Car fuel 'could be made from thin air'
Car fuel could be created from thin air using an enzyme from a common soil bacterium, say scientists.
Cars could one day create their own fuel out of thin air, according to scientists. Photo: BLOOMBERGIt is hoped that this will lead to a cheap way of making environmentally friendly, carbon-neutral 'green' fuel that can be used without major redesigns of car engines.
Azotobacter vinelandii, a microbe found around the roots of various food plants, creates an enzyme - vanadium nitrogenase - which in nature produces ammonia from nitrogen gas. But now it has been shown that it can also create propane, the fuel commonly used in camping gas stoves, out of carbon monoxide - a common byproduct of industrial processes.
Markus Ribbe, a scientist at the University of California, says that eventually the enzyme could be tweaked, so that instead of only making the simple three-carbon-atom chain molecule of propane, it could create the longer chains that make up petrol. He says: "Obviously this could lead to new ways to create synthetic liquid fuels if we can make longer carbon-carbon chains."
The researchers found that, when deprived of the oxygen and nitrogen from which it made ammonia and given carbon monoxide instead, vanadium nitrogenase automatically started using it to produce short carbon chains, two or three atoms long. This new ability is a "profound discovery", according to Jonas Peters, a California Institute of Technology researcher, adding that it will have important industrial applications.
But the real excitement is in the possibility of using it for car fuel. Cars produce carbon monoxide in their exhausts through incomplete combustion, so in the not too distant future, it might be possible partly to fuel cars off their own fumes. Later still, it might be possible to draw fuel straight out of the air - technology for breaking down carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide exists, and the former is widely available in the atmosphere. Eventually, cars could be taking carbon out of the atmosphere as fast as they put it back in.
That's a long way off - extracting, growing and storing sufficient quantities of vanadium nitrogenase is "very, very difficult", according to Dr Ribbe. While A. vinelandii and its useful enzyme have been known about for a long time - the genes that code for the enzyme were isolated more than 20 years ago - the technology required to make it in useful quantities is very recent.
Story via Discovery News.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Car fuel 'could be made from thin air' - Telegraph
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Next-Generation iOS Device Rumors: New iPods Soon, Smaller iPad and iPhone 5 in Early 2011? - Mac Rumors
Next-Generation iOS Device Rumors: New iPods Soon, Smaller iPad and iPhone 5 in Early 2011?
Wednesday August 04, 2010 11:47 AM EST; Category: iPhone, iPod
Written by Eric Slivka
iLounge has put together a summary of recent information it has received regarding Apple's plans for the next generation of its iOS devices. Among the claims are a set of revised iPod devices possibly including a touch screen iPod shuffle, a new 7" iPad set for launch early next year at the latest, and a fifth-generation iPhone release scheduled for as soon as January.- iPod: Apple reportedly has three new models of iPods ready for release, with the company presumed to be introducing them at an early September media event as it has for the last several years. The new models include a new iPod touch and iPod nano, while the third model could be a new iPod shuffle, possibly including the diminutive Apple-branded touch screen that appeared in a leak last month.
The report also claims circulating rumors of a three-inch touch screen for an iPod device, which would be a curious shift from the standard 3.5-inch screen of the iPhone and iPod touch if the device were to run iOS, unless the device offered the same number of pixels at slightly higher density. Issues would likely still remain, however, with buttons and other onscreen touch items at the smaller size.
- iPad: A new 7-inch iPad is reportedly scheduled for launch later this year or early next year. Previous reports have similarly indicated that Apple is planning to launch a smaller iPad with a screen sizes in the range of 5-7 inches early next year.
- iPhone: The fifth-generation iPhone may be set to launch as early as January in order to address antenna issues with the iPhone 4. It is unclear whether the new iPhone would be a major redesign or simply a tweak to address the antenna problems. While not mentioned in the report, the redesign could coincide with the much-rumored Verizon iPhone highly anticipated by many potential customers.
The report also addresses the iPhone 4 bumpers, with claims that Apple may be preparing to release a new, all-silicone bumper for the iPhone 4 that would provide the company with a cheaper solution to address the device's antenna issues. The report's source also claims that Apple considered shipping the iPhone 4 with bumpers from the very beginning, implying that the company was aware of a potential antenna issue.
Ordinarily, we would be highly skeptical of several of these claims, but while we are still taking them with a grain of salt, iLounge has had some remarkably accurate information on Apple's iPod pipeline over the last several years. The site accurately revealed the design change of the fourth-generation iPod nano, as well as the larger screen and unique camera placement of the fifth-generation iPod nano months before their respective releases. The site also offered some correct details on the iPad, although not all of its information on that product did turn out to be accurate.
Use Your Smartphone's GPS Internationally Without Incurring Roaming Charges
Use Your Smartphone's GPS Internationally Without Incurring Roaming Charges
It's extremely comforting to have GPS with you when you're travelling in strange foreign lands, but unfortunately any incoming call could charge you fees. Reader Aaron shows us how to avoid these fees while keeping your GPS turned on.
Photo by Johan Larsson.
I've been researching online how to travel to Europe with my iphone, and think I just came up with an original idea. I haven't seen this suggested anywhere else online.
I'm biking up the Mosel River, so I want to use my GPS map app to track my route and distances. This doesn't require data or cellular connection, only GPS. However, the GPS receiver doesn't work in Airplane mode. But if airplane mode is off and I recieve a call, I'll get an international call fee (even if I don't answer it).
My solution is to use call forwarding. Turn on call forwarding to my office phone (I don't have a home phone anymore). Any calls received will be directed to the other number and not to my phone in Europe. Then I turn off data roaming as well. So no calls and no data (except via wi-fi), but the GPS still works! I called AT&T and verrified that the call isn't routed to Europe and back to my office, so it's safe.
Turn on call forwarding through: Settings > Phone > Call Forwarding > On/Off.
It's also easy to toggle on and off, in case you really need to be able to receive a call. This also doesn't affect your ability to make outgoing calls in any way.
This would of course also work for anyone who sets up an international roaming data plan through AT&T, but doesn't want to accidentally receive any calls. I ran this entire scenario by the AT&T rep I spoke to and she agreed that it would work the way I intended.
While we don't have a foreign country nearby to test this theory out, the logic is sound. In fact, if you have a Google Voice account, you could probably do this with any smartphone, since it, too, supports call forwarding. If you have the chance to try this out, let us know how it works in the comments.
The author of this post can be contacted at tips@lifehacker.com
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
101 Ways to Make More Sales Online
101 Ways to Make More Sales Online
If you’re trying to make money online, sooner or later you have to face it. Conversion. That intimidating topic: how to get more buyers from the same amount of traffic.
The only reason conversion is intimidating is that there are a lot of places you can go astray. Most of them aren’t that hard to fix, but any one of a thousand little problems can keep you from getting the conversion you should have.
I don’t have a thousand tips for you today, but I do have 101 to get you started.
Here are 101 fixes, some small, some big, for making more sales online.
- Does your product or service solve a problem people actually care about? How do you know? If your basic offer doesn’t appeal to your prospect, you’re sunk before you begin. Make sure you’re selling something people want.
- Let prospects know they’re buying from a human being. Keep your language personal, friendly, and (for most markets) informal. Sound like a person, not a pitching machine.
- Tell a story about how you solved this problem for yourself before you started selling the solution to others. Let readers put themselves in your shoes. Let the prospect feel, “Wow, this person is a lot like me.”
- Fix your typos, make sure your links work, avoid grammar mistakes that make you look dumb. Reassure your prospect that you know what you’re doing.
- Test two headlines. When you find a winner, run it against a new headline. Keep eliminating second-best. Google Adwords is a quick and efficient way to do this.
- Try testing an “ugly” version of the sales copy. Boring fonts, not much layout, no pretty colors. Weirdly, sometimes a bare-bones presentation works better. Don’t just run ugly without testing it, though, because it doesn’t always win.
- Instead of sending traffic right to a sales page, put them through a six- or seven-message autoresponder first. Give them enough information to build their trust and let them know you’re the best resource.
- Strengthen your call to action. Make sure you’ve clearly told readers exactly what to do next.
- Make sure you’ve described your product or service in enough detail. If it’s physical, give the dimensions and some great photos. If it’s digital, tell them how many hours of audio you include, how many pages are in the PDF. Don’t assume your prospects already know any details — spell everything out.
- Getting traffic from advertising, pay-per-click, or guest posting? Be sure your landing page is tied to your traffic source. If you’re running a pay-per-click campaign for “Breed Naked Mole Rats,” make sure the words “Breed Naked Mole Rats” are in your headline for the landing page.
- Master copywriter Drayton Bird tells us every commercial offer should satisfy one or several of these 9 human needs: make money, save money, save time and effort, do something good for your family, feel secure, impress other people, gain pleasure, improve yourself, or belong to a group. And then of course, there’s the obvious #10 — make yourself irresistibly sexy to the romantic partner of your choice. I guess Drayton is too much of a gentleman to include it, but it’s about the strongest driver we have once eating and breathing have been taken care of.
- Now that you’ve identified your fundamental human need, how can that be expressed in an emotion-based headline?
- Have you translated your features into benefits? I bet you’ve still got some benefits you could spell out. Remember, features are what your product or service does. Benefits are what your prospect gets out of it.
- Put your photo on your sales page. Human beings are hard-wired to connect to faces. If prospects can see you, it’s easier for them to trust you.
- If you have a dog, use a photo of you with your dog instead. There’s something about a dog that lowers nearly everyone’s defenses.
- You can try just using a photo of the dog. Believe it or not, sometimes it works.
- Simplify your language. Use something like the Flesch-Kincaid readability scale to make sure you’re keeping your wording clean and simple. (Please note that simple writing is not dumb writing.)
- No matter how emotional your appeal, justify it with logic. Give people the facts and figures they need so they can justify the purchase to themselves. Even the most frivolous, pleasure-based purchase (say, a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes) can be justified with logical benefits (superior workmanship, rare materials, giving the wearer a boost in confidence).
- What kind of tasty bonus could you offer? Peanut butter is good; peanut butter with jelly is great. Find the jelly for your peanut butter, the bonus that makes your good product even better.
- Are you getting your message to the right people? A list of people who really want what you offer, and who are both willing and able to buy?
- Listen to the questions you get. What are people still unclear about? What’s worrying them about your offer? Even if you outsource your email and/or support, it’s a good idea to regularly read a random selection of customer messages.
- Keep your most important sales elements “above the fold” (in other words, on the first screen, without scrolling, when readers go to your page). Usually that means a compelling headline, a great opening paragraph, and possibly either a wonderful product shot (to create some desire) or a photo of you (to build trust and rapport). Eye-tracking studies suggest your most important image should be at the top left side of the page.
- Check the dual readership path. Do your headline and subheads tell an intriguing story if you read them without any of the rest of the copy?
- How’s your guarantee? Could you state it with more confidence? Can you remove any of the weasely stuff? Does your guarantee remove the customer’s risk?
- Do you take PayPal? PayPal has its issues, but it’s also “funny money” for a lot of customers. They’ll spend freely from PayPal when they’d think twice about pulling out a credit card.
- Have you asked for the sale boldly and forcefully? Is there any hemming and hawing you could edit out?
- What’s the experience of using your product or service? Could you make that more vivid with a testimonial video or a great case study?
- Is there any reason your prospect might feel foolish for buying from you? Are they afraid they’ll kick themselves later? That their friends, spouse, or co-workers will give them a hard time about this purchase? Fix that.
- Are you using standard design conventions? Links should be underlined. Navigation (if you have any on your sales page) should be immediately understandable.
- Got testimonials? Got effective testimonials? (If these are hard for you, check out Sean D’Souza’s great advice.)
- Does the prospect know everything he needs to know in order to make this purchase? What questions might still be on his mind? How can you educate him to make him more confident about his decision to buy?
- Does the link to your shopping cart work? (Don’t laugh. Go test every link onthe page that goes to your cart. And make a point of testing them once or twice a day the entire time your shopping cart is open — even if that’s 365 days a year.)
- Is your marketing boring? Remember the great Paul Newman mantra. “Always take the work seriously. Never take yourself seriously.” If your marketing is putting customers to sleep, it can’t do its job.
- Social media isn’t just about talking – it’s also about listening. What are your potential customers complaining about on Twitter, on Facebook, on LinkedIn, in forums, in blog comments? What problems could you be solving for them? What language do they use to describe their complaints?
- Have you answered all of their questions? Addressed all of their objections? I know you’re worried the copy will get too long if you address every point. It won’t.
- Have you been so “original” or “creative” that you’ve lost people? Remember the words of legendary ad man Leo Burnett: “If you absolutely insist on being different just for the sake of being different, you can always come down to breakfast with a sock in your mouth.”
- Can you offer a free trial?
- Can you break the cost into several payments?
- Can you offer an appetizing free bonus, one the customer can keep whether or not she keeps the main product? An incredibly useful piece of content works perfectly for this.
- Does your headline offer the customer a benefit or advantage?
- How can you make your advertising too valuable to throw away? How can you make the reader’s life better just for having read your sales letter? Think special reports, white papers, and other content marketing standbys.
- Have you appealed to the reader’s greed? Not very pretty, but one of the most effective ways to drive response. (The nice way to put this is “be sure you’re offering your prospect great value.”)
- Is your message confusing? A bright nine-year old should be able to read your sales copy and figure out why she should buy your product.
- Can you link your copy to a fad? This is particularly effective for web-based copy and for short-term product launches, because you can be absolutely current. Just remember there’s nothing more stale than yesterday’s Macarena.
- Similarly, can you tie your copy to something a lot of people are really worried about? This can be something in the news (an oil spill, climate change, economic turbulence) or something related to a particular time in your prospect’s life (midlife weight gain, anxieties about young kids, retirement worries).
- Try a little flattery. One of the great first lines of all sales copy came from American Express: “Quite frankly, the American Express card is not for everyone.” The reader immediately gets a little ego boost from assuming that the card is for special people like him.
- Is there a compelling, urgent reason to act today? If prospects don’t have a reason to act right away, unfortunately they have a bad habit of procrastinating the purchase forever.
- Are you visualizing one reader when you write? Don’t write to a crowd — write for one perfect customer who you want to convince. Your tone and voice will automatically become more trustworthy, and you’ll find it easier to find the perfect relevant detail to make your point.
- Tell the reader why you’re making this offer. In copywriting slang, this is the “reason why,” and it virtually always boosts response.
- Can you get an endorsement from someone your customers respect? Celebrity endorsements are always valuable, but you can also find “quasi-celebrities” within your niche that hold as much sway as a national figure.
- Can you provide a demonstration of the product or service? If it’s not something that can be demonstrated on video, try telling a compelling story about how your offering solved a thorny problem for one of your customers.
- How often are you using the word “You”? Can that be bumped up?
- How often are you using the word “We”? Can that be eliminated? (“I” actually works better than “we,” which tends to come across as corporate and cold.)
- Stay up late tonight and watch a few informercials. Keep a pen and paper handy. Write down every sales technique that you see. In the morning, translate at least three of them to your own market. (Remember, you can change the tone and the sophistication level to match your buyers.)
- Have you made yourself an authority in your market?
- Is there an “elephant in the living room?” In other words, is there a major objection that you haven’t addressed because you just don’t want to think about it? You’ve got to face all inconvenient truths head on. Don’t assume that if you don’t bring it up, it won’t occur to your prospects.
- How’s your follow-up? Do you have the resources to answer questions that come in? Remember, questions are often objections in disguise. Prospect questions can give you great talking points for your sales letter. You may want to bring on some help in the form of a friendly VA or temp to help out with email during a big launch.
- Is there a number in your headline? There probably should be.
- Similarly, have you quantified your benefits? In other words, have you translated “time saved” to “three full weeks saved — plenty of time to go on a life-changing vacation — each and every year.” Put a number on the results you can create for your customers.
- It’s weird, but “doodles” and other elements that look like handwriting can boost response — even on the web. There are hundreds of handwritten fonts available, which can be converted to visual elements with PhotoShop or simple logo-generating software.
- Does your headline make the reader want to read the first line of copy?
- Does the first line make the reader want to read the second line of copy?
- Does the second line make the reader want to read the third line?
- (Etc.)
- Throw in some more proof that what you’re saying is true. Proof can come from statistics, testimonials, case studies, even news stories or current events that illustrate the ideas your product or service is based on.
- Compare apples to oranges. Don’t compare the cost of your product to a competitor’s — compare it to a different category of item that costs a lot more. For example, compare your online course to the cost of one-on-one personal consulting.
- For this reason, it’s always a good idea to have at least one platinum-priced item for sale. They make everything else you sell look nicely affordable by comparison.
- Make your order page or form easier to understand. Complicated order pages make customers nervous.
- Remember to restate your offer on your order page. Don’t expect the customers to remember all the details of what you’ve just (almost) sold her. Re-state those benefits.
- Include a phone number where people can call for questions. I know this is tricky to handle, but it can boost your response by a surprising amount.
- Include a photograph of what you’re selling, if you can.
- Is there a lot of distracting navigation leading your customers away? (Worst of all are cheap-looking ads that pull people away for a penny or two.) Get rid of it. Focus your reader’s attention on this offer with a one-column format stripped of distractions.
- Put a caption on any image that you use. Captions are the third most-read element of sales copy, after the headline and the P.S. The caption should state a compelling benefit to your product or service. (Even if that benefit doesn’t quite match the image.
- While you’re at it, link the image to your shopping cart.
- Make the first paragraph incredibly easy to read. Use short, punchy, and compelling sentences. A good story can work wonders here.
- Does your presentation match your offer? If you’re offering luxury vacations, do your graphics and language have a luxury feeling? If you’re selling teen fashion, is your design trendy and cute?
- Are you trying to sell from a blog post? Send buyers to a well-designed landing page instead.
- Halfway through a launch and sales are listless? Come up with an exciting bonus and announce it to your list. Frank Kern calls this “stacking the cool.”
- Are you asking your prospect to make too many choices? Confused people don’t buy. You should have at most three options to choose from — something along the lines of “silver, gold, or platinum.”
- Look for anything in your copy that’s vague. Replace it with a concrete, specific detail. Specifics are reassuring, and they make it easier for the prospect see herself using your product.
- Numbers are the most reassuring details of all. Translate anything you can into numbers.
- Look for any spot in your copy that might make your prospect silently say “No,” or “I don’t think so.” Rework that spot. You want the prospect to mentally nod in agreement the entire time she’s reading your letter.
- Don’t be afraid to repeat yourself. Prospects often don’t read every word of the sales letter. Find ways to restate your call to action, the most important benefits, and your guarantee.
- Hint at a genuinely exciting benefit early in the copy, then spell it out later in your sales letter. (Be careful of curiosity-based headlines, though, as traditionally they don’t convert as well as benefit- or news-based ones do.)
- Use the two magic words of persuasive copy.
- Successful marketing doesn’t sell products or services — it sells benefits and big ideas. What’s your big idea? What are you really selling? If you’re not sure, go back to our ten human needs in #11 above.
- If you offer something physical, make sure there’s a way they can get expedited delivery. The ability to place a rush order lifts response, even if the customer doesn’t take advantage of it.
- Put a Better Business Bureau, “Hacker Safe” seal, or similar badge on your sales page.
- Could you be underpricing your offer? A surprising number of buyers, even in a bad economy, won’t buy a product or service if it seems too cheap to be worth their time.
- Are you using the wording “Buy Now” on your shopping cart button? Try “Add to Cart,” “Join Us,” or similar wording instead. Focusing on word “buy” aspect has been shown to lower response.
- Allow your prospect to picture himself buying. Talk as if he’s already bought. Describe the life he’ll now be living, as your customer. If you want a delicious example, go to the J. Peterman website. Few have ever done it better.
- Cures sell vastly better than prevention. If your product is mostly preventative, find the “cure” elements and put those front and center. Solve problems people already have, rather than preventing problems they might have some day.
- If your funny ad isn’t converting, try playing it straight. Humor is, by its nature, unpredictable. It can work fantastically well, or it can destroy your conversion. If you can’t figure out what else might be wrong, this could be the culprit.
- Are you the king of understatement? The sultan of subtlety? Get over it. At least in your sales copy.
- How’s your P.S.? (You do have a P.S., right?) Is it compelling? Typically you want to restate either the most interesting benefit, the guarantee, the urgency element, or all three.
- Cut all long paragraphs into shorter ones. Make sure there are enough subheads so you have at least one per screen. If copy looks daunting to read, it doesn’t get read.
- Increase your font size.
- Include a “takeaway.” No, this isn’t a hamburger and fries — it’s the message that your offer isn’t for everyone. (In other words, you threaten to “take away” your great offer for those who don’t deserve it.) When you’re confident enough to tell people “Please don’t order this product unless you meet [insert your qualification here],” you show that you’re not desperate for the sale. This is nearly universally appealing.
- Are you putting this offer in front of cold prospects? What if you put some variation of it in front of people who have already bought something from you? Your own existing customer base is the best market you’ll ever have. Make sure you’re regularly sending them appealing offers
- If they don’t buy your primary offer, try sending them to a “down-sell.” This is a lower-priced product that gives the prospect a second chance to get something from you. Remember, even a very small purchase gives you a buyer to market to later. Building a list of buyers is one of the wisest things you can do for your business.
- What is it about your product or service that makes people feel better about themselves? Ultimately, everything has to boil down to this.
Have your own favorite conversion-booster that you didn’t see here? Let us know about it in the comments.
About the Author: Sonia Simone is Senior Editor of Copyblogger and the founder of Remarkable Communication.
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10 Free Keyword Density Analyzers for Better SEO Results
10 Free Keyword Density Analyzers for Better SEO Results
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0diggsdiggKeyword Density is the percentage of occurrence of your important keywords in tyour webpage.It is important for your main keywords to have the correct keyword density to rank well in Search Engines. Here we are providing a list of top 10 online keyword density checking services. All these services are very much helpful in checking out which of the keyword echoes in any of your webpage how many times, and the most echoed word will be shown with the most influential font. Most of these will also help you in knowing the density of stop words in your page which are very common words and are mostly ignored by the search engines in order to save disk space. Let us have a look through all these fantastic tools...1. Webconfs
This is our first listed and amazing keyword density checker service. You have to enter your webpage's URL into the easily visible text box and just by submitting that you will get to know that which word leads in appearing again and again in your webpage and which one lags in this. You can also add their density checker tool to your webpage by copying a snippet of code provided by them on their webpage.2. SeoChat
Another very amazing and very useful keyword density checker service. This service provides you more options rather than just entering your URL in which you can include the title, meta elements or or other ASCII codes included in the URL destination as per your desire. You can also make this service to work according to you just by amending the form interface of the service.Many other options provided by this service are page analyzer, Google typos, link popularity etc.3. Key word Density
This service is listed 3rd in this list of Keyword Density Checkers. You can check the density of any particular keyword or a phrase, whether case sensitive or not using this service and not only this you can also check for any particular keyword/phrase to be appeared in two URL's adjacently and this way you can compare them for the more occurrence of any particular word.4. SeoBook
Another wonderful keyword density checking service. In this service, you can check out the number of occurrences of about all the words and you can check the required minimum repetitions of words according your desire. And if you want, you can ignore the analysis of any word having less than any particular number of characters.5. iWebTool
This one is just like the first service Webconfs as in this one, similar to that, you just have to enter the URL of the webpage and complete analysis is in the front of you. Its simple operation and attractive interface makes it very easy for any visitor to check out his/her websites keyword or key phrase density.6. Live Keyword Analysis
Live Keyword Analysis is an active keyword density checker. Using the live keyword analysis tool, you can simply type in your keywords and then paste them in your text and your keyword density analysis will be done in a glimpse. There is no need to submit it again and again, it updates automatically. This specifies that you will be able to do all your editing within the text box, and receive live responses about your keyword density.7. LinkVendor
Link Vendor allows you to check about any particular keywords ' density by filling it in the second text box or simply you can be known to density of all the keywords just by filling the URL of your webpage's link in first text box and pressing the submit button. But for this, first you have to pass a simple word verification step, which would not be much difficult for any human to pass.8. Web Build Pages
This Keyword Analysis service is a very easy to use and effective service. The appropriate density of keywords included in your webpage can be known to you in a couple of seconds. And not just it is free to use, but also you don't need to have any account on the website. This web service is very similar to another above said keyword density checking service SeoBook in terms of usage.9. Go Rank
Go Rank is slightly more than a keyword density checking tool, not because it provides yousome other fantastic service rather than just keyword checking, but it gives you complete analysis of any webpage in very easily understandable terms. Like some other services, you can also check for any particular keyword's density.10. Submit Express
Last but not the least, Submit express, a very fine and very good US based keyword density checker. Shows you the results only in a few seconds and if you want, you can be subscriber so as to get their updates which will help you in get acknowledged about any new service or tool launched by them in future.Dear readers, this was the list of our top 10 keyword density checkers which are elite in their work. You can use them all for free and there is no sign up needed for almost any of them. So, enjoy using them.
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How to Start a Complete Online Business on Your WordPress Blog | WordPress eCommerce
How to Start a Complete Online Business on Your WordPress Blog
15 June 2010
As the time goes by, WordPress is becoming very popular as a CMS (Content Management System). If you’ve already started blogging in WordPress, may be you are thinking of setting up an online business. The first thing to solve any problem is to identify it. Once you identify it, it’s very simple to get the solution. In this case you have to think what exactly you need to start an online business on your WordPress site.
When it comes to set up an online business with WordPress, You need to have 3 things-
1. A WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin.
2. A WordPress Affiliate Plugin.
3. A WordPress Membership Plugin.
Why do you need to have those plugins?
- If you want to sell anything from your blog, you really need to have a reliable and easy to use WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin Which will automatically handle all your product sales.
- Once you start selling products from your own website, you will certainly want to increase the sales. To increase your sales you need more traffic. You can get more traffic if other people refer traffic to your website. But they won’t refer traffic until you offer them a specific commission for each conversion. That’s why you need to have an Affiliate program on your website.
- When you have both the shopping cart and affiliate program running, you can now set some of your blog contents (e.g- page,post) to premium so that only paid members can view those. A fully featured Membership plugin will be useful in that case.
Recommended Solutions
As we have figured out what we need to have to set up an online business, Let’s discuss about the possible solutions.
1. WP eStore
It is a user-friendly WordPress shopping cart plugin developed by tipsandtricks-hq.com. You can sell any kind of digital or non-digital product from your website with this plugin. In fact, I’m using this plugin to sell e-book from my site. They provide great support to the customer.
You can see the Official plugin demo videos to see how it works-
i) WP eStore Installation
ii) WP eStore Settings Configuration
iii) How to Configure a Product
iv) How to Display a Product on a Post or Page
2. WP Affiliate Platform
This is an easy to use WordPress affiliate plugin to manage your affiliates. With this plugin any one can sign up for an affiliate and promote your product on his/her website.
Here is the official demo videos to see how the plugin works-
i) WP Affiliate Platform Installation
ii) WP Affiliate Platform Settings Configuration
iii) WP Affiliate Platform Affiliate Banner/Link Creation
iv) WP Affiliate Platform Click and Sale Tracking Test
3. WP eMember
A fully featured membership plugin for WordPress. With this plugin you can easily create different membership levels and protect different contents of your blog for different members.
Here is the WP eMember official demo videos on plugin usage-
i) WP eMember Installation
ii) How to Create Membership Levels
iii) Configuring the Settings Options
iv) Managing Content Protection
v) Integration with WP eStore for membership payment
Another good thing about all these plugins is they are pre-integrated with one another so you can use them simultaneously.
If you want to set up your website for online business, get all the Plugins as a package here
How To Sell Digital Or Non-Digital Products Online With WordPress eStore Plugin | WordPress eCommerce
How To Sell Digital Or Non-Digital Products Online With WordPress eStore Plugin
29 October 2009
Last week one of my friends asked me about selling digital or non-digital products online. He runs a wordpress blog and wants to sell products from his website but he does not know what wordpress plugin to use. He already knew from some other people that Instinct’s famous WordPress e-commerce plugin is not that user friendly. He needs something simple to use. Then I told him about WordPress eStore plugin, a very simple plugin which has various stunning features. Today he gave me thanks for telling him about such a good wordpress shopping cart plugin. Now he can sell products from his wordpress blog very easily and securely.
Just like my friend there are many people who want to sell products from their wordpress websites but do not know how to do this with a plugin. And even if they get a plugin, they are not sure about having trusts upon that. Some of the websites say many good things about their products and offer you to buy the products. But once you buy and have difficulties with their products, they do not give you supports. So, before buying any product you need to think if that product is going to be useful for you or if you can get good customer support from them. Considering all the facts, I recommend every people to use WordPress eStore plugin, a product of tipsandtricks-hq.com. So far I have heard from other people, It will mostly fulfill your demands and they give the customers good support.
At first, I am giving you some basic ideas about how to use this plugin on your wordpress blog.
1.WP eStore Installation
This video tutorial shows you how to install this product on your websites easily. You need to upload and activate the plugin to use.
WP eStore Installation from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.
2. WP eStore Settings Configuration
This tutorial shows you how to configure different settings of this plugin.
WP eStore Basic Settings Configuration from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.
3. How to Configure a Product
This tutorial shows you how to add a product that you want to sell.
WP eStore Product Customization from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.
4. How to Display a Product on a Post or Page
As you have added the products, this tutorial will show you how to display the products on a post or page and start selling easily.
WP eStore Product Display from tipsandtrickshq on Vimeo.
So, these are the basic tutorials on how to use this plugin. All you need to do now is get a WordPress eStore plugin and start selling digital or non-digital products from your wordpress blog instantly. The plugin can be found here.
