Sounds like a great marketing approach for getting “daytime” business instead of just the normal crowd after hours… especially if you live somewhere with a fairly large retirement or family vacation population!

There’s one technique that helps more than anything else to do that… offering folks a free bonus that is somehow related to the topic of your website or business.

The PROBLEM, of course, is CREATING

1. A quality product

2. Attractive Artwork

3. Hosting your freebie

4. Updating the product if necessary

My friend Markus Allen is offering marketers access to a growing number of free offers they can use to build their own email lists.

Why is he doing this? Well, to build his own email list…

He figures that if you’re serious enough to be producing an ezine, then you’re serious enough to be interested in his other services and information.

You see, while you’re going after end users or various products, his market is serious marketers.

From everything I can tell about this, he’s just made about a zillion people’s online marketing programs much more likely to succeed!

Check it out.

Get your free bonuses here… Remember, there is NOTHING TO BUY, EVER.

But, unfortunately most of us aren’t in that enviable position! And so, it likely PAYS to monitor your  credit report for a number of reasons.

Here’s a new one, for example, that I just learned:

After Bank of America tried to impose a monthly fee for using a debit card, I resolved, as much as possible, to do business with local credit unions. I just moved and happened to find a tremendous one.  As I was applying for an account, their software AUTOMATICALLY CHECKED MY CREDIT SCORE!

I suppose they wanted to make sure that people with bad credit would not even be applying for MEMBERSHIP. Fortunately my credit score was fine, but who knew you could (potentially) be denied credit union membership for having a low credit score? I didn’t – until now that is.

Another reason to regularly access your credit report is to check erroneous information. The last time I refinanced my home, an item was on my report from many, many years ago, long after it was legal or necessary to mention it.

When it’s so easy to get a free credit score, why wouldn’t you check on your credit report at least annually? By law the credit companies are REQUIRED to make a copy available free… and even more often if your identity is stolen. And of course, there are companies that in addition to letting you access your free credit score instantly online provide other services that the often “consumer unfriendly” credit bureaus don’t provide!

Note: Thanks to FreeScore.com for sponsoring this post.

It’s another phishing scam but one that slipped through many spam filters.

It purports to be from the Better Business Bureau website but has a non specific reply address “manager@bbb.org”.

It arrives unsolicited to businesses who do not even use the BBB services.

And it arrives addressed generically to “Sirs”.

When called the phone number was disconnected early in the day and had a recorded message warning against this email later in the day warning against clicking the link or opening attachments.

The Better Business Bureau does try to resolve disputes between consumers and businesses, but only contacts businesses with a prior relationship.

While “energy efficiency” can revolve around matters of insulation and efficient appliances, some people want to create their own electricity. Those wanting to install solar electric systems legally and safely will needphotovoltaic training. For example, if a solar panel system is installed in a home and improperly connects to the power grid, it may send out electricity over the power lines in the event of a power outage. When that occurs linemen sent to repair the lines could be injured or killed by handling cables they were told were not “live wires”. This creates danger for the linemen and liability for the home owner operating such a system.

In my own experience, I once had a home that – except for heating and air – was solar powered. It gave me a return on investment above CD’s at the time. Had I known someone with the proper energy management training to help me investigate the possibility of geo thermal heating and cooling, I might have been able to slash my electricity bill even further!

Will “Green” training be a good investment? In my opinion it can be if you can find a way to weatherize homes efficiently and demonstrate genuine savings. I wouldn’t put all my eggs in any one “renewable energy” basket however because promoting just one alternative may not be in the clients best interest. Proper training in the field at large however could help you guide customers through options that would otherwise be bewildering.

Thanks to Green Training USA for sponsoring our blog today…

You can read them all at: 10 Ways for Female Entrepreneurs to get Funded

Perhaps the most important insight in my opinion is the fact that the person seeking funding must not only know the “business” and it’s numbers inside and out,  it’s dangers and ways to mitigate the risk, but also… after knowing all that… still be able to say why the business idea excites them and they still have a passion for it.

That sounds a bit like having a passion for Bird Watching yet be able, at a moment’s glance, to dispassionately dissect your favorite creature on the whim of a bystander with money to lend.  If your passion can survive that, you deserve the money!

At least for a search engine that is…

Bing tested their results and found that one color outperformed them all and they estimate the change was worth MILLIONS to them long term.

“Based on user feedback, the team estimated the best blue color could generate $80 million to $90 million in ad sales.”

The color: #0044CC. It’s a shade of cornflower with undertones of purple.

Read it all: MIX10: The Bing blue color that’s worth $80 million

… And one test was to see what exact hue of color gets the most clicks.

As a result, this particular color boosted revenues an extra $80 million.

What was that color?

Markus Allen will be discussing this on his weekly call in show!

Check out Stump Markus Live!

(Even if you don’t want to become a regular member, you can listen to a free teleseminar designed to benefit your business!)

When I started college, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I knew that as soon as I graduated, I would want to be able to get a job in this poor job market, and I wanted to struggle as little as possible. I thought at that point that if I majored in business, I would have a better chance of finding a job, but I wasn’t very good with the accounting side of business. After a few years of taking general business classes, I knew I would need to focus my studies on a part of business that didn’t have anything to do with accounting, so I chose marketing. I have always enjoyed learning, and that did not change when I took my upper level marketing classes. I learned about retail marketing techniques, research marketing,
and consumer behavior. All of these classes were great, but I still didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do with my degree once I graduated.

A few months before I graduated, I started to look for a job where I could apply the skills I’d learned in college and be happy at the same time. This proved to be more difficult than I had expected. I searched during my last semester, and when nothing came up I continued to search through the summer. About five months after I graduated, I started to get desperate. I looked everywhere and applied to countless jobs, but few replied and I got very few interviews despite my great track record in college and my high GPA.

Finally, I found a listing on Craigslist that looked promising. I got the interview and fell in love with the job, the atmosphere, the company, and the people I would soon work with. When I got the job, I was ecstatic, and I couldn’t wait to start. Even now, months later, I’m still excited to work every day, especially since I get to work from my own home most of the time.

I love this company because it stands for such a great cause. The purpose is to educate readers about various financial situations and the options these people have when they are in these situations. Many people learn their financial habits from their parents, and if their parents have made poor financial decisions, it can be very hard to break the cycle. The mission for my company is to help those people make informed financial decisions to prevent unnecessary debt and other financial problems.

I really feel like I’m working for a good cause, which makes me happy while I’m working. I have been able to help get the word out about this website by writing articles, like this one, and I know that I’m doing the best job I can. I continue to publish articles, and I am able to stay motivated even on days that I am not able to publish because I love what I am doing. ”Do what you love. When you love your work,
you become the best worker in the world.” — Uri Geller

Elise Brown is an author who writes guest posts on the topics of business, marketing, credit cards, and personal finance. Additionally, she works for a website that focuses on educating readers about pay day loans.

In theory that’s going to make you great money… and it can.

But the truth is there is a way to earn up to an additional 25% more from your website – without doing ANY extra work on your part – and squeeze extra revenue from every post by adding JUST ONE LINE OF JAVASCRIPT to your website.

Here’s how we do that as customers of IntentClick, the company that enables our In-text links.

You just sign up, grab your personalized code, plug it into the footer of your website and you have created an entirely new income stream that automatically adds text links to keywords in your blog posts.

Why should you consider this…

1) You need to maximize the revenue of your blog. That’s just common sense.

2) Not all PPC Advertising is created “equal”.

Did you know that the text block ads like Google are mainly attractive to unsophisticated readers or people just searching for information? That means that people who actually come to your blog to READ it are less likely to be producing revenue for you. Isn’t it a bit insane to work like a dog to build up READERSHIP when that could actually be reducing your revenues somewhat because the more serious readers aren’t there for the ads?

How do you attempt to resolve that issue? Text links targeted to your blogs content are the type of ads most likely to reach the serious readers are reward your WRITING!

You really need a variety of ads to reach a variety of customers most serious professional bloggers have found.

3) Automated linking must be involved. The script does all the linking… you don’t have to insert a link in the first place or CHANGE the link when the offer expires. Any longstanding blog will have thousands of such links and changing them is impossible unless they auto-update.

4) Guaranteed payouts are essential. “CPA” offers are a shot in the dark usually. They pay when an action is taken, but frankly, you just want to be paid when people click usually. IntentClick offers a GUARANTEED MINIMUM PAYOUT of 7 cents per click plus more for clicks that “convert”. That sounds fair to me!

5) TARGETED offers keep your readers happy. If someone comes to your website because they are interested in having a Better Income or Saving Money, they probably don’t want to see offers about distracting if not insulting products (you likely know what I mean). Because Intent Click only works with qualified blogs focused on people wanting improved income, they make sure your readers see offers that jibe with your site’s themes!

If you want to stop letting money slip through your fingers, consider checking Intent Click for the best payout from every blog post!

We chose IntentClick for our blog… if you’re an income related or money saving blog, you may be leaving money on the table if you don’t investigate this option thoroughly!

Note: Thanks to Intent Click for sponsoring our blog today. We are satisfied customers and you can see their text links on our pages!