Your Ads Aren't Working!

I know your ads aren't working.

How do I know this?

Because I'm betting that you're probably getting a pathetically
low click-through rate and an almost non-existent conversion
rate out of those ads.

Let me explain.

The truth is, banner ads and link exchanges just don't work
anymore. People just ignore them completely.

Google and other major companies that get the bulk of their
profits from advertising have tried to counteract this
'banner blindness' by making ads different sizes
- which worked ... for awhile.

You can be the best graphic designer or copywriter in the
world - and it doesn't make one bit of difference. Your ads
still have a horrible conversion rate.

Want to know which kind of ads people don't ignore?
==> Header Ads.

The header is the area at the very top of a web page. It
usually includes the product name, maybe a photo of the
creator and a graphic of a software box or book cover.

It's also the very first thing people notice on a website,
and the very first graphic to load.

Now what if you could take this same header area from
someone else's site and put YOUR ads on it?

Can you see just how much more targeted that would be?
The site visitors can't help but notice it - which means
you get more click-thrus and more eager buyers coming
to YOUR site!

See what I mean at http://www.HeaderAds.com/8821

It's like getting someone else to do all the marketing
for you. All you do is sit back and watch as the customers
pour in!

And best of all - if you go to http://www.HeaderAds.com/8821
- you'll find out exactly how much this advertising costs:

Nothing!

But I should warn you. As soon as the big marketing
pros hear about this - their servers are going to fill up
fast. And once the space fills up, they might have to
start charging.

Get in now before it's too late - http://www.HeaderAds.com/8821

Persistence and Your Home Business

Where does the needle point to on your persistence meter? Are you someone who decides to let something go at the first indication that it just may require more work than you originally thought? If so, and you are trying to build a home business, then you might want to think about changing your thought process. There really is truth to the old adage, “anything worth having is worth working for.” Running a successful home business is not exempt from that concept.

It is a known and common sentiment that 97% if all internet marketers fail. Think about that for a second. 97%. The reasons for their failure vary but among them are that some don’t know much, if anything, about marketing online. Another reason many fail is that some people get into the wrong programs or businesses and don’t have anyone to mentor them and virtually no upline support. Others fail simply because they lack a crucial trait of all home business successes. They lack persistence. They try something for a few months and because they are not seeing the money roll into their bank accounts at lightning speed the way some of these scams out here have led them to believe they will, they simply give up. I believe the reason for this is that many people, let’s face it, just don’t want to work hard for what they truly want and deserve. They want to earn an abundance of cash online but they are not willing to be PERSISTENT in their quest and with their efforts to make their dreams come true.

I have decided to devote The Washington Report to helping those who truly want to succeed and who know a thing or two about persistence. Let me tell you a story. I grew up in a town called Gary, Indiana. All my life I always felt that there was more out there that the world had to offer me than what I could find in this small, economically challenged steel mill town. So at 18 when I graduated from high school, instead of going to college like I should have, (teenagers, right?), I moved to Dallas, TX to live with my Aunt. A few months later, there I was in my own place with a job making minimum wage thinking I was actually big stuff. After losing that job and seeing what struggle was really like, I quickly came to my senses 6 months after moving to Dallas and decided to take my big ideas back home to Gary and get an education beyond a high school diploma. At least some kind of skill that would earn me more than just a minimum wage job. You see, even though I was so eager to fly the coop after graduating from high school, and ended up falling flat on my butt, that didn’t stop me from working hard to get back to Dallas. Even though I ended up pregnant and married while in business school, I told my then future husband that if he wanted to marry ME, then WE would be moving to Dallas after graduation. He was fine with it so there I was, two years after my first failed attempt at making a life in Dallas, finally I was back where I wanted to be. I loved it there, especially compared to where I grew up. Things were fine for a couple years until the marriage went south. Ended up taking my 3 year old son back home to Indiana to stay with my parents. You know kids have a way of detouring you and slowing you down but I wouldn’t trade him for the world.

To make a long story short, he was ten years old before I decided to let him go and live with his father and I moved back to Dallas. By this time I no longer had family there nor did I still have any contact with the few acquaintances I had made the other times I was there so I was literally on my own. I stepped out on faith (that will be another topic for another blog ;-) ). It took me four attempts and 3 temporary moves back home before I finally found some stability and a good career in Dallas to become self sufficient. I remember one of those times when I was home and had gotten to the point where I was telling my step dad that I was ready to go and try it again and he said, “why do you keep putting yourself through this?” I replied, “well, Dallas is where I want to be…so if at first you don’t succeed, you keep trying.” The point is I kept trying through hunger, pain and even temporary homelessness but I PERSISTED, and I PERSEVERED because it was something I truly wanted at the time.

So I know a little bit about persistence, folks and I have learned in the last couple years as my drive and determination has grown for building a successful and lucrative home business through education, ambition, a genuine desire to help others and a boatload of PERSISTENCE, that I WILL accomplish what I have set out to do, which is to help others to achieve their dreams of financial freedom as well.

©2009 From “THE WASHINGTON-REPORT“ WRITTEN BY LISA G. WASHINGTON
http://www.lisawashington.ws