Do you remember M. VEM. J. SUN. P.? The planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

ROY G. BIV? The colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Or some of the crazy stuff we put to music in our heads so we would remember?

I found the SEO Rapper today and I am rolling on the floor. Brings back memories of childhood, when I put the state capitals to music so I could remember them all. LOVE IT!

Time is running out! Only one week remains to order passes to the 35+ seminars being conduced during the 3rd annual OIVAC.

This year, we’ve scheduled seminars covering topics everyone is asking questions about and discussing on list servs and forums. Here’s an opportunity to “ask the experts” and obtain informative answers from experienced VAs as well as professionals outside the industry that walk the talk every day, and are willing to share their knowledge, experience and skills with you.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with expert resources, all from the comfort of home and your desktop or laptop computer. The information and training they share may help clarify a situation, open a door to new business, gain more clients and increase profits. To have a seat in these educational sessions, you must register soon. The last day to register is Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 12 midnight EDT ( US).

This year’s schedule includes topics any virtual business can benefit from. Visit the Speakers Profile page for details about each session.

Jonathan Bailey
Dealing with Plagiarism: A Realistic Guide to Fighting Content Theft

Laurie Dart
Increase Your* Income by Establishing Yourself as an Expert with Article Marketing

Annie Jennings
Create A Website To Showcase Your Talent, Land BIG New Clients & Build A Powerful Community

Jamie Lee Mann
The Importance of Follow-up

Becki Noles
Creating Multiple Streams of Income: Affiliate and Internet Marketing in a Nutshell

Dale Noles
Target Markets and Niches: The #1 Success Ingredients

Victoria Santiago
How To Make Your Home Based Business Sound Like A Fortune 500 Company

Tawnya Sutherland
SEO, Let’s Rank It!

Yvonne Weld
Setting Up Processes for Your Business

Sharon Williams
Be Your Own Brand and Stand Out from the Crowd

OIVAC…it’s not just for Virtual Assistants anymore!!

Hope to see you there,

Becki

PS - Don’t forget registration ends Tuesday, May 13th!

If you are going steady on your PPC bids, it is time for you to develop your own bidding strategy. It is important for you to track down which sites bring the bulk of your traffic and identify the ranking of your paid ads. This will help your bidding strategy to be effective.

Bid gaps occur when there is a significant price increase to move up one spot in the PPC rankings. It is best if you take advantage of the bid gaps by filling them in so you can save up your cents for other bidding opportunities. Often there are keywords worthy of lesser bids to get the appropriate ranking on the list and produce a good number of clicks and higher conversion rate rather than bidding higher but having a poor conversion rate. You have to keep in mind that overbidding too is not good but rather the best position for the most effective bid.

Using pay per click bid management in promoting your website will only be successful if you take time building many lists across many engines and studying the performance of every listing. In this way, you can make the most value from what you spend in the bidding process. The key is to take the necessary precautions to stay ahead of the competition.

Bid Management Tools

To insure the best results, you may want to use bid management tools. There are many accepted and approved management tools that will help you in your bidding. They are categorized into two different types:

• Web based (services by monthly subscription)
• PC based (a purchased software)

Monitoring tools too may help in the tracking down of your keywords/phrases and search engines. This will help you determine which generate the most sales overall and in relation to your cost per click. This is what you call return of investment (ROI) monitoring.

These bid management tools may include additional functions that you may not get from online marketing tools that are readily available. Other tools can monitor competitor’s bids, produce reports for different parties and offer the ability to interface with multiple PPC engines. This is particularly helpful to those who manage more than a hundred keywords across several PPC engines to boost productivity and save time.

Pay per click bid management is ideal for the effective promotion of your business online. It is now possible to market your goods and services quickly to many.

About the Author
Becki Noles, Visionary of Virtual Accuracy has been at the forefront of stream-lining coaching and entrepreneurial businesses since 1998. Utilizing her background in marketing, publicity, corporate training, advertising and media, Becki custom tailors and implements individualized action plans for taking coaching businesses to the next level. As a Virtual Assistant her business partners with top business and executive coaches in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and the world over.