Mompreneurs – Entrepreneurs of the fairer sex. Here are some interesting numbers:

• Women own 46% of privately owned business in the US
• They are  starting  their own businesses at twice the rate as men
• Over 7.7 million US firms are owned by women
• They contribute $1.1 trillion in revenues to the economy
• Their firms create jobs for 7.2 million Americans.

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The good folks at Google have a place where you can get a glimpse the most popular searches. Its called Google Zeitgeist.

Just recently they published the 2006 summary. These always make interesting reading. Be a little careful with this information. these aren’t the most popular searches. These are those that have gained the most on last years results.

The top results are:

1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde

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If you want to make your website a success then read on……

I bet you haven’t heard of Randy Brown. I hadn’t until I stumbled across a short advertisement in the Digital Point forums. The advertisement was for an ebook called “What I did to make a successful website in only a few months”. Since the price was only $10, I decided to buy it.

The 16 page report arrived instantly. It was pretty simple. Sixteen pages of typed notes, no illustrations and no marketing hype. To drive home the point, the sub-heading on the first page reads as follows : “No promises, no guarantees, nothing to buy – just a simple list of things that I did that I think made my site successful”

Turns out Randy is a 39 year old It department manager who managed to take his start-up website from zero to $3500 per month. This in only 12 months. He decided to sell his story to make a little extra cash.
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Google Adsense is a very profitable program but there are times when its worthwhile to explore an Adsense Alternative or two.

Having seen a number of posts in forums about Adsense alternatives, I decided build a list of programs to evaluate.

All following is a list of programs which can be used in place of AdSense. Some are pay per click, some pay per action, some pay per impression (CPM) and still others are pay per lead. I’ve included a snippet from each site to provide some background to their offering.
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Whatever home based business you own, it is essential to have ongoing promotional activity. Email Promotion should be an important part of the mix. Here are some reasons why:

(a) It’s very low cost
(b) It’s instant, allowing your audience to have real time updates of whatever you wish to communicate.
(c) Good response – generally if there is a link to further information in an email then the recipient will at least open the link.
(d) Email is personal, which means for a targeted campaign, very good response rates can be achieved.
(e) Its scalable. Doesn’t matter if you have 50 or 5,000 emails to send out the effort (and cost) is the same.

One of the secrets to having a successful email promotion is to know how to write your email message. There is a right an a wrong way to go about it and the difference will be significant when the final results are in.

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