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This is not a journal of our personal lives and insignificant ramblings about the weather and so on. This is like an article library. Informative articles are posted regularly, on matters regarding internet marketing. You will find a wealth of information among these articles, so take a look around.

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Make Money From Creating Mobile Banners

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 23, 2011, In : Mobile Marketing 
Are you using Mobile Marketing yet?

If you are, are you are also using your own custom, mobile optimized banners? If not, you are going to love this.

Mobile Marketing is the latest craze - and why not? The market is huge, the clicks are dirt cheap and the potential profits are simply mind numbing.

But you have got to use professional, Mobile optimized graphics for your campaigns - and that has been reserved for the big Corporate players... until now!

Allow me to introduce Mobile Banner Creator!

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How To Create Your Own Online Store

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, In : Affiliate Marketing 
Many people try many things in internet marketing, but just can't seem to succeed at any of them. The dream of earning money on the internet remains just a dream. They don't find what they are looking for. Some spend a fortune on all the new great programs, but they never seem to work. Some picture themselves running an online store, selling information products and this is often said to be one of the very best methods, but there are still drawbacks.

The new, inexperienced marketer, doesn't w...
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Create Tons Of Free Traffic With Article Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : List Building, Mail Lists 
To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills. With modern communication technology, comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques, in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers.

This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular. Simply put, they create lots of free traffic. So, if you are building a list, are y...
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Theres More To Domain Names Than You Think

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, March 17, 2011, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
It is a fact, that your domain name forms an integral part of your whole internet identity, so it stands to reason, that this should be carefully selected. Here are a few tips on how to be selective.

The first point, is to keep your name short and to the point. Although it is quite legal, to have a domain name, of up to 63 characters, this is impractical, as it becomes very difficult for people to remember and allows for too many typing errors. Rather try to make it as simple as possible and e...
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How Relationship Marketing Benefits Your Business

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, February 2, 2011, In : Affiliate Marketing 
Relationship Marketing requires building stronger and long lasting relationships with clients and other companies. The business is based on repeat business with existing customers, where the relationship is improved to the extent that they refer their friends and the business grows through trust, rather than continually having to find new customers. It is meant to cater to the needs of individual customers and encourage regular purchases as opposed to one off customers. This involves studying...
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How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, January 17, 2011, In : Affiliate Marketing 
One of the easiest methods of making money on the Internet and one that requires very little technical skill, is affiliate marketing.  Sometimes referred to as referral programs, affiliate programs are normally commission based sales, for selling someone else’s product.  You recommend a site to your visitors and then pick up a percentage of any sale that those visitors may cause.  You benefit from the commissions and the merchant benefits from the additional sales.

If you already have a webs...
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How To Make Money With Mobile Phones

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, In : Money Making 
Mobile phones are growing in popularity and in technical capabilities. There is no argument there, but how you need to realize that the landscape is changing and so too, is the way we do our business. Read this article on mobile business and find out how you can prosper.

I predicted that we will soon be doing everything on our mobile phones. This includes advertising, promoting, searching, music, TV, selling and paying and more. I reckon PCs, Cd and DVD players, websurfing etc will no longer b...
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Happy New Year

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, December 29, 2010,
Happy New Year!

Dersalsites and their subsidiary websites takes this opportunity to wish all our readers, subscribers, clients, customers and friends a very happy New Year. May 2011 prove to be peaceful, profitable and rewarding.

It is time to make New Year resolutions, so make it a priority to do whatever is necessary, to build a great home business and to finally achieve what you have been hoping for. Reflect back on the old year and look for the highlights. Don’t dwell on the lows. Make a ...
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How To Market Your Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, In : Blogging, Writing 
One of the most successful and therefore, most popular methods of marketing online is using articles.

Article marketing is a very versatile medium and is actually a very broad definition. Article marketing includes short articles, longer reports, blog posts, bundling of articles into an e-book and of course writing an e-book, but these methods need different versions of marketing.

How successful has your article marketing been? Are you attracting tons of visitors? Are you selling tons of produc...
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How To Create A Sitemap

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
A sitemap of a website or a blog is similar to the table of contents of a book.  A sitemap is very important because it guides web surfers to the particular part of the website that they are interest in.

Like an index or a menu, they can save time wasted following various links and get right to the correct section they are looking for.

Sitemaps are also very important to search engines. Their robots and spiders scan the website pages every few days, looking for changes and new content. Rather...
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The Easiest Work From Home Opportunity. How To Make Real Money Online

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, October 13, 2010, In : Money Making 
I’m always on the lookout for new ideas and new ways to make money online. Especially fast money and repeated earnings. I bet you are too. The gurus say there is no shortcut, but of course they don’t want to tell you their secrets.

Just stop to think for a moment. Where do they make all their money?

Well, the answer is from the never ending stream of newbies and people looking for more information on quick and easy ways of making money. It’s a circle. It has no end. It goes round and rou...
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Search Engines – What They Are And How They Work

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
The main purpose of search engines is the indexing of thousands and millions of web pages. Once you look for a word or a phrase, the search engine scans automatically the entire database, where it has the stored all indexed pages and it returns to you, a list containing the most relevant results for that search. 

The only criteria the number of pages found and their relevance depend on, are the capabilities of the used search engine.

Search engines first appeared in the early 90’s when Alan ...
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Why You Should Cloak Your Links And How To Make Money By Using This Cloaking Tool

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 
I'm sure by now you must have heard about affiliate link cloaking, but maybe you still do not fully understand the implications, or worse still, you don't know how to do this.

If you are not already cloaking all your affiliate links....you should be!

Some people may consider cloaked links to be a little dishonest, in thinking that you’re trying to deceive your customers. I assure you it is the opposite – If you don't...you will lose out!

It is a well known fact that most people, for whatever...
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A Real And Proven Road To Riches, Using The Three Most Powerful Sites In The World - For Free

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, August 19, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 
If you are struggling to make money from your internet business, then you need to read this article! You have probably realised that you cannot survive in the online business world without using social media and networking sites, but you don't know how to tap into this powerful source.

If you have taken the wrong road to online success and are left at the starting blocks, tackling things like a domain name, a website, website content, posts for your blog, going crazy trying to build a list and...
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How To Unleash Your Creative Juices and Create Articles On Auto Pilot

Posted by Derek Robson on Saturday, August 7, 2010, In : Blogging, Writing 
If you are involved in any form of marketing on the Internet, you need articles. Search engines regard content imperative to ranking and this content continuously needs to be expanded and refreshed - with articles, but so many people battle to produce these articles. They freeze up and experience serious writer's block.

People seem to have the misconception that only a select few people are ever able to unleash a steady flow of creative genius. That is simply not true. What is true, is that cr...
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Forget What You Heard About Building Lists - There Is An Easier Way

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, In : List Building, Mail Lists 
How much time do you spend at Facebook? Is this wasted time, or do you tell yourself it's beneficial?

Okay, so like everybody else, you spend a lot of time on Facebook, connecting with friends and posting on how your day is going and playing games and so on. And..like everybody else who is struggling to get an online business up and running, you are trying to build lists, trying to attract visitors to your blog and /or website, in the hope that one of the many links to an affiliate program att...
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How To Get Backlinks and Extra Traffic To Your Site

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, July 19, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
How To Get Backlinks and Extra Traffic To Your Site

If you're like me, you want as much traffic to your site, with the least amount of time and monetary investment. And I'm sure, just like me, you find Free Search Engine traffic very attractive, don't you? I know I do!

But, we both know that search engine traffic isn't easy to obtain. Not a great deal of it anyway. It requires heavy search engine optimization (SEO) and the number one, most important aspect of SEO, the most crucial factor, is of...
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How to Make Money From Blogging

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, In : Blogging, Writing 
There are two main types of business blogging models, that entrepreneurs use to make money from blogging.

Sell advertising space

The first and most common method to turn a blog into a profit making machine, is to sell advertising space to different companies and brands, who want to reach that blog's niche targeted readers.

The second kind of money making blog is one that deals with a single brand or product, by creating positive associations between the blog and that particular product, in the...
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Why Internet Marketing Can Not Work Without SEO

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, June 28, 2010, In : Blogging, Writing 
Search engine optimization (SEO) should be considered a critical element of any Internet marketing strategy. This is important because there is so much which can be gained from SEO, in terms of Internet marketing and advertising. Failure to optimize your website for search engines can result in a considerable loss, in terms of free advertising, which is essentially gained from ranking well with search engines.

This article will attempt to provide insight into what SEO is and will explain why ...
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What Is The Secret To Affiliate Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, June 21, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 
Affiliate marketing is a very hot topic on the web right now. It always is and new people join up every day, to try to earn from affiliate marketing.

This is not surprising when you consider the fact that a vast majority of successful online entrepreneurs make their money from affiliate schemes and programs of some sort.

Since the early days when Amazon was still being set up, affiliates and affiliate marketing has really come of age.

The amounts of income being made, have clearly transformed...
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Stop Losing Valuable Traffic To Your Website

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, June 14, 2010,
Be creative when thinking of ways to make your product or service more attractive to your target market. For example, the New York Times increased the type size and spacing in its editorials, to make them easier for aging baby boomers to read.

If you can’t afford a fax machine, then consider signing up for your own, free virtual fax number. You can get your own online fax number that will send your faxes directly to your e-mail inbox.  If you travel a lot and need to receive faxes from the ...
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How To Use Affiliate Marketing To Promote Your Own Business

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, June 3, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Even if you are already using the Internet to market your business, you should consider adding affiliate marketing to increase you Internet marketing campaign.

Affiliate marketing, when done correctly, can yield a great deal of positive results for your business. Furthermore, even when affiliate marketing is not done right, it will not likely be financially detrimental to your business. This is because affiliate marketing is essentially an advertising program, whereby you only pay the affil...


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Give Your Garden A Make Over

Posted by Sally Robson on Sunday, February 14, 2010, In : Gardening 
Its almost summer. What are you planning to do with your garden? Why not change it completely?

There are many methods of giving your garden a make over, so that you can add interest to the garden. Anything that becomes a focal point, will add interest and that can range from garden sculptures, water features, rockeries and even to the types of plants you choose.

Adding block plantings, of a particular specimen, can also become a focal point in the garden.

Just by adding areas of variegated foli...
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Grow Your Online Business By Managing And Recruiting Affiliates

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, January 22, 2010, In : Affiliate Marketing 
One of the best ways to earn money is to have affiliates sell for you. Once affiliates begin to sign up, even if you are automatically approving them, its in your best interest to audit your network on a regular basis. Now, the FTC is making marketers responsible for the actions of their affiliates.  If your affiliates get out of control, it could cost you a lot of money.

You'll have hundreds of affiliates sign up for your program.  Hobbyists, spammers, webmasters and even marketers will proba...
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Search Engine Optimization And SEO Tools

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, January 4, 2010, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
Search Engine Optimization consists of two types, Organic and Mechanical. Organic SEO depends on manual or natural ways of optimizing a website and takes more time, resulting in longer lasting results. Mechanical SEO uses software, or seo tools to optimize a website. It takes less time, but the results have a shorter shelf life.

SEO tools are numerous. They are available for keyword verification checking and suggestions, link popularity checks, meta tag optimization, search saturation checking...
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Tips For Writing Profitable Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, December 23, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
Many Internet Marketers have heard how powerful Article Marketing can be, but no matter how they try, they just don’t get the desired results. As with anything in life, there is a right way and a wrong way. Unfortunately you probably don’t know what you are doing wrong. All your effort is wasted and there is usually a quick fix to your problem, but you can’t see the wood for the trees.

Here are a couple of tips. Try these and I’m sure you will see a difference soon.

1. Write to one pers...
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Make Money Writing Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, December 7, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
When you are trying to make money with articles, the beauty of it is that you don’t really need previous career related experience and that you can learn the ropes as you go. That being said, there are some skills that you will need to teach yourself or pick up along the way to make your sites successful. You can’t go in not knowing anything, not learning anything, and still expect to make a good income (or any income at all).

First, you will need to know how to pick out the correct articl...
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How To Find The Best Affiliate Marketing Opportunities

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, November 20, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 
Okay, so you've chosen to enter the exciting and often overwhelming world of affiliate marketing. You'd really like to earn big checks and live the life that so many other people are doing, but the problem is, you just don't know how to find the best affiliate marketing opportunities.

There's just so many companies out there and it's damn nigh impossible for an affiliate marketing beginner like you, to pick out the one program that will be the key to your success. It would be easy for me to t...
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Starting An Online Home Based Business

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, November 16, 2009, In : Money Making 
A few years ago when I first started out in my online home business I didn't have a clue on how to go about it. I had never done any Internet marketing before and didn't know anything about Websites, or search engines, or any of that other online business stuff...in short, I was a complete rookie. In fact, I was even a bit green when it came to using a computer.

As a middle aged man, I had not grown up in the electronic technological world. In school we used sliderules, not calculators.

All th...
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Marketing With E-mails

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, November 13, 2009, In : List Building, Mail Lists 
E-mail marketing is one of the best forms of direct marketing, which is done via the Internet. E-mails are sent to potential customers, to boost the business and to gain the trust of the readers by disclosing relevant information and help them to make good shopping decisions. It also enhances the relationship with a current customer, by repeating business with them. Put simply, the procedure of sending e-mails to customers is known as e-mail marketing.

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Different Types Of Plants For An Indoor Container Garden

Posted by Sally Robson on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, In : Gardening 
For those of you who love gardening, here is another great article from Sally.

Many of you live in an apartment, or a high rise, where there isn't much space for a garden. That is no excuse, because with a little imagination, you can create a lovely garden in containers. These pots, tires, boxes etc can be positioned around the home, on the balcony, near windows and doors and on the window sills. As long as the plants get enough natural light from the sun and enough water and care, they will ...
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Secrets To Making A Fortune on E-Bay With Drop Shipping

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, November 9, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 
E-Bay is an extremely  powerful medium as a money spinner and you really should try to make extra revenue with it. I have often suggested on my website, the use of E-Bay, to sell tangible products like DVDs and CDs and Solar Panels, etc, I wanted you to see what he has to say about the secrets to cashing in with E-Bay. But, what are the secrets?

Secret 1: Find a ‘real’ wholesale and drop ship company.

Do you know what one of the biggest problem is, in order to be successful on E-Bay? The qu...
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Search Engines And SEO

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, November 6, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
The main purpose of search engines is the indexing of thousands and millions of web pages. Once you look for a word or a phrase, the search engine scans automatically the entire database, where it has the stored all indexed pages and it returns to you, a list containing the most relevant results for that search. 

The only criteria the number of pages found and their relevance depend on, are the capabilities of the used search engine.

Search engines first appeared in the early 90’s when Alan ...
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How To Manage And Monetise Multiple Business Blogs

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
While some bloggers may focus exclusively on only one blog at a time, there are many bloggers who manage to maintain several different blogs concurrently. These would normally be in different niches, on different topics, however, not all bloggers do this successfully. Some bloggers compromise quality of content as well as quantity of content, by trying to maintain too many blogs, while other bloggers somehow seem to have the ability to keep several blogs up to date and interesting to visitors...
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How To Write Profit Generating Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, November 2, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 

There is no doubt as to just how important articles are, in internet marketing today, but what distinguishes a good article from a poor one? The impact from good articles, in today's websites and internet businesses, are huge. Strategically placed, these articles not only attract attention, but are used to send hordes of traffic to the selected websites. Free e-book download.

They are also extremely useful for improving search engine rankings. All webmasters should strive to replace, or at lea...
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How To Evaluate Your Website Performance

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 29, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

Setting up a website is usually the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success, or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals.

If you don't know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything at all. Without goals to guide you, in developing and monitoring your website, all your website will be, is an online announcement that you are in business.

If you expect your site to stimulat...
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How You Can Make Easy Money Online Without Endless Hours of Work

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, October 26, 2009, In : Money Making 

Around the world, particularly with the current recession, a large percentage of the population is unemployed.  If you are one of those individuals, you already know how difficult it can be to make money. However, even many employment workers just aren’t making enough money and are battling to financially support themselves or a family. 

Unfortunately, most jobs require hard work and long hours.  You may find that your current job is taking important things away from your life, mostly your ...
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Ensure You Have Success And Wealth In Your Life

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, October 23, 2009, In : Mindset 

What is success? What is wealth? How do we quantify them? What can we do to determine, or to alter our destiny? These questions have been asked many times, but it is all up to you. You are the only one, who can shape your own destiny.

It is the privilege of man, to achieve all round greatness and in reality, success should be one’s habit. Man is essentially perfect and therefore, infinite are the possibilities that lie dormant in him. In order to bring out the very best, from within, a life ...
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Crucial SEO Factors

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 22, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

Several of my subscribers have contacted me with questions on search engine optimisation. This does seem a rather grey area, so I asked Ryan Simpson, an expert in the field, for some advice. This is the article he sent me.

There's no shortage on advice regarding what people should do to improve a web site's position in the search engine listings. It is easy to become confused when you consume all the information that is available, because some folks agree with others while some totally disagre...
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The Big Mistake Writing Your Articles That Renders Them Useless

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 

As a marketer, if you want to go far, you know the best way to get targeted traffic to your website is writing articles, as this exposes you to your client's as an expert in your field, or maybe you are a knowledgeable person writing with other goals in mind.

Anyway, whatever the reason is, you need to hold your reader's attention. The first and most important part of your article is the headline, but do not get me wrong, I am not saying the headline is your article, I mean to say that if som...
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Create Multiple Streams of Affiliate Marketing Income

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, October 19, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

You must have heard the phrase “multiple streams of income” before, but do you really know what this means? For many business people, creating multiple streams of income, online, or offline, is one way of securing themselves, as well as their businesses, for the future.

They also believe that it will save them from any famine effect in the business industry. Once you are engaged in an affiliate marketing business, it is advisable to have multiple streams of  income, so that if one of thos...
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Earn A Fortune With Cellphone Marketing

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, October 16, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Wanna know how to turn your cell phone into an ATM? Wanna know how to make $328,707 per month with your cell phone? Wanna get access to a $328,707 system for under $25? Read on!

What would you think, if I told you there was a new system to generate huge sums of cash, that is far easier and more efective, quicker and more responsive than anything you have heard of so far? Have you ever thought of marketing products by way of cellphone SMS mesages? Fantastic idea hey! But, HOW do you do this?

Hav...
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Business Blogging on The Internet

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
This article explains what blogs are and how they came about and what they can be used for. With the evolution of many new internet technologies, it is now possible for freelance programmers and writers to present their talents easily on a blog. It has also made it easier for buyers, who utilize the services of these service providers, without facing too many  difficulties.

The Internet has introduced a number of goods and services to our society, which were not imagined by anyone before. The...
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How Affiliate Marketing Can Enable You To Work From Home

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, October 12, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Most of us are incredibly comfortable in our own homes. It is where all of our comforts are. Part of the daily grind of a job, is having to leave the home. The task is much more difficult if you have children to consider. Many of us would love to be able to work from home. We think we are more comfortable and can be much more productive there. However, very few regular jobs offer this type of flexibility. They want employees on site where they can be constantly watched and monitored.

If you w...
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Solar Energy Is A Realistic Alternative Energy Source

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Products 

Photovoltaic cells are those black squares, an arrangement of which comprises a solar panel. They are becoming more and more efficient and gradually less expensive all the time, thanks to better designs, which allows them to focus the gathered sunlight on a more concentrated point.

The size of the cells is decreasing, as their efficiency rises, meaning that each cell becomes cheaper to produce and therefore more cost effective, while being more productive.

The price of producing solar generat...
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Make Money On The Internet

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 8, 2009, In : Money Making 
Easy, fast money is what people are looking for these days and no longer the normal 8 to 5 jobs. This is even more so, with the present economic recession.

This is pecisely the very opportunity that the internet is providing nowadays, to people around the world, from all walks of life. The Internet has his mystical allure and many thousands of people are giving up their old, conventional day jobs, in pursuit of fortunes and new lifestyles, that they think they will find online.

Making money on...
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Article Marketing Is The Quickest Way To Your Customer's Wallet

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
One of the many ways of promoting your website and products, can be done for free. As an additional bonus, this “free” method can boost your sites and sales, doubling and even tripling your income.

The method is…..with articles! This is one of the easiest ways to promote your website, in order to generate traffic and increase your earnings, is with article marketing.

Now, how does this work? Write articles, relating to your website topic and then submit them to “free content” submis...
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Review Dennis Becker 5 Bucks A Day and 1K A Day

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, In : Money Making 

Today we are reviewing a very successful and wealthy Internet Marketer, who does not like to be known as a "Guru". In fact, he doen't like the gurus who make their money from misleading the general public.

His name is Dennis Becker and he has made an impact through his wealth plans being kept simple and honest. He tells it like it is and does not go overboard with outrageous claims that you will earn millions. Instead, he sets a realistic target and makes sure that you are able to achieve thi...
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How about Trying Bonsai Gardening

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, October 5, 2009, In : Gardening 

Bonsai is an ancient, oriental type of horticultural art form. The word Bonsai actually means “tree in a pot”. This is the true meaning, for both the Chinese and the Japanese language. The art of Bonsai gardening was first started in the East, almost 2000 years ago and it is still a very popular form of art, that is now practiced throughout the world.

The different shapes of the tree are carefully thought out and they are used to create a beautiful “picture.” A tree that is planted in...
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How Much Money Can Be Made Make From Niche Sites

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, October 2, 2009, In : Products 
How much money you can make, from placing articles and affiliate links on your website, differs from person to person. How much you are able to make will depend mostly on how successful your site is. This means getting good search engine rankings, through SEO efforts, making your site enjoyable and informative to read through engaging content, building your site around a great niche subject, the size and popularity of your site and how many sites you have.

Some people claim to make as much as ...
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Dieting And Weight Loss For The Right Reasons

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, October 1, 2009, In : Weightloss 

When it comes to dieting, far too often we take those first steps towards weight loss bliss, for what we later determine are all the wrong reasons. Ultimately however, if your reason works for you, there is no truly wrong reason to diet. The trick is in finding the reason that will actually work for you.

I’ve seen all kinds of excellent motivators, when it comes to dieting and taking your dieting seriously. One of the more common reasons is to lose weight. This is as good a reason as any. So...
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Google Adsense Is An Easy Way Of Earning Extra Money On Your Blog Or Website

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 
For a while now, Google Adsense has dominated forums, discussions and newsletters, all over the Internet. There are many stories of fabulous riches to be made and millions already made by those who are just working from home. It seems that Google Adsense has already dominated the internet marketing business and is now considered the easiest way to make extra money online.

The key to success with Adsense is the placing of ads on webpages that are receiving high traffic for high demand keywords....
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An Internet Marketer Needs To Be A Coffee Bean

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, In : Attitude, LOA 

Yes, I’m an Internet Marketer, but I’m also a human being. Every now and then, I bring you motivational stories that I have heard. This one is a lesson in life, taken from my church magazine.

A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of all the fighting and struggling. It seemed as though in solving one problem, two more would arise.

Her father, who was a chef,...


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Winter Gardening Is The Time To Prune Your Garden Plants

Posted by Derek Robson on Saturday, September 26, 2009, In : Gardening 

Winter, or fall as they say in America, is traditionally the best time to prune back your plants, shrubs and trees. This is best done while they are dormant and by thinning and clearing old dead sections, the plant is at its best, to start new growth and buds in the Spring. For Southern hemisphere gardens, that time is now. For those living in the Northern hemisphere, get ready and learn a few tips.

There is actually something very therapeutic about the task of cutting back and cleaning up th...


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A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 25, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Affiliate marketing is very popular these days. Many beginners decide that affiliate marketing is an easier route, than starting their own business from scratch. They reckon that it is too difficult to create websites, sales pages, download links, payment buttons and so on, so they will just use ready prepared tools, supplied by the various affiliate programs. Their reasoning might be true, but bear in mind that thousands of other affiliates are also selling the same products, with the same t...


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Why You Need a Domain Name

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, September 24, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

A domain name is the name used for the site or the sites, which has to be bought by the user, to enable him to create his own existence in the world of internet. Registering a domain name is very important, since it plays a vital role in popularizing the site, thus ranking high in search engine.

Actually, all computers connected to the internet, have their own distinguishing identity, say, a sequence of letters, which is known to be the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the particular site. ...


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Fitness Training – Why The Core Muscles Need Strengthening Before Any Other Muscles

Posted by Derek Robson on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, In : Fitness 

The core muscles are the most important muscle group and should be strengthened before embarking on any form of fitness training program, particularly weights training, resistance training, or bodybuilding.

Suppose that at a distance, you see a short, stooped figure, walking with short, slow steps. Most likely, you will conclude that the person is just old. The hunched posture gives you the clue. This is a fact of life, but what causes it and what can be done to avoid it? Why does aging cont...


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Make Easy Money By Selling Products Online

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

For very little cost, you can sell a product online, that hasn’t been selling well offline.  Once it is set up, it takes virtually no work to maintain and monitor.  Even if you only get a few sales a month, it is money that you wouldn’t have otherwise!

Let me give an example. Back before John took his first business online, he had advertised his book, “Secrets of Buying and Building Your Specialty Car on a Small Budget,” in “kit car” magazines (there were only two) for three years...


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How To ReUse Your Old Articles By Turning Them Into Profitable E-mail Courses

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, September 21, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 

If you've written numerous articles and have a folder full, just sitting on your hard drive, you can use them again, to further promote yourself and your business, e-zine or web site, by turning them into email courses.

You can re-use your old articles by transforming them into another form of promotional tool, by  turning them into e-mail courses. By doing so, you'll be able to offer a new product, that will help you establish your credibility as a business owner, e-zine publisher, or web s...


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The Secrets To Building And Using An Opt In List For Successful Sales

Posted by Derek Robson on Saturday, September 19, 2009, In : List Building, Mail Lists 

Internet marketing is the essence of any and all online businesses. No matter what you do, you are a marketer, that’s it, end of story.

But, seldom do your marketing efforts pay off, the first time round. Okay, so you have a neat website, fancy name, an auto responder set to deliver your mailings, but your efforts are failing. The time will come, when you finally realise, that you need a good opt-in list. After having read countless articles and having sought expert advice and having read ...


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Make Money With Articles And Small Niche Websites

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 18, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

Choosing a good niche subject to base your website around, is one of the most important aspects of making money from your articles. This will give you a foundation to build from and you can target one general audience, with a pack of keywords that they are most likely to be searching for. You should take each one of these keywords and use it for the basis of one article on each page.

This way, even though you are targeting one specific subject, you will be sure to interest a wide variety of ...


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An Introduction To Auto Responders

Posted by Derek Robson on Thursday, September 17, 2009, In : Websites, domains, SEO 

If you've reached the point of exhaustion, trying to keep up with answering the mountain of emails, that threatens to bury you alive, every single day, you're ready to learn about auto responders. The bad news is that people expect prompt replies, to their email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual twenty-four hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming emails, while they're eating up your revenue, you have a problem.

The good news is an a...


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How to Become A Clickbank Super Affiliate

Posted by Derek Robson on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, In : Clickbank 

Making money through affiliate marketing is one of the most rewarding careers one could ever have online. What’s particularly good about this business, is that anyone can join and make their way to success.

Affiliate marketing is known to be a cost-efficient, accessible method of earning long-term sustainable income. In fact, you can even start on a shoe string budget. With affiliate marketing, you can have the benefits of working from home and still enjoy the freedom and flexibility of wo...


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What Kind of Experience Is Necessary To Make Money With Articles

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 11, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 

When you are trying to make money with articles, the beauty of it is that you don’t really need previous career related experience and that you can learn the ropes as you go. That being said, there are some skills that you will need to teach yourself or pick up along the way, to make your sites successful. You can’t go in not knowing anything, not learning anything, and still expect to make a good income, or any income at all.

First, you will need to know how to pick out the correct artic...


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Making Money With Banner Advertising

Posted by Derek Robson on Friday, September 11, 2009, In : Blogging, Writing 
When you are trying to make money from your website, it is important to effectively promote your site, so that you will attract customers and they can see just what a good, quality site you have. There are several ways to market and promote your website, one of them is AdSense and another is through banner advertisements. What Banner Ads Can Do For You Banner ads can help bring visitors from others sites, to your own. Although monthly fees can be expensive to advertise on high traffic sites,...
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Easy Money From affiliate Programs

Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, September 7, 2009, In : Affiliate Marketing 

Wouldn't you just love to make money online, by selling products? Of course you would, but do you already have a collection of your own products, that you are ready to sell?  If you don't, do you have the necessary money buy them? If you are like most of the others online who want to make money, you probably don't have the funds, or the know-how, to procure these products.  If you did, you probably wouldn't be reading this.

Before you despair and think that it is impossible, for you to make ...


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Nine Ideas On How To Make Money Online

Posted by Derek Robson on Sunday, September 6, 2009, In : Money Making 

Are you making money hand over fist with your website? If you are like most of us, your website sales are slow and unpredictable and you need to think of new ways to make money online, without taking more time and effort. All of your time should be dedicated to producing your product, right? Well, here are just a few ways to make a little bit or a lot of money online without any effort.

1. Affiliates
Sign up to become an affiliate for other businesses that are on the net. I only sign up with...


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About Me


Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering all fellow marketers particularly Southern Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. Derek writes informative articles on Internet marketing, South African online business, making money online, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, motivation, and other general topics. Sally loves gardening and writes the occasional asrticle on a host of gardening topics. Clinton Robson, their son, is a qualified Personal Trainer and writes articles on fitness, body building, weight loss, supplements, cross training etc. Check the BlogRoll for their other sites.

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