Showing posts with label wieght. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wieght. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Losing weight is a chore. Diet experts tell us that 90 percent of the diets that people start are broken within the first month. The major reason that people fail to stay on a weight-loss program is that although they begin with good intentions, they often do not plan well or expect too much too soon. In our fast-paced society we often are not tolerant of slow improvements. We too often hear or see a television commercial or television program where people claim to have lost large amounts of weight in relatively short periods. Always keep in mind that the weight you gained did not suddenly appear at once. The best approach to losing weight is to proceed at a slow and steady pace. Losing one to two pounds per week is a good weight loss goal. At that rate one would lose 50 to 100 pounds in a year! Consider the following tips when attempting to lose weight:
First of all eat breakfast. Do not skip meals. Skipping meals lowers you metabolism and means that your body will be less efficient in burning the food you do eat. Also, when a person skips a meal they will often unconsciously “make-up” for it later. A substantial number of obese people do not eat a good breakfast. Also eating late at night is not a good idea.
Stay away from lose-weight quick diets that promise drastic weight loss. The fast majority of people who do lose weight on these diets gain it right back. Most diets in this class are unhealthy and such diets never allow one to learn how to change eating habits in the long run. Good diets allow one to eat regular meals. Consulting with one’s physician can be very helpful in establishing a solid diet plan.
Make sure that you drink plenty of water. Many people do not get enough water in their diet. Water improves metabolism, flushes out waste produces, and diminishes hunger. The standard approach is to drink eight eight-ounce glasses of water each day, but a better guideline is to try to drink a half ounce of water per pound of your body weight per day.
Watch that sugar! Sugar is sugar whether it is refined or unrefined sugar, fructose, corn syrup, or whatever. Sugar, when not burned off immediately by exercise, can be stored as fat. Most people eat too much sugar. If you must have sweets limit them to one small sweet on weekends and holidays. Do not use sugary foods as rewards for being good on your diet. Instead of using refined sugar and corn syrupy foods eat naturally sweet foods such as fruits and vegetables (which also contain complex carbohydrates). Eating a piece of fruit with every meal can keep your blood sugar stable and give you energy. Fruits and vegetables have no magic associated with them; however, they provide low calories and dense fiber that can satisfy hunger pangs. The daily recommendation of fruits and vegetables is often set at five servings, but those people trying to lose weight should consider five servings as a minimum daily amount. Consider using fruits and vegetables as snacks in place of sweets and carbohydrates.
Eat complex carbohydrates. A good way to understand what foods constitute good carbohydrates is to rate them on their relative glycemic index, which ranks carbohydrates in relation to their effect on blood glucose levels. Eating low glycemic index foods allows blood glucose levels to rise slowly and this leads to you feeling more sated between meals. Foods ranked above 70 on the glycemic index are high and should be avoided; those between 69-56 are medium; and foods at 55 and below are considered low on the index. The lower the glycemic index ranking is, the better the foods help you lose weight. Nutrition schools can give you more information on the right foods and the right carbohydrates to eat.
Try and exercise regularly to burn calories, increase your metabolism, and reduce the effects of stress. Stress makes many people want to eat. Instead of eating take a walk, ride a bike, or do something else. Make light exercise part of your daily lifestyle. Try any work up to 60 minutes of light enjoyable exercise at least five days a week. Do something that you like to do otherwise you will not do it. Make sure that your goals are realistic. When monitoring your weight loss weigh yourself weekly on the same day at the same time. Otherwise stay off the scale. Weighing yourself daily can frustrate your overall goals as your weight will fluctuate from day to day. Realistic goals will keep you on track, motivated, and will result in long-term success.
Consider incorporating as many of these healthy approaches to losing weight into your weekly plan and you will have weight loss success!
Mollie Jolin has been fascinated by nutrition since she can remember. Onlineschools.org has given her a chance to share her love of writing along with healthy living.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Whether you’re an affiliate or a vendor, the number one thing you are constantly striving for is better conversions. You split test everything from the subject lines of your emails to the color of the order button on your pitch page in hopes of bumping up that conversion rate even just half of a point. Why are we all obsessed with conversions? Why do we spend hours poring over our iContact or AWeber statistics and why do we dedicate a huge chunk of our time to constant testing? It’s simple: higher conversions = a higher ROI = more money in your pocket. Not to mention, higher conversions means that affiliates are more likely to promote your product.
To help you in your constant quest for that ever elusive peak conversion rate, this article will show you three sneaky tips that you can implement this week to double your conversion rate.
(Please note: These tactics are not Google-friendly. If Google is a significant traffic source for you, these tips will probably not work for you.)
1) Use the Presale/Follow-up One-Two Punch.
Did you know that 80-85% of people who click the ‘BUY’ button and arrive on the payment form actually end up abandoning it? Some people say the percentage is even higher than that! This could be for many different reasons – from second thoughts to simple issues like “I’m too lazy to go find my credit card now” or “my wife/husband is calling me for dinner” or a random technical issue on the side of the credit card processor. The only thing we need to do in each of these cases is ask the customer to try one more time.
So, instead of sending your prospects directly to the payment form, use a “squeeze page” to collect the customer’s name and email address before you send them to the order form (see example below). You may have heard that adding this extra step in the order process will reduce your conversions. However, I have performed numerous split tests and adding the squeeze page to the order process has never had a negative impact on my conversions.
According to my tests, the ideal pre-sale form must contain the following:
• A request for the customer’s email address, first name and last name. You can (and should) automatically pass this information to the ClickBank order form so that the customer does not have to enter them again.
• Trust Guard seal (or similar type of seal) saying that your business is verified and legitimate.
• Progress bar at the top of the form showing where the customer is at in the order process and what they can expect next.
• A few testimonials, if you are allowed to use them.
• A product image (package) so customers can visualize what they are buying.
According to my split test results, I am able to capture about 85% of my leads this way! This means that for every 1000 customers who click my ‘BUY’ button but do not purchase, I am able to capture the names and email addresses of 850 of them!
These are the hottest leads any vendor can get because all of these people not only Clicked “BUY,” but also cared enough to fill in their details with a clear intention to buy!
All you need to do now is follow up with this list by sending them an email and offering them an incentive to try their order one more time. The incentive could be in the form of a bonus, a price discount or a free give-away. According to my results, 25-30% of them will actually try again and buy it, so you can easily increase your conversions by 30% by implementing this tactic!
2) Use a Video Sales Letter
Using a video sales letter as your main sales pitch, or using it in conjunction with a text sales letter that goes under the video, can easily boost your conversions up to 34% according to my split test results. Video sales letters are easy to create once you know the proven formula and follow it carefully. I believe video sales letters work for several reasons.
First, with text-only sales letters, you’re only able to stimulate one of your customer’s five senses: sight. And in our time-crunched, attention-deficit society, most customers will not take the time to read your sales copy long enough to become truly engaged in your pitch.
With video sales letters, however, you can stimulate a second sense: hearing. Not only can your customers read your pitch, but they can also listen to you say it! Now you can use tone, humor and inflections in your voice to emphasize certain points – all of which help keep the customer’s attention! Moreover, giving customers the ability to hear you can help you gain their trust and give them the sense that they “know” you.
Also, video is still a novelty in marketing since 90% of vendors are still using old school long-form sales letters. Customers are used to those long scrolling pages and they tend to get “sales letter blindness.” Instead of reading your 14-page masterpiece about how you got rich overnight by finding a super trick that no one else has yet discovered, they simply scroll down to see the price and leave your page forever without giving you a chance to build the value first.
With a video sales letter YOU control the selling funnel. You don’t allow customers to fast-forward the video (the equivalent of scrolling to the bottom of your sales page) so they either have to leave or listen to it fully to realize the full potential benefits of your product.
Yes, some customers will be irritated by the lack of controls on the video or they may get bored watching it and leave your page before the video is over. However, don’t worry about losing them because those people were never serious about buying from you anyway. The people who are actually interested enough to watch your video to the end are the ones you care about. They are fully engaged, ready to buy your product, and a large percentage of them WILL convert!
Video sales letters tend to work great in Internet marketing, weight loss, and other smaller niches.
3) Using Exit Chat and Exit Splash
I guess everyone has seen these annoying exit splash pop-ups that appear on many sites. Despite its annoying effect, it really does work and it’s a great way to capture leads! If the prospective customer is not convinced enough to buy your product right then, he may still be interested in getting a freebie that you can offer him on a squeeze page that appears after the exit splash.
According to my tests, using what I call the “video fake-out trick” on the squeeze page can further increase conversions. The “video fake-out trick” involves using a flash player that looks clickable because it contains an image of a play button. If the prospect clicks it, a pop-up appears saying something like “You are really going to love this video. Simply enter your email address in the opt-in form below for instant access.” Don’t play the video BEFORE the customer opts in because most of them won’t find enough time to watch the entire video and will leave before you’re able to capture their information.
I’ve also found that using an exit chat that appears to be a live operator is another great way to boost conversions. Program the “live” chat robotic operator to offer customers a $10 discount and watch your conversions increase 35-40%!
Like you, I am constantly testing and searching for ways to increase my conversion rates. These are some my best tips and I hope they work as well for you as they have for me!
by
Mike Sole
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
I love to spend time online. And to be honest, a lot of it is spent goofing off, surfing, procrastinating... you know, just having fun! Well, I have figured out some ways to get paid (or get free stuff) simply for goofing off.
First of all, I have to say that I was a bit skeptical of these sites. I mean, so many people promise this - and it never seems to work out. But these sites are different...
I have only included sites that are:
- Totally free
- Willing to pay you cash (often via check or PayPal) or give you really good prizes like gift cards
You will never have to pay anything or enter your credit card information on any of these sites. You also don't have to give them you cell phone number either, which I never like to do. You will have to give them a valid email address so they know where to contact you with new surveys, polls, and updates on how much money you've earned.
Don't get me wrong - you won't get rich off of any of these sites. You will make some spare cash and get a few gift cards. This is great for anyone who is looking to make a small amount of extra income. You don't need any special qualifications. Anyone can do this.
- Lightspeed Consumer Panel - A great way to earn a little extra spending money taking surveys! Their surveys are easy and relevant to your life... and you get paid quickly :-)
- HCD Surveys - Ooooh, this is one of my favorite survey companies. They pay you to take really interesting surveys on things like American Idol and pop culture. Heck, I would take these surveys for free... but they are actually paying me!
- OpinionOutpost - A tried and true place to get paid for simply taking surveys. They pay quickly and promptly too. I am a huge fan of this company.
- InboxDollars
- A nice company that pays you simply to read and click on email. It's something you have to do anyway, so you may as well get paid for it. They also will pay you a couple bucks every now and then for taking a survey. Sweet!
- Swagbucks - Earn gift cards, MP3s, and other goodies for searching the web and helping with tasks. They have $5 Amazon gift cards that I can usually earn in a week or two. I'm addicted to this site! Download their toolbar, and you'll get codes as you surf and search the web that add up to prizes. This is seriously a lazy person's way to score freebies.
- Toluna
- Earn fast cash from taking polls and surveys! It's easy to get a check from this place. Make sure to visit every day and take all the sponsored polls. A quick and fun way to make money!
- MyPoints
- Score gift cards to practically any store and restaurant for taking polls and clicking on emails. These people have been around forever, and you've probably heard of them before. I call this my free Starbucks for surfing the web plan.
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