What is a good CMS to use for websites non-news/blog?
I was hired to make a website and all the CMS to use and recommended that I use is to press releases. WordPress CMS is always better to lie, but that requires you to make blogs. The site has hired me to a website providing information company. No new posts ... Only images and information. So basically I want a CMS that has: - Gallery / Photo album - SEO-friendly - lots of plugins and Themes - A CMS allows easy creation - a CMS that allows you to have a landing page in the middle column is welcome to this area of the site / information about it .... no no news is just text. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Hmm, I do not know who told you that WordPress requires you to make blog posts, because this is not true. If you use WordPress as a website was just created two new pages, call a "Welcome" page (This will be your new home page, you can put a text if desired) and a page called "blog" (leave this page completely blank without text). Once you've created two new pages, go to "Settings"> "Play" and see "displays the before "and two options, check" a static page "and then select the" Welcome "page that you created your" Home ". To the" Posts page "and select" blog. "Now, your" Welcome "is the main page (home page) and" Blog "page is where messages. Now all you have to do is go to" Appearance ">" Menus "to create a customized menu and not include "blog" in your menu and go. Otherwise, delete the "blog", but the page is generally not recommended to do so (may need it later). However, if you already use another CMS I recommend Joomla, Drupal and DotNetNuke (for Windows) I've also heard good things about CMS Made Simple. I think continue to WordPress, because it already knows and does everything you need. Hope this helps
If sharia courts and laws were fully put into practice in the UK ?
and a non muslim killed a muslim, at which court will he/she have to appaer in ?
is that individual subject to the law of the land or to the law of sharia ?
secondly, if a muslim kills a non-muslim person, in this country, should he/she face the sharia court of law or the court of law of this land ?
we on da same page ?
isn’t the concept of ’sharia law’ in foreign lands – flawed at every level ? since it tries to enforce islamic pov on non islamic modernised secular society who want nothing whatsoever to do with islam.
is it just one big amusing joke to the neutral ? think about it – why adopt the laws of stone age society in a land that left the stone age era a VERY long time ago ?
our laws are superior to theirs – yet why do british muslims think sharia is the best for them ?
Pointless even speculating as it will never happen.
Landing Page Best Practices
Leadmaster Best Practices In Lead Generation And Lead Management
There are many different solutions for generating and locating your next lead.
Radio & TV advertising are very popular with companies ready to spend millions for a 60 second Super Bowl spot. Some of those commercials may be memorable, but the ROI of those multi-million dollar investments can be difficult to track. Moreover, while they may be good for generating business long-term and building brand equity, they are usually not the most effective in selling more now.
Direct mail was an oft-seen but now decreasingly used marketing medium, perhaps with the rise of the Internet. While some may argue that the decline in competition makes direct mail more effective, for many companies, it’s still tough to justify a 20 page color brochure when 98% of recipients will immediately put it in the recycling bin. A less expensive alternative may be to send a postcard with a link to a 20-page online brochure. It would also be easier on the environment.
The popularity of print advertising is also on the decline thanks to the Internet. Back in March 2009, The Wall Street Journal had an article about the 10 most endangered newspapers in America. They suggested that 8 of the nation’s 50 largest daily newspapers would stop printing in the next 18 months. They included The Philadelphia Daily News, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Detroit News and the Boston Globe, to name a few. Why? As we all know, plummeting readership rates. So, not only is the effectiveness of this medium falling, but, as with radio and TV ads, it’s difficult to measure its true impact on sales. It’s like Henry Procter of Procter & Gamble said, “I know I waste half of my advertising dollars… I just wish I knew which half.”
Trade shows have always been a staple of lead generation. The people who attend are generally already looking for a solution in your market space. In fact, that’s why they’re there. But is it effective for creating new leads? The fact is, eighty percent of trade show leads are never followed up on. It seems that trade shows produce more sore feet, aching backs and hoarse voices than actual new business sales leads. While it may be a great way to see what the competition has to offer and catch up with old industry friends, creating qualified leads that turns into business is not a common feature of trade shows.
For some, the answer is cold-calling, good, old-fashioned knocking-on-doors and handing out business cards. In the early 80’s, I was a sales manager for a computer reseller in Chicago. We’d have cold-calling days. Each rep would be assigned a high-rise building in Chicago, and we’d start at the top of the building, visiting each office as we worked our way down. We had a short script, “Hi, my name is Andy. I work for Systems Source just down the block. We sell computers and office products. I’d like to leave you my card.” Sometimes we’d strike up a conversation that would lead to new business but most times not. Was that the most effective use of our time? Maybe back then, without the advances in modern technology, but by today’s standards, probably not. In fact, given that on average ten percent of cold calls actually create opportunities, most of that time prospecting is spent sifting through dead or inactive leads.
Corporate America spends a fortune on generating leads. Unfortunately, most is wasted or not able to be tracked. According to a recent survey by the Yankee Group, up to 80% of all leads are lost as they travel through the average company’s marketing/sales loop. Why is that?
The truth is, sales is about selling something today. Most sales people are focused on this quarter because if they don’t make their number this quarter they might not have a chance to close that deal next quarter. So if prospects aren’t ready to buy now, they often just collect dust in some faraway place in your database.
So how do you really generate ROI on your marketing activities? How do you make the most of your marketing investments? By utilizing best practices in lead generation. This usually consists of the following three-step process.
First, you’ll want to focus your sales energy on prospects who have demonstrated a need for your product instead of shooting randomly into the dark. Think what this could do for your business. Your sales team could interact only with qualified prospects, the ones who come to you looking for your product or service. They’d spend more time consulting with prospects to better understand their needs and even up-selling. Moreover, they would have more time for presentations and demos, instead of spending time on sifting through uninterested or dead leads; in fact, they would have more presentations and demos, period. In short, instead of wearing out shoe leather looking for prospects they’d be closing deals with qualified prospects.
Sounds pretty good, right? But how do you provide your sales team with such great leads?
This brings us to our second point, which is to incorporate a response mechanism into your marketing campaigns. Then you can easily find those who approach you for your goods or services. Now, all of the aforementioned methods of lead generation can incorporate a response mechanism, but the easiest way to generate response is through the Internet.
Everyday Google receives more than 91 million search requests. The top 5 search engines receive more than 200 million requests daily. Yes, some will be looking for what happened on last week’s Lost, but a significant number is searching for a solution just like yours. Plus, if you’re in the #1 spot of the search results page there’s a 56% chance that the reader will click on your link. And chances are, with a specific enough request, you’ll get a new prospect opportunity as well. For example, let’s say you sell hydraulic pumps and you spend enough on SEO that you land the #1 spot on search results. Most people aren’t Googling hydraulic pumps to see what it wore to the Emmy’s last night; they’re there to buy. Users click to your site because they need a hydraulic pump, and you got it. But, you’ve also got yourself a HOT new lead.
And you don’t have to be a Fortune 500 company to use Google Adwords. You can advertise a specific solution in a specific geographic area at a very reasonable cost with amazing results. With the Google content network you can get massive impressions for a fraction of traditional advertising. I’m running a campaign right now that in January had 451,863 impressions and 262 clicks for a total cost of $73.96. Not a bad deal.
Okay, so now, let’s say you’ve got all your marketing media integrated with response mechanisms. You’ve done your search engine optimization so that you’re getting qualified leads via the internet. You’re in great shape, right? Now you’re only interacting with prospects who are interested in your solution.
But not so fast. What if some of your leads don’t want to buy for 6, 12 or 18 months? It’s easy enough for your sales guys to qualify them to find out when they plan to buy so you can focus your efforts on those who are ready to buy now. But what do you do with lead that need some time on the burner? How do you stay in touch with people on a regular basis without spending all of your time staying in touch?
So there is one final step in best practices lead generation – lead nurturing. It’s fast, it’s easy and more importantly, it WORKS.
Start by sorting your contacts into groups. For example, you might sort by solution, industry, company size, interest group or some other category. Once you’ve got them in groups you can communicate relevant information to them as a group. Using lead nurturing software you can personalize the message without having to craft each individual email. You’ll want to touch base regularly but not so often that your contact sees your communication as annoying.
Also, your message must be relevant and be meaningful. Do your research. Think carefully about what you’re going to say. After all, this message might be going to 50 or 100 people who may become 50 or 100 hot new leads. Isn’t it worth the effort to take some time doing it right? Once you’ve crafted the message, you can send personalized emails to all one hundred with a single click of the mouse (with decent marketing automation software).
So, come time to buy, you’ll already be in your prospects’ thoughts. You can even include surveys in your lead nurturing track to provide additional information about your prospects’ needs and purchase timeframe. Then just keep nurturing those cold leads until they’re sales ready.
Of course, you can’t do it all with technology. Tweeting and texting are no replacement for the personal touch. You still need to pick up the phone and speak with your prospects. And you can make your conversation with them even more effective with a cloud-based CRM that records your organization’s complete prior communication with the prospect. But the point is you still need to personally stay in touch with your prospects. Even if it’s only a brief phone call once a month, talk to your prospects.
Lead generation has come a long way since I was handing out business cards. We’ve gone from walking miles on our feet from one lead to the next to emailing promotions and newsletters to hundreds of prospects instantaneously. We used to be limited to the city we lived in and the radius we could drive; now we have instant access (via email) to individuals and companies from here to Myanmar, whenever and wherever. And while some of us miss the days of person to person contact and face time (myself included), who says we can’t have both? Why not use all the advantages that modern technology affords us, but at the same time add our own personal touch by targeted emails, phone calls and touching base from time to time?
The point is this. Don’t sell yourself (and your sales team) short. You can make the best use of your time, resources and efforts, to the effect of dramatically increasing your success and the success of your organization.
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Scrapbook Idea for the importance of nature?10 points to the best answer?
So I need kind of summarize this in a scrapbook page with symbols .
The Importance of Nature
All of the Kiowa stories feature some aspect of nature. The reader quickly comes to realize that Kiowa tradition holds a strong respect for the land on which they live. Rather than take the earth for granted the Kiowa understand that without proper conservation practices the land will eventually desert them. Indeed this precept comes true when the buffalo herds are almost decimated. Without the buffalo for food, clothing, and housing the Kiowa are at a loss for how to exist. The tribe is forced to abandon their old way of life and adopt the practices of the encroaching white men for survival. However, the new way of life does is difficult to accept and before long the Kiowa fade away.
Pressed Flower art is fun . you can press with many kinds of presses.
I have one design on my picture site added below.
I do a lot of hiking and take my press with me. or I bring a small cooler with a ice pack to put my cut flowers and leaves in till I get home!
to learn how to make a press look in my craft album at
http://www.picturetrail.com/tkluxton
plus check out this great artist that is 14 .
http://www.heartsaburstin.blogspot.com/
Landing page best practices for direct mail – DMA 2010
html, can a marquee be put in a three-celled table row?
I’ve created a table with a scrolling marquee in the first cell. When I create the second cell, it squeezes the first cell off the page. I’ve tried various sizing; it doesn’t help. I am also unable to add a third row to this table with a cell containing a textarea. It won’t span properly. Any ideas? Thanks.
Are you sizing the cell, the marquee or what? Should be able to set a width/height to get the marquee tags in a 3 cell table.
Ron
Squeeze Page Html
What The Heck Is A Squeeze Page, And How Does It Build My List?
If you’re going to be a successful internet marketer, you’re going to have to build a list. That is; a collection of targeted subscriber’s email addresses to promote your products, services and memberships to. In order to build that list, your going to need a squeeze page at the very least.
A squeeze page, or opt-in is a single-page website which is designed for the sole purpose of collecting information from the prospective subscriber. It usually contains a brief description of what the visitor will receive after they enter their name and email address. This can be as brief as a couple of sentences, or it could resemble a mini-sales page with a couple of paragraphs, and bulleted text. Lately, many internet marketers use video and audio on their Squeeze Pages to get subscribers’ attention.
The most effective way to entice people to opt-in and enter their email address into the web form on your squeeze page is to offer them a free product or item of value. Such as an e-book, or report, application software, training materials, or other information that the subscriber would find valuable. This is known as an “ethical bribe”.
The name: “squeeze page” comes from the fact that the visitor can’t get to your free offer until he/she gives up their email address. There are no other options, other than to navigate away from the page, empty-handed.
You should also make sure that your squeeze page doesn’t have any leaks. Meaning that you prevent your visitors from by-passing your opt-in form to get to your free offer. Since anybody can view you squeeze page’s source code to find the URL of your download page, the best thing to do is to send the download link to your subscriber in your first email to them. So, in order for them to get that link, they’ll have to give up their email address.
Ok, so now that you know what a squeeze page is, the next question is; how do you get one? Well, if you have any web design skills, you could build one yourself, using an HTML editor, which can be time-consuming, and may not end up looking very attractive or professional depending on your skill level.
You could pay a web designer to make your squeeze pages for you, but unless you know the designer personally, you never know what you’re going to get. And you could end up waiting a long time to get the finished product, (if you get it all… But that’s a topic for another article!) Not to mention that you could end up spending a small fortune, as you’re definitely going to need a variety of squeeze pages for different applications and markets.
Fortunately, there are plenty of resources for high-quality, professional looking squeeze pages out there. Most of these sources have very reasonable prices, and offer squeeze pages that take advantage of current marketing strategies, such as the ability to embed video clips and audio tracks. These types of squeeze pages have been shown to be highly effective in converting curious visitors into subscribers, which are essential to your marketing success.
About the Author
Ed Corcoran is an internet marketer and publisher of Online Prosperity 101 – A blog and newsletter for affiliate marketing newbies. Click Here to get 4 free, professional, customizable Squeeze Page Templates for your campaigns!
Robert Pattinson: why do some fans go absolutely crazy?
I thought the hate mail towards Kirsten is pretty pathetic:
And it seems like the poor guy is getting fed up with hardcore fans:
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Robert+Pattinson+terrified+losing+weight+York+City+gals+squeeze/1764592/story.html
It looks pretty chaotic for him: http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/pattinsongirlsREX_450×350.jpg
He also got hit by a taxi to getting away from fans:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8108658.stm
If you have ever tried to make great landing pages to know that you need to test and retest your pages to make sure they convert. One of the best ways to make great landing pages is to look at what the internet marketers are doing online and follow them. Also women’s magazines are a great place to look for what good copy writers write for good landing pages. Some women’s magazines have the very best writers on staff so it’s a great place to look for ideas when you go to write headlines. A smashing heading and some good copy and you’re on your way to making a great Landing Page that can convert your customers into buyers. Nothing is more frustrating than having a lot of web traffic visiting a site but getting very few leads or sign-ups. If you can put together a simple web page that customer will land on and fill it with some good pictures and have a good clean design you can make a great landing page.
Great colorful pictures and pretty borders and great at keeping a reader’s attention on a landing page and you have either paid traffic of free traffic. You also want to keep you speech very simple so all readers can understand your copy. Landing pages are not a good place to impress your readers with your extensive vocabulary. You want to use simple words and simple sentence structure. Making your heading lines bold so reader can scan the page quickly you’re your offer. Bullet points are a great way to list if you’re trying to explain some benefits or features of your offer. They are easy to read and make your copy easy to scan. The close of your copy should invoke a deep interest from your reader to ask for additional information or collect an email address or newsletter sign-up.
My system to make a landing page is like this:
Bold Headline
Some eye catching copy
Bullet point of some benefits
Closing copy
Offer
Test conversions and make changes
Retest pages
Making landing pages can be fun when you put three or four up and start split testing eash one to see what works best. There are many great landing pages available online for free downloads.
I have personaly tested several several types of landing pages including landing pages with video content and I find a simple page with a hook or reason to sign up is best. Giving away a free e-book or web sire will usually be enought bait for the reader to leave their email addresss.
Using Google adwords with the conversion feature turned “on” is one of the quickest ways to test your landing pages and get real time stats. If you make two you can split test and this is always best. To make this work all you need to do is ad some java script to the bottom of the thank you page.
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Landing Page How To
Why Do You Need To Use Landing Pages?
All the products that you want to sell online are prepared you have already signed up with the Google Ad sense curriculum. Your intelligence is now set to being the next most flourishing online entrepreneur. But is there something besides this that you might have elapsed to arrange? How about your landing pages? Are they all set for your commerce?
Landing pages are basically web pages where the visitors will be directed
to whenever they connect a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad. For affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your prospective client to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliate website. Homepage of their website is used by some online business men as the landing page for their ads. Are these businessmen wrong in their selection? Should you have a separate landing page for your affiliate programs?
If you want to accomplish something more from your online commerce, and also earn a lot of profits, you better create a landing page for your web ads, because it will help you to earn more. The reasons being:
The only way you earn conversion in an associate marketing plan.
There are a range of associate marketing programs nowadays, but most of these programs let the merchant pay them in a pay per click basis. Basically, all you have to do is sign up and submit your ad. The curriculum proprietor would then dispense your ad to a range of affiliates who would then place your ad on their websites.
Now, days surely you would not get any alteration if you have posted an ad on your affiliate’s site without an actual landing page for the prospective client to come in. Your ad may be tantalizing enough to hearten people to procure a product, but without the landing page, how will they know how to purchase the product so through land page only you can earn money and increase your prospective clients
Reason no. 2: Other web pages may just not be enough.
Countless community makes the error of making their website’s homepage as the landing page for their ads. The same is true for those who make use of other pages like a “contact us”. Homepages are regularly planned to serve manifold user and contains a lot of associations to other pages or to other websites. If you want to be successful in an affiliate program, we’re sure that you don’t want your landing page to cater with others needs.
When you are choosing a landing page, you must always have the client aimed to get into that page in mind. Therefore, your landing page must be appropriate to the keywords and the stuffing you placed on your ad. It is also imperative that the landing page can provoke your caller to take action.
Final Word
So to finally end up I would like to suggest before entering into affiliate marketing program you must have a land page.
About the Author
Jitendra Singh Sendhav is an Internet Marketing Professional. Has a variety of marketing experience. He is passionate about helping new comers and experienced marketers improve their return on investment. Want to generate Fresh Live Leads FREE Daily? Click here to know more about the free system
How do u make a banner with various landing pages (urls’s) to use as an advert preferably on myspace?
My space advertising, creating a banner that has buttons that takes you to different locations.
I spent months working on a system to greatly improve the traffic to low traffic websites. After many setbacks and a huge number of wrong turns, I finally came up with an airtight system to exponentially increasing traffic to websites using a variety of advertising services online, without spending a penny.
Initially intending to sell this system, after a rather bizarre and unusual change of heart, I decided to upload it free to the internet at http://www.theadvertisingguide.co.nr. Although when I originally wrote this system it was based on the genre of sites used, rather than individual ones, I decided on The Advertising Guide to include specific sites to increase the simplicity of use to the advertiser, I will change these sites occasionally to ensure that the market for traffic at each is not saturated.
Before you build a mailing list, it is highly recommended that you read the Clue Train manifesto. (Check out www.ClueTrain.com.) If you have already read it, then this is just a reminder on how important it is to build relationships, because marketing today is all about having meaningful conversations.
Relationship marketing tells us that marketers must first build strong relationships with customers instead of just focusing on one time transactions, and a huge part of building relationships is having meaningful conversations. Before the email list building process, a marketer or business owner should have meaningful conversations with prospects.
Often, the focus is just on acquiring a prospect’s contact information for email marketing list building, and the mistake with that is this: bombarding people with cold, meaningless marketing messages just to get them to sign up for newsletters or buy a product does not work! Being talked to, preached at, or lectured to by those trying to win a business is generally perceived as annoying, not persuasive.
If you want to win business and eventually get the person to become a part of your business email list, take the time to talk to them, ask about their needs, wishes, and wants. Make it easy and comfortable for you to share in what they think. In short, if you really want new business (and a bigger email contact list, have a conversation.
Conversational marketing is all about participating in conversations about your products in blogs, forums, review sites and wikis. It can also sometimes be about taking the conversations off-line, where you invite a group of prospects to a location and have real-life, authentic conversations with them.
When you focus on conversations and relationship building before and during the time you are creating email lists, several things happen:
1. your product or service will become personal and have an authentic voice
2. you will enjoy increased retention and repeat sales
3. you will create loyal customers and brand ambassadors
4. you will have improved credibility
5. you will have access to feedback about your product/service
6. your company will not be perceived as a company that only cares about profit
When you do this, you can then build the chemistry, confidence, and commitment that lead to new revenues – and eventually, make it easier for them to want to become a part of your customer email list. In stressing the need to create conversations to improve your marketing effectiveness, I am not saying that traditional marketing approaches should be discarded, rather, they need to be turned into conversational activities. Nothing builds relationships better than regular, meaningful conversations.
To quote the Clue Train Manifesto:
“Networked markets are beginning to self-organize faster than the companies that have traditionally served them. Thanks to the web, markets are becoming better informed, smarter, and more demanding of qualities missing from most business organizations.”
“Markets are conversations.”
“Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.”
Therefore, before you squeeze their contact information for your email contact list using traditional Internet Squeeze or Capture Page techniques, understand that your prospects have evolved with the Internet and require relationship building before they give up that valuable information to you.
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John Osgood writes about and teaches small business owners how to market their companies and products online for a zero to small cost.
John maintains a strict policy of building a relationship and not “HAMMERING” his subscribers with constant email offers!
His 5-day e-course for Small Business owners who want to build a huge email list can be downloaded here: Head over to
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There also many other resources for the Small Business owner including Podcasts and a blog which you can check out by going to: http://www.smallbusinesslistbuilding.com/blog
I was just thinking about the ABC.com article that came out recently asking what is behind the Internet Conspiracy Empires? I think it’s a good question, and so I thought I would take you back through some of the conspiracies that we have looked at over the last couple of years. They will not all be conspiracies, but they will help to show why I have drawn my conclusion about our current conspiracy, and what is behind Gang Stalking.
[quote]“The history of the snitch is long and inglorious, dating to the common law. In old England, snitches were ubiquitous.Their motives, then as now, were unholy. In the 18th Century, Parliament prescribed monetary rewards—blood money—for snitches, who were turned back onto the streets where they were, in the words of one contemporary commentator,“the contempt and terror of society.”
“The system produced a cycle of betrayal in which each snitch knew he might find himself soon in the dock confronted by another snitch.”
“If all cases ended so poetically, perhaps informant dependent prosecutions would be more humorous than objectionable. In real life, however, O. Henry endings are rare.”
“The snitch system probably arrived in the New World with the Pilgrims.The first documented wrongful conviction case in the United States involved a snitch.The case arose in Manchester, Vermont, in 1819. Brothers Jesse and Stephen Boorn were suspected of killing their brother-in-law, Russell Colvin. Jesse was put into a cell with a forger, Silas Merrill, who would testify that Jesse confessed. Merrill was rewarded with freedom. The Boorn brothers were convicted and sentenced to death but saved from the gallows when Colvin turned up alive in New Jersey.”[/quote]
With the advent of modern day society can we assume that the Snitching System became obsolete, or would it be better to rightfully conclude that it was and still is an integral part of society and as relevant today as it was yesterday? It is also just as much a concern for this time period as it has been in others?
The Secret Persuaders
During WWII before America agreed to join the war, the United Kingdom set up a secret agency inside of America, designed to convince the entire nation it was a good idea to join the war. This was back in 1940 and this agency had almost 3000 operatives. They sent out false media stories, via newspapers and other mediums they had set up within America. To the individuals that were anti-war they had a game that they played called VIK.
[quote]BSC invented a game called “Vik“, described as “a fascinating new pastime for lovers of democracy”. Printed booklets described up to 500 ways of harassing and annoying Nazi sympathisers. Players of Vik were encouraged to ring up their targets at all hours of the night and hang up. Dead rats could be put in water tanks, air could be let out of the subject’s car tyres, anonymous deliveries could be made to his house and so on. In the summer of 1941, BSC sent a sham Hungarian astrologer to the US called Louis de Wohl. At a press conference De Wohl said he had been studying Hitler’s astrological chart and could see nothing but disaster ahead for the German dictator. De Wohl became a minor celebrity and went on tour through the US, issuing similar dire prognostications about Hitler and his allies. De Wohl’s wholly bogus predictions were widely published.[/quote]
I have never been able to locate the booklet with the 500 ways of harassing those that were anti-war, but I am sure some of those methods survived to this time period.
Here are some more amazing details about this agency that was set up by a foreign body on U.S. soil for the sole purpose of manipulating the population intogoing to war. This would have continued, but conveniently ended when the Japanese hit pearl harbour, what a unique coincidence.
[quote]BSC was set up by a Canadian entrepreneur called William Stephenson, working on behalf of the British Secret Intelligence Services (SIS). An office was opened in the Rockefeller Centre in Manhattan with the discreet compliance of Roosevelt and J Edgar Hoover of the FBI. But nobody on the American side of the fence knew what BSC’s full agenda was nor, indeed, what would be the massive scale of its operations. What eventually occurred as 1940 became 1941 was that BSC became a huge secret agency of nationwide news manipulation and black propaganda. Pro-British and anti-German stories were planted in American newspapers and broadcast on American radio stations, and simultaneously a campaign of harassment and denigration was set in motion against those organisations perceived to be pro-Nazi or virulently isolationist (such as the notoriously anti-British America First Committee – it had more than a million paid-up members). Stephenson called his methods “political warfare”, but the remarkable fact about BSC was that no one had ever tried to achieve such a level of “spin”, as we would call it today, on such a vast and pervasive scale in another country. The aim was to change the minds of an entire population: to make the people of America think that joining the war in Europe was a “good thing” and thereby free Roosevelt to act without fear of censure from Congress or at the polls in an election.
BSC’s media reach was extensive: it included such eminent American columnists as Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson, and influenced coverage in newspapers such as the Herald Tribune, the New York Post and the Baltimore Sun. BSC effectively ran its own radio station, WRUL, and a press agency, the Overseas News Agency (ONA), feeding stories to the media as they required from foreign datelines to disguise their provenance. WRUL would broadcast a story from ONA and it thus became a US “source” suitable for further dissemination, even though it had arrived there via BSC agents. It would then be legitimately picked up by other radio stations and newspapers, and relayed to listeners and readers as fact. The story would spread exponentially and nobody suspected this was all emanating from three floors of the Rockefeller Centre. BSC took enormous pains to ensure its propaganda was circulated and consumed as bona fide news reporting. To this degree its operations were 100% successful: they were never rumbled. [/quote]
That is an amazing conspiracy that very few knew anything about. Are branches of this program still operational in some capacity on foreign soil today? It’s hard to say.
Operation Gladio
An actual operation that hired agents and had them in keeping in such a time as when they were needed. This is another jewel that came to light while doing research into Gang Stalking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
[quote]Emblem of NATO’s “stay-behind” paramilitary organizations.After World War II, the UK and the US decided to create “stay-behind” paramilitary organizations, with the official aim of countering a possible Soviet invasion through sabotage and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. Arms caches were hidden, escape routes prepared, and loyal members recruited: i.e. mainly hardline anticommunists, including many ex-Nazis or former fascists, whether in Italy or in other European countries. In Germany, for example, Gladio had as a central focus the Gehlen Org — also involved in ODESSA “ratlines” — named after Reinhard Gehlen who would become West Germany’s first head of intelligence, while the predominantly Italian P2 masonic lodge was composed of many members of the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), including Licio Gelli. Its clandestine “cells” were to stay behind (hence the name) in enemy controlled territory and to act as resistance movements, conducting sabotage, guerrilla warfare and assassinations.
However, Italian Gladio was more far reaching. “A briefing minute of June 1, 1959, reveals Gladio was built around ‘internal subversion’. It was to play ‘a determining role… not only on the general policy level of warfare, but also in the politics of emergency’. In the 1970s, with communist electoral support growing and other leftists looking menacing, the establishment turned to the ‘Strategy of Tension’ … with Gladio eager to be involved.”[ [/quote]
A secret paramilitary army that exists in many European countries and has since the end of WWII, set up by the U.S. and the U.K.? Kept secret all the way up to 1990 when the Italian wing was exposed, and then the other branches were exposed as well. This secret army might have remained secret to this day, except for the extreme involvement of the Italian wing in local policy.
[quote]“Coordinated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), {the secret armies} were run by the European military secret services in close cooperation with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British foreign secret service Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also MI6). Trained together with US Green Berets and British Special Air Service (SAS), these clandestine NATO soldiers, armed with underground arms-caches, prepared against a potential Soviet invasion and occupation of Western Europe, as well as the coming to power of communist parties. The clandestine international network covered the European NATO membership, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey, as well as the neutral European countries of Austria, Finland, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland.
‘The existence of these clandestine NATO armies remained a closely guarded secret throughout the Cold War until 1990, when the first branch of the international network was discovered in Italy. It was code-named Gladio, the Latin word for a short double-edged sword [gladius]. While the press said the NATO secret armies were ‘the best-kept, and most damaging, political-military secret since World War II’, the Italian government, amidst sharp public criticism, promised to close down the secret army. Italy insisted identical clandestine armies had also existed in all other countries of Western Europe. This allegation proved correct and subsequent research found that in Belgium, the secret NATO army was code-named SDRA8, in Denmark Absalon, in Germany TD BJD, in Greece LOK, in Luxemburg Stay-Behind, in the Netherlands I&O, in Norway ROC, in Portugal Aginter, in Switzerland P26, in Turkey Counter-Guerrilla, In Sweden AGAG (Aktions Gruppen Arla Gryning, and in Austria OWSGV. However, the code names of the secret armies in France, Finland and Spain remain unknown. [/quote]
The promised that they would close down these secret armies. We however know that with other similar programs they are never shut down, they are just repackaged and start up again. That is one heck of a conspiracy. Secret armies in many European countries set up by the U.S. and the U.K.
Red Squads
Not so much a conspiracy, but a little known wing of the police that exists in many countries around the world. Set up for the sole purpose of destroying dissidence. During Cointelpro and the Canadian VIP program they worked closely with the government to neutralize dissidence.
[quote] The cops love these free-wheeling, elite units. They were ostensibly created to combat terrorism, but have been used mostly to infiltrate and suppress liberal and radical political organizations and civil rights groups. They lift their members out of the routine of police work into something of a James Bond life. As Frank Donner points out in this excellently researched, thoughtful and well-detailed study of police spying, their excesses have been many. But Donner, who directed the American Civil Liberties Project on Political Surveillance, concludes with the chilling thought that the Red squads will be around long after there are any Reds.[/quote]
These groups go back over a hundred years, as each new wave of immigrant population introduced themselves Red Squads were there, using informants to infiltrate, get information and help to disrupt these groups, movements, and unions. With other infiltration programs the idea is to try to get the corportion of members of the infiltrated groups, by asking some of them to become informants. Once you are an informant for the system, you are always considered an informant for the system.
[quote]Worse yet, the information, and misinformation, gathered by these sleuths is fed into the growing number of intelligence networks maintained by federal, state and local law-enforcement organizations. In the computer age, if you attend a left-wing meeting in Echo Park, your name is likely to be spread as far as New York. As Donner points out, the squads are not a recent invention. One of his most important contributions is tracing the history of the Red squads, showing how deeply rooted they are in American political, social and economic life….
…That set the pattern for the Red squads, a pattern that continues today. Whatever the city, said Donner, the goal and tactics are much the same: “police behavior motivated or influenced in whole or in part by hostility to protest, dissent and related activities perceived as a threat to the status quo.” [/quote]
Elite branches of the police designed to squash dissident and protect against perceived threats to the status quo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_squad
[quote]In New York, former City Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy traced their origin there to an “Italian Squad” formed in 1904 to monitor a group of Italian immigrants under suspicion[1]. However, it is their association with fighting communism which provides the basis for the name “Red Squad.” They became more commonplace in the 1930s, often conceived of as a countermeasure to Communist organizers who were charged with executing a policy of dual unionism – namely, building a revolutionary movement in parallel with membership in above-ground labor organizations. Similar units were established in Canada in this period, although only the Toronto police used the name.
In the late 1960s, as the protests against Vietnam and the general domestic upheaval intensified, the Red Squads augmented their focus, to include dissidents largely outside the labor movement, including therein not just war resisters, but protest movements of all political stripes, including Neonazis, Native American movements, the women’s movement, environmentalists, the civil rights movement, and others. The methods employed ranged from simple surveillance to isolated incidents of assassination. Anti-activist police operations were expanded under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, particularly in concert with, and within the cadre of the FBI’s COINTELPRO surveillance program, but also including domestic spying by the CIA. [/quote]
This very rarely discussed unit of the police apparently were in and still are in existence in many cities, some going by different names, but the same concept applies, squash dissidence.
[quote] The use of criminal informants in the U.S. justice system has become a flourishing socio-legal institution. Every year, tens of thousands of criminal suspects, many of them drug offenders concentrated in inner-city neighborhoods, informally negotiate away liability in exchange for promised cooperation, while law enforcement at the local, state and federal levels rely on ever greater numbers of criminal actors in making basic decisions about investigations and prosecutions. While this marriage of convenience is fraught with peril, it is nearly devoid of judicial or public scrutiny as to the propriety, fairness, or utility of the deals being struck. At the same time, it is a quintessential expression of some of the most contentious characteristics of the modern criminal system: law enforcement discretion, secrecy, and the increasing informality of the adjudication process. The informant institution is also an under-appreciated social force in low-income, high-crime, urban communities in which a high percentage of residents – as many as fifty percent of African American males in some cities – are in contact with the criminal justice system and therefore potentially under pressure to snitch. By relying heavily on snitching, particularly in drug-related cases, law enforcement officials create large numbers of informants who remain at large in the community, engaging in criminal activities while under pressure to provide information about others. These snitches are a communal liability: they increase crime and threaten social organization, interpersonal relationships, and socio-legal norms in their home communities, even as they are tolerated or under-punished by law enforcement because they are useful.
The Article also hypothesizes the harms imposed by the informant institution on socially disadvantaged, high-crime communities in which snitching is common. These harms may include increased crime, the erosion of trust in interpersonal, familial and community relationships and other psychological damage created by pervasive informing, the communal loss of faith in the state, and the undermining of law-abiding norms flowing from law enforcement’s rewarding of and complicity in snitch wrongdoing.
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Many people see this article and assume it’s an inner city problem, but it’s not. This is a societal problem. These informant programs are not just going after African American males, they are going after the females, and they are going after other communities. They started in these communities, and these communities currently have higher ratios of Informants, but then it branches out.
Imagine a society where over 50% of your community is a potential snitch? Imagine what that does to the heart and soul of a society? Some people don’t have to imagine because they have already been through something very similar.
“As summer travel ebbed, I dove into the study of the informant system, as pertains to those whom the police arrest, then pressure to go back into their places of home and work and set others up for arrest.”
How many informants do we have in communities? We can’t measure it because of this secret system, but experts have some guesses.
“Because researchers know what is behind the search warrants granted, they know that almost 98% of the time the police don’t have any goods on anyone, just a confidential informant. A lot of informing is going on, and it’s escalating.”
“So they squeeze these people into rolling on their mother. Our family involved my brother’s girlfriend; it was her brother who turned her in, and so we went through this ourselves. And it is hard to try to explain to people this part — people do 20, 30 years and they get through it. Somehow, I don’t know how. I’ve never been to prison, but they get through it, and what dogs them all of the time is this — how could my sister do that to me? How could my friend do this to me? That stays with them. That psychological damage never goes away.
And it spreads to everyone in the family, just like anything traumatic does, and you get a bunch of sick people.”
When I grew up, the Russians were doing it a lot, the informant system throughout all the communities. A person could be hauled off and interrogated and taken off to the ice fields. It terrified me, those Russian people. We studied these communities in Russia after that period because there was a lot of mental illness. Our country went over there to help them with all their crazy people. And do you know what our country found out? Our scientists and doctors went over there and came back and said, “It was all those informants. It made them crazy to live among people, and nobody knew who was going to rip them off, or who needed to ‘get in good,’ or some favor. And so turn someone in, and that person gets hauled off to Siberia. It made people crazy. <b>Well, that’s what is happening in our communities now.”</b> [/quote]
The new face of snitching might surprise you. As mentioned they started in ethnic communities, but they have branched out so much further then this.
http://www.mapinc.org/images/Hoffman.jpg
Meet Rachel Hoffman she was a 23-year-old Florida State psychology graduate, she is also the face of snitching. Rachel earlier this year agreed to become an Informant to lower her sentence for a drug conviction. She was killed while making a drug purchase for the police to help reduce her drug sentence. Informants come from a variety of social and economical backgrounds and once caught up in the system, many will do anything to escape prison sentences normally offered for much more severe crimes.
[quote]Immediately after Tallahassee police raided her apartment April 17, Hoffman went to her boyfriend’s house and told him about the deal she’d cut. Over the next three weeks, she would tell him and Liza all about her work as a confidential informant.
“They wanted her to turn in her friends, and she wouldn’t do that,” said Liza, a 24-year-old FSU graduate student. “She said she wanted to get some grimy people off the street. She wanted to get bad guys.”
At first she agreed to give up a guy she knew who dealt drugs and sometimes bought pot from her, her friends said. But after one controlled call from the police station, she confessed to him she was working for the police and asked him to help her find someone else to turn in.[/quote]
She was killed during a sting that went wrong. She was an inexperienced 23 year old, who didn’t want to go to jail, didn’t want her parents to find out, and thought this would be a cool way to work off her sentence. She paid the ultimate price for it. This story is not that uncommon in today’s modern society, but many of us, like myself, were previously unaware of the extent to which citizen informants are being used in society.
She should no more have been turned into an Informant than many of these young urban men and woman, who also don’t want to spend years in jail, vs living outside for minor drug possessions, these people exchange their freedoms for a type of slavery and servitude to the system that is unimaginable. These situations are becoming too common, and they are contributing to the detriment and moral fiber of our societies.
Fusion Centers and TLO
The informant system is not just using paid informants. They are also using an army of volunteer Informants. The Citizen Informants who are parts of various community programs, or who were inducted via their place of employment.
The ACLU has released a report on Fusion Centers. 800,000 operatives will be dispersed throughout every American city and town. Set to report on even the most common everyday behaviors which will go into state, local and regional, linked data bases.
This number of 800,000 is outside of other Informant programs that are already in place within America. Informants working via Citizen Corps, and other sub programs.
There are informant programs for local businesses, informant programs for truckers, boats, and so many others.
[quote]If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it’s possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for ’subversive’ tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada’s universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. [/quote]
[quote]RCMP spies kept secret files on hundreds of Canadian Politicians and bureaucrats at all three levels of government as part of a project known as the “VIP program,”[/quote]
[quote]The book, a thorough examination of RCMP surveillance of the academic world, also discusses the Mounties’ efforts to keep tabs on other elements of society, including government, the media and women’s groups.
The RCMP created security files on 800,000 Canadians, and it has long been known the force took an active interest in politicians and public servantswith links to Communist organizations or other pursuits deemed subversive.[/quote]
Talk about conspiracy. The Canadian government for over 80 years spied on it’s citizens and opened files on many of it’s citizens just because they attended a university or college? If the Canadian government was willing to do this, what about other nations?
This program after 80 years of operation within Canadian Universities and Colleges, when exposed supposedly formally ended. That is the official story that the public is suppose to believe.
These spying programs were not content to just watch the universities, the research shows that they branched out into the community, because after graduating, these people might still have subversive ideas.
Within the last 10 years since the program supposedly ended, it’s hard to imagine how many new files might have been opened on unsuspecting students.
Stasis- What happened to these people who were former spies for the East German state?
[quote]More East Germans were spying on their neighbors, colleagues, family and friends when the Berlin Wall fell than had previously been thought. According to a report published Monday, 189,000 people were informers for the Stasi — the former Communist secret police — when East Germany collapsed in 1989 — 15,000 more than previous studies had suggested.[/quote]
The C.I.A. were handed the list of these names after the Berlin Wall fell. How many went to other countries and were asked to continue with their domestic spying is unclear.
The above scenarios are just a few of the conspiracies, intrigues, and surprising information I have come across when researching Gang Stalking.
what I am seeing is a continual and consistent pattern of something that is systemic, with many absorption points. This means that citizens are being incorporated into these programs through many different venues, some via their families. Other through educational institutions, others via their places of employment, other through religious institutions, etc.
I am also seeing a link to some people that are being mobbed and bullied out of this system. I am also seeing the same patterns of collusion that has been reported elsewhere, by others.
http://www.bullyonline.org/action/obstruct.htm
http://www.targetedindividuals.com/System.html
That’s part of the conspiracy that I am seeing, and this conspiracy has been ongoing within society for some time now. Many communities have been affected by this and some are very aware of the level of snitching and informing that is ongoing in society, paid and unpaid. Others have had very limited or no exposure to these concepts, and therefore are not aware of what is ongoing in society.
About the Author
I am a target of a practice called Gang Stalking. I have been researching and investigating it for the last two years and these are some brief findings that I would like to share.
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Farmville Layout Ideas For Facebook Fans
Farmville is one of the most versatile games going. With a simple grid formation you can create your farm in an almost unlimited number of ways, just like a real farm! Here are a few Farmville layout ideas to give you some inspiration.
Inspect Your Neighbours’ Farms Closely
The first thing you should do is to simply look at the farms of your neighbours, especially those who are at intermediate to advanced levels. This can give you a good idea of how to organise your own farm.
To do this, either visit their farm or check out their profile photos as many players have screen captures of their farms stored there.
Decide What Kind Of Farmer You Want To Be?
What is your priority when it comes to your farm?
Do you want it to look nice and to make some good money? Or would you rather optimise it for money? Or do you prefer it to look absolutely perfect and you do not really care about money except to buy more stuff to decorate your farm with?
Going For The Gold
If your priority is making money then you should dedicate the vast majority (ideally 90% or more) of your land to growing crops on. It won’t look pretty stuffing all your animals and trees into a tiny corner but it will make you more money.
If you decide to go via this route then I recommend planting similar crops next to each other. For example, plant all your strawberries next to each other and all your pumpkins next to each other. If you follow this plan then they should all mature for harvest at roughly the same time and you won’t be wasting time moving around your farm and clicking all over the place.
Going For The Show
If you only care about what your farm looks like then you may want to sketch your idea before going ahead and creating it.
Some people use Photoshop, a spreadsheet or even regular grid-lined paper to sketch out and modify their ideas before going ahead and buying and placing the stuff they want.
If you need more inspiration for your layout and your neighbour’s farms just are not giving you what you need then check out the official Zynga Farmville forum. There are several threads (including one with over 600 pages) where people are showing off their farms.
Most of the Facebook Farmville Cheat hints, tips, growing your best crops, experience points, free stuff, how to level up in Farmville fast, trees guide. golden chicken, Farmville cash are discussed and published in other articles. Make sure that you read them and maintain your lead position in Facebook Farmville Game.
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Landing Page Generator Software
Tips For Generating Quality Leads on Autopilot
Generating leads is the lifeline of every marketer. Did you know that according to a survey by Forrester Research sixty percent of marketers say online advertising is more effective than traditional advertising when it comes to generating targeted leads. Online lead generation is even more appealing since once the process is in place generating leads on autopilot is how the activity takes place.
The process of generating leads on autopilot begins by creating something for the prospect. A special report, a gift, a CD, or an e-book are all good items to use to collect quality leads. Once you have the items in place, the next step is to design the materials to attract the buyers.
You can use a one-page website, commonly called a landing page. On this page, all you are doing is explaining your offer and its benefits. In order to receive the offer the reader must complete an online form. The sole purpose of this page is to get the prospect’s name, address, and e-mail information.
The online form can be as simple as name and e-mail address or it can include other questions to help you learn more about your prospect. A word of caution, don’t make your form too long. If there are too many questions, prospects often will either skip the less important questions or not even bother to fill out the form to get your freebie. Also, make sure to specify clearly the action you want the reader to take. For example, To receive your free… complete the form below.
Once your landing page is complete, submit it to the search engines and create online ads to direct the prospect to your page. The next step is collecting the leads and delivering your offer.
If your offer is digital, the easiest way to deliver is to use auto-responder software or services. Auto-responders allow you to set up your message, attach the free information you are providing, and automatically send it to the requester. If you choose, you can also use the auto-responder to send other messages automatically at designated intervals.
The auto responder delivers the information immediately, and stores the requestor’s e-mail address and other information in your database. Voila! You are generating leads on autopilot. Once this process is set-up it can provide valuable leads for you time after time without your input. Thus, the entire lead generating system is virtually hands free.
About the Author
Srini Saripalli is a Technologist, Marketer & Entrepreneur turned Business Optimization Expert. Visit Success Engineer and get your FREE CD on how to plan your own business Success.
Why does Yahoo! try to make everyone use their lousy, oversized new home page when it clearly sucks?
Because the page really sucks. I mean, it’s enormous, as blocky as a Yugo, and forces people to look down the side for categories so they can squeeze more promos and ads into the top half. Only trolls are so transparently cynical as to design a page that way. Assuming Yahoo!’s web designers aren’t trolls or Martians or trogledytes, why would they annoy us with such drek and force us to go to Google for all our information and news? It’s bad enough that they give Ted Rall and Ann Coulter regular space on their news opinon pages to vent their spleens (especially Rall who we get a double dose of with his horribly drawn “cartoons”… Ted, invest in one of those art schools in TV Guide, and also, get a conscience… and a brain. At least Coulter is a ahead of you on that count and has a brain.)
Anyway, the new Yahoo! homepage really bites, and we shouldn’t be forced to use it as long as the old homepage is supported. And after that, it’s Google 24/7 for this annoyed user.
I personally love the new homepoage it was time for a change and i like it. Especially where it says your name when u log on, the weather is right there, u can see your buddies…. Don’t be mad cuz yahoo got bills too thats y they need Ads.
Squeeze Page Designers
Creating a Squeeze Page That Sells
It is a well known fact that internet marketers make the most money from their list, so it is essential for you to start creating one for your internet marketing journey to be a success. So how do you create a good squeeze page? Here’s how it is done:
1.Focus on generating leads
The only purpose of a squeeze is to collect names and emails. You are to make sure that you do not alter this purpose to elsewhere. Remember that you are offering them a solution to their problem, sell them the problem, and sell them solution.
2.One niche for one squeeze page
There are tones of different niches out there, even if you are targeting one niche, there may be several sub-niche in the main niche itself. You may have to create different squeeze page for the sub-niche, as they have different terms and keywords in the sub-niche.
3.Headline: Sell or solve
The main purpose of the headline is to get the readers to continue to read the below wordings. You can either sell them the problem, or solve their problem in the headline.
It is better if the background is white with black wording, you encourage the visitors to read on what you want to tell them and still maintain the professional look of your squeeze page. Do not add in colourful graphics, simple looking graphic is fine. The colour of the headline and sub-headline can be of different colour, make sure the colour you choose blends well for your squeeze page background.
5.Use psychological words that move them
Use words like proven, guaranteed, proven, absolutely, shocking, truth, etc. Use these words lightly in your squeeze page, spread them around the squeeze page.
6.Call to Action
This is the closing questions, once the visitor reads the benefits of joining your newsletter, or get free ebook. A call to action button is essential for your squeeze page, you may want to place an arrow pointing to the opt in box too, this will increase the chances of the visitor giving you their name and email.
7.Use urgency to your advantage
Time urgency and fear of not losing out are two of the best way to drive your visitor to subscribe to you. Make sure that this is a genuine offer, if not you will lose your credibility. Tell them that this is a limited time offer only, or what they will miss out if they do not take action now.
8.Reveal yourself
Sometimes it is best to show yourself to the readers that you are real, a video in this case will work very well. With you telling them about their problems, what you can give them in return, and a call to action. If you do not want to show yourself it is still okay, your signature will still get the job done.
These are some of the tips for you in creating a squeeze page, and lastly re-read your squeeze page, till the whole squeeze page is in a flow.
About the Author
Joshua Elliot was an HTML idiot, now a successful Internet Marketer, who teaches how to build websites and Internet Marketing.
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Is this yet another one of Obama’s pet “stimulus” projects that is doomed to failure?
http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1014/five-reasons-cash-for-clunkers-is-a-joke/;_ylc=X3oDMTE5dnBhMTNuBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLXRvZGF5BHNsawNjbHVua2Vycy1qb2tl
try reading the question again o’really..it says IS THE PROJECT…doomed to failure.
obama couldn’t find his a$$ with both hands.
ONE TERM.
Landing Page Content
Why American car critics hate SMART FOR TWO?
Just today i read this article and i find it hillarious:
http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1071/worst-cars-of-the-2000s/
they are considering a SMART FOR TWO like a car for the big road.
a SMART is a city car!
Because the Smart is unsuitable for most Americans. It’s small, slow, and doesn’t get significantly better mileage than some more substantial cars. Also it’s a deathtrap, In Europe where small cars are the norm, it’s not at as big a disadvantage as it is here where the average car is much bigger, and the average SUV is about 3 times bigger than the Smart. Smart can harp on about it’s safety cell, but you can’t engineer your way out of the laws of physics.
Landing Page is usually the web page in which the visitor arrives through a link from another website or an ad like one of Google Adsense. There can be bad or good Landing Pages, to be good a landing page must meet certain requirements like: clarity, a nice look, a logical language able to create desire and need in our visitor, give the product as a solution.
Regarding one of the details before we want to keep in mind as the landing page should be able of communicating the basic concepts also through a superficial and fast reading and to get this we must use wisely images and their descriptions alongwith character styles and the header tags: strive to give, according to what we have said before, informations as much as you can and be careful that images and videos are in harmony with your writing. Really images as videos too have the power to communicate concepts in an immediate way without getting through an analytical reasoning, they are useful to drive the attention toward the concept expressed by what we wrote.
Examples of landing pages can be found in ClickBank’s marketplace, they’re written in a similar way because all they are based on the same concepts: a classical landing page has some written testimonials alongwith photos of enthusiastic people and usually the offer features some gifts alongwith their value, this enhance the perceived quality as who buys feels that many things has been given for a ridicule price. Repeating concepts allows us to print in the mind of who read us what we want to share, strive also to foresee objections as you must demolish them in your writing and also include in it questions that lead surely to an affermative answer as doing this drives the mind of our potential customers to a probable “yes”.
When you write speak personally using “you” as doing this will give the feeling of a direct talk as also a guarantee can help your visitors to relax and getting out of their shells. Don’t forget that the average visitor often doesn’t buy at the first visit so you have to retain your customers, to achieve this use the newsletters that are the regular sending of informative contents, incluing a link to our website, and not promotional messages: incentive their subscription with free bonuses like a freely downloadable ebook.
There are also software that allow you to put a countdown clock as the number of pieces yet available: these systems strenghten the sales motivation as they make feel who visit your landing page as someone that is in front of something that, if not bought, could be lost forever.
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White Paper: How to Skyrocket Your Sales in the Current Economy by Simply Using the Marketing Automation Functions of CRM Software
As a VP of marketing, Director of marketing, or sales executive you are well aware that even the best-planned marketing efforts can fail, and thorny economic times have only compounded the aggravation. You’ve been strained to cut your marketing expenditures significantly at the same time you’re expected to accomplish more.
This white paper introduces the fundamentals of running best marketing programs efficiently and with the highest possible ROI, using not only a creative, but also an analytical approach to direct response marketing that is impossible without marketing automation — a primary support system for any successful marketing campaign. The technology-driven process, in conjunction with a preferred-by-marketers intuitive process, will enable you to tightly interweave your marketing and sales programs and, as a result, realize a positive return from your limited marketing resources.
Nurturing customer loyalty
Your current customers can be your best future customers, as well as your best sales reps. Satisfied customers will bring you many referrals, and as you might well know, a lead that comes from a customer referral is the one that your sales team will close faster and with higher a rate of probability, because your customer already made a great deal of effort to pre-sell the referred prospects.
Growing through referrals
If you have not developed a well-managed referral program for your customers — and any other partners that want do get into business with you and become a free agent that is paid commissions for referrals — you are losing a great opportunity for organic growth.
Consider this example:
Company ABC is a B2B service company with about 500 current customers, and the average annual sales per customer is $20,000, which generates $10,000,000 in annual sales.
Your annual advertising budget is 1% of the revenue ($100,000). As we all know, the majority of it is usually spent on campaigns that bring modest results, in the hope of discovering winning advertising venues — which become even harder with competition trying to get over the hump in this economical downturn.
Your company has been growing at a 10% rate annually, slowly but surely, but now the growth starts declining, and it is forecasted to be down 5% this year, with the same marketing expenditure (and even more hassling that your marketing and sales team has to get through).
Now imagine that you decided to monetize the connections of your customers. You can ask for a favor and a few will return. But you don’t want random single referrals — you want to get bombarded with pre-sold prospects who will take less than average time to close. Wouldn’t that be a marketing and sales paradise?
Welcome to paradise
Let’s imagine that you designed a customer referral program and offered a 10% commission to be paid as a result of each referral that converted into a paid customer.
Let’s assume that 50% of your customers signed up for your referral program, but only 50% of those customers actually refer paying prospects on a regular basis — that brings you 125 new sales a month.
Now do the math:
500 customers x 50% x50% = 125 customer referrals per month
125 referrals/month x 12 months x $20,000 per sale = $30,000,000/yr
$30M – 10% commission = $27M in new business
As you can see, your next year’s revenue will be $37,000,000 instead of $10,000,000, and your company growth rate now is 370% versus the forecasted -5%.
Developing the strategy and the process management system
You liked the math, and now you are ready to jump in and get it done, right?
Do you have a system to manage hundreds of referral partners? You probably don’t have the tools in place for a successful execution of the program. Are you planning to do it intuitively and manually? Unless you have a proper structure, along with the necessary processes and technology to measure your success, you cannot execute your partnership programs properly.
That’s why you need to automate your marketing processes, and ideally you need to hire a professional marketing company that that will design, automate, and market the program for you – and charge affordable rates.
Costs of marketing automation and campaign execution
How much do you think it would cost you to invest in a program that brings you millions of dollars of additional sales? Would $100,000 be the right number? Maybe, but it drastically exceeds the limits of your existing marketing budget.
But the good news is that right now a direct response marketing company with established processes, a proven framework, and the right automation tools can get it all done for you in few weeks — for $10,000, or less.
Integrated marketing versus task-based marketing
Prior to using our solutions, for many of our clients, “marketing” was a series of isolated tasks — but from a sales point of view, selling is a coherent process. Task-based marketing can often fail because, at its core, it doesn’t help to commence a dialogue that a salesperson can bring to closure.
Test before investing
With the proper tools in place, now you can conduct formal tests of each marketing idea, collateral piece, and message to get the best performing tactics. No tests should be done manually because the necessary sampling size is prohibitively large.
The numbers game
Without proper metrics, marketers that rely blindly on an intuitive approach don’t have the tools to measure their success, and duplicate it in other programs.
Creativity and analysis have to go hand in hand. But proper analysis of a number of variables cannot be done manually. Tracking systems for both success and failure, and easy tools to analyze the elements that affected the result, have to be integrated and reflect the company’s objectives. Therefore few out-of-the box software packages for different purposes (such as campaign management, affiliate scripts, Google Adwords integration, and others) might not necessarily be the best solution for your company because it will require quite a bit of integration effort and maintenance resources.
A credible sales marketing & advertising firm will not only be able to consult with you on the most suitable solution, but also implement it and run the campaigns on your behalf, during the learning phase while your marketing team is getting familiarized with the program.
The benefits of overall marketing automation
Through the use of a database, marketing automation enables you to learn — in depth – about your prospects’ and partners’ behavior, along with the decision making process and variables that influence it. It allows you to automate communication processes and maintain relationships electronically. The results:
Better-organized sales and marketing processes.
Superior customer retention.
A consolidated view of your customer and lead base.
Better lead qualification and retention.
Higher return on sales force and customer support technology investment.
Higher marketing ROI.
Better tracking capability.
A better platform for making marketing and sales decisions.
Which translates to:
Reduced operational costs.
Reduced marketing expenditure.
Increased revenue.
Marketing automation doesn’t just link marketing with sales — it helps marketing drive sales.
What you can achieve with the right marketing automation technology
SalesAnual will help you to improve your response rates and boost the revenues from your marketing efforts. We offer you the ability to easily manage sophisticated, timely, personalized customer communication strategies. Built specifically to meet the needs of key members of the marketing process, our product will provide comprehensive data management, campaign management, and advanced customer analytics in one integrated, easy-to-use solution.
Marketing campaign management
Marketing campaign management is easy with with our product. Through a single application, you can effectively plan your marketing spend, manage all your initiatives and campaigns, and analyze performance and results.
Market segmentation
Our product helps you create targeted campaigns by segmenting your audience based on attributes such as demographics or product interest, and then send specific messages and offers for each group. You will have the ability to easily add contacts and leads to lists right from within campaigns.
Campaign analysis
Our system is designed to simplify ABC (split) testing. You can track, analyze, and optimize multiple campaigns such as on-line marketing and telemarketing. It will also allow you to analyze and optimize other campaigns such as trade shows, direct mail, advertising, and promotions, so that all marketing efforts are focused on the most effective campaigns.
Campaign testing
ABC tests are typically conducted to determine which version or elements of advertising materials are helping the performance of the campaign. ABC tests dramatically challenge the assumptions that marketers and company executives may have about the best way to design a campaign or collateral piece. The automated functionality also enables you to solve conflicts between marketing and management.
While ABC testing typically applies to on-line adverting, we can build your system around a repetitive test process for all media, so it enables you to test Web pages, advertising copy, telemarketing scripts, e-mail messages, newsletter content and layout, and so on.
Testing yields the most valuable results only when the tests are conducted repeatedly; therefore efficient ABC testing is impossible without full automation of the test process. This is a key advantage of the SalesAnnual system.
Our software can create an “ABC test winners” table where all of the best advertising items will be stored. Each record provides statistics, upon which every new marketing effort in the same category will be measured.
Revenue tracking
Our product will help you identify the marketing activities that generate the most sales revenue by directly tying every sales dollar back to its campaign source. Campaign managers can analyze detailed analytics to track revenue, and measure campaign success.
Express follow-ups
Our product helps you to easily determine which prospects require follow-up contact after a campaign, and define the appropriate actions.
List management
You can import and export campaign lists in multiple data formats from and to various marketing vendors. With SalesAnnual List Management, you can also create targeted, effective marketing campaigns with list management tools for segmenting, exporting, and analyzing lead lists.
List creation
This module enables you to create customer or prospect lists by selecting any combination of contact and customer information.
Data exporting
This module helps you to easily export your lists to outside suppliers and manage the results with SalesAnnual’s campaign management features.
Data importing
The module allows you to quickly import sales leads from offline sources such as trade shows, seminars, and direct mail; matching group and campaign; eliminating manual data entry. It also enables you to import leads provided in bulk by a specific referral partner as a result of a specific campaign. You can also map and segment any information you need to manage.
Detailed reporting
This module allows you to analyze lists and contacts to identify trends, and to optimize marketing campaigns.
Lead management
This module allows you to track incoming prospect inquiries that respond to particular campaigns, and automatically route qualified leads to the right people, enabling sales reps to get instant access to the latest prospects – and business opportunities are never lost.
Online lead capture
This module allows you to automate lead generation by capturing leads from your customers’ website, directly into our system, and automatically send a personalized response based on information supplied by the customer.
Lead search and merge
This module ensures that reps can easily identify prior interactions with a lead before following up. You can easily merge leads, contacts, and accounts – and remove duplicates — for efficient lead management.
Lead tracking
This module monitors leads end-to-end — from creation to conversion — with capabilities that include automatic date/time stamping, campaign or lead source tracking (vendor, campaign, and partner), lead status changes, and lead activity management.
Channel partner program management
With our system you can easily manage various channel partner categories such as affiliates, referral partners, and resellers — and create efficient, automated relationships with them.
Affiliate program management
Our affiliate program management functionality is designed to manage your channel partners who mostly operate on the Web, and therefore the tracking system reflects the way traffic is sent to you website. Affiliates typically use your on-line marketing tools, such as text links, ad banners, video clips, podcasts, webcasts, as well as text documents such as articles, press-releases, white papers, and case studies.
Referral program management
Our referral program management functionality is designed to manage your channel partners that deliver leads in a less organized manner — in a verbal or written form for example.
Reseller program management
Our reseller program management functionality is designed to manage your Value Added Resellers (VARs), that engage in the sales and marketing of your product. Typically they bundle your product and services with those of their own company, and market to their existing client base.
Channel partner compensation management
Our lead tracking and payment management solution gives you an extensive reporting system that will put you at ease, because your team – and your partners — can always access the latest data about their account and lead performance.
Contract management
Our system allows you to store the contracts signed with each partner and see the compensation due to each partner. The numbers are presented in % and $ value accordingly the agreement with a particular partner, as well as revenue generated to date since the partner signed up.
Reporting
Our flexible reporting solution gives you the ability to choose a report template or to customize reports according to your partners’ needs. The status of leads is reported as qualified, unqualified, dead, and so on, and you can easily send reports to your partners on a regular schedule.
Security controls
Our security controls and permissions capability allows your partners to access the sales leads in their own territories, or those provided by them. You can also manually share specific sales leads with any user you choose.
Automatic lead routing
Our product makes lead management easy by setting up queues and assignment rules to automatically route qualified leads to the right distributor (sales organization that is located in a country where a company has no inside sales capabilities) based on customized business rules, and track the status of every lead in your partner marketing channel. Your referral partners will get instant access to the latest prospects, and leads are never dropped or lost.
Email prospecting and tracking
Our system empowers your resellers and referral partners to send personalized, template-based, e-mail messages to prospects in large numbers, and to easily track all responses from one centralized lead management system.
Lead acceptance
Our system enables comprehensive tracking and accountability so you always know your lead status, in real time.
Targeted messages
Our system allows you to create specific messages and publish them to each individual channel partner.
Document management system
Our system provides a central repository of all the documents and communications your channel partners will need to support their sales and marketing efforts. Your partners will have continuous access to all of your up-to-date documents (product brochures, presentations, and support documents) from anywhere in the world, so they can respond to customer information requests quickly and easily.
Search
Our comprehensive search capability allows your partners to quickly find relevant information, view documents, and even send them as attachments to their prospects, directly from the search results.
Secure records management
Our security rules and custom folders allow managers to organize documents and communications based on partner type, department, or any other criteria with limited access for the intended viewer only. Document management is secure and customized.
Second-tier referral program
Our system enables you to track not only every sale from each of your 1st-tier partners, but also each sale made by the partners that were acquired through your first-tier affiliates or referral partners. Compensation is calculated according to your agreements.
Co-marketing program management
Our system enables your partners to submit marketing requests for co-marketing programs, if you choose. Requests are automatically compared and deducted from the partner budget. You can manage partner claims for funds requests by analyzing each claim compared to the allocated budget for each partner. Claims can be documented with a proof of performance.
For all financial and non-financial transactions, partners submit claims with proof of performance. Documents and uploaded materials are integrated with the marketing programs.
Special promotion for partners
With our system, you can make your partner Web portal “stickier” and increase partner adoption, by creating and communicating rebates and promotions for the partners. We provide rebate guidelines and best practices to help channel managers design and launch winning programs.
Your partners will have the ability to submit special pricing requests for the competitive deals on which they are working.
Search marketing management
Our system enables you to gain complete visibility and control over your search engine marketing campaigns—from keyword selection to closed deal. It allows you to put your marketing dollars to work with keywords that deliver the best results. You will can see exactly which leads were generated by each search engine marketing program.
Email marketing management
Our product has feature-rich functionality that helps you use a wide range of professionally designed templates for e-mailers and newsletters. One of our unique features gives you an easy way of creating landing page templates that match customized e-mail template and content.
Email tracking
Our system makes it easy to evaluate the success of e-mail campaigns with integrated response tracking and easy monitoring of key campaign metrics. You can easily identify which e-mail campaign generates the most:
Open emails (what recipients, when, how many times)
Bouncebacks
Click throughs
Leads
Closed deals
Unsubscribes
Our system gives you the ability to assign a specific identification to each affiliate or referral partners’ outbound email or telemarketing campaign sent via your system. Every incoming lead will be assigned to the appropriate partner and will be reported in the statistics on partners’ performance, accumulated compensation, and payment schedules.
Personalization
Key features include:
Content editing supports a high degree of reusability and easy customization – push a button to insert a variable, “IF” statement, HTML template, and more.
Personalize messages using conditional content and data.
Default to standard content (such as “Dear Customer”) when conditions are not met.
Personalize subject lines.
Embed redirect URLs and attachments into e-mail messages.
Integrate with your favorite content editor, easily.
Flexible opt-in/opt-out support.
Viral marketing support – track and understand the value of customers who forward your messages, extending the return of those communications.
Rich re-marketing and wave campaign support via easy-to-create follow-up communications based on an individual’s response or lack of response.
CAN-SPAM compliant.
New dashboards and reporting functionality
With our new dashboard and customizable reporting functionality you will have instant access to the real-time data and analysis you need to run your business. Dashboards pull it all together, providing instant access to a consolidated, real-time view of your sales data.
Real-time dashboards
Dashboards give you an at-a-glance overview of the current status of your business, with benchmarks and critical metrics from sales, marketing, service, and more. One-click data refreshment ensures that your marketers are always working with the most up-to-date information.
Custom report formulas and highlighting
Multiple mathematical formulas are preprogrammed into the system to aggregate and perform calculations on raw data within the system. You no longer need to export your data to spreadsheets for detailed calculations.
Outbound sales campaign management
The module makes it easy for your telemarketers to create and test telemarketing scripts, as well as ABC test e-mail follow-ups that are automatically sent to the leads generated by each outbound sales campaign.
By default, unless customized, our system automatically sends three follow-ups to “non-responding” leads after which the system can automatically move them to the Dead category, which eliminates manual work.
Media buying and production management
We deliver a fast, powerful, and complete system that includes media buying, production, and result tracking, all designed with direct marketers in mind. Our system provides quick and easy access to information, and lets you track each campaign down to its tiniest details, because marketers and users need all the answers:
Which spots ads are profitable?
Which media is the most profitable?
Which creative is the best suitable for each particular media?
Which URL works best?
Which days of the week, month, and parts of the day work better for each media?
What is the cost per order for each media?
What is the cost per inquiry for each media?
What is the cost per lead for each media?
What is the ROI for each media?
Which call centers are the most effective?
Our system keeps everyone in sync and up-to-date because direct marketing is a complex process involving media buyers, scriptwriters, copywriters, designers, producers, call centers, accounting, budgets… as well as innumerable sign-offs by clients and management.
Media buying
Print ads in newspapers, 30-second spots on prime-time television, banner ads on websites — each can be considered a media buy. Managing your media is easy with our fully automated system.
Features:
Short-form.
Long-form.
Spot and network buys.
Direct mail.
E-mail.
Inserts and circulars.
Display advertisements.
Cable and broadcast.
Production management
Our system helps you traffic and manage jobs, work orders, and schedules.
Note: Please note, some functionality is not available with the basic package and is only sold to clients that order 50+ seats, or is included as part of customization consulting. Please specify your requirements and we will provide you with a quick quote.
Conclusion
In the new state of the economy, your motto as a marketer should be “efficient marketing made simple with less;” at least ours is. Our programs and technologies will give your marketing department the ability to take greater ownership of leads, as well as customer and partner relationships, which keeps the cost per interaction as low as possible while guaranteeing greater marketing performance.
This means you can continually improve the effectiveness of your marketing efforts rather than potentially repeat what hasn’t worked. Marketing automation — and a well-selected B2B or B2C marketing agency — will make your marketing programs more successful and remove discrepancies between your marketing objectives and your execution capabilities.
The result… your company generates more qualified leads at a lower cost per sale, and this helps your sales team achieve a higher closing ratio.
About SIdeaMama Ad Netork
IdeaMama™ Ad Network is the only affiliate network that can run highly priced B2B offers with a long sales cycle, as well as high-ticket B2C products. Therefore we offer very high payout to affiliates. We not only run your CP (pay-per-sale) programs on-line, but also solicit for you an army of referral partners and resellers who don’t have an on-line presence. No other network has an ability to manage off-line relationships. We can because we have an automated software system that enables referral partners to upload contact information of prospects and monitor the status of the leads, closely watching how they are moving through pipeline. We offer full transparency for affiliates and super-efficiency for advertisers. IdeaMamaAdNetwork.com provides each merchant with a full-blown, proprietary CRM solution to not only manage their channel partners, but also align the business processes of their entire organization — they will get top-rated, award winning sales, marketing and customer support automation solution to serve their new and existing partners and customers.
About the Author
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Business Development Manager, IdeaMamaAdNetwork.com
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