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Five Puppy Training Tips

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Here are five easy to use training tips for your new puppy.

1.) Chewing Problems - The most effective solution to a puppy chewing on something he shouldn’t is
to not discipline him, but to simply replace the object that he is chewing with a chew toy and then to raise him greatly for chewing on his chew toy. Positive encouragement is what a puppy will respond to the most.

2.) House Training - The easiest way to house train your puppy is to always take him out immediately after his meal. Wait for him to go. Once he goes, praise him greatly. He’ll soon get the idea that going outside is the correct thing to do.

3.) Playtime - When you are thinking about getting a puppy, make sure you have the appropriate time to give to your dog. Estimated necessary time is about 10-30 minutes for eating (3 times a day), 10-30 minutes for a walk (3 times a day) and about an hour of playtime with your dog. Most people don’t realize the amount of time that a healthy puppy will require.

4.) Dog Crates - Dog Crates can have a positive impact on both the dog and the owner. It’ll give the dog a safe and secure area that is very close the “den” like atmosphere that dogs had in the wild. Once a dog is comfortable with a crate, it’ll allow the owner to safely transport the dog and help to house train a puppy (they won’t want to do business in their den).

5.) Hide The Chocolate - When getting ready for halloween, make sure you keep the candy out of reach of the dog, especially chocolate. Chocolate is very dangerous to a dog. It can make the dog very very sick. If you suspect that your dog has eaten chocolate, you should your veterinarian IMMEDIATELY.

For more dog training tips like these, head over to our web site: http://Weekly-Tips.com/Dog-Training and sign-up for our weekly email.

bio = Todd runs the Dog Training Tips web site at http://weekly-tips.com/dog-training/ where you can sign up to have weekly dog training tips like these delivered weekly to your in-box.

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9 tips to create and manage your own mailing lists

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

How to start your own mailing lists
With personalised and permission based email service you can generate more leads and increase your response rates. If you have an internet business and looking for quick ways to reach out to people then email marketing could be one of the cost effective solutions available today in the market. You can either rent email lists from large companies who will be more than glad to send your newsletters to thousands of people out there, who have no interest in your product or service. Or you can create your own Opt-in lists, reach out to people who would like to hear from you and are interested in your products or service.

1. Ask your friends

Send newsletters to people who you really know. Send a single short email asking for permissions. Add them to your lists only if they respond, if they dont then you dont have permission to do so.

2. Add sign-up forms in home page

Put sign up forms on your homepage and on every page in your site. Give away free stuff to download or prize draws which will motivate them to sign-up.

3. Train your customer service team

Train your customer service and sales team to ask for permissions when they get on the phone.

4. Rent Lists

Check out companies which rent email lists, talk to other clients and make sure you compare prices. Most lists on the martket are sold by crooks (be very careful), be sure to check they have proper lists with full permission from the clients. These lists may often contain, fake, old undeliverable email addresses.

5. Personalise messages

Send personalised messages to targeted audience and you will see an increase in response rates. Send eshots and bulletins personalised from individual sales people to their respective customer contacts.

6. Use Email Autoresponders

By using an autoresponder service you can automatically collect your email list information. Send autoresponse to emails that you have received to build customer relationships.

7. Write articles

Write good articles and publish it in your newsletter with a link pointing to your site. Articles can bring in huge number of subscribers.

8. Track Results

Tracking your email marketing performance will help you realise where you have failed and increase conversion rates. Track click throughs, orders and unsubscribes.

9. Follow up

Report says that it can take upto 5 or more contacts to make a sale.

Building email lists is a time consuming process, but its one of the well known easiest and effective method to market your product or service. Reach out to wider audience by following these simple email marketing techinques and you will soon realise that there is nothing to lose and everything to gain.
bio = Visit Enabler (http://www.enablermail.com) for more information on Email Marketing Services and Solutions. Article by S Prema - Search Engineer, Pancentric Ltd (http://www.pancentric.com).

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Reselling Domain Names

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Reselling Domain Names

September 2005

You offer web hosting services. Or web design services. Or both. When your clients need domain names for their websites, do you want to send them to another site, possibly to a competitor, to register one?

Of course not. That’s part of why domain name registration is a popular service to offer. Reselling domain names provides an additional service to attract and keep clients as well as another source of recurring revenue. You can offer domain name registrations on their own or bundled with other services you provide.

Features of domain name reseller programs

When you are a domain name reseller, your clients register domain names using the service accessed through your domain name reseller account. The domain name company bills you, and you bill your clients. Or possibly the domain company handles the billing.

You decide on the retail pricing, and you market your services. The wholesale prices you pay before you add your markup depend on your sales volume and on the domain name reseller program you choose.

All of the domain name reseller companies compared in this article offer a reseller API (Application Programming Interface), which enables you to use the features provided with the domain reseller program. When your clients register domain names or update records at your site, the API communicates with the domain name reseller program system. With an API at your website, you keep the appearance and branding of your site when you resell domain names.

Two of the domain name companies compared here offer website creation tools for resellers, which means that you can be in the business of reselling domain names within minutes of having your account set up.

Many domain name reseller programs require the domain name reseller to pay and regularly top up a deposit for domain names. By doing this, the domain name reseller is paying for the domains in advance while making a profit from them when they’re registered.

Domain name companies compared

The starting prices listed are the highest current wholesale prices for .com domains. Some other extensions may be higher, and the prices typically decrease with volume pricing.

See the company websites for more details about what each domain name reseller program offers.

BulkRegister

BulkRegister’s Domain Pilot tool allows domain name resellers to provide their clients with a unique URL and access code to make changes to the Whois data for their domains. Resellers can control which of the fields to provide their clients with access to. Registration can be automated or manual.

Resellers become BulkRegister members and are invited to take part in discussions about product ideas, upgrades, and updates. A $50 Overture advertising credit comes with the first year of membership.

- Setup fee: No
- Annual fee: $99
- Deposit required: No
- Starting wholesale pricing for .com domains: $12
- Website creation tool for resellers: No
- SSL certificate: Yes

eNom

If you resell domain names through eNom, you choose between two eNom tools:

- Automated Registration Software (API), which allows your clients to register and manage their domains through your site
- PDQ, a site that you customize and eNom manages — they handle the billing, and you earn commissions

As an eNom domain name reseller, you can also offer your clients web hosting, web monitoring, SSL certificates, and other eNom products as a reseller.

- Setup fee: No
- Annual fee: $99 if you use the PDQ website tool
- Deposit required: Starts at $199 for 199 eNom points
- Starting wholesale pricing for .com domains: $9.95
- Website creation tool for resellers: Yes
- SSL certificate: No

Tucows

A website builder, blogware, SSL certificates, and email services are among the services you can resell as well as domain names.

- Setup fee: $95
- Annual fee: No
- Deposit required: No minimum payment, but they recommend prepaying one month of credit in advance
- Starting wholesale pricing for .com domains: $9.85
- Website creation tool for resellers: No
- SSL certificate: No

Wild West Domains

Owned by The Go Daddy Group, Inc., Wild West Domains offers several reseller packages. They also offer other products to resell in addition to domain names, including hosting, website builders, email plans, SSL certificates, and merchant accounts.

- Setup fee: No
- Annual fee: Starting at $99; $249 with the API
- Deposit required: No
- Starting wholesale pricing for .com domains: $7.75
- Website creation tool for resellers: Yes
- SSL certificate: Yes

About the Author:

Lois S. is a Technical Executive Writer for http://www.websitesource.com and http://www.lowpricedomains.com with experience in the website hosting industry.

bio = Lois S. is a Technical Executive Writer for http://www.websitesource.com and http://www.lowpricedomains.com

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Fast and easy Website Design Tips

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Hi did you no that internet web pages have come full cercal, well do you remember the old days when a website was designed by code?
You no by actually typing HTML, the web pages looked simple and the only ones that had lots of images was the big firms that had the money to pay for them.

Then came the programs FrontPage Dream weaver and so on, WebPages started to get more and more in complexity, we had to keep image sizes small so the page would load faster and some websites turned the images into background images as these would load faster.

Then come the full page images the whole page seemed to be made up of images, this was ok by now as most users have high speed internet access, forms and PHP websites images and even Flash websites are born.

Now things are changing again, thanks to search engines and the customers the way we look at a website has changed, websites need to be fast loading still and we now see a lot less full page images, graphic design is becoming a thing of the past, WebPages don’t need flashy designs any more.

Here’s my tips for a website design and on you can use over and over.

What do we want a webpage to be?
1. Fast loading else the surfer will jump to another site.
2. A professional looking website, else the surfer will think its a back bedroom business.
3. clean looking graphics and business image.
4. A website that will sale sale sale.

1. Ok a lot of websites have cut down on images these do have there place but don’t use them to make frames and boxes, use them as a whole image and don’t do image cutting, these take time to load and are no longer good.

2. If your sealing something conceder designing a sales page I like sales pages but I do find them to be long pages and a lot of reading, the sales page has a big text header to get the buyer interested then some notes and then a sub header, then the sales page, you need to add some good feed back notes in a sales page.

If you don’t like sales pages design a website to look like a mini sales page using the same idea but not so long add links to other parts of the site, keep the whole site clean looking add images where you think it needs it but don’t go mad.

3. If you are not good at designing images go buy some this is very important if you add an image it must look professional, also consider a photo of you or you and your family, this adds a personal touch though dress well!.

4. If the page loads fast and you have that killer header then BAM, the page is there in there face, Wow look at this? they will read the header, this is your chance to grab them, they may browse down the page so that’s when the sub headers kick in.

This Article is designed to get you thinking about the way you design, I hope you will look at the design of a site when you visit one next and start to see a trend, this will point you the right way.
All the best.

bio = Lazerbri< http://www.getawebsitetoday.co.uk
Been working on the net for over 15 years, Programmer in HTML and PHP also flash.

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