08 Jul 11 Online Promotion tips for an E-book Reader

E-reading devices have witnessed growing popularity in recent time; irrespective of age, location and sex. Since this device comes really handy, and can be used to read e-books at any point of time, anywhere without any hassle. But the market has many e-book readers available, coming from giant companies. How do you think your eBook reader will combat the competition and draw sales? Here are some promotional tips for your help.

Interactive website

To really stand out from the competition you need an attractive website, which is highly interactive and self explicit. Don’t forget if the product, its usage and features don’t look attractive enough no one will buy it. So make sure display picture looks alluring, illustrating its features in detail. People should be able to further zoom in to the picture, rotate it, and see from every corner in detail. Point out all parts and their functions. There should be couple of videos showcasing demonstration, usage and testimonials of users. You may also include some quality test videos in your website to appear credible.

Some discount

When big dads are around and you are constantly threatened you have to offer your product at a reasonably lower price to appeal to the mass.

Advertise at e-book selling sites

There are many instances when people buy e-books or avail free open source download sites. If you advertise your book reader device there, you are actually talking to your right target market. You have banged right on your target. Make sure your advertisement is attractive and easily grabs attention. Many e-book buyers may use computer or laptop to read a book and are looking for a good reading device. In such case your advertisement can’t escape their attention. You may have a tie up with the website in particular and offer good discount to the people who will buy within some given time.

Testimonial reviews

Reviews of past buyers and users can be extremely helpful for you. Motivate your users to write honest reviews. You may display them in your website or advertisements.

YouTube videos

Start circulating videos in youtube.com and other popular video directories. People quite often check out new devices in these sites. You may display operational videos, testimonial videos, quality check videos, expert videos, research videos etc. The more people know about you, will find you transparent, credible and worth buying. People may comment there are put their queries, make sure you answer them all.

SEO

Last but not the least; make your website search engine optimized. Optimize keywords effectively. If people are looking for an eBook reader your name should come in the first page preferably. A high ranking in search engine helps to secure good traffic.

Start promoting your e-book reader device today.

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04 Dec 09 Are You a Freelance Writer, Do You Know How to Fight Distraction?

For a freelance writer, it is quite easy to get distracted because he works from home. For the large part of the day, people in our home keep either talking or watching television, which never fails to distract us. This is frustrating, which further sucks away our productivity.

How to avoid it?

Fortunately, there is a way out of it, which anyone of you can use to avoid distraction, regardless of your situation.

Assign yourself a place of work

This is the must-take action for any freelance writer. It is not good to carry your laptop and sit anywhere in your home to work, well occasional working-in-kitchen will not hurt but do not make it a routine. I know it sounds against the spirit of freelance writing—you can work from anywhere and anytime—but this is worth a deviation. Find a lonely corner in your house and turn it into a workplace.

Fix your work hours

I may sound like talking against the freedom of freelance writing, but my intention is not to drag you back into the 9-5 job that you left in the past, it is only to help you produce more. And as it is you can anytime pull the string and call it off.

Work, no matter what

Once you fix your work hour, you should stick to it, no matter what. Well, you can deviate from “no matter what” principle without any guilt feeling when you know you need to. Occasion deviation never hurts, at least not in our profession.

Talk to your family

At times, getting things write just need a word from us. Talk to your family and tell them that you are working around here, so not to create distraction. Well this might not work with a disgruntled spouse, but in most of the cases, this will be enough. Believe it or not, they understand the value of the work you are doing.

As you can see, fighting off distraction does not take so much of muscle power as much it takes discipline and tactics. What are your tactics to fight this monster off? Use the comment box and tell me your strategies.

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19 Oct 09 Secure Your Gmail

If web provides us with opportunities, it also provides us with threats, and at times the threats are more dangerous than we suppose. There are many people on the net who earn their livelihood by making our life miserable. People who fall prey to the burglars’ attack are those who are most innocent and do not suspect anyone.

This brief post will help you secure your Gmail account from the burglars who are out there to steal your mail IDs and other information. Securing Gmail is an easy task. Just follow the things written below and your Gmail will become secure.

Forcing Gmail to use https connection

The very first thing you need to do is to force Gmail to open a secure channel for all your online communication by using https instead of http. Using https is free. To use it, all you need to do is make a slight change in the settings. Follow the following steps

Step 1: Log in to your Gmail account as you regularly do.
Step 2: Click on the “settings” that appears at the top of the page.
Step 3: Make sure you are on the General Tab under settings.
Step 4: On fifth position from top, you will find “Browser connection”.
Step 5: Check the Radio button beside “Always use https”.
Step 6: Click save changes at the bottom of the page.
Step 7: Restart your Gmail. Now you will notice that your Gmail has https prefix in place of http.

Sign out all other sessions

How many times did it happen to you that you logged in our office or home PC and forgot to log out when leaving office or home? And how many times we asked our family or colleague to log you from your Gmail? And do you remember where all you logged in: Cell phones, cybercafé, friends’ PC, your bosses’ laptop?

There is no need to panic. There is a way in Gmail to log you out from all the devices you logged in at other places. Follow the following steps and you can easily do that.

Step 1: Log in to your Gmail account.
Step 2: Scroll to the bottom of the page.
Step 3: Find “Last account activity: X minutes ago on this computer. Details” written at the bottom. You may or may not find “This account is open in 1 other location at this IP (122.162.225.247)”this written before the “last login” text.
Step 4: Click the “Details” link.
Step 5: A window will pop up.
Step 6: Go to the window and click “Sign out all other sessions” button.

That’s it. You are done. Your Gmail is secure now.

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