Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Interview Tips: Five Big Interview Blunders and How to Avoid Them

Interview Tips: Five Big Interview Blunders and How to Avoid Them – Part 1

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Proficient Affiliate Marketing Techniques For Beginners

There are ways you can start earning money from affiliate marketing easily. They may be easy only if you take time to study and understand how the entire affiliate process works. It wont be a wise business decision to just jump in simply because you read of how many are earning money through affiliating with lots of products and services. You have to learn or at least be aware of the tricks and details.



The first major thing you should do is to find a market you would engage in. There are thousands or even millions of different markets on the internet but you have to ensure that you indulge in the right market for you to start earning the much desired affiliate commissions and pay checks.



In any market you want to align with, ask your self if there are already so many products in that market. If there are, it simply means that the market is vibrant and may be quite profitable. Are there some other that are already selling in that market, especially those using Pay per Click advertising? If the answer is positive, then it means that there is money to be made in the market or niche because if those PPC advertisers arent making some money they would have stopped the adverts. Be mindful of the fact that serious competition is any niche simply translates that there is serious money in that niche while the reverse is the case for the markets that has little or no competition.



You can go to Clickbank dot com or Amazon dot com and search for the product of want to market using any search term you feel comfortable with. After that you can search for the same product at Google search engine. If you see some result on right hand side of the search result page, it means that people are paying to advertise such products, so they are making profit.



There are some ways of knowing which product is selling more and which isnt. In the affiliate domains such as clickbank dot com, you would notice that some products are tagged high gravity, which simply means that lots of people are promoting such products. These products are usually higher up in the search result pages of the affiliate domains. Being high gravity products also means that the competition there may be fierce but it is definitely a sign of profitability in the niche or market.



On the other hand, there are products that are lower gravity and dont have much promoters and subsequent competitions. Check if such product is of low lower gravity as a result of being new in the market. If, yes, you can start promoting and be among the first few that would probably earn good commissions therein. But if the product has been there for awhile, you have to think twice before promoting such product.



With the unique you got from the affiliate site, you can start promoting such affiliate product either through articles writing and marketing, through forum posting, through email marketing campaign and so on.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

How To Set Your Cv On Fire With Astonishing Accomplishment Statements

our accomplishment statements is probably the most important part of your CV because they tell employers that you've done before what they want to hire you to do and you can do it again, even better. But most jobseekers completely leave out their accomplishments in their CVs and in its place bore employers with their previous job responsibilities. What a big mistake. It's time to turn things around. It's time to set your CV on fire by packing it full with powerful accomplishment statements. Here's how to go about it. List your previous work experiences. Under each position, list the problems you were faced with that you were directly or even indirectly responsible for the solution. Then write the steps you took, the things you initiated, the policies you formulated that solved the problem. No, you're not done yet. Reveal the impact your solution made and quantify it. Okay, let me illustrate. Let's assume you were the traffic manager of www.blablabla.com. You faced the problem of low traffic to the site. To solve the problem, you analyzed the stats on the site and saw that visitors don't stay for long on the site and don't come back, that there is nothing to capture the contacts of visitors and get back to them. You also discovered that there is no traffic plan. So, what did you do? You outsourced the site's content, designed a winning traffic plan, and packaged a free e-course as an incentive to capture visitors' contact. You designed visitors' follow-up system. You implemented everything and traffic soared by almost 500% in less than 1 month. And the impact? The site's product was sold out making the company $3 million. So how do you present this in your CV? Here are several ways … * Designed and implemented winning traffic plan that attracted over 1,000 visitors per day -- a 500% increase in one month! * Analyzed site statistics and designed a follow-up system that resulted in a 500% increase in traffic in one month! * Made company $3 million in one month by driving the highest highly targeted traffic in the company's history! I can go and on, but I hope you grab the concept. Those are better than the boring "Responsible for driving traffic" that most jobseekers will riddle their CVs with. It begs the question, "So what?" Now that you know, go ahead and set your CV on fire by packing it full with astonishing accomplishment statements. You'll succeed!