is wrong with that you might ask? Well quite
frankly I am going to let you be the judge of that. Let's
just take a look at a 2 up program for example so you can
draw your own conclusions. And I will use EDC Gold for
example.

EDC Gold is a direct sales company specializing in sales of
digital products including e-books and software that can
help enhance websites. They also have a new program called
the Promo Black Box, which is also an online marketing
training program that includes bi-weekly webinars. Their
compensation plan is an Aussie-2up. This means that your
first two sales you make are passed up to your sponsor.
Once you have made two sales you are now a qualified power
line and the third sale you make is yours. You at that
point do break away from your sponsor and become their
competition.

When you join EDC Gold you have to pay your sponsor $997.
You also pay a one time administration fee of $49. You also
pay a monthly fee of $49 which can be eliminated by a
onetime payment of $350. The last three fees are fees you
don't find out about until you begin your payment process..

In close, 1 up or 2up programs can be lucrative, but for
the newbie however this can become discouraging by having
to give away sales and then be in competition with their
sponsor. Also how much support is going to be provided
especially once you break away? Another important thing to
look at is the growth of the company and where they are
headed as well as the viability of the products.

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Candi May is a Top internet marketer and home business
mentor. She specializes in helping others succeed in the
home business industry. To learn more about Candi you can
visit her at http://www.cyberwealthformula.com

I Want a Home Business But...What is right for me?

Beware of the Fluff. They seem like great companies, they
have a good sales pitch and their comp plan looks good too.
They have big corporate offices and have been around for
years. Isn't that good? Any company out there that sells
products like lotions, potions, pills, miracle juices or
miracle gas saving products usually doesn't work for the
average person for many reasons.

Those companies usually make most of their money from you,
the distributor, not from selling the products. They have
you on auto ship, so you are their income.

They only pay about 2% to 15% so many levels deep. They
will tell you that when you fill the matrix, you won't have
to do anything and you'll be making 20 to 40k a month. The
truth is, there are so many loop holes to their comp plans
that no body ever reaches those levels. You either will
have too many people on your left, but not enough on your
right side to make the higher level payouts. They tell you
that you need more personal volume and your group volume is
fine or vice versa, or my favorite, you had fallout this
month, so you no longer qualify for that car bonus we
promised you about.

They make you hold home parties to push your crap on your
friends. Listen to me"¦..If I wanted weight loss, I'd go to
GNC. If I wanted Lotions, I'd go to CVS, Save on, Nordstrom
or Bullocks. If I wanted to put additives in my gas tank,
I'd go to Kragen, Chief or Pep Boys and buy a product from
STP or Penzoil. You get what I mean"¦.?

They are a copy cat company of the original company. How
many companies out there are selling a juice that is based
from the Acai Berry, Goji berry or the Mangosteen fruit?
How many of those promise to cure cancer? What a joke? Is
our society that ignorant that if something actually cured
cancer, wouldn't we want to check it out? How many travel
companies are there now? How many fuel additives are there
now? How many of those have been shut down? How many make
up, skin lotions and vitamin companies are there out there?

It just seems like there is so many junk companies on the
internet, how do you what is good and what is not? Some of
these companies above actually have a good product, but I
would never go in business with them.

So, how do I choose a business that I can profit from and
that I can be proud to represent?

When I evaluate a company, I look for these key points.
Keep in mind, when I join a company, my #1 goal is to make
money and to do it legitimately. I do not want to hurt
anyone or rip anyone off. This is what I've learned and
these guidelines will help you determine what company is
right for you.

If you are not making at least 75% of the upfront
commission when you make a sale, forget it. This means that
you are doing all the work and the company and/or the
person above you is making all the money.

If you have to have 1000, 10,000 or 20,000 people in your
organization before you make any real money. DO NOT Join.
Most people will NEVER get there.

If they teach you to hold home parties and invite all your
friends. Run away fast.

If they have a sales pitch 2-3 times a day and only 2-3
training classes per week. This means that the company is
more interested in selling you than training you how to
make money long term

If you can't break even or get into profit with 3 sales,
forget it.

If you can't speak with the owners or the corporate office
via phone or webinar, Forget it. I like to know who I am
doing business with before I will do business with them.

If it is a start up or in pre launch, forget. The chances
of these companies becoming the next Amway is about as good
as winning the lottery. At least with the lottery, you have
a chance to win once or twice a week. You might as well go
to Vegas and blow your money on a good time. At least
you'll have some great memories, see a great show and have
a great meal.

These are not all the rules for success on the internet,
but this is a great guideline to follow when evaluating an
internet company.

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David Lewis Is A Work At Home Expert Specializing In
Helping Folks Become successful working From Home Through
1on 1 Training, List building, and Driving Targeted Free
Traffic & Advertising.
http://webdoughnow.com/loves/TheGold.html