Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Using Article Spinning Software For Article Marketing

. Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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By Tim Cooper

Article marketing is a great way to get backlinks and traffic for your site but it can take a lot of time to write the articles you need. Even if you write for hours every day, you probably won't be able to write more than about 300 to 600 articles per month. Most people have trouble writing faster than that. Even if you are able to write all those articles, it won't leave you with time to do much of anything else.

One option is to hire someone to write them for you. However, you may find that the articles you get back are not up to your standards. In addition, some writers take forever to turn in their assignments or flake on you completely and never turn them in. On top of that, the amount of money it costs to buy the articles you need adds up quickly.

Since it is impractical to write all of the articles you need yourself and incredibly expensive to hire others to do it for you, many articles marketers turn to article spinning software for a solution. Article spinners turn one to three articles into hundreds or thousands, which makes it much more practical for marketers to submit articles to hundreds or even thousands of directories.

Not all article spinners are good though. If you have ever done any research online, you have probably come across articles that are so poorly written you can hardly make sense of them. This type of garbage is what you get from many article spinning programs. But there are some good programs available for article marketing. You just have to know what to look for.

Some article spinners do nothing more than replace synonyms. You should definitely avoid using this type of spinner. The reason is that more often than not the spinner spits out garbage that is barely intelligible. If you try to submit these articles to sites that have human editors, they will almost certainly be rejected. Worse yet, if someone who works at a search engine checks out your site's backlinks and finds a bunch of trash, you are likely to be deindexed.

A better way to get articles to use in article marketing is to use a spinner that spins paragraphs. With this type of software, you have to write three different versions of the article you want to spin. In each of these articles, paragraph one has the same meaning as paragraph one in the others. The same thing applies to the rest of the paragraphs. This way, the software can switch out paragraphs and you can create hundreds of new articles from one original article and two rewrites.

Another type of software you can use to spin articles is the type that allows you to choose the words and phrases you want to be used for substitution. These software programs use codes to indicate the phrases that will be switched out and you choose the replacement text yourself. They give you a great deal of flexibility in spinning your articles but can be very difficult or confusing to use.

When you use software to spin your articles you can quickly and easily create a huge volume of articles that can be submitted to various article directories. This allows you to have a lot of backlinks pointing to your website. By using article spinners, you can create a lot of content quickly. As long as you choose a program that produces legible content, it can save you hours and hours of writing time and allow you to shift your article marketing into high gear.

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Marketing And Publicity Tips For Self Promotion

By Gloria Jennings

Writing a book is a life-defining experience for a writer. It can be very difficult when the author realizes that their book has not defined anyone else's life. This is especially true when you rely upon the book for your livelihood. You must get people to buy and read it. But how? What are the best author and book marketing tips?

Some authors have realized there is a great need for information about writing books. They have therefore, cleverly, written books about how to advertise the book you have written. The tips in the books may or may not be useful, but what IS useful is how you have learned about their book in the first place. Make your own web page and fan site. No one needs to know that you do not have dedicated fans doing this for you. Write a blog. Make a funny video and put it on YouTube. Advertise on your social networking sites. Make your technology (especially free technology!) work for you.

If you are a small town author, it is all the better. Living in a big city gives you access to the biggest publishers and agents, but writing a book there is no great news for anyone. In a small town you are far more likely to be noticed. The newspaper will want to interview you, the local news station will do a story on you, book stores may want you in for a book signing. Take advantage of every single one of these opportunities, because they will not come around again.

You want to give just enough information about the book to make people interested. Do not talk too much about it or give anything away. Be a professional and think about the business of you. Every story or interview is just like a job interview. Do not say anything off-color or make stupid jokes. You do not want to risk alienating a single person. Make sure you are well spoken but do not try to sound 'too smart' and risk sounding like an idiot when no one has any clue about what you are talking about. Not everyone knows critical theory or the Laconian or Derrida point of view. Keep it simple and entertaining.

You must play on everyone's memories of you. Talk about the town's influence on your writing, or your high school, or other local celebrities in order to give a place pride. Be humble. Remember that people will know your parents or remember you from school and will be eager to see what you have done.

Promote yourself as much as you can without becoming irritating. Do television commercials and put up posters. Making deals with local businesses can be a great business move. You just want your book to get out there, even if you are not making much money on it yet. It takes a while for books to pass from hand to hand and for viral advertising to happen.

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Monday, February 1, 2010

Take Your Business Public and Raise the Capital Your Need

. Monday, February 1, 2010
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By James Scott

In these monetarily depressing times businesses are looking outside the box for a localized injection of economic stimulus. Banks are hording their bags of government bailout money while the small business owner is forced to fend for themselves. Nothing but doom and gloom seem to infest all aspects of present and near future financial forecasts.

There is, however, a fiscal niche being carved out as we speak by wealthy, aggressive and eager angel investors. Angel investors, private investors, micro ticket investment partnerships and other alternative financing groups are spearheading a global rally to buy into promising mid-size companies from all industry genres. The elements of a viable company prime for investment are solid and realistic growth potential, talented 'who's who' executive staff with the right educational and professional pedigrees, minimal debt, a solid business plan laying out every minute intricacy that could affect growth, financial return and the exit strategy.

Another important document that is often overlooked but is a mandatory prerequisite for the SEC regulated exchange of cash for equity is a Private Placement Memorandum. A Private Placement Memorandum takes advantage of three powerful Regulation D Rule exemptions (Rule 504, Rule 505 and Rule 506) these are technical documents that spill the beans to the potential investor. In a PPM all the financial and industry risks are put on the table as well as stock prices, a breakdown of fund raising benchmarks and what the money will be used for etc.

A Private Placement Memorandum can be costly if you hire a law firm to custom author the package for you but there are consulting firms that will do this for as little as $4500.

If you are serious about raising money for your company you need to add a Private Placement Memorandum to your list of necessary documents to hand off to the investors in order to get the cash you need in an expedient manner.

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Take Your Business Public: How To Have Investors Begging To Invest!

By James Scott

Take Your Company Public: Have Investors Begging To Invest! As the economy worsens and banks continue to crash and the US dollar is losing its place as the world currency American entrepreneurs need alternative funding solutions that cater to ongoing capital needs that take advantage of the international finance stage as opposed to domestic institutional lenders.

Many companies, for the first time, are considering going public as a viable option but where does one start on this trek? How much does it cost? What type of lawyer and consultants do I need? Who sells my stock? Etc.

The reality is, going public is fairly straight forward if you have a product or service that lends itself to an invest-able option to global financiers. The process of a start-up or small/medium size business going public usually begins with the basic business plan (50 to 100+ pages in length) and a Private Placement Memorandum (Regulation D Rule Exemptions 504, 505 or 506).

The company would then do an initial round of funding with accredited investors with a mini/maxi built into the offering circular that makes it possible to reach a simple benchmark that would allow the company to start using the investment cash for growth via public offering using OTCBB (over the counter bulletin boards); this is the quickest and cheapest way to go public being that 99.9% of companies don't have the liquidity and time in business to qualify for an IPO. There are several things that a company can do to make your capital raise a pleasure and not a nightmare. Start with a solid market maker that will commit to putting forth a dominating effort to sell your shares. The next thing you need to do is put a face and a voice to the company. Hire a publicist and pick an executive, usually the CEO or CFO, set up, daily interviews on radio and TV to promote the company and as you do this you will begin to see instant results. Another thing is to send out articles and press releases focusing on every single positive point, contract and strategic partners, feed that publicity machine. Branding is another powerful aspect to raising capital. Make your brand and image something that people see on online and in magazines. A solid publicist will do wonders for you. Get your press releases going on the wire to broker dealers and market makers and other stock promoters.

Fund raising has been complicated by unethical companies that are looking to create capitalization angles for themselves whether they are the business raising capital or the broker dealer buying and selling their stock. Done honestly, there is no reason a company with a viable business concept can't be successful in raising capital quickly and easily being sold on the public market.

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Attention Investors: Pre - IPO Investments Will Transform Your Life!

By James Scott

Everyone has heard about a friend of a friend who knew a guy that had a sister who got involved with a company just before they went public, made a small seed investment and when the company went public she made millions.

Real Pre - Public investments in companies that are built to last with solid executive management and board of directors all wrapped in a industry that can still flourish in a recession are extremely difficult to find and impossible to be part of unless you are 'in the know', meaning you are the auditing or contract attorney for the company filing with the SEC, the accounting firm doing the third party audit, the consulting firm who is putting together the corporate strategies for the company or the investor relations industry that is gearing up for the publicity and promotions campaign to run in a post offering environment.

Typically the invitation to invest in a pre-public company comes in the form of a Direct Public Offering after the company is divided into shares with a private placement memorandum and before the third party audit and before and during the comments stage of the S1 filing. If you are fortunate enough to invest in a company with the above description you will most likely being offered deeply discounted stock (cheaper than what will be offered in the public market) which means you will (if the offering goes as planned) increase your initial investment amount by 200+ percent.

This is not at all a rare instance. Getting invited to invest in the pre-public, seed capital stage is actually quite simple if you know who to talk to. The best companies to become aligned with are 'go public' facilitation consultants and corporate turnaround consultants. These groups take companies public for a living and can usually plug you right in when the company is qualifying with the SEC and needs to have 40 investors on the book to qualify to go public (on the OTCBB). Simply contact the company and they will typically give you a quick information form to fill out to collect your name, phone, investment history and investment threshold.

It's a fact, once you started investing in solid pre-IPO stock investments, you will dump your broker and never buy stock the traditional way again. Now get out there and experience the power of seed capital investment!

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

What You Should Do If You Need Custom 3d Models By Custom 3d Modeling Services

. Sunday, January 31, 2010
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By Jamie Lopes

I often hear questions about whether one can take a training course and be able to make realistic custom 3d models right away? I often get similar questions from students that are looking to cut down time and keep their 3d costs low. In reality, there is no quick way to learn these specialized skills. As with any skill, the more time you spend learning the skill, the more effective you will be in getting what you want. Keep in mind that it is very difficult to start building a new 3d model or customizing one if you are a newbie in the 3d industry. You are far better of using 3d modeling services.

It requires great skill in part due to how 3d models are made, manipulated, and displayed. They are representations of objects in three dimensions with 3d modeling software, such as 3ds max and maya and can be output in a variety of file formats, such as 3ds and obj. These file formats can then be imported or converted to use in many other applications including parametric modeling.

These virtual representations start as simple meshes comprised on polygons and are later rendered via specific and powerful applications into 2D renders or images. For this step you will need very good rendering skills that can get you renders of custom 3d models that are realistic looking and highly detailed.

These 3d models initially look like skeletons comprised on points and lines. The more detailed the denser the wireframe. They are then rendered via specific software and plugins and into 3d software file formats that can be used by graphic artists for a variety of projects including avatars and environments for real life worlds, in the health care fields, including models of internal organs, simulations, and of course print materials, tutorials, games engines, etc.

Naturally, those who are artistically inclined, understand geometric modeling and can learn software interfaces very quickly stand a better chance at making professional custom 3D models or work for 3d modeling services. However, this may not be the best choice when used in business applications with time constraints, advertising, or for the artists who likes to focus on the art and not in learning the software or the theory behind making virtual objects look real.

Production costs as well as the amount of time that is available can play a part in whether your team uses 3d modeling service or makes the custom 3d models. The advantages to making your own custom 3d models are naturally that you designate exactly what you need; you imagine it and create it.

The real disadvantage to attempting to make your own 3d models is that pro quality 3D models are seldom produced quickly, even by the skilled 3d modelers and the time lost in creation may make this not a viable solution. On the other hand, dependable 3d modeling services will generally offer custom 3d models or customization of ready made 3d models by skilled 3d artists with faster delivery time.

The return on the investment of your valuable time and money is the base line when examining various 3d modeling services. It is often the cost versus the time lost during production. Of course, a project manager, medical professional or advertising firm may not have the abilities or inclination to even try to make their own 3d models.

Utilizing 3D modeling services is common for advertising firms that make ads for their clients, health professionals that want to sell their prescriptions to doctors, video productions and architectural designers. They outsource their 3d projects because of the ability to cut down costs and get it done fast. Making 3d models is routinely just too slow and occasionally too pricey compared to the cost of just getting custom 3d models done by experienced 3d modeling artists.

Artists who like new program interfaces should select their 3d modeling application conscientiously keeping a few things in mind. There are also other alternatives, such as some freeware applications available for anyone to start with relative low costs. However, depending on the open source community and your previous knowledge in 3d, this option might not give you the same results as the more commercial professional software. The best way is to start learning the basics and then progress into more advanced levels to gain a better understanding of the process and its potential.

Therefore, when you get your custom 3d models made by 3d modeling services you save time and money. However, before you go ahead and get these services, consider putting a comprehensive list of the things you need. After all, the more time you put into making the decision to use the services and defining your requirements, the more satisfied you will be with the results that you will get.

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Business Postcard printing Needs Attention

By Hema Mahesh

Every business house requires promoting the company or a product in the market to develop the economical position of the organization. In other words, you need to make advertisements in a technique to attract your customers. There are several methods to work out promotional campaigns and business postcard printing is undoubtedly one correct medium. You do not have to sustain huge expenses like other means of advertisement.

Business postcard printing assists you in a direct approach to your customers so that customers are better informed. Business postcard printing performs on the direct mail method, which strengthens the link between your customers and the company. This produces special curiosity in the minds of your customers to turn positive to your products. You need to follow some guidelines in this activity to create effective business postcard printing.

Theme is the most important feature of your business postcard printing. The central theme is symbolized by an image, which should be able to incite interest in the customer. It tells the customer about the significance of the product that you need to advertise. The picture has to be vivid and brilliant so that there is no ambiguity in the print.

Give importance to the main caption of your business postcard printing. The caption should be well versed so that it tells about the product in one single line. Make it absorbing and your customers will be attracted to your business postcard. Use bigger letters for the caption and you can print it in different color in respect to other part of the material.

It is wise to announce a special discount in your business postcard. Your customers will find it alluring and will be satisfied to realize that customer's time has been properly recognized by the discount offer. This economical benefit may encourage several people to make immediate purchases of your products.

Provide comprehensive information about the availability of the product in different locations so that customers are able to get it at the nearby store or can get in touch with you easily. Making it easy for customer is a big step forward in advertising a product with your business postcard printing.

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What Should I Consider When Wanting To Gain Internet Exposure?

By Julie Johnson

Marketing a business used to be simple, purchase some billboard and newspaper ad advertising and you were on the road to a successful marketing campaign. These days, though that is not nearly enough to gain you the attention you need in business. And whether you are trying to market a web based business of a brick and mortar one, you might be surprised that most people begin looking for information about any business on the web.

This means essentially that no matter what business you are in, you will need to stake a claim on the web for your business or get plowed over by your competitors. Creating an internet marketing plan for your business should include at least the three following players, Yahoo, Bing and of course internet giant Google, because if people are going to look for you on the web, they are more than likely going to look you up under one of the three major search engines.

When coming up with an internet marketing strategy many business often include wonderful and elaborate websites. This is a good idea, however if you can not bring potential customers to your website it will not serve much of a purpose. In order to get your website viewed you need to rank among the top sites on the search engine. Studies have shown that while conducting a search the internet user often clicks on the top result that comes up. If you are not on the top, or somewhere close to it, you may not have the traffic on your site that you have hoped for.

There are two main factors that go into making your website visible by others. The first has to do with your content links. You want to make sure that the link you are including are relevant to the information and link to well maintained sites. The second factor is making sure that the content on the website is not only fresh but informative. You want the the visitors to your site can be properly informed and you also want the content to attract the search engine spiders to your site, as this will increase your web rankings.

Doing these two things can really help enhance your website and help move it to a higher ranking for your chosen keywords. Search engine optimization is something that can be accomplished by any company willing to put forth the effort and understanding the importance of good links and relevant, keyword rich content.

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