Using Online Surveys to Boost Business Performance

by : Howard Deutsch

Online surveys are a highly effective way to efficiently gather information, suggestions and insight from employees, customers and other groups. Over the past several years many companies have transitioned from conducting paper and phone surveys to conducting all or most of their employee surveys and customer surveys as online surveys...
Benefits and reasons for conducting an online survey include:
1 – Most employees and customers of businesses use computers with Internet access at work and or at home, making it easy for them to participate in online surveys.
2 – Online surveys are significantly more cost-effective than paper and phone surveys.
3 – Online surveys are more accurate than paper and phone surveys. Employees and customers enter their answers directly without the need for data entry/transcription of paper and phone surveys.
4 – For employees that do not use computers to do their job, designated computers can be made available for them to complete employee surveys.
5 – Many companies have e-mail addresses of their business and consumer customers and it is to their advantage to collect and continuously update their customers’ e-mail addresses in order to be able to send various kinds of communications, including surveys to customers.
6 – Where customer e-mail addresses are not available to companies, there are other ways to get customers to participate in customer satisfaction surveys / customer opinion surveys. Other approaches include putting online survey URLs on paper register receipts, mailing paper survey requests that include online survey URLs to customers, etc.
7 – Online survey results are available very quickly after the survey response period is ended because transcription/data entry is not required.
8 – Online surveys can easily be conducted periodically or continuously to track trends and identify changes in employee and customer perceptions as they occur.
9 – The cost for conducting online surveys is insignificant compared with the bottom line benefits when survey findings are acted on.
10 – Some of the other types of online business surveys include risk surveys, IT customer surveys, 360 leadership surveys, employee benefit opinion surveys and employee retention surveys.
Full-service survey companies provide significant value for organizations that want to conduct an online survey. A full service survey company provides the following benefits:
1 – They know what questions to ask and how to word the questions.
2 – They provide extensive reports very quickly, eliminating your need to spend considerable time generating reports using Excel when you use self-service survey software.
3 – They provide independent/unbiased expertise and experience analyzing the survey data for you, enabling your organization to get more value from online survey results.
4 – If you conduct the online survey periodically (e.g. annually), you will receive trend reports assessing progress made since the previous surveys.
The payback on online surveys can be very large for organizations ranging in size from well under 50 employees to Fortune 500 companies. Payback comes from prioritizing opportunities identified by online surveys, creating survey action plans and taking action to achieve results.

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What is A Niche and How do You Find a Profitable Niche?

by :William Morgan

So what is a niche and how do you find a profitable niche?
A niche is a small section of a very large market it is simply a specific area within a market where you intend to make money online. You can spend your entire affiliate marketing career in one niche. As an online affiliate marketer it will become your job to find a profitable niche and then build a one-page website with an opt- in box for a product in that niche....

How to find a profitable niche is often gone about in the wrong manner.
So many marketers make the mistake of trying to find a product to sell, rather than being familiar with their niche and then finding products to sell in that niche.
First you find a profitable niche where people are already spending money and then you look for product to sell in that niche. Making money online is all about finding a profitable niche. In this article I will explain how to finding a profitable niche. As soon as we find a profitable niche that we want to pursue, the very next thing we’re going to do is build a one-page website for a product in that niche.
Building a One Page Website:
We build a one-page website so we can start building a list in that niche. As I’ve mentioned in many other articles your first priority should always be to build your list. Many affiliate products come with a one-page sales letters that you can modify with an-opt in box to help create your list. After you find a profitable niche, you market your one-page website with your opt-in box and send your prospects to the affiliate after they opt-in.
Let’s recap we find a profitable niche we create a one-page website to build a list, and then any time in the future we can promote related products to our list. We know the type of products the people on our list are interested in. You label that list accordingly so you can market to the people on your list in the future with related products or services.
Here are just a few of the large markets that are proven to be billion-dollar markets, healthcare, wealth creation, and the lifestyle market.
In each market there are hundreds of niches. I suggest you write each one of these three markets on a separate piece of paper and list all the subcategories you can think of under each market.

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How To Find a Reliable Forex Robot

The market for automatic Forex robots has mushroomed over the past 6 months. Not a week passes without a new Forex robot being launched. This has made the task of the new Forex trader of finding a quality reliable product much more difficult. Unfortunately there are a lot of unscrupulous sellers out there peddling untested products. It is also not helpful that there are so many so called independent Forex robot review sites whose only goal is to sell a handful of robots for the affiliate commission...
The new Expert Advisers coming to the market of late are to be found on glossy websites designed by web designers and marketers. You will also find a host of promotional tools to punt their wares with such tactics as limited time offers, only a limited number for sale, and user endorsements. The new trader can easily taken in by all this hype. The sad fact of the matter is many of these robots will end up to losing buyers the trading capital that they put into their broker accounts.
Most of the newer Expert Advisers now feature a form of algorithm geared to trade multiple markets. This adaptability is helping them stay in the money when the market conditions change. Buyers should beware of the false claims on websites showing win to loss ratios in the 90’s. Most of these results are produced on back tests which are proven to be unreliable at best, and at worse are open to manipulation. It is relatively easy to tweak and super optimize back test to produce any result. Taken in my these claims a buyer will download and load up the software, only to find their account balance reduced to zero in a matter of weeks.
Most experts will tell your that only way to be sure your robot will work, and make money, is to look for those with a proven track record of producing more profitable trades than losing trades over a long period of time.
Only a few ethical sellers take the step of showing their EA on a live trading account and in real time. Those that do can be trusted to make money for you. The hard part is to find them.
The cheapest solution is to try and find a website where you can see the best Forex robots in a comparative performance test in real time. This allows you to check in from time to time to see how they are performing.

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STARTING BUSINESS SUCCESSFULLY

Think again. Many people actually end up sacrificing income to open their businesses, at least at first. That's the price they're willing to pay for independence...

If you're thinking of giving up a promising career and a lucrative income to start your business, be realistic about what your financial needs are and whether or not the business will meet those needs. Remember, you're building a business.

It may take you a number of years to get to the income level you want or need. On the other hand, you may decide that you're willing to sacrifice some money for the reward of being your own boss. Many people have found it to be worth every penny.

4) Are you starting a business out of desperation?

This is a very real concern, particularly in light of the huge number of experienced businessmen and businesswomen who have been cast adrift in the job market through corporate downsizing in recent years. If you're one of these people and are thinking about starting a business because you think it's your only option, be very careful. Yes, it can be the answer to your future security, but only if you're willing to make the necessary commitments and sacrifices. The world of business ownership is vastly different from the corporate world. Make sure you recognize the differences before you make the move.

5) Are you well organized?

The day-to-day operation of your business is going to require you to assume many responsibilities. Let's consider an average day. You may need to do the payroll, talk to suppliers, pay a few bills, work on a new advertising pamphlet, and prepare some tax forms. At the same time you'll be filling orders and making sure they get sent out on time. Then there is always the unexpected-your computer bombs or the air-conditioning conks out.

As a business owner, you'll need to keep many balls in the air at one time. Your ability to juggle all these responsibilities will directly affect your success. If you're well organized, you'll have a list of the things you need to do, and you'll methodically go through it during the course of the day. If you're interrupted, you'll pick up where you left off after you have dealt with the problem. If you're still not through at the end of the day, you'll sit there and work until you have finished. Procrastinators do not do well in business. If you get behind, you're sunk.

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Adding Profit to Your Work from Home Internet Business

By: Jeff Casmer

Many individuals, from all walks of life, are making the decision to work from home. There are an unlimited number of work at home business ideas; however, the internet has the most potential...

Internet websites are often developed for personal or business use. What once may have been considered a personal site may now even be used to make money. Affiliate programs, commonly referred to as associate programs, are a way for website owners to make money through internet marketing. Affiliate programs work by connecting people to another website. There are a wide number of well known national companies who use affiliate programs to increase the traffic to their website.

Individuals who have their own website will generally display a banner or link to a certain website. The linking website is often a business that sells something. Affiliate programs are profitable to website owners because whenever an internet user signs up for something or buys a products, they are paid commission. Affiliate programs are an effective marketing technique that offer benefits to everyone involved. Website owners are paid for their participation and the businesses on the other end are promoting and selling their products.

Deciding to participate in an affiliate program is a fairly easy process and can sometimes involve little work. If you are a website owner, the more work you do on your website, the more likely you are to receive affiliate clickers. This is due to search engine optimizations. Many articles or topics inside a website contain keywords that search engines may pick up. If an individual is searching for information on popular children's toys and your website has articles or information concerning them, they may be linked to your site. Internet users love to see new articles, information, or products. For this reason, constantly updating your website may bring in new visitors and also keep existing visitors coming back.

Developing a website can be for fun or a part of home employment. Home employment is on the rise and many individuals are making the decision to work from their home. Home employment allows parents, elderly, or disabled individuals to work from the comfort of their home. Although these individuals are common work from home people, just about everyone has the ability to work from inside their home.

A work from home internet business can including selling merchandise or offering a service. For instance, many individuals sell homemade or wholesale merchandise or some offer their web design or writing skills. Affiliate programs are an effective tool in obtaining additional profits for a work at home internet business. Although affiliate programs are used and are widely popular among internet businesses, they are also successful with personal websites. Blogging has greatly increased in popularity. In fact, a large number of internet users have a blog. It is possible to link up affiliate programs with a blog.

Affiliate programs are becoming extremely popular among website owners or bloggers. It is a fairly simple way to acquire additional profits through an existing work from home internet business. It is great programs, such as affiliate marketing programs, that allows many individuals to successfully work from home and make a profit.

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