Paul Duxbury

Niche Audio Articles

Now this really does take Niche Articles to the next level and I have to say that I am very impressed by both the quality of the articles and also the quality of the audio recording.

The page that you can access below says it all really! So if you want to approach niche marketing in a novel way take a look at:

Niche Audio Articles

Add comment September 26th, 2006

Creating Mini Sites a Step by Step Guide

Dan Kelly, has just come out with an series of videos that can teach you how to quickly and easily setup your own mini-sites.

Dan actually shows you the entire process of setting up a three different types of mini-sites, all using proven direct marketing techniques.

He shows you how to design your very own sales pages, order pages, and even download pages, how to secure your download pages from hackers and thieves, how to get 2 free tools for creating and uploading your new websites, how you can accept credit cards without a merchant account and much more!

In fact, he even gives you 2 free mini-site templates so you can
get started with your own sites right away.

Dan’s not going to charge you a single penny to discover the secrets in all 14 of the videos in his basic course. You can take a look at it at Mini Sites Revealed - it’s certainly worth joining up as I have done. You see before I recommend anything I always check it out for myself so you know that I actually think it’s worthwhile getting involved with!

Add comment September 26th, 2006

What Are Social Bookmarking Websites?

While viewing web pages on your browser, you may have noticed a feature that will allow you to save a particular URL under your “My Favorites” folder. Click on the “Add To Favorites” button and you’ll be able to save the URL on your hard drive. This process is called bookmarking. The saved URL is called a bookmark.

Social bookmarking websites work the same way. But instead of saving a URL on your hard drive, you’ll be able to save it on a web server, under an appropriate tag.

If you visit a dog grooming website, for example, and you liked it a lot, you can save the URL under the tag “dog” or “dog grooming,” in the space provided by any social bookmarking website.

What makes social bookmarking websites stand out is that you can share your list of indexed sites with other people. They may be looking for information about dogs, and your list can help them out a lot.

Marketing Advantages Of Social Bookmarking Websites

This relatively new technology presents a lot of useful possibilities for an online businessman:

* Experts predict that social bookmarking will soon replace search engines as the information finding process of choice by most Internet users. The best way to capitalize on this emerging phenomenon is by starting to position your online business using its features as early as today.

* Social bookmarking can be used fairly easily. You can place your own websites in favorable positions without being subject to the whims of the search engine algorithms.

* Tags are beginning to establish an interconnectivity that reaches many platforms and many channels. Social bookmarking websites can easily become the launch pad for your conquest of specific tags… which are considered as the “keywords for the new millennium.”

The new generation of internet marketing strategies starts with social bookmarking websites. Master this particular channel and you’re sure to garner an avalanche of traffic from sources which were once unknown.

Add comment September 24th, 2006

General Weekly Overview

Last week I tried publishing Our Weekly News Update here on the Blog and we received a very positive response to it. So here we are again!

Firstly can I welcome the 220 new subscribers who have joined us this week. It’s really great to have you with us! A lot of our new subscribers have picked up copies of my new Free eBook Introduction to Scrapbooking ebook together with Shaking The Family Tree which is still available for those who haven’t managed to get a copy yet. You can grab a copy by going to An Introduction to Scrapbooking. Some of our other subscribers have come through “Are Internet Marketers Really From Pluto” which will be of real interest if you are interested in finding out how to create your own Internet Business.

A number of members have written to me and told me that they love the idea of Blogging but haven’t a clue what to do! So for them I have put together a new Squidoo Lens which explains how to Blog! You can take a look at it by clicking on The Blogging Guide. It is also complimented by our more advanced Blog for those who would like to make some money from their blogging. You can check that out by clicking on Blogging for Money.

GenMates itself has now risen to nearly 600 members and in the coming week we are due to be featured in Family History Monthly which we hope will see a further influx of members. Our 1911 Census Online Petition is also featured this month in Your Family Tree! Both Magazines are available from 28th September 2006 in the UK

Just returning to the subject of Squidoo - if you have been looking for a way to put together your own website at no cost then Squidoo is definitely a possibility for you! I will be discussing ways to take advantage of Squidoo over the coming weeks as I believe that it has immense potential. If you haven’t joined yet then you can join up by going here: Join Squidoo The make a start by creating your first Lens!

If you want to take a look at my first Squidoo Lenses then click on:

Genealogy and Family History.
Make Money From Blogging
The Blogging Guide
Live Healthily
Niche Information Marketing

I also look forward to seeing you at GenMates soon!

Until next week - take care and have a good week.

Add comment September 23rd, 2006

General Weekly (ish) Overview

Normally I send out a newsletter to all our subscribers each week but this time I thought that I would bring you our weekly (ish) update through my main blog!

Welcome New Subscribers!

Firstly can I extend a very warm welcome to the 600+ new subscribers who have joined us in the last 10 days! It’s great to have you with us and hopefully you will find an absolute mine of information here and at our various sites.

That was The week That Was!

Well what a week or so it has been! As those of you who have read my post “The Worst Web Hosts Ever” will know we have been having a fraught time with 1and1.co.uk. This has been rumbling on now for nearly three weeks and there are four domains which they still seem to be incapable of transferring to HerosHosting who are my preferred Web Hosts.

I haave been fortunate that Jeffery Ash has excelled himself in terms of personal support in getting things sorted and hopefully in the next few days we will be able to bring this all to a conclusion! Jeffery really is an absolute superstar and what is more he offers my subscribers a very special deal! If you have been thinking of moving to a new host (especially if you are with 1and1.co.uk!) or have been thinking about setting up your own website then I cannot recommend Jeffery highly enough. Take a look at what he has to offer at Heroshosting.

New Domain Names

To get round the problems in the short term we have registered a few new domain names to cover some of our most popular domains so if you are looking for any of the following then click on the links and you will be taken there:

The Amateur Genealogist
Our Family Trees
Rose Gardening Success
Achieve Success Online

We have also taken the opportunity to register a few new domains for some of our inredibly popular Blogs. Two in particular that I know will be of interest at this time of year are:

The Genealogy Blog
The Landscaping Ideas Blog

Fame!

You know, I cannot pick up a Genealogy Magazine or indeed a few other magazines at the moment without finding my name in it! It’s okay it’s all very positive stuff! GenMates (our Genealogy MySpace Alternative) has really got people talking. We now have approaching 600 members since we launched about 6 weeks ago - which is not a bad achievement is it! Members are creating their own Groups and Forums, Blogging and sharing their interests and generally taking advantage of all the great features.

So if you haven’t logged in recently or heaven forbid haven’t joined us yet then you can pop along to GenMates once you have finished reading here!

Our Get the 1911 Census Online Petition is also about to be featured in several magazines! I am sure we shall see the current excellent 580 signatures exceeded very quickly.

Freebies!

If you haven’t already downloaded my Introduction to Scrapbooking eBook which is free of charge then just click on the link to be taken there!

I have always been a great exponent of Vision Planning and the benefits it brings. I have put together an overview of Vision Planning with some helpful tools within it which are essentially what I use - they are also what some companies have paid me handsomely to deliver as a training session

They are here for you to use and to share with your own subscribers and friends and not even an email address required! So just right click on Guide to Planning for 2007 to download your copy aand save it to your own hard drive!

Finally…

Would you like to hear my dulcid tones LOL Well, I am currently putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard more like) and writing the eBook that explains how we have created a successful Internet Business during the past twelve months. To get on the notification list for the launch of “Are Successful Internet Marketers Really from Pluto?” just click on the link.

Have a great week and thanks for reading!

Add comment September 16th, 2006

My Nomination For The Worst Hosts Ever Goes To……..

Without a shadow of a doubt 1and1.co.uk (not to be confused with their counterparts 1and1.com)

Now I know why I have always spread my hosting around! This has been a Nightmare weekend! Yesterday afternoon about 3pm I sat down at the desk with a plan in my head of what I wanted to do. I needed to quickly check something on one of our domains and then it started to unfold! There was obviously something wrong and as I investigated it became clear that something was seriously wrong with, I discovered by late last night, over a 100 of our main domains! 1and1.co.uk had for reasons known only to their incompetent selves decided to do something on the server which had completely messed up many of our income earning domains. Their indifference to the problems they had created through rank incompetence and unbelieveably inept procedures angered me to the point that for the first time in many a year I found myself utterly lost for words!

So the last 36 hours have been spent putting right the problems they created. I have also discovered that they want to charge me exorbitant amounts of money to transfer this set of domains away from them. To cap it all they then had the nerve, and you may find this as unbelieveable as I did, to send me an email with a standard “Please give us feedback on helping you to resolve your problems” type questionnaire

I had been getting increasingly dubious about them since I discovered that whilst one can obtain a .com domain from 1and1.com for circa $6 their UK counterparts charge £8.99 + VAT so circa $21!

1and1.co.uk - well as we say over here - they couldn’t organise a party in a brewery!

2 comments September 4th, 2006