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Jere answers:

Http://www.tcicredit.com/

Our core values – listening to our customers and employing technology to automate and simplify their credit approval processes – have guided our growth and transformation over the last 22 years. Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and new product innovations that use cutting edge technology, we have consistently identified growth opportunities.

Teledata Communications, Inc. (“TCI”) was founded as a Telex distributor in September 1982 by principals George D. Nagrodsky and William S. Nass. We began in the 1980’s as a distributor of Telex terminals and in the late 80’s started to manufacture credit terminals. In the 90’s we transitioned our products to desktop software. By 1999, we boasted over 30,000 licensed users of our credit retrieval software products and began to transition, to an Application Service Provider model. By transitioning to an ASP model, we were able to use the advanced technology of the Internet to automate our customers’ workflow and give them better, more efficient solutions to their real business challenges.

Today-over 3,000 customers -and growing daily— are using our newest ASP-based products. Companies all around the country rely on our products for efficient and affordable access to credit bureaus, and as links to public records. TCI saves our customers countless hours by automating the process for conducting background checks, employment screenings, tenant screenings and more.

See how our decision lending software and background check solutions can help your business conduct credit checks, credit scoring and more. Read about our nine ASP-based products and then contact TCI for a free demo. Email us or call us at (800) 841-9950.d+products+and+t

Jere answers:

“If you build it, they will come” is not necessarily true on the Web. Putting a website up is one thing, but getting visitors to come to your site is another. The process becomes even more difficult if you have limited resources to market your business.

Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:

1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement – if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important — and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more – that’s additional traffic that you get for FREE!

Recommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Big Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml
CGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/
Hostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com’s “Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day.” http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm

SEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm
SEO for Yahoo! Http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm
SEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm
Tying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/seo.htm

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. My website (see my profile) accepts free press release submission (no strings attached!)

5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.

Here is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhzreGmnCUicOoyedqypscUjzKIX?qid=1006022407481

6. Improve your conversion. Getting visitors is one thing; getting them to buy your products is a whole different story. Read the article “10 Ways to Convert Visitors to Buyers” http://www.powerhomebiz.com/072005/conversion.htm for tips on how to improve your conversion rates.

7. Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:

Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com
Google Base http://base.google.com
Classifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/…
Text Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/
Recycler.com http://www.recycler.com/
Yahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/
US Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/

Jere answers:

By far the best tool for you would be WordPress.org. It’s a free blogging tool that many people use as a content management system. (CMS) WordPress allows you to build a main hub website which you can easily turn into a network where you can then sell people their own website with a selection of theme designs. Basically, you sell websites to your visitors and each time a customer buys a new website, your website will create a new website and give them a choice of themes and tools to add to their website. They can add their own domain name to their site and they will have their own backend admin area to manage their own website.
It can be set up in such a way where it’s completely automated. All you have to do is install wordpress onto your hosting account, set up the multi-user functionality, build a selection of theme designs for your customers to choose from, set up the payment processor and that’s about it, your ready to go.

WordPress.org is a MASSIVE community and you will find thousands and thousands of plugins to add additional functionality to your site. Literally, your only limited by your imagination.

Once you have it all set up, you can even offer different website packages by choosing which plugins and features you want to make available to each customer. For example, you could have a basic package that simply offers a website and a choice of three designs with no added features. A Silver package that offers a website, a choice of five designs and three plugins that offer additional features such as social networking, email marketing, an image gallery etc etc. And finally a Gold package that offers all the above with the ability to add their own domain name. I think you can even allow people to set up their own second tier website that also sells websites to their own customers.

As the main admin of the network you will have access to every one of your customers and you can view their visitor stats and send everyone messages at the same time. You can even offer some people FREE websites that contain your advertising so you can earn money from their traffic and you can offer them an upgrade to remove the ads.

As I said, your only limited by your imagination by what you can do. WordPress.org is by far the best tool for any network or paid membership site. Also, every website you sell will be hosted by you on your hosting account so this is something else you can charge your customers for.

Below is some information to get you started. You need to learn how to do everything but it’s not very hard and there is tons of online information to help you to build your network.

Installing WordPress:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

Create a Network:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Installing Multiple Blogs:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs

Be warned, there is also another version of WordPress at WordPress.com. This is a version of wordpress that only lets you set up your own blog on THEIR hosting. WordPress.org is what you want as this is self hosted on your own servers. Both versions are run by the same people. Actually, the wordpress.com version is an example of what YOU can do yourself with wordpress.org except they don’t charge people to build their website/blog.

If your serious about this and you’ve decided to go with WordPress. Here is a website you MUST check out because they offer many premium plugins which are perfect for someone building a network just like you. They have plugins to let you offer different feature to your customers, plus they have a selection of theme designs that your allowed to offer to your customers which is great because otherwise you’d have to build your own. (You can’t just sell any theme you find as most have copyright)
WPMUDEV = (wordpress Multi-user Developer)
http://premium.wpmudev.org/

Good luck

Jere answers:

The markets these days can be unpredictable and without tools, knowledge and a plan, you’re unlikely to have much success. There are a number of charting and education sites that won’t cost you anything to use and will help you to build knowledge and confidence.

One is stockcharts.com devoted to technical analysis of stocks. They have lots of free resources like a weekly newsletter and great stock charts, as well as some paid services. I use only the free ones and use their charting regularly

A very nice stock charting software that is free to use for as long as you like is at quotetracker.com – I have used it for nearly 10 years and it can build charts that are simple or very advanced. You’ll need a connection to a data feed for the charts; some are free and some can be expensive.
The software was originally developed independently but was purchased by TD Ameritrade brokerage about two years ago, so if you have an account with them, you’ll also get free stock charting data to run the software. The software has a ton of features, and can be a little intimidating, but I use it daily and like it a lot.

For something a bit simpler, another way to go would be an all in one free applcation like the-market-toolbox.com – there again are sections that are free and some paid services, but all the basics like charting, research, and trading ideas are all free. They have you register to download the software and they will likely start sending email, but the list is easy to unsubscribe if you choose.

There are many choices available in the market that are free or very cheap and you only need to decide what sort of trading or investing appeals to you in order to narrow things down. An article I came across recently may help you to answer that question : http://preview.tinyurl.com/ahoacy

Jere answers:

Go to

https://www.odesk.com/

There are a million freelancers from all walks of life that may be able to help you. Just shoot them an email and ask them if you can be an under study somewhere near your location.

You can also try

meetup.com

Look for a group you like near you and join. Meetup as a group. If none exist, create your own group and hand out flyers in your area to team up with people.