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Fri 1st Sept '00 In this issue: 1. INTRODUCTION ==>Free Traffic, GoTo remove tool, Vote results 2. PLACES TO VISIT ==>Web sites for you to visit. 3. TIDBITS ==>Business news and other interesting snippets. 4. TOOLS AT NOWSELL.COM ==>Useful tools to make your life easier. 5. VIEWPOINT ==>What's your opinion? 6. MARKETPLACE ==>Check out special offers and deals here. 7. FEATURE ARTICLE ==>"Treat Newbies With The Respect They Deserve" by Joe Robson. Scroll to the end for subscription details. o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x SPONSOR'S MESSAGE x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o Is Your Internet Advertising a deadly Howitzer or a Harmless Pop-Gun? Do You Know for Sure or Do You Just "Feel Lucky"? To learn the answer to this question and to get a free trial tool that will automatically track all of your advertising for you, Click Here! o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X X INTRODUCTION X X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X=X Hello, In the week I received a message from Arik Schenkler, telling me about his new web site http://ExactResponse.com . Here Arik has established what he describes as a "keyword search community" - a kind of search engine where each registrant 'owns' up to five key words or phrases forever, and for free. The first one to claim a keyword gets it. The search engine only returns a single company's link. "One question - one EXACT response." You even get paid for clicks on your keywords! Obviously, your keywords must be relevant, and have to be approved by a human editor. This is the secret to providing quality results, crucial if the service is to be popular. Says Arik, "Basically, it's a no-lose proposition. If we successfully brand the site and it becomes popular, the early movers are in line for the links and visits. If it fails, well, ok, it cost 15 minutes of their time to think of and register the keywords - not a tragedy in the great scheme of things." I've joined and registered my keywords. I suggest you rush over to do the same. After you've submitted your keywords at ExactResponse, be sure to follow the link to Wesley Warren's iApeal at http://www.iApeal.com.au . Wesley's service works on a similar 'less is more' principle, but enables you to register an unlimited number of keywords as your own, free of charge (again, subject to relevancy approval from a human editor). In addition, a search at iApeal results in the user being directly connected to the site that owns the keyword. As Wesley says "My Link Engine works on a simple principle. People know what they want most of the time. So I make life easy for them by giving them what they want in ONE CLICK. No searches, no categories, no navigation layers, just ask and click. It's a bit like a search engine without the tedious searching and sorting through results. I take people straight to what they want by sending a URL redirection to their browser based on their search term." If you're not having much luck promoting your site in regular seach engines, this is an opportunity you shouldn't pass up. Both sites already have steady traffic, which they are working to increase over the coming months. I grabbed a bunch of great keywords at both. I suggest you do the same. While you still can! BB Many online marketers lost one of there favorite tools this week: GoTo have removed the Search Term Suggestion Tool from their public site. Almost indispensable in keyword research, the tool tells you how many times your input keywords and their variations have been searched for during the previous month. Many sites - including NowSell.com - linked to, or used results from it for the benefit of their own visitors. Say GoTo, "Because the Search Term Suggestion Tool was so heavily used, we decided to perform some systems maintenance, and temporarily removed it from our site." The Search Term Suggestion Tool has been moved into the secure area of the GoTo site. Here, advertisers with GoTo can access it after logging in. You'll find it in the Add Listings section of the DirecTraffic Center. GoTo say they don't yet know if and when the Search Term Suggestion Tool will be placed back on their public site. Personally, I doubt it ever will be. Initially, the tool may have helped to raise GoTo's profile. However, with its current popularity amongst many that don't use any of GoTo's other (revenue generating) services, GoTo have probably decided the cost on system resources not worthwhile. BB As you may have noticed from the table of contents, the news section TIDBITS is back. The majority of readers say they want the news items (and who am I to argue?). Here's the results of the vote: YES! >>>> 70% I would like news items in every issue. NO! >>>> 28% I would not like news items in every issue. ERR? >>>> 2% I'm not sure... whatever ...? A couple of comments: As long as the content isn't everywhere on the news services, and is interesting as well as informative --such as in this issue--it is a good addition to the ezine. Best regards, Wayne Soszka You have some very interesting sources not being repeated elsewhere. Please have this section as a regular feature. Hilary Glazer of Demarcation Systems Bombastics: Play the Game That Makes You Smarter 818-363-2486 or [toll-free] 888-832-2022 ex 6260 BB Tell me what YOU think! Send your feedback, comments, what you like, what you hate, etc., to me at: mailto:azam-nowsell.com TTFN Azam PS - Did you remember to get your 21 FREE Net Profits audio files and course notes? 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Currently, 55% of these companies are emphasizing return-on-investment (ROI) and basing future growth plans on it. http://www.emarketer.com/estats/20000821_dma.html WEB LEADS THE WAY IN MEDIA SPENDING In its 14th annual Communications Industry Forecast, media merchant bank Veronis Suhler states succinctly that the American appetite for media and information just keeps growing and growing. The report notes, in fact, that the average daily consumption of media will grow from 9.3 hours in 1999 to 10.4 in 2004. By 2004, Americans will spend more hours annually playing video games (161) and using the internet (228) than they spend reading daily newspapers (147), books (92), and magazines (77). for chart and more, click: http://www.emarketer.com/estats/dailyestats/20000809_veronis.html HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND INTERNET USAGE According to Media Metrix, falling computer prices and better internet access is slowly chipping away at the digital divide. Households with annual incomes under $25,000 are the fastest growing segment on the web, although they still comprise only 9.7% of the total. Households in the $40,000-$60,000 annual income range still make up the broadest segment of the web. For pie chart, chart and more, click: http://www.emarketer.com/estats/dailyestats/20000823_mmxi.html MIXED SIGNALS ON TRUST AND PRIVACY ONLINE The recently-released study by The Pew Internet and American Life Project, Trust and privacy online: Why Americans want to rewrite the rules, illustrates the strong but often inconsistent attitudes that US internet users have about online privacy. The study found American net users expect basic privacy measures to favor internet users over online companies. For example, among internet users, 86% favor opt-in privacy policies that require permission for use of personal information. Another 54% view website tracking of users as invasion of privacy. For chart and more, click: http://www.emarketer.com/estats/dailyestats/20000821_pew.html BATTLE OF THE BROWSERS Internet Explorer and Netscape may be the two market leaders, but they aren't the only web browsers around. Herewith, a guide to some of the lesser-known offerings for both PCs and Macs. http://www.time.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,53246,00.html MICROSOFT GLITCH REVEALS IM CONTACT LISTS The software giant is investigating allegations that its Microsoft Instant Messenger usernames and contact lists can be taken over via lapsed Hotmail accounts. ORACLE TO OFFER FREE SALES SOFTWARE ONLINE The database software giant is set to launch OracleSalesOnline.com, which will offer businesses its core sales force automation software for free and charge fees for additional compoments. PARLEZ-VOUS AMAZON.COM? The online retailing giant launches its French website on Tuesday with a gala party on boats anchored in the Seine. Back in the US, the company will begin selling new cars on its website. PENGUIN INKS e-BOOK DEAL General interest publisher Penguin Putnam partnered with Lightning Source Inc. to make thousands of its titles available in electronic form 4 items above: http://www.emarketer.com/enews/bizbits/bizbit.html NEW HANDHELD VIRUS FOUND McAfee, the anti-virus software company, announced a trojan horse for handhelds. Beware! http://www.allnetdevices.com/wired/news/2000/08/29/mcafee_warns.html FEDS INVESTIGATE FAKE NEWS RELEASE The FBI announced that it will investigate the publication of a phony press release that sent shares of the network-equipment manufacturer Emulex into a Nasdaq nosedive last Friday. The bogus press release reported that the company's CEO had resigned, the firm's recently reported fourth-quarter results would be restated and that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating the company. The problem? 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ActivMedia expects site spending to reach $22 billion this year, with nearly half from business-to-business sites. http://www.thestandard.com WORD DOCS WITH EARS? HTML is everywhere -- and so are its privacy risks. The Privacy Foundation is warning Microsoft Word users that so-called 'Web bugs' could track Word documents as they get passed around. By Chris Oakes. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38516,00.html MICROSOFT GUNNING FOR AOL The Redmond company repackages the best of its Internet arsenal in new software for consumers. 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Know something? I'm an experienced Internet Marketer and I STILL do. Why doesn't a Help file help? Why don't Tutorials teach? Why are manuals filled with gibberish? And millions of new PC owners are suffering the same thoughts at this very moment. Yet sadly ... ------ "No-one Seems To Gives a Damn" When Newbies seek help, all they meet is Techie-Speak. When they refer to help Files they are left floundering. And if they read a PC for Idiots book they FEEL like an idiot! Newbie's are simply inexperience people. Not Idiots, not Dummies, not Retards! The day you get married, you become a Newbie Spouse. Not a Dummy. Your first day behind the wheel of a car makes you a Newbie driver. Not an Idiot. Hey, we're ALL Newbies at sometime, so why don't the experienced guys treat Newbies with respect, instead of patronizing them and trying to impress them with their recently acquired Jargon and Technical prowess? A pat on the head is NOT the way to gain a Newbie's respect, OR HER BUSINESS! And her first experiences on the Internet are not much better. Browsers, HTML, Search Engines, Java, Go-To, "Trust me and buy this", Credit card fraud ..."Who me -Download? Whoa there, where did it go?" .... "Will someone please HELP ME?" A revolutionary new Website called The Newbie Club at http://www.newbieclub.com?details is changing all that. It offers bundles of Newbie-Speak Tutorials that contain not a byte of Jargon. And the first 2 in a series of innovative Newbie books are presented in a way that is totally unique on the Web. And there's even more to come. I'm not surprised that response has been so amazing. And not just from the Newbies themselves. Affiliates are signing up at a remarkable rate. Why? Because for the first time ever on the Internet, someone has found a way to speak to Newbies at their own level. Someone who understands their real problems and treats them with respect! Someone who has finally discovered that today's Newbie is tomorrow's 'Oldbie'. And from a business point of view ...a loyal customer! So never assume that your visitor has a good understanding of technicalities. Even a 'simple' process like downloading your free ebook can be a frustrating and intimidating prospect for many people. Don't ignore them by thinking they're stupid. They're not ... They Just Haven't Done It Before! To illustrate this point, The Newbie Club's flagship product, 'Windows For Newbies' has been used by Computer Societies, Colleges, experienced PC users, and 'lonesome' Newbies alike. Even their Bank Manager bought 20 COPIES to teach his Bank staff the basics. Are Bank Tellers Stupid? So why not look at your Website again. This time from a Newbie's perspective. Or better still, have a Newbie go through it. You will be surprised at the reaction you will get. And some of it could be pretty painful! But if you're prepared to ACT on the feedback, you'll find that by making your site more 'Newbie-Friendly' your sales could substantially improve. 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