Barry Lloyd, one of the top SEO’s in the UK and the CEO of Microchannel Technologies Ltd., which provides SEO/SEM services through their MakeMeTop brand (http://www.makemetop.co.uk), continues with the following questions.

1) Viral Communities

Create your own chat room. Allow other related web sites that don’t have a chat room to link to yours. They’ll get use of a free chat room and you’ll draw extra traffic to your site.

Q) My small business has grown over the past year, but the growth has also brought more past due accounts. This is the first year I’ve had these problems. Am I doing something wrong?

Tom S., Boulder, CO

1) Change the benefits on your product ad from text to links. When people click on the link, it will take them right to the order page. It’ll give them an urge to buy your product. People will usually click on links because they think they might be getting one of the benefits for free.

1) Community Marketing

Participate on web discussion boards. Post your comments, answer other people’s questions, and ask your own questions. Include your affiliate text link under each message you post. If they read your message and like it, they may click to see what else you have to offer them.

Joint Venture With Competitors

1) Team up with your weaker competitors to beat your stronger ones. You can create win/win joint venture and cross-promotion deals with them.

What’s the best way to get hired, even in this economy?

Prove you’re the best one for the position.

In our saga that began several weeks ago, we’re trying to create a firewall setup that allows no inbound access by default that can be modified remotely to allow a small window of inbound SSH connectivity. Remember that this machine must have no inbound TCP ports accessible to pass muster with the Windows-biased IT administrators, yet we want to allow inbound SSH dynamically when needed.[1]

The notion of wireless messaging provides a whole new vista to J2ME. J2ME applications powered by wireless messaging have a platform-independent access to wireless communication resources like Short Message Service (SMS) and Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) for Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) Networks, a mobile telephony system permitting inter-country communication.

Before proceeding with the details on how J2ME Wireless Messaging works, I will discuss, in short, the SMS and CBS messaging systems in a GSM Network.

Small online businesses are mostly represented by home-based entrepreneurs. In this regard any payment scheme or system should meet at least two criterions:

Marketing your business with email is an art.

It’s very easy to get accused of spamming nowadays. Add to that the filters ISPs are using, and your message may not get through.

1) Forward Interesting Email To Friends

Forward interesting e-mails to your online friends with your signature file included,

1) Most people want to make the people around them happy. Tell your prospects how happy their friends or family will be if they buy your product. For example, you could say, “Order before June 23, 2002, and get a second one for a friend. Just imagine how happy your friend will be when you give them this incredible product.”

Many would-be entrepreneurs never get ahead with their biz plans or ideas because of the big Fear Factor! They’d really like to make some project click, but too many negative thoughts and ideas hold them back. They worry about failure, legal problems, family opposition, rejection and a myriad of other possibilities. Here we will outline 3 things you can do now to destroy fear and move on confidently toward success!

“So what happened?”

When someone asks you that, what do you say? You respond by telling a story – when it happened, where it happened, how it happened and why it happened.

There’s no question that a powerful idea has the potential to bring success to you and your business, but how do you know if your article, product, or ad copy concept will become successful?

Recently, after a delicious dinner, a long-time friend said to me, “I’m at my wit’s end. I’ve got traffic. People are clicking on my product pages. Why aren’t they buying?”

1. Put Listing Information “Front and Center”

Most real estate agents make it difficult for home sellers to find information on their website.

1) Make Money

People want to make more money. They may want to start their own business, get a higher paying job or invest in the stock market. This will make them feel successful. For example, on your web site you could start an affiliate program for your product so they could make money selling it.

Affiliate programs are a great way to earn money. As an affiliate I get regular checks from a couple dozen companies. Sometimes they’re small–$25 or so–sometimes they’re large– $1,000 and above. Over the course of a year those checks really add up.

1) Sell Advertisements

Make money selling advertising space in your ebook. You could charge for full page color ads, classified ads or banners ads. You could also trade advertising space in your e-book for other forms of advertising. For example, you could say, “Promote Your Business In Our Free E-book For Only ($). It’s been down- loaded over 5000 times!”