No-Nonsense tips and resources to grow your business online http://www.ebizwhiz.biz/archives.htm http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:09:33 +0530 Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:08:01 +0530 FeedForAll v1.0 (1.0.0.2) http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/images/ebizwhizezine1.jpg http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/ Internet Marketing Tips Tools, Reviews 271 300 New research into the science called neuromarketing is beginning to shine a light on the mysterious workings of the neural processes behind snap decisions that consumers make. http://www.ebizwhiz.biz/neuromarketing.htm Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:08:01 +0530 As someone who tries to stay updated on the cutting edge of technology available to us marketers, I try to ensure that my marketing arsenal uses all the latest and most effective tools available to us. So I find this entire debate of whether we should use RSS OR Email very tiresome. http://www.ebizwhiz.biz/rss-email.htm Mon, 16 May 2005 05:19:52 +0530 Why do I love the beach so much? Because all of us need to take some time away from our business. I admit that's hard to do for a workaholic like me, but I make an effort every once in a while to get away and unwind. Very good for body and soul. :-) And today's article (actually a blog post that I wrote up into an article) is especially for you if you're addicted to your blogs. But it has tips for anyone involved in internet business as well. http://www.ebizwhiz.biz/blog-burnout.htm Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:00:34 +0530 I've been building new sites to boost my Adsense profits this month, but it'll take a while for them to build traffic and start pulling in the moolah.<br> <br> Most of my revenue increase this month is actually just the result of improved Adsense placement and some (long overdue) re-optimization and tweaking to my sites. <br> <br> http://www.ebizwhiz.biz/adsense.htm Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:22:18 +0530 Now that those infernal exams are over and done with, I've<br> got a little breathing space at last, so is it back to<br> partying for me?<br> <br> Not exactly ;-)<br> <br> More like back to my blogging, and stuff I really missed<br> doing.<br> <br> Of course, fun is never far behind on the agenda. So I'll<br> be taking a little weekend trip to a beach in Goa in the<br> first week of February.<br> <br> Bumming out on the beach is just what I'm looking forward<br> to. But workaholic that I am, I also intend to use the<br> occasion to write more stuff for my www.goa-beach.com<br> website.<br> <br> On the other hand I might just end up having too much fun<br> to write anything coherent ;-)<br> <br> But I do have lots of plans for this month, which include<br> adding lots of new content to my sites, starting new blogs<br> and websites, and increasing my Adsense earnings.<br> http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue14.htm Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:32:25 +0530 This is probably the last newsletter I'll send out in 2004.<br> My friend, Vipin Arumugham, an award-winning creative designer has created a beautiful Christmas greeting card that will give your desktop a Christmassy touch. Look out for some more goodies at the end of this newsletter :)<br> But first, before I take a break for the holidays, I want to share with you this well-written, heart-felt article by my friend, S. Kumar, about a disturbing trend seen in joint ventures online.<br> http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue13.htm Priya Shah Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:46:20 +0530 I know, I know... I'm supposed to be cramming for a PR (that's Public Relations, not Pagerank ;) paper now. But being the workaholic I am, its so hard to stay away from my PC, and what I love doing best - publishing. :) So this is not really a newsletter, just the ravings of an internet marketing lunatic ;) http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue12.htm Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:15:28 +0530 I knew my life had taken its final jump into the virtual world when my husband and 5-year old daughter were drawing a picture of a mouse a few days ago. He drew a "real" mouse, tail and all. She, on the other hand, drew a computer mouse, and promptly declared, "My mouse is better than yours." Are we spending too much time online, I wondered? http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue11.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 Having been brought up all my life to be a "nice, pleasant, polite" person, I find it hard... REALLY hard... to be otherwise. Unless, of course, someone REALLY gets on my nerves. In which case I usually leave them wishing they'd never met me ;) Why am I telling you this? Because I have learned, from years of experience... of being nice, polite and pleasant... one HARD LESSON... Nice doesn't pay! http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue10.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 It's been a really busy month for me. I decided to further my marketing education by joining a diploma course in Advertising. Although it only takes up a few hours in the evenings, it does leave me with much less time for my online business. But I'm having so much fun... brushing up on my (real-world) marketing knowledge, interacting with some really great professors, doing case-studies, projects and making friends with people ten years younger than me. :-) We all reach a point at which we need to put more effort into learning new things to grow our business or run the risk of stagnating. http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue9.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 This newsletter has become rather infrequent because I have gone back to blogging as a way of publishing more frequent updates. However, I still plan to continue it so I can keep in touch with you. I'm going to give you a URL that I usually reserve only for my customers who purchased "Number One In Your Niche" Its my blog where I publish search engine tips and updates, and since its already listed on the search engines, I thought you should be able to read it too. http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue8.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 Its been a while since I published the last issue. One of the reasons is that after two years of constant slogging away at my PC, my pocketbook was not the only thing that gained weight. So I finally got off my ample derriere and joined the modern equivalent of the torture chamber - a place I fondly refer to as Talwalkar's House of Pain. And while I'm focused on vital stats rather than website stats, here's a bit of advice if you've been turning into a bit of a PC potato yourself... Get off your ass and get active ;-) It'll be better for your bottomline (pun wholly intended). http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue7.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 It's been a long time since I've written this newsletter, mainly because I've had a really busy month - setting up new websites, starting my own membership site and lots more. :-) But more of that later... A lot has happened this month in the internet marketing field, and a great deal of it had to do with everyone's favourite search engine, Google. The Great G decrared its plans to go public, with all the high geekery it can muster, thumbing a nose at all the conventions of the stock market, and bypassing the old boys network that tends to hike prices before the IPO. http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue6.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 I'm back from a great vacation by the beach, refreshed and raring to go. My daughter and I took the flight while my husband and parents drove down. Believe me, I can only take so many entreaties of "Are we there, yet?" from a restless four-year old. We had a great time, but I haven't developed the photos yet, so I'll save the details for the next issue :-) Of course, I came back to a full mailbox, overflowing with spam... and a few (perhaps 10%) genuine messages - almost 2000 in all. Now that they're dealt with and deleted, here's a dark secret I never told you about. (Sneaky Ol' Me ;-) MY DARK SECRET... I'm a wannabe "Guru". Just kidding. But here's my confession. http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue5.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 It's been a very trying month for me, with a lot of changes and new regulations forcing me to make drastic changes in my network marketing business. It's not that I haven't had problems before. I have. But I've never had to make sweeping changes of the sort I'm going to have to make now. I can't go into it in detail here, but suffice to say that I'm going to have to practically re-invent myself and my business. So I'm going to have a few very busy months ahead and if I have to publish this newsletter less often, I hope you'll understand. You see, I'm not afraid of change. Never have been. In fact I thrive on it. I always find change stimulating and challenging, if a tad stressful. http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue4.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 Do you sometimes feel like you need a good laugh? I certainly do... especially when things go wrong, scripts that are supposed to work decide to give up the the ghost instead, my computer starts acting weird and flashing me all sorts of messages (not to be confused with flashing at the Super Bowl). Well, I subscribe to some great humour columns to get my mandatory fix of the giggles and keep myself sane. Sometimes just the going-ons in the weird world of internet marketing are enough to set me off... http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue3.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 I've added a new section to the website where you'll be able to read reviews of eBooks and products I have bought and personally endorse (I don't even bother writing about the crappy ones). You can see it here. So far there are only a couple of reviews, but I'll be adding more soon. If you depend a lot on search engine rankings for your traffic (like I do), then you'll be interested to know that Yahoo has just changed its choice of search partners from Google to Inktomi. Why is this important? Because it challenges Google's domination of the search engine world. http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue2.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530 I figured it was about time I gave this rag the look of a real newsletter ;-) But seriously, the 'Can Spam' Act is forcing publishers to get their act together, and BOY, am I GLAD I switched to a double opt-in system ages ago. Can't for the life of me figure out why they decided to call it something that has the acronym "CAN Spam." (?!!) I guess someone in the legal dept has a case of "graveyard humour." What I really want to talk about today is "joint ventures" - and how they can give your business that BIG break you've been trying so hard to get. http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/archives/issue1.htm Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:51:33 +0530