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19 April 2010 0 Comments

Web Business Tips: The Multiplier Effect

Many online entrepreneurs don’t really push their online businesses, especially the ones relying on advertising income, further because of the amount of income earned each month. Most of them are not happy enough with $30 to $40 advertising revenue and simply decide to quit, while others are too busy trying to find new business opportunities because the one they are working on right now is considered not profitable enough. If you are about to quit or close your site, do read and understand the concept of multiplier effect I’m about to discuss in this article.

There is another way you can take if you want to increase your advertising revenue; it is call multiplying. Say you have successfully developed a site and now earning $30 in advertising revenue monthly. Why not redo what you already did best and start another site to earn total revenue of $60? Imagine your advertising revenue if you have 100 sites; yes, that’s $3,000 of advertising revenue monthly doing something you have already done successfully; all you need to do is multiply the effect.

What you need is a reliable reseller hosting. You can easily manage unlimited amount of sites with a good reseller hosting plan, and the overall cost can be reduced substantially. A reliable reseller hosting should cost nothing more than $20 a month. With operating cost of that amount, you can certainly earn huge profit from your sites’ advertising revenues.

14 January 2010 0 Comments

Test, Test, Test!

When you are designing a web page, testing the page extensively is definitely a must. The only thing that separates you from complete failure in designing a successful site is a test. You may think the layout works great, but users may not share the same opinion. Before you use the design, do this next couple of tests to make sure the design works for you, not against you.

First, test the site using different browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes. If you don’t have the needed hardware, there are tools offering you the luxury of testing your site using different engines. You can also use virtualization to help you test your site on different operating system. Play with screen resolutions and see if your site still appears nicely.

Test functions of the design as well. Dead links or malfunctioning elements can send your visitors away in an instant; double check to make sure they are working perfectly. If you use animations and lots of page elements, be sure to check if the loading time and visibility are still at an acceptable — or comfortable, to be exact — level.

You can ask close friends and relatives to visit their site and give their opinion, just to get a hang of how the design functions for inexperienced users. Run a beta if you need and provide accessible feedback form to get users’ opinions.