If you want to grow your micro-business (defined as a business with fewer than five employees), you might consider some of the findings of a survey by Statistics Canada.
1. The Findings
According to “Growth Determinants of Micro-Businesses in Canada” (Evangelia Papadaki and Bassima Chami, Small Business Policy Branch, Industry Canada), the survey by Statistics Canada revealed the following:
Making huge sums of money with AdSense isn’t brain surgery. You simply have to know what you’re doing. If you know which types of ads to choose, where to place them on the page and how to use Google’s options to design them so that they get the maximum number of click-throughs, you should find your site earning heaps of money very quickly.
But things can go wrong. Revenues can be disappointing, clicks non-existent and pages designed to put off users instead of encourage them to check out your advertisers. You know when one of the worst things possible has gone wrong when, instead of seeing ads on your page, you get public service ads. These turn up when Google doesn’t recognize your keywords or can’t find a suitable ad to put on your Web page. Instead of showing a blank box, it puts up ads for all sorts of charities, none of which you choose – and none of which earn you revenue.
Another powerful reason for making the switch from using the unlimited autoresponders that come free with your web hosting account to paying a monthly fee for an autoresponder service is tracking capability.
by Rosalind Gardner
Until recently, if you did a search on the term ‘satellite dish’ at Google, and then surveyed the URL’s in the Adwords listings, you were bound to see that most of the ads linked to just one company. You’d also note that most listings ended with the ‘aff’ (affiliate site) designation.
Eight ads all linking to the same site. How useless and frustrating was that?
Well, Google has just introduced a new affiliates Adwords policy that finally addresses that problem.
Having a hobby is great. It fulfills your life in more ways than one – giving you pleasure and relaxing your mind and body. But did you know it’s also possible to earn money from the things you enjoy?
Millions of people all around the world are making money from their hobbies. It might be something quirky like taking metal garbage and creating beautiful works of art from it, or something tame like writing non-fiction.
Taking some pride in my one hundred percent positive feedback score on eBay, I was horrified to see a negative feedback appear against me.
What had I done wrong? Had I overlooked an auction win and failed to deliver product as promised? Had I given poor, slow service? Was I rude to the auction winner?