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Re: Looking to drop PayPal and suggestions for alternatives.

seoservicepro — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:36:45 GMT

I've been doing business on the web long enough to remember when paypal paid me $5 for each new customer I referred to them and still use paypal. Honestly, hard to beat the convenience.

I use google checkout now as a second alternative, but they have their own dispute process as well. But they are a viable alternative for you possibly.

I personally would not use moneybookers. They want you to mail them a copy of your ID. They delay your payments. I had a lot of issues there.

If you were selling online memberships or something, I'd recommend ccbill or ibill.

But you mention ebay. Paypal is still your best option.

Also, if you decide to go through your bank to get a merchant processing deal, look for a ton of enquiries to hit your credit report possibly lowering your score. Each credit card you want to accept equals an enquiry for the most part.

Just my experience. Paypal has its faults, but still the bast alternative in my opinion.

I want to start a Clothing Line!!!!

godfather0682 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:08:36 GMT

Hi, My name is Cory! I am a 27 year old male from Queens,NYC.. I would like some good advice from anyone or everyone out there that has or may have a clothing line and or is in the fashion industry and could tell me the best way that I can start my own clothing line the fastest,easiest, and most inexpensive way as possible... I love to buy and where clothing of all types and now it's my turn to become very stylish and creative by coming up with the best brand names, designs, and clothing in the whole world... But starting out so far, is pretty difficult .. so that's why I ask for any help if possible from anybody out there in the clothing industry.. All or any will be very well appreciated... Thank-You!!!!

Re: Anyone interested in sharing Twitter techniques?

seoservicepro — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:51:09 GMT

On the twitter posting calendar. There are tools that will schedule posts for you at http://techie-buzz.com/featured/schedule-future-twitter-tweets.html They mention 7 different ways to automate your tweets to keep your twitter account active.

You should not only use autotweets! That is important to note. You still need to make actual tweets whenever you can, but a few scheduled tweets can fill in the gaps to keep your account active. Do not overdo it. You will lose followers if you have too many tweets, especially if they are repeats of something they already read.

Use a sense of balance and you'll find those tools useful. other twitter tools are at http://techie-buzz.com/twitter/ultimate-list-of-twitter-applications-and-websites.html

Re: Starting a business while in College.

Danycount9 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:22:40 GMT

Hello Seoservicepro,

Could you contact through my email: Dardevil30@hotmail.com. I appreciate it.

Re: Building a Business Website in Wordpress

seoservicepro — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:45:43 GMT

Absolutely! Great info. I build microsites for clients on wordpress with a static front page and static interior pages and put the blog in its own section just as you mentioned. My clients are having great success with them. One example is http://www.stressninja.com It's a simple affiliate marketing website and took little time to build. It's already making money and we built it last month.

Wordpress is one of the best tools ever and it's free software.

Re: Starting a business while in College.

seoservicepro — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:40:44 GMT

You can be a bookkeeper without your degree right? Start by doing bookkeeping. It fits your chosen career path and will help you learn more about what you plan to do. Just a thought.

A website that promotes your own bookkeeping services would run you about $600 if we built it. We can help you set up to accept online payments and I can advertise your services to some online business owners. Just so you know, guys like me who run an online business are terrible bookkeepers, so there is a market there.

Ability to edit posts after submitting

seoservicepro — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:16:18 GMT

In most forums, there is at least a few minutes where you can go back and edit something you posted. Are you ever going to allow that here?

Free SEO Analysis

seoservicepro — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:13:46 GMT

I do this every now and then in a forum. I'll give a quick review of your website. A full SEO report takes time and I have to charge for that. But I can analyze a site and give general advice on how you can improve it in just a few minutes.

A little background;

name; Chris McElroy

experience; More than 30 years of sales experience with 14 of those being on the web. I make my living selling stuff on the web and have been since 1995. I code html from scratch by hand. I can optimize any web page and have a good chance of ranking it on the front page of search engines in a short amount of time depending on how competitive your search term is and the level of your competition, age of your domain name, etc. I manage a lot of business blogs for clients, so I know how to use blogs for SEO and for sales. I'm one of the first people to use article marketing as a tool for driving traffic to websites.

So, my advice is more about how to improve sales and create more leads than just about SEO. An SEO analysis is more technical and takes more time. But if you want a free assessment of how you can improve your sales, make a comment and give me a link to your website.

Tell me all you can about your product.

Tell me your current conversion rate if you know.

Tell me the source of most of your traffic if you know.

Let me know if you are using ppc or have in the past.

Let me know any search terms you rank for on the front page of Google or other search engines.

Anything else you think is relevant.

You can send me a private email or message if you prefer, but others learn when it is posted in forums like this. But I'll do it either way.

Re: Staring a Cleaning Service

seoservicepro — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:42:37 GMT

aacl2009. Best way in my opinion. You start by lowballing prices to get a client base and some kind of cash flow going, then, once you have some kind of base income, you start raising prices for new clients until you reach a new level of income, then do it again.

When I started doing article marketing, I didn't have a website. I was running a webmaster forum and telling people about marketing their business using articles. This was before it had really caught on.

Everyone was telling me they didn't feel confident enough to write article or they didn't have time, etc. etc. I offered to write some articles for a few members to show them the benefits, sort of put my money where my mouth is sort of thing.

I charged them just $5 per article. I soon had so many orders I couldn't keep up and it wasn't making me a lot of money. So I raised my price to $7.50. The orders kept coming. I raised it to $10. Orders kept coming. At $15 per article orders kept coming because now I had a reputation. At $20, it slowed down for awhile, so I thought I had found the proper market price for my articles.

At one point it changed. I had hired writers and we were producing around 1500 articles per week at the $20 price, so I had to raise it again.

A few years later, we now charge $40 per article and do a smaller volume. The focus is on quality rather than quantity as it was in the beginning. I have clients that have been with us a long time and new clients don't mind the price for what we give them.

My point is you have to learn what the market will pay for the qulity of service you give them. In the beginning you don't turn down anything. After awhile you will find your niche and what clients will pay for what you provide. Let the business grow itself rather than trying to solve it all it once.

Re: Do you use Online software in your business?

techshortcut — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:36:04 GMT

I have used Mozy.com for my key data and have never had any problems. They have a free version that allows you to backup 2GB. They also have a rolling 30 day window where they will keep all the different versions of your files so if you need to restore a version from a week prior you can easily do it. Great piece of mind.

The thing to keep in mind about online backups is that they are geared to backing up your data rather than clone/image your disk drive due to the amount of data you need to transfer. If you want to do disk image backups you will want to backup to a local storage server and then back that up offsite periodically.

Another thing to keep in mind about online backups is that if you have a lot of data to restore it can take a long time depending on your Internet connection.