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Phil CA
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Yep, it opens and each pic links to a larger pic in a new window!
BUT :"If your looking for a great gift for one of your loved ones,"
I have a query - on this message board and on your home page, I keep seeing "your" = "you are" = "you're" here in Oz. Has American English degenerated to leaving out the apostrophe, or is this just a glaring oversight?? Sound like an ex-English teacher speaking, doesn't it? Please clue me up. It may need a correction if it is indeed an error.
The plain white background doesn't set off the crystal for me. Would it not have been better photographed on colour as well? (Says he who is badly colour-blind anyway)
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Wally Morgan - Moderator |
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Eric
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Thanks guys for your advice. And yes Wally, that is a typo with "Your" it should be you're. BUT: "Would it not have been better photographed on colour as well", Should this be " Color"?  And Phil, thanks for the sites. It's going to take me awhile to go through these, but I'll let you know if i learned anything from them. Also, i do have another question. What is the best advertising company any of you have dealt with? I've got a limited budget on what i can spend for advertising, so i wanted to get some ideas on what works. Any thoughts?
Thanks guys
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DatabaseDesigner
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Phil CA
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Eric,
Advertising is good But if you've got a limited budget why don't you also consider some low cost creative marketing ideas like joint ventures, write articles and submit your articles to article libraries that cover your niche.
Build link exchange business opportunities.
Presell by offering a Free information ebook with your built-in links and network, network within your niche and give it away.
Are you selling on ebay? People are buying all kinds of quality high-end products including private jets. Again network and market where your customers hang out.
Can you afford to offer any of your products to a good charity fundraiser?
The incredible exposure that you can get from that type of marketing has built many businesses. Also newsworthy press releases.
There are all kinds of creative ideas out there and remember marketing is really everything you do to build your business. Make sure your not missing out on any business opportunities online or offline.
This thread might help a little.
http://www.associateprograms.com/discus/viewtopic.php?t=4372
Try finding some time for reading through this forum and make sure you research out all the marketing opportunities out there.
Hope I haven't gone on too much. 
All the best
Phil |
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Eric
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Ok Phil, i took your advice and i re wrote the home page to cater more towards a pitch. I also went to a few of those sites you recommended and took some of what i learned on those into account. i still have to copywrite it but if you dont mind to take a look and see if its a little better, Thanks again all,
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Phil CA
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Eric,
Your site has improved But just to let you know my suggestions are from my business and marketing background.
The resources I mentioned are the Experts in copywriting.
Maybe Tim will stop by but again checkout some of his posts as they may also help you.
On the copywriting, marketing etc. etc. Sometimes contracting experts to help you is the best way to go. It's just like every business should always have a good accountant and a lawyer.
Especially, if it increases your sales dramatically.
All the best
Phil |
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Debs
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Eric, I just went "under the hood" on your site and see that you have as a <title> tag on your home page:
<title>Home</title>
This is the single most important tag ever! Get an attention grabbing 6 to 8 word sentence in there with your top keyphrase(s).
I would also suggest you move your javascript and css into external files and link to them. It greatly reduces page size and decreases the chances that a spider would trip over your coding and back out of your site.
Debs
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Learn how to turn keyphrases into quality, well-targeted articles your visitors and SE's will love with Gary Antosh's new ebook "Web Content Made Easy!" |
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| oh wow, thanks for looking at that Debs, i could have sworn i put something sweet in there. See. rookie mistake. |
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SylviaCB72
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Great information and help Debs.
I love this site.
Thank you very much. |
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Rob_W
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I would also suggest you move your javascript and css into external files and link to them. It greatly reduces page size and decreases the chances that a spider would trip over your coding and back out of your site.
Debs |
Deb, can you elaborate on this for us Noobies? how this is done?
if not too much trouble.
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Debs
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You need access to the <head> section of your webpage. If you create your own html pages, then you have access.
For javascript you move everything from just after <script> and just before </script> into a plain text file and name the file with the extension of .js
Then in your head section you enter on one line something like:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.your-domain.com/file.js"></script>
Make note that your js file should always end with } (curly bracket)
For your css file, the <head> entry would be
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.your-domain.com/cssfile.css" type="text/css">
Again, you would move everything between <style> and </style> into your css file.
I always recommend you validate your css to be sure you haven't made errors and end up with problems by using
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Debs
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Emily-NC
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Eric,
I would like to trade links with you. I have a dog-gifts site. I wrote you a "form" about it from your contact page.
I suggest moving your google adwords. I usually don't browse the web with my window maximized. It's a bit smaller and the google adwords dont' show up, or only half show up. Move them into a place where they will be better seen. Consider using a banner instaed of a skyscraper.
Emily
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