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Website Conversion Tactics Website Conversion Tactics

Designing a website for conversion is something that every business owner cares about, if they are savvy and have a solid business goal for their sites.  Top gun internet marketers sell memberships and consulting services to people who want to get income online.  It is a good idea to have a mentor when you are starting out, for sure, but I wonder... 

Zoom in on Zettabytes Zoom in on Zettabytes

 Most of us don’t think twice about what is involved in maintaining the platforms the Social Networking and Social Bookmarking potpourri of sites that we use each day in our online businesses.  These days, the focus is mostly on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  Other useful sites are LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Flickr, MySpace, and Last.fm … to name... 

Most Memorable Mother Most Memorable Mother

It’s Mother’s Day in the United States.  This is a holiday reserved for the women who gave us our lives and, if you are as fortunate as me, the person who believed in us so much that we knew we could never fail.  Today, I will tell you some of the most memorable stories that I have about a remarkable woman who was my mother, my mentor, and my... 

Creativity in Business Creativity in Business

Normally, we associate creativity with artists who apply their craft in written communications, visual arts, or music.  But, if we strictly define creativity as artistic talent, we fail to appreciate how it is involved in the apparently mundane aspects of our lives.  That is really a shame, for nothing of life is truly mundane.  An acceptable definition... 

Should You Fire Your Client? Should You Fire Your Client?

When you decide to work with a client, your business relationship has potential to develop into a friendship.  This can be very rewarding, as long as the boundaries between friendship and business are established and maintained.  Very few people understand how awkward it can be when questions they are asking begin to encroach on the time you had set... 

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How to Market and Brand Your Business

Good Website Design and Search Engine Optimization are not Mutually Exclusive Good Website Design and Search Engine Optimization are not Mutually Exclusive

I’ve just completed a project where the desires of the graphic designer took precedence over search engine visibility and site performance.  I had only heard about these sorts of debates before and had never been involved in one. The designer admitted they cared more about look and feel of the site than they did about its features and functions. ... 

Brand Revitalization Brand Revitalization

The importance of creating a brand that sticks in the minds of your target market is obvious to people in stable businesses.  When the market paradigm shifts or a part of a product line is discontinued, it has potential to kill the brand.  Campaigns to create and obtain market share for a new brand can be very expensive so leveraging the investment... 

SEO and Watching Paint Dry SEO and Watching Paint Dry

We joke about watching paint dry when time seems to move too slowly but, believe it or not, this is an actual role for which people are paid.  Duties include touching the painted item to ensure that it is dry.  What does this have to do with businss and online income?  Read on…  Many people put up pretty websites and expect immediate results. ... 

Facebook Taking Heat Over Privacy Policy Changes Facebook Taking Heat Over Privacy Policy Changes

Social networking is a great way to connect with prospects and friends.  Over the past few months, there have been a lot of internet marketers advising that Facebook is a better advertising spot than Google.  When you must advertise, it is good to have choices where your ads will be targeted but has Facebook gone too far to serve up data for their... 

Increase your Twitter followers by eleventy-billion in seconds Increase your Twitter followers by eleventy-billion in seconds

I didn’t create the page that I’m writing about today but I’ve been wanting to do someting similar for more than two years!  Because my site is G-Rated, I can’t put a link to it but if you don’t mind a little free expression, colorful language, and want a good laugh, I encourage you to search for the site using the title of this... 

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How to Make Money Online

Good Website Design and Search Engine Optimization are not Mutually Exclusive Good Website Design and Search Engine Optimization are not Mutually Exclusive

I’ve just completed a project where the desires of the graphic designer took precedence over search engine visibility and site performance.  I had only heard about these sorts of debates before and had never been involved in one. The designer admitted they cared more about look and feel of the site than they did about its features and functions. ... 

Brand Revitalization Brand Revitalization

The importance of creating a brand that sticks in the minds of your target market is obvious to people in stable businesses.  When the market paradigm shifts or a part of a product line is discontinued, it has potential to kill the brand.  Campaigns to create and obtain market share for a new brand can be very expensive so leveraging the investment... 

Website Conversion Tactics Website Conversion Tactics

Designing a website for conversion is something that every business owner cares about, if they are savvy and have a solid business goal for their sites.  Top gun internet marketers sell memberships and consulting services to people who want to get income online.  It is a good idea to have a mentor when you are starting out, for sure, but I wonder... 

SEO and Watching Paint Dry SEO and Watching Paint Dry

We joke about watching paint dry when time seems to move too slowly but, believe it or not, this is an actual role for which people are paid.  Duties include touching the painted item to ensure that it is dry.  What does this have to do with businss and online income?  Read on…  Many people put up pretty websites and expect immediate results. ... 

Zoom in on Zettabytes Zoom in on Zettabytes

 Most of us don’t think twice about what is involved in maintaining the platforms the Social Networking and Social Bookmarking potpourri of sites that we use each day in our online businesses.  These days, the focus is mostly on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.  Other useful sites are LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Flickr, MySpace, and Last.fm … to name... 

Creativity in Business Creativity in Business

Normally, we associate creativity with artists who apply their craft in written communications, visual arts, or music.  But, if we strictly define creativity as artistic talent, we fail to appreciate how it is involved in the apparently mundane aspects of our lives.  That is really a shame, for nothing of life is truly mundane.  An acceptable definition... 

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Five Rules To Live By When Hiring A Writer Five Rules To Live By When Hiring A Writer

This is a guest post from Anne Wayman, who is a freelance writer, ghostwriter and blogs about writing at aboutfreelancewriting.com, a blog for freelance writers. She’s also taken all three of Yaro’s programs, Blog Mastermind, Membership Site Mastermind and Become A Blogger Premium (yay Anne!) So You Want To Hire A Writer? Until you’ve actually... 

Living The 2-Hour Workday: How To Create Event Independent Income Streams Living The 2-Hour Workday: How To Create Event Independent Income Streams

In the previous article on living the 2-hour workday I introduced the concept of travel buffers, cash created either through saving or selling assets that is designed to give you a buffer of capital you can comfortably spend if you need to while you travel. Travel buffers are mostly for piece of mind so you can relax while you travel or use in case... 

The problem with positive thinking The problem with positive thinking

All the evidence I’ve seen shows that positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything. Give someone an easy math problem, watch them get it right and then they’ll do better on the ensuing standardized test than someone who just failed a difficult practice test. No, positive thinking doesn’t allow you to do anything,... 

Andrew Warner Reveals How He Created A $30 Million Dollar Internet Business Andrew Warner Reveals How He Created A $30 Million Dollar Internet Business

Click here to download the audio-only MP3 [ 64 MB ] Andrew Warner is passionate about entrepreneurship and loves talking with his fellow entrepreneurs. He came to my attention when he recently interviewed Gideon Shalwick on his current blog, Mixergy, which features tons of great video interviews with leading entrepreneurs. Andrew has a great story... 

Organizing customers Organizing customers

The local youth theatre troupe recently put on a performance of Grease. It was a high-spirited outing, with terrific performances and it was a great way for them to spend a month or two over the summer. I was amazed to discover, though, that the budget for the rights to the play were $3,000. That’s pretty steep for a high school production of... 

Enormity Enormity

Enormity doesn’t mean really enormous. It means incredibly horrible. The problem with enormity in marketing is that it doesn’t work. Enormity should pull at our heartstrings, but it usually shuts us down. Show us too many sick kids, unfair imprisonments or burned bodies and you won’t get a bigger donation, you’ll just get averted... 

Magic beans, TV and the web Magic beans, TV and the web

New media isn’t the perfect marketing medium, and it won’t be until we find the magic beans. TV had magic beans for forty years. For forty years, anyone, even a complete moron, could make a lot of money using TV ads. Buy enough ads, don’t screw up, you’re rich. The hard part was buying enough ads, but once you did that, victory... 

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