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11th January 2008

StumbleUpon.com: a Smart Alternative to Googling!

Whether you’re a seasoned Internet veteran or a newbie learner, you know how slow it can be to search the Web. You go to Google.com or Vivisimo.com, you type in keyword phrases, and then you skim through hundreds of hits, hoping for something that interests you. By the time you’re done, you’ve spent 45 minutes to find perhaps two or three useful web sites.

There is a much smarter and faster way to search the Web. By joining a special network of Web users, you can cut your searching time in half. It’s called StumbleUpon.com, and it’s based on people sharing their destination recommendations electronically.

StumbleUpon is not a search engine driven by keywords, but rather a “browsing engine” driven by StumbleUpon is based on a central database of thousands of users’ personal suggestions on what they consider to be quality websites. Member suggestions are categorized by topic of interest, and are updated daily to reflect thousands of members’ votes.

The more that members (”stumblers”) like a particular website, the more highly that website is ranked. As a member of StumbleUpon, you get access to thousands of hours of other people’s search experiences, and can contribute your own suggestions.

Membership is free, and the database is accessed through a no-spyware toolbar you add to your Firefox or IE browser. You take 2 minutes to join the free network, and then you tell it what your personal interests are: culture, politics, trance music, pets, motorcycles, scrapbooking, health and wellness…hundreds of areas of interests.

Spread the word: related/bookmark it/readit

It takes about 5 minutes total to join the network and install the StumbleUpon toolbar. Once you’re ready to try it out, click the “stumble” button, and the toolbar will link you to the top suggested websites in your stated interests. If you like the website, you can vote it “thumbs up”, which increases its ranking for other Stumblers. If you don’t like it, give it thumbs down, and accordingly fewer people will stumble upon it. You may also add descriptive comments for other stumblers to see.

With time, the database will recognize your patterns of interest, and start to pair you up with other stumblers who share your passions.

This is such an intelligent and helpful way to make the Internet a smaller and more intimate place. By calling upon other users’ experiences, it is possible to spend less time searching and more time enjoying.

StumbleUpon is definitely worth a try. Not only is its membership growing exponentially, but people are making friends with fellow hobbyists through this database. StumbleUpon.com is one of the single most useful services on the Internet today.

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1 On January 13th, 2008, Mark Beckhem said:

The Power of the Squeeze Pages ($top Losing All Your Money!)

If you were sending people directly to a sales page, you’re missing out on finding out who the customer is, any contact information that we could possibly get to market to that customer in the future and to follow up to find out if they were able to get the product and how they enjoyed that and then cross sell to them.

1. Squeeze pages are definitely… can be a huge benefit to product owners and their affiliates who are trying to market to customers. The problem is that people just starting out do not have squeeze pages. So people click on the link and with that link they’re taken directly to the sales page.

2. Unfortunately for that affiliate, they’re not able to capture any of the important information that will help them down the roa d. If you were sending people directly to a sales page, your’re missing out on finding out who the customer is, any contact information that we could possibly get to market to that customer in the future and to follow up to find out if they were able to get the product and how they enjoyed that and then cross sell. So the problem is that we’re missing out on a lot of information that could be a huge benefit and the product owner obviously is the one who’s really going to benefit because when he makes that sale he’s going to address and name and phone number of the person.

3. So the solution is a squeeze page before taking the customer directly to the sales page. Once they click on that link they’ll be taken to a squeeze page. And at that squeeze page you can usually have a title and you can have the offer. The visitor enters his/her information for a bonus CD or free E-book (your Free gift or offer). After they fill out the information, name and E-mail address they are taken to the sales page of the product you are promoting. Now you have their Name and E-mail Address and can sell them more products and make much more money. Now when you make your own product you can market to a list that already know like and trust you and save on advertising expense as you already have potential customers in your list. There are definitely some benefits to squeeze page like I mentioned.

4. You know, first of all the squeeze page puts you you in charge of your promotions. Any other promotion that you come up with a month or so, or in a year, you’ve got access to all these people who’ve already expressed interest in the product that you’re selling or promoting. This is power. Why? Because all top internet markets and wannabes will be seeking you out to do business with you for as you have a lists of buyers. and by using the squeeze page you’re already starting that list for yourself. And you therefore become powerful. You can make sales; you can definitely participate in JV partnerships and help make a product owner a lot of money and in doing so makes you a lot of money and connections for favors latter own.

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2 On January 14th, 2008, Rodney said:

I like social book marking sites like Stumble Upon. They do help you to find things that are popular with a group of people. But I never thought of using them for search. I’ve always used them to drive traffic to my website instead.