Satellite Internet, Bridging the Digital Divide with HughesNet High-Speed Internet Anywhere.
August 24, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Advanced Satellite Services Provide Broadband to Small Business and Consumers in the 48 contiguous US states anywhere in the US
Elite Satellite is making broadband available to all consumers and small businesses anywhere in the US ? even those who have been left behind by cable and DSL. Working with Hughes, the leading provider of satellite broadband services, Elite Satellite will offer all residents and businesses the speed and performance of available-anywhere high-speed internet service by satellite.
?Our mission is to get high-speed Internet access to anyone who wants it,? said Elite Satellite. ?After 10 years in the business, it has become clear that the only way to make broadband available to those who need it in rural areas is to offer internet service via satellite. No other solution has the flexibility for anytime, anywhere internet access. And with more than 30 years of satellite experience, Hughes offers the only solution we recommend.?
The HughesNet service offered by Elite Satellite improves the user?s Internet experience by offering plans with speeds up to 70 times faster than dial-up. The technology, previously available only to larger companies, delivers high-quality, high-speed Internet to everyone.
Service Plans and Benefits
Elite Satellite is offering a range of HughesNet service plans to meet individual users? needs. Whether a residential user wants to download Web pages quickly and ensure timely e-mail delivery, or if a small business owner wants to incorporate e-commerce, there is a plan that meets that need. By offering a variety of service plans and empowering subscribers to select the one that?s best for them, Elite Satellite is ensuring that consumers and small business owners have a quality Internet experience, and one that delivers value for their dollar.
HughesNet residential plans offer speeds up to 1.5 megabits per second which start at $59.99 per month. Small business plans start at $99.99 per month and offer maximum speeds of up to two 2 megabits per second. All plan subscribers will benefit from:
Hughes Boosts HughesNet Speed and Performance
? Faster speeds;
? Enhanced performance;
? Ability to network multiple internet connections
? Advanced spam and virus protection;
? Multiple e-mail accounts with large storage capacity;
? 24X7 live technical support; and
? A trusted provider with more than 30 years experience delivering satellite services.
Broadband for Everyone
Satellite offers unprecedented broadband choice because it isn?t constrained by geography. With satellite, broadband is available to urban, suburban and rural Internet users?even where DSL and cable are not?thereby helping to bridge the digital divide and eliminating broadband ?black holes.?
?By making high-quality broadband service available to everyone, small businesses can compete effectively in today?s global economy, students can experience the full spectrum of available Internet resources and families can download music, surf the Web and stay in touch with friends and family around the world via satellite internet,? said Mike Cook, senior vice president, Hughes. ?Hughes is looking forward to continued work with Elite Satellite to ensure that consumers and small businesses alike?regardless of their location?get the connectivity they need, when they need it.?
To purchase or learn more about HughesNet high-speed Satellite Internet, please contact Elite Satellite, 877-438-3758, and/or www.GetDSLtoo.com About HughesNet Satellite Internet.
Elite Satellite is one of the most efficient and knowledgeable internet service providers for Satellite Internet. It is ideal for small offices, homes and far off rural places. At the same time it is very cost effective and is now available with huge rebates and discounts.
About Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) is the global leader in providing broadband satellite internet networks and services for large enterprises, governments, small businesses, and consumers. HughesNet encompasses all broadband solutions and managed services from Hughes, bridging the best of satellite and terrestrial technologies. To date, Hughes has shipped more than 1.2 million systems to customers in over 100 countries. Its broadband satellite products are based on the IPoS (IP over Satellite) global standard, approved by the TIA, ETSI, and ITU standards organizations.
Headquartered outside Washington, D.C., in Germantown, Maryland, USA, Hughes maintains sales and support offices worldwide. Hughes is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH). For additional information, please visit www.getdsltoo.com.
Find A New MLM
August 15, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Just like in any profitable market industry, there are people looking to get rich quick who will say or do just about anything to make that happen. That is the case with some MLM programs too. There are MLM companies where the founders are shady, dishonest, and prey on the good intentions of new MLM distributors. As a new MLM’er there are a few things that can aid you in your search for a reputable company.
1) Reputation Is Key
Reputation is everything in the business world. MLM companies have definite reputations within MLM communities. You need to take the time needed to do enough research to know that the program you are wanting to promote is legitimate. Pay attention to what people are writing on blogs and chatting about online. While there will always be something negative about every company available for review, you will definitely be able to tell the good from the bad companies. A good website to aid in your search is www.mlmwatchdog.com.
2) Check Out The Newer Companies
If you find a long standing reputable company, you can be assured that the company will be reliable and a potentially profitable endeavor. On the flip side, if you only research by program longevity, you could miss out on a potentially great new MLM program. There are ways to protect yourself if you’re interested in a newly established MLM company. It will require more vigilant work on your part though to maintain your safety.
The founders should be carefully scrutinized as to their previous business holdings, reputation with those business dealings, and all of their related credentials. The companies plan for customer support is also essential to the success of any new company. If the company plans on handling large volumes of new distributors, then a customer support call center needs to be put into place. A live person for people to talk to, not just an automated system. The research available on the new company of interest should be morally and ethically sound. If the company is promising too much or looks like they are only surviving on hype, then it’s probably not a company to join. Watch out for companies promising too much.
3) Know The Compensation Plan
Along with being reputable, the company should also have income potential. The compensation plan should be at least, if not better, than other industry leaders. Research other companies with the same or similar comp plans to evaluate income potential.
There is no way to predict that you will be satisfied and be able to make money with any program. There are way too many unknowns to predict what your outcome will be. However, with some diligent research, you can safe guard yourself from a potentially bad situation. MLM is a legitimate business model, but it is all too easy to fall into the glitz, glamor, and hype of a program before making sure that the facts support the program’s claims. Looking for a new MLM should be done with all of the scrutiny, objectivity, and due diligence as a brick and mortar business.
Put The Welcome Mat Out On All Your Website Pages
August 6, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Writing ezine articles and submitting them to article directories is without doubt one of the most effective free methods of getting traffic to your website. Writing your own articles also means you can easily add content to your website so as to entertain human visitors and to attract the search engine robots. If your human visitors enjoy what they read, they are quite likely to make return visits. If the search engine bots find interesting content, they will award you a place in the organic search results.
There is a further way in which posting your articles on your website can help increase your profits: your article pages can be used as additional sales pages, but I see many new webmasters missing out on this opportunity to earn some extra cash. They put in the effort to write original ezine articles, they submit the articles to directories, they offer the articles to webmasters of high ranking websites and they post the articles on their own websites. All that is fine except that what may of them do is just post the article on a blank page, and this is where they are missing out on a money making opportunity.
Novice webmasters tend to think of their website in terms of a magazine where the home page is the index and the article pages are, well, article pages. They assume that their visitors will all land on their index page and that some of them will venture further to read articles if they see something of interest listed in the index. Although visitors often do follow that path, many visitors will land directly on an article page through finding it in a search result.
If a visitor’s first experience of your website comes via an article page, what do they see? If your answer to that is “just an article”, it’s time to rethink your article marketing strategy. This is where webmasters can learn from magazine publishers. What do magazines have on their pages in addition to articles? One word answer: advertisements. Having successfully attracted visitors to your website, you should be giving them more to do than just reading an interesting article.
Some visitors will arrive at your article page by accident when they are intent on making a purchase rather than reading up on a topic. You need to give these visitors some options otherwise they will leave your website immediately. Have some advertisements to help them towards finding what they really want. If you write an article about the newest gadget on the market, have your affiliate link prominently displayed in text and/or banner form as well as embedding it in the article text. In short, do everything you can think of to make it easy for your visitors to indulge their desire to make a purchase without them leaving your website.
I have visited websites by entering through an article page where there is no clue as to what products the website might be promoting and no obvious way of finding the home page. That is fine for any visitor who just wants to read an article but it does nothing to help the webmaster’s sales.
If you are handed a magazine folded open to an article, it is an easy matter to flip to the front page, but it’s not that easy when a search engine hands you a website open to an internal page. Make sure every page on your website has a virtual welcome mat for visitors and some help to find their way around.
Why Are Most Paid Survey Sites Scams?
July 28, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Paid surveys are simple, right? One of the easiest ways of making money around. All you have to do is answer the questions and cash the check.
And yet, as most people discover, paid surveys can actually be one of the hardest ways to make money online.
This isn’t because of what you have to do. Surveys might be boring, but they’re easy to take. And it’s no problem finding websites that offer you surveys to take: just use Google and you’ll find thousands of options.
The problem? Nearly all of these sites are basically scams. There are several reasons why.
The first is that many are out of date. If you sign up to a site offering to send you paid surveys, make sure it updates regularly. Many sites will gather together a collection of links to surveys, all of which may have worked at the time they were found. Unfortunately, two months later they could all have finished. Companies collecting data via surveys will only want to do so for short periods of time, for example before launching a new product.
The second is that many sites won’t send you surveys you are eligible for. Most companies only want certain groups answering their surveys, and if you don’t fit those criteria, they won’t pay you anything. They won’t even let you take the survey. It can get very annoying, if you’re paying thirty dollars a month to receive these surveys.
The third is that you may find yourself living in the wrong place. Many sites offer surveys that only those living in the U.S can take. Unfortunately, they normally forget to tell you so until you’ve already paid them the money! They may claim that they offer surveys for those living in other countries, but don’t expect them to turn up more than about once a month.
The fourth is that many sites simply lie. They tell you they offer surveys where you can make hundreds, that you can earn a full-time income answering questions. Normally these are wild exaggerations. They may offer a few surveys, but you might find that you are entered for a prize-draw instead of paid, or given points instead of money. Needless to say, it’s a rare person who can make a full-time income from such sites.
And the fifth reason is that many of these surveys are available for free anyway. If you knew where to look, you could find these surveys and get paid without subscribing to a paid surveys website.
So why do so many people pay these paid survey sites? And why should you?
It’s a great way of earning some extra money. It might be boring, but it’s also easy. You don’t generally have to think very hard about the answers, and you don’t need a website or to plan marketing campaigns. All the hard work is done for you. Yes, you could find surveys yourself, but many find the cost worth it. Instead of trawling the internet for paid surveys, they find them all in the one place.
You probably won’t make the same amount of money as you could affiliate marketing, but the risk tends to be lower, the work less, and the initial investment much smaller. Also, you might not want to make a full-time income online. You might just be looking for an easy way to make some extra money, in which case surveys are a great way to do so.
As for finding a paid survey site that won’t scam you? Find a site with recommendations and reviews, and make sure that there’s a money-back guarantee. Remember that even if the survey site doesn’t mention one, any site that uses Clickbank has an automatic eight week guarantee. Just e-mail Clickbank to get your money back.
Most paid survey sites are scams. But a few will really show you how to make money online.
Push Button Sales Letters
July 19, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
No matter what you are trying to sell, you need to communicate and talk to the buyer. When you send out a sales letter to a possible buyer, you will be talking directly to the person through this letter.
Overall, a winning sales letter follows a time-tested and proven formula:
1) Get his attention
2) Get him interested in what you can do for him
3) Make him desire the benefits of your product so badly his mouth begins to water
4) Demand action from him – tell him to click the right button or send for whatever it is you’re selling without delay – any procrastination on his part might cause him to lose out. This is called the “AIDA” formula: (Attention, Interest, Desire and Action) – It works.
Preparing your sales letter means you need to understand the product or service being offered, the market, and the customer’s needs. There is no substitute for product or service knowledge. Any source of information should be considered. On-Line resources, ads, brochures, articles, books, reports, newsletters and newspapers, and in-person interviews, are good sources.
On your website, your sales page should be the length of what it would be if were doing a mailing, or longer if you’re using bullets to emphasize benefits to build the desire. Of course on the Internet, you don’t have to worry about letterhead stationery or the cost or postage, which is a considerable savings.
If, however, you want to also do a mailing campaign then the following would apply. The sales letters in mailings that pull in the most sales are almost always two pages with 1 1/2 space between lines. For really big ticket items, they’ll run at least four pages. If your sales letter is only two pages in length, there’s nothing wrong with running it on the front and back of one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. However, your sales letter should always be on letterhead.
Regardless of the length of your sales letter, it should do one thing, and that’s selling, and selling hard! Yours sales letter is critical if you plan to close any sale. Your sales letter sould leave your customer wondering what to do next. The brochure or circular you send along with in your mailing will just reinforce what you say in the sales letter, the actual sale and close must be accomplished by your sales letter.
There’s been a great deal of discussion in the past few years regarding just how long a sales letter should be. A lot of people are asking: People will actually take the time to read a long sales letter if written compellingly? The answer is a simple and time-tested yes indeed! Surveys and tests over the years continue prove that “longer sales letters” pull even better than the shorter ones, so don’t worry about the length of your sales letter – just make sure that it sells your product for you!
The “inside secret” is to make your sales letter so interesting, and “compelling” with all the benefits you’re offering to the customer, that they can’t resist reading it all the way through. You break up the “work” of reading by using short, punchy sentences, underlining important points you’re trying to make, with the use of sub-headlines, indentations and even the use of a second color, and leaving lots of white space around it.
On your website, the sales letter should run down the middle of the page so the viewer doesn’t have to keep adjusting the screen to see the whole sentence. This is very confusing and more likely to send that customer to a competitors website than losing patience reading a long letter.
With your brochures and circulars you include in your mailing with your sales letter ? make sure the materials you’re enclosing are high quality, professionally printed and they will generally reinforce the sale for you.
If they look cheap and don’t compliment your sales letter, then you shouldn’t be using them. You will be identified as an independent home worker if you hand-stamp your name/address on these brochures or advertising circulars instead of having them printed.
Whenever possible, if you have really good brochures to send out, have your printer run them through his press and print your name/address – even your telephone number and company logo – on them before you send them out. You want your prospect to think of you as his supplier ? The Company – and not as just another independent entrepreneur.
Above all, you’ve got to include some sort of ordering page or coupon if you’re mailing. The coupon has to be as simple and as easy to fill out and return as you can possible make it.
The order page on your website should already be filled out, with perhaps just the shipping left to choice. If your product is an eBook or software to be instantly downloaded, then you don’t have any options to be chosen.
A great many sales are lost because the order coupon is just too complicated for the would-be buyer to follow. Don’t get fancy! Keep it simple, and you’ll find your customers returning over and over again.
Copyright (c) 2007 Chris Sullivan