"team Up & Share....$7 Billion In Se Marketing"
By Diana Barnum, Wed Dec 7th

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Content Desk Virtual Publishing Empire - Teaming Up For TheirShare of More Than $7 Billion in SE Marketing

Approximately $7 billion* in annual spending is expected for thesearch engine (SE) marketing industry by 2007. And members atContent Desk, an Internet content syndication center and asource of high-quality, targeted content for webmasters, areexcited to be a team of go-getters and share in the bounty.

“Monetizing our websites doesn't just mean finding the bestpaying advertising and affiliate programs to put on our sites,”said Jack Humphrey, managing partner in the exclusive ContentDesk Charter Members publishing group. “But making the most ofthe visitors we get, to keep them coming back and clicking onads and buying from us again and again.”

And Humphrey does mean a LOT of visitors and clicks. Researchshows that marketers will be targeting 15% of their budget tosearch engine marketing. In fact, marketers anticipate spending$3.3 billion on paid search listings and $238.5 million on siteoptimization services, according to MarketingSherpa's MarketingMetrics Guide (2004). ** So that’s a lot of bounty to share.

“The only way to do that is to have updated, valuableinformation that Internet visitors are trying to find,”explained Humphrey. “BE that resource for them and you will reaprewards far beyond what you may have already experienced withplain directory sites.”

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.

“We cover a slew of tactics we are using for members, includingall the successful and not so successful tests we have done topull in more traffic and more profits for our content publishingnetworks,” said Humphrey. “ We are in the right place at theright time.”

Charter member David Granoff shared his experience with ContentDesk.

BRIEF INTERVIEW WITH: DAVID GRANOFF

Q: How did you learn about Content Desk & what made you decideto sign up?

I heard about Content Desk through one of my Internet marketingnewsletters, and after 2 years of building sites "the hard way"and another 2 years of working with a partner building "resourcesites" that I wasn't particularly proud of; I decided there mustbe a better way to build high-quality sites. I've been veryhappy with the site building system, the very supportiveContentDest partners, and the great community of like-mindedmembers.

Q: Please share how you've successfully used the tools inContent Desk / Content Site Builder so far.

I've built a number of sites in the past few months, in variousniches, experimenting with various formats - it's very importantto try different things and see what actually works. Sometimesthe most "elegant" approach is not the most profitable, and therules are always changing. Here are a

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few representative sites,in which I've used professionally-developed templates, home-madetemplates, and blogs like WordPress:

http://www.cholesterol-1.com http://www.arthritis-411.comhttp://www.low-carb-diet-411.com http://www.acne-1.comhttp://www.banking-1.com

Q: What future plans can you share with us?

I look forward to syndicating my original articles with ContentPropulsion Lab (a new part of the Content Desk publishingnetwork that will be open to the public soon) to develop a goodnetwork of quality links from related web sites, using theonline CSB tool to keep my sites fresh and to blog on auto-pilotwith the auto-blog feature.

One of the great things about Content Desk is the greatcommunity we have. I hope that I've been as helpful to all ofyou as you have been to me. I also look forward to partneringwith more members on joint projects. If you enjoy writing aboutsomething and are looking for a partner to put up a web sitefeaturing your material and integrate some revenue sources withit, be sure to let me know … And thanks for recognizing my ownlittle contributions to the community.

ABOUT CONTENT DESK

The Content Desk membership community communicates via theirprivate forum, virtual conferences, teleconferences, email,support desk, workshops and new Mentor / Sponsorship Program formembers to team up. Some of their tools are downloads andvideos, while others are online applications and knowledgeshared through learning. Learning is offered in the form ofvideos, articles, help texts, tutorials, member sharing andseminars/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.

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.

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 Mardi Grashttp://presssuccess.com/MardiGras . To learn more about ContentDesk and check on the availability of limited openings atContent Site Builder, visit http://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.

* According to investment bank U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray;“Jupiter Research Launches Search Service,” by Brian Morrissey;May 27, 2003; ClickZ News.

** “Search Engine Marketing Industry Snapshot,” BizResearchä2005.

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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. SpecialNote: Content Desk members may substitute their own affiliatelinks in the article above, but the author byline needs toremain in tact.

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