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netContent Desk Virtual Publishing Empire - Cashing In On What More Than One Billion Surfers Want MostToday, more than one billion* people surf the Internet.
And that number is growing.
So is the amount of revenue being generated online.
For example, online advertising expenditures are targeted toreach an estimated $11.
6 billion by 2010, according to a forecastfrom Forrester Research**, Inc.
, with ads specifically reachingothers via blogs and through RSS.
And online spending fromaverage Internet users is predicted to generate revenues in 2006of $1.
8 billion and $1.
7 billion just in the categories of onlinegames and digital music alone, according to a report by JupiterMedia Metrix.
What draws people online to make these purchases?
In a word,content.
“People want the sites that they visit to be informationresources, no matter what the subject,” said Jack Humphrey,managing partner in the exclusive Content Desk Charter Memberspublishing group.
“Articles, reports, facts, tips, newsletters,forums, blogs, audio, video, interviews, product reviews,creative writing, public domain information, RSS and much more.
”Content Desk has a variety of tools to help members create and useall types of content.
The exclusive online community focuses onfour things; community, learning, technology and profits.
Report & Case Study: Sid Hale, jvAlert“Creating good, relevant content has always been the biggestproblem in creating a web site that can attract and retainvisitors,” said Sid Hale, co-creator of jvAlert and chartermember of Content Desk.
“With Content Desk's Content SiteBuilder, I was able to quickly find article content for a newsite I had launched only a month earlier, and automate addingthat content to my site within just a few days.
That included thelearning curve…”Hale signed up immediately after reading a report written byHumphrey entitled, "Building a Content Publishing Empire.
" Beinga content publisher and knowing how much work can be involved inbuilding content for a site, he felt the decision to join ContentDesk was a “no-brainer.
” For a copy of the report and Hale’s casestudy, both at no cost, contact: http://www.contentdesk.
com .
CONTENT DESK: Building A Content Publishing EmpireThe Content Desk membership community communicates via theirprivate forum, conferences, teleconferences, email and supportdesk.
Some of their tools are downloads, while others are onlineapplications and knowledge shared through learning.
Learning isoffered in the form of videos, articles, help texts, tutorials,member sharing and seminars/workshops.
Content Desk membership fees go right back into development ofnew software and tools so that members are always on thecutting-edge and far ahead of all the "point-and-click" sitebuilders out there.
HISTORY IN THE MAKINGCyber-brains behind the Content Desk scene are the “Power Trio;”Jack Humphrey, Mark Braunstein, and Peter Lenkefi.
These threerenowned visionaries found themselves smack dab in the middle ofthe emerging, fledgling web publishing industry.
“Giving (website visitors) what they want is the first step inbuilding relationships rather than one-time visitors,” saidHumphrey.
“We feel it is crazy to work hard on traffic that willnever come back to our sites.
Especially if the only change weneed to make to those sites is adding good material that visitorsenjoy!
First time visits are expensive.
Repeat visits arefree.
””MARDI GRASTo help others learn more and earn more, Content Desk is hostinga 3-day seminar / workshop in New Orleans from Sept.
9-11, 2005,with a full year of support follow up afterwards.
The focus is,“How To Triple Your Income With Irresistible New ContentPublishing, Traffic Building and Sales Conversion Techniques -The Three Proven Keys To Internet Success.
""Son of a gun, we're gonna have big fun, on the bayou…”For more information, visit Mardi Grashttp://presssuccess.
com/MardiGras To learn more about ContentDesk and check on the availability of limited openings at ContentSite Builder, visit http://presssuccess.
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Join hundredsof publishers and writers in creating and syndicating yourcontent at Content Propulsion Lab http://presssuccess.
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Visit http://www.contentdesk.
com for help.
* From “The Internet Transforms Modern Life,” by Steve Almasy,CNN, June 29, 2005.
** The Forrester Research report includes data from an onlinesurvey of 99 leading marketers and four forecasts: US SearchMarketing Spending, US Online Advertising And Marketing Spending,US Email Marketing Spending and US Online ClassifiedsAdvertising.
-30-By Diana Barnum, president ofhttp://movingaheadcommunications.
com and CEO ofhttp://ohiohelp.
net .
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