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q       When you think about it, readers are looking over your writing for their reasons, not yours. They don’t care what you want.  They care about what they want. Every reader, every audience, is the same.

q       Simple AutoResponders are a great way to thank someone for signing a guest-book, filling out a form or downloading some software. You can also include some brief promotional materials. Just be sure to keep your acknowledgement to a single email message.

 

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 q       If promoted correctly, contests can be an excellent source of traffic for you. However, you must know the proper way to do it without letting it become a big waste of time, and you must use killer methods for getting your contest recognized. 

 q       The most common and successful hacking technique is called social engineering. This is where a hacker gains someone’s trust to get passwords or privileged access. To fight this, be sure and get the credentials of anyone before giving them anything.

 q       When you include entertainment, people's attention will invariably be drawn to it over anything else. But when entertainment does not directly support moving the sale forward, it automatically detracts from the sale.

 q       It's a good idea to avoid including affiliate and pay-to-surf referral ids directly in your email signature. Many spam filters will block your message automatically if these ids are found. Newsgroup filtering robots also may automatically submit spam reports in these instances.

 q       If you like to visit sites that are updated regularly and full of information about e-commerce, you'll appreciate a visit to the eCommerce Info Center at http://www.ecominfocenter.com/. The site boasts over 40,000 links to e-commerce info, enough to keep you busy for a while. There are articles and features available in the main content pane. The left navigator allows you to easily drill down to the info you're looking for. You can navigate thru e-com Info Sources, Services, Products, B2B, Government and Non-Profit. The Quick Links on the right side of the page offers easy access to e-commerce news and updates.

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q       A little-known fact about good writing is that it does not take a simple mind to write a simple sentence. It merely takes clear thinking. Sometimes clear thinking is easy, and sometimes, it takes a lot of hard work!

q       Banner exchanges are generally not extremely useful. You tend to lose more traffic than you gain, and you give up valuable real estate on your pages. Link exchanges are a far better way to build traffic.

q       While it doesn't have to be large or prominent, place an illustration, graphic or photo at the top of your front page (in your primary screen) where it is easy to see. People typically scan websites, and pictures are usually the first elements they scan, even before the headers.

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q       Ideas are not copyrightable. You can take an idea originated by someone else that has been tested and proven, and change it. It's completely moral and ethical. Modeling success is the least risky way to success.

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q       Don't write your HTML to a particular browser - Browsers change very quickly. The one that is popular today may be almost unused in a few months. So don't spend any time trying to fit your HTML to Internet Explorer or Netscape or Opera. Just make good HTML and then let the browser do it's job.

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q       Studies show that an ad headline draws 28% more attention if quotation marks are around it! It appears much more important because someone is being quoted. Therefore, it should be read. And that is your first task. If the ad is not read, you have no chance of a sale.

q       Avoid Under Construction signs - All good web sites should always be under construction. Including the words "under construction", or worse yet a blinking animation, only makes you look like an amateur. These notices are so frowned upon that directories such as Yahoo will not accept sites with one on the home page. Most awards programs will immediately reject any sites displaying this dishonorable phrase.

q       FAQs are great places to preemptively handle objections a customer may have about your offer, especially those regarding usability, performance, customer service, privacy and security issues (although privacy and security policies should have their own, respective pages).

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q       While posting an outright negative testimonial is not a profitable endeavor, if it is among other positive ones - or if a testimonial is based on an impartial review of the product or service - such a testimonial will carry more weight.

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