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Speedie have been using GetResponse for the last 6 years and without doubt it is the best thing sliced bread  It has just got better as they now have a Wordpress plugin to allow you to integrate list building forms direct into Wordpress via a plugin.

Are you looking for an autoresponder service to help build your email lists? Or maybe to give you an extra pair of hands during the day by having information requests and enquiries coming into the business being dealt with 24/7 – on autopilot?

Then check out this brief video on the GetResponse Features

You can use it to create emails, newsletters and video newsletters.  They are also offering a free trial.

Visit : GetResponse for more info and to signup for your free trial

If you are in the finance or insurance space we also have a range of prewritten autoresponder courses you can use straight away as a lead generation tool. Find out more about that here:  Email Courses for Sale

If you are using Wordpress to manage and run your own site, I want to share a few plugins that are not on the beaten track that can help you run a certain aspect of your Internet real estate.

Managing and displaying Testimonials

A great plugin we found this week is the Testimonial manager, a great way to manage and display your customer testimonials.  The plugin comes with a huge range of display options so you can drop these things in anywhere.

http://www.profitplugs.com/testimonials-manager-wordpress/

Helpdesk

You can also now use Wordpress to run a customer help desk facility. This could be a great way to set up an online way to manage customer enquiries in an easy and familiar environment. You could simply setup a seperate Wordpress install on another sub directory called helpdesk or support.

http://www.wordpresshelpdesk.net/

Affiliate Programme

We also found an affiliate programme that you can use to run your own onsite affiliate programme using Wordpress. This plugin has a great number of features but the main ones that we like is that it can be a two tier programme.  The plugin works with lots of other plugins such as shopping carts and membership site plugins. YOU can also integrate this plugin to run a pay per lead campaign – which is great for finance and insurance sites.

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-affiliate-platform-plugin-simple-affiliate-program-for-wordpress-blogsite-1474?ap_id=jhulott

We love Wordpress.  We use it daily, in fact I am using it right now.  Anyways, a lot of people still think Wordpress is a blogging tool.  Here I want to get you thinking about some of the other things you can do with Wordpress. These will just be listed with little to know meat.  You can Google most of this stuff.

1. run a press release site
2. run an article directory
3. run a directory
4. run a classified ads site
5. run a affiliate sites to earn additional income
6. run an affiliate programme
7. sell products
8. run a membership site
9. run a review site
10. run a social networking site
11. er… a blog
12. manage your basic social media content
13. run a newsletter
14. build a mailing list
15. run an event calendar
16. run a local business directory
17. run an online magazine
18. auto bookmark content
19. auto syndicate content
20. auto post articles to article directories
21. feed facebook fan pages

Did I miss anything? Please feel free to post your ideas below.

Web content is one of those things that we all can add to our website, but then what? Simply adding content is not enough. You need to make sure:

• it is keyword rich;
• worth reading;
• easy to read;
• you give people more than one way to find it;
• you need to link to it;
• you need to syndicate it;

If JFK was a internet marketer he would say something like “Ask not what your content can do for you, but rather what you can do for your content!”

With that firmly in mind here are a few ways to get the most out of your content:

Link to it.

This really is a no brainer but if you don’t link to it, how will people find it?   Add links to it from other articles you have written, link to it from your main website.  Add links to it on your blog or social profiles, status updates, there are  huge number of ways to get links to it.

Recycle it.

Can you use it in a free downlodable report or the basis of one?  Can you turn it into a video or presentation which can thenm be updaoed to scribd.com or slideshare.net?  Use a service such as odiogo.com and turn the content into an audio stream automatically.

Support it.

Keep it up to date, change it around, create followups over time and then link back to the original. Do you get asked questions about something in the article? – then update it with a reply.  Obviously this works well on blog posts.

Syndicate it.

Get your content out there. Submit it to Article websites, blog sites, post it on relevant forums, write guest blog posts for other sites.

Payday loans website Speed-e-loans.com has announced a new sponsorship deal with two pro snooker legends – Ali Carter and Joe Perry.

Carter and Perry, ranked No.5 and No.12 in the current World Snooker rankings, begin promoting the fast finance brand on snooker’s biggest stage this month when they compete in the Betfred World Championships, broadcast on BBC and Eurosport from 17 April – 3 May.

Commenting on this new sponsorship, Ali, one of World Snooker’s first ‘Young Players of Distinction’ and winner of the 2009 Welsh Open said: “I am delighted to have Speed-e-loans.com onboard as a new sponsor for the world championship and it would be great to have an extended run at Sheffield just as I did in 2008 when I reached the final.”

Joe, the 2008 Championship League winner and runner-up at the European Open 2001 added: “Snooker is a fantastic vehicle for brands to take their name to a massive potential audience and it is always great to welcome a new name like Speed-e-loans.com in to the game.”

CEO Gary Miller-Cheevers from the site said: “We are proud to sponsor both these snooker legends and feel that the sport links nicely in to our target audience. I am confident that we can build strong links with snooker and look forward to a long association with both Joe and Ali”.

With recently released figures* showing that even a trip to the dentist may cause financial problems (with people using credit cards; taking out loans; or even avoiding the problem and suffering long term tooth decay) finance expert Gary Miller-Cheevers is suggesting that payday loans may be a quicker, more effective solution to paying for dental costs than other alternatives.

The Simply Health research* showed that over the last year:

* 39% of respondents with a dental bill over £50 used their credit card to pay for the cost;
* one in 50 took out a loan;
* 43% have avoided visiting the dentist as they were too worried about the cost implications, in some cases leading to tooth decay, abscesses and even loss of their tooth.

Even basic dentistry costs can soon rack up, with a simple check- up costing on average £46 privately or £16.20 on the NHS**, while a small, non-white tooth filling averages out at £78 privately or £44.60 on the NHS**.

Gary Miller-Cheevers says: “It is a travesty that in this day and age people in the UK have to borrow money to afford basic healthcare or forgo treatment as they cannot afford it. Using a payday loan may be a quick and easy way to fund any kind of basic, lower cost treatment fast, as in most cases the money can be in a bank account within a couple of hours of someone being approved.”

Using a payday loan – which is a form of cash advance on your next or next-but-one payday and which allows people to apply for amounts up to £250 – may sometimes work out cheaper than using a credit card (unless the amount is paid off in full on the credit card due date); a long term loan; or using an unauthorised overdraft***.

Gary adds: “Not only are you getting a short term, comparatively low cost loan which is cleared on your next payday, you are getting peace of mind and relief from your pain. So we can reduce the physical pain and also the financial one too!”

Visit www.speed-e-loans.com for more information.

Resources:

*Simply Health Dental Survey 2010 – www.simplyhealth.co.uk/sh/pages/media-centre/dental-survey-2010.jsp

** www.whatprice.co.uk/dentist/nhs-private-prices.html (07.04.10)

***For cost comparisons, please visit: www.speed-e-loans.com/high-street-banks.html

We are  always singing the praises of Wordpress not only as a website and blog tool but as a simple way to deploy a wide range of different types of websites.  Be it a directory website or a classified ads site or even running a voucher codes website. And at a low cost too.  And now it has got cheaper, one of the companies we use has offered use the chance to become an affiliate and has just given us a 15% off voucher code so if you buy any of their themes you can save 15%.  Just click on the links below.

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We are looking for a freelance web designer to assist on a number of Wordpress projects.

The candidate must be experienced at using Wordpress and will have created and run Wordpress based sites previously.

An understanding of PHP would also be desirable as would some design skills to create designs for use with Wordpress. The successful applicant will also be trained with internet and blog marketing skills to enhance their own skill set as the successful applicant will also need to be able to help market their creations.

Working from your own home, hours and rates will be agreed on a project by project basis.

You will be required to visit the company’s offices from time to time, so someone based locally would be ideal.

Web design and recruitment agencies need not apply.

To enquire please forward CV and details of your experience along with any urls of work you have created using our contact form.

Competition starts today! Say what you’d spend £250 on right now – and stand two chances to win it!

To celebrate having 10,000 applications since their launch, payday loans company Speed-e-loans.com are offering visitors to their website two chances to win £250 – and all they need to do is to send in a short video describing what they’d do if they had £250 to spend right now!

The competition starts today and there are two ways in which submissions can win. The first is by being voted the Best Video as judged by Speed-e-Loans themselves.

The second £250 winner will be the video with the most views by the closing date (all videos will be uploaded to the Speed-e-loans YouTube Channel).

Gary Miller-Cheevers, CEO, from the company says: “To celebrate having 10,000 payday loan applications since our launch in February and because £250 is the highest amount first time visitors to our site can borrow as a payday loan, we thought we’d celebrate by running our video competition.

“We also really like the idea of using web video as a way for our visitors to interact with us. Finding out in a fun way what kinds of things they would spend their money on is a great way to carry out some customer research. The competition idea is not only as a way to celebrate our success, but to incentivise responses and to make more people aware of our business in a fairly novel way.

“We hope this will become more than a one off event and become an integral part of our reaching out to the online community.”

The competition starts today and closes at midnight on May 28th. For more information, full competition terms and conditions and to see two example videos, please visit: http://www.speed-e-loans-blog.com/competition/.