Propertycasting - The Commercial Application of Podcasting for the Real Esate Industry

July 3rd, 2009

Propertycasting is the commercial application of podcasting for the real estate industry. Propertycasting involves the distribution and publishing of audio and video feeds, that offer real estate information delivered over the Internet, for on demand listening.

This is a new step in the evolution of on-demand real-esate information delivery, making it accessible, informative, useful and appealing. This mix presents the real estate industry with a very unique opportunity to reach its target audiences through this new medium. Those individuals, who are already seeking real estate information actively, will use RSS subscription technology built into each podcast feed, to receive information immediately as it is updated by the real estate firm. With one click of a button, a user can subscribe to a feed that may be interesting, and any related information that is ever updated to that feed will be automatically processed to their personal aggregator. An aggregator is able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content.

To take this process one step further, podcasting publishes each feed with the capability to be transferred to any portable audio or video device. So with the growth of the ipod and all the other portable media devices, you have the ability to grab propertycasts and place them on your portable player for listening or viewing. Most users attach their portable players to their computers daily or weekly, and once the player is attached they automatically receive the new propertycast updates.

Here is a sample of a propertycast:
whatiwantpodcasting.com/pods/video/PropertyCast_Large_Windows.wmv

The flexibility of this medium is what will drive the growth of propertycasting tremendously over the next few years. Currently the most useful application for real estate organizations worldwide, is complimenting already existing real estate web pages with audio and video feeds. These propertycasts detail important notices and information that may be prudent, along with a quick marketing pitch from a broker. These can be used for seasonal marketing activities, special events, or monthly updates.

For years and years, associates and brokers have been sending out property listing updates. These propertycasts can be inserted into your existing listing pages. Most firms have numerous web pages which deliver real estate information in text and pic format. By providing an audio or video link on that page it gives the user a different and much more effective format for receiving the information. This is also a great way to teach your existing users how to start utilizing propertycasting services.

The popularity of portable on demand information will grow even greater as wireless internet services continue to flourish across the country. These portable devices will no longer have to be connected to the internet; they will receive information wirelessly as it is updated. In addition, as cell phones and portable devices continue to merge together, the market grows larger.

For firms that have thousands of employees or brokers, the distribution of company information is very important, and once again this offers each institution a method of on-demand delivery which is convenient to all.

There are numerous uses for propertycasting currently, and over the next few years it will explode in popularity. It is beneficial to institutions as well as the consumer, and it will be seen as a great tool in any real estate organizations’ operations.

Ryan Hoback is CEO of What I Want Podcasting.

They specialize in developing podcasts & nanocasts for a wide range of industries. Their development team guides each client through the process of creating podcasts that incorporate brand integration and deliver the target message through a positive visual & listening experience.

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Build Traffic, Increase Adsense Money from Your Site - Top Tips

July 3rd, 2009

Want to increase your Google Adsense income, make more money from your website and increase search engine traffic? Here’s some tips for boosting your Adsense revenue.

Forget the current obsession with ranking highly in the search engines – in particular, ranking high in Google. You can spend hours on optimizing your site for the search engines without any immediate results, meanwhile your Adsense ads are sat there feeling lonely and neglected!

The Key to Increasing your Adsense Income - Traffic

So your website is up and running, you’ve got plenty of optimised pages, but you’re wondering just when you’re going to get that first elusive cheque from Adsense – or you know that you could make more money if you could increase your traffic.

There are some simple things you can do to increase your Adsense income immediately that will also help to build your income over the next few months too.

Build links to your site – not just any links, but links with sites which have related content. You can build your initial links using the free service provided by Link Metro. To further build and develop your links, there are two strategies that I have found useful. The first is to type in your keywords, and the phrase “add url” or “submit site” and you will find several sites that are related to your content that are actively looking to exchange links. This can be time-consuming, but there is software available to make this easier, such as that offered by SEO Elite.

Write articles and submit them to article directories – this can bring instant traffic to your site. You don’t have to write much, just 250 words or more. If you’re not sure what to write, visit the forums to see what questions people are asking and answer those questions! If you’re serious about submitting articles as a way to immediately increase your website traffic, you may wish to consider using article submission software to submit to dozens of article sites. This strategy also creates one-way links back to your site which again will help you to rank well in the search engines over time.

Write a free report or e-book and use it as a viral marketing tool to get your website information right across the internet. This is easier than it sounds as a free report can be just a few pages, or can even comprise a few articles that you’ve obtained free from the article sites!

Visit forums and other sites or blogs and leave a comment. Ensure that you leave a link back to your site and create an intriguing “signature” that get people interested in visiting your website. This strategy will also create links back to your site too!

Have your own blog as part of your website and update it regularly. If you struggle to write articles, you may find it easier to write in your blog (or web log). You can make entries of any length – the longer the better and make sure you use your keywords in your blog too. You can also add affiliate links which can provide an additional source of income too. Make sure you “ping” it to the search engines every time you update it, with Pingomatic and you’ll get immediate traffic. The search engines love fresh content and so will return regularly to visit your site to add any new pages, but mostly they see the regular updates as related content that also will improve your search engine rankings.

Add RSS to your site – this is an easy and quick way to add fresh, keyword-rich content to your site. If you find a related ezine or website that is offering RSS, just add this to your site and you’ll be getting loads of free visitors from content that somebody else has written!

Last, but by no means least, build your list. Just think of the hundreds of visitors that are going to visit your list every day, never to return. Just imagine what could happen to your traffic if you could capture the email addresses of these visitors and get them visiting your blog or site regularly? How about then selling to them via affiliate links once you have built up the trust between you and shown yourself to be an expert in your field? If you look at all the people who are making big money on the internet, they all have their own opt-in list. You can do this simply by using someone like A Weber to set up an autoresponder and by adding a simple PopUp, PopOver or PopUnder on your site to collect emails.

This really is the secret to building long term profitability for your site and your business.

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How Top Marketers Get Rich From Affiliate Marketing

July 3rd, 2009

If you′ve been involved with affiliate marketing for any length of time, then you′re probably aware of the fact that affiliate marketing “gurus” have access to knowledge that you don’t, and that bridging this “information gap” is the key to earning a solid income online. Here are four ways top marketers are getting rich through affiliate marketing.

1. By marketing to affiliate marketers. This one becomes painfully obvious when you think about all of the infoproducts dedicated to helping affiliate marketers earn more money online.

As long as these infoproducts actually serve to help their readers, they can be a highly effective tool in assisting affiliate marketers in increasing their profits.

Unfortunately, the Internet is littered with scores of ebooks filled with worthless, rehashed information. But if you’ve had some success with affiliate marketing, why not but together your own infoproduct that helps others to experience the same success?

Or, you could put together a 10-page ebook that presells a product and earns you affiliate commission. And, if you like, allow your readers to give it away and watch as your commissions skyrocket!

2. By capturing e-mail addresses rather than sending prospects straight to a merchant site, and following up with them through long autoresponder series, as well as free giveaways that pre-sell their own products or the products of a third-party merchant.

By operating in this manner, these savvy marketers are creating actual “residual” income. A list of just 10,000 people can result in passive income of thousands of dollars a month. The good news is, that it isn′t that difficult to build a list of this size, or that expensive either.

3. By brokering joint venture deals with other list owners. If you can leverage someone else’s mailing list for an instant surge of profits, you stand to be highly profitable.

If you already have your own list, why not send out a mailing inquiring about brokering joint venture deals with your subscribers? Take the path of least resistance and use the power of network to your advantage.

4. By embedding affiliate links in free special reports and information products they are selling. If you give me general details on how I can solve a pressing problem, and then tell me that product A, B, or C is the “ultimate solution” to solving that problem, your odds of selling me that product increase dramatically.

So use your free and for-sale items to boost your affiliate commissions, while exploring new ways to achieve greater returns on your efforts.

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Top 3 Reasons To Use Dedicated Server Hosting Rather Than Shared Hosting

July 2nd, 2009

Choosing the type of hosting to use for your website can make or break your business. Two popular methods are using shared hosting and dedicated hosting. Dedicated hosting means that your site has a full computer dedicated to the needs of your website. Shared hosting means that your site is on the same server as hundreds or thousands of other websites. Here is why you should use a dedicated server if you can afford it:

Your site will run faster
Using a dedicated server will ensure that your website will always perform fast. This is especially important since visitors to your site will quickly leave if your site is slow. With shared hosting your site can easily become bogged down because of problems with the hundreds of other websites on the same computer.
You site is more secure
Since there are at least hundreds of other websites on a shared server security becomes a problem. It is exponentially more probable that hackers will be attempting to breach the security of a shared server rather than a dedicated server, since the number of potential targets is so much higher.You can survive traffic spikesIf you are actively advertising and promoting your site it is very likely that your site will experience traffic spikes at times. For instance, suppose you sent a news release about a new product or service one day. That will hopefully result in many visitors coming to your website. With a dedicated server you can be sure that your site has the capacity to perform well during a traffic spike. With shared hosting it is likely that the server is already taxed from the traffic going to other websites.
Shared hosting is generally cheap, but the risk of losing business due to poor performance, security problems, or traffic spikes is a real problem. If you have the budget it is much wiser to spend the extra money on a dedicated server.

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Using Server Side Includes to Simplify Your Web Design

July 2nd, 2009

An “include” file is a piece of code that can be put into a seperate file — for example — your navigation bar — and then “included″ in a number of other pages. This has the very useful advantage of allowing you to retain consistency over a very large number of pages, and then make changes to all of those pages by just changing the include file.

For instance, say you want each page in your site to include a short paragraph that uniquely identifies your site. I normally call this a “site-id”. It would read something like this:

forsaletours.com ForSaleTours.com - provides information and sources for virtual tours for the real estate industry. We explain different methods of combining video and audio to produce virtual representations of your home to enhance its value and to make the purchasing experience of potential buyers better than it otherwise might be.

To set this up so it appears in a host file as an “include″, you normally have to do three things:

1. Make sure your server allows SSI (server side includes). If you have access to your web site control panel you should be able to figure this out. Or if not, ask your web host technical support people.

2. Create a “host″ file and give it a file extension so your server recognizes it contains include files. A common extension is .shtml

3. Create your include file. It can usually have any of a number of different extensions: .html, .htm, .php, even .txt. This is the file that will be included within other files.

4. Embed the correct code within your .shtml file to point to the include file. If the include file and host file are in the same folder on the server, it will look like this:

<!–#include
file="file_name.html"–>

If the include file is located in a different folder (on the same server), the code will look like this:

<!–#include
virtual="folder_name/file_name.html"–>

In the above example you have to make sure the relative path to the include file is set correctly.

Now when you want to make a global change to, for instance, your “site-id″, you just have to change the include file (once), and this change will be populated through all the pages that include that file.

Include files can be put to many creative uses that allow you to do things that are otherwise very impractical. And if you have a website with a large number of pages, this technique can save you a great deal of time.

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Rick Hendershot is a marketing consultant, writer, and internet publisher who lives in Conestogo, Ontario, Canada. He publishes several websites and blogs, including sbo-linknet.com The Linknet Network of Websites. This network provides an inexpensive way to advertise your website, and get as many as 100 low cost links.

Breaking into Comedy Through Podcasting

July 2nd, 2009

Comedy is not an easy gig, but there is one thing for sure and that is people never get tired of entertainment. Some people have the need to entertain others and if this is you, then you may be already on the road to a professional career.

The internet and podcasting is connecting audiences with entertainers like never before. You can become famous and if you have an ounce of talent it can be appreciated, which is after all the whole point of the exercise.

Podcasting is an ideal medium for voice based comedy routines, and particularly good for verbal comedy between 2 ’stars’ bantering. In fact many podcasts involve ‘duos’. The dynamic of two creates an energy and
anime that is difficult to achieve alone, unless one is the most seasoned professional.

But even if you are going solo, you could still present material in a form that shows off your skill. One possible idea is - presenter of the show, with ‘comedic’ or interesting guests, whether real or playing roles.

The point is not quantity but quality and keeping in mind the big picture. The next leap after podcasting may be to go into online video, radio, television or film.

Starting a podcast can be a great way of honing your comedy skills as well as getting feedback from listeners as to what they like and what you can do that creates the best effect.

If you find the whole thing too stressful just do one for fun with a friend, and you never know where it will take you. Your podcast could be your stepping stone to comedy success.

We wish you luck!

The Author is the Editor of podcastdir.net Podcast Directory where you can find podcasts of many different types, listen to them for free and submit your own podcasts to the podcast listening world.

Targeted Ebay and Auctions - Tips to Get You Started at Ebay

July 2nd, 2009

Auction sites, with Ebay at the lead, are popular choices for setting up online buy-and-sell businesses. With no significant operating expenses and the whole world as market, entrepreneurs can afford to sell their products and services at much lower prices. As a result, people slowly turn away from traditional stores and opt to do their shopping online instead.

With such potential for unlimited income, now is the right time for you to start your own Ebay store if you still don′t have one. Competition is tough but there’s always room for more sellers in the world of online auction. Targeted Ebay and auctions are hot opportunities which you should not choose to ignore.

To make a significant difference even though there is a lot of competition going on, choose an unexplored and overlooked yet potentially profitable niche. Once you’ve established yourself as a pioneer in your chosen niche, the profits will just stream in much faster than you’ve ever imagined.
Never sacrifice quality no matter how successful your Ebay store gets. Quality is what makes any product or services a popular choice among people. Consistently deliver quality goods, and consistently get profit for your business.

Lastly, don’t forget to take risks as long as they are calculated. Creativity and innovation wouldn’t hurt your business provided you apply them in moderation. Sticking to what works is a good business strategy, but it’s better to explore other possibilities if it means a big chance for your Ebay store to rake in more profit.

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SEO - Can You Start an SEO Business For Free

July 1st, 2009

Many Internet gurus will lead you to believe that you can make a ton of money as an SEO marketer without making any initial investment into it as a business. This is completely false. Although it is true that you can write a blog strewn with affiliates on a free site, or make yourself up a fancy online business card on a build it yourself website you are probably not going to make much money unless you have a little bit of money to invest in a high quality website with a decent domain name.

Many gurus who write books about this stuff will tell you that you can optimize your site for free by using certain keywords to describe your site etc. This is simply not true. In fact the trend in marketing is for the search engines to start penalizing sites that have too many keywords repeated throughout the main body of the page. This is why you need to be quite clever about your SEO marketing.

The reason is that it is completely impossible to make money on the Internet without an investment is because you must count your time as an investment. Surely your time is worth something and if you don’t value it, who will? Even if you have arranged not to pay for anything online, you need to pay yourself something. So if you pay yourself ten bucks per 500 word SEO article and write eight a day then you need to factor in the cost of your time as eighty bucks a day.

You can make money on the Internet as a SEO marketer without a big investment, but you will not make a six-figure income! You are probably looking in the below $5,000.00 region in that case. The intelligent thing to then do is invest part of that $5,000 back into your SEO business.

Anthony Gregory is a SEO and Website Marketer. He can be contacted at: Sales (at) Brilliantseo.com

Targeted Product Launching - Effective Ways to Improve Your Product Launching

July 1st, 2009

In any companies, the moment of launching the product is normally considered the “D’DAY”. The impact that product creates during the launch somehow forecasts the success of it in the market. So how do you prepare such a grand product launch to ensure profitable output? I have enumerated below guidelines that you wish to follow during a product launch.

• Make your product known to all! With the use of Internet e-mailing, you can easily disseminate information about your product that is out or soon-to-be-out in the market. By doing this, you let everyone know and feel the visibility of your product.

• Network your product launching to others. It is wise that you have a list of other internet marketers. Make sure that you invite these and tie up a joint venture with them to capture their market, too.

• Make sure that everything in your product site works properly right and functional, that includes your merchant lines, important download links, e-mail addresses links, and others. Allow for a series of tests to happen before the launch.

• Create the best headline. To capture your audience, you strike them with a “consumer attractive” headline. This will, to the least, ensure possible visit from an online buyer.

• Have the best date to launch your product. Deciding on the time date is crucial as the product itself. When you have finally decided on the time and date, stick with it.

• “Early bird catches the worms.” Start creating your sales pages early and earn the rewards early, too. By setting the page earlier, you immediately come up with a traffic.

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The Ugly Truth About Your Beautiful Adsense Tactics

July 1st, 2009

The internet is abuzz over Google’s Adsense program. Fortunes are being made by those savvy enough to understand how to use it to their fullest advantage. Everyone is looking for the best ways to exploit this massive advertising program, and there are literally hundreds of Adsense “experts” willing to sell you tips and hints on how to earn a healthy income with the program.

For those unfamiliar with Adsense, a brief overview may be in order. Google allows advertisers to place bids on keywords of their choice as part of what is termed the Adwords program. The amount paid for advertising related to each keyword is determined by this bidding process and can get relatively high for fairly competitive keywords. Very competitive terms can cost a great deal of money. The advertisements appear on the top of Google search engine searches (you have probably noticed them in shaded areas and along the right side of your own search results). These advertisements are also inserted into the web pages of those who participate in Google Adsense. Every time someone clicks on the advertisement, the advertiser is charged for the click. The proceeds are then split between Google and the Adsense participant.

Basically, Google is willing to pay those with content-rich websites to host these advertisements. The site operator, known as the publisher, merely needs to insert some simple and customizable HTML code on their site and ads will “automatically appear.” To make matters easier, the ads are contextual in nature. Google “reads” the publisher’s page and serves up advertisements related to the subject matter of the page.

Adsense was immediately seen as a way webmasters could earn some extra money from their content-rich pages that were not otherwise producing tangible financial benefits. Any subject matter for which ads exist (and ads are available on almost every keyword) could conceivably generate some profit that otherwise would not exist.

It didn’t take long for people to realize that this approach merely scratched the surface of Google Adsense’s potential bounty. Soon, webmasters determined that sites rich in content directly related to the highest paying keywords could generate significant profits with each and every click. With the high cost of competitive keywords, it was possible to earn several hundred dollars from a single Adsense-carrying page from only a handful of clicks.

Other publishers determined that finding underserved keywords that still generated significant per click revenue could also produce amazing results. A quality high paying “niche” Adsense site could be a significant source of revenue.

Today, Google Adsense continues to grow in popularity. Advertisers love the arrangement, as they now have an army of webmasters designing sites that will eventually lead to pre-qualified prospects being led to their commercial endeavors. Adsense publishers love the idea of creating sites that can generate revenue without requiring a product to sell. Adsense continues to create awesome income opportunities for those who know how to best use it.

As noted, there are a variety of so-called “experts” offering tips and hints to help increase Adsense revenues. Some focus on on-page design and other similar means of increasing “click through rate (CTR).” Others focus entirely on how to produce hundreds of sites quickly and easily in hopes of creating income through volume. Sometimes there seem to be as many expert Adsense systems as there are actual sites featuring Google’s ads.

Those who initially took this “spare change” opportunity and transformed it into a true moneymaker, however, uncovered the key to success with Adsense. The key to success is finding the right keywords and determining how to best exploit them.

It’s not too hard to guess what kinds of keywords are generating decent payouts. Medical terms and keywords related to multi-million dollar lawsuits, for instance, are universally known to be bring high amounts per click. At one time, the internet was crackling with news of how the keyword “mesothelioma” and related terms were earning nearly a hundred dollars or more per click. That’s right…Per click. Ten “mesothelioma” clicks in a day could conceivably put one thousand dollars in the pocket of a publisher.

Of course, once word leaked out, “mesothelioma” sites sprung up everywhere. Adsense experts and newbies alike engaged in heated competition for the elusive “mesothelioma” clicks and their attendant profits. Soon, it became increasingly difficult to get traffic to a “mesothelioma” site. There was simply so much competition.

The story of how a form of lung cancer took Adsense by storm is important to understand, because it teaches a fundamental lesson about the nature of succeeding with the program. You not only need to know what words are making money with each click. You need to know that information before everyone else does, too.

That is why keyword research is the most important aspect of successful Adsense use. By understanding which words are paying the most at any given time, you can position yourself in those key niches before the onslaught, allowing you to garner considerable profit in a relatively short period of time.

Adsense keyword research can be performed manually by anyone willing to invest the time. By creating a separate Adwords account, one can take on the role of an advertiser and see what it would cost to advertise for particular keywords. This will give one an idea of how much each click to an advertisement is likely worth. They can then analyze the competition for that keyword to see if the market is too saturated or not. They can also use any number of services to generate a list of related terms to check and see if there are any veins that are particularly underserved in terms of “perfect match” traffic. After they discover a high-paying word with an accessible market, they can use the information to make more money with Adsense.

There is, however, a problem or two with this technique. Initially, one may have to take hundreds of stabs at finding a keyword that matches all of the necessary prerequisites for success before they are even able to discover which keywords are really high paying. Then, they must hope that keyword is not already over-served on the net, so that they can hope to profit from their Adsense site. If it turns out that the high-paying word they discovered is already being served by hordes of other Adsense users, they must go back to square one and start the process over again.

The process is cumbersome, time-consuming and absent a stroke of luck may never produce real results. What a potentially profitable Adsense publisher really needs is a way to quickly and easily determine how much a click is worth for virtually any keyword at an instant. To make matters even more convenient, they must also be able to immediately ascertain the popularity of the term with respect to how many people are seeking information on the keyword.

Fortunately, this alternative is now available and it is really the best way to profit from Google Adsense. Adsenseadwords.com has automated the process of finding winning keywords and can provide users with all of the information they need to choose the best niches and keywords to attack. Adsenseadwords.com provides a comprehensive up-to-date look at which words are generating the most money per click. At the same time, it reveals just how many people are actually searching for the keywords in questions. Even more impressively, it takes an extra step and allows users to look for related keywords in order to find the best ways to custom tailor sites to produce maximum Adsense revenue.

This kind of information is in high demand for a reason—it is the one way to produce the best possible results. If one performs a search on a term like “high paying Adsense keywords,” they will quickly understand how coveted information like this really is. You’ll find forum posters begging for information on which words are hot. You will find old lists of various higher-paying words that are still relied upon by some desperate for direction even though the lists are now old and of little real utility. Everyone wants to know which words pay the most. Adsenseadwords.com answers the question with an intuitively structured system that provides both keyword values and essential search pattern information.

If you just want to put some Adsense ads up on an existing site and hope to earn a few cents per day, Adsenseadwords.com is not for you. However, if you are interested in discovering which keywords can really offer the most profit potential in order to help direct your site-building and site optimization plans, it is the perfect service. You know the big money clicks are out there somewhere. History shows us all that those who find them early and make their move can produce massive profits. You just need a tool to help you find the right terms. Adsenseadwords.com gives you the tools and makes them very easy to use.

Ben Shaffer is the owner and chief-developer of the popular site adsenseadwords.com AdsenseAdwords.com . He also spends a huge amount of time managing his Adsense sites portfolio. If there is something to know about Adsense, then Ben Shaffer probably knows about it!