Cash In On What More Than 1 Billion Surfers Want
By Diana Barnum, Wed Dec 7th
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Content Desk Virtual Publishing Empire - Cashing In On WhatMore Than One Billion Surfers Want Most
Today, more than one billion* people surf the Internet. And thatnumber is growing. So is the amount of revenue being generatedonline.
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For example, online advertising expenditures are targeted toreach an estimated $11.6 billion by 2010, according to aforecast from Forrester Research**, Inc., with ads specificallyreaching others via blogs and through RSS. And online spendingfrom average Internet users is predicted to generate revenues in2006 of $1.8 billion and $1.7 billion just in the categories ofonline games and digital music alone, according to a report byJupiter Media Metrix.
What draws people online to make these purchases? In a word,content.
“People want the sites that they visit to be informationresources, no matter what the subject,” said Jack Humphrey,managing partner in the exclusive Content Desk Charter Memberspublishing group. “Articles, reports, facts, tips, newsletters,forums, blogs, audio, video, interviews, product reviews,creative writing, public domain information, RSS and much more.”
Content Desk has a variety of tools to help members create anduse all types of content. The exclusive online community focuseson four things; community, learning, technology and profits.
Report & Case Study: Sid Hale, jvAlert
“Creating good, relevant content has always been the biggestproblem in creating a web site that can attract and retainvisitors,” said Sid Hale, co-creator of jvAlert and chartermember of Content Desk. “With Content Desk's Content SiteBuilder, I was able to quickly find article content for a newsite I had launched only a month earlier, and automate addingthat content to my site within just a few days. That includedthe learning curve…”
Hale signed up immediately after reading a report written byHumphrey entitled, "Building a Content Publishing Empire." Beinga content publisher and knowing how much work can be involved inbuilding content for a site, he felt the decision to joinContent Desk was a “no-brainer.” For a copy of the report andHale’s case study, both at no cost, contact:http://www.contentdesk.com .
CONTENT DESK: Building A Content Publishing Empire
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Content Desk membership community communicates via theirprivate forum, conferences, teleconferences, email and supportdesk. Some of their tools are downloads, while others are onlineapplications and knowledge shared through learning. Learning isoffered in the form of videos, articles, help texts, tutorials,member sharing and seminars/workshops.
Content Desk membership fees go right back into development ofnew software and tools so that members are always on thecutting-edge and far ahead of all the "point-and-click" sitebuilders out there.
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
Cyber-brains behind the Content Desk scene are the “Power Trio;”Jack Humphrey, Mark Braunstein, and Peter Lenkefi. These threerenowned visionaries found themselves smack dab in the middle ofthe emerging, fledgling web publishing industry.
“Giving (website visitors) what they want is the first step inbuilding relationships rather than one-time visitors,” saidHumphrey. “We feel it is crazy to work hard on traffic that willnever come back to our sites. Especially if the only change weneed to make to those sites is adding good material thatvisitors enjoy! First time visits are expensive. Repeat visitsare free.””
MARDI GRAS
To help others learn more and earn more, Content Desk is hostinga 3-day seminar / workshop in New Orleans from Sept. 9-11, 2005,with a full year of support follow up afterwards. The focus is,“How To Triple Your Income With Irresistible New ContentPublishing, Traffic Building and Sales Conversion Techniques -The Three Proven Keys To Internet Success."
"Son of a gun, we're gonna have big fun, on the bayou…”
For more information, visit http://presssuccess.com/MardiGras To learn more about Content Desk and check on theavailability of limited openings at Content Site Builder, visithttp://presssuccess.com/csb . Join hundreds of publishers and writers in creating andsyndicating your content at Content Propulsion Lab http://presssuccess.com/cpl . Visit http://www.contentdesk.comfor help.
* From “The Internet Transforms Modern Life,” by Steve Almasy,CNN, June 29, 2005.
** The Forrester Research report includes data from an onlinesurvey of 99 leading marketers and four forecasts: US SearchMarketing Spending, US Online Advertising And MarketingSpending, US Email Marketing Spending and US Online ClassifiedsAdvertising.
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By Diana Barnum, president of http://movingaheadcommunications.com and CEO of http://ohiohelp.net . For morehelp with marketing, public relations and writing, emailmailto:diana@ohiohelp.net or call: (614) 529-9459.
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