The information contained on this page will help you learn about how to market your business and tips and techniques about the computer and the Internet.
The website below offers excellent on various types of marketing and traffic sources. If you you don't know much about the various ways to market your business... this is an excellent place to learn!
Basic Marketing Procedure
After you have signed up for a number of Safelists, you will want to log back in and start sending your messages. Just login using your username and password and find the tab that says send your message, or something similar. Each Safelist has different terminology.
Copy & paste your message in the box provided and then copy & paste the headline you want to use. The headline is the MOST IMPORTANT part of your marketing efforts because that's what prospects see first. It's also what gets your message opened. So select a few headlines that would get you to open them.
Hint... curiosity killed the cat, and curiosity gets your email messages opened too. Let the message and the website do all the rest of the work for you.
That's all you need to do each night. Send messages to at least 8 or more Safelists and you're done. Some Safelists have a feature that memorizes your messages and headlines so all you have to do is press the send button. In that case, it'll only take you couple of seconds to send a message to thousands of people.
Basic Computer & Internet Fundamentals
For you members that are new to the Internet, here are some definitions of frequently used terms so that you're clear as to what you'll be learning as you move forward in your Internet business. If you're not familiar with computers and Internet, then read this information carefully. I'll be explaining in simple English so I'll strip off as much technical jargons as I can so that any ordinary person can understand complex and technical subjects. Let's begin, shall we?
Copy & Paste - The process of copying text or other information and transferring it to another website or text editor. To copy & paste...
Copy & Paste Instructions
1. Place the cursor (the blinking [ I or I ] you use to control where your mouse points to on the screen) next to the text you want to copy.
2. Push and hold the left button down on your mouse and drag the cursor over the text to high-lite it. Then let up on the left button and the text should remain highlighted.
3. With the cursor still on the highlighted text... click the right button on your mouse to open a drop downlist. Move your cursor arrow over the word "copy" and click the right button on your mouse once. This copies the highlighted text to a clip board (invisible to you.)
4. Now place the cursor where you want the text to go, and click the right button on your mouse to reveal the drop down list once again. Place your arrow over the word "paste" and click the left button on your mouse one time and the text that you copied should appear.
Don't forget to erase the text that you copied earlier or it will remain in place. To erase text... all you have to do is high-lite it and push the "delete" button on your keyboard.
You can also high-lite text and change the font style or size of the font by clicking on the font and/or font size that you desire at the top of your text editor.
Quick way to get to your desktop if you have one or more browsers open. On your keyboard you will see a button with a window on it. Press and hold that button down and then press the letter M button down. All of the browser windows you have open will minimize in the bottom task bar revealing your desktop.
What exactly is the Internet?
The Internet stands for Integrated Network. The Internet is a GLOBAL network of computers with hundreds of millions of computers all over the world all linked to each other. Your computer can easily access to the Internet one of two ways:
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Through an Internet Service Provider (ISP). An ISP doesn't provide any type of content; it just provides a connection to the Internet.
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Through an online service (e.g. America Online, Microsoft Network, Prodigy, and so on). An online service not only connects you to the Internet but also provides content such as daily news, stock quotes, football scores, and information resources.
Once you have an Internet Access account, to log on to the Internet you need to get your own PC (Personal Computer) with a modem. Most new computers come ready with a built-in (internal) modem.
Then all you need to do to access the Internet is to connect your home phone line to the modem, and dial an Internet Access telephone number provided by your ISP. A program in your computer will enable you to access the Internet once you dial in. When you are connected to the Internet, you can easily send digital files and information to another computer in the network within minutes. The faster your PC and Internet connection is, the faster you can send your files.
With your computer connected to the Internet, you can easily and efficiently share information with other users FROM AROUND THE WORLD within seconds or minutes. If you can share information easily and efficiently... you can easily market your products or services to others and make money in the process at a very low cost!
You can set up a system on the Internet to send marketing information to your prospects 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, because the Internet doesn't sleep, and its users are all over the world, each living in a different time zone! This system consists of primarily your Website and E-mail.
What is a domain name?
Basically, your domain name is the Internet address of your website, it looks something like this: www.yourname.com Once the domain name has been selected and registered, no one else can register the same domain name just as there can never be two houses with the same address. Your domain name can also be your Internet Business name.
What is a website?
A website can act as a brochure or sales letter but in electronic form, viewable only in your computer. A website can also act as your physical business premises.
Your website displays your products in the form of photos or illustrations and words that describe what it is. People can browse your website for the products you carry from any PC with an Internet Browser without having to go there in person to see them.
What is a web browser?
An Internet Browser allows you and everyone else to view websites over the Internet. You are currently viewing this page through your browser window. You open a new browser each time you click on the Internet icon on your desktop. In some cases, clicking on a link will also open a new browser.
What is email?
An e-mail is mail in electronic format and hence, Electronic Mail. Instead of sending a letter to your friend by writing it on a piece of paper, putting it into an envelope and sticking a stamp on it before going to the post office to post it, you compose an e-mail in your E-mail program and when you're ready to send, you click on the button SEND.
What is web hosting?
The host of your website is the server. Your website sits on the hard disk of a big computer called a server that is connected to the Internet 24 hours a day. The server can also host other websites simultaneously.
What is an autoresponder?
An Autoresponder is a computer program that acts like your answering machine for e-mail messages from your friends. You can write out your message in advance, like the following: Once you've turned your Autoresponder on at your email address, anyone sending e-mail to your e-mail address will automatically receive your message above... without any need for you to send it manually!
A Sequential Autoresponder is a computer program that will AUTOMATICALLY send out MORE THAN ONE pre-written e-mail address that has been set to follow up with different messages in sequence. You can specify the interval between each pre-written messages and as many e-mail messages as you wish.
What is an FTP program?
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. An FTP Program enables you to deliver digital files to your website host directly from your own computer through the Internet so that your website can be ready to be viewed by your visitors. This program is also enables you to edit and delete existing web pages and images.
Internet Dictionary
Here is an "INTERNET DICTIONARY" to help you understand more about the Internet: The following commonly used short definitions give you a general idea of the many resources and tools currently available. 2005 Resale-Rights-Solution.com All Rights Reserved BBS - stands for bulletin board system. BBSes work just like the cork-boards you see in hallways, kitchens or recreational rooms in almost every business. You can pick up a message of interest or leave your own.
icon - the pictures of objects that contain links to perform some sort of action or function. Your desk top contains icons of various programs that are loaded on your computer. If you click on an icon on your desktop, your computer will perform an action; i.e. open a browser, open a folder, open a program, etc.
cybernaut - you are one if you use the Internet often. download... transmission of information from a source on the Internet directly into your computer.
e-mail - the electronic mail is probably the most used feature on the Internet. You can send out friendly letters instantly.
encrypted message - a message that has the scrambled so that no one other than the desired recipient, who can unscramble the message, can read it.
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.
flame - to send someone a nasty note.
file - computer documents that you work with. You can send files over the Internet to just about anywhere in the world.
java - a computer programming language for the distribution of digital information. Because Java can talk to any computer operating system, it is ideal for something so wildly diverse as the Internet.
log on - connecting to the Internet.
lurk - reading and understanding the posted messages in a newsgroup before posting your own.
mailing list - an e-mail list of people who want to get information about a specific subject (e.g. person, place, products, services, etc.).
nettiquette - from net and etiquette, it simply means good manners on the Internet.
newsgroup - a place where individuals post and retrieve messages, except that these messages concern a single topic. You can read or join with your own news, views and comments.
snail mail - term referring to the slowness of the postal system compared to the speed of e-mail.
URL - Uniform Resource Locator. Also known as website address.
Text editor - A computer program used to type in text that can be used in place of a type writer... but with many more features.