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Of course, the most money you will make with your membership website will come from your subscriptions. As you saw in the example I gave earlier in this report, an open membership site with several thousand members is just a gold mine.

But there are other ways you can monetize your membership site to earn additional revenue. And you can do this whether you have a fixed term, open membership or auto responder site.

Your members will come to like you and your content because if they didn't, they would soon unsubscribe. Since you’ve developed a good relationship with them and they trust you, they’re very likely to take your recommendations regarding other products and services. You could become an affiliate of, say, Amazon.com and promote some of its products from time to time (don’t overdo it or you’ll soon lose that trust).

For example, in the case of the organic gardening site, you could add a recommendation about organic gardening tools, books or even a garden shed – where you would earn commissions whenever your members buy through you.

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Use hashtags

Just like you do on Twitter, tag your pins by adding hashtags to the description. This also helps users find your pins if they’re shared on Twitter. For example, a Whole Foods pin on their “What’s for Dinner” board might be as simple as #healthydinnerrecipes

Create theme based boards

You’ll increase the value of your Pinterest pins by creating theme-based boards. The more specific the better. For example, instead of a recipes board you might have a breakfast recipes board. Instead of a home organization board you might have a “Home office organization” board. Be specific so followers know exactly what your board is about.

Don’t over promote yourself

It’s fine to create pins that link to your website, blog, online articles, and products and so on. However, keep it under control. Pinterest is a social networking site, not an advertising directory. You’ll make more friends and gain more followers if you’re focused on providing value for them.

Include links in the description

Include accurate and interesting descriptions with each pin you post. The description may motivate others to repin your pins. It may also motivate discussion. Consider including questions in your description as well as benefits - remember that we all want to know “WIIFM?” What’s in it for me?

Pay Attention to Copyright

There’s a lot of controversy about Pinterest and their copyright policy. When you agree to the terms and sign up for a Pinterest account you’re agreeing to not infringe on anyone’s copyright. Here’s one statement in the Pinterest terms that scares many:

“You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Cold Brew Labs, its officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of or in any way connected with (i) your access to or use of the Site, Application, Services or Site Content, (ii) your Member Content, or (Hi) your violation of these Terms."

This means that if Pinterest gets sued because you pinned (or repinned) a pin that violates copyright then you have to pay for their legal fees. Scary, right?

Make sure when you pin images that you find online that you have permission to pin them. If you are in doubt, ask the owner for permission. Source any and all pins and make sure to include links to the sites you pull images from. As the Internet continues to evolve and Pinterest continues to grow, no doubt that these issues will be sorted out. Already, there are “no follow” tools so people can prevent their images from being pinned.

Remember keywords

Pinterest members use keywords to search for pins. Imagine you’re building a board to store ideas to redecorate your kitchen. You might search by kitchen appliances, kitchen design and more. Adding these keywords to your pins by including them in the description will help members find your pins.

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This will depend upon what type of business you are running but try to think of where your customers go on a daily basis. If your book is on a health related topic where would a good place be to find new clients and customers?

How about local doctors, dentists, physiotherapists and health food stores? You could approach these places about stocking a few copies of your book. A doctor’s office would be a great place to have your book available. Who doesn’t have to wait for their appointment and what do most people do in the meantime? They reach for a book or magazine and start reading. Can you see the potential here?

You could offer to donate a few books to these businesses and this is a great method of creating additional exposure for your book and business. Think of it as a marketing expense. The majority of business owners spend money on expensive advertisements. So why not spend money on getting your book into the hands of potential new customers?

Another advantage of a doctor’s or dentist office is the ability to leave books on a variety of subjects including books for children!

Another great promotional idea for a published paperback is to hold an official book launching party. This can be done at your local business and could coincide with a special offer or discount rate that you are offering at the same time.

Or if you prefer you can hold your book launch at a local restaurant, bar or even at your local library. Call around town and find places that would allow you to sit with a few of your books for a few hours. Most business owners will allow you to do this at no charge. Plus they will be happy to attract a few extra customers during that time period.

Make up some printed cards for your book launch promoting your Facebook page. Don’t forget to include the link to your Amazon sales page. Hand them out to buyers and ask them to leave comments about your book on there. Ask them if they could leave you a review on Amazon as well. It wouldn’t hurt to offer them a coupon or other promotional incentive for doing so.

Don’t overlook contacting teachers at local schools and colleges. These places often need speakers. Teachers have a huge contact base which you can tap into. If your book is good they are likely to recommend it to their students. Word of mouth marketing is free and can really create a good return on your book.

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94. Being fat.

Even if you have gained a lot of pounds quite recently, there are still some things that you can do to make you look fitter. One of which is to make sure that your clothes are not too tight. When your shirt hugs your body, it actually emphasizes your lumps and bumps. Thus, draw lesser attention to it, by wearing something that is loose enough, without overdoing it.

95. Making your hair look bolder.

If you are a brunette, you can actually do something to make it look bolder. A good idea is to color it with something that is two tones darker that the roots of your hair. This will make your hair super shiny, especially if you color it with a coffee shade or deep chocolate.

96. Drawing more attention to your shoulders.

If you want to make your body look fitter instead of fat, then avoid wearing shirts with sloped shoulders. Tops with sloped shoulders can actually make people put their attention to your midsection. Thus, instead of sloped shoulders, opt for slightly squared ones, so that you can draw more attention to your face as well as your shoulders.

97. The best summer hair colors.

During summer, it is best to go with natural colors when it comes to your hair. Natural hair color simply means colors that are natural to your skin tone. Aside from that, such hair colors should not clash with your eyebrows and face, which make it look as if it is your real hair color.

98. Wearing highlights.

Wearing highlights these days is not as popular as they are years ago. However, you can still take advantage of them in order to make a statement. Wear highlights that are at least a shade lighter than your natural hair color, and try to spread them just underneath the layers. By doing it this way, the highlights would actually provide more volume to your hair, aside from making them more natural.

99. Hiding your midsection.

If you want to hide a bulgy midsection, then you should empty your pockets. Your pockets should be free from things like mobile phones, wallets that are overstuffed and so on. This is because, the more bulky your pockets would look like, the more attention it would draw to your midsection.

100. Purchasing more fashionable clothing.

One of the best ways to make it easier for you to shop for more fashionable clothing is to wear all your favorite clothes at home. Take note of their colors and their fit, as well as how they accentuate your best features. Remember them when you go and shop, so that you can purchase similar shapes, sizes, colors, lengths, fabrics, and styles.

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The first thing to consider when designing a mobile version of your website is the screen size. Simply having your online content formatted to display well on handheld devices can improve the mobile traffic to your website. Don't overstuff your mobile website with unnecessary information, bells and whistles.

Due to the fact that local businesses heavily rely on foot traffic from their local area, be sure to make your phone number and location clearly visible on your mobile website's home page.

Mobile internet users are "on the go" and are usually looking to call you up or come by - that's it. So make it super easy for them to call or come by.

As great as all of the graphics on your standard site may be, they are just going to decrease the speed at which pages display on small mobile devices. It is best to keep them to a minimum or to dispose of them altogether when building your mobile-optimized site. This includes page elements like headers, which won't display on mobile devices as they were intended.

Mobile devices tend to break up long pages of content into smaller, broken down pages of content. So it is best to circumvent this by editing your content to display in smaller, screen-sized blocks.

Take control over how your pages display entirely. Put yourself in your mobile customers' shoes and take a look at each of your mobile web pages. Is it easy for you to access the information your mobile users will need while on the go?

When you have trimmed your mobile website down to a reasonable presentation, it is a good idea to take a look at it on a number of different mobile devices to see if the website has any problems.

Once you have configured your web page to display well on mobile devices, the next step is to make sure that it gets indexed in the mobile search engines so that your customers can easily find it.

Most searches from mobile devices are fifteen letters or less, so it is necessary for your mobile-configured pages to use shorter keywords. This is because you have to keep your mobile content to a workable size. So the more accurate the keywords are, the more likely your mobile customers will find what they are looking for; which could result in even more sales your business.

To make sure that your page is visible to the crawlers, submit your mobile site map to the search engines to give the spiderbots a head start on the job of indexing your content.