Internet Business Opportunity – Building Content to Drive Up Traffic to Your Website

If you are new to Internet marketing and have no clue as to how to start blogging, here are a few things to keep in mind. First of all you have to decide what topics you should be blogging or posting. It is necessary to keep in mind, that you want a blog that will rank as high as possible with search engines for your selected keyword or phrase. That way you drive traffic to your site with Internet Business Opportunity.

Second you have to choose which niche market you are pursuing with your blogs and posts. This is an important step before you write your blog. Take special care in selecting the right title and description for your blog, as both are displayed on every page of you blogs and posts.

Once you have narrowed the niche Business Opportunity and have picked related keyword and phrase, you must fill in these keywords in titles and descriptions of the blogs. So if, your target market is a franchise business, then your blog should be named “franchise.WordPress.com” and the blog title should also contain keywords “franchise business”.

I use WordPress for my blogging sites, so I will use this software as a base. WordPress gives you options to add blog description, so write a short description that will contain your chosen keywords and phrases; and also make sure to include variations of those keywords. You may rephrase the descriptions as a compilation of franchise business reports.

Now let us take a look at blog posts. WordPress lets you post each post to its own specific page. Therefore, you should optimize each post for each different types of Internet Business Opportunity, keywords or phrases. When writing in each post, apply same search engine optimization techniques that you would apply to any regular website; that includes keyword density, keyword or phrase standing and links to your Internet Business Opportunity.

When posting your blogs, make sure that you factor in which keyword or phrase you want and the actual post you want to rank, and optimize the post or blog accordingly. This will further drive traffic to your Internet Business Opportunity and thus increase your chance of conversions.

Always try to make it natural by writing posts that are written in easy and captivating manners, as if you were talking face to face with your readers, and put in your signature in each post. Don not make it something like a math or science book. People read blogs to enjoy and stay informed. So making reading your blog as much enjoyable as possible, it will make readers revisit your blogging site regularly and drive up interest in your Internet Business Opportunity.

Always link your posts to related pages on your website. If you have multiple keywords which are related with each page of your website, combine these keywords, and include them in different posts. Make regular posting a habit, so that visitors keep coming back again and again. Regular new content is what is going to keep your blog attractive and alive.

Best way to get into regular habit of blogging and to gather ideas for blog titles and content, is to visit other blogs in your chosen field, and see what others are writing about. Learn from these writings and choose what you enjoy in their styles to your posts. A Happy blogging!

Three Basic Tips to Great Blogging

A blog is an electronic journal that online community uses to post a plethora of topics. They use a blog for just about everything including a shared journal and advertising their business, among various other things. Many people are hesitant to start a blog as they think it to be complicated. In fact, it is not at all so. I have listed below three key tips to start you off. Once you start, you will be blogging regularly with ease. The best thing about it is, it is totally free, and you can blog just about anything you can think of. So follow these basics and start blogging.

1. Content

Think of the content you want to put into your blog. It is a personal journal with information on a certain topic, or just a way to promote your business. Whatever the reason, quality content is paramount. Begin your blog with three or four topics. This will start your blog and attract visitors to your site. Many of them will post comments on the topics you have blogged about. Pay attention to their comments and look for questions in their posts; they will give you clue to what you want to blog about next, without your realizing. However, be sure that before you post, you have done some careful research on those topics. To project your expertise, careful research is a must. The more you know, the more of an expert you will appear on your topic.

2. Accessibility

You must make yourself easily accessible to your readers. Always keep your updated. Include email instructions for questions that your visitor may have. The more you are accessible to the visitors, happier they will be. Visitors like personal interaction.

3. Personalize

After you have created your blog, it is time to add links to affiliates related to your blogging site. ClickBank is one of the most popular sites for bloggers to affiliate. There are other competitive sites and are relatively easy to find. Simply search them on search engines with terms like advertising affiliates. You will see an incredible selection to choose from. Most businesses are willing to pay blogger’s sites to promote their own businesses. Each site will multitude of the advertiser that you can affiliate with on your blog. You make money while advertising while promoting your ideas. However, do not have too many advertisers on your site. That turns away many of the visitors.

Whatever your reason for blogging, if you follow these three easy steps, you will be up and blogging in a remarkably short time. When you add affiliate links you can make some decent money without too much of an effort.

A Guide to Honest Blogging

Creating a blog site is a terrific way for someone to express their life experiences and to promote their profession. Up to now there is really no actual code of ethics for bloggers to follow. However, there are three common sense ethic codes that a blogger should follow while they are publishing their blog posts. These are the code of ethics that will authenticate you as a trustworthy blogger.

1. Be Honest and Fair:

You need to be honest and fair to your followers. You must make sure that all the information you provide is truthful. Do not include any incorrect information. When providing facts, you need to make them true, easy to follow and distinct. Do not try to distort your facts, visitors can sense this right away and, as a consequence, you will lose readers and followers. If the information you provide in your blog site appears to be doubtful to the reader, you need to clarify with factual information and back up your statement. When adding photos and images to your blog, add captions to explain to the reader about the picture. Honest and fair are two immensely fundamental aspects of the bloggers code of ethics.

2. Harm to others:

When creating a blog topic on a highly controversial issue, avoid naming names or places. This will protect you from potential lawsuits and also from hurting the feelings of your readers. A good principle for this code of ethic would be, say to about others that you would want them to say about you. Also, be sure that you protect other’s privacy. Invading a person’s privacy is intrusive as well as rude. If you do not wish someone doing it to you, make sure you do not do it to others. A good way to avoid violating this code of ethic is to refrain from using names or places wherever possible. If it is unavoidable, use it with as much caution as possible.

3. Be Accountable:

You should be prepared to accept the consequences that may come as a result of your blog. If you have made an error in any of your postings, own it up it right away, do not try to deflect it. Everyone makes mistakes sometime or other and if you own up to your mistakes, you will be more respected by your followers.

If someone questions your information on your blog, engage in a discussion with the person. Try to analyze why they feel the way they do and if you see that they are right, apologize to the reader and admit that they were right and you did make a mistake. If you are not accountable for your own blog, you will be blogging against the code of ethics and, as a consequence, you will lose followers.

All of these codes are common sense, the most ignored parts of blogging. Following a basic code of ethics will make you a trustworthy blogger on your topics and visitors will keep returning.

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1. “It is the instrument which enables manufacturers, producers, retailers and consumers to obtain goods at a time when they can be used or sold even if ready cash is not available.” Match the statement with one of the following.

Correct option
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2. Collection letter must be:

Correct option
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Correct option
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4. CSP stands for:

Correct option
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5. According to Psychologists, 50 percent of an interview’s decision is made within how many seconds?

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What is five W and one H approach?

The five W's (who, what, when, where and why) and one H (how) are used to understand the system in the analysis and design phases.

1. What - Understanding the Concept
It helps improve the performance of an organization by reducing the variations in the services and products and providing good quality products. It is a tool to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of the organization.

2. Why - The Objective of the Project
Achieving Six Sigma is the objective of the project. It means that the goal is to improve the processes and products to the extent of delivering defect free products and services. It requires listening to internal and external customers of the process to bring about the best product, which meets customer requirements.

3. Who - The People Involved
Six Sigma requires the involvement of all members of the organization, from the senior management to those in charge of the processes. Top management decides and appoints sponsors, who in turn will select the Champions, Master Black Belts, Black Belts and Green Belts.

4. Where - Location for Implementation
Six Sigma is applied to all processes of the business. Initially, it can be aimed at a strong problem area, but with the advantages of the project visible to everyone, it can be implemented in all the processes and products as well.
The entire organization will thus undergo a change to ensure increased profits due to improved quality and customer satisfaction.

5. When - When to Apply Six Sigma
Initially, Six Sigma can be applied to problem areas where customer satisfaction is lacking. It can be applied when the need is felt to improve and retain the organization's leadership position in the industry, as well as market share.

6. How - How to Apply Six Sigma
Six Sigma projects are aimed at improving existing processes and eliminating the defects using the DMAIC roadmap. They can also achieve success by bringing about an entire process redesign or new product development using the DFSS roadmap. Process management is useful when existing process improvements need to be sustained.

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Problem Statement:

Write a c++ program which consists of two classes:

1. Date

2. Student

First class Date should contain three data members:

Day

Month

Year

Date also contain following member functions:

Setter function

Getter function

showdate()



Now second class Student should have following three data members:

ST_ID

Name

Ad_date

Where ID and Name are char pointer while Ad_date (Date of Admission) is of type Date.



Student class should contain two member functions:

Display()

setdate()

Now in main function create an object of Class Student and call the member functions with it.

=========================================================

Sample output:



Name: Ali

ID: BC020400000

Admission Date: 12-08-2008



==========================================================





__________________________________________



SOLUTION:



// header file section

#include

#include

using namespace std;



class Date

{

public: int day;

int month;

int year;



public://Constructor

Date()

{

day=0;

month=0;

year=0;

}

//Member function declaration

//Mutator functions

void setDay(int);

void setMonth(int);

void setYear(int);

//Accessor functions

int getDate();

int getMonth();

int getYear();

//show date function

void showDate();

}

//member function definitions



void Date::setDate(int d)

{

//input validation

if (d<1>31)

{

cout<<"Invalid month please reenter it";

cin>>d;

}//end if

day=d;

}//end set day



void Date::setMonth(int m)

{

//input validation

if(m<1>12)

{

cout<<"invalid month please reenter it";

cin>>m;

}//end if

month=m;

}//end set month



void Date::setYear(int y)

{

year=y;

}//end set year



int Date::getDay()

{

return day;

}//end get day



int Date::getMonth()

{

return month;

}//end get month



int Date::getYear()

{

return year;

}//end get year



void Date:: showDate()

{

cout<

}

class Student

{

public:

char *ST_ID;

char *Name;

Date Ad_date;

public:

student()

{

Name=new char[20];

ST_ID=new char[10];

cout<<"Enter name:";

cin.getline(Name,20);

cout<<"Enter ID:";

cin.getline(ST_ID,10);

}

void setdate()

{

cout<<"Enter Day:";

cin>>Ad_date.day;

cout<<"Enter Month:";

cin>>Ad_date.month;

cout<<"Enter Year:";

cin>>Ad_date.year;

}

void Display()

{

cout<<"Name:"<

cout<<"ID:"<

cout<<"Admission Date:";

Ad_date.showDate();

}

};

main()

{

object.setDate();

object.display();

//pause system for a while

system("pause");

}//end main

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In an extremely competitive job market, neglecting your cover letter is a big mistake. Why? A cover letter is your first opportunity to tell a prospective employer about yourself, and to do so in your own words. Like a written interview, a cover letter gives you the opportunity to point out applicable experience and qualities that make you right for the job. And just like any other important job searching tool, there are definite dos and don'ts to follow to make sure your cover letter is an asset, not a hindrance.

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Hiring managers can spot a mass mailing a mile away. What gets their attention are letters that address the company -- and its needs -- specifically. Research the company prior to writing the letter. Check out recent news and read through the company's Web site, and then incorporate what you learned into your letter. Doing so will demonstrate to employers that you are informed, motivated and willing to go the extra mile.

Do address the specific position advertised.
Companies that post openings are making your life easier by telling you the qualities they are seeking. Show the company that you paid attention. If a company advertises that it is looking for sales experience, make sure you address your sales experience. One way to do this is by making a table for yourself before writing your letter. List the company's stated needs in one column, and your corresponding experience and qualifications in another column. You can then use that information to write a letter that tells them exactly what they want to know.

Don't make the reader work too hard to see that you are right for the position.
Include specific examples about your past successes and experience. If you are looking for a marketing position, give the reader detailed information about a marketing campaign you successfully executed. Don't just tell the reader that you are motivated. Give an example that shows your motivation. You need to lay all of your pertinent information out in a way that lets the person making the hiring decision easily see how your experience and qualities fit the company's needs.

Do get to the point.
Hiring managers receive letters and resumes from dozens and even hundreds of applicants, and often just don't have the time to read lengthy, wordy letters. Be direct. In the first paragraph, include the title of the position you are interested in and then move on to your specific qualifications immediately.

(b)

What do you know about methods of negotiation? Comment on each briefly. (5)

ANSWER

Negotiation is crucial in all organisations and in virtually every aspect of life. In essence, negotiating is deciding what to agree on and persuading the other party to agree. In order to decide and persuade, you need to gather the right information and determine what is of highest value and what is of lowest cost to both you and the other side. Often standard approaches fail and innovative thinking is required. Once made, agreements must be implemented and enforced to succeed. These five skills – information-gathering, rational decision-making, persuasion, innovation, and implementation – constitute the negotiator’s tool kit. We also include a session on ethics in negotiation, an element which we believe to be critically important to building trust among negotiators.

This programme, over five days at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, is designed to develop and strategically orchestrate these five skills, and to help you realise your full potential as a negotiator, enabling you effectively to reach agreements and resolve disputes. Past participants have included a rich mix of senior people from the public and private sectors.

Please feel free to contact me directly if you have questions about the programme.

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SOLUTION # 2

Question No.1

Write a detailed note on resume in general from employer’s point of view.
A resume is an outline of your accomplishments that contains the strengths and enthusiasms that make you a unique individual. So you must decide what to include and what format to use keeping in mind the employer’s point of view that how can your resume depict the information what the employer wants.

From employer’s point of view:
• What can you do for me? The most effective way to show employers the value you offer is to show them how you've contributed to an employer's success elsewhere. Examples must be specific, measurable accomplishments that cite numbers and other details.

• Do you have the skills I'm looking for? Scan job ads and job descriptions to discover which skills are most relevant to the employers and recruiters receiving your resume. Then strategically place them throughout your résumé to ensure it makes it past computer scans and into the hands of employers and recruiters.

• Where have you worked before? Employers want to know where you worked, for how long and which job titles you've held that may indicate how prepared you are for a role at their organization.

• Is your experience relevant to my needs? Sometimes it's necessary to expand upon a job title or job description to truly demonstrate that you have experience that applies to the job you're seeking. Consider using bullets to present brief and interesting information that is relevant to the employer.

• Do you have the right education and credentials? If you have the education, credentials and training needed to qualify for the job, be sure to say so! Use commonly accepted terminology and keywords in this section to ensure your information isn't misinterpreted or overlooked by employers or resume scanners.

• What kind of person are you? "Adding insightful information about what makes you special can be a definite plus on your resume and help decision-makers discriminate between you and another candidate, even before you've met in person. Include "extras," such as a branding statement and relevant information about foreign languages you speak, computer proficiencies, etc.

• Do I see any "red flags" in your background? Gaps in employment (an indication of job hopping), spending too much time in the same job or resume errors may alert employers and recruiters that you are not the type of candidate they're looking for in their organization. To avoid drawing attention to "red flags" on your resume, make sure you make your accomplishments and skills stand out as strongly as possible.

• Can I easily get in touch with you? After all you’re hard work in putting together a powerful resume, don't forget the essentials! It doesn't matter how great your resume is, if you don't include a phone number, address and e-mail address somewhere on the resume, you'll never hear from the employer or recruiter.

One of the most important factors that employers weigh heavily is maturity. Employers will also want to know whether or not you have a professional demeanor. Your professionalism is something you need to prove to employers as soon as you contact their firm. Proving you can do a certain job is not enough? Companies, especially those hiring for management training programs, also want to see that you are going to grow within the company. What's more, you will have to project the image of a business-oriented person by showing an interest in the industry and in the business world in general. To be sure, employers also want to see that you can perform the job.

Question No.2

(a) Describe dos and don’ts of writing an effective cover letter.

Here are the keys to writing successful and dynamic cover letters. Follow these simple rules and we should achieve success in this important phase of job-hunting.

Dos for writing an effective cover letter:

• Address your letter to an appropriate individual with hiring power.

• Use simple language and uncomplicated sentence structure. Ruthlessly eliminate all unnecessary words. Follow the journalist's credo: Write tight!

• Write cover letters that are unique and specific to you.

• Keep your letter brief. Never, Never more than one page and it's best to keep it well under a full page. Each paragraph should have no more than one to three sentences.

• Tell the employer how you can meet his or her needs and contribute to the company.

• Distinguish your cover letter from those of other job-seekers by quantifying and giving examples that amplify and prove the claims you make in your letter.

• Try to answer the question that the employer will be asking while reading your letter:

• Avoid negativity. Negativity never has a place in a cover letter.

• Be sure the potential employer can reach you..

• Use e-mailed cover letters, but keeps them shorter and more concise.

Don’ts of writing an effective cover letter:

• Don't ever send your resume without a cover letter.

• Don't use a sexist salutation, such as "Gentlemen" when answering a blind ad.

• Don't waste your first paragraph by writing a boring introduction. Use the first paragraph to grab the employer's attention, give the employer the reasons you are qualified for the position.

• Don't use such clichés as "Enclosed please find my resume" or "As you can see on my resume enclosed here with." Employers can see that your resume is enclosed; they don't need you to tell them. Such trite phrases just waste precious space. And don’t use wordy phrases, which also waste space.

• Don't depend on the employer to take action. Request action. Request an interview, and tell the employer when you will follow up to arrange it. Then, Do So. It is imperative that you follow up. You will greatly increase your chances of getting interviews if you call the employer after writing instead of sitting back and waiting for a call. Those who wait for the employer to call them will generally have a long wait indeed.

• Don't send a cover letter that contains any typos, misspellings, incorrect grammar or punctuation, smudges, or grease from yesterday's lunch.

• Don't rehash your resume. You can use your cover letter to highlight the aspects of your resume that are relevant to the position, but you're wasting precious space -- and the potential employer's time -- if you simply repeat your resume.

• Don't forget to personally sign the letter, preferably in blue ink.

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(b) What do you know about methods of negotiation? Comment on each briefly. (5)

Negotiating methods

In the negotiating process, the parties involved may choose one of five different negotiation methods. A skilful negotiator is able to identify them and recognize which one is being used by the other person.

1. Compromise
2. Collaboration
3. Competition
4. Accommodation
5. Withdrawal or avoidance

Compromise
It means to settle differences through concessions made by one or both parties and to arrive at expedient solutions under time pressure; and as a backup when collaboration or competition is unsuccessful. A compromise usually produces win-win or win-lose results. When the settlement meets the needs and goals of both parties (win-win), both are satisfied with the outcome. When the solution meets the needs and goals of only one party (win-lose), the other party is dissatisfied with the outcome.

Collaboration

It means to find an integrative solution when both sets of concerns are too important to be compromised; when your objective is to learn; to merge insights from people with different perspectives; to gain commitment by incorporating concerns into a consensus; and to work through feelings that have interfered with a relationship. On the other hand, it is time-consuming and demands good negotiating skills on each side.

Competition

Often leads to one party gaining advantage over the other, if it can negotiate at the expense of the other’s needs. Since the competitive approach usually produces a win-lose result, it is bad for personal relationships. The solution is likely to be temporary as there is no commitment from the losing party, so the problem will occur again. It also leaves the losing side in a difficult situation.

Accommodation

Means that only one party is willing to oblige or adapt to meet the needs of the other. It produces a win-lose outcome. However, this method is useful for negotiating on minor matters. The result can go one way or the other. It is suitable if the accommodating party does not really care about the loss.
However, the negotiating parties may not bother to look for creative solutions. With this negotiations method, points of view are easily swayed.

Withdrawal or avoidance

Withdrawal (avoidance) is a negotiation method that makes both parties lose, because one party retracts their point of view or backs away form the situation. Such dissatisfaction may lead to conflict in the future. The choices you make are influenced by the context in which you negotiate and by your range of personal communication and negotiation skills.

IT430 - Ecommerce Assignment solution

Question : [10 Marks]
“In strategy assessment phase, you can learn from your mistakes and do your future planning”. Do you agree or not? Justify your reply precisely.

Can you provide a real world example taken form any reputed organization or at government level, in which a long term strategic plan was formulated? assessed
(Whether strategy was delivered?) and found many issues in it, they again formulate a new strategy or set of strategies in light of the company’s main objective or its mission
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In strategy assessment phase, you can learn from your mistakes and do your future planning. Because, for the strategy assessment, you can conduct surveys, collect information and receive feedback from different groups of people coming from a variety of background. Using this information we can identity the problems and try to remove them by taking some preventive measures. Some of these corrective measures can be used further to properly train the team.


For any company the strategic planning process is done in three stages
1. Where are we and who are we?
Before doing anything, we have to have a thorough understanding our company’s potential and the environment that surrounds us.
2. Where do we want to be?
The second point we must define is what we want to do in the international market. We will therefore set the strategic objectives we intend to achieve in each market.
3. How are we going to get there?
Once we have decided where we want to go and what we want to do, we will have to study how to do it.
In addition to this company’s goals and policies must be kept in mind while developing the strategic plan for a company.
Now by various surveys done by meeting people or through a questionnaire or some other means like discussions in forums, blogs etc., the feedback will be known. Depending on the results obtained we should have a new understanding of the challenges we need to overcome. We should now have greater insights into the problems that are being faced and the events and issues behind them.
Hope this will help you to build and assess a strategy plan for a company !!!