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Wow. Its been a while since the last time I go for a jog and get myself sweat. I recently feel alot of backpain and also on the neck. I thought lying on the bed will make me feel better but instead, it got worse. So just now I went for a jog and I felt really refreshing and more energetic! I think I want to take a few minutes daily to get my self sweat so that I can be more productive

Speaking of productivity, do you know that you can effectively decrease your website traffic(if you got a very good traffic).  Ireally think that this is beneficial for you if you already have a good steady traffic to your site, If You are just starting out, this is also an eyeopener :). So here you go, the three simple tips on decreasing your traffic with extensive effort!:-

1. just read your blog and do not update until  the end of the month. If you are updating it, do not put heavy content. A few sentences would be nice :).  Putting a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated is lame. So don’t put it okay !
2. just put to your blog and do not offer anything. If you have anything that can give value to your readers, scrap it! Your readers loves value. SO you need to get rid of it in order to flush away your traffic.
3. Another thing is Opt in. I have said his again and again before. Putting an Opt in is totally unnecessary if you want to decrease your website traffic.  I saw many bloggers put special offers and anything similar in their blog. This is again, giving value to your customers.. they will come again and again to see the update. So bottom line is, its a bad idea…

I hope you enjoyed the tips and please stay healthy. Do not be like me.. I am a very bad example.. but at least I want to improve my self by going for a jog in the park. What about you?

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They say everyone can start an online business. Even the guy next door (if you have neighbors ). Whatever we do, it is important to have a good business plan. It should show who the target audience is, and just how the product or service that is being provided will meet or exceed their needs and expectations.

When organizing a business plan it is best if you break it down into sections such as:-

1.    Business summary – The product or service you want to provide.

2.    Market analysis – Research on the product or service and how the competitors are doing.

3.    Product positioning – How to make it more prominent compared to your competitors.

4.    Market strategy – How are you actually going to market it?

5.    Customer analysis – Look at what the customer wants or needs.

6.    Financial analysis – What you need to invest in order to set up the business and to keep it going while it is just getting started.

7.    Overall business goals – What you hope to achieve in, say, a year’s time.

Once a business plan has been developed, it should not lay in the back of a drawer somewhere.  It should be a working plan that you can refer to when you need to. The best way to make a business plan is to keep it simple (one or two pages should be all you need). Certainly one of the best things you can do when starting an online business is to create a plan then stick with it.

You may find the following blog post interesting if you want to know what other people are doing in order to plan and building strategies their business:-

10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Strategy Blog

 Developing personas for marketing strategy

What is Your Social Media Marketing Strategy?

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There are questions on how most of the webmasters or bloggers monitors their sites. The followings are the common questions and also the suggested solutions:

How do I test my own website links or other websites for broken links?

You can always check out this tool:-
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

How can I check the search engines for the number of back links to my URL i.e. other web pages linking to my site?

Digital point have a very helpful tool :-
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/

How can I determine why my site is showing in only a certain country?
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/website-country/

There are other tools as the internet evolves. People are getting more creative in finding solutions. Almost everyday, a new tool is created. It depends on your requirement. Good Luck!

Cool resources that you might wanna check out:-

Useful Web Resources for Small Business and Non Profits #5

20 Useful Webmaster Tools

7 tools to track your blog Visitors

5 Tools to Monitor website, if it is dead or alive

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If you are new to Search Engine Marketing, one of the first term that you must know is SEO. SEO is a short name for Search Engine Optimization. But in this post, I’m not gonna talk about SEO, but something else that is related to SEO.

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Introducing the Search Engine Spiders. Search Engine Spiders are the ones that makes the search Engine Works. These Spiders are actuualy automated programs that is run by the search engine system. If the Search Engines can talk, here is a potential interview result between me and the Search Engine Spiders:-

• Hi, I’m Spiderman. No.. I’m not related to Stan lee.. Who is he anyway? To make it simple, lets just say that my job is to index websites on the internet 24 hours a day.
• When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing my required submission page, I’d be happy to index your entire site.
• I usually visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects.
• I will then return all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed.
• I will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well.
• Some of my friends will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so don’t create a site with 500 pages! We hate them anyways..

There are many other facts about the Search Engine Spiders. Now you have been introducedto the search engine spiders, You are now have a basic Idea what it is, thus further study onit using Google..

I hope you enjoyed this post. Please share it with your friends..

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Ok guys, I just read Dean Hunt’s post on his blog. He asks a question :-

Question of the day

In your opinion, is creativity something that we are born with? Or can it be taught/learnt?

Dean

I left a comment on that post. It turned out that my comment was a long comment, even longer than Dean’s post so I decided to post my comment here in the Sleepy Surfer dot Com:-

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In This post, I will share with you why I hate the Authority Black Book..especially the 2008 version!!

You know what, just download the eBook first and you know what I mean.. Click here to download the strong>Authority Black Book 2008

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I have been planning to make a free gift (free report or ebook) for a long time. Since I’ve made my very own blog, I think this is a good time to give away free gifts to you.

I am currently working on a guide that is very basic yet powerful. It is going to be one of your Ultimate Weapon as long as  apply what you have learn from the free report seriously. So, be sure to check out my new posts any time in the near future

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Ashon Rafiq from Blueverse.com wrote a really good post about how to do your business online or off line. The first thing that you need to do is to plan your business.

As for me, I found writing my plans gave me a few benefits. While there are a lot of benefits of writing your business plan, I can just come out witha few.. hey, I’m sleepy okay… I’ll share more in the future if I remember :P. The following are a few points that I can come up with..

You will discover valuable information about your business/niche/industry

Your in-depth research and planning will help you to have a more clear picture about the steps that you will take to achieve your goal. You will also discover the important information on how to improve your business in the long run. Jot them down and prioritize them.

You will know more about hidden information of your competitors.

Writing a detailed plan for your business forces you to assess your competitors.You will discover their strengths and weaknesses, which is a benefit for you to run your business.

You will gain more confidence

Once you have it all on paper, you will see a better picture of your long term goal. Visualise your success and this will help you to gain more confidence.

I really recommend Mark Joyner’s Simpleology to learn more about planning your business.

More related sources that you should read :

• Guide to successful business planning
• Funding Your Business Plan in the UK
• Inspirational business planning
• Storyboards As A Business Plan

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If you think that you are not creative enough, you might want to read the 8 ways to train your self to be creative. If you want to compete with your competitors, you need to be different. How to be different you ask?

Answer : use your creativity!

So do read this post as it may help you atleast in writing your blog post.

Michael Dunlop from RetireAt21.com was responsible recommending the link to me. Thanks Micheal

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