Shopping Systematically for an Internet Home Based Business.

Are you looking around for an Internet Home Based Business? Probably you are! Then let's go Shopping and do it Systematically. Most consumers especially women spend hours walking several Blocks,Main Streets and Malls hunting for a bargain. When they do get one, their joy is boundless.

Shopping around, is what comes naturally to a consumer when he needs a product. The new Entrepreneur is no exception. Unfortunately he is completely clueless as to where he should begin and how he should get about. Certainly he is not going to find them in Malls and in Supermarkets. Where then should he go shopping for his Home Based Business and what criteria should he adopt in choosing it?

The best place to get acquainted with a Home Based Business is to go to the Internet and search for HOME BASED BUSINESS or INTERNET HOME BASED BUSINESS in Search Engines like Google. Yahoo or MSN. Millions of websites will be displayed right in front of you, with each one of them promoting several Affiliate Programs that you can pick and choose from, as your Home Based Business.

It will be wise and proper to spend several days studying these various Home Based Business Programs and their related promotion material. You should find out how these individual programs work and how popular they are in the Internet Business World. You should also make it a point to read articles written by experts in the connected fields. An in-deapth study at this stage will make you more knowledgeable and stand you in good stead in the years to come.

While you are on the Internet you should also explore some of the leading Affiliate Program Providers such as Click Bank, Commission Junction, Linkshare,Clixgalore,Shareasale etc. They provide a wide range of Affiliate Programs and other money making opportunities such as Pay per Sale or Pay per Lead.

In addition to this Google provides the popular Google Adsense Program where Google places advertisements on your site and makes payment everytime someone clicks on an advertisement.

Having researched and identified a few Affiliate Programs you are now ready to make a decision about your Home Based Business. It is very important and vital that you consider the following seven criteria amoung others when you make your decision.

It is presumed that you will obtain a Website or you will be provided one by your Affiliate Program.

1.Your first priority will be to ensure that the intended Home Based Business is not a Scam and not one of those "Get Rich Quick Schemes" either.

2.The Home Based Business should be long standing and with a good track record.It should not be one of those Fly by Night schemes that pop up suddenly from nowhere and disappear into oblivion in the same manner.

3.The Program should be Safe and Secure with a proper and regular payment scheme to its Affiliates.

4.The Program should be a member of Better Business Bureau or other similar Nationally or Internationally recognised organisations.

5.The Affiliate Program should provide its Affiliates with good support such as Tools,Tips,Websites and Forums especially for the Entrepreneurs since most of them are generally new to the field of Internet Marketing.

6.Your Home Based Business should preferably be Global in nature. With a Global Program you target the whole world for your products rather than limit yourself to a particular region.

7.It should preferably be Free to join- and most are.

Shopping for a good product is not always easy. It is often tiring and time consuming. Nevertheless at the end of the day after all this preliminary work you are definitely going to make the right choice or one that is not very far from the right choice.

Your hard work will soon start paying dividends and you will be on the way to becoming a successful Home Based Business Entrepreneur. Before long you are bound to YELL, "Let's go Shopping Systematically for more Home Based Businesses on the Internet".

Buying A Fuel-Efficient Car

Whether you buy a new or used vehicle, fuel efficiency--good gas mileage--is high on the list of most buyers' concerns. The difference between choosing a fuel-efficient car or one that guzzles gas, will either save or cost you money over the life of the vehicle, which could be substantial. Fuel efficiency varies widely from one car to the next. Obviously you can check the EPA rating for city/highway MPG on the window sticker, although most of us know the average car never reaches those numbers.

You can also check consumer guides, car magazines and Web sites, Web site forums or ask friends, relatives and co-workers which vehicles they recommend as fuel-efficient cars. Don't buy more car than you need, as larger vehicles generally have bigger engines that are less fuel-efficient. Find the most fuel-efficient car in the size group you're interested in, whether a two-seater, compact, mid-sized, SUV or pickup truck. There are several online sites where you can compare fuel consumption ratings of any car.

Your choice of transmission can also affect the fuel efficiency of the vehicle. Generally, a car with manual transmission is a more fuel-efficient car than one with automatic-assuming you shift properly. And a manual with overdrive, tachometer or shift indicator is the biggest fuel saver, saving up to 10% on fuel costs. If you do buy an automatic, which makes more sense for larger cars, the more gears the better.

Under normal driving conditions, smaller engines offer better fuel efficiency and economy than larger ones. All other things being equal, the larger engine and the more cylinders it has, the more fuel it consumes. Additionally, cars with smaller engines usually cost less and gas costs are lower because you don't need higher octane gas. That doesn't mean a bigger engine is never a good choice. In some cases, a larger, more powerful engine may provide the greater fuel efficiency. If you use your vehicle for work or often tow heavy loads, a smaller engine could burn more fuel if it has to work too hard and function beyond its most fuel-efficient range.

Depending on the type and size of motor vehicle you purchase, you may have the choice of front-wheel, rear-wheel, four-wheel or all-wheel drive. The majority of passenger cars and minivans have front-wheel drive, a design that supplies better traction and more interior room than rear-wheel drive. Although front-wheel drive was originally adopted to improve fuel economy over rear-wheel drive by reducing the weight and size of cars without giving up driving performance or interior space, there's really not much difference in fuel efficiency between the two.

And although four-wheel and all-wheel drive provide better traction and braking in certain driving conditions, the weight and friction of the additional drivetrain parts may increase fuel consumption by up to 10% over a two-wheel drive vehicle. Most often in SUVs and pickup trucks, four-wheel drive is enabled at will by the driver when additional traction is necessary. All-wheel drive is an option on some SUVs and a minority of passenger cars. Full-time all-wheel drive, however, makes for the least fuel-efficient car, because all four wheels are always being driven, drawing power from the engine and thus using more gas.

Another way to be a fuel saver, is by limiting the options you select for your car. You may not have realized that many conveniences from power windows, seats and mirrors to air conditioning and seat warmers decrease fuel efficiency and cost you more in fuel consumption. They add either weight, increase aerodynamic drag or pull extra power from the engine or through the alternator. Aluminium wheels are one of the few options that actually reduce weight and thereby increase fuel efficiency.

Obviously, considering other fuel options such as a hybrid electric car, is another choice for a fuel-efficient car .

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Popular Air Cargo Freights

In the present day, we usually get and receive our material things from different places around the world. We usually don't even know that it came halfway around the world before even getting in your possession. We never even bother to think about them of course, this is all done by freight systems around the world, and one of the most popular is air freight. Air freight is usually used for business purposes and convenience.

Once you want to send a package of any content (usually in bulk or big amounts), we typically send them in air cargo freight services. This simply proves to be efficient and will likely be the fastest mode of transportation for your cargo.

These dedicated companies are divided into two divisions; International Freight Forwarders, which ship goods to other countries or Domestic Freight Forwarders which ship goods within one country.

Various methods of shipping goods are simplified on your needs; this depends on the importance of the cargo being shipped. For example, you need to send product samples from Los Angeles to France for verification, hence express cargo would be your choice. Charges will also depend on the value being shipped.

Air Cargo Freight is likely to be a different situation than the mode of the efficiency of cargo being sent in less time, there are many of freight companies in the United States alone, this will likely be a hassle to anybody who wants the best reputable shipping. There are many good choices of freight service companies; however, this will depend upon the fee. Fees is another factor, you can usually compare them online as there are many sites that will offer a good comparison of services in contrast to the shipping fees itself.

The freight is usually measured on gross weight, value which is then sent forth to the carrier's tariff or rates. This will grant rights to the carrier but will never open the containers or packages. If the particulars are not matching or sent to the wrong address, you will likely pay for the expenses incurred during the examination, measurement of value and the freight charge itself.

In the usage of aircrafts being used, large cargo shipping airlines usually use the latest and greatest but many of them use older models such as the Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Douglas DC-8 just to name a few. Some do use much older models but it involves replacement and strengthening of parts to be usable for cargo services. Some airlines tend to carry a few passengers from time to time to minimize the cost of shipping. Also airline freighters which are dedicated to transportation of goods are mostly divisions or subsidiaries of large passenger airlines.

Notable shipping companies around the world are always on the top of their business, here are some of them which you will likely choose but this article has no connections to any of these companies and does not promote nor advertise them, these are used for reference purposes only.

• Federal Express
• Korean Air
• Lufthansa Cargo
• United Parcel Service
• Singapore Airlines Cargo

You can simply find your best air cargo freight service by your own experience. People will likely choose their local air freight forward
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Great Alternative Sources of Traffic

You're probably already using Google Adwords, Yahoo (USA, UK and Australia) and MSN to buy traffic to your site, but did you know there are many other sources for paid traffic that can be really profitable?

Four of my favorites include:

Google Content Network — I'm listing this as an alternative because most people using Google Content Network don't do it the way that I'm going to show you.

Facebook advertising

DoubleClick — you can put your banners and ads up on other people's websites

YouTube — Now that it's been absorbed by Google, this has become a pretty big player.

The good news is that most of these sources aren't being heavily exploited by merchants and affiliates yet, so you can still get clicks for pretty cheap! Here's the low-down on these great alternative sources for paid traffic...

Google Content Network

1. Text vs. banner ads

It doesn't cost any more to have your Adwords ad display as a banner graphic rather than text, and it means that your ad takes up a lot more space than it would if it was just text. Often these can be a lot more profitable than your standard text ads as well, and at the very least it's good free branding for your site — even if it doesn't get clicked on.

Of course Google displays ads pretty randomly, so you're never really guaranteed a space in the ad slot. That's why it's a good idea to hedge your bets and create both text ads and banner ads.

2. Separate your ads for "content match" and your ads for "search match" into separate campaigns

This is really important for a number of reasons:

The results you get for your search match campaigns are going to differ from the results for your content match campaigns, and it's vital that you can see the difference. You can't do this if they're all lumped into the same campaign.

It also means that you can write different ads for the different campaigns. What works for content match might not work for search match, and vice versa. It's important that you have the flexibility to target your ads accordingly.

You might find that search match is profitable in a bunch of countries, but content match is only profitable in the United States. Or you might find that your content match rocks the casbah in a whole bunch of countries while your search match campaign tanks in all markets but the UK. In either case, you need to be able to work out your profit margins for each campaign, and then you can tweak your countries accordingly.

3. Don't be lazy, be relevant!

Categorize your adwords (use Traffic Travis)

Imagine you're creating a PPC campaign for a dog training product. Take the time to categorize your keywords and note the major trends: You might have a bunch of keywords focusing on German Shepherds, and you might have another bunch of keywords related to "stop dog biting". Once you've categorized your words you can create different ad text for each group, so that the ads are actually relevant to what people are searching for!

For instance, you could write "Discover step-by-step how to stop your dog biting right now" or "Discover how to stop your German Shepherd's behavior problems for good" instead of the very generic "Get expert dog advice and stop your dog problems for good"

When your ads are more closely related to the search term, you get better clickthrough rates and better conversions. A little bit of extra effort equates to a whole lot more profit.

Create different size banners

If you're creating banners for your Google content match ads, be sure to make them in every size that Google supports. That way you've got a better chance of having your ad appear on someone's site.

Create effective banners

This is at least as important as having your ad show up... make sure your banner ad is effective! Remember to target your banners to your keywords, so if your keywords are "poodle training", then create a banner focusing on poodle training!

Remember that while images draw attention, it's the text in your ad that sells. Make text a big focus of your ad, and if you're using multiple frames in your ad (as an animated gif or a flash movie) then make sure your viewers have time to read the text. I recommend that you allow about 4 seconds per frame.

If you're looking for free pictures for your ads, pay a visit to Stockxchng. If you need free image editing software, check out Paint.net.

This doesn't need to take a long time or a lot of effort when designing your ad. Your initial design might take you a little while to come up with, but you can usually just use this as a template and switch a few words around here and there to target your ad at different search terms. And again... a little extra effort goes a long way!

Check out this blog post for more tips on effective banner ads.

4. Use conversion tracking or tracking IDs to see where your sales are coming from.

It's important to know which keywords are actually resulting in sales so you can prune away the unprofitable words and amp up your efforts on your profitable words.

Google gives you a really effective way to do this with their conversion tracking tool. It places a little cookie in a user's browser when they click on your Adwords link, and if they make it through to the merchant's afterpurchase page (which means they've made a purchase) it triggers a little alert that records a conversion. You can then look at your ads and keywords and see which ones are resulting in the most conversions.

The downside of this is that you need the co-operation of the merchant site to make it work. You need them to insert your conversion tracking code into their afterpurchase page so that it can trigger the cookie when the user makes it through. Some merchants have no problem with this, but others can be reluctant. If you encounter a reluctant merchant, there is another method you can use if you're promoting a ClickBank product.

ClickBank allows you to add tracking IDs to your affiliate links. This means that you can set up a different tracking ID for each of your landing pages, and different landing pages for each of your adgroups. You might not get the same detail you'd get from the Google conversion tracking code, but you'll at least have some idea which landing pages are converting the best.

For more information about Google Conversion Tracking, click here, or for more information about adding ClickBank Tracking IDs, click here.

Facebook

Facebook gets a huge amount of traffic, and it's only set to increase over time. If you visit Alexa.com and plug Facebook.com and Myspace.com into the "Movers and shakers traffic graph", then zoom out so that you're looking at the maximum amount of time the graph will permit, you'll notice that Facebook is curving upwards in reach, rank and page views. In fact it's almost matching MySpace in terms of pageviews as I write this.

How does this help you? Well, you can advertise on Facebook. And that's just the start.

Because people pour so many personal details into their Facebook profiles, it gives you unprecedented ability to target your ads towards the people who will be really interested. You could narrow it down to single women in the New York area between the ages of 45 and 60 if you so choose... a great market for promoting online dating sites or relationship secrets products.

The other advantage with Facebook advertising is that you have much less competition because fewer people are doing it. At the moment it's extremely cheap... about 1 cent per click. Good luck finding clicks for that price on Google!

YouTube

YouTube is another monster on the Alexa charts — already it's almost up there with Google and Yahoo. It's also another arena where there's much less competition, so it's not too hard to get your video ranking highly. Even if you just create a screen-capture video or a series of PowerPoint-style slides to teach people something, you can get some good traffic to your site. The trick is to add some subtle branding to the video that directs viewers to your website. The people who are most successful in YouTube tend to be ones who create a series of videos and develop a following of viewers, so consider this as well.

The other benefit to YouTube is that you'll find your videos showing up in Google search results, and your video result listing has a nice picture from the video next to it. This makes it more appealing to click on.

Other Ad networks/places to advertise

MySpace — Similar to Facebook: You can also choose which demographics you want to promote to.

DoubleClick — You can choose which types of sites you'd like to advertise on: For instance, you might advertise your dog training products on dog training websites.

Cost-Per-Acquisition networks (like Azoogle.com) — Once you know how well your campaign converts and what your profit margin is, you can use these networks to pay affiliates for generating particular actions. For instance, if you know that every newsletter signup you receive on your opt-in page you earn 50c, you could use a CPA network to pay affiliates 20c for generating newsletter opt-ins. You still earn 30c, and it takes no effort!

Hopefully this newsletter has given you some good ideas for your PPC campaigns, and got you thinking outside the box a little bit.

All the best, and bye for now.
Traffic Travis

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