Affiliate Marketing- A Freelance Affiliate Marketer's foretaste on Home Business Opportunities!!

Welcome to GDI and your own .ws domain name and website.

GeoString is simply a string of your contacts and their contacts all strung together to build an incredible cash generator for the length of the string. THIS business plan is first of all FREE For All and it offers $10.00 bonus for joining the plan.

KEY CATCHES:

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  NO PRODUCT SELLING


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  $ 10.00 joining bonus


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  100% Free for all


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  Gentle: no cluttering of Junk Mails. Simple only one email/ week.


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  Huge Potential to earn for FREE through this 3x10 Matrix plan.


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  Easy to follow User Panel that lets you know all about your campaigns, your earning/ affiliate stats outright.


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  No brainer. Sponsor a few friends – they will sponsor others and thus the system works.

PAYMENTS :

Payout Update of My Upline Showing Her First Week Income

Payments are disbursed by check and mailed to the postal address on your profile on or before the 10th day of each month for earnings of the prior month provided that your account balance has reached your selected payout level. If your account balance is less than your selected payout level, earnings will carry forward until such month as you have met the minimum check requirement. $3 (Three dollars) is deducted from the amount of your check to cover the cost of processing and mailing your check. Again, this is deducted from your check amount.


HOW TO PROMOTE?

If you don’t have any clue on how to promote this plan, I think the next few points will help you out sponsor a few downlines easily!

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   INVITATION: Invite your friends first through the invitation module at your user panel. This is the simplest but cheapest method of promotion.



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   FORUM POSTING: Your signature on the Forum Postings can give you a few joining in a very short span, provided you participate. Post your name with your referral link. Here are a few good marketing forums where you can use your signature for promotional activities- i. http://www.freeadvertisingforum.com/
   ii. www.1sitemanager.com/forum
   iii. www.howtocorp.com/forum
   iv. http://www.instantbuzz.com/
   v. http://www.conqueryourniche.com/
   vi. www.warriorforum.com/forum
   vii. www.ablake.net/forum
   
   
   3. EZINE POSTING: Post your eZine Ads regularly to the top eZine directories. Post your well written ad copies with your signature will help you grow your list easily. Here are a few eZine Directories for your perusal-
   
   i. http://www.directoryofezines.com/
   ii. http://www.ezines.nettop20.com/
   iii. http://www.new-list.com/
   iv. http://www.ezine-dir.com/
   v. www.emailuniverse.com/bestezines
   vi. http://www.articlecity.com/
   vii. http://www.ezineadvertising.com/
   viii. http://www.ezinearticles.com/
   
   
   4. Social Networking Tools: Your blog and your orkut & other social networking profiles can be a good source of collecting easy leads. If you don’t have time to write your own article, you can copy this article and publish it on your blog too with your own GeoString referral link. Use TubeMogul to publish your videos to all the major video sharing sites like youtube, dailymotion etc. all through one click!
   
   
   5. PPC/CPM: Through Bidvertiser you can run a very low CPC campaign to get quickest leads. Albeit it is easier for the first time PPC advertisers. Apart from that you can advertise on Clixsense and neobux at very low budget. I prefer to advertise my blog review instead of the main plan, because it will give my visitors a broad prospect to understand the plan.

That’s all for today! I hope you will enjoy the GeoString referral program very much and sponsor your friends as well to get a longer perpetual residual income. Though for any sponsorship in your downline you get $0.01 only, if you fillup atleast three levels you will start earning regular income for good. Thanks for vising my blog…

Dear friends,

The GDI Riches- Part III

• "You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!" - Chris Corrigan

• Free Auto-Responders
• Free URL Rotator & URL Tracker
• How to Set Up Your GDI Webpage

In the first chapter, we got fare idea about the background, products and income opportunity involved with Global Domain International (GDI). I am invloved with many of the home business related forums. Where I have found lots of queries from the GDI members regarding prospecting, building team and getting free traffic to their site. In general when an affiliate marketer joins GDI for an alternate income, the BIG question for him like many others are-

• How to choose the best domain name for your GDI website?
• What to publish on the website?
• How to publish a website with GDI FREE Domain hosting?
• How to monetize the website?
• How to get traffic to the website?

These are the basic questions that creep up in the mind of the affiliates after joining GDI. In this article, I shall try to provide a GOOD SOLUTION to these problems, specially a good answer for the first two questions often raised by the GDI affiliates. For your better perusal, I want to categorize our visitors in two helves- a) Novice b) Experts. Everyday hundreds of affiliates join GDI for an alternative income, irrespective of their expertise in the field of online marketing. So, hereby I shall look into the interests of both the classes of GDI affiliates.

NOVICE: If you are very new to online marketing, don't know/wast time in the HTML codings, content development, following up the prospects and want everything in autopilot - here is the best solution for YOU. In this process you need to choose any of the options, join and update YOUR affiliate IDs, that's all. Our dedicated experts will help you to build and upload your own money making website, following up the prospects and the marketing for you.

• Option #1: Setting Up A People Search Engine
  According to a latest finding- 30% of all searches on Google or Yahoo on a day is people specific. To meet the growing demand in this exploding Niche, I shall recommend you to join Tissa Godavitarne's Acme-People-Search-Engine. Tissa is the one of the top performers in the GDI Leaderboard. He has sustained his top position for a few months consistently through his own innovative idea- People Search Engine! Joining his People Search Engine you will have many advantages. First- it is a GDI downline Builder. Second- Tissa will set up your own people-search-engine on your own GDI domain, just you need to update your GDI user id and password in the Add/Edit ID's section. Third- you can tap the new rising market of People Search Engine. Fourth- you earn Guaranteed $125 just within 24 hours after you have completed the three necessary steps to success as sign-up bonus. Fifth- you gain $40 free advertising for the first month thereafter- Tissa charges only $29 for providing you all the service. Sixth- you earn affiliate commissions from more than 6 (Six) online income opportunities including Tissa's Acme People Search Engine (total $30 in three steps) by sourcing visitors to your customized people search engine. Till date, Tissa has paid more than $223,493.00 to its affiliates, of which $43,625.00 was the Guaranteed Commission. Poeple like you and me are earning hundreds of dollars - here is the PROOF.
  
  
  The whole process of setting up a people search engine is so simple and lucid that anybody can make huge profit out of it!! Tissa is busy now a day developing a Forced-Matrix GDI console. The benefit will be manifold for you and me!! The chances of getting 5 referrals for qualifying the GDI bonus pool will be very high i.e. another $100 per week?

  How To Choose The Domain Name of The People Search Engine? : While signing up the Acme People Search Engine, you will be requested to choose your choice from a number of domain hosting service. Acme offers three Domain Hosting services in total during registration viz- GDI (my preference), StartLogic. You have to choose any of them. Whatever domain hosting services you prefer- just I request you to spend a few hours on choosing the right domain name. I have seen many of the GDI affiliates who choose their GDI login id as the name of the domain. I think it is a very bad practice. According to the recent search engine algorithm, the domains which have sufficient keyword placements on the domain name get more traffic or search engines index these domains more quickly than the deceptive domain names. So, I think we should spend a few hours on proper keyword research before choosing the domain name. If you are using Acme, I think your domain name should be like- freepeoplesearchengine.ws, criminalrecordsearchengine.ws. You can use Wordtracker.com to make a free keyword research on the respective niche. In the next posting, I shall try to Elaborate deliberately on this issue...

  Now, you are all set with your new People Search Engine! Isn't it GREAT? You have published your first GDI website, without brainstorming!! Now, you need to get traffic and build your GDI downline. What shall you do? I have a simple solution... Do nothing... just join a few traffic exchange programs and create a campaign. Promote your website or Acme referral link and earn credit points surfing 500-1000 pages a day. You will see tremendous traffic to your website in a few days as well as you make a great start without spending a dime in name of advertising. Or if you can afford $50 dollars for a PPC campaign, hire the expertise of Bidvertiser.com and promote your Acme-People-Search referral link. You get as much as $30 per referral plus $125 sign-up bonus! I recommend Bidvertiser mainly for three reasons- a) it's so simple that a child can apply b) lowest key bid rates c) highest conversion ratio.
  
  Option #2 : Money Making Free Niche Website
  
  TheSpiderWebsystem is the most sought after affiliate program so far. In total 22 step-by-step tutorial videos will guide you through what to do in the next step. Many of the successful GDI affiliates are resorting to this GDI downline builder. Believe me- in less than 24 hours TheSpiderWebstem Team will help you to create your own money making GDI website, after you join and complete all the SIX success steps. Weekly webiners, tutorial videos, marketing resources provided by the Spider Team will help you to obtain your desired 2nd income in very limited time. TheSpiderWebsystem is effective to build downline for more than 12 cutting edged multi-level affiliate programs from their back office.
  
  Option #3 : Money Making Free Niche Website 2

  Michael Cobb's Home Income Team (HIT) is my next preference to Acme-People-Search. Here I got some flexibilities, which are unlikely in other GDI downline builders and money making opportunities. HIT website builder generates your own readymade niche money making website in just a few minutes, which you can upload at your own domain.

  Reasons for which HIT is spacial for me:
  
  => Michael Cobb's free money making websites come with a personalized auto-responder, enabling you to capture the leads with your personal TrafficWave Auto-responders. This way you can increase the sales by 1000%, re-utilizing your leads in the near future!!
  
  => You get a very professional, money making website embedded with more than 24 affiliate ids. Unlimited residual income opportunity from a single website!!
  
  => You can promote your own affiliate programs except those provided by HIT.
  
  => Weekly/monthly free webiners, training videos and marketing resources to succeed in your business.
  
  => Cobb's website templates are keyword dense and Search Engine friendly. My most of the visitors are organic and traffic to my blog is increasing every month...
  

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Income Possibilities: Income potential with the GDI is huge. Many well known affiliate programs have used GDI as the me potential with the GDI is huge. Many well known affiliate programs i.g - empowerism.com, plug-in-profitsite have used GDI as the background money maker. GDI pay 50% of their earnings to the marketers in 5 matrix levels (10% in each level). Suppose, you promote 5 active members, each paying $10/month- you earn $5 in the first level affiliate commission. When each of them refer another 5 members, you get $30 (10% of the total 30 members) in your second level... thus the trail goes on upto 5 levels deep. Besides these affiliate commissions- GDI offers Current Referral Contests & Bonus Opportunites declared by GDI is an additional opportunity to earn an UNLIMITED number of $100 BONUS each week by simply referring FIVE new confirmed affiliates in a 7-day Contest Period. Plus- GDI has declared another $5,000 Heavy Hitter Bonus for referring 1000 confirmed affiliates within consecutive 4 week period. This section shows the confirmed leaderboards for our current weekly bonus contest. For every 5 new accounts signed up by an affiliate during 6 days, they receive $100 as bonus. Only new signups that convert to paying customers on our first charge attempt on their 7th day when their free trial ends are counted towards bonuses. Minimum payout to paypal account is $10 and $50 for bank wiring paid every 15th.

Name of the Top Affiliates is removed for security purposes only

History & Background of GDI: This is now a well known story about two UCLA college mates who prowned the in the domain hosting business in the earnly 21st and revolutionized everything. Native Californians Alan Ezeir, 32, and Michael Reed, 31, went their separate ways after UCLA. Ezeir & Reed worked worked in sales for a variety of telecom and technology related companies. After a long houl of working years, they planned to do something innovative and ulitize their experiences gathered in their long working years for their own profits and setting up a new business. In 1996, the pair hooked up to launch Planet Earth Communications to sell long-distance phone service via the Internet. Tapping technology to the utmost, Reed and Ezeir built a business that required as little human contact with customers as possible -- allowing Planet Earth to offer variable rates frequently below those offered by the major carriers. This was just one side of their global business.

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Key Features:

• Its FREE- the pyramid of success!!
• 12 independant residual income streams tied togather i.g.- GDI, Yuwie, DirectMatch, CJ, Adsense, Wazzwa, Self-Bank and many more...
• It's not actually an MLM System that are hard to work with
• Referring people to Free system like this sooo easy, so you build you list very easily.
• 6 Level deep matrix system ( high potential of growth)
• You don't have to sell anything- Set and Forget System.
• The SpiderWebSystem support team do all the back-office jobs i.g. following up prospacts in regular basis and closing the sales.
• High Income Potential- Many of the average affiliates just like me and you are earning $3000+ a week from a single Income Stream called GDI.

Hold a minute... If you are still confused and you want to see some proof- you are welcomed to YouTube for peeping into the PayPal accounts of the so called average affiliates...

Courtesy - Yaro Starak

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

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By- Yaro Starak

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else's blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that's about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips:

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don't have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it's worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it's certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

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1. Advertising sales forecast has just been released by ZenithOptimedia - details from the report today and noted "The forecasts for internet advertising have been revised upwards. The report now forecasts 29.9% growth this year (up from 28.6% forecast three months ago) and 85% growth between 2006 and 2009 (up from 82%). Online video and local search are the new, fast-growing segments, but display, classified and the rest of search are still growing rapidly as well. Internet advertising is expected to account for 9.5% of all expenditure in 2009, fractionally up from the 9.4% forecast three months ago..... The study expects newspapers' share of world ad expenditure to fall from 29.0% in 2006 to 26.2% in 2009. Full Story on - Ahorre.com

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   Hispanic households tend to be younger on average than the U.S. population at large. Of the more than 10 million Hispanic households, 38 percent are currently headed by someone under 35, and an additional 25 percent are led by someone between the ages of 35 and 44 (the national average for homes with heads under 35 is 23 percent.) By 2010, the under-45 Hispanic market will increase to 8 million households, and its purchasing power will leap from the current level of less than $295 billion to $397 billion. In other words, $3 out of every $5 flowing to Hispanic households in 2010 will be in the hands of this younger-than-average segment. Full Story on - Ahorre.com

3. The Future of Advertising and Marketing Programs : Fundamental changes in the way marketing programs are planned, created and executed are expected in 2007, according to the Association of National Advertisers ANA. Here are ten ways the marketing landscape is likely to be transformed, as predicted by the ANA’s leadership team. Full Story on - Ahorre.com
4. The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the first quarter of 2008, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $33.8 billion, an increase of 0.8 percent (±1.0%)* from the fourth quarter of 2007. Total retail sales for the first quarter of 2008 were estimated at $1,024.2 billion, an increase of 0.1 percent (±0.2%)* from the fourth quarter of 2007. The first quarter 2008 e-commerce estimate increased 13.6 percent (±1.2%) from the first quarter of 2007 while total retail sales increased 2.8 percent (±0.2%) in the same period. E-commerce sales in the first quarter of 2008 accounted for 3.3 percent of total sales. Full Story on: Census.gov



5. “Home-based businesses collectively generated a remarkable amount of economic activity, especially for women and minorities,” said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon. “Just released data also show most businesses are started by people and families who dig into their own pockets.” Almost half (49 percent) of the nation’s businesses are operated from home, and more than 6-in-10 owners used their own money to start the business, according to new U.S. Census Bureau reports on characteristics of businesses and business owners. Nearly 1-in-10 U.S. businesses -- both employer firms and nonemployer firms -- were started by owners who used personal or business credit cards to finance the startup or acquisition. Nearly 3-in-10 (28 percent) of all entrepreneurs started or acquired their business with no capital at all. Full Story On: Census.gov



6. More Demographic Reports on US Home Business Workers / Engterpreneurs : Census.gov. Download the Free Report on Home Business Workers in the US (.pdf)