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Is It Possible To Learn And Benefit From Time Management Skills

May 29th, 2009 |

I am probably one of the worst time keepers in the world, although I know there are worse (in fact my husband has two friends who should get medals for the lateness).

I am hardly ever late as I hate it when other people are, but I very often mis-manage my time. I have clients that I look after, as well as people I coach and my own sites, so time management is a very important factor of my business. I also have three boys under 5, two dogs and a husband, which you can imagine keeps me busy, so time managemenst skills are also required in my home life.

I decided to take action and find some time management techniques to improve my skills. So I went online, of course, and took a few days browsing Amazon and the like for something on learning time management skills and techniques, but there just didn’t seem to be anything that suited my needs.

The I got an e-mail from Mr Robert Plank (he has a lot of wordpress products, so I always read his e-mails). He was offering a time management course and as he himself is an internet marketer I knew that his course was exactly what I had been looking for. You can take a look at his course here.

Since buying this course and learning how to effectively manage my time I have been a lot more productive. I can do more in less time and can also motivate my outsourcers better.

If you are having issues with your time managment I urge you to check out Robert’s Time Managment Techniques. You will be so happy you did when you also increase your output

I’m going to visit my mother in law this weekend, so will try to keep posts closer together from Tuesday

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Downloads Downloading But Not Saving

May 16th, 2009 |

Author: Kelly Ifrah

I hate wasting time and today I spent three hours looking for an answer as to why all of a sudden, just from last night, downloads seemed to be downloading, but they were not saved to the location I specified. They weren’t saving in any location. This was in both Firefox and IE.

I can tell you after the first 10 Google searches and having read through about 100 pages that were not really relevant, I was REAL mad. I did however, finally, find a page that sorted the problem … http://support.mozilla.com/ca/kb/Unable+To+Download+Or+Save+Files, specifically this part … http://support.mozilla.com/ca/kb/Unable+To+Download+Or+Save+Files#Disable_virus_scanning_in_Firefox_preferences

It solved the problem in Firefox, but not in IE.

I am using AVG and had not had any problems up until last night. I don’t know if it is due to AVG or something else.

I decided to provide the fix for everyone here as it is a pain to find the right information or even something that is relevant to now. I spent a half hour looking for a file that is not included anymore in Firefox 3.0.

Anyway, I now have to scan all my files by hand before I extract or install them, but at least they are downloading.

Have you ever come accross this issue? How did you solve it? Share your fixes here.

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The Biggest Niche Marketing Secret Revealed

May 14th, 2009 |

Author: Kelly Ifrah

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The biggest secret, or key, to successful niche marketing are the keywords you choose.

You want to have keywords that people are searching for, but you also want to have the money keywords.

Now, I always do my keyword research using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Why? Because I want to rank well in Google as they index and rank sites faster than the other search engines, so I want to know what people are searching for on Google.

I always look at the exact match count and the global average search volume and whether there are adwords adverts. I download the csv files for the keywords and the related keywords, mesh them together and sort by highest search volume to lowest search volume. I do some initial searches on Google for the keyword with and without brackets and I look at the site wide links the competition have.

I then get content targeting the 10 keywords I feel are the best buying keywords. This is something you learn how to spot over time, but basically anything with a brand name or a model name in it is a buying keyword and any keywords that include the words; review, coupon, buy, get and how, to are also good buying keywords.

The thing to remember is that the number of searches is not the be all and end all. You are 100 times better off going for 10 searches a month for ‘nikon qs452 camera special offer’ (I made this model number up as an example) rather than 5000 searches a month for ‘nikon camera’ .

Later, when I get some statistics, from my tracking program, about what keywords people are actually using and what keywords are converting, I can then add more keywords into my list if I need to.

I noticed yesterday while doing some research that Google has added some more free tools like their adwords keyword tool. Search for anything on Google and when the search results come up you will now see a Show options clickable link on the left hand side of the screen on the same light blue line as the number of results.

There are quite a few goodies here, like showing the destination url for the adwords sites and the timeline for the keyword, but my favourite is the wonder wheel. It basically shows you exactly what Google think are the most relevant keywords to your main keyword. This is very good for filling out your site later on down the road. It is called Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI).

Niche marketing has made me enough so far to replace the monthly income of a well paid job. If you’ve read my other posts you will see that I do most things using automated software as it saves me lots of time, BUT when it comes to the keywords I use for my websites I prefer to spend an hour or two doing it by hand. I get better results that way.

There are lots of tools out there, and some of them will give you really large lists of keywords, but until you have mastered it by hand I would not recommend you spend any money on it.

Have a play around with what Google have on offer for free. You’ll really find it beneficial as it will change the way you look at keywords for your future research

What tools do you use for your keyword research and why? Share your thoughts below …