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<> Editors' Remarks
<> Warning
<>Motivational Thought!
<> Win An Ad To Thousands!
<> Spotlight of the Day
<> Spotlighting a product/service/person
<> Business Tip
<> Advertising Links
<> Business Coach of the Day
<> Change Your Life Information

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EDITORS' REMARKS
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Greetings and thank you for being an optin subscriber. 

This week has been a real learning experience... I now can bind a book but let me tell you it taxed my mind to get it correct... I understand that Times New Roman 10pt is too small for some of my readers to be comfortable while reading the ezines so I've made a change but need your input as to whether it's readable enough or not? Let me know... Click here if Okay... Click here if Larger needed...

We are contemplating selling out 2.5 acres and just under 3,000 sq. ft. house and getting something smaller to prevent so much upkeep. I'm not big on having a housekeeper as it takes way toooo long to find something put away by someone else so I decided it's better to do it myself but takes too much time to go through 6 bedrooms (2 are large master bedrooms), and office, kitchen, dining and living room so if anyone is looking for a great place to live and desires a lot of space, 30x30 workshop, storage buildings, garden, working windmill and second well with all 70+ trees on drip system that can work from either source along  with animal space, call and I will give you directions... Will give you a good deal... We are going to downsize to give me more time for health education business... I'm not really contemplating as I'm ready to do it but my dh has to contemplate anything for ages before he decides to actually do it. By the time he finishes his contemplation I will have it done!

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Ten Ways to Help You Improve Customer Service
©Copyright 2005 Catherine Franz

Stay in contact with customers on a regular basis. Just as it is bad news to send out too many emails to customers, it is just as bad to not stay in contact with them. Customers don't want to feel abandoned.

Here are three things to help you stay in touch.

(1) Offer them your e-zine subscription at least once a month.
(2) Ask customers if they want to be updated by e-mail when you make changes to your Web site.
(3) Follow-up after each sale to see if they are satisfied with their purchase.  Send an e-mail out a few days after their purchase, another in a week or two, and then another in a month.

2. Create a customer focus group by inviting 10 to 20 loyal customers to meet regularly. Alternatively, send out a monthly survey to this group asking for ideas and input on how to improve your customer service. Give them a reward. Pay them, give them a gift certificate, or send them free
product.

3. Have a web site that is easy to navigate.  Add a frequently asked question's "FAQ" page and explain anything that might confuse your customers or visitors. Follow-up with an electronic survey with questions on how to increase your site's user-friendliness.

4. Resolve customer complaints quickly and completely. Answer all e-mail and phone calls within a few hours. This will show your customers you really care about them.

5. don't make your customers or visitors hunt for your contact information.  Make it easy for them to contact you. Offer as many contact methods as possible.  Hyperlink all your e-mail addresses so they don't have to find or type it. Offer a toll free number.

6.  If you have strategic alliances or employees, make sure they are familiar with your customer service policy. Give your employees bonuses or incentives to practice excellent customer service. Tell employees to be flexible with each individual customer, each one has different concerns, needs and wants.

7. Give your customers more than they expect. Send thank you gifts to long time customers. E-mail them greeting cards on holidays or birthdays if you have their address or online cards if you only have their e-mail address and name. Give bonuses to your customers who make a big purchase or multiple purchases.

8.   U-welcome, please, and thank you and can never be over used. Be polite no matter what. Admit and apologize for mistakes quickly and make it up to them in BIG ways if you want them to continue being a customer.

9.  Reward in points -- give customers a point for every dollar they spend. Set up a points-earned sheet.  E-mail the customer an update monthly. If they send you a referral they get 10 points, if they buy something add 10 more points.

10.  If your business is local, invite customers to your office for lunches, parties, barbecues, dances, seminars or other special events.

It isn't what you perceive as valuable but what customers see from their eyes.  Yet, sometimes, you just can't please some folks.  If that occurs, do you best and then let it go. You don't want them for clients anyway.

*** Catherine Franz, multibusiness owner, previous CPA, veteran entrepreneur, speaker, marketing expert, author, is available for consultants. Additional information: http://www.AbundanceCenter.com

How To Increase The Link Popularity Of Your Web Site.
By John Taylor

Link Popularity is the term used to describe how popular your web site is by examining how many other web sites link to it.
 
For example, if you only had one other web site linking to your site, then your link popularity would be one. In other words link popularity is a measure of how may other sites are willing to "vote" for your site by adding a link to it.
 
Is Link Popularity Important?
 
Yes. Search engines have a hard job when it comes to deciding what search results to return. They attempt to return the most relevant results that are contained in their database. One significant problem that the search engines have is how to decide which web sites are best, which they basically do by calculating both the relevance of a site and its popularity.
 
To determine relevancy the search engines look at a number of on page factors, such as your title tag, your description and the keyword density. To determine the popularity of your web site they look at how many links point to it. Most search engines work on the assumption that the more links a web site has pointing towards it, the better it must be.
 
How Do I Check My Link Popularity
 
You can check your link popularity in a number of ways. You can use the link: command in Google. For example you can type the following in to the Google search box to check which web sites are linking to you. Forexample if I wanted to check the popularity of my own "Testing & Tracking" site I would simply enter: http://www.Test-and-Track.com
 
The problem with this command is that it only shows web site that have a PageRank above a pre-determined value (Assumed to be a PR of 4 and above). However, this doesn't mean that the links which aren't returned by Google don't count towards your link popularity, because they do.
 
One of my favourite resources for checking Link Popularity is the Marketleap Link Check Tool - http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop This web based tool allows you to check your link popularity as determined by a number of different search engines.
 
How Do I Improve Link Popularity?
 
Increasing your link popularity is, theoretically, very simple. All you have to do is increase the number of links that point to your web site. There are several ways of achieving this including submitting your web sites to directories, adding your site to link exchange, contacting other site owners and by distributing articles.
 
The most popular directories include DMOZ, Yahoo! and JoeAnt and there are many others including a lot of specialist directories that focus on just one theme. If you are looking for links to your niche site, submitting to specialists sites within the theme of your niche is well worth the effort.
 
A Link exchange is based on the 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch your back' principle and is an easy way of increasing your link popularity. In exchange for a web site providing a link to you, you agree to link back to them. Usually both web sites will place their link on some sort of links directory
page. As a result both web sites each receive a vote.
 
Submitting articles is an excellent strategy. Webmasters and newsletter publishers are always looking for good quality content and having your article publisher on web sites and newsletter  archives will earn you a lot of relevant incoming links.
 
The real secret of building your link popularity is to keep up the momentum. Do something every day that increases the popularity of your site. remember every link that points to your site can be clicked by a prospect and the more prospects you can get to your site, the more sales you will make!
 
Copyright John Taylor PhD August 2005 - All rights reserved. About The Author: To learn more information about Link Popularity I strongly recommend that you visit http://www.Link-Advantage.com