From Loren Nelson, NelsonEcom
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February 22, 2008 – Vol. XII, No. 06

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NetBits is the weekly newsletter keeping your informed of various chatter and other tidbits of potential relevance.

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In This Issue:

Item One: 10 great weekend getaways
Item Two: The 10 steps to online success
Item Three: Nutrition Tip – Sugar Free Sweets
Item Four: Word of the Week
Item Five: Top 10 Wine And Chocolate Matches
Do you know…

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1. 10 great weekend getaways
 

Nothing can recharge your batteries like an energetic weekend in the city. But which city?

www.budgettravel.com

 
2. The 10 steps to online success
 

Step 1: FIND A NICHE MARKET

Use research tools like Wordtracker to find a niche market of HUNGRY buyers eager for your product or service.

Step 2: WRITE YOUR SALESCOPY

Write compelling copy that leads your visitors smoothly through your sales process.

Step 3: SET UP YOUR ONLINE STORE

Turn your website into a selling machine using a simple design, easy navigation, and automation.

Step 4: DRIVE BUYERS TO YOUR SITE

Create "paid search" ads that attract INSTANT traffic (without draining your bank account!) and use free search engines to get your site "front and center."

Step 5: DRIVE MORE CHEAP AND *FREE* TRAFFIC

Use strategies like article-sharing and press releases to drive even MORE people to your site.

Step 6: USE EMAIL TO GET *MORE* SALES

Build a subscriber list of people who WANT to hear from you, so you can convince them to buy over time.

Step 7: FIND *MORE* PRODUCTS FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS

Offer your customers even more products you know they want to buy.

Step 8: GET OTHER PEOPLE TO SELL FOR YOU

Recruit an army of salespeople to sell your products on their websites (and you won’t have to pay them a dime unless they help you make a sale!)

Step 9: GROW YOUR BUSINESS *BIGGER*

Create dozens of new streams of income to multiply your revenues.

Step 10: USE HOT NEW TOOLS TO CREATE A BUZZ

Bring visitors back to your site again and again using the hottest new tools and techniques.

 
3. Nutrition Tip – Sugar Free Sweets
 

Sugar free sweets –can you have your cake and lose weight, too? Sugar-free foods are great for people who want the taste but not the sugar of cake, cookies, ice cream, candies and other sweets. But some sugar-free foods contain almost as many calories as standard foods … and not all artificial sweeteners are created equal: Acesulfame K and saccharin may promote cancer and sorbitol can cause diarrhea.

 
4. Word of the Week
 

logy • \LOH-ghee\ • adjective

: marked by sluggishness and lack of vitality : groggy

Example Sentence:
I was feeling logy after eating such a big meal, so I decided to take a brief nap.

Did you know?
Based on surface resemblance, you might guess that "logy" (also sometimes spelled "loggy") is related to "groggy," but that’s not the case. "Groggy" ultimately comes from "Old Grog," the nickname of an English admiral who was notorious for his cloak made of a fabric called grogram — and for adding water to his crew’s rum. The sailors called the rum mixture "grog" after the admiral. Because of the effect of grog, "groggy" came to mean "weak and unsteady on the feet or in action." No one is really sure about the origin of "logy," but experts speculate that it comes from the Dutch word "log," meaning "heavy." Its first recorded use in English, from an 1847 London newspaper, refers to a "loggy stroke" in rowing.

 
5. Top 10 Wine And Chocolate Matches
 

1. Dark Chocolate and Banyuls, France

2. Chocolate-Covered Biscotti and Recioto Della Valpolicella, Italy

3. Chocolate-Orange Cake and Liqueur Muscat, Australia

4. Chocolate with Nuts and Tawny Port, Portugal

5. Milk Chocolate and Tokaji, Hungary

6. Bittersweet Chocolate and Amarone, Italy

7. Chocolate-Dipped Fruit and Icewine, Canada

8. Chocolate Ganache Truffles and Sauternes, France

9. Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake and Framboise, California

10. Chocolate Hearts with Cream Filling and Cream Sherry, Spain

 
6. Do You Know…
 
On this day:

  • Scientists Announce Birth of Dolly, the Cloned Sheep (1997)
    Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell through the somatic cell nuclear transfer technique, in which the nucleus of an egg cell is replaced by the nucleus of a cell from the organism to be cloned. In successful cases, the egg cell develops into a healthy fetus, but the success rate of cloning has been low. Of 277 eggs, only 29 created viable embryos; just three of these embryos survived until birth, and Dolly was the only one to survive to adulthood.
 
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