While there isn’t much content, yet, I found some very interesting places on the web just getting started.  There is a story that comes along with these places that I will get into another time.  I recommend you check them all out:

1. Fashion Chatterbox
2. Education Chatterbox
3. Entertainment Chatterbox
4. Financial Chatterbox
5. Healthcare Chatterbox
6. Insurance Chatterbox
7. Legal Chatterbox
8. Retail Chatterbox
9. Real Estate Chatterbox
10. Technology Chatterbox

The interesting thing here is the name, “Chatterbox”. Unlike the typical brand, it is a new network of content very similar to The Blog It All but without any adverts whatsoever, no Adsense, no banners, nothing. We wonder how long it will take for most fundamental blogs of this nature to catch up with the times as thousands are making Thousands writing quality content.

So in the end, do people PAY for content? I suppose they do. Writers write. Readers read. Publishers get paid by advertisers. The flaw in this one particular model is that how do advertisers (… using Adsense for example) know the quality of the content the reader is reading? Confusing? Not really. Even with the poorest content, Adsense is displayed and clicks are inevitable.

Hopefully, you have found one or more good reasons to start accepting debit and credit cards at your business whether you are online or not to start credit card payment processing. If the reason you are not accepting credit cards payments online is because you think you cannot afford to, think again. The simple truth is, “You cannot afford not to!”

Remember customers are spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a product and simply expect to be able to pay by credit card. There are even some customers who cannot afford to pay for their purchase in total and who are planning to pay the balance off over a period of time. So, having online credit card processing services is to your advantage.

Statistics show that the average American household now has between 7-10 credit cards. The number of small and large businesses catering to consumers with processing capabilities is growing rapidly and Strategic Merchants can provide those credit card processing options. And with merchant account options you can increase revenue potential. You can accept credit card payments for businesses with ease

Many consumers now have only debit/check card in their possession. This means that debit payments are rapidly gaining popularity with consumers who prefer the payment option to credit. And merchants who would like to increase their patronage with this convenient form of payment can now do so. Find out how simple and secure debit/check card payments are.

The government’s use of electronic benefits transfer is greatly increasing as evidenced by nearly 85% of food stamp benefits currently being issued by EBT. Strategic Merchant Solutions makes offering EBT services, and using them, as simple as our other products. And you get the same Credit Card Processing Options.

Strategic Merchant’s Solutions offers a complete automated teller machines (ATM) program that includes Placement, Sales and Service. Make money from day one. We offer three placement programs to choose from. Strategic Merchant’s Solution offers a fully integrated, online registration, donation collection and marketing system. Our online registration and payment gateway provides the ability to manage all your events, memberships, donations promotions and payment from one single web site when you accept credit cards on your website.

How will shopping for insurance online save you money or time?

1) Only One Form. If you have tried shopping for insurance via phone you have discovered that you often have to complete quote applications for each individual company. That takes a lot of time repeating the same information over and over again. Online searching eliminates that hassle. You fill out 1 quote form and let the agents come to you.

2) Agents Will Compete for Your Business. Shopping online for affordable insurance means multiple insurance agents will compete for your business. THEY call you. Just sit back, relax and let them do all the work for you.

3) Timesaving. When you request insurance quotes through an insurance shopping portal, it allows you to compare multiple quotes, which puts you in the driver’s seat and gives you that extra time that you need. Your time is valuable so anytime you can say that, do it.

Whether you are looking for a whole life, Universal life or term life insurance quotes, BeamaLife is a new way to shop for life insurance online. They combine the convenience of online shopping with years of knowledge and experience. No matter you are looking for the day will search through over 100 different whole life insurance, universal life insurance and term life companies to find the best quality and priced products for your needs.

Their years of experience are at your disposal for any questions you may have. They are always willing to help you to better educate yourself about life insurance. Because they are a broker, they do not work for any one insurance company and their employees are not working for commissions like most insurance agents. These two factors ensure that your quote will be suitable for your situation and delivered with unbiased advice.

They understand how sensitive and important the subject of life insurance is and will approach it in a sensitive and pragmatic way. They take utmost care to safeguard your financial, medical or other personal information sent to whole life insurance, universal life insurance and term life insurance companies. As life insurance is not only guarantee of maintaining standard of living of your near and dear once but powerful saving vehicle for your retirement and other savings and investment needs. They will be there not only when you buy your policy from them but they will be there for any other after sale service or finally for claiming the death benefit.

Choosing a CRM (customer relationship management) tool/solution is critical for most small businesses that need to track sales, prospects, and manage accounting. Whether you are a contractor, in telecommunications, retail, financial etc… companies know that in order to achieve success, they must better service the customers — and it all starts with tracking and understand.

If you are evaluating CRM technology you must consider the following:

• Your company goals and strategy.
• Need web-based or local software?
• Your budgetand affordable solutions.
• Scalability and Growth.
• Execution.
• Customization.
• Working with your current accounting system.
• Reputation and reliability of CRM.
• GUI - graphical user interface - how easy is it to work with the technology?
• Functionality - does it meet your needs?

Plan ahead. Evaluate and research all options. Look into upgrades and customer service for the technologies. Shopping around will help you make the best decision possible but be careful, and examine your options.

Consider all of the above as it will have a major impact on your business and bottom line.

Examples of the TOP CRM Technology:

• SalesForce, On-Demand Customer Relationship Management
• TheContractorOffice, CRM For Small Business
• SugarCRM, Open Source CRM Application - Web Based
• Zoho CRM, Role Based Affordable CRM
• OnContact, Award Winning CRM

If you are a small business, your best bet is TheContractorOffice.com. They offer the most affordable small business crm software / web application and it will work with quickbooks and most accounting software.

1. Site Overlays

The site overlay feature allows us to see where people click and how many times they click a specific area on your website. This feature is critical to improving the conversion process and improving the # of conversions. If you do not have custom URL’s on every single button/link of your website, each repeated link will be tracked as one link. In other words, lets say you have a “SHOP” button at the very top of your page… and you also have another “SHOP” button at the bottom of your page. If the link attached to this shop button is http://www.site.com/shop, you won’t be able to track both buttons separately. Instead, the collective # of clicks between both buttons will be displayed. If you update your website to be GA site overlay compliant, you will be able to see how many people clicked the “SHOP” button at the very top of your page and the “SHOP” button at the very bottom of the page. This is a very important feature when it comes to driving visitors through the conversion path of least resistance.

2. Shopping Carts

Shopping carts can be very tricky. We are just scratching the surface with product level and cost conversion tracking. One major shopping cart tracking issue we’ve recently come across was subdomains and referring URLs. If you have your shopping cart on a subdomain or another domain completely separate from your main domain, tracking the conversions/orders to a referral level may be difficult. For example, if our main website is www.site.com and the shopping cart is installed on http://shop.site.com, GA will treat this as 2 domains. If visitors from www.site.com click “SHOP” and are referred to http://shop.site.com the conversion will be tracked as a referral from www.site.com [not the original referral of www.site.com].

If someone searches for a keyword that www.site.com ranks for on Google, finds your website, clicks to your main site, then clicks SHOP and is referred to a completely different domain … the conversion referral will be lost unless you take very specific steps and modify the GA code on both websites. Let us know if you need any assistance with the modifications.

3. Tracking Conversions as a number, not a percentage

We’ve followed up with Google about this several times. Currently, GA tracks conversions with a percentage [%]. If you have 10 visitors and one converts, they show you a 10% conversion rate. However, we’ve yet to resolve this to a real number as we are more interested in seeing 1 conversion happened per 10 visitors [instead of translating the % into a real # our self, which takes time].

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