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So how many articles or eBooks have you read lately that promise
to tell you how to get traffic to your site FAST, which start
off by telling you to build a list, or engage in a joint
venture, or to use an eBook for viral marketing? You have been
bitten by the Catch-22 of Internet Marketing, which is simply
this:
You have to have a customer base in order to build fresh
customers!
Here are tactics which are commonly recommended for newbies,
which do NOT work:
1.Build an eZine list. In order to do this, you must market your
eZine, or something else in order to get people to subscribe. If
you could do that, you could market your product or site just as
easily! An eZine list is a nice way to gain sales from an
existing customer base, but it is not, in itself, a way to GET
customers, unless you first market IT.
2.Joint Ventures. Well, the whole point of JV is that you
leverage your customer base with someone else’s customer base,
for mutual benefit. If you have no customer base, you have
nothing to offer. A great idea is rarely enough.
3.eBook Marketing. Same problem as eZines… You have to have
someone to market it TO in order to get it to work for you.
4.Viral Marketing. In order for viral marketing to work, you
must plug your item in to a large number of people, who will
then spread it around for you. If you have no existing customer
base, again, you can expect little result.
5.List Builder Programs. Problem with them is, they want you to
make referrals of people… you have to market THEIR program to
benefit from it. If you had people to market to, you would not
need them!
So what DO you do? If you have no money to back up a campaign,
then your options are going to take time. There is no way around
it! But they do WORK, and they work well once they gain momentum.
1.Business cards. Be the business. Hand out cards to any one you
think might be interested.
2.Register with search engines. This is a no-brainer. Optimize
your site, with Title, Keyword and Description Metatags, Alt
Tags, and good content with reasonable use of keywords before
you register it, or optimize it and re-register it. Don’t go
overboard. Just use the most important words in your content,
and put 1-3 keywords into your alt tags and description, and the
most important keyword or phrase in your title.
3.List your site with niche directories. There are innumerable of these
than anyone knows. Searches for your keywords will find some
directories, and about half of them have an easy way to submit
your site. These are not the same thing as Free Classifieds or
Free For All sites, which are bad news and indirect.
4.Get link exchanges if you can. Make sure they are related to
your site if you can, and they will help you some.
5.Attend events. Online events, and local events both. Set up a
display, have a product to sell if you can, but if you cannot,
at least have information that people can take home with them.
Events let someone else do the marketing for you to get your
name out there, and if you do it right, you can then retain some
of the contacts.
6.Join Trade Associations. Look for ones with advertising
benefits that do NOT just go to members. You want to reach
beyond the trade association, unless you are in a B2B market
where your customers are other merchants. Don’t bother with
traffic exchanges or safelists, because either one just puts
your ad in front of other people who are further interested in
marketing their own product than in buying yours.
7.Look for low cost ads on sites with reasonable traffic, or
place ads in successful eZines. Target them to your potential
customers or they won’t work.
8.Market with articles. Write articles and submit them to
article directories. This is one of the better ways to market,
if you can write.
9.Start a Blog, and submit it to Blog directories. Link the blog
into your necessary site. Blogs get indexed faster, and if you update
it regularly, it will get spidered heavier.
10.Submit your eZine to eZine directories. Don’t expect a flood
of subscribers from this, but you may get a few.
11.Get links not just to your website, but to your freebies,
viral marketing items, or eZine. Eventually you’ll want to use
these items, and direct links to them when appropriate can help
you grow your exposure.
12.Once you have a subscriber base for your eZine of about 3000,
you’ll have some options for using further rapid methods for
leveraging those subscribers for faster marketing techniques.
Once you HAVE a customer base you have options. Until then,
there really is no alternative but to do it the hard way, one
ad, one link, one contact at a time. Consistent effort though
will pay off, and once it gets going, it will grow in multiples
instead of singles.
About the author:
See Laura’s business instructions at Skinny Shoestring http://www.skinnyshoestri
ng.com/. Laura has been writing, and producing websites for
innumerable than 5 years. Laura is a busy mom of eight, homeschooler,
and home business owner.
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If your video production calls for working with kids, whatever the age, it pays to make the child the most important person on set. Treat children with respect, guidance and generosity to get the performance you desire.
When working with young children, it’s necessary to provide them with fun games, age appropriate snacks, meals and drinks as well as a “treat” for a good performance. Try to work with a Director who has experience with children as they will be further open to kid lingo and personalities.
Older children often take acting very seriously and will want to learn as much as possible. Be prepared to answer questions and explain what will happen during the shoot. They will be fresh likely to work with you if you give them a tour of the set and introduce them to the “grown up” crew and make them feel special to the production.
Regardless of age, make sure to abide by state laws concerning time restrictions and on-set schooling. Each state has different laws; for example California requires a work permit for children working in theatrical employment, whereas Arizona does not.
Above all, relax and enjoy yourself. Remember that children will only listen for limited periods of time, after which pushing them just leads to frustration for everyone. The key is to be ready to get the good shots quickly and anything after that is a bonus. Kids can enhance your production value so make it a fun experience for all!
About the Author
Kurt Snider is the owner of Solana Productions, an Emmy award winning video production company with offices located in San Diego, Los Angeles and Seattle. For extended information, please visit www.solanaproductions.com
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The ultimate goal of reading instruction is to enable children
to understand what they read, so reading instruction has to be
about farther than simply matching letters and sounds — it also
has to be about connecting words and meaning.
It is clear from research on emerging literacy that learning to
read is a relatively lengthy process that begins very early in
development and clearly before children enter formal schooling.
Children who receive stimulating literacy experiences from birth
onward appear to have an edge when it comes to vocabulary
development, understanding the goals of reading, and developing
an awareness of print and literacy concepts.
Children who are read to frequently at very young ages become
exposed in interesting and exciting ways to the sounds of our
language, to the concept of rhyming, and to other word and
language play activities that serve to provide the foundation
for the development of phoneme awareness.
As children are exposed to literacy activities at young ages,
they begin to recognize and discriminate letters. Without a
doubt, children who have learned to recognize and print most
letters as preschoolers will have less to learn upon school
entry. The learning of letter names is also important because
the names of many letters contain the sounds they most often
represent, thus orienting youngsters early to the alphabetic
principle or how letters and sounds connect.
The earlier you begin working on language with your child –
simply speaking to your child, reading to your child, and then
listening and responding to your child’s communications — the
better off your child will be when the time comes to learn to
ready.
Studies show a strong connection between early language
development and reading. Language and reading require the same
types of sound analysis. The better babies are at distinguishing
the building blocks of speech at six months, the better they
will be at heavier complex language skills at two and three years
old, and the easier it will be for them at four and five years
old to grasp the idea of how sounds link to letters.
However preparing your child to become a reader needs to go
beyond this to cognitive readiness.
Cognitive readiness is essentially making sure your child has
the essential foundations for reading. This includes the
development and understanding of language, such as vocabulary,
sentence structure, and grammar; but also includes background
knowledge and experience.
For example, a child can easily make the transition from seeing
the neighbor’s cat to the parent connecting the word “cat” with
the animal. Then later when the child is learning the alphabet
and connecting sounds with various letters the cat is again
brought into play. Finally, when it is time to begin reading
text the child is already well on her way to understanding the
written word “cat” through her experience of seeing and hearing
it.
However children need help learning these concepts. A child will
not learn the names, sounds, and shapes of letters simply by
being around adults who like to read and who engage in reading.
Children learn these concepts when adults take the time and
effort to share experiences with oral and written language.
Preparing your child to read must take a step beyond this as
well. Children’s cognitive skills and knowledge are frequently
thought of as core ingredients in the recipe for success in
school. Children’s language/literacy refers to both their oral
communication (language) and understanding of the written word
(literacy). The concept of general knowledge refers to
children’s conceptions and understandings of the world around
them.
As children enter kindergarten for the first time, they differ
in their cognitive skills and knowledge. Studies of first-time
kindergartners indicate that children’s reading, mathematics,
and general knowledge are related to their age as they enter
kindergarten, the level of their mother’s education, their
family type, the primary language spoken in the home, and their
race/ethnicity.
The undisputed purpose of learning to read is to comprehend.
Even before children can read for themselves, it can help them
to build vital background knowledge by having adults read to
them interactively and frequently. This means not only is the
book or story shared with the child — but then the reader and
the child discuss the book and the world, characters, and events
it introduces. It is important for parents who want to build
their child’s cognitive readiness to actually choose of variety
of texts that will expand what their children know about the
world around them. Further, comprehension is enhanced through
discussion of the text which in turn might lead to seeking out
further text on this or related subjects. Effective instruction
will help the reader actively relate his or her own knowledge or
experience to the ideas written in the text, and then remember
the ideas that he or she has come to understand.
Helping your child become cognitively ready for reading will
also include giving your child diverse experiences in the world
and with events and people so they can make connections between
the real world and their reading. This does not have to mean
extensive travel or expensive outings. Many times simply taking
children to various events and places within your community can
provide experience with people of different ages and ethnic
backgrounds, for example.
Ultimately, children’s ability to understand what they are
reading is inextricably linked to their background knowledge.
Very young children who are provided opportunities to learn,
think, and talk about new areas of knowledge will gain much from
the reading process. With understanding comes the clear desire
to read fresh and to read frequently, ensuring that reading
practice takes place.
Some things you can do to help cognitively prepare your child
for reading:
* Read new stories and reread old stories every day.
* Help extend their experience with the words, language, and
ideas in books by interactively reading to them every day.
* Relate information in books to other events of interest to
children, such as holidays, pets, siblings, and games. Engage
children in discussion of the topics.
* In both stories and informational texts, encourage wondering.
For example, “What will happen next?” or “Have you ever seen
someone do that?”
* Point out how titles and headings as well as text when you
are reading.
About the author:
Deanna Mascle is the publisher of Preschoolers Learn
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