uSamp; The Market Research Company That You Can Rely On

Let's say that you have established your business, and now you are seeking for a new business opportunity outside your country. What should you do? Firstly, just as you did when you started your business, you must do a market research. You must have valid market data, before you decide to start you business. That is why you must hire trusted market research firm to have solid market data. Finding one is a little bit hard; you have to be careful choosing the research firm, you must choose the one that has wide range of panel data. If the firm has wide variety of panelist, you can be sure that you will get valid and solid market data for the result. You do not have to take the survey for yourself, because you can rely on them and let them do the mess for you.

Hiring a market research firm, surely, will cost you a lot of money. Nevertheless, if you have tight starting budget, maybe you should consider hiring an online research firm. They will conduct an online survey on the specific target panelist, which you choose. I know finding one trusted and reliable online research firm is another tough job, although is not hard either. However, I have found one reliable online research firm which has a huge, wide range and hard to find panelist member. This firm has specific target panelist which will resulted valid market data for your new business.

They called themselves uSamp, a new emergence online research firm, which has a huge panelist member across country and continent. They categorize their panelist into almost any criteria and they can conduct market research in any business segment: Asian market research, b2b market research, automotive market research etc. Therefore, you can have solid market data, based on specific target market that you want to pursued for your new business opportunity.

Note: This information above is not only for offline business owner, but also for online business owner who has huge list of newsletter members. You can join the uSamp partnership program. By becomes their partner, you can conduct uSamp online survey to your member in your own site. The interesting part of it, you are not the only one to receive some money, but also your site member for doing the survey. Your member will receive variety of benefits, from online gift certificate to Paypal cash credit. This will catch your site member to take uSamp's online survey. It is a mutual benefit for you and your site member, and in the end, you will have a loyal member because of this.

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7 Tips to Promote Your Blog In The Early Stage

As a newbie blogger, one thing that I have to do is promoting the blog. A new blog has to be notice first before it can attract visitors. When your blog become well recognize, traffics will come in steady number.

Blog promoting is a process of recognizing throughout the internet's web. Moreover, it has to do in the right way, not in the tricky and hacky kind of way, to avoid your blog being banned by the Search Engine.

These are the steps that you need to do to promote your blog in the early stage:

1. Submit it to Search Engine. Although Search Engine has spider web robot that crawled your new blog and indexed it to their web server, but it would be better if you submit your blog's URL to them. 
There are so many Search Engine around the net but the major Search Engine always been the best source for leading visitor to your blog. And these are a few source link for submitting your blog URL to the search engine:
- Google ;http:/google.com/addurl  
- Yahoo ;http:/siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit  
- MSN ;http:/search.masn.com/docs/submit  
I am not going to explain step by step guide how to submit your URL in detail, you can follow the instruction on each Search Engine's site.

2. submit it to ODP Dmoz. ODP (Open Directory Project) Dmoz is still the largest Search Engine directory. It has wide range of category on it server and it indexed the URL of sites and blogs manually by thousand of its project editor volunteers. That is why being indexes in it is a little bit hard but once your submission approved, another Search engine will crawled your site/blog also, because ODP Dmoz directory is Search Engine Directory, which use by many Search Engine as their data source.

3. Submit it to Blog Directory. You can promoted your blog by submitted it to blog directories, sometime it helps you for recognizing your blog to the internet audience, even the blog directory member is another blogger. If your blog has well recognized by the blog directory's member, your blog will be a star and it will have massive traffic from it. 
These are few list of blog directory or you can say Blog Community Directory:Technorati, Blog Pulse, Blog Digger, My Bloglog, Digg and the list will go up, but I intend to write the complete list on my upcoming Link post.

4. Ping your blog. Ping is a process that tells the RSS Search engine that you have updated your blog. You can use Ping service for ping your blog into many Blog Directory.

5. Blogwalking. Blogwalking is an ultimate trick for promoting your new blog. Visiting another blogs and left your mark in each one of it is a way to make you and your blog being recognize. Although is not going to get your blog huge traffics all of the sudden but it at lease it will make your blog being noticed by other bloggers and their readers. If you do it consistently, I am sure, in the end, you will get good amount of traffic.

6. Link exchange. Making reciprocal link with other blogs, it's a sure way to make your blog get a wider exposure. When your blog's links appeared on many blogs, the change to be notice is a lot better. By doing the link exchange, you also make a spider web of community around your blog.

7. Buy ad place. This is last tips but also the least, because I only suggested it for you whose having enough budget for promotion.

I admitted the above tips may not complete and detail, but those are the steps that I use to promote my blog. Maybe you have other tips promoting your blog, please do not hesitant to add on comment section.

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Make Money Blogging with Blogadvertisingstore.com

Paid review is one of the money blogging methods that almost every newbie blogger loves the most. Its simplicity is the reason why this method being the popular among newbie. All the blogger has to do is just write a post review about the advertiser site or product and put a link or links inside the post, which sometime the advertiser specifies the targeted link.

There are many paid to review agency around the net, some of them reliable and trusted and some of them are scam. Choosing the right agency is the first task you should do before you decided to make money from this kind of money blogging method. Just look someone else blog post, how they reviewed the agency; positive, negative or remarkable. If most of the blogger said that the agency is good, you should sign up the site, but if it's not, don't even try to write their address on your browser.

I have joined many blog advertising agency, and make a decent income from them. Most of the agency that I've joined, have been around in the internet business for years. However, I also joined the new rising agency such as blogadvertisingstore.com. What I like about this one is their unique opportunities offering system. Not as another paid to review agencies, which offer their opportunities by biding, blogadvertisingstore.com, has sorted the opportunities by matching the blog category and its statistic with the advertiser desire. So, blogger who is seeking for the opportunities just have to reserve the opportunity they like and leave the opportunity they don't like. Their site navigation also easy to understand, you don't have to be confusing if you want to search the opportunity or add your blog their system. Moreover, their support team also reliable, you can contact them if you need any help regarding to their services, they will reply the question as soon as possible. Nevertheless, there is something that I don't like from them, is the way they hold $100 of your earning as a threshold of the payment. Well, overall this site is good and reliable and you can start your paid to blog journey from here. Happy Blogging.

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5 Advices for Non-English Writer

As non-native English or not having English as second language, writing in English is kind of hard and daunting. The limitation of vocabulary and grammar knowledge, sometime make me feel confusing how to express the idea into writing. Even when I have so much great idea to write, the writing process is still slow and hard. It make me want to step back and leave my English blog alone. Nevertheless, time has tough me, the writing process maybe slow, hard and daunting but the show must go on. I have to realized my dreams, even if I have to sacrificed my sweet and blood.

I have several writing advices for you who are not coming from English speaking country or having English as second language.

Don't get stressed by spelling and grammar. Although spelling and grammar are important for English writing but don't get stressed by them. Just write down every idea that crossed in your mind, write it one sentence at a time. Don't think too much about spelling and grammar, because you can revise them later after you have finished writing your article.

Use common word. If you don't have wide range of vocabulary, you should not using distinguish words which usually use by advance writers. I know that you want to look like a professional, but some English words are not having the same meaning if it translated into another language. Therefore, you must be carefully choosing the words which you want to put in your writing. Just use common word, that ordinary English person always use on their daily live. What I mean is you should not use words in your writing that you don't really understand what it means. The words that fifth grade students use in their writing class. By the time you vocabulary grow, you can use distinguish words in your writing.

Use online translator. There are many online translator services, but I personally use Google Translate. It has simple interface that is easy to use and It has large quantity of languages. Another reason why I use it, because its translation is close enough to the meaning of my language. Since it only run online, I only use it when I write while I connect to the internet.

Use digital dictionary. I am sure that a lot of humbly and sincere person out there whose developing English-Your language dictionary in digital version. Some of them are free and some are paid. Even if you have to pay for it, its benefit is priceless. Use it when you write while you are offline.

Hired ghostwriter or freelanced your work. If you have enough budget and you don't want to get a headache because of the writing process, you should consider to hire someone to do the job. There are many outsourcing writing service all over the net. you can have a piece of your article for only $10, depending on how long and complicated your article. You just have to give them the subject and the main keyword of the articles, which you want to have. You will have your article in less than a week, without hassle and confusing.

As your writing skills grow, you will realize that writing in English is not a burden anymore. Just enjoy the ride, and go writing tiger...go, go, go.

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Have you written your 2010s Goals?

The year of 2009 has gone, the 2010 is online now and it will emerged new challenge to your life. Your family, work, business and relationship, they are all going to evolved in somehow. You have to be ready for the change, after all live is dynamic. Those who are not evolving will sink by the evolution of the world around them.

The inclusion paragraph above is a reminder for you. It will wake up the consciousness and get you ready to make the plan for next year challenges, the plan that will guide you to achieve your goal. Have you written your new goal for this year? If you have not done it yet, I have a suggestion for you; recap your 2009 goal first.

Ones said, "Yesterday is history, Tomorrow has never come yet, what you have is today". Although the phrase say tomorrow is history, it doesn't mean that you have to forget it, because what you are today is because of what you did yesterday. Therefore, recapping the previous goal is necessary. It can show you what goal has achieved and what have not, and then why and how it was fail.

After recapping your previous goal, you have to divide it in to two different subjects. One is The Achieved Goal and the other is The Failed Goal. For the achieved goal, pick the goal that still can stretched and bring it to the higher level, then add it as your next goal. You should consider it as a challenge, because sometime we feel alive when we faced problem and challenging experiences.

For the failed goal, try to scan your failed goal, find out why you did not achieve it. After you have found out why, you have to figure out how you can do it in the right way. Add the failed into your new goal, and make sure it isn't going to fail again, as you have figure it out the right way to do it.

Now you have new goals that come from your previous goals, and then add your fresh new goal.

Your fresh new goals should be goals that you have never written before and some dream which you want to achieve this year. When you write your new goals you must not worry too much about are you going to achieve it or not. If you persistent to do what you have planed, achieving your goal is just a matter of time. Therefore, just write down your dream, even it is odd or bizarre dreams. After all, this is your dream and this is your live, no one can interfere what you want to achieved.

In the end, the combine of old and new goal will make your live more energizing. It will make your live more meaningful, because now, you have goals to pursue and dreams to realize.

Those are a little advice for whose not have goal for this New Year. Just set the goals, plan to achieve it and gain your dreams. See you in the end of 2010, with a smile on your face; knowing that you have realized your dreams.

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14 DoFollow Blog Directories You Can Follow

Browsing through do follow blog directory is one effective way to find dofollow blog which suite with your blog. They have variety of category; you can find easily which category matched with your blog. Therefore, you will get good backlink if you commented on blogs that related to yours. Then, if your blog is also dofollow, you can submit it into the directory to be listing in one of their category. It is one of the promoting methods to let wider audiences know that your blog is dofollow.

Moreover, these are the list of dofollow blogs, which I find on the net, I submit my blog into some of directories. The list is in random order; I do a little research to find out how well their authorities stand out.

1. Followlist.com : Established since: 06-2008, PR 3, Alexa Rank: 22.463, Traffic value: 18, Google position: 2, Yahoo position: 6, Free Submission. 
2. Dofolowblogs.com: Establish since:08-2007, PR 2, Alexa Rank:24.685, Traffic Value: 207, Google Position: 1, Yahoo Position: 1, Paid Submission. 
3. Blogsthatfollow.com: Established since:02-2008, PR 3, Alexa Rank: 90.075, Traffic Value: 11, Google Position: 3, Yahoo Position: N/A, Paid Submission. 
4. Bigfootwebmarketing: Established since:12-2005, PR 2, Alexa Rank: 142.387, Traffic Value: 41, Google Position: 5, Yahoo Position: 14, Free Submission. 
5. Dofollow.info: Established since: ?, PR 3, Alexa Rank: 81.081, Traffic Value: 0, Google Position: 7, Yahoo Position: N/A, Free Submission. 
6. High-quality-links.com: Established since: 01-2007, PR 1, Alexa Rank: 586.888, Traffic value: 65, Google Position: 10, Yahoo Position: N/A, Free Submission. 
7. Drop it 2: Established since:10-2000, PR 0; Alexa Rank: 941.971, Traffic Value: N/A, This blog accepted free submission for member and non Entrecard members. 
8. Dofollowdirectory.com: Established since: 08-2007, PR 0, Alexa Rank:928.253, Traffic value: N/A, Google Position: 55, Yahoo Position: 4, Paid Submission.  
9. Whydowork.com: Established since: 08-2003, PR 4, Alexa Rank: 11.644, Traffic value: 26.981, Google Position: 7, Yahoo position: 54, free submission. 
10. Gainweb.org: Established since: 01-1998,PR 0, Alexa Rank:31.914, Traffic value:9, Google Position:N/A, Yahoo Position: N/A, free submission. 
11. Strategicmarketsegmentation.com: Established since: 04-2007,PR: 2,Alexa Ranks:167.590, Traffic value:396, Google Position: N/A, Yahoo Position: 1 
12. Directoryblogger.com: Establish since: 07-2006, PR: 0, Alexa Rank: 192.210, Traffic value: 33, Do follow Blog Search Engine, free submission. 
13. Inlineseo.com: Establish since: 06-2008, PR: 4, Alexa Rank: 21.473, Traffic value: 225, Do follow Search Engine, Free submission but the link is broke.  
14. Backlinkmagic.com: Establish since: 07-2008, PR: 1, Alexa Rank: 725.363, Dofollow search engine, free submission but the contact form error to load.
    

Those are the list of dofollow blog directories that I can find so far, I promise to update the list when I find another one. I hope it will useful for you, just go hunt your dofollow blog, make many comments, and gain the backlink. Happy hunting!

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December 2009 Blogging Recap

Firstly, I would like to wish you all a happy new year of 2010. After we all having an enjoying New Year eve party, now it is time for us to continue our live to face the New Year challenge. However, before we make a plan and set this year goals, we should reviewed our last year goals first. By doing it, we will know which one of the goals is achieved and which one is not. Then we must figure it out why it failed and how we can fix it and do it in the right way.

I always review my short-term goal in monthly basis; you can read the review of December 2009 target in this post. Moreover, these are the recap of previous month target:
Traffic
I use Google analytic for the traffic data source. As you see in the image below;

My traffic has increased 13.6% compared to Novembers traffic. This blog visited by 500 visitors during December 2009, 59% of them or 301 visitors are absolute unique visitors or new visitors. The bounce rate of this blog decreased, by the end of December it reached 66.20%, it showed that some of the visitors stayed a little longer on this blog. It reflected by increasing the number of commentator on each of every post that I have. The traffic sources reflected that this blog has to improve its SEO, because only 3.60% of the traffic came from the Search Engine. Most of the visitors came from referring sites such as; Entrecard and Shoutmix.

Blog Rank (Alexa and Google PageRank)

In other hand, the Alexa rank of this blog has increased hugely. It started from 5 hundred thousand and it ended at 348.000, it's not bad for a blog which just 2 months old since it rebuild.

Thanks to the "Big G", that kick ass at the beginning of this year with regular PageRank update. This blog rewarded PR 1, I guess the link exchange, interlink, and inbound link method do work. I personally give my best gratefulness to my fellow blogger that humbly linked their blogs with mine. This one is my best New Year gift I ever have.

Over all this blog has progress considering to traffic and contents, because it shows by the increasing of the traffics (visits and pageview) and the number of comment on some posts. It has been a wonderful month, although not all of my monthly target/goals achieved, at least I know that I am in the right blogging track.

January 2010 Goals

• Increasing page views to 50-100 per day 
• Alexa rank 100.000 
• More comments on each of every posts 
• RSS subscriber : 5 
• Income: $10-$50
  

Making money is one of the major reasons why I am blogging, so for the month of January I have a target to make some money from this blog.

I hope you enjoy your New Year long holiday season, spend some quality time with your family and talk about the New Year plan for your family. Your blogging goal should be supported the family goal, it should be backing up for each other.

Happy New Year and have fun blogging. Let's rock 2010 !!

 

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