Posts Tagged ‘links’

Share Trading Basics

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

By purchasing a company shares, a shareholder automatically becomes a part-owner of the share issuing company. The share market is filled with tales of fortunes made and lost; this partly explains the reason why the stock market is so exciting and popular.  You profit from your shares by selling them at a price higher than the price you acquired them at; similarly, you suffer a loss by selling shares at a price lower than what you purchased them when the price falls, also called a bear market.

Whenever the company you invested in makes a profit, they share part of it with you as dividend. A shareholder is often an anonymous player in the share market and many make handsome profits. There is no holy grail to consistent profits in the share market, but prior to your odyssey into this exciting world, you should learn share trading basics.

Learning share trading basics will ensure that you’re conversant with the market lingo and other technical terminologies necessary to successful trading.  In order to trade shares, you have to approach a broker; this can be done electronically in an exchange floor. This means that you must familiarize yourself with the exchange floor environment; because it is here that your stockbroker organizes for your shares to be ordered. The exchange floor clerk locates your the trader from whom the shares can be purchased. Once they agree on price, a deal is settled.

Electronic transaction is the norm these days because of the efficiency and fast execution it affords. But even with electronic transactions you require a broker; the advantage is that order confirmations are instantaneous. In online trading, your broker will link you to the exchange network and search for buyers or sellers depending on your submitted order. Stock prices can not be foretold, they’re depended on various factors which cannot be easily predicted like geopolitical events and more.

Share prices fluctuate depending on demand at any given time. Any event that could negatively affect a company will also have a direct effect on the share prices of the said company. If you’re a novice in the stock market, learning share trading basics will undoubtedly equip you with sufficient knowledge to start trading.

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Email Marketing Part Two

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

To ensure your list is responsive there is a standard set of rules that have been tried and tested, so follow them and you cant go wrong!

- Email every 10 days at least
- For the first 30 days DO NOT sell
- Day 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, then every 10 days following this
- Include ‘you’ in the emails
- Short text to HTML webpage text is better due to deliverability)
- 3 links in each email
- 1 promotion in each email
- 3 lines per paragraph
- 1st link within the first 2 paragraphs
- 63 characters across
- Last link after last paragraph
- Signature line with your webaddress
- PS - and another link to page or
- PS - if you like the content then please forward onto your friend

Format of emails
The format of each email should be to inform people. You should tell them exactly what they need to do, but not necessarily how to do it!
So for instance, you might say that they need to set up an autoresponder service. You’d then follow that up with a “here’s how to do all this quickly and easily” link that leads to a page (where you may get commission when they buy).
If you follow this pattern, you’ll start to be known by your subscribers as offering good information.

Ideally, you should already have used your recommended solution. This will come out in your writing and you’ll be able to use personal anecdotes.

Remember to write an email in your voice your response rate goes up. Subscribers start to realize they are dealing with a real person. You will occasionally get messages asking further questions – these are great as they can often form the basis for another email topic.
It’s always nice to know that people are using the things you recommend and are getting good results.

Autoresponders and hosting of your email lists
You will require an autoresponder and you will require hosting for your list. You can buy a software program on sites like eBay and host the autoresponder service yourself or You can let a professional autoresponder company host your lists. You’ll pay a monthly fee but they take care of making sure that your messages get delivered. They will make sure that your messages get delivered on time. Any non-subscribers will be automatically dealt with. So will any email addresses that are no longer deliverable. You’ll also get reports on how well your messages are doing, which links got clicked on and much more. Aweber is an example of a service like this. The best way to use an autoresponder is to write a series of emails and set them to go out days, weeks or months in the future.

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