Three Event Registrations Scams To Watch Out For

5 Reasons Not To Extend Your Early Bird Pricing Period
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-03-17 | Word Count: 517 | Page Views: 2964 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 2.33
A lot of events incorporate early bird pricing to encourage people to register early and it usually works. In some cases an Event Planner may extend an early bird period after registration has started, but after a recent experience I think that this strategy should be avoided. Here's why.

5 Ideas to Help Sell Out Your Events
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-03-12 | Word Count: 466 | Page Views: 3153 | Votes: 7 | Rating: 1.29
Unless attendance at an event is mandatory, getting people to register comes down to sales. You, as the event planner need to convince the event participants that attending your event is the best use of their time and money. Even if your event is free and intended to be fun such as a Christmas party, you still need to show people that attending your event is better than anything else that they could be doing.

8 Ways To Get Attendees To Book In Your Hotel Room Block
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-03-10 | Word Count: 349 | Page Views: 3754 | Votes: 10 | Rating: 1.80
During one of the sessions at a recent CanSPEP conference, I overheard several of the event planners talking about how their conference attendees continually book hotel rooms through online services, rather than booking rooms within the conference hotel room block. This causes problems because room blocks aren't being filled and event planners are still charged for the rooms.

5 Ideas To Increase Event Attendance Without Lowering Your Price
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-03-03 | Word Count: 566 | Page Views: 8393 | Votes: 18 | Rating: 1.50
A goal for most events is to get enough participants to reach capacity. Occasionally we work on an event that sells out quickly and we stop accepting registrations early, but more often than not there's room for more participants.

5 Little Mistakes That Will Affect Your Event Registration
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-02-26 | Word Count: 552 | Page Views: 4289 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 2.25
The last thing an event planner wants to do is to frustrate a potential participant with a difficult registration process. When online registration is setup right, the advantages for both the event planner and the event participants are untold, but common mistakes can have a dramatic impact on the success of your event.

Ten Tips For User Friendly Online Registration Forms
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-02-24 | Word Count: 775 | Page Views: 11483 | Votes: 15 | Rating: 0.93
Have you ever registered or attempted to register for an event and spent half an hour trying to figure out what you needed to do? Or have you used an online registration form that lost your data or was so complicated that it seemed like more work than faxing the form?

Cancellation Policies That Benefit Event Planners and Participants
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-01-27 | Word Count: 740 | Page Views: 4700 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 1.50
Some events will allow participants to make changes without any hassle, but for others it seems nearly impossible. In many cases there is good reason why changes are difficult to make, but taking an extremely hard line with requests for refunds and changes can hurt your event overall. Read this article to learn how to create a cancellation policy that will help protect your interests without scaring away prospects.

Ten Mistakes Event Planners Make When Using Online Registration
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-01-23 | Word Count: 709 | Page Views: 2759 | Votes: 9 | Rating: 2.11
We have identified ten common mistakes event planners make when using online registration so that you can avoid them and experience the many benefits it can offer.

An Easy Way to Secure More Registrations for Your Event
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-01-22 | Word Count: 393 | Page Views: 3522 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 1.88
If people are starting to think about registering for your event and you don't have a way to capture that interest, you are losing potential registrants. Seizing every opportunity to make a sale is critical to a successful event, especially during a time when people are spending less.

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Four Tips For Creating An Effective Authors' Resource Box
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-08-27 | Word Count: 1669 | Page Views: 7380 | Votes: 18 | Rating: 2.50
In article marketing, there are many factors that will affect your articles' ability to promote your website in the most effective manner. In this article, we will briefly discuss a couple those factors, before we dive into how to create an effective Authors' Resource Box, also known as the About The Author Information.

Website Traffic Generation: Winning the Love of the Traffic Fairy
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-08-24 | Word Count: 1149 | Page Views: 8286 | Votes: 14 | Rating: 1.86
Some people still believe that all they have to do is build a website and customers will magically appear on their site... Once they have built their websites, they wait anxiously for the "Traffic Fairy" to come and sprinkle its magic dust on their website too, so that they can make lots of money like other success website owners.

What Kind Of Backlinks Are Best At Helping Your Website In Google?
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-08-21 | Word Count: 439 | Page Views: 9390 | Votes: 17 | Rating: 2.82
I was in the Warrior Forum, and someone asked what kinds of Backlinks are worth pursuing. This is my answer to that query.

Understanding the Mechanics of Effective Article Marketing and Article Syndication
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-08-01 | Word Count: 1399 | Page Views: 5988 | Votes: 10 | Rating: 1.80
Visit several marketing blogs or marketing forums, and you will find dozens of people proclaiming the death of article marketing as an effective marketing tool. Before we start agreeing with them, consider this...

Top 10 Reasons Why Online Marketers Fail With Article Marketing
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-07-31 | Word Count: 1025 | Page Views: 7144 | Votes: 13 | Rating: 2.08
If you've been marketing products online for any length of time, you've likely heard people talk about the power and promise of article marketing for the promotion of your online business. Unfortunately, many online marketers have tried to utilize article marketing to benefit their online business and failed. In this article, I document the top ten reasons why people fail to find success with article marketing... And how to fix your article marketing campaigns...

Article Marketing Tip: Stop Trying To Sell From Within Your Articles
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-07-30 | Word Count: 1229 | Page Views: 5388 | Votes: 10 | Rating: 1.40
The basic premise of article marketing is to present people information that will be important to them, then at the end of the article, present information "about the author" and offer to the reader a means to see how the author can help the reader further. When done well, article marketing continues to be one of the most effective methods of promotion that one could employ online.

The Six Degrees of Internet Marketing
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-07-30 | Word Count: 991 | Page Views: 7813 | Votes: 14 | Rating: 2.43
The theory behind the Six Degrees of Separation is that all people on earth can be connected together in as little as six steps. Now, I know what you might be thinking at this juncture... That sounds fun and interesting, but what does that have to do with Internet Marketing? That is a great question that I am going to answer for you in this article...

How To Win More Eyeballs for Your Offers and Websites
Written by: Bruce Lansing | Distributed: 2013-07-29 | Word Count: 1373 | Page Views: 5356 | Votes: 11 | Rating: 1.45
Most people using search engines on the Internet are looking for answers to questions and solutions to problems. If you can give people what the answers they want, you will be able to position your business as one worth hiring today or tomorrow.

How To Increase Your Rates and Earnings As a Freelance Writer
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-07-29 | Word Count: 1191 | Page Views: 5371 | Votes: 11 | Rating: 1.55
Freelance writers fill a very important role in today's business marketplace. They create the on-demand, customized content that business owners everywhere need to push their businesses forward. In this article, the author explains what freelance writers should do to ensure that employers will pay them well for their services.

Promoting Your Business With Content:: Defining Your Writing Strategy
Written by: Bruce Lansing | Distributed: 2013-07-25 | Word Count: 677 | Page Views: 5094 | Votes: 11 | Rating: 2.00
Many people suggest that you should write articles on the basis of the benefits that people will get from reading your articles. I'd like to suggest that there is a better reason, and that is to write your articles on the basis of what problem people will be able to solve, as a result of reading your articles.

Attracting Readers to your Book
Written by: Alastair Hall | Distributed: 2006-05-18 | Word Count: 708 | Page Views: 46324 | Votes: 11 | Rating: 1.82
One of the common and obvious ways to market a self-published book is having your own website. The harder part is how to attract your target audience and then convert the sale.

How To Make Visitors Bookmark Your Site
Written by: Cheryl Miller | Distributed: 2006-10-10 | Word Count: 536 | Page Views: 38600 | Votes: 15 | Rating: 2.07
When visitors bookmark your site it is a sign that you have built a great website and are pleasing them. Visitors think highly enough of your site to want to return and possibly tell others about it. You are not only increasing traffic from your existing clientele you are encouraging new traffic by means of viral marketing.

Treat Online 'Guests' With Respect
Written by: Rick Sloboda | Distributed: 2007-07-27 | Word Count: 472 | Page Views: 30060 | Votes: 27 | Rating: 3.52
Does your website show your customers lack of respect? Review the following checklist to find out.

How I Got 70,000 Useless Visitors To My Site In One Day! (One Internet Marketer's Analysis of Social Bookmark Traffic)
Written by: Titus Hoskins | Distributed: 2007-11-06 | Word Count: 1545 | Page Views: 27977 | Votes: 10 | Rating: 1.70
Is social bookmark traffic useless? Is it even worth cultivating for your site? Can it be used from an online marketing perspective? Read to discover one Internet Marketer's analysis of social bookmark/media traffic...

Successful Article Marketers Help Readers Solve Problems
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2013-07-24 | Word Count: 816 | Page Views: 25440 | Votes: 34 | Rating: 2.79
Every week, I have the opportunity to speak with people about the benefits and challenges of using article marketing to promote an online business. Article marketing is about getting your sales message in front of potential customers and to get links to your website. Many interpret this to mean that an article should directly promote a website within the article, but that approach is wrong and will reduce one's success using this methodology.

Tips For Building Your First Website
Written by: Benny Tsabba | Distributed: 2007-05-30 | Word Count: 1511 | Page Views: 19181 | Votes: 12 | Rating: 1.92
New people are coming online everyday. And many of those people desire to turn their spare time into spare cash. So begins their journey.

The Importance Of Effective Follow-up
Written by: Kate Smalley | Distributed: 2007-01-15 | Word Count: 493 | Page Views: 14059 | Votes: 22 | Rating: 2.55
Marketing experts say that following up with clients is crucial to successful selling because most prospects do not buy the first time, according to Aweber, a leading autoresponder company. People must encounter a marketing message multiple times before making a purchasing decision.

Today's Google Bots and What They Do
Written by: Kim Roach | Distributed: 2006-08-02 | Word Count: 1061 | Page Views: 13799 | Votes: 10 | Rating: 2.70
Google currently indexes over 8 billion web pages. However, before these pages were placed in the index, they were each crawled by a special spider known as the GoogleBot. Unfortunately, many web masters do not know about the internal workings of this virtual robot. This article will attempt to reveal some of the most important Google spiders, their function, and how they affect you as a web master. We'll start with the well-known GoogleBot.

Ten Tips For User Friendly Online Registration Forms
Written by: Jim Romanik | Distributed: 2009-02-24 | Word Count: 775 | Page Views: 11483 | Votes: 15 | Rating: 0.93
Have you ever registered or attempted to register for an event and spent half an hour trying to figure out what you needed to do? Or have you used an online registration form that lost your data or was so complicated that it seemed like more work than faxing the form?

Successful Forum JVs and How To Get Them
Written by: Diana Barnum | Distributed: 2006-06-15 | Word Count: 648 | Page Views: 11329 | Votes: 13 | Rating: 1.92
The forming of common alliances, also referred to as a joint venture (JV), happens nearly every day in the business world. One of the most popular means of linking people up online of so that they can work together on their projects is via forums, where people of all levels of business and expertise post in common threads.

How To Use Your Race To Get Rich
Written by: Herbert Harris | Distributed: 2009-07-07 | Word Count: 1407 | Page Views: 5544 | Votes: 42 | Rating: 3.88
Amid recent news reports that there continues to be an ongoing and substantial gap between the net worth of Whites and other racial groups, it is easy to be distracted and overwhelmed by the raw data. However, I am immediately reminded of a quote offered by an economic expert from the past... "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics!"

Is Your Business 'Out Of Site'? Employ The Ultimate Marketing Tool
Written by: Rick Sloboda | Distributed: 2007-01-09 | Word Count: 445 | Page Views: 5176 | Votes: 21 | Rating: 3.76
With the rapid expansion of the digital economy, the web site is conceivably the most powerful marketing and sales tool you can employ. Find out what a web site can do for you.

How to Keep Your Article Content Fresh and Interesting
Written by: Craig Ritsema | Distributed: 2006-08-29 | Word Count: 699 | Page Views: 5188 | Votes: 19 | Rating: 3.74
Webmasters everywhere are constantly on the lookout for fresh and interesting content for their website. Along with these content qualities is the requirement that it be unique. Everyone wants their website to stand out above the others in the search engine results. So what is the trick for you to keep a steady supply of this quality content coming your way?

Why I'm A 'B-Level Marketer!'
Written by: Willie Crawford | Distributed: 2007-07-16 | Word Count: 917 | Page Views: 6273 | Votes: 26 | Rating: 3.58
At a recent Internet marketing seminar, I was sitting around the hotel lobby with approximately 20 other seminar attendees and speakers. The seminar's host was in attendance, and the conversation covered a range of internet marketing topics with extreme frankness. Our proximity to the hotel bar certainly contributed to our 'conviviality.'

Treat Online 'Guests' With Respect
Written by: Rick Sloboda | Distributed: 2007-07-27 | Word Count: 472 | Page Views: 30060 | Votes: 27 | Rating: 3.52
Does your website show your customers lack of respect? Review the following checklist to find out.

Increasing Productivity In Your Online Business
Written by: Willie Crawford | Distributed: 2006-06-14 | Word Count: 1407 | Page Views: 6917 | Votes: 34 | Rating: 3.50
Running an online "empire" of approximately 1600 websites and blogs, selling a variety of products, services and ideas, I have to be much more productive than the average person in a "regular job."

15 fixes for a failing website
Written by: Rick Sloboda | Distributed: 2007-02-07 | Word Count: 593 | Page Views: 3169 | Votes: 25 | Rating: 3.48
Employ these 15 tactics to improve your search engine rankings, engage visitors and convert more sales.

The Most Important Ingredient for Info Product Success (is You)
Written by: Judy Murdoch | Distributed: 2008-04-15 | Word Count: 981 | Page Views: 5595 | Votes: 15 | Rating: 3.47
Last week I was attending a conference and mentioned to someone I help small business owners create information products. The other person was very friendly until I said "information products." Then the temperature in the room dropped about 10-degrees

Is Your Web Content Self-Centered?
Written by: Rick Sloboda | Distributed: 2007-07-30 | Word Count: 354 | Page Views: 3643 | Votes: 27 | Rating: 3.44
Too many businesses turn people off with self-absorbed websites. The following guidelines will help you avoid this common pitfall.

3 Amazing but little known Secrets to make your Website Blast to the top of Search Engines!
Written by: Jim Corkern | Distributed: 2006-10-25 | Word Count: 646 | Page Views: 3341 | Votes: 16 | Rating: 3.38
I know you hear all of the squabble about links being the number 1 factor in getting your website top search engine positions. I have had many clients come to me and say, I have hundreds more links than the top 10 sites for the keywords I am targeting, and all of my links are from related sites, Why is my site not in the top 10?