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Hi Mark, GREAT information and I will be back to read and study it in more detail when I'm not pushed for time as I am this morning. Have an awesome day. :)

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Mary and Helen: You are both right on track, just adding to the conversation by bring up other ideas.

Maybe you could help me with some information....

1) What is the difference between a blog and website?

Now First, I am only stating what I think it is. People blog about anything, stories, pictures, facts, news and you name it it is out there. There a few free services that allow you to create a blog. You have your own url but with an extension to it, but you can always point you own domain to it.

Example: http://kalamazoohandymen.blogspot.com

Real Website: www.kalamazoohandymen.com

Blogs are full of features for constantly updating content and storing all posts in the side lines, creating articles, news, updates, fresh content, are more interactive with comments, and can create more traffic to your main store front (Website) and that is just a very short of it.

They Are Free and easy to set up and published on the Internet.

The key differences between a blog and a web site is that a blog's main function is being a web log or online diary. As the term "online diary" suggests, this is where a blogger can generate a lot of interesting personal comment and intimate details and information about a particular niche subject or topic that they have chosen to cover. Blogs are quick and easy to set up. Blogs are a less expensive way of advertising your business to the online community.

A web site on the other hand is the official address and location of a web-based business. Just the place you would expect to find ecommerce tools and landing pages where customers can make a purchase online. Blogs and websites can work hand in hand with one another.

The truth is that a blog is hardly the place where you would want to reach for your credit card. Yet a blog is not less important. Blogs are classified as being increasingly important to any web based entrepreneur because it is where all the action is. In actual fact traffic is generated in large quantities at blogs and then re-directed to web sites for the actual sales transaction to be consummated.

In conclusion none can really totally replace the other and both blogs and web sites have their individual very important key roles to play in the marketing success of any online enterprise.

What would I expect to pay for a website?

That would depend on how many pages you need. 5, 10, or 999 pages is between $ 8 to $15 a month with hosting included. You can pay to have it done, but for the ones that I know had that done, there is a cost for making changes or adding updates to it, if they can and want to be reached. Learn to do it yourself and own all rights.

That is one part of my training is to help others build their Website and what is most missed is the configurations and setting with all the right keywords, meta tags, and descriptions that make site more search engine friendly. You only pay for your domain name and hosting account with a Website Builder. You can add more power to it with other products with Search engine submissions, and SEO Checks to give you ideas to make you site better, and email management.

Website start with a domain. Take the time do look into keyword research to see what people are searching for, how much, or how little to find the right domain name for you. This is missed by so many how this can affectively increase traffic.

Small example: I target Kalamazoo area with Handyman service.

So my domain name is KalamazooHandymen.

It would not be Marks Services, there is not no data on anyone doing any searches for Mark's Services but there is very high numbers for Handyman Services.

2) Can you suggest a good blog place for me ...preferably for free.

I use Google products: (Blogger) They have a lot of free features and can be redesigned from the starting templates. I know a lot use WordPress and to me they all look about the same. They are free and paid.

3) How can I go about sending a thousand emails or more at a time? Do I have to have an autoresponder? How much do they cost? Every month? Which one?

Yes to be protected for getting blacklisted with your personal email, it is a very good idea when creating an email list to safely send to all subscribers. There are free ones and after going through several of them, Mail Chimp was by far the best free and can send out to…

this is mine:

Forever Free (your current plan)

send 12,000 emails per month to 2,000 subscribers

I am moving all campaigns and list to my new management program through my hosting account. It is paid but a lot more powerful and can create more email templates that are far more better looking.

The Free ones are limited. There is a learning thing that will take a little time to get them set up. They have training to help you with all that. If you never used them you might want to start with the Free then upgrade latter if needed. Your list are yours and can go with you if you move on.

Email management lets you build a list from your connections to opt-in to receive emails from you with their servers. (not yours) and run campaigns to all subscribers after you have created and formatted them.

Autoresponder is a set of more then one campaigns (emails) that you build and scheduled delivery to all subscribers.

One day after sign up

two days after

4 days after

one week after

and so one.

Thank you for any help you can give me. I wish you success as well.

One Last Point: Most all affiliate sites and MLM Sites that are give to you are the same ones that hundreds it not thousands are using and You have to drive traffic to them. You are missing the millions of people searching for your products and or services when using their websites.

You can not make any changes to them, only the covers, and not the back end of them that can make it rank higher and be placed in front of others. There are exception to this.

But if you do your research on what people are searching for, (you brand, product) build your own Website and learn how to rank for the keywords or set of keyword or phrases, then you will grow ahead of all others. You then redirect your visitors to the "call for action" site to make the deal.

Second: If all you can say to someone that asked question about what you are selling, just watch the video or just visit this site, you might be losing them as not knowing what you are talking about. Being an Expert is an open term not meaning being a doctor. Do you know that hundreds can not hold a conversation on any thing they are trying to sell as not knowing a thing about it. Just go to my Website…

I have asked many people about what they are doing to give me more details on it and they can not even come close to answering any questions. Sorry They just lost a sale or a sign up not knowing anything.

So being an expert is an open term as knowing all about what you are doing and may help when asked.

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Time to get to work myself.

Just for the sake of not getting to far off what my point is.

Try doing one thing today. What ever you are promoting or selling

like if you are claiming you can make money, do a generic search on

google or any search engine about making money on the internet.

I will bet that If you are advertise with a affiliate site about making money,

YOU will not show up.

Now take your product like Depression, or sleep aids or anything related to this or any other MLM product, not company, that you, as a interested person, just looking for more information and starts searching. Not a direct search with your domain name, just a generic search.

You tell me? Does your Website (affiliate site) show up anywhere?

You as a distributor or advertiser for a company, have to go after everything.

I wonder how many sells you are missing by the thousands that are on the internet looking but your site will not show up, because you do not control the optimization of it. To me that is disturbing. Maybe I am not think clearly but that is what i see.

Missing the people searching for what you are selling because you have not gone the extra step to target this.

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Hi Mark, GREAT information and I will be back to read and study it in more detail when I'm not pushed for time as I am this morning. Have an awesome day. :)

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Mary and Helen: You are both right on track, just adding to the conversation by bring up other ideas.

Maybe you could help me with some information....

1) What is the difference between a blog and website?

Now First, I am only stating what I think it is. People blog about anything, stories, pictures, facts, news and you name it it is out there. There a few free services that allow you to create a blog. You have your own url but with an extension to it, but you can always point you own domain to it.

Example: http://kalamazoohandymen.blogspot.com

Real Website: www.kalamazoohandymen.com

Blogs are full of features for constantly updating content and storing all posts in the side lines, creating articles, news, updates, fresh content, are more interactive with comments, and can create more traffic to your main store front (Website) and that is just a very short of it.

They Are Free and easy to set up and published on the Internet.

The key differences between a blog and a web site is that a blog's main function is being a web log or online diary. As the term "online diary" suggests, this is where a blogger can generate a lot of interesting personal comment and intimate details and information about a particular niche subject or topic that they have chosen to cover. Blogs are quick and easy to set up. Blogs are a less expensive way of advertising your business to the online community.

A web site on the other hand is the official address and location of a web-based business. Just the place you would expect to find ecommerce tools and landing pages where customers can make a purchase online. Blogs and websites can work hand in hand with one another.

The truth is that a blog is hardly the place where you would want to reach for your credit card. Yet a blog is not less important. Blogs are classified as being increasingly important to any web based entrepreneur because it is where all the action is. In actual fact traffic is generated in large quantities at blogs and then re-directed to web sites for the actual sales transaction to be consummated.

In conclusion none can really totally replace the other and both blogs and web sites have their individual very important key roles to play in the marketing success of any online enterprise.

What would I expect to pay for a website?

That would depend on how many pages you need. 5, 10, or 999 pages is between $ 8 to $15 a month with hosting included. You can pay to have it done, but for the ones that I know had that done, there is a cost for making changes or adding updates to it, if they can and want to be reached. Learn to do it yourself and own all rights.

That is one part of my training is to help others build their Website and what is most missed is the configurations and setting with all the right keywords, meta tags, and descriptions that make site more search engine friendly. You only pay for your domain name and hosting account with a Website Builder. You can add more power to it with other products with Search engine submissions, and SEO Checks to give you ideas to make you site better, and email management.

Website start with a domain. Take the time do look into keyword research to see what people are searching for, how much, or how little to find the right domain name for you. This is missed by so many how this can affectively increase traffic.

Small example: I target Kalamazoo area with Handyman service.

So my domain name is KalamazooHandymen.

It would not be Marks Services, there is not no data on anyone doing any searches for Mark's Services but there is very high numbers for Handyman Services.

2) Can you suggest a good blog place for me ...preferably for free.

I use Google products: (Blogger) They have a lot of free features and can be redesigned from the starting templates. I know a lot use WordPress and to me they all look about the same. They are free and paid.

3) How can I go about sending a thousand emails or more at a time? Do I have to have an autoresponder? How much do they cost? Every month? Which one?

Yes to be protected for getting blacklisted with your personal email, it is a very good idea when creating an email list to safely send to all subscribers. There are free ones and after going through several of them, Mail Chimp was by far the best free and can send out to…

this is mine:

Forever Free (your current plan)

send 12,000 emails per month to 2,000 subscribers

I am moving all campaigns and list to my new management program through my hosting account. It is paid but a lot more powerful and can create more email templates that are far more better looking.

The Free ones are limited. There is a learning thing that will take a little time to get them set up. They have training to help you with all that. If you never used them you might want to start with the Free then upgrade latter if needed. Your list are yours and can go with you if you move on.

Email management lets you build a list from your connections to opt-in to receive emails from you with their servers. (not yours) and run campaigns to all subscribers after you have created and formatted them.

Autoresponder is a set of more then one campaigns (emails) that you build and scheduled delivery to all subscribers.

One day after sign up

two days after

4 days after

one week after

and so one.

Thank you for any help you can give me. I wish you success as well.

One Last Point: Most all affiliate sites and MLM Sites that are give to you are the same ones that hundreds it not thousands are using and You have to drive traffic to them. You are missing the millions of people searching for your products and or services when using their websites.

You can not make any changes to them, only the covers, and not the back end of them that can make it rank higher and be placed in front of others. There are exception to this.

But if you do your research on what people are searching for, (you brand, product) build your own Website and learn how to rank for the keywords or set of keyword or phrases, then you will grow ahead of all others. You then redirect your visitors to the "call for action" site to make the deal.

Second: If all you can say to someone that asked question about what you are selling, just watch the video or just visit this site, you might be losing them as not knowing what you are talking about. Being an Expert is an open term not meaning being a doctor. Do you know that hundreds can not hold a conversation on any thing they are trying to sell as not knowing a thing about it. Just go to my Website…

I have asked many people about what they are doing to give me more details on it and they can not even come close to answering any questions. Sorry They just lost a sale or a sign up not knowing anything.

So being an expert is an open term as knowing all about what you are doing and may help when asked.

Seems as though everyday you can read about chilling horror stories happening all over the place and this one is especially heinous and the troubling thing is this horrible act was committed by children 10 and younger. The perpetrators of crime seem to be getting younger all the time. Just a few days ago, here in a neighboring city, three young boys completely destroyed a vacant house and this was a newer house built in 2007. A neighbor heard the commotion and called police. What is the answer? Is the problem caused by poor parenting or parents that don't teach their children right from wrong? Do we now have a generation of parents that don't know right from or wrong or just don't care? I definitely don't have the answers but there is a problem and it seems to be getting worse all the time.

Boy, 10, and Young Friends Beat Handicapped Immigrant Woman

By COLLEEN CURRY | Good Morning America

Just click, watch and wonder…absolutely amazing!!!

When I read articles like this one, it kind of gives me hope that maybe enough people are finally seeing the light and are not blinded by the communist inspired progressive liberals. Seems more people are waking up and standing up for our great country.

Russ Jones - OneNewsNow - 8/9/2012

Kansas was "Red" before -- but following primaries earlier this week, the Sunflower State is even redder.