Welcome!
Be-a-WAHM.com has begun their 1st annual Holiday Gift Spectacular!
Grab some great recipe books, marketing books, software and more to either keep for yourself or to give to a friend.
This page will only be available until December 12th! At which time a brand new page at a new location will be posted.
All the best to you & Happy Holidays!
The Be-a-WAHM.com Team
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Unethical?
A new service has just launched which allows you to get an email address that only lasts 10 minutes. See 10minutemail.com.
That’s right…10 minutes.
Essentially what this means is that when you get to those pages on a website which require you to provide an email address and a name before getting the content on the subsequent page, you can simply grab a 10minutemail.com address, sign up for the item, get it from your email, and do nothing further. The email address will simply “self-destruct”.
I know that there are some folks out there cheering this on because they get so tired of being “required” to give out personal information before receiving either their free gift, complimentary offer, whatever you’re seeking at the time.
However, the people providing this offer to you as a subscriber have gone to some lengths to get that information to you. The “price” that you pay is your email address. Would you rather be charged for the product? I guess it all depends on what your email address is worth to you.
I honestly believe that this is a very short-lived but noteworthy item. Many websites already prevent certain email addresses from being used such as a hotmail.com or ayahoo.com address and this will simply be another one that is blocked by savvy website owners.
It’s obvious that if you choose to use an email address such as this, you are doing nothing more than stealing. You obviously have no intention of being a trustworthy person.
A little harsh? I don’t think so. Since many online marketers offer a double-opt in, which essentially means that you have to confirm your email address before receiving any additional email, and you are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time, there is no reason at all to not use a real, working email address.
Obviously if you have visited the website they offer something of value to you so it would make sense that you would want to receive other valuable items and information as well.
If you don’t, it’s simply stealing.
What do you think?
- K
The following is an advertisement for a brand new website.
It’s rare that I post twice in a day but I just had to share this with you because it is quite a new and interesting concept.
A brand new site called ReviewMe has been created to help those of us who don’t have huge advertising budgets but are looking for word-of-mouth buzz about our product or service.
Advertising, especially if you’ve just started a brand new site is not only time-consuming, it can also be very expensive.
If you’ve been advertising for some time, you know that banner advertsing as well as other forms of advertising, just simply doesn’t work like it used to and that having a link to your website from another relevant site is very important!
Creating a buzz about your product or service is of vital importance. ReviewMe helps you do just that! Sign up for free and start people talking about your product or service within as little as 2 days!
If you’re willing to write a review about another site you can also earn yourself some extra spending cash!
A sidenote here, even though this sounds like an easy way to make some money, be sure that the website you’re reviewing is a high-quality website and one that you would be proud to link to. Remember that you are providing a service to your website visitors!
Your friend and partner in business,
Kristine
I receive many newsletters on a daily basis as I’m sure you probably do too.
Some of them really surprise me though. Not with the new and impressive information that they provide but with the sheer ignorance of what is published!
Today, I received some information about search engine optimization which is of course, right up my alley, so I thought I’d read this particular article. This person had also been “featured” by two very major publications (which in my opinion is either completely false or the publications just didn’t know better – my guess is the latter).
But as I read this article, I was in total and complete shock!
Not only did this person recommend creating doorway pages – which are pages created strictly for the search engines and not for the site visitors, but they also suggested that when you finished with these pages, you submit these pages to the search engines!
Not only is submitting your pages to search engines completely unnecessary, but this person was recommending that you submit your “doorway” pages to them.
What probably upset me the most was that this person was being touted as an “authority” on the subject of search engine optimization.
Never, ever create your website or webpages for a search engine. Always create them for the site visitor. And you don’t have to submit your website to the search engines. All you need to do is find another website who is already listed in Google link to you. Your link will get followed naturally and your site will then get searched and thus indexed.
All the best,
Kristine
P.S. Don’t forget, we’re moving our blog to the Be-a-WAHM.com website beginning on December 1st, 2006. Don’t forget to visit us there!
P.P.S. In a couple of weeks, the search engine optimization guide will be released. This however, is not your typical SEO guide. This one actually shows you how to do it and gives you checklists and charts to help you along the way!
We are moving our WordPress Blog to our own server at www.Be-a-WAHM.com.
Please join us there. We will be updating information in both spots for some time until we get everything moved over properly.
http://be-a-wahm.com/wordpress/
Kristine
