http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog An insight into the ups and downs of entering the business of online marketing and other stuff! Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:10:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since the search engines have moved away from meta tags and keywords as the most important factors in rankings and moved more towards links back to a website as "votes" for which are the best websites everyone has been scrambling for links back to their websites. One of the easiest ways to ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=19 As well as an auotoresponder, a survey tool, an article submitter service and some keyword research tools, sooner or later you are going to need a shopping cart. Hopefully this will be sooner, rather than later, as if you need a shopping cart then that means you are about to ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=18 A brief follow up as promised on last weeks attempt at a bit of Adsense arbitrage, I did say I would follow up with how it went. Basically, not very well! In terms of making money anyway, but there were many positives and I did learn a lot about how to ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=17 I think arbitrage is fascinating word, it has a kind of esoteric air of intrigue and mystery. Perhaps because it is not a word in common use and I would hazard a guess that if you were to conduct a survey in the street, you would find more people who ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=16 I really enjoyed a nice round of golf with my son this morning, having a day off work and making the most of a sunny morning before getting down to some of my own work this afternoon.  It brought home to me the the importance of taking some time away from work ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=15 I talked earlier about one of my current projects in affiliate marketing the My Affiliate Store service and outlined some of the special features of this method of getting involved in affiliate marketing. The more I work on this project the more impressed with it I become and there is probably ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=14 In the early stages of a business startup it is sometimes worth reminding yourself of the attractions of the field you have chosen and the reasons that led to the decision. In online marketing luckily this is relatively easy to do. If you compare it with a physical "bricks and mortar" based ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=13 Join The Federation of Small Businesses? I first became aware of The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) when it was recommended by Nick James the well known internet marketing entrepreneur, at his seminar earlier this year. He spoke very highly of it and outlined a number of the benefits of membership for ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=12 Juggling a number of projects is hard to avoid. We all know that completing one project before starting another is the best option. But the temptation is usually overpowering to "just do a little bit" on another one, to get it ready for when you are, or tweak another a little ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=11 After a nice BBQ at the weekend I got back to trying to do a little work. I concentrated yesterday on methods of generating traffic to commercial websites involving writing pieces of text. I use the term pieces loosely as, when you start to write for online marketing purposes, it ... http://www.obtainsolutionsltd.com/blog/?p=10