Useful Blog Commenting Tip

A large number of us are bloggers. In fact, there are probably more that are than that are not. We also have a tendency to read a lot of other blogs also. If we are smart, we are leaving good comments on these blogs we read. Here is a useful tip when leaving comments on blogs.

Since most of us leave a link to the homepage of our blog when making a comment we should take the fullest advantage of this. Most of the time we leave a link to our home page but we have many other links that we could leave as well.You probably have many other resources to link to You probably have many other resources to link to. Think about these for example: your Squidoo lenses and Hubpages, your profile on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, your profile on social news sites like Digg and StumbleUpon, your articles on article directory sites, specific posts within your blog.

This way you can really spread your exposure.

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Something Worth Reading

Every now and then I run across an article that I think is really worth passing along to our readers. That’s not saying that there aren’t a lot of good material out there, it’s just that an article has to be really good before I will recommend it. This particular article is written by Kim Gordon and as the link below indicates it is from Entrepreneur.Com. Her article is right on the money for any merchant. Check it out at http://www.entrepreneur.com/marketing/marketingcolumnistkimtgordon/article194170.html

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Two New Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Stores

I will be posting this entire message on the “indiepublic” page and in the “Craft Marketing Central” page tomorrow. There are a few of our readers who already have heard this news.

We are happy to announce that we have placed on line in The Hand Made Product Directory 2 new pages in the directory that we believe will be receiving a great deal of customer traffic over the next weeks and months ahead. These pages are called “Style & Fashion” and “Home & Hearth”. The purpose of these pages is to allow your customers to see a large selection of products all at one time. The concept is very much like Tie-In selling. Judy sees a necklace and a dress that she believes will look really good together. It doesn’t make any difference that they are from different merchants. She ends up buying both pieces. Each picture is linked to the appropriate sellers’ stores’ Sales Page just like they are in the Gift Guide.

We believe these two new pages will drive a lot of traffic to the stores that have listed products in them. Yes the pages are sparse now, but we just put them up yesterday and we expect them to fill up rapidly. The more items showing on these pages, the bigger the draw for potential customers. We also believe that once a customer comes to your store, they will want to look around and see what else that particular store might have that they might want to purchase.

These pages are not going to be listed under the normal “Browse by Category” directory listing. We are placing graphic links to these pages in strategic places which we believe will best catch the attention of you potential customers.

You can visit the pages by clicking on the graphic links on the left side of the Home Page and many other locations in the directory. To learn more about having your products listed on these pages just click the “Submit A Store” tab at the top of any page. You want to go to “Option 7”.

If you haven’t already placed your store in the directory, you should do so today.

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Facts About Most Online Consumers

It’s said that one of the differences between a Good business person and a Great business person is that a Great business person knows his or her customers. Obviously when you sell on line, there really isn’t any way to know most of your customers personally but you can know what their makeup is. In other words know what makes them tick and what makes them buy. Here are some important things you need to know about online consumers.

They make initial decisions in 8 seconds or less - They want things presented in a simple manner (following the KISS “Keep it Simple Stupid” principle will go a long way) - They will buy from you if you fill their need, provide credibility, and make it easy for them to checkout - They want things fast - They expect at least one of the shipping options to be “free shipping” - They can help grow your business virally because they tell friends - They equally can destroy your business overnight with a bad customer experience - They like clear instructions on how to checkout - They like to see phone numbers, it provides a measure of customer assurance and credibility - They don’t like forced pop-up “live / chat” options pushed to them but they expect to be able to easily find out how to ask for help if they need it. - They expect to see shipping rates clearly disclosed before they add items to their cart. - They expect secure checkout (duh). Make sure you clearly display the SSL Cert within user eye flow to satisfy their need. - Unless your product is totally unique, one of a kind, they can always buy it from someone else. Give them a reason to buy it from you. - They like to know how your product is going to benefit THEM, not how it is going to benefit you.

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Words That Make Money

We all know that there is Power in our words. That being the case, here is a list of 199 Words that make money. The more of them you can use in your advertising the better.

1. Advantages
2. Answers
3. Appealing
4. Appreciate
5. Assist
6. Assure
7. Authorized
8. Aware
9. Awesome
10. Back-up
11. Bargain
12. Beautiful
13. Beauty
14. Belief
15. Believe
16. Benefits
17. Best
18. Bonus
19. Breakthrough
20. Calming
21. Cash-back
22. Certain
23. Clean
24. Comfort
25. Comforting
26. Commitment
27. Confidence
28. Conquer
29. Consistent
30. Cozy
31. Delight
32. Deliver
33. Deluxe
34. Dependable
35. Deserver
36. Diamond
37. Different
38. Discovery
39. Double
40. Dynamic
41. Easy
42. Easy
43. Effective
44. Elevate
45. Enjoy
46. Ensure
47. Essential
48. Exclusive
49. Experience
50. Expert
51. Extra
52. Fantastic
53. Fashionable
54. Fast
55. Favorite
56. Find
57. First
58. Found
59. FREE
60. Fresh
61. Friendly
62. Fun
63. Functional
64. Future
65. Genuine
66. Get
67. Gift
68. Goals
69. Good
70. Good
71. Great
72. Greatest
73. Guarantee
74. Happy
75. Healing
76. Health
77. Heighten
78. Help
79. How-to
80. Hurry
81. Ideas
82. Immediately
83. Improved
84. Information
85. Inside-information
86. Insight
87. Insure
88. Integrity
89. Integrity
90. Intelligent
91. Invest
92. Investment
93. Involved
94. Latest
95. Leading
96. Leisure
97. Lifetime
98. Living
99. Love
100. Luxury
101. Maximize
102. Modern
103. National
104. Nationwide
105. Natural
106. Now
107. Nutritional
108. Official
109. Only
110. Organic
111. Original
112. Own
113. Peaceful
114. Performance
115. Platinum
116. Play
117. Pleasurable
118. Positive
119. Powerful
120. Predict
121. Prestigious
122. Prize
123. Produce
124. Professional
125. Profit
126. Promise
127. Promote
128. Prosper
129. Protection
130. Proven
131. Quality
132. Quick
133. Quickly
134. Rapid
135. Reap
136. Reasons
137. Recognized
138. Reduced
139. References
140. Relaxing
141. Reliable
142. Report
143. Resources
144. Response
145. Restore
146. Results
147. Results
148. Rewarding
149. Rich
150. Right
151. Rush
152. Sale
153. Save
154. Secret
155. Service
156. Service
157. Serving
158. Silver
159. Simple
160. Solve
161. Specialist
162. Step-by-Step
163. Superior
164. Sure
165. Tasty
166. Team
167. Tested
168. Therapeutic
169. Tips
170. Top
171. Tradition
172. Trained
173. Training
174. Travel
175. Treat
176. Trust
177. Truth
178. Understand
179. Understanding
180. Unique
181. Universal
182. Update
183. Up-To-Date
184. Valid
185. Validate
186. Value
187. Vital
188. Want
189. Warranty
190. Whopping
191. Win
192. Wisdom
193. Works
194. Worldwide
195. Worth
196. Yes
197. You
198. Young
199. Youthful

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You can submit an article for our newsletter

The use of article writing has long been an excellent way to promote a store or web site. Offering them Free Of Charge on your web site or store site along with promoting the fact can and will pull in additional traffic and sales. The Hand Made Product Directory publishes a monthly newsletter and besides having our “Guest Contributor” insert in the newsletter, we are adding a section called “Learning From Others” which will be a How To article about some craft related subject from a guest contributor. If you would like to submit an article for either the “Guest Contributor” or the “Learning From Others” section of the newsletter, please send it to nlin@dmpmc.net

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Are You Viral?

No I’m not asking if you are sick. Although, in a way there are some similarities to having a sickness and what I’m talking about. Viral Marketing. Kind of sounds like I’m marketing an illness but I’m not. Viral Marketing is a specific form of marketing and advertising that can be very effective in increasing sales.

Viral marketing refers to ebooks, special reports, funny emails, etc that can easily get passed around on the web. Probably the reason it was given the name “Viral” was because these things spread very much like a virus in that they are passed from one person to another. One person picks it up the item and passes it on to another and before you know it hundreds and even thousands of copies are floating around out in the vastness of the internet.

When you have added your promotional material to these items, you have all these extra pieces of advertising being seen by all these people and your only expense was the initial creation of the item itself.

Create some of your own and see how quickly traffic floods to your site. To get the most out of this, keep your information helpful. If it isn’t worth passing around, people are just going to delete it. For example, if you sell pre-made scrapbooks (where people can just stick their pictures on the layout and write a few sentences in the journal boxes), you can create a special report on organizing your photos or a Top 10 Tips list on taking better pictures. Include your URL on the cover page and the bottom of each page so people know where to find you.

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