Eco-Gifts: 100 Great Web Sites to Browse & Buy Green Products
By Laura Milligan
Depending on where you live, shopping for eco-friendly items may be difficult. Residents in larger cities may find it’s too time consuming or tricky to track down special farmer’s markets, and those living in small towns don’t always have the same access to chic, environmentally friendly fashions that cities like San Francisco or New York offer. Internet shopping has been a popular way to find gifts and necessities for a while, and finding eco-friendly items online is getting even easier. Below is our list of 100 sites to find everything from organic baby food to rechargeable batteries to hybrid cars to organic vodka.
Fashion Finds Dressing eco-friendly no longer means wearing dowdy or rough hemp skirts and tunics. Look to these websites for beautiful clothing items, shoes and accessories, all with an eco conscience.
- Beklina: Beklina is “a green boutique” that specializes in organic, sustainable, hemp, green and ethical clothing items and accessories. You’ll find a variety of fun going-out tops in bright colors, as well as neutral designs.
- Greenloop: Shop for men’s and women’s clothing, as well as shoes, accessories and tote bags. Featured designers include Loomstate, Moonrise Jewelry, Tees for Change and more. Greenloop also offers special discounts, coupons and the opportunity to donate to the Project Green environmental awareness group.
- Coco’s Shoppe: The eco boutique at Coco’s Shoppe has been featured in Lucky magazine and sells fun, adorable clothing, underwear, bags, and beauty items.
- PlanetShoes.com: This site sells vegan shoes, and other animal-friendly and earth-friendly bags, slippers and shoes for women, men and kids.
- BTC Elements: This site has clothing and accessories, as well as home items. Women will find tops, chic dresses, beautiful coats and even swimsuits. Men’s shirts are also sold here.
- Patagonia: Patagonia’s dedication to the environment has helped launch several projects and campaigns besides producing eco-conscious clothing items and travel gear. The company supports a grants program, the 1% for the Planet Program, Common Threads Garment Recycling and others.
- Fair Indigo: Find Fair Trade and organic clothing and accessories here.
- Modify: You have two green choices at Modify: you can either shop ecofashion or shop vintage and feel good about supporting recyclable fashion. Modify also sells home decor and beauty items.
- Earth & Wear: Search funky UK fashions like brightly colored hemp hi tops and wallets and organic t-shirts at Earth & Wear.
- Green With Glamour: Read about green designers and meet celebs and featured guests who wear ecofriendly fashion while you shop for super stylish clothing items, home gifts and more.
Beauty Products Shop for organic and natural beauty products, sunscreen, makeup and more from these sites, where companies like Aveda use natural resources to power their facilities.
- Beauty Gone Green: This site sells makeup, skin care items, aromatherapy and other beauty products from brands like Skinceuticals and Glominerals.
- Green Spa Network: This site provides links and resources about “greening and sustainability for the spa community.” You can also “shop” for green spas near you.
- Aveda: Aveda uses wind energy to offset 100% of the electricity used at their Minnesota-based plant, and the company has a long tradition of using environmentally friendly ingredients.
- Drugstore.com: Drugstore.com features an entire shop for green and natural beauty products and personal care products.
- Juice Beauty: Juice Beauty,”the organic solution,” makes all of its lip care, facial cleansers, sunscreens, and other items with certified organic ingredients.
- Burt’s Bees: Burt’s Bees is more than just chapstick. Shop online for natural personal care items like anti-aging products, hair care items, sunscreen and baby items.
- Weleda: The beauty and skin care line Weleda holds as its motto “in harmony with nature and the human being.” Weleda uses ingredients that are free of synthetic preservatives and come from organic and biodynamic sources.
- Nude: The Nude natural skin care line includes products like age defense moisturizers, facial cleansers and travel items. All items are packaged in recyclable materials.
- Village Green Market: This online store features brands like John Masters Organics, the River Soap Company, Tom’s of MAIne, Citrus Magic, Ecco Bella and other brands that produce “fine natural, organic, and environmentally preferable goods for you and your home.”
Baby Items Start your tot off early by wrapping him or her in chlorine-free diapers, buying organic baby foods and more.
- KaiKids: Shop for bottles, pacifiers, bamboo fork and spoon sets, nursing pads, bibs, and other baby items that are made with non-toxic, organic or natural ingredients.
- Seventh Generation: Shop for baby laundry detergent, chlorine-free training pants and chlorine-free baby wipes here.
- Nature Boy and Girl: This company sells disposable diapers made of a corn-based material.
- TenderCare Plus diapers: These diapers are made with unbleached materials from a sustainable, renewable Scandinavian forest.
- Earth’s Best Organic baby foods: This company offers “the first complete line of organic food for infants.” You’ll find organic infant formula as well as snacks, dinners and baby body care products.
- Terra Tees: Onesies and children’s t-shirts are made in the U.S.A. from 100% certified organic cotton. They are also sent in recycled packaging.
- Baby Nut: Baby Nut sells organic baby clothes and natural products for babies and pregnant moms. The site also features an astrology section, special coupons, toys, and more.
- Lola Babiez: This “eco-chic baby and nursing boutique” sells bottles, onesies, teethers, eco-friendly diapers and a lot more.
- TaraLuna: TaraLuna sells organic and Fair Trade items, including child’s furniture and baby clothes.
- Hazel Wood: Shop linens and bedding, toys, gifts and more for babies and children 0-6 years of age.
- Mother Earth Nursery Designs: From baby carriers to burp cloths to shower gifts, this website sells natural and organic items for pregnant moms and babies.
- Earth Mama Angel Baby Organics: Find gifts, personal care items and breastfeeding products at this organic site.
Toys and Gifts These websites offer eco-friendly gift solutions for all kinds of kids and sports fans.
- Green Toys: This company website explains how their green toys help the environment, conserve energy and are made in and tested by U.S.A. facilities. Shop for tea sets, sand play sets and more.
- Fat Brain Toys: Search for bamboo, organic, recycled and alternative-energy powered toys here.
- Maple Landmark Woodcraft: Shop American-made wooden toys, gifts, ornaments and other products here.
- Toxin Free Toys: Shop for natural and lead-free toys like bikes, baby bottles and more. The site also features a shopping guide to help you pick out toxin free toys in the store.
- Fair Trade Sports: Fair Trade Sports sells sports jerseys, soccer balls, rugby balls, frisbees and other sports items that adhere to Fair Trade regulations.
- Global Exchange Online Store: The items sold here are Fair Trade approved and range from bath and beauty gifts to Father’s Day presents to jewelry to books and movies to coffee and more.
- Kate’s Caring Gifts: On this website, you’ll find gifts for the home, natural body care products, organic chocolates, natural pet care items, and more.
- Northwest Nature Shop: Find educational toys, engineering sets, science kits, and games at this site, which donates 20% of sales to environmental and educational programs.
Food Who says you have to go to the grocery store or farmer’s market to find yummy organic and natural food products? Find seeds, fruits, trail mix, chocolate and other food products at these online stores.
- Organic Kingdom: Food categories at this online store include snacks and treats, beans and grains, breads and cereals, pastas and noodles, personal care items, and more. There is also information about why eating organic is a smart choice.
- Rock Creek Organics: Shop for organic nuts, flour and spreadables here.
- True Foods Market: This online health foods grocery store sells lots of organic products too. You’ll also find recipe ideas and tips for eating right.
- Organic Food Store Locator: Find an organic food store near your city by using this map.
- Tengu Natural Foods: Shop for frozen food, herbal teas, natural sweeteners, pasta, soups, cereal, and Fair Trade coffee and tea at the Tengu Natural Foods store online.
- The Natural Grocery Store: This UK-based online store sells Whole Earth products, spices and seasonings, canned fruit and vegetables, meats and meat alternatives, desserts and more.
- Local Harvest: The Local Harvest community lets shoppers around the world order seeds, fruits, garden vegetables, dairy products, flowers, and other items from family farms.
- Santos Natural Food Store: Find organic and natural food products from around the world, like coffee from South Australia.
- Sun Ridge Farms: This award winning company sells organic trail mix, orzo, nuts and seeds, organic raisins and more.
Beverages Treat yourself to organic wine or vodka after browsing for more natural beverage products here.
- Klean Kanteen: It’s up to you what you put inside these stainless steel canteens, but the bottle is more environmentally friendly than plastic.
- Tru Organic Vodka: Browse the vodkas made from American wheat and packaged in eco-friendly bottles at this website.
- The Organic Wine Company: Learn all about organic wines, join the wine club and shop for organic wines at this site.
- Square One Organic Vodka: Square One is another company that manufactures organic vodka.
Household Items From pillows to home decor to furniture to laundry bags, you’ll find all kinds of attractive and practical environmentally-friendly home goods in this list.
- Vivavi: Shop Vivavi for unique eco-friendly furniture, storage and shelving, lighting, and even pet items.
- Design Public: Design Public is a popular eco-friendly brand that sells furniture, wall art, pillows, items for babies, college dorm accessories, home office designs and more.
- Pacifica: Pacifica’s soy aromatherapy candles “are the cleanest burning soy candles available,” according to the company’s website.
- Seventh Generation: Seventh Generation’s line of Free & Clear home cleaners are free of fragrances and dyes.
- Keetsa Shop: Keetsa is a company that supports sustainability and produces home items like mattresses and pillows from recycled materials.
- Natural Collection: Besides clothing and office supplies, the Natural Collection sells cleaning products and eco home items like laundry bags, art work and more.
- Abundant Earth: From composters to furniture to clocks to air purifiers, Abundant Earth sells all kinds of neat household items and contributes to environmental groups and causes.
- Ethical Superstore: Cleaning and Household: Find eco-friendly cleaning products and laundry items here.
- It Must Be Green: Shop for unique energy saving items here, like a green log maker, a can crusher and an eco-friendly air purifier.
- Recycle Store: Household: All of the items sold here have been recycled. Products include furniture, picture frames, storage containers and dishes.
Cars/Automotive Supplies Search for hybrid cars and other alternative vehicles on these websites.
- Green Car Depot: This website lets you search by hybrid, propane, biodiesel/diesel, commercial and fleet, ethanol, hydrogen and other green types.
- HybridCars.com: Learn about industry news and trends, and browse hybrid SUVs, vans, sedans and other vehicles.
- SoulTek.com: This site is all about hybrids, and you can find buying information and pictures of all types of hybrid vehicles.
- ECAR Center: This company “is a ‘one-stop shop’ for all automotive dismantling and recycling operations and provides comprehensive and up-to-date environmental compliance assistance” for visitors.
Appliances Appliances like tankless water heaters and solar powered phone chargers will save you money on electricity bills and are good for the environment.
- Global Towne Tankless Water Heaters: Tankless water heaters like this one can reward buyers with up to 50% in energy savings.
- Lowe’s Energy Star Appliance: This guide helps buyers find Energy Star appliances like refrigerators, dishwashers and washing machines.
- The Alternative Energy Store: Find hydropower, solar power, solar heating and other alternative energy-powered appliances and products here.
- The Solar Power Store: Shop for solar powered cell phone charges, solar panels and more from this online store.
Tech Stuff From batteries to radios to computers, find recycled and eco-friendly tech stuff here.
- Clean Air Shop: This blog sponsors a shop for energy efficient lighting products, solar ovens, thermostats, electricity meters, batteries and other tools that will help you save money and the environment.
- RE-PC Online Store: This online store works through ebay, and you can search for recycled game cartridges, cables, input devices, laptops and more.
- Green cell phone carriers: This About.com article lists several cell phone carriers that make donations to environmental groups, offer tree-free billing and use environmentally-friendly wrapping.
- HYmini: This portable wind-powered tool charges your iPod, cell phones, digital cameras and mp3 players.
- GreenBatteries.com: Turn to this site when you’re looking for rechargeable, reusable batteries and battery chargers.
- Wind Up phone charger: This manual tool is lightweight and doesn’t require electricity.
- GreenPrint: Shop for eco-conscious software here and find different versions of a product that eliminates paper wasting when you print.
- BuildingGreen.com: This sustainable building and design group also features a product listings page where you can shop for windows, decking, lighting, electrical materials, HVAC systems and other green materials.
Gardening and Outdoor Weed out your supply of toxic pesticides and fertilizers and turn to these organic gardening goods and supply stores for a more natural approach to gardening and outdoor recreation.
- Recycle Store: Garden and Yard: The California Integrated Waste Management Board’s Recycle Store sells recycled bird houses, BBQ systems, garden chairs and other outdoor items.
- Real Goods: Find showerheads, bedding, composting systems, aeromatic ovens, camping supplies and other products from this solar living site.
- Extremely Green: This fun site specializes in organic gardening supplies like fertilizers, fungicides, grass seed and pruners, but you’ll also find gardening books and unique pest control solutions.
- GTC Hydroponics: This site shows visitors how to master container gardening the organic way. You can also shop for fertilizers, soil and more.
- Eco-Gardening.com: Find sleek gardening and yard products at this site, including arbors and trellises, outdoor furniture, grills, garden lighting and composters.
- The Urban Garden: The recycled and eco-friendly garden shop at The Urban Garden sells gardening supplies, composters, decking, window boxes and more.
- The Organic Gardening Catalogue: This website sells everything an organic gardener needs, from seeds to weed killers to soil and plant care to books about organic gardening.
- Planet Natural: This company has been selling earth friendly gardening items like seeds, soil test kits, pest control systems, fertilizer and compost bins since 1991.
- Greta’s Organic Gardens: Greta’s Organic Gardens is located in Gloucester, Ontario, and visitors to the site can shop for organic seeds, vegetables and plants like corn, cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, grains and more.
- Clean Air Gardening: Use this site to shop for “environmentally friendly lawn and garden supplies,” including pest control, garden gnomes, electric mowers, oxygenating watering cans and a lot more. You can search by category or by price range.
Miscellaneous The websites in this list sell all sorts of green gifts in one spot, making it easy to shop for eco-conscious promotional materials, office supplies, furniture, jewelry, pet items and more.
- GreenandMore.com: This website sells all kinds of eco-friendly products, from vacuum cleaners to kitchen supplies to battery chargers to baby items.
- Resource Revival: Materials from recycled bicycles are turned into promotional items and gifts on this website.
- BuyGreen.com: This fun-to-use website lets you shop in three main categories: Consumer, Commercial, and Gifts. Within those categories, browse products for your family, home decorating, leisure, office supplies, building materials and more.
- Green Gift Guide: Shop for jewelry, pet items, garden and outdoor supplies, business gifts, toys, furniture and more on this website which finds the best green gifts on the web.
- Buying Green Power: The U.S. Department of Energy helps Americans find out if they can buy green power in their state with this helpful tool.
- Co-op America: This page lists twelve things you should always buy green and directs you to places where you can find items like appliances, showerheads, coffee, clothes and more that are eco-friendly.
- Green People: Green People claims to be the “world’s largest directory of eco-friendly and holistic health products.” Search for pet supplies, beauty products, home and garden items and more.
- Terra Pass Green Store: Terra Pass urges everyone to “restore the balance.” The Green store sells toys, energy saving products, chargers and other items. You can also use the site to calculate your footprint and learn about environmental projects.
- Buy Green Guides: TreeHugger’s guides show you where to buy furniture, bikes, jeans, shoes and other products.
- The Green Guide: The Green Guide appears on the National Geographic website and directs visitors to sites for buying green accessories, clothing, food and drinks, electronics, home items, bedding, personal care items and much more.
100+ Marketing Ideas
I came across this list while looking through some SBA (Small Business Administration) material.While it’s aimed primarily at “traditional” businesses, and some of it would be ‘old hat’ or common sense for Warriors, I found many of the ideas worthwhile, many easily adaptable to marketing online, and in general helped stimulate my own sometimes narrow marketing thoughts.
It might also make for a good blog post or email for anyone in a marketing niche.
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100+ Marketing Ideas
Marketing is all about satisfying customer needs. The following represents a comprehensive list of marketing ideas; use it to help better understand customer needs and ways to satisfy those needs.
General Ideas
* Never let a day pass without engaging in at least one marketing activity.
* Determine a percentage of gross income to spend annually on marketing.
* Set specific marketing goals every year; review and adjust quarterly.
* Maintain a tickler file of ideas for later use.
* Carry business cards with you (all day, every day).
* Create a personal nametag or pin with your company name and logo on it and wear it at high visibility meetings.
Target Market
* Stay alert to trends that might impact your target market, product, or promotion strategy.
* Read market research studies about your profession, industry, product, target market groups, etc.
* Collect competitors’ ads and literature; study them for information about strategy, product features, benefits, etc.
* Ask clients why they hired you and solicit suggestions for improvement.
* Ask former clients why they left you.
* Identify a new market.
* Join a list-serve (e-mail list) related to your profession.
* Subscribe to an Internet usenet newsgroup or a list-serve that serves your target market.
Product Development
* Create a new service, technique, or product.
* Offer a simpler/cheaper/smaller version of your (or existing) product or service.
* Offer a fancier/more expensive/faster/bigger version of your (or existing) product or service.
* Update your services.
Education, Resources, and Information
* Establish a marketing and public relations advisory and referral team composed of your colleagues and/or neighboring business owners; share ideas and referrals and discuss community issues. Meet quarterly for breakfast.
* Create a suggestion box for employees.
* Attend a marketing seminar.
* Read a marketing book.
* Subscribe to a marketing newsletter or other publication.
* Subscribe to a marketing list-serve on the Internet.
* Subscribe to a marketing usenet newsgroup on the Internet.
* Train your staff, clients, and colleagues to promote referrals.
* Hold a monthly marketing meeting with employees or associates to discuss strategy and status and solicit marketing ideas.
* Join an association or organization related to your profession.
* Get a marketing intern to take you on as a client; it will give the intern experience and you some free marketing help.
* Maintain a consultant card file for finding designers, writers, and other marketing professionals. Hire a marketing consultant to brainstorm with.
* Take a creative journey to another progressive city or county to observe and learn from marketing techniques used there.
Pricing and Payment
* Analyze your fee structure; look for areas requiring modifications or adjustments. Establish a credit card payment option for clients.
* Give regular clients a discount.
* Learn to barter; offer discounts to members of certain clubs/professional groups/organizations in exchange for promotions in their publications.
* Give quick pay or cash discounts.
* Offer financing or installment plans.
Marketing Communications
* Publish a newsletter for customers and prospects (it doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive). Develop a brochure of services.
* Include a postage-paid survey card with your brochures and other company literature. Include check-off boxes or other items that will involve the reader and provide valuable feedback to you.
* Remember, business cards aren’t working for you if they’re in the box. Pass them out! Give prospects two business cards and brochures - one to keep and one to pass along.
* Produce separate business cards/sales literature for each of your target market segments (e.g. government and commercial and/or business and consumer).
* Create a poster or calendar to give away to customers and prospects.
* Print a slogan and/or one-sentence description of your business on letterhead, fax cover sheets, and invoices. Develop a site on the World Wide Web.
* Create a signature file to be used for all your e-mail messages. It should contain contact details, including your Web site address and key information about your company that will make the reader want to contact you.
* Include testimonials from customers in your literature.
* Test a new mailing list. If it produces results, add it to your current direct mail lists or consider replacing a list that’s not performing up to expectations.
* Rather than sending direct mail in plain white envelopes, use colored or oversized envelopes to pique recipients’ curiosity.
* Announce free or special offers in your direct response pieces. (Direct responses may be direct mail, broadcast faxes, or e-mail messages.) Include the offer in the beginning of the message as well as on the outside of the envelope for direct mail.
Media Relations
* Update your media list often so that press releases are sent to the right media outlet and person.
* Write a column for the local newspaper, local business journal, or trade publication.
* Publish an article and circulate reprints.
* Send timely and newsworthy press releases as often as needed.
* Publicize your 500th client of the year (or other notable milestone).
* Create an annual award and publicize it.
* Get public relations and media training or read up on it.
* Appear on a radio or TV talk show.
* Create your own TV program on your industry or your specialty. Market the show to your local cable station or public broadcasting station as a regular program, or see if you can air your show on an open access cable channel.
* Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper or trade magazine.
* Take an editor to lunch.
* Get a publicity photo taken and enclose with press releases.
* Consistently review newspapers and magazines for possible PR opportunities.
* Submit tip articles to newsletters and newspapers.
* Conduct industry research and develop a press release or article to announce an important discovery in your field.
* Create a press kit and keep its contents current.
Customer Service and Customer Relations
* Ask your clients to come back again.
* Return phone calls promptly.
* Set up a fax-on-demand or email system to easily respond to customer inquiries.
* Use an answering machine or voice mail system to catch after-hours phone calls. Include basic information in your outgoing messages such a business hours, location, etc.
* Record a memorable message or tip of the day on your outgoing answering machine or voice mail message.
* Ask clients what you can do the help them.
* Take clients out to a ball game, show, or another special event - just send them two tickets with a note. Hold a seminar at your office for clients and prospects.
* Send handwritten thank you notes.
* Send birthday cards and appropriate seasonal greetings.
* Photocopy interesting articles and send them to clients and prospects with a hand-written FYI note and your business card.
* Send a book of interest or other appropriate business gift to a client with a handwritten note.
* Create an area on your Web site specifically for your customers.
* Redecorate your office or location where you meet with your clients.
Networking and Word of Mouth
* Join a Chamber of Commerce or other organization.
* Join or organize a breakfast club with other professionals (not in your field) to discuss business and network referrals.
* Mail a brochure to members of organizations to which you belong.
* Serve on a city board or commission.
* Host a holiday party.
* Hold an open house.
* Send letters to attendees after you attend a conference.
* Join a community list-serve (e-mail list) on the Internet.
Advertising
* Advertise during peak seasons for your business.
* Get a memorable phone number, such as 1-800-WIDGETS.
* Obtain a memorable URL and email address and include them on all marketing materials.
* Provide Rolodex?cards or phone stickers preprinted with your business contact information.
* Promote your business jointly with other professionals via cooperative direct mail.
* Advertise in a specialty directory or in the Yellow Pages.
* Write an ad in another language to reach the non-English-speaking market. Place the ad in a publication that market reads, such as a Hispanic newspaper.
* Distribute advertising specialty products such as pens, mouse pads, or mugs.
* Mail bumps - photos, samples, and other innovative items to your prospect list. (A bump is simply anything that makes the mailing envelope bulge and makes the recipient curious about what’s in the envelope!)
* Create a direct mail list of hot prospects.
* Consider non-traditional tactics such as bus backs, billboards, and popular Web sites.
* Project a message on the sidewalk in front of your place of business using a light directed through words etched in a glass window.
* Consider placing ads in your newspaper’s classified section.
* Consider a vanity automobile tag with your company name.
* Create a friendly bumper sticker for your car.
* Code your ads and keep records of results.
* Improve your building signage and directional signs inside and out.
* Invest in a neon sign to make your office or storefront window visible at night.
* Create a new or improved company logo or recolor the traditional logo.
* Sponsor and promote a contest or sweepstakes.
Special Events and Outreach
* Get a booth at a fair/trade show attended by your target market.
* Sponsor or host a special event or open house at your business location in cooperation with a local non-profit organization, such as a women’s business center. Describe how the organization helped you.
* Give a speech or volunteer for a career day at a high school.
* Teach a class or seminar at a local college or adult education center.
* Sponsor an Adopt-a-Road area in your community to keep roads litter-free. People that pass by the area will see your name on the sign announcing your sponsorship.
* Volunteer your time to a charity or non-profit organization.
* Donate your product or service to a charity auction.
* Appear on a panel at a professional seminar.
* Write a How To pamphlet or article for publishing.
* Produce and distribute an educational CD-ROM or audio/video tape.
* Publish a book.
Sales Ideas
* Start every day with two cold calls.
* Read newspapers, business journals, and trade publications for new business openings, personnel appointments, and promotion announcements made by companies. Send your business literature to appropriate individuals and firms.
* Give your sales literature to your lawyer, accountant, printer, banker, temp agency, office supply salesperson, advertising agency, etc. (Expand your sales force for free!)
* Put your fax number on order forms for easy submission.
* Set up a fax-on-demand or e-mail system to easily distribute responses to company or product inquiries.
* Follow up on your direct mailings, email messages, and broadcast faxes with a friendly telephone call.
* Try using the broadcast fax or email delivery methods instead of direct mail. (Broadcast fax and email allows you to send the same message to many locations at once.)
* Use broadcast faxes or email messages to notify your customers of product service updates.
* Extend your hours of operation.
* Reduce response/turnaround time. Make reordering easy - use reminders. Provide preaddressed envelopes.
* Display product and service samples at your office.
* Remind clients of the products and services you provide that they aren’t currently buying.
* Call and/or send mail to former clients to try and reactivate them.
* Take sales orders over the Internet.
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Michael Ullman
40 ways to earn money
I did a little bookmark scrub this morning andthought I would share the remaining content of my "Online Money"folder. While some people are going to view this simply as a big listof ways to make money online, that’s good - because it is. However,there are certain things that I don’t like and never bookmark so:
What’s NOT included: TakingSurveys, Get Paid to Surf the Internet, MLM, Programs with a ton ofnegative user experiences (based on researching forums, googling them,etc.), Contest Sites, "Buy my DVD, CD, Audiobook", etc.
What IS included: Things you can use to legitimately make money online - Everything from Getting Paid to review software to good ole’ Adsense.
So, here you go and no, I am not being compentsated by anyone for posting their company.
Adbrite - Sell space on your site for text ads
Amazon aStore- Easily create a store or shopping section on your site instead ofsending your visitors to Amazon. Amazon handles the shopping cart andfulfillment.
Amazon Seller - Sell your stuff on Amazon
Amazon Affiliate Program - Using your existing site, sell anything you can find on Amazon
Associated Content - If you write a story, how-to, rant, etc. you can submit it to them and they will pay you $3-$20 per article if they like it
Azoogleads - Another ad program. They do have some decent companies lined up as advertisers. You provide space, they’ll provide an ad.
BidVertiser - PPC (pay per click) program with a low $10 payout amount.
Bravenet- These guys offer a ton of services for webmasters and blog owners.Although I feel like I was spammed for a while, it has ceased andthey’ll pay you $1 for each person you send over
Blish- Whether you’re a company with thousands of digital (downloadable)products, or you’ve written an ebook or some code, Blish offers you aplace to sell that content.
Blog - Start a blog and consistently write excellent content. With good ad placement, you may make some money.
Business Opportunities Blog- I am adding this because I am a subscriber to their site and I seeideas everyday that could result in making money. A lot of the ideaspertain to online businesses. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, it’sa good reference.
CafePress- You provide a design, they’ll toss it on a T-Shirt, Hat, etc. Noupfront costs. Get a free online shop and promote your products on yourwebsite.
Chitika - TheireMiniMalls service has shown great results for many Bloggers and siteowners. You choose a keyword and they show relevant products on yoursite using a pretty unique interface.
Clickbank - Another Affiliate Program site with 10,000+ products to advertise
ClicknWork- Get paid $5-$150 per hour for basically doing freelance work on aper-assignment basis. You have to pass a pretty tough test to get in.
Clicksor - These are the guys that generate contextual ads on sites that show up when you hover over a double-underlined word.
Commission Junction- If you have a site, you can join Commission Junction. Once enrolledfor free, you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to yoursite. Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. Their areeasily over 1,000 companies to choose from here.
CreamAid- For blogs only, advertisers provide you with a topic and you writeabout it on your site. To do this, you have to install a flash widgetinto your blog post. The more people you bring into the conversationthrough the widget, the more you get paid. It’s difficult to explain.
eefoof - Think of it as YouTube + Flickr + Music. You add original content and they pay you based on the visitors you attract.
Ether- If you are an expert on something, Ether provides a way for people topay you to talk about it in a one-on-one setting. If you want to charge$250/hr, that’s fine. You have to do all the advertising so you shouldhave a blog or site already established.
eBay - Come on, you know what this is.
eBay Stores - If you have a real store and want to sell your stuff online, this is a decent option to get you started.
ELance - Name gives it away. Programmers, Codes, Web Designers, Writers, Editors, can look for freelance opportunities.
Feedvertising- This is an arm of Text Link Ads and is currently only good forWordpress 2.0 Users. This does me no good currently, but as you canguess, they place ads in your feed(s).
Feedburner- Not only are they the best place to house your feeds, they will alsoadd ads to your feed. You get paid per impression and click.
Google Adsense- Come on, you don’t need an explanation. These ads are all over theplace. Google displays relevant ads based on your site’s content
Google Adwords- Create simple text ads and choose keywords that determine when theyare displayed. This is where the Adsense Content comes from. You do notneed a site for this.
Google Answers- If you are good, Google will pay you to answer questions in yourspecialty. Questions all come from normal people like you and me. Youcan get paid $2.50+ per answer you provide.
H3.com- Get paid to fill jobs. Commissions range from $50-$5,000. It alldepends on how tough the job is to fill and how desperate the hiringcompany is. This is another one that’s tough to explain.
Indeed.com- Add their job board to your site. They then post jobs based on thegeographic location of visitors and the position types you pre-select.I tried it and I they continually report that I sent 0 visitors and Iknow that’s not right. Nevertheless, I may have an isolated problem sothey make the list.
InnerSell - If you have a customer that wants to buy something you cannot sell, you can sell the lead here.
Jellyfish- This is a shopping site that pays you a percentage of the purchasesmade by people you refer. They are not part of a wider affiliateprogram so you do it direct.
Jigsaw- It’s a pretty flaky model but if you have a Rolodex full of goodcontacts, you can sell them here. I can’t make sense of it but it lookslike you get $0.10 per profile.
KarmaOne- They are basically a recruiting website. If you fill one of theirjobs by finding a good candidate, you’ll get paid anywhere from$50-$12,000. It all depends on how desperate the hiring company is.
Linkshare- If you have a site, you can join Linkshare. Once enrolled for free,you can choose companies whose ads are pertinent to your site.Companies have the ultimate say on working with you. Like CommissionJunction, there are a ton of companies waiting to evaluate your site.
Microsoft Adcenter- Bid on keywords and Microsoft places your created ads then they aresearched for. This is similar to Google Adwords. You do not need a sitefor this.
Overstock.com - Sell your stuff on Overstock.com
Pageflakes- This is a company that developed a user-defined Ajax homepage to showfeeds, flickr photos, and a ton of other things. Think of it as areplacement for your Google Homepage. Anyway - they’ll pay you $1 perreferral that you send over. They are not part of a wider affiliateprogram so you do it direct. This one is pretty simple.
Pay Per Post- I don’t agree with this model entirely but they have advertisers thatwill pay you to write about their products on your blog.
Pheedo- If you have an RSS feed, run it through Pheedo. Like Feedburner, theycan include ads into your feed and if you really become large,advertisers will pay a premium for you to show their ads.
Shareasale- I’ve never really worked with them but I do have an account. They aresimilar to Commission Junction and Linkshare however they seem to havelower tiered companies with advertising offers.
Shoemoney - This is a blog that can teach you a ton on making money online. I’ve spent hours reading his old stuff.
Software Judge - They will pay you up to $50 to review software.
Text Link Ads- I have never made a dime here but I know people that have. You canearn by sending advertisers to them or by selling spots on your site.You must have a real site or blog to do this - nothing on a shareddomain (i.e. /blogspot).
Vibrant Media- Don’t bother unless your site has 500,000 page views of text basedcontent a month. If you have that readership, these are the guys thatdisplay bubble box ads to underlined words on your site.
West Work At Home Agent - Not entirelyonline but this is worth a mention because it’s won awards and is verylegitimate. If you are an at-home Mom or free-lancer without work, youshould check this out.
Yahoo Publisher Network- This is the Yahoo version of Google Adsense.
Most 100 Expensive Keyword In GoogleAdsense
1 poker $7.10
2 texas holdem $6.45
3 online poker $5.70
4 texas hold em $5.70
5 poker tournament $5.06
6 pokerroom $5.05
7 pacific poker $5.01
8 no limit texas holdem $4.93
9 online casino $4.91
10 party poker $4.90
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11 poker party $4.86
12 poker online $4.83
13 play poker $4.76
14 poker on line $4.66
15 partypoker $4.45
16 poker room $4.41
17 poker game $4.40
18 poker site $4.37
19 world poker tour $4.36
20 world series of poker $4.36
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21 internet poker $4.35
22 texas poker $4.34
23 texas hold em poker online $4.33
24 texas holdem software $4.33
25 online poker room $4.27
26 live play poker $4.19
27 poker download $4.16
28 true poker $4.12
29 stud poker $4.11
30 online poker game $4.09
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31 empire poker $4.05
32 rule to play poker $4.05
33 ultimatebet $4.05
34 texas holdem download $4.03
35 no limit texas hold em $4.02
36 texas hold em poker $4.02
37 omaha high $4.01
38 on line poker game $4.01
39 pker $4.01
40 play free online poker $4.01
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41 play poker for free $4.01
42 play poker for money $4.01
43 play poker on line $4.01
44 party poker com $4.00
45 Partypoker million $4.00
46 partypokercom $4.00
47 poker fun $4.00
48 real poker $4.00
49 texas poker online $4.00
50 texashold em $4.00
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51 wwwpartypoker.com $4.00
52 partypoker.com $3.88
53 casino on line $3.85
54 on line casino $3.69
55 online casino gambling $3.58
56 gambling poker $3.50
57 refinance mortgage $3.43
58 williamhillpoker $3.43
59 online casino bonus $3.33
60 refinance home $3.29
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61 holdem poker $3.26
62 home mortgage refinance $3.25
63 home refinance $3.24
64 casino poker $3.22
65 refinance mortgage loan $3.22
66 poker free $3.20
67 online gambling $3.19
68 hold em poker $3.15
69 texas holdem poker $3.13
70 wagering $3.13
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71 casino bonus $3.11
72 mortgage rate $3.08
73 gambling uk $3.07
74 play poker online $3.07
75 7 card stud $3.05
76 online texas holdem $3.05
77 wager $3.05
78 las vegas casino $3.03
79 play texas holdem $3.03
80 Poker software $3.03
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81 poker web site $3.03
82 best online casino $3.02
83 casino gambling $3.02
84 online casino slot $3.02
85 online slot $3.02
86 roulette gambling $3.02
87 gambling $3.01
88 online casino poker $3.01
89 planet poker $3.01
90 texas holdem poker online $3.01
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91 domain name hosting $3.00
92 domain name registration $2.95
93 register domain name $2.95
94 refinancing mortgage $2.88
95 stud poker rule $2.87
96 multiplayer poker $2.86
97 game poker $2.85
98 golden palace casino $2.82
99 top online casino $2.82
100 live poker $2.79
Google Now Crawling Adobe Flash Files, Ruins the Web in the Process
For years, I’ve been able to convince web designers not to design using Adobe Flash. I personally believe that web sites built entirely in Flash make for a poor user experience, but I’ve been able to play the “Google can’t index Flash” card as a cover-up for my dislike of Flash. “Don’t avoid Flash because I say so, avoid Flash because your web site will be invisible to Google.”
It worked like a charm. That is, until now. Google just ruined the web.
Thanks to Adobe’s new Searchable SWF library, Google has announced a new indexing algorithm that is able to crawl and index the content of Flash files.
The Google Webmaster Central blog answers questions on the new algo, the most important being:
Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files?
All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in Google searches.In addition to finding and indexing the textual content in Flash files, we’re also discovering URLs that appear in Flash files, and feeding them into our crawling pipeline-just like we do with URLs that appear in non-Flash webpages. For example, if your Flash application contains links to pages inside your website, Google may now be better able to discover and crawl more of your website.
So, Google can crawl the text and links found within Flash files. There are some limits-Flash images are still invisible, as is any Flash launched via JavaScript-but for the most part, Flash web sites are no longer the red-headed step-child of the SEO industry.
Now, before you all rush off to fire-up your copy of Adobe Flash, keep this in mind.
- Until Google can demonstrate that its Flash crawling capabilities are equal to its HTML crawling, you risk building a site that, while indexable, is not as “optimized” as its simple HTML cousin.
- If your Flash site is nothing but cool imagery and little else, you still won’t rank for much.
- If you build Flash web sites just because you have the skilz-and not because it’s a better user-experience-I will not rest until I hunt you down!
PS. Yahoo’s ability to index Flash will also benefit from the Adobe update. Unfortunate it’s too busy figuring out what it wants to be when it grows up, so hasn’t announced support yet.
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from:http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/07/google-now-crawling-adobe-flash-files-ruins-the-web-in-the-process.html
Top 100 .com suffix site on the earth
Here is a summary for the top 100 .com suffix site on the earth.although,there lots of them can’t visit from myplace by my ISP,I would like to share it for you,just have a look,and find what you want.
http://www.10.com/ anything
http://www.13.com/ Is coming… It is a site useless rightnow..it’s says it will coming soon.？so what’s the webmaster doing..?
http://wwww.23.com/ A strange icon there,and is for sale now..with bird paper “The domain 23.com is for sale. To inquire, please send an email with your phone number to sale@23.com”
http://www.24.com/ A nice bird site,cool icon with clean style
http://www.27.com/ A site about math,made by mathematician? Waste money…? It says：“2 + 7 = 3 * 327 = 3 ^ 32 * 3 + 7 * 3 = 3 * 3 * 3
you can live there if you want to but I’m not going near it ”
http://www.28.com/ A business site
http://www.29.com/ can You open? I can’t
http://www.30.com/ A shopping cart
http://www.31.com
http://www.32.com/ FLASH and Game Site
http://www.35.com/ A domain site
http://www.37.com/ don’t understand ,a
http://www.38.com/ 38 site,with little forum.
http://www.39.com/ 39weita,health site
http://www.40.com/ It’s coming soon,yet another shoppingcart
http://www.42.com/ jump to a geography site
http://www.46.com/ white paper..
http://www.48.com/ Movie?
http://www.50.com/ design
http://www.51.com/ well
http://www.52.com/ Navigation..
http://www.53.com/ Jump to a moto site.
http://www.56.com/ A famous video site,but shutdown now for “UnKown” reason..
http://www.57.com/ A Chinese Site.
http://www.58.com/ Category Informathion site
http://www.59.com/ white paper with nothing
http://www.62.com/ what’s that…?
http://www.63.com/ white paper with nothing,same as 59.com
http://www.64.com/ chess
http://www.66.com/ I am on the road ,and a girl lie on my stomach,you give your s for her.. god ,you can guess.，，，，
http://www.67.com/ entertainment site in china
http://www.71.com/ post office from microsoft？
http://www.72.com online exchange..
http://www.73.com/ overcome girls?
http://www.75.com/ What is he waiting?? Bird site.
.http://www.76.com I can see a wall ,and you?
http://www.80.com/ what’s the hell,what does it use? Just waste so good domain..
http://www.81.com/ joint-stock corporation of japan’s
http://www.82.com/ white paper
.http://www.86.com/ It will jump to http://www.003.com/ ,a map site
http://www.87.com/ the same guy of 59 and 63 made,what does he do?3 good domain but no use..
http://www.91.com/ game entertainment portal,self-isolate？
http://www.94.com/ environment-friendly？
http://www.95.com/ business
http://www.99.com/ just see two guys there
http://www.100.com/ dvd search
grasp from:http://www.biexi.com/post/831
100blogs directory I grab from Internet
Are you looking to increase the traffic to your blog? Building links from directories will increase your link popularity, direct traffic, and search engine rankings.
There are several lists of “Blog Directories” around the Internet, but most of them feature only a hand full of directories, and they lack a ranking factor to make it easier for the reader to scan through the list.
Below you will find a very extensive list of Blog Directories, ordered according to their Alexa rank. We have also inserted the Pagerank of each directory on the list to make it more detailed. Enjoy!
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Blog Directory |
Pagerank |
Alexa |
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5 |
1 |
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6 |
316 |
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7 |
4821 |
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7 |
5350 |
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6 |
7501 |
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5 |
13431 |
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7 |
23826 |
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7 |
29593 |
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7 |
33807 |
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6 |
46602 |
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7 |
54862 |
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6 |
58187 |
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5 |
12610 |
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6 |
46840 |
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6 |
62276 |
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7 |
70000 |
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6 |
72172 |
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6 |
74926 |
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6 |
77798 |
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