Friday, April 16, 2004

300,000 FREE VISITORS TO YOUR WEBSITE...

$3,000 WORTH OF FREE PPC ADVERTISING...


If you need a boost in traffic to your website... but are a bit shy on budget... then this will be good news for you.

There are many Pay-Per-Click search engines which give-away free bonuses in order to attract your advertising business. The usual form of these free bonuses is in the form of cash deposited to your click-thru account by the PPC search engine. This "seed money" gets you started with the PPC search engine and gives you free traffic to your site(s).

For a huge list of links to PPC's giving away free click thru's... CLICK HERE.

You'll find a list of dozens of PPC's giving away about $3,000 dollars worth of free Pay-Per-Click advertising

The amounts varies from as little as $5.00 to as high as $25 or $30. At one-cent per click-thru, a free $25.00 bonus will bring you 2,500 free visitors to your site. $3,000 in free click-thru's will bring you 300,000 visitors to your site (at .01 cents each.)

TIPS: Carefully pick out your best possible keywords and phrases and load only those terms which will result in high quality leads for your offers. Loading keywords and phrases is a time consuming exercise...however if you have more time than budget you will probably find this a profitable effort. Many of the sites will give you very little traffic individually...it is the cumulative results of dozens of PPC's sending you traffic that you are going for. Also... managing dozens of PPC accounts can be a bit problematic. I suggest you store all the PPC links in a separate folder in your "favorites" in order to have fast and easy access to them.

Monitor the results from these PPC's carefully. When you find one that produces good traffic counts and high quality visitors, you will want to increase the number of good keywords & phrases. You will find a few gems that work for you and, for that reason alone, it is a good idea to test them all.

NET ATTRACTS HEALTH-SEEKING SURFERS...


Harris Interactive calculates that 111 million adults have looked for health information on the Internet , compared to 109 million in 2003 and 110 million in 2002.

Measurements from Hitwise indicate that the Health and Medical category has seen more than a 30 percent increase in share of all U.S. visits since January 2003. More specifically, in the Health and Medical - Information category, WebMD captured the largest portion of individuals during March 2004. Interestingly, the top three search terms that led to visits to Health and Medical - Information Web sites were variations of WebMD. "Pregnancy," "medical dictionary," "herpes," and "depression" were also among the most popular search terms that resulted in visits.

March 2004 demographic data from Hitwise revealed that most of the visitors to Health and Medical - Information Web sites were higher earning 35 to 44 year-old females who accessed the Internet from home. The average session duration for the Health and Medical - Information category was 6 minutes 26 seconds.



Monday, April 12, 2004

LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY COMPANIES OF POISONING THE PUBLIC WITH ASPARTAME...


SACRAMENTO -- April 6th, Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County, California.

The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic.

Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.

Aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression.

In original studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors.

Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).

Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing, manufacturing, processing, selling or using aspartame.

Plaintiffs in all three cases are seeking a jury trial.

If you would like to schedule someone from the National Justice League for an interview, please call or fax us at (530) 248-3483.

INTERNET DRIVES PROFITS FOR SMALL BUSINESS...


The Internet equals profits for more than half of the 400 small businesses (SBs) that participated in an eBay-commissioned survey, conducted by ACNielsen, and a small portion reported that without the Web, they wouldn't have a business.

While 51 percent of the respondents indicated that the Internet has improved their profitability, 58 percent said the medium has helped their businesses grow or expand. Fully one-third of the survey participants, which included merchants who have used eBay, sell goods and services online, and 15 percent said the Internet is essential to their survival.

Health & Wellness distributors are using internet sites to cost effectively market products and recruit new distributors... as well as provide essential training and support to their organizations.

TRAFFIC TO ONLINE HEALTH SITES SHOW HEALTHY GROWTH...


As Web surfers endeavor to grow thin, the hit counters of health, fitness and nutrition sites get fat, with over 11 million home surfer visits during the week ending Jan. 4, 2004, according to online audience measurement firm Nielsen//Net Ratings.

"Traditionally, this is a busy month for health clubs, and we're seeing this online as well," said Abha Bhagat, senior analyst at Nielsen//Net Ratings.

The top sites in the category enjoyed double and triple-digit growth. eDiets.com's weekly traffic increased 119 percent to over one million unique visitors, compared to 472,000 visitors during the week ending Dec. 28. Competitor Weight Watchers' traffic went up 97 percent, to 876,000 visitors that week, compared to 445,000 visitors the previous week.

These high-traffic sites may be a place you will want to investigate ad placement for wellness products or business opportunities.

SURFING WITH SENIORS AND BOOMERS...


Click Here For a great article that will shed some clear insights on the senior market.

The article includes some great links for additional information on this important and growing market segment... a segment which holds fabulous promise for wellness marketers and distributors.

FASTEST GROWING ONLINE MARKET?--SENIOR CITIZENS!...


The fastest growing online population is also the oldest, according to measurements from Nielsen//NetRatings finding that the over 65 group surged 25 percent in a year. Since October 2002, senior citizens online grew from 7.6 million — 5.9 percent of the active Internet universe — to 9.6 million surfers, representing 7 percent of the online population in October 2003.

Big gains were seen among female seniors who increased their average number of Web pages viewed per month by 14 percent — compared to 5 percent for males — and the women increased their average time spent online by 6 percent, spending nearly two more hours online.

The aging Internet population will be reflected in online shopping, where Jupiter Research noticed that the older adults and seniors — along with kids and teens — would experience the biggest e-commerce gains by 2007.

This data bodes well for those in the wellness industry who are marketing wellness products or recruiting distributors. You might want to consider advertising in publications...both online and offline... that target senior citizens.





Sunday, April 11, 2004

MAY ISSUE OF "CONSUMER'S REPORT" ATTACKS SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY...Lena Sanchez Responds...


Lena Sanchez has responded to a seriously flawed article in the May issue of Consumer's Report on the dietary supplement industry. Her article entitled "Who Are We Kidding? The World?" is posted in the Health & Wellness Articles section of the MaxxMLM website. The direct article url is: http://www.e-comprofits.com/lenakidding.html

This should be considered "must reading" by anyone involved in the wellness industry... and all consumers interested in protecting their right to choose their own healthcare products.

The DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act-1994) is under heavy attack by the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA. Many media outlets (Consumer's Report among them) are just mouthing the position of the pharmaceutical giants and serving as surrogate advocates for the drug industry. If you want to protect your right to choose you must take a proactive roll in protecting that right by letting your elected officials know--in no uncertain terms--that you insist that the DSHEA be upheld and reinforced.