3 Minute Learning: April 05, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009

April 09 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES on PRODUCTIVITY

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Click here to go to the 3 Minute Learning home page.
While you are visiting the 3 Minute Learning, check out the new 3ML Store where you will find business and leadership books along with electronics and entertainment. Also on the home page, view all the new entertainment videos; news, sports and business videos; and special feature articles. This content is refreshed on a daily basis.

10 Super Fast Ways to Build Your Opt-in List
Titus Hoskins

It is a well known fact that the key to successful online marketing comes from building a well-targeted and responsive opt-in email list. This is mainly because your online marketing success comes from building relationships with a large subscriber base. How do you go about doing this?

Increase Your Traffic Starting Yesterday
Marsha Brown

Internet, business, profit. To fully integrate all of these words into a successful merging you will need another word: traffic. Every article you will find about making your site or company successful will always include the importance of generating traffic. We all know that in the core, traffic is the most essential thing to a successful Internet business. After ensuring that you have a great product to sell and you have your company's internal organization well taken care of, it is time to generate traffic.

How to Spring Clean Your Website
Terri Seymour

Spring is a wonderful time of year but it might not be so wonderful for your online business. The weather is getting nicer and people are spending more time outside away from their computers. One way to get more people to come to your website is to do some spring cleaning and I don’t mean your house! Our websites can get stale and outdated if we do not clean them up periodically. There are lots of things you can do to freshen up your site and bring new life and new customers to your online business.

Develop Targeted Content for Better Search Engine Ranking
Markus Skupeika

How do you decide on the changes you make to your website for better user experience? Did you ever ask yourself the question "Why am I doing this"? Most webmasters do not. Just take a look at the bloggers who add as many widgets as they like thinking that these would make their blog look great. But, a seasoned webmaster will think before implementing anything (any new feature or modification) on the website.

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Thursday, April 09, 2009

April 09 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES for MARKETING

Social Network Marketing: Advertising to Facebook Users
by Merle

In the "old days", if you wanted to meet someone, you had to get dressed up and drive to a public place. Not anymore. The Internet has changed all of that with the popularity of social networking sites. Two of the biggest are MySpace and Facebook.

Rewriting Articles for Increased Distribution Reach
Trey Pennewell

Hey! I just figured out how to promote my website and cut down on my workload. I know what I will do: instead of writing five articles a week to distribute, I will take a single article and change it slightly to produce five different "versions." What a great idea! I will also change the title so there are five different titles. Then, I will change the introductory paragraph and slightly alter my word choice. Whew! That is going to be much easier than writing five separate and unique articles each week. Now, if only it was that simple.

Viral Marketing 101
Mathew Butka

Creativity; this is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in Internet based businesses. Because competition and rivalry abounds, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized. It doesn't matter if you have a killer product or a professionally designed website, if people don't know that you exist, it doesn't matter. Worst of all, your business could get killed.

Web Marketing Analytics
Shonda Miles

Web Marketing Analytics is the process of accurately measuring the effectives of online marketing initiatives. It is a way to assess the response of the website visitors towards your marketing effort. This in turn helps to identify the gap that you have been able to bridge and see where you stand today. It also brings into notice the negative aspects or the shortcomings that you need to work upon and thus provides a framework for formulating a plan for the development of the business.

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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

April 09 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES for BUSINESS and MANAGEMENT

Internet Fraud
Scott Burke

Taking transactions over the Internet can be profitable but it can also bankrupt a small business. Accepting online transactions means accepting additional responsibilities as a merchant. These responsibilities include knowing and understanding your risk exposure and your liabilities.

Affiliate Revenue Is Not Selling Cosmetics Door-to-Door
Scott Lindsay

One positive for your business is while giving your customer what they want you retain a portion of each sale through the affiliate revenue program. Isn't that better than sending customers away to find what they need on their own? This scenario is a positive way to use an affiliate revenue program.

Offering a Guarantee without Losing Your Shirt
Mark Silver

You may be offering a guarantee, but nervously. What if a bunch of your clients ask for their money back? Sluuurrrrrpppp... there goes your business, down the drain. What makes a guarantee safe for you? It helps to understand that very few people ever call in a guarantee. Why don't they?

3 Keys to Starting a Successful Business
Mark Stewart

When you were in high school there was a list of things your teachers and parents told you to do to create good study habits. These three keys to starting a successful business are very similar, but in a new way. With these three things you can begin to build your success from the comfort of your home but still maintain a certain amount of professional attitude that is necessary for starting a business.

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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

April 09 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES for LEADERSHIP

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Click here to go to the 3 Minute Learning home page.
While you are visiting the 3 Minute Learning, check out the new 3ML Store where you will find business and leadership books along with electronics and entertainment. Also on the home page, view all the new entertainment videos; news, sports and business videos; and special feature articles. This content is refreshed on a daily basis.

Synchronicity Will Lead You!
Wendy Betterini

Have you ever considered the power of synchronicity when it comes to the Law of Attraction? Most often, synchronicity is described as being the opposite of coincidence –- coincidences being random and meaningless and synchronicity being divinely orchestrated.

Beyond Positive Thinking
Gary M. Miller

Positive thinking and affirmations are a great beginning to get you on a more positive path in life. A Course in Miracles is an especially great book for helping you to begin this new life. The important thing to recognize is that positive thinking is only the beginning of a larger and more comprehensive spiritual path. It requires positive energy to undertake a spiritual course because overcoming challenges takes effort and strength.

Happiness and Your Business
Scott Sharp

Many people don't realize the effects of happiness on their ability to perform in their jobs, lives or maintaining an online business. We so often overlook the basic need for society to become attracted to those that have a predisposition towards being naturally happy in their everyday lives. So let's take a look at the benefits to being happy and begin "true" happiness for a productive and fulfilling outlook on life.

Vanquishing the Chaos Monster: Structuring a Presentation
The Henderson Group

In the beginning it all seems like chaos: your thoughts, your mind, what you want to get across, what you want to tell your audience. To create an effective presentation, you must create order out of this chaos. The ancient Babylonians portrayed chaos as the dragon-like Tiamat, the Chaos Monster.

Monday, April 06, 2009

April 09 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES on PRODUCTIVITY

Below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine are presented. Articles rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). Click here to go to the 3 Minute Learning home page.
While you are visiting the 3 Minute Learning, check out the new 3ML Store where you will find business and leadership books along with electronics and entertainment. Also on the home page, view all the new entertainment videos; news, sports and business videos; and special feature articles. This content is refreshed on a daily basis.

Attractive Enhancements for Your Blog
Ken Stevenson

Deciding on a blog design solution and implementing it is certainly a sound business decision and should reward the online web site owner with a vast amount of traffic as well as paying customers. Creating a blog is simple, painless and easy to maintain. Popular blogging sites like WordPress and Blogger offer personalized services, numerous template designs, friendly search engine rankings and helpful tutorials. Taking advantage of these opportunistic offerings should be a component of any successful online business venture.

Blog from Your Website
Peter Nisbet

If you know how to blog from your website then you will have many options open to you in the design and functionality of your blog that are not available on a hosted blog. You can use Blogger from blogger.com or Wordpress from wordpress.com. However, each has its fans and adherents and those familiar with one or the other are generally loathe to changing. Neither, however, offers the wide range of options open to those that have chosen to run Wordpress or any other blogging software from their own webspace.

Blog Traffic Strategies That Work
Matt Garrett

You know about search engine optimization as a traffic generation strategy, but is there anything else you can do to bring readers and potential customers your way? One of the most used blog traffic generation strategies is the PPP, or pay-per-performance method, that requires you to pay for the traffic generated only when that traffic results in some provable benefit.

Convert PDF Files with Ease
Sam Miller

Why is there a need for PDF conversion in the first place? Before answering this question, a little background on what PDF is necessary. The acronym "PDF" actually stands for the words, Portable Document Format. This is a file format that was created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for the purpose of facilitating faster and easier document exchange. It is characterized by a format that has a fixed-layout representing two-dimensional documents independent from the operating system, application software and hardware used.