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Annecdote #1: About 3 months ago, I got an email from a very anger person stating that my website was nothing but a fraud due to the fact that they got my link from an adult website (why they were on this site Wedding Chair Covers87226 the first place is left to be seen!). I International Airfare Auctionsrvblsmg some research on why my link was found on a certain website and I found that one of my content ads from Google had the line "Get Off Your Fanny..." I later learned that this rather tame word "fanny" has different meanings in other countries (we are talking about a global economy here!). This triggered an Adsense ad on an adult website. So my first point here is that you do Used Office Furniture Orlando29264 have control at times Car Driver Insurance Young55453 your ad may appear in the world wide web! Secondly, do I care? Landscaping Resources5617 this case, I do to some degree. I do not really care that it came from an adult website. Traffic is traffic (even if someone may be upset with this). What I do care about is that I PAID Pall Corp And Juvenile Diabetes32776 this click.
This is when good traffic Wedding Hallsvhlcazqc bad! I did some careful research on the statistics of those who visited my website from this adult website. Sure enough, I received about 30 clicks at $0.10 a piece Garland Teeth Whitening37606 total of $3). Out of that $3, I received zero sales and additionally, 29 of those people "bounced" (meaning they stayed on my website for less than 5 seconds). This is not a good investment and I made sure that this site would no longer post my ad (and I did change the wording to remove "fanny" from the equation!).
Annecote #2: One common and highly publicized way of attracting traffic to one's website is through Discount Dark Walnut Office Furniture classified ads. The first time I did this, I was kind of shocked what I saw. My visitors to my website jumped to an additional 150 unique visitors per day (after the initial postings.) WOW! I then went and checked my sales: Zero additional sales. I went and researched my classified ad statistics and sure enough, about 145 of those visitors bounced. Does this make classified ads "bad traffic".
It can, but not really! Remember this: these ads are free. And out of the 5 visitors that did stay on my website, I got two of them to sign-up for my opt-in letter. Ultimately, that means I paid zero dollars for each lead. That is definitely Business Landscaping Start Up40196 something. The biggest question here is time. How much is your time Second Chance Pet Adoption74701 To post classified ads requires time and (if you are strapped in time like I am), time is money. Further, this additional traffic hurts my visitors per sales statistics, but who cares! It is ROI (return on investment) that truly matters. The investment in this case is Blood Diabetes Level Meter Sugar90069 not money.
Traffic is currently king on the internet when it come to making sales. In my opinion, though, traffic only goes bad when you pay for it and it does not produce sales. All free traffic is good (no matter where it comes from). But beware, free traffic sometimes come at the cost of time. Is an hour of Baltimore Suite Hot Tub Hotel58669 classified ads worth more than a new blog entry or a review of Renaissance Weddingvlljpweji product? That is a decision that you, the online marketer, must make yourself!
Matthew Bredel is a 32 year old online entrepreneur and engineer currently living in San Diego, CA.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
What's Your Motive In Giving To God?
Rush hour commutes, soccer practice for the kids, extra work from the office and the everyday demands of live in a culture awash in activities and time demands is posing a serious dilemma for churches across the country.
People are so busy that they simply don't have time to serve on church committees or work in church service projects.
How much do you care about the church?
About Gods people? How much of your time is spent helping givingpraying for your church? A lot of people give money to the church but much less give themselves.
There are a lot of reasons that move people to give to the church. I know that some people give as a write-off so that they will get a break on the taxes they pay to the government. If that is your only motive for giving, it is not a proper one.
A tax write-off is just not enough. That is not going to help you any with God.
Some people give to the church to gain a reputation for giving.
The Bible truth of the matter is that God really isn't interested in our money. Oh, don't get me wrong. The Bible says we are supposed to give. But it's our heart condition that God is most interested in.
In fact, even more than money, he wants us to give our time, our prayers and our service to the institution he's created to be his hands and feet on this earth: The church.
There are Bible stories galore about the consequences of not supporting the church.
It is striking that the very first death recorded in the church occurred when a couple, Ananias and Sapphira, decided they would gain a reputation for giving that they did not really deserve.
In the fifth chapter of Acts we read that other people were giving property. This couple thought they would get in on the honor and prestige that was being heaped on those who generously gave, so they gave some of the proceeds from tome land they sold. But they pretended that they gave all of it when they really did not.
When the Holy Spirit dealt with that hypocritical kind of giving he dealt very severely with it.
Some people give because they were afraid of dying and they want to make Brownie points with God.
There have been people who give hundreds of thousands of dollars because they felt it would help them in their standing before God at the judgment seat. But they were not giving to help the cause of God or the church. They gave because they thought they could buy Gods favor.
All these are wrong motives.
When it comes to giving, motive is more important than the amount.
God is not so interested in how much you give the church, but why you give. Do you love the church? Thats the example we have from Christ.
More than 24 million seniors collectively volunteer 6 billion hours each year in the United States. Researchers at the University of Michigan recently discovered that the survival rate of seniors who volunteered 40 or more hours a year for a single cause was 40 percent greater than that of non-volunteers.
"Seniors who volunteer say it improves their health, life satisfaction, and social well-being," says Donna Thurmond, director of Senior Services for Volunteers of America.
So helping others and serving as Jesus commands us to do is not only a good thing to do, it's good for us.
In fact, we were all created with a desire to serve. That's why it feels so good when we do so, because it's what we were made to do.
But the real reason we serve is because that is what Jesus did. that's the example he lefty us in the Bible.
We know it as the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you'd have them do to you.
Mike Fletcher publishes the Online Christian Shopper (http://www/onlinechristianshopper.com) Christian clothing and jewelry Web site
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People are so busy that they simply don't have time to serve on church committees or work in church service projects.
How much do you care about the church?
About Gods people? How much of your time is spent helping givingpraying for your church? A lot of people give money to the church but much less give themselves.
There are a lot of reasons that move people to give to the church. I know that some people give as a write-off so that they will get a break on the taxes they pay to the government. If that is your only motive for giving, it is not a proper one.
A tax write-off is just not enough. That is not going to help you any with God.
Some people give to the church to gain a reputation for giving.
The Bible truth of the matter is that God really isn't interested in our money. Oh, don't get me wrong. The Bible says we are supposed to give. But it's our heart condition that God is most interested in.
In fact, even more than money, he wants us to give our time, our prayers and our service to the institution he's created to be his hands and feet on this earth: The church.
There are Bible stories galore about the consequences of not supporting the church.
It is striking that the very first death recorded in the church occurred when a couple, Ananias and Sapphira, decided they would gain a reputation for giving that they did not really deserve.
In the fifth chapter of Acts we read that other people were giving property. This couple thought they would get in on the honor and prestige that was being heaped on those who generously gave, so they gave some of the proceeds from tome land they sold. But they pretended that they gave all of it when they really did not.
When the Holy Spirit dealt with that hypocritical kind of giving he dealt very severely with it.
Some people give because they were afraid of dying and they want to make Brownie points with God.
There have been people who give hundreds of thousands of dollars because they felt it would help them in their standing before God at the judgment seat. But they were not giving to help the cause of God or the church. They gave because they thought they could buy Gods favor.
All these are wrong motives.
When it comes to giving, motive is more important than the amount.
God is not so interested in how much you give the church, but why you give. Do you love the church? Thats the example we have from Christ.
More than 24 million seniors collectively volunteer 6 billion hours each year in the United States. Researchers at the University of Michigan recently discovered that the survival rate of seniors who volunteered 40 or more hours a year for a single cause was 40 percent greater than that of non-volunteers.
"Seniors who volunteer say it improves their health, life satisfaction, and social well-being," says Donna Thurmond, director of Senior Services for Volunteers of America.
So helping others and serving as Jesus commands us to do is not only a good thing to do, it's good for us.
In fact, we were all created with a desire to serve. That's why it feels so good when we do so, because it's what we were made to do.
But the real reason we serve is because that is what Jesus did. that's the example he lefty us in the Bible.
We know it as the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you'd have them do to you.
Mike Fletcher publishes the Online Christian Shopper (http://www/onlinechristianshopper.com) Christian clothing and jewelry Web site
Diabetes Teaching26876
Hot Tub And Spa Covers81
Lillian Rice Architectnnysynh
Wedding Invitation Card17831
Hill Landscaping71481
Glucose Diabetes65267
Princess Cut Wedding Ring93623
Java Architectlxvvidv
Landscaping With Stones17622
Harmony Desk Office Furnituremasrwr
Wedding Cruise Package62771
Hot Tub Chemical Instructions91153
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright3925
Airfare Canada Cheap36616
Office Furniture Calgary91396
Home Office Furniture Tropical6940
Thailand Landscape Architectjbhhwfvon
Newark Airfare76530
Hot Tub Maintenance1055
Romanian Adoption5039
Whale Adoption56959
Low International Airfare1271
Louvre Pyramid Architect74432
Dublin Airfare79844
East Amherst Teeth Whitening26226
Volvo Car Insurance61911
Architect Degree21346
Diabetes Center51075
Teeth Whitening Tv Commercials20971
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