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1. the site layout should be proffesional
2. you should have a clear contact section
3. in the contact section you need to put a telephone number, including a landline, a fax, an email, a physical address,
4. It helps to put a picture of the headquarter
5. It helps to be a known brand
6. have the pictures of the managers/ceo on the site. It helps to have several pictures and contact data of several company officials GM, Mk manager, sales manager, etc.
7. have a green line, posted visible
8. the site layout should be consistent with the people’s image on the business line. A banking site should never be black. Or an insurance site.
9. put linkedin accounts, yahoo messenger, aol, icq, irc
10. show testimonials from clients. Text, video, audio. Also, the testimonials should be very crredible, and the people that are credited for testimonials to be wellknown, not from invented sites: John Turturo, whateverbankingsiteonline.com
11. the site should be visual> put pictures in it
12. the google page rank should be higher. Also, the number of indexed pages should be ok, together with the number of incoming links, blogsearch presence. These are for experts.
13. the site’s every page should have a clear purpose: buy now, order now, register now, submit now, purchase now
14. offer for free samples of your product
15. organize webinars
16. have a professional email management. send interesting newsletter on the business
17. engage visitors.
18. increase visitors conversion from first time visitors -> repeated visitors ->clients->repeated clients ->brand ambassadors
19. have privacy policy in place on the site
20. put on the site logo’s from well known companies (visa, mastercard, truste, verisign)
21. put auto bookmarking services: digg, delicious, stumbleupon. Let people share the discovery
22. have an account on big social networks: facebook, myspace, youtube. Promote yourself there.
23. have bloggers speak about your product. Offer them for free something it cost usual, in exchange for a small review. Talk with thousands.
24. post on your site scans from your diplomas, certifications, associations you are in, written testimonials from clients
25. answer all your questions FAST
26. have an online messenger, waiting for peoples inquiries. The clients will give you the money if they consider you are safe and trustworthy
27. use friendly spam. Ask happy customers to recommend you to their friends.
28. show visitors (potential clients) that you have many other clients, happy ones and many business connections. Use Easy. Increase your trust points.
29. have some trolling activity on forums, about how great is your company and your products. It will help with seo, direct clicks and awareness.
30. state clear your full name
31. use scanned signature, to backup your promises
32. post videos on your site with you, as the founder, speaking directly to them, the visitors. address their brains directly
33. post on your site best practices. Show what you have done to help other clients. Together with their testimonials are the top weapon to convince
34. appear in tops, where you score best. Hell, why don’t you make your own tops, where you put yourself on first position in direct comparison with your competition
35. “as seen on tv” – can you brag on it? is very powerfull
36. speak at conferences. Post on your site or your blog the proof
37. Be in the jury of various competitions
38. post your short cv online. People who buys from you want to know you.
39. show you are involved in some charity, related to the activity

The list is not completed yet. Fell free to contribute on how to generate trust online.

Will internet mean freedom?

Let’s say some variants:

1. a meteor will struck the earth (well, this is kind of terminal…)

2. a nuclear bomb will explode in a major populated city from US

3. a virus will infect all wall street, etc

These “what if” scenarios would be very interesting to analyze and to see what possible reverberations will create. How the stock market will evolve, how the finance world will react there will be riots, the currency evolution, etc. The smart guys from 9/11 made a lot of money anticipating the stock market evolution, remember?

Tom Clancy is the father of the techno-thriller. This guy is for sure in love of these what-if scenarios, and that’s why I love to read him. It’s really a lateral thinking exercise:)

Did u see the Discovery documentary, where viruses and bacterias are multiplying until they consume everything and after that they perish? Hopefully it will not be our case, but the similarity is high

- Bloomberg - these guys have a really good information structure

- Money.CNN.com – excellent finance resources, from the top world news provider (did u see that cnn.com has Google Page Rank 10?!?!)

- Harvard Business – excellent analysis from one of the smartest brains on the Planet: Nobel Prize winners, Harvard professors, etc

- Yahoo Finance – also, yahoo has a great widget with tickers

- BankRate - if you want not only finance news and other resources, but also you want to get a mortgage, a loan or a refinancing

- Google Finance – sector summary, news, quotations, stocks, FOREX, widget, charts, etc

If you know other finance resources, please recommend them here.

- FNBO Direct Online Savings Account decreased to 2.15%

- ING Direct Orange Savings Account decreased to 1.65%

- E*TRADE Bank Max-Rate Savings Account decreased to 1.95%

- HSBC Direct Online Savings Account decreased to 1.85%

The funny part is that in Central – Eastern Europe, the savings account interest are extremly high, on very strong currencies. For example, in Romania, the figures are very high and big US banks are keeping large deposits here:

- Volksbank Romania – 14,5% in RON and 6% at EUR

- BRD Societe Generale - 13,75% RON and 6,75% at EUR

Also, if you invest in state bonds, you will get a guaranteed 20% interest rate, which is also huge. The need for cash in these countries is so big, that are keeping these enormous interest rates for saving accounts.

My suggestion is:

1. if you really want to keep the money somewhere, try to use the overseas accounts that are guaranteed. In Romanian for example the state guarantees 50,000 eur each saving account. Other countries have bigger limits.

2. Try to put the money to work. Invest in future flows of capital. You will never be rich if you keep you money in the bank. Actually, you could loose money due depreciation. Did you know that since 1920 until today US Dollar lost 95% of it’s value?

Today’s savings account interest is not worth to keep the money in the bank, unless you really don’t have anything else better to do with them.

Is the feeling that make us move forward. Is the feeling that makes us support a lot of the daily hardship. When you loose hope, you are getting depressed instantly. Hope (or the lack of it) will make people loose the will to live. Employees without hope are not productive. Prisoners are living day after day because they have hope (of breaking, of a new life after it, etc).

Even when u deeply hate someone and u want to hurt him, still u hope to have more time to hurt him…

People with no hope are not joyful, are lousy parents and lousy human been

We must keep the hope, even artificial if it’s possible. The alternative for HOPE is to dark to consider.

Hope keeps us going. No matter is hope in redeption, afterlife, riches, great women, 99 virgins, peoples recognition, etc… HOPE rulz. Hope will make the recession go away