The Lady Programmer

I never knew about online list building up to now. Internet marketers do this stuff. Some people had been successful with this. Ask Tellman Knudson. He’s the man behind The ListBuilding Club. He had been online for only three years and he learned to make millions through his mentor, Shawn Casey.

I don’t have any idea about list building; it is my first time to hear about it. I decided to know more by getting to their list first – which means I had to give my name and my email address to enter. I learned what I could about their list building strategy that made them discover its potential for money-making venture.

List building gets people to subscribe to an offer that they are interested in. When I gave out my name and email address right at the start, I get to subscribe to their list. I did not stop after that sign up. I get to have a exclusive link on one of their videos, which is actually a prelude to their series of videos about list building venture.

As I went on I learned some things about list building, I did not realize that I’ve been using a bit of those principles. Getting people to subscribe to my email subscription in this blog is some form of list building. On a professional blogger’s blog, there are always stuff freebies and special offers that are made available exclusively to their subscribers. Perhaps the success of professional bloggers had something to do with the power of lists.

These professional bloggers actually earn from the best ideas that they are selling in their blog.

I’ve gone over to Web Hosting Rating and I’ve noticed their list of overall best web hosts: InMotion Hosting Company got the top slot, followed by Web Hosting Pad. Bluehost Inc got the third position.

For anyone who likes to get a budget web host, Web Hosting Rating suggests Globat.com web host. Globat.com is also recommended for those who want to consider having self-hosted blog host.

How does Web Hosting Rating determine the ratings for each web host provider? Each web host has a list web host’s features as listed out by Web Host Rating. This is followed by recent user reviews near the bottom of the list. At the right of the review is a voting button where anyone can place his or her vote for the web host provider. Anybody does not need to sign up at Web Hosting Rating to leave any user review or vote for a favored hosting provider.

Basically, Web Hosting Ratings are entirely powered from the votes placed by users!

Web Hosting Rating is not only a “consulting site” where anyone can visit to see which web hosts are rated at the top. It can also be a place to look for coupon codes listed with each hosting provider. Don’t like the current plan? Don’t miss out the other alternative plans listed below the coupon codes.

How would you know that you want to meet someone who shares the same religious beliefs online?

Christian Chat offers another option to meet people online. Currently this site is inviting more Christian members to join their chat city. Webcam chat is possible, so you deal with real people from other parts of the world.

The term “makeover” is not something that you’d hear from some someone who likes to make a person look better. It has become a famous word which is now used by other non-fashion sources. For one, I’ve seen a TV program mention that they will be doing a home makeover. Have you heard about Roxio’s Extreme Digital Makeover?

Zoey and Chris are the two hosts of this makeover. They had exactly captured what how makeover shows amaze their audience: they had taken a walk in the park to find people with digital cameras.

They got into the “ambush” mode to convince people to download their photos on a computer and create amazing Roxio slideshows. I just wish they can help me with the dozens of images on my hard disk. I just realized no one’s looking at these.

The show is not just another show. You’ll find Zoey entertaining.

Roxio is now having a Make Me Over Contest. Just head to Roxio Extreme Digital Makeover to join and get a makeover.

Most of the successful websites that I’ve seen around often elicit the participation of the community to get the best content. Social bookmarking services like Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon are mainly powered by the community. Even Google’s pagerank technology is based on other people’s linked content. People remain the life-blood that powers up these successful websites.

Now 10to1 introduces a new way of doing things: by encouraging people to create lists and add up items. Members can get to vote up or vote down an entry. It is a way to ask the community which items are really cool or not. The most positive votes get it straight up to the top ten.

The most entertaining list that I’ve seen is the list of funny license plates.

The press release below explains the mechanism of this top ten voting lists.

Press Release

PHOENIX, Arizona – September 9, 2008 – 10to1.com, a technology company pioneering a new way to organize data and create collaborative authority, unveils its ranked list voting site offering. The site allows users to create, vote and comment on lists for any category. Categories include tech, environment, entertainment, sports, gaming, business, health and politics.

The process is simple. Each user-generated list, from 1 item to 101 items, will begin as one person’s opinion of a ranked list. The user community will then build and shape that list through voting, comments and adding new items which creates a consensus of the best version of that list.

“There is a lack of order and authority online. It is hard for users to get trustworthy information searching through the billions of pages found on Google and Yahoo. The user generated content and unbiased opinions found on 10to1 help users to find the best information based on collective user’s consensus and it aids in discovery of items that they may not have considered before,” said Korey Bachelder, President of 10to1, Inc. “We took a look at Digg and saw that people love to offer their opinions by voting and commenting. We decided to take the idea and make it better by creating order, ultimately creating winners in every category.”

Why Lists?
10. Easy to digest and remember
9. Encourage debate
8. Creates order
7. They will spread and be shared
6. Easy to write
5. Insightful and interesting
4. They aid discovery
3. People love stats
2. They assert authority
1. Lists are interesting!

10to1.com is a website destination that allows users to create, comment and vote on lists for any category. The lists become more powerful and resourceful with each vote as users collectively create the best list based on individual opinions. The company is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.