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The difference between browsing and purchasing phrases

Today I will give you some tips to help you differentiate between browsing and action phrases. This is important because it does not matter how much traffic you drive to your sales page if those traffic do not convert. You would have to master this step if you would like to earn money online. It is always better to make only a few visits by ready to buy people instead of thousands just looking for more information.

Let me give you an example – we will try to sell photo cameras. Since everyone loves to memorize the most important/interesting moments it looks like there is a height demand in this sector. My favorite strategy in to go into buyers shoes – I will go to on vacation so I want to buy a new camera to make some pictures.

What are you going to do if you want to buy a new camera?

May be you have to research a bit what cameras are available in shops, how much do they cost and what additional features they have. You are in the browsing phase… Right? Most probably you will search for digital camera, portable digital camera, digital camera review, digital camera compare, etc..

After a bit research you will find out there are several types of brands, manufacturing cameras for both professionals and amateurs, and there are lots of features you may are interested in like Image resolution, camera sensor, LCD Display Size, Movie capture, Image stabilizer, Wide-angle lens, Available memory and etc, and etc…

Read, research, read, research, and read, research… Will you buy? I am not sure…

OK. Now you know a bit more about digital cameras and may be you have made your choice – you will buy a not too expensive compact camera with about 7 Mega pixels resolution. You have to find one…. This time you will search for 7 Mega pixels compact digital camera, Canon 7 Mega pixels compact digital camera, Canon IXUS 750, - does it make sense?

As much information you know about the product as more concrete is your search phrase because you know what you are looking for. You have just moved to the Decision Phase.

What about Canon IXUS 750 eBay, Canon IXUS 750 price, Canon IXUS 750 in store, Canon IXUS 750 Amazon, buy Canon IXUS 750?

People who are searching product-related keywords are usually on the verge of becoming a customer. If you can deliver the information that they are looking to find, then you will likely convert this visitor into a customer.

People that are searching these terms are SERIOUS buyers and are on the edge of the transition between a researcher and a customer.

Searchers using product-related keywords are typically very far along in the purchasing lifecycle because they are already knowledgeable in the subject area and they have already been exposed to some form of branding or advertisement.

Now it is time to review your keyword list again.

Hi guys! I know I have not been blogging for awhile now, been busy with the orientations now that University is starting very soon. Anyway, I am going to reveal a little secret to you guys today, on how I manage to get people to visit my blog even when I am not posting on innit. This is a pretty well-kept secret because not many people know about this website, and that it has been helping me to earn quite a bit of money from the advertisement from Nuffnang.

Basically, what this website does is that it helps you advertise your blogs to other people that are concurrently being subscripted to this website. This website is made from the founder of the very popular EmailCashPro that is invented by Kenneth Koh and it has been getting more and more popular since its opening on March this year.

Basically, what you have to do, is that you sign up for a free account from LeadsLeap.com, and you would be given free 100 credits for you to advertise your blogs/website on their page. This programme is highly effective because I have seen the number of readers to my blog rise from 150 a day, to 420 a day!! All I did was that I used my credits to advertise my blog, and the number of people coming to my blog has increase by 3 times! Truly amazing!

No doubt, the increased number of people coming to my blog has help me earn my first endosed deal from Nuffnang! I am really very very happy when I received this letter, therefore I decided to share this little known secrets with you guys!! =D

However, do note that the visitors to your blog would not immediately increase when you join this programme. You would have to take some time to get a hang of it, before you start seeing results with this website.

One of the best feature about this website, is that if you manage to get your friends and family to join this programme, you get to earn more credits, which allows you to put up more free advertisements on the website! When I first join this programme, I got my group of blogger friends to join as well, and it helped me earn an additional 1200 points (which I have not finished using yet)

If you want to get more people to read your blog, and you do not know how to go about doing it, I highly reccommend you try this website LeadsLeap.com out for a month to see the amazing result it gives. The best part of this, is that it is TOTALLY FREE of charge to join!! Thats right!! You do not have to pay a single cent to join this programme! If you are interested, just click on the following link, and you can sign up for a free account!

Wish you all the best in your blogging career!!

Hi guys, I am currently creating a Singapore Travel site targeted at foreigners. It would be great if you guys can contribute some ideas =D

If you are interested to help out in this project, send me a email at clemencelwq<@>gmail.com

Here is a list of 23 questions (written in no particular order except that it is the order they came out of my head in) that you might want to ponder before leaping into blogging. I’ve put a few brief comments next to each to get you going.

Please note that these questions are in essence a list of qualities of successful bloggers that I’ve come across over the last few years. If you don’t have some of these qualities it’s not the end of your blogging dreams. The list is idealistic and the questions are there to help potential bloggers enter into blogging with open eyes and making good decisions about whether a blog is right for them. It also might help potential bloggers to think about what type of blog they might start and what type of skills they might need to develop:

Without further ado - here’s my 23 questions:

1. Do you enjoy writing? - Blogs are predominantly a written medium. If you do not enjoy writing then the chances are you might not enjoy blogging.
2. What’s your Message? - While there are many applications for blogging, underlying most (if not all) of them is the aim of communicating some sort of message. Do you need/want to communicate something? Do you have a message? Starting a blog just because you want one might be fun, but it might also be a waste of time.
3. Are you a good communicator? - I don’t believe that only good communicators should have blogs - (they can be a tool for people learning communication skills to improve) but it can be an advantage to have some basic communication skills.
4. Are you better at writing or speaking? - Most communicators have a preference (or at least have better skills in one form or another). If speaking is more your thing you might want to consider Podcasting or even a Video based web site.
5. Do you want to be the central voice on your website? - While blogs are good at building community - they generally feature one person (or a smaller group of people) as the central voices in a conversation. Other people have to respond to the voice of others. If you’re after something where anyone can start a conversation then a Forum might be a better medium.
6. Are you a self starter? - Starting a blog takes a little initiative. While blog software these days makes it simple to start them, they don’t run themselves and take a motivated person to both getting them off the ground.
7. Are you disciplined? - Similarly blogs require regular attention over time. While daily posting is not essential, it’s probably a good level to aim for. Will you be able to motivate yourself to write something new every day?
8. Do you have time? - Linked to the need for regular updates is the fact that this takes time. Do you have enough time in your schedule to write daily? Not only that do you have time to moderate comments, respond to reader questions, read other bloggers posts, network with other bloggers etc?
9. Are you thick skinned? - If you start a blog, the chances are that it will be found and that others will write about you or some aspect of what you’re doing. This is great when the comments of others are positive and in agreement with you - but it’s not much fun when you’re critiqued (sometimes fairly and sometimes not). Do you have the ability to take criticism well?
10. Are you willing to be in the public spotlight? - Blogging is a public act. Every day you put yourself into the gaze of others. People will analyze your words and lifestyle. Some will want to know more about you and some might even recognize you in public (it’s happened to me a few times). While few bloggers (if any) are ‘celebrities’ - putting yourself ‘out there’ every day is a strange thing to live with and can have it’s consequences. Keep in mind that once you write something online it is very difficult to get it removed. You might be able to delete your blog but archives services (and other bloggers) pick up a lot of what you write and so you could be living in the public splotlight for a lot longer than you’re a blogger.
11. Do you have any technical ability? - If this were a requirement of blogging I’d have never gotten far, but it is an advantage to have the ability to learn and work on a technical level. You’ll be working on a computer with web based software and at times you’ll need to ‘tweak’ your blog. Knowing how to do it yourself can be very handy. If you’re not this type of person, you might want to make friends with someone who is.
12. Do you take yourself too Seriously? - One of the characteristic I think bloggers should have is a sense of humor - particularly when it comes to looking at themselves. While there are plenty of examples of bloggers who do take themselves too seriously, most successful bloggers seem to have the ability to laugh at themselves also.
13. Do you have a blend of humility and Ego? - Coupled with a sense of humor should be humility. While bigheadedness abounds in the blogosphere it’s often the humble blogger who ends up on top. Having said this having a healthy ego and view of your own worth as a person is also a good characteristic to have as there is an element of ’self promotion’ that comes into blogging at times. Getting this balance right is not always easy - but it’s worth working on.
14. Are you willing to learn? - I like to look at blogging as a journey where everyone knows something but nobody knows everything. This is the case on any topic you want to blog about and the best bloggers are willing to share what they know but seek out and promote what others know also. In this way everyone learns - even the ‘experts’.
15. Do you enjoy reading? - Being good at writing is very helpful - but so is the ability to read what others are writing. If I were to video tape myself over a day of blogging I suspect I’d find that I spend more time reading each day than writing. For every post I write I would read at least three.
16. Are you an organized person? - While I’m sure many bloggers are completely chaotic and unorganized - there comes a point in most serious blogger’s lives when they have to get at least a little organized. With incoming emails, following lots of feeds, writing perhaps on multiple topics/blogs and moderating comments all going on at once (plus more) it’s pretty easy for time to slip away without getting much done.
17. Are you a Social person? - There are many styles of blogging but when it comes down to it most bloggers have some sort of a desire to connect with readers. Some bloggers keep readers at an arms length (they might switch off comments and rarely respond to emails) but it’s probably an advantage to actually engage your readers in someway. If you don’t like people then this might be challenging. Another related question might be ‘are you an approachable person?’
18. Do you enjoy ‘virtual relationships?’ - Some of the most social people I know are terrible when it comes to online interactions. They just don’t ‘get’ it and are much better face to face than via email, instant messaging or in a forum or comments thread. Being comfortable with speaking to and working with people you’ve never met before is an advantage if you’re a blogger. Connected to this - it’s also important to be what I call ‘virtually intuitive’. One of the dangers of relating to people online is that all can not be as it seems. Developing the ability to work out whether others are who they say they are and of good character is probably a skill to develop.
19. Are you a creative person? - Once again this is not a ‘must’ - just an advantage. The web is a cluttered place and being able to develop content and community that stands out from the rest and that surprises readers is a big plus.
20. Do you have Stick-ability? - While some blogs are overnight successes, most are not. In fact many (most) blogs are never as successful as their owners would like. A long term approach is one of the basic pieces of advice that I’d give most bloggers.
21. Are you Consistent? - One of the common reasons that I see bloggers getting into trouble with their readers or other bloggers is that they change the way they approach their blogging midstream. Bloggers that are constantly changing the topic of their blogs, or who increase their expectations on readers suddenly, or who change the ‘voice’ that their blog is written in can end up losing the respect of their readers. While no one likes a boring blog - people do like to know what to expect to some extent.
22. Are you honest and transparent? - If you answer no to this one then you can expect to eventually be found out. While in real life it can be reasonably easy to keep secrets or be two faced - the blogosphere has a culture of people keeping an eye upon each other and digging where you don’t want them to dig. While you’ll want to develop boundaries around what you do and don’t blog about, you will need to be willing to disclose conflicts of interest and be willing to be held accountable for the things that you say.
23. Are you willing to work hard? - The level that you need to work on a blog will be dependant upon your goals and objectives for it - but if you have goals of being the next big thing then you’ll be guaranteed of a lot of hard work. Of course this is the case with any thing in life and not just blogs.

I’m sure there are plenty of other questions worth asking before deciding on whether a blog is right for you (feel free to suggest more below) but these are what comes to mind for me. In reading them back they almost read like a job interview for prospective bloggers!

How would you like to get eyeballs, keystrokes, raves and referrals on and about your blog at the same time? Here are the top 14 ways of getting these:

1. Your content has to be current as well as timeless. It must be published as breaking news (well, almost) and written in a way that it is eminently readable even after a year or so.

2. Your writing style must have a dash of humor, wit, sarcasm and spoof-ery to it. Blog visitors are impatient folks – give them formal language and they’ll press the X button on your top right.

3. Your blogs have to be informative and of use to the average Joe. If you are an expert in a subject, share your knowledge.

4. Blog posts must be of reasonable length – overstretch them and folks will drive past them. 500 words is a reasonable length, unless your blog is doling out educative stuff or talking about a technical subject.

5. You have to write about topics of interest – if you write about how your cat fought with your pet ostrich or how your kids would love to vote, then your blog will soon turn into a tombstone. However, if your kids are like Calvin or Dennis, then go ahead and even devote a blog to them. The point here is that your blog has to make for interesting reading. Use lists if you can.

6. Post interesting information and videos that will intrigue your readers.

7. Post pictures and videos (if applicable) on your blog. A text-only blog looks far too boring to read, even though the content may be the best in the world.

8. Build in whacked-out, crazy, mad, provocative polls that tickle the readers’ imagination.

9. Do not respond aggressively to people who leave comments. You may alienate a whole lot of visitors in the bargain. Reply to comments (if they deserve a reply)/mails and be witty by all means, but never offensive.

10. Create a page that has very useful links to helpful sites and nifty, free downloads. This will make visitors recommend your website to all their friends.

11. Ask your visitors to tag your blog/post if they like what they see. Use Nuffnang, Ping.sg

12. Do not include a whole lot of links in your text as it puts off visitors who may figure you’re trying all tricks in the book to make money rather than providing content.

13. Its cool to incorporate slang and new jargon – in fact, you can invent some words or phrases yourself. But it’s uncool to be grammatically wrong – so copy-edit your posts before hoisting them.

14. Finally, your blog’s design must be sleek and savvy. If you cannot create one yourself, hire a freelancer for a few bucks and make him develop a cool template. Try to get free templates if you are currently broke (http://www.blogskins.com)

I sincerely believe in the following quote I watched on the Apprentice:

"The only way to become truly rich, is to help others become rich"
-Donald Trump

Therefore if you feel that the content in this Blog can help your Friends and Families earn more money through the internet, I sincerely hope that you can will be kind enough and share this with them by linking http://www.BlogShopHelp.com to your blog!

As usual, do leave a comment if you feel that you have anything to comment about this article! I believe wholeheartedly that everybody should have the ability to speak their mind, so that we will be able to learn from each other =)