Bridges of the Earth 
2 fixed link and a tunnel is the 18 kilometers long bridge across the Great Belt. 
Building process on the Great Belt took site from 1988-1998. The main road across the Great Belt opened up in 1998 and the railroad track in 1997. Passage of the Bridgework is best complete by paying a Bropas
The entire construction cost for the full Great Belt project added up to 21.4 billion. The cost was used virtually evenly between road and rail ties. East Bridge East fixed link between Zealand and Sprogoe is 6790 meter long. East fixed link consists of a sub structure and a superstructure. 
During the construction of solid-state cover power pylons, anchor cubes, stacks and earth hilts. Superstructure of the steel bridge covers and cables. The actual suspension bridge between the two anchor blocks are approx. 2700 m long. Suspension Bridge comprises of the free bridge ‘tween two power pylons at 1624 m plus the two page gap between the power pylons and anchor blocks, each 535 meter. Suspension Bridge is associated with 23 connection components (14 from Zealand and 9 from Sprogoe). The East Tunnel for train travel is 8024 meter long and comprises of two separate tubes with one trail each. The 2 subways are connected by 31 cross burrows and serves as an escape route, and providing essential installations. The East Tunnel is a bored tunnel.
The elements were constructed at a working on site factory. From sea floor to the top of the tunnel is ‘tween 12 and 40 meters. The tunnel is at its lowest point 75 m below sea level. The West Bridgework, a mixed road and rail bridge is 6,611 ft stretch. The West Bridgework is in reality 2 parallel bridges, one for the road and a rail. Contact us for further info at SEO

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Travelling in Denmark

Denmark is a small nation on top of the European continent, covering only 43.000 square km. Denmark has more than 8.000 km of coast as Denmark is made up of the Jutland Peninsula and the main islands of Funen and Sealand.

Travel in Denmark has constantly involved ferries in one way or other, but since 1998 it has been possible to cross the Great Belt by the Great Belt Fixed Link. The Fixed Link between Funen and Sealand comprises the Eastside Span, a 6,790 meter suspension bridge from Sealand to Sprogoe and an 6,600 m long bridgework between Sprogoe and Funen.

The Great Belt

The Great Belt Fixed Link is a 4 lane toll expressway and you can pay toll in several ways. You can pay by immediate payment or credit card and you can buy a digital unit called bropas which automatically registrates your passings and draws the toll from your credit card. Utilising a brobizz spares 5 % of the toll fee.

Fording the Great Belt Fixed bridge makes you entitled to discounts on more than 10,000 hotels, attractions and exhibitions throughout Denmark. Attractions such as Tivoli, Lego Land, Copenhagen Zoo and other main attractions in Denmark provides up to 20 % price reduction on visitants presenting a price reciept from the Great Belt Paid Link.

Besides hotels like the Radisson hotel chain, several hundred inn’s and different sorts of accomodation offers 20 % discount on your rest in Denmark.

On-line booking

If you are crossing the Great Belt for business, i.e. busses and lorries, you can pay in advance via our on-line booking scheme. Bus parties and cargo companies can make a commercial enterprise arrangement with the Great Belt Syndicate and use the booking scheme to have smarter crossing at the Toll Station.

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Geneva Chamonix Transfers provide professional, swift and bespoke personal airport transfers from the airport directly to your catered skiing chalet in Les Grands Montets, Brevent, Chamonix Mont Blanc France and the nearby Mont Blanc region.

Our Geneva airport transfers bespoke service covers airport transfers to Super Besse, Portes du Soleil, Les Arcs, Luz Ardiden, Megeve, Samoens and without forgetting La Chavanette and Chatel and we can offer one off transfers to various ski destinations as booked.

With the modern fully equipped 5 people minibuses and Lincoln, Scion, Fiat, or Dongfeng cars we can happily drive as many people as twenty, or twenty plus when you friends need this. Moreover our chauffeurs are very trained in challenging conditions for your groups comfort. For you reassurance the company is completely covered and trained.

We also can organize mountain bike return transfers during Apr to Dec and provide French ski resorts such as the most popular: Le Grand-Bornand, Flegere, Les Menuires, La Grave, La Rosiere, Montgenevre, Isola 2000, Courchevel, Chamonix, Les Deux Alpes, Val-d’sere, Hautacam.

Getting to Chamoix town, Araches-la-Frasse or Val Thorens from your airport couldn’t be simpler. For bespoke Geneva ski transfer from Geneva airport to your families luxury catered ski chalet in Chamonix Mont Blanc contact Chamonix Transfers right now, afterwards sit back and revel in your snowboarding trip.

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Targeted traffic is the life-blood of any online business, without which, any online business will eventually go to the wall. Generating targeted traffic to their websites is also one of the greatest nightmares of any online business owners.

There’re a myriad of tactics that online business owners can employ to drive targeted traffic to their websites, but the most cost-effective one is undeniably that of “building an army of affiliates”.

This can be achieved by implementing what’s called an affiliate program. An affiliate program is undoubtedly the best way to increase website exposure, sales and profits.

For business owners, if you sell products that have a medium-to-high profit margin via the internet, you’ll be much more profitable and successful if you start implementing an in-house, two-tier affiliate program for reasons which I’ll delineate in a moment.

Affiliate Program Defined

What’s an affiliate program?

An affiliate program is a marketing initiative, a sort of performance-based advertising, whereby the affiliate promotes the merchant’s products/services, and in return and depending on the type of program, the affiliate receives a commission from, or shares revenue with the merchant for delivering sales, leads or traffic to the merchant’s websites. The affiliate can be paid a flat fee or a percentage of the transaction.

It’s a mutually beneficial business relationship, and is also commonly termed as associate, reseller, referral, or partner program. A case in point is Amazon.com which is amongst the first to launch an affiliate program on the internet.

How Does An Affiliate Program Work?

In a typical affiliate program, affiliates normally promote the merchant’s products/services by placing graphic links, text links and/or banners from their websites. They also advertise in ezines, send endorsement letters to their list of opt-in subscribers and customers via emails and/or autoresponders to drive traffic to the merchant’s websites.

The merchant leads the referred visitors through the selling process, closes the sale, processes the payment, fulfills the order and handles all customer service issues. The merchant also tracks the affiliates who send him the traffic via an affiliate software. If a sale is closed, the merchant calculates and pays the commission to the affiliates as agreed.

Types of Affiliate Program

Affiliate programs can be broadly categorized into various types as delineated below, and they can be either single-tier or two-tiers.

You can also either implement and manage the affiliate program yourself or outsource it to third party managers such as Commission Junction, LinkShare, etc. My suggestion is that you run your own affiliate program in-house as it is more cost-effective and profitable to you in the long run. By running your affiliate program in-house, you’ll do away with the start-up costs and percentage of revenue to be paid to third party affiliate program managers.

1. Pay-Per-Impression

Pay-Per-Impression is a type of affiliate program where the affiliate is paid by impressions. Everytime a banner or link is displayed to a visitor at the affiliate’s website, it is counted as an impression. The affiliate is normally paid a few cents per visitor, and the commission is calculated based on per 1000 impressions or CPM.

2. Pay-Per-Click

In this type of affiliate program, the affiliate is paid everytime a visitor clicks on the links or banners displayed at the affiliate’s website through to the merchant’s website. The compensation to the affiliate normally ranges from a few cents to a few dollars per click.

3. Pay-Per-Lead

As the name implies, the affiliate is compensated by every lead it generates for the merchant such as a visitor filling-up a form at the affiliate’s website.

4. Pay-Per-Sale

For this type of affiliate program, the affiliate is only paid when a sale is closed. This is the most cost-effective and profitable type of affiliate program and is the one that I recommend for reasons as delineated below.

Benefits of Affiliate Program

1. Increased Brand Awareness

An affiliate program will increase your brand awareness. Building your brand requires mass exposure, and as such, an affiliate program is ideal because of your network of affiliates. As your name, logo, and products are being promoted by your affiliates all over the internet, it inevitably increases your mindshare and brand awareness.

Amazon.com is a good example. It builds its brand identity initially via its affiliate program. Amazon.com is able to do so because of its vast network of affiliates. Its ten of thousands of affiliates is more than willing to promote its products because it benefits them as well in terms of the perceived credibility by associating with and promoting Amazon.com’s products.

2. Higher Search Engine Ranking

Search engines place great importance on the quality as well as the number of websites that link to you in determining your website ranking. A well designed affiliate program will dramatically increase your search engine link popularity because of the number of affiliates who link to you. This in turn will boost your ranking resulting in more traffic to your website.

In addition, with greater visibility in the search engines, both organic and paid listings, your brand identity will be further enhanced.

3. Extremely Low Advertising Costs and Risk

Your advertising costs is limited to what you pay to your affiliates when a sale is closed. Your affiliates literally do all the marketing and bear all the costs of advertising. Even when they spend money on advertising promoting your products and not making any sale, it doesn’t costs you a dime because they’re only paid on performance, that is, only when a sale is closed.

Therefore, it naturally follows that your risk is also extremely low. Your risks is only limited to the cost of your affiliate software and your time.

4. Increased Leads and Sales

An afffiliate program can literally grow your leads and sales exponentially. This is especially so with a 2-tier affiliate program when affiliates begin to recruit sub-affiliates. The increase in the volume of visitors to your website will give your website conversions a further boost. That means sales, with next to no effort on your part. Sales you might never have made without your affiliates referring them to you.

Furthermore, you can profit from these customers by selling to them over and over again with back-end sales. You’ve indeed gained additional customers for life, not forgetting that your affiliates themselves are also your potential customers.

As you can see, an in-house managed, two-tier affiliate program is undeniably one of the most cost-effective and profitable traffic generation tactic for both big and small businesses.

Think about this…

… You simply can’t lose because you don’t invest much money up front except for your time and the cost of the affiliate software which in most cases is rather low, and which you can easily make it back within a very short period of time.

Instituting an affiliate program is definitely one of the most powerful ways of marketing online, and is undoubtedly also a win-win relationship for the merchant and its affiliates.

About the Author

Copyright 2005 by Larry Lim, MarketingSphere.com

Larry Lim, a Singaporean, is the Founder of MarketingSphere.

A marketing strategist, Larry dishes out highly effective marketing strategies, tactics and tips that will enable you to start and grow your business on the Internet.

To read more of Larry Lim’s articles, visit his Internet Marketing Strategy and Article Search Engine Directory websites.

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You can create more traffic for you and your business without spending
any additional money on marketing. With guerilla marketing, it is more
about out-smarting the competition than it is about out-spending the
competition. Boundless opportunities and countless positive effects on
your business await you when you take advantage of the guerilla-
marketing concept.

Guerilla Marketing is defined as unconventional marketing designed for
low budgets and maximum impact. Guerilla marketing gets you and your
company in front of future customers in the places that they frequent.
Customers today are bombarded with traditional advertising and have
become resistant and unaffected by it. Meaning: it is time to change the
way you market.

Guerilla marketing works when complimentary businesses agree to
come together and take a cooperative approach to marketing their
businesses. There are synergies between companies who serve a
similar customer base. Identifying these synergies and getting to know
one another’s business are the first steps towards creating a lasting
guerilla marketing relationship.

The possibilities are as vast as your imagination. Here are four guerilla-
marketing techniques that you can use to generate more traffic next
week:

1. Thank-You Take-A-Way Packets

A thank-you take-a-way packet enhances your sale, helps validate the
customer’s purchase, and provides a valuable service to your customers
while simultaneously thanks them for being your customer.

The key to the take-a-way packet is to have something that is high
quality and feels like a thank-you gift. It should, by no means, represent
a selling piece.

The thank-you take-a-way packet will vary depending on your type of
business. For a high-end retail location we suggest using a small folder
about the size of a half sheet of paper. On the outside of the folder
should be an effective and professional design with the words “Thank
You.” Inside the folder should contain all the relevant paperwork
associated with their purchase as well as all necessary information to
make sure that their after purchase experience is pleasant and well
informed. This information should go on one side of the folder only.

The other side of the folder is where you will put your pieces of value.
Pieces of value can include anything that your customer will enjoy
receiving. Successful examples include, a free appetizer at a local
restaurant, free dry cleaning, a small book on a topic relevant to their
purchase, or a small ad-specialty item from a complimentary business.
The pieces of value will differ depending on the type of business that
you are in. Use your imagination and have fun with it.

These thank-you packets work because every company that is
represented in your packet will reciprocate by including your piece of
value in their packet. Therefore, you are quadrupling your exposure to
customers from complimentary businesses in exchange for giving your
customers something that they perceive as a gift.

2. Website Co-Branding

When you have a strong guerilla partner network, you can use a similar
approach with your website. The group of businesses can link their
websites together in a way that ‘provides value first’. Providing value
first means that the link needs to be positioned in a way that is more
than an advertisement.

A good cooperative link on a website is more than just an
advertisement. It must be something that would interest a customer.
Examples include interesting tips, suggestions, or examples of how the
customer can enhance their experience. For example, having an
interior designer and a realtor provide design tips could add value and
augment the experience of buying a new home.

3. Lunch and Learns

Whether you are a financial planner, a realtor, or a fitness expert, you
have valuable information that people would love to hear about. When
you provide value first and you provide value without expectation of
something in return, a return is exactly what you will get.

Office buildings love food — especially free food. The lunch-and-learn
program is a guerilla marketing strategy that has been proven
successful. The lunch and learn program is an educational lunch
program for an office that would be sponsored by you or your company.
The office personnel would gather and eat lunch while listening to your
talk on something both valuable and interesting. Do not try to sell them
anything; this should be treated as an opportunity to share valuable
information that they can use.

The best contact to set up these lunches is the office manager. Most
times the office will provide the lunch and you will provide the talk. If
they do not provide lunch, you will be able to negotiate for a local
restaurant to provide the lunch for free in exchange for some signage on
the lunch table and their information in your packet that will accompany
your presentation.

Topics will naturally vary depending on your profession. If you are a
financial planner you can give a talk on “10 things you can do now to
guarantee financial security,” “investing tips for the non-investor,” or
anything else that is both creative and interesting. After the mini
seminar, ask “If anyone would like to hear more about (topic), just drop
your business card in the basket at the front.” You can also have a mini-
book prepared on the subject and offer to send it free to anyone who is
interested. You will leave with an established reputation in the field as
well as a small stack of qualified leads with whom you have already
established rapport and credibility.

4. Be A Guest Columnist In A Newsletter

There are networking organization newsletters, non-profit newsletters,
and internal company newsletters. These newsletters are always
looking for guest columnists that will provide a relevant and an
interesting article.

This technique is similar to the concept of the lunch and learns. Seek
out these newsletters and offer to write a column. When they run your
column, you will provide valuable and interesting information. By doing
so you will be getting your name out into the community as an expert in
your field. By having a brief bio at the end of the column, the readers
who have an interest will have the information necessary to contact you
for further information. You may even direct them to your website to
download a small mini-book on the topic where you will capture their
information for proper follow up.

The different types of guerilla marketing are endless and are only limited
by your imagination and willingness to get out in front of people. Guerilla
Marketing is incredibly effective because the rapport that the partner
business has already established with their customer is transferred to
you and your company. When you successfully implement guerilla
marketing into your marketing plan, then your cost per lead will be
significantly reduced while the quality of your traffic will dramatically
increase.

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Manual traffic exchanges are a dime a dozen, or are they? I have met some people who say traffic exchanges really work, and some who feel that they are a waste of time. There is a science to using manual traffic exchanges, you need to do your homework.

There are many manual traffic exchanges that depend on bells and whistles to attract members, they have games to play, bonus credits for answering questions while surfing, (some of the questions are to discourage cheating and failure to answer them correctly can result in the suspension of you account). But first you need to know your target audience, most people who use traffic exchanges (manual and auto) are not looking to join your program or buy your product, they are looking for the same thing you are. How to get more traffic to my web page, they are looking for information. Information is what sells on traffic exchanges, information on how to get more traffic to their web pages.

So how does this help you if you are not selling information? The answer is splash pages. Use splash pages to collect leads, then develop a personel relationship with them and introduce them to your product or service.
Next you need to find the best traffic exchanges for you. Different people have success with different traffic exchanges even when they promote the same page. Why, this depends on a number of things. What time you surf, how often you surf etc.

So join a few traffic exchanges to surf, you will need a tabbed browser such as Firefox or Crazy Browser. Firefox is highly recommended because of the extra virus protection it provides, but some have had issues with it so if Firefox won’t work for you try Crazy Browser.

Set your traffic exchanges up in groups according to their timer, timers run
anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds. The closer the timers the smoother your surfing will be. Try to surf no more than 5-8 traffic exchanges at a time 10 at the most and keep a look out for the same pages, many pages have the members name or even a photo on them. If you see the same page over and over one of two things are happening, one the member has put his/her page in the exchange more than once which is encouraged by some traffic exchanges or most likely you really are seeing the same page over and over.

In this case you don’t want to waste your hard earned credits in this
traffic exchange. If in doubt see if the traffic exchange has a built-in hit ratio, this tells you what percentage your page(s) is being viewed by unique members each day. Some owners only care about the quanity of clicks and not the quaility of those clicks.

Set a certain time to surf, twice a day if possible and the amount of time you can alot to surfing each day. Surf each exchange about an hour each day, for instance if you have three hours to surf each day divide your traffic exchanges into three groups. Whatever time you can alot to surfing divide it up evenly.

You also have to track your pages to see which ones are working and which ones you need to change. If a page works in some exchanges and not in others, simply change the ones that are not working or remove them from the traffic echange that is isn’t working in, always have an extra splash page ready to try in your traffic exchanges. And remember that the bigger the
exchange the more people see your page, but that don’t always mean that it is the best exchange, I have got more signups from some of the smaller exchanges than the biggest ones.

So if you want more bang for your click, don’t settle for bells and whistles, do your “Due Diligence” and select the best traffic exchange to suit your needs.

Gary Brown has been using traffic exchanges tp promote his online business for over a year, and has learned from some of the best their is in the industry. These are some of his favorite traffic exchanges:

10khits4unow
RealHitz
Traffic Swarm

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