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I just received an email from Nate Whitehill that they are launching a new theme store called Theme Wars. Theme Wars will feature a wide variety of WordPress themes available for purchase. You can visit the site at ThemeWars.com.

As you can probably tell by the name, Theme Wars is not just a theme store – there is a little bit of a twist.

Here is how it works:

1. Eack week, any blogger can submit into this weekly theme wars.
2. The theme war will then be a contest to design a particular type of theme (e.g. magazine, business, etc.) as voted on by the community (via poll) the week before.
3. The best two designs which the community votes for will be sold in the Theme Store. The winning designers will receive 25% and 10%, respectively, each time their winning design sells. Simply wonderful ideas.

This launch is one of the most anticipated theme store launches EVER and one that will surely generate a lot of buzz.

I must say that this is an opportunity for designers to earn money by submitting their designs into the Weekly War. They not only will be receiving a percentage of each sale, they will also earn a spot in the “Featured Designers” page, that actually gave them the exposure for their branding and also additional marketing.

Then for blogger like myself, it simply gave me access to a wide range of themes from a wide range of different designers.

Pricing wise, themes are be priced at $69 for a multi-use license to $149 for a developer license (includes Photoshop documents). Monthly membership is also available to get access to all of the themes available and this is a great package for blogger who wish to try out a variety of themes or for bloggers with multiple blogs and wish to give each one a unique look.

Standard pass to Theme Wars cost $20 per month plus a one-time payment of $147 which you could access to all past, present and future themes, as well as unlimited access to the support forum, documentation, video tutorials and theme updates, etc..

Developer pass cost $27 per month plus a one-time payment for $177 and this monthly membership gives you access to all past, present and future themes, as well as unlimited access to the support forum, documentation, video tutorials, theme updates and Photoshop files, etc..

The first war at Theme Wars features the war of the magazine themes.  Go to Theme Wars and cast your vote now!

Theme Wars – From The Maker Of Unique Blog Designs

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If you are an internet marketer and still trying to get used to the trends of online businesses, most likely you’ve faced all kinds of new ideas and suggestions in forums, blogs, and other online sources related to internet marketing.  And in these sources, you will notice that most professional internet marketers would discuss about different strategies and internet marketing tools that they would use to increase web traffic, conversions, and eventually actual sales of their own products online. 

For this article, we will be talking about one of the most interesting tools being used, especially for the content of sales pages, blogs, and websites, which are the article spinners.  If you’ve never heard of an article spinner before, then continue reading because this might be your ticket to increasing sales and bursting traffic.

An article spinner is basically a writing software that rewrites and modifies the wording and structure of sentences in order to produce different and unique copies of an original article. 

Not only that, it is able to retain the message of the original article in all of the copies it can produce, which makes it a productive tool when trying to post several articles in different blogs and websites.  Internet marketers who do not have the time and the energy to reproduce, rewrite, and post numerous articles in their blogs and websites would simply use article spinners to do the job.  It’s not only convenient but affordable as well as compared to hiring ghost writers to do the job. 

So why do internet marketers need to create so much content?  Writing good articles and blog posts is usually the key to earning a lot of money through internet marketing.  By being able to come up with wonderful content, you are discreetly yet at the same time effectively advertising your products to customers who can only read about the products being sold online. 

But as mentioned before, writing and rewriting can take a lot of time and effort on the marketer’s part, so they use article spinner software instead.  Another reason why they use article spinners is because submitting one original article to numerous directories can be detected by search engines like Google, surfacing the possibility of only one of your articles being linked to the entered keyword and leaving out all the rest in the next three to four pages.  This lowers down your chances of gaining more traffic, and of course, more sales as well.

But take note that not all article spinner software being sold online produce well-rounded rewritten articles.  There are those that do not function well or are actually fake software being sold by scammers in order to earn money out of you. 

Just remember that with the right tools and the right way of using this kind of software, you’ll be able to produce high quality rewrites of your own articles and have them submitted and posted in all of your websites and blogs without each one falling behind in the search result pages.

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When you hear the word “internet marketing”, you would normally assume that everything from transactions to communication, payments to refunds, and the like, all take place in the World Wide Web and nowhere else.

This kind of trend has been going on for years now and to such extent that people from all over the world are actively buying and selling through internet marketing and all of its fields and categories in order to make a stable passive income online.

But lately, especially with the use of outsource services and automation these days, there have been cases where people are able to make money offline but provide a particular kind of service that they would be interested in online.

The offline factor points to the customers themselves, in which actual advertisements are being used to attract them to the sales page or website for more information. This idea is not only a great way to save up on costs for online services but can actually expand one’s business in both ways: offline and online.

If you’re wondering how to make use of offline method to promote online business, it’s actually very possible and is even slowly becoming the hottest internet marketing trend today.

How so ?

Let’s look at it through an example: Because of the financial crisis plaguing the country, a lot of business owners (those who own actual establishments like restaurants and stores) are having a difficult time keeping their businesses running and are spending a lot of money on advertisements and agency services.

They are especially aiming for a website to promote their businesses online but are hindered in finishing the transaction by the expensive charges most web designers are imposing on them. So you can just imagine how valuable you can actually be to these people if you provide them with all their needs for just a few hundred dollars a month.

You just need a few important tools to make use of offline method to promote online business: knowledge on internet marketing (PPC, SEO, etc), outsource services, and good communication skills. If you’re able to pull all of these things off, you can already earn as much as $10,000 per month and not have to sweat too much on the hard work.

So what actually happens when the website is finished? The advertisements are still in place, but with the new website posted as well. Once customers see that there is a website and a few contact numbers, they would visit the website and read what the business is actually about.

If interested, the customer can sign up in the mailing list and will receive email updates such as events and promos going on in the business, breaking open the opportunity of earning hundreds of dollars through a few emails alone.

It is actually a very simple process and very possible to expand and grow, but it also takes good people skills and the ability to assure clients that they are being offered a greater deal than what the advertising companies and web designers are actually offering to them.

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The World Wide Web has become the ultimate and most convenient source of information for people all over the world, which explains why a lot of internet marketers are striving hard to earn a stable income through their online businesses. 

Trends of all kinds have evolved, been adopted by hundreds of online businessmen and women, and are constantly being used to make sales and break quotas for many years. 

But there is a new trend that enables internet marketers to actually expand their businesses and services even more, and that’s through offline internet marketing.  The term sounds like an oxymoron, but it is possible and has proven to be very lucrative to many internet marketers already.

Internet marketers all over the world are now learning how to making of internet marketing skills to make money offline.  They do this with the help of outsourcing services and automation in terms of advertising their businesses to offline customers.  This enables them to save time and effort on the actual work with regards to the website and at the same time can appeal personally to their clients the services and benefits they are going to get through their internet marketing skills. 

For example, an internet marketer can set up ads about his or her business all over his or her area in order to get the potential customers’ attention.  They place the website of their business, contact numbers, email addresses, and wait for the calls and emails to start coming in.  They then hold meetings, rendezvous, and all kinds of get-togethers to be able to explain how the system will go, how the website will bring in the benefits and profits, and how much they are going to be spending every month.

Your clients will probably be wondering what they are going to get from the websites, which is your cue in letting them in on the possibilities that internet marketing can provide.  For instance, if the website you are building is for a restaurant, customers who are interested can easily access the official website, read through the content, and if they are interested can sign up in the mailing list to be able to get updates such as events, promos, new menus, etc. 

Not only is traffic going to build up but sales will be booming through several well-written emails alone.  This scenario is internet marketing working at its best already. 

When it comes to making of internet marketing skills to make money offline, personality and communication skills are also very important.  This is so because you will be dealing with clients who more or less do not have an idea of how much they will be spending for internet marketing services, how much they are going to earn from the websites to be built, and the like. 

By offering them a price that they cannot refuse and are very affordable as compared to the expenses on actual advertisements, you can easily get your clients hooked on to you like never before.  What’s more, you don’t have to be the one working day and night in creating websites and hosting them up online since there are very trusted outsourcing companies all over the world who can do that for you.  All it takes is a few hours per day monitoring the system and progress of your clients’ websites and you’ll be earning over $10,000 per month.

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So you have just built your new website. It’s been indexed by all of the major search engines, but nobody is coming to see exactly what’s on your site. If you expect your site to do well without any effort on your part, then you are clearly mistaken.

Building a website is only half the work. Now you need to spend a lot of your time making sure that people know your site exists.

There are lots of ways to go about advertising for your site. You can pay for pay per click advertising with services like Google’s Adwords, you can enroll in a link exchange program with other websites that are in a similar niche, or you can do something like posting in forums to build up your traffic.

Forums are a valuable tool for many reasons.

First off, they provide the site they are hosted on with plenty of traffic because they heavily contribute to the search engine score of a site. Secondly, they can be used as a major asset for someone looking to get the word out about their brand new site.

In order to make sure that you receive valuable customers, you need to first find a forum to post on that has some similarity to your site’s niche. Are you selling fishing supplies? Find a fishing forum. Once you have found a forum that is suitable for your needs, sign up and start joining in the conversation. When you feel the time is right, place a link to your site in your signature. Doing so will make your link appear each and every time you make a post on that forum.

Now, you may be thinking that if one post is good, then spamming a forum must be better. Whatever you do, don’t spam any forums. You will just make the members there angry and there may be some backlash in the community against your website.

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Some Basic Elements of a Successful YouTube Marketing Campaign

YouTube has taken off as one of the premier places to market goods and services. As different people have developed or adapted methods to get the most out of a YouTube marketing campaign, a few essentials have come to be recognized as important to any successful attempt to harness the power of YouTube for buying and selling.

Here are a few examples.

YouTube is a visual media event. This means that one of the main elements in a campaign using the site will have to include visual aspects that will be sure to catch the eye. While these may vary depending on the products that are being sold, there is no doubt that choosing subjects with visual impact can make or break the success of the presentation.

Many people make a decision within three seconds of whether to view the video all the way through, so capturing interest immediately is crucial.

Along with visuals, there should be some interesting audio elements to the YouTube marketing campaign. Often, this is done with music.  In fact, a number of recording artists make good use of YouTube as a medium for promoting new releases or to publicize upcoming concerts. Even products that rely on other forms of audio, such as comedy routines, have to include dialogue that is catchy and will hold the viewer’s attention.

One last vital element of any successful YouTube marketing campaign is that it has to reach resolution within a reasonable amount of time. Consumers do not have the attention span they once had. This means the campaign must capture the attention, deliver the point, and direct the consumer to the sale in a very short period of time.

Presentations that are too long run the risk of losing the viewer before the presentation gets around to asking for the business, thus defeating the whole purpose.

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