Marketing Gets Zoomed To The Next Level With Uzoom

Written by Chris on July 29, 2008 – 10:55 am -

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If you are into marketing your website, looking to provide great customer service, or just want to know who is visiting your site, then you need to consider Uzoom as a product for you to use. Uzoom is a provider of customer support chat and visitor tracking software based out of Hilton Head, SC. The Uzoom software includes the capability to put together a chat console and visitor tracking features. With the service you will be able to:

• Live tracking console to view customers on your website.
• Easy to invite customers to chat and for operators to accept chat requests.
• Know where in the world your customers are.
• Identify repeat customers and when they first visited your site.
• Find the last page customers came from. If they came from a search engine it will display which engine and what keywords they used. It will also break down whether it was a paid or an organic placement.
• Find the exact page your customer is on, in live time.
• Find how long the customer’s session has been.

If you are curious as to what makes Uzoom better than some of its competition in the chat software market, then I suggest you check out their comparison page. They have a great breakdown of the features of their service and what others do not have. Without trying it or looking too deep into comparing it, it appears that they do reign supreme on the features side of things.

You are probably thinking that a service like this wold have to cost an arm and a leg, well you are only half right. If you are interested in trying out the service and being able to use it on just one website with one customer service operator, then you can run a 30 day trial for free. However, if you want to go deeper and really get into the many uses of the service, you are going to need more than 30 days to try everything out. the first pay plan, named the Professional Plan is priced at $59.00/month - this will give you the ability to use the service with 2 different websites and have up to 5 operators.

Now I being a one day show like myself or just a small business, you may not find a need to shell out that kind of monthly price, so only do it if you are incredibly serious about ramping up your level of customer service and want to offer chat support. Otherwise, if you just want to track basic information about your visitors (location, length of stay, where they came from, etc) then you may be well off using a free service such as Google Analytics.

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CashCrate - a great way to pick up some extra cash!

Written by Chris on February 29, 2008 – 12:00 pm -

A week or so ago I found the site CashCrate through another blog and checked it out as a way to possibly pick up some extra cash. Now, I won’t say that it is easy or free money, but it may as well be close to both of those!

For those of you who do not know, CashCrate is a website that allows you to complete offers and surveys, and get paid to complete them, even better!

What do you do?
Simply enough, you fill out different offers from different companies including other websites that get you to fill out surveys for money. Although it may be a little time consuming to do some of the surveys, you can usually fill one out in just a couple minutes.

How much can you earn?
It really depends on how much time you can give to filling out the surveys and how much you are willing to spend. Yes, you read that right - how much you are willing to spend. Most of the offers are free, but only pay out less than $1.00; yet some you can pay a couple bucks towards and you get a much higher return. Example: I paid $4.95 to cover the shipping cost of an eBay information guide and program. The payout for the offer was $15.00. The pay out for free offers can range anywhere from $10.00 to 20 cents.

With messing with the system for just about an hour, I completed offers totaling $30.85 with 8 offers. I have had $26.25 of that already approved.

What’s the best part of the whole system?
The minimum payout for you to get your money is only $10! That sounds a lot better to me than many other similar sites and programs where the minimum pay out is something like $25.00 or more.

So, if you have the free time, want to make a little extra money for your time, then check out CashCrate and start completing some offers!

Is there a downside? Yes, you may start to get a lot of spam email (so make sure your spam filters work) and you may get some telemarketing phone calls because some sites will ask for your email addresses and phone numbers.

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TNX.net Review

Written by Chris on February 17, 2008 – 7:00 pm -

TNX.net is text link brokering service which helps advertisers and publishers buy and sell text links much like TextLinkAds and similar sites, however, TNX is a bit different.

Like the other networks out there, TNX displays text links on publisher’s websites through an ad code. Unlike the other services out there, TNX takes the approach of selling their links by individual page and not for the whole site.

TNX is also different from TLA and others because they deal in TNX points rather than actual money. Yet if you want, you can exchange your points in for money. The point system works for both sides of the fence – advertisers and publishers. Advertisers purchase points before being able to place ads and publishers receive TNX points when ads are placed on their site, and like I mentioned, they can then be traded for actual cash. The attractive part of this system is that it allows publishers to purchase a bunch of points and then use only a certain amount for different ads to see which are producing the best results and also to save some points for later on, say for a different campaign.

As a publisher of ads you have the ability to control the ads that are displayed on your sites pretty easily within the account control panel. Publishers can block ads, delete different ones from pages, or you could even ban a website that is advertising on your site – this is happening a lot because of a lot of different spam and wares sites that are getting their ads displayed.

If you do get into the game of earning a lot of points and transferring them to cash, watch out for their payout system that only allows you to withdrawal up to a certain amount of your points per day.

If you are looking for a new text link ad website to try out on your website to make some money from, check out TNX. Their different approach to the whole game may provide to be an advantage for you. If you have a decent sized site with a good page rank, your payout per page should be pretty decent. And then if you have hundreds or thousands of pages indexed, then you can easily start to rack up some decent side income from your site for having a small text link ad displayed wherever you would want on your website.

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