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Video articles are a great way to generate traffic back to your website because they capture readers attention using sight and sound. Compare this to a written article that only appeals to people who are willing to read your content online. Now you can expand your audience by easily converting your articles into video using Instant Video Articles software.

What is Instant Video Articles (IVA)

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Are you still using an old version of WordPress?
Not sure why you should upgrade if your old version is working fine?
Afraid to upgrade?

You’re gonna love WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” because it has many new cool features that make it easier and more fun to maintain your blog or website. I hadn’t upgraded my Web Design Discussion Blog for over a year because the current version seemed to be functioning well, I didn’t want to to spend time upgrading plus I was afraid something would go wrong during the upgrade and I’d lose my content.

Top 7 reasons I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and why you should too

1. Easy to upgrade

If you currently have WordPress version 2.7 or higher it will have an automatic update feature. Simply click the link in the new version banner or go to tools-upgrade menu.

Once you are on the “Update WordPress” page, click the button “Update Automatically” to start the upgrade process. When completed you’ll have the updated version.

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2. Bulk updates

In earlier versions of WordPress you always had to disable your plugins before upgrading. Now you don’t have to worry about that because you can bulk update themes, plugins and installations all in one place. During the updates your theme will be placed in maintenance mode so visitors will know you’re making changes. You don’t even have to deactivate your plugins.

3. New flexible default theme

I never cared for the Cubic default theme because it looked ugly and was plain boring however the new TwentyTen default theme looks professional and is very flexible because it allows you to easily create custom headers, backgrounds and menus.

4. Shortlink support

This is a handy little feature within your dashboard that can generate short URLs of your posts. This comes in handy when you want to Tweet your lastest posts (long URLS consume the character limit in Twitter plus you now don’t need to waste time using a URL shortener).

5. Merge of WordPress and WordPress MU

You can now power multiple (millions) of WordPress sites from a single installation. This makes it easy to create a network of sites. For example if you wanted to create a church website, members could each have their own blog on the same domain and maintain it themselves.

6. Set your own admin username

No longer do you need to change your admin user name after installation. WordPress 3.0 now allows users to set the Admin username to whatever they like during installation.

7. Custom post types

WordPress developers can now create more standard posts and pages for better CMS capability.

Resources
http://www.wpbeginner.com/news/wordpress-3-0-thelonious-features-video/

Upgrading Your WordPress Blog- Why and How

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So you’ve found a niche you’re excited about but have no idea if it will be profitable. The beauty of online marketing is that you can easily test things to see what works before investing large amounts of time and money. This is what large corporations do before they roll out a product. The same goes for advertisers. They track different ads to see which one works best before rolling out a whole advertising campaign.

If you’re a small business owner you can’t afford to invest lots of time and money into a product that won’t be profitable therefore it’s even more important for you to test it.

How to test your niche

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Is local business marketing now where the new gold rush is?
Can you sell anything to local businesses?
What mistakes do people make?

Some folks are saying that local business marketing is an easy way to make money online however can you sell anything to them? Local business people are very smart because they have already built a substantial professional business that generates profits and are primarily concerned about generating more profits.

Should you sell products or services

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The beauty of article marketing is that is it’s a great way to drip feed traffic to your website. Sometimes the drip becomes a river if a popular newsletter or ezine publishes your article. The key to getting a consistent stream of traffic is to write articles frequently and consistently.

What is an evergreen article

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Think about all the services offered in your home town e.g. food, landscaping, car, accounting, post office, counseling, financial, etc. Living your life would be difficult without these services. if you want to find a service niche look for a need within your community or online.

1. Find an unmet need

The key to discovering a service niche is to offer a service that doesn’t yet exist and meets a need. For example my son wanted a job so I asked him to visit neighborhood homes to cut their lawns. Many of them were already paying high prices for a professional lawn mowing service so he could offer lower prices and still do a good job. Well, he soon found enough lawn jobs that would make him more money than if he worked at MacDonalds. He could even work less hours.

Most people search online these days instead of using the yellow pages to find services in their local area. Most of my web design customers come from the local area even though I have clients all over the world.

2. Ask questions

Instead of going with your own idea of what would work, ask people in your community what services they would like to see in their community. For example last winter my neighbor asked me if I knew of a snow shoveling service because he didn’t want to shovel 6 feet of snow off his driveway. I searched online and didn’t find anything even though I knew landscaping businesses in the area offered this service.

Obviously many offline services still don’t have an online presence.

3. Survey potential customers

You’ll have greater success if you survey 1000 people than if you just think up an idea hoping it will work. When you survey people they’ll give you ideas you never thought of. When you try to profit from an idea you thought would work, you’ll spend most of your time trying to convince people to buy it. This makes it much more difficult to be successful and often ends in failure because you get burnt out.

You’l have a much greater chance of creating a successful service niche if there is a high demand with little competition.

4. Offer your expertise

It’s easier to build a business if you already know a lot about it so think about what you are good at then search for a niche where you can offer your talents and skills. If you don’t have the skills you can always acquire them by taking classes, reading books, etc. This is how I began my web design business in the year 2000.

After you find a service niche create a plan to build and market it.

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How to Find a Niche to Build a Profitable Online Business
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Sometimes I watch the QVC channel to observe the latest products being sold. As the hosts talk about the product you can watch a counter on your TV screen showing the number of people purchasing the product..often surpassing hundreds within a few minutes. My wife sometimes chimes in and says ” if you could only find or invent a product like that we’d be millionaires.”

If you were Alexander Graham Bell (who invented the telephone) you’d have a product that everybody wanted however nowadays it seems like all the products have already been created. This is not true because new products are being created all the time.

How to Find Niche Products to Sell Online

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One of the biggest problems people make when searching for a niche is to choose one that doesn’t have a lot of interest or is too narrow. You need to begin with the 3 big niches then find a niche within those three. These 3 main niches refer to the essential desires of human beings. Without having a balance of these 3 a person will not find true happiness and spend lots of time and money trying to find fulfillment in the one they’re lacking.

What is the Best Niche Market: 3 Big Niches

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• Has your computer been infected with a virus, trojan or malware?
• Did it shut down or slow down your computer?
• Were you able to easily remove it?
• How do you remove malware?

Recently my computer got infected with malware so I want to share what happened and how I resolved the problem so you can quickly resolve it yourself (without costing anything but time) by referring to this article.

Here’s what happened…

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If you wish to build a profitable online business you need to choose a niche your interested in plus it has to solve a problem. People are willing to pay good money to find solutions to their problems even if it’s an irrational fear or to fulfill an emotional desire.

Top 7 mistakes when choosing a niche

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