Another way is to disguise your article. Don't blatantly sell in article, but pre-sell. Excite your reader to possibilities of whatever your article is selling without actually mentioning it. Then link in your resource box would lead to a site that does rest.

You of course get added benefit of fact that articles are essentially free to publish :-)

The last method we can use is `fake` web-sites. These sites are again focused on selling a product but disguised as a news report, article, resource or similar. Often that would involve selling behind scenes via e-mail (with e-mail capture at site). Or site could provide free information and a problem, and a (paid) way to eleminate problem.

You can see this in action at Virus Killer, Ad-Ware, Evidence Eliminator sites and similar. The site looks like a "Warning! Your Computer Is Infected!" page, or perhaps provides a report on latest viruses and offers a (sometimes free) way to fix them.

These tehniques are very useful in selling anything online and take advantage of humans basic emotions. You are more likely to believe a voice of authority, or what appears to be!

(C)2004 Stuart Reid

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Stuart Reid publishes Netpreneur News and maintains Netpreneur Now and it's Members Site. To join Netpreneur Now visit: http://www.netpreneurnow.com

That's it! You have an account and a Blog setup. There are other settings to explore. You can set "Ping Weblogs" to YES in Settings/Publishing option to notify Weblogs whenever you publish. You can also set "Show Title Field" and "Email" options to provide Titles to your Blog Entries and email a copy of your entries to you. Everything else is OK at as it is.

With your Blog at BlogSpot and your Google Toolbar installed Go to --> http:/ oolbar.google.com <- just set Blogger function in Toolbar Options and then click `B` button in Toolbar intself. There you have it - one instant Blog entry.

How To Use Your RSS Feed

If you left Blog settings as standard your RSS feed is at your BlogSpot Address as atom.xml - number of entries depends on your settings in Blogger, but it's usually a weeks worth. Although Atom feed doesn't hold *every* entry end user's client software stores all entries as they come in. Your website Blog has complete on-line archives.

Instruct your readers to download an RSS Reader and to use that address to receive your Blog updates. Below I've included a quick tutorial that you can cut-out and send to your own Blog readers, just change Blog Address.

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How To Get Updates From This Blog... To Your Desktop!

First you need to download a "Feed Reader". This Blog uses an Atom Feed, Atom Readers can be downloaded from following webpage -> http://www.atomenabled.org/everyone/atomenabled/index.php?c=5

That's a big list, so just use program selected below if you want to get started with a quick and easy client right away. Tristana Reader -> http://www.charlwood.com ristana <-

Tristana Reader is a small and quick reader, and there are others including those for Mac OS and web-based services. There's also certain readers that integrate into your browser. Use link to "big list" to find one you like. Don't worry, they're nearly all fr'ee!

In Tristana you simply click large "+" sign and enter address of Blog Atom feed. The feed to this Blog is: -> http://netpreneurnow.blogspot.com/atom.xml <-

Once feed is added just double click it to get a list of headlines and click each headline to get entry. You can add as many blogs as you want and Tristana will happily keep them all for you.

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Blogger itself has a lot of help if you need it, so it's time for me to sign off. Happy Blogging!

=============================================================== Stuart Reid publishes Netpreneur News and it's Blog. Visit main site to join Email Ezine or to view Blog at: http://www.netpreneurnow.com

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