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[2001-06-28] Add "wow!" to create a buzz!
Why is any site special?
Is it because the site is unique? Is it because the site loads the quickest, has the freshest content, is easiest to use, or contains the best resources? Is the site so useful or so much fun that people SIMPLY CANNOT stop talking about it?
[2001-06-27] 3 Steps To A Profitable Web Site!
1) CLEAN THE CLUTTER
Don't load your web site with too much high-tech clutter. Your visitors may miss your sales message. Sometimes flashing and blinking graphics can make you page load slow and annoy your prospects.
Also, test to make sure your web site looks good in all web browsers. Don't use fifty different content formats like fonts, texts sizes, text colors, etc. They could vary between browsers.
[2001-06-27] Ego-less Selling: The Greatest Advertising Secret Ever Revealed!
Recently I sat on a plane from Phoenix to Austin. I decided to kill some of the two hour flight by flipping through the online magazines and catalog. You've seen them. They are always stuffed in the pocket right before your knees. But what you may not have seen is that virtually all---yes, all---ads violate a secret advertising principle invented more than 100 years ago.
[2001-06-26] How I Made $68,000 Teaching E-Classes
One day I pulled up beside a truck delivering new cars. One of the cars on his flatbed made my heart leap and my blood dance. I had never had a piece of machinery turn me on before. This one did. I fell in love.
[2001-06-25] How to Get Loads of Free Stuff
There's nothing that'll make your day more than getting something for free. These days there's a large variety of ways to get free stuff. Freebies can range from free e-mail addresses to free t-shirts to free food. If you're having the freebie blues, here's a list of ways to find your freebie- of-the-day.
[2001-06-25] Anybody Wanna Buy From "Ol' Shifty Eyes"?
What makes you trust one person yet not another? I mean "really". Here's how I, a Newbie, see it.
What makes one person's "word" believable? Remember that saying, "A person's only as good as his word"? My Dad always said that when I was growing up, and my husband says it to our two sons.
[2001-06-21] The Anatomy of a Web Site Hosting Offer
Where do you go when you want to build a business website? You can pay a consulting firm to build the site, but you still need to place the code on a web server somewhere on the Internet so that people can reach it. Whether you are a small business owner or a division manager within a corporate environment, your choices for the location of that web server are limited. You can set up your own Internet-connected web server, but you have to manage all aspects of it from the operating system to the pipeline that connects it to the Internet.
[2001-06-21] Killer Secrets of Effective Advertising through Ezines
Everyone knows there's a world of information and services on the Internet. So what does that mean for your business? Are consumers who are looking for a particular product/service that you offer able to find your business? The answer might be a big "NO" for you. Just like us, you may have placed an advertisement in newspapers and magazines and the results were not as good as expected. Once we placed an advertisement in a magazine that claims to have over 1.5 million subscribers nationwide. We spent nearly a thousand dollars for the ad and only got a few responses. What went wrong? The answer is very simple! Our ad was buried among over two dozen other advertisements and was not targeted to the right audience. Now we are getting smarter, after having tried Ezine advertisements that have produced excellent results.
[2001-06-21] How I Got $750 for My Pinkie Toe
You never really pay much attention to your pinkie toe until you nearly have it ripped from your foot.
Let me explain...
[2001-06-21] A Revolutionary New Use for Email
Before I learned to do HTML coding by hand, I used NetObjects Fusion to help me build my sites. It's not perfect, but it is one of the better small biz site-building tools.
[2001-06-21] Thump, Thump... Opportunity Knocks
According to research firm Ipso-Reid, an estimated 400 hundred million people use the web daily <http://www.ipsos-reid.com>.
[2001-06-19] 17 Seconds to Book Promotion
1. Not withstanding, there is a huge amount of quality information on the Internet, much of it free, and also lots to exchange our energy in the form of dollars for someone else's energy in the form of product or service, on how to sell and market our books.
[2001-06-18] It's About Energy, Not *Free Vs Pay*
Many things prompt this topic. The main thread? *Money* The Internet is changing, of course many of us knew it would.
For weeks now the information and articles and discussion has been flowing on this topic.
[2001-06-17] Mama, I Ain't Spending Another Dime!
I remember the days when the Internet was new and companies were charging an average of $35 to run advertisers' banners on their web sites for 1,000 impressions.
[2001-06-14] The 3 Secrets of High Traffic Sites
It seems to be in vogue these days to downplay the importance of web traffic. It's popular (and perfectly valid) to say things like: "Traffic is worthless if you don't turn it into money."
[2001-06-14] How Do You Measeure Success?
When someone asks you if you are successful, how do you answer? How does one measure success?
[2001-06-14] Will Content Ever be Profitable?
THE CURRENT WORRIES
1. Content Suppliers
The Ethos of Free Content
[2001-06-13] Get Out From Under Debt Weight and Soar to Financial Security
Meg's finances were okay, but she wanted more than to just barely meet expenses. So she decided to start an Internet business.
She searched around, found a reliable company that she liked, products that she felt comfortable using and promoting.
[2001-06-11] The secret to leading a successful life , Is within all of us !
Let me begin by saying "that he who seeks shall find" A very true and old saying from the bible.
I came into the online sales environment from a past with no sales experience or organization skills,what so ever. What chance did i have off being successful ?
[2001-06-11] "WONDERFUL DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU," he sniffed coldly.
Nice words. Wrong tone.
Happens every business day. People get the words right but the tone's all wrong.
[2001-06-07] 3 Exceptional Selling Secrets!
1) TOO MANY CHOICES
Sell a few products on your web site instead of selling a large amount of products. Too many choices can overwhelm your visitors and they won't buy. Haven't you ever had too many choices and could not decide?
You can always insert a flyer into your product's package to sell your other products. It could direct your customers to a different web page where you sell the other half of your products.
[2001-06-04] The 9 to 5-Home Business Tug o' War
Perhaps the scarcest commodity the new home-business owner just starting out has is time. This is particularly so if you are also working a traditional, full-time job and building up your business "on the side" in your spare time.
[2001-06-04] 3 HIGH CALIBER REPEAT TRAFFIC TIPS!
1) MEMBERS REVISIT
Turn part of your web site into a members only web site. Instead of charging for access, allow people to join free. You could add member only information, message boards, e-zines, etc.
[2001-06-02] Building the Website of Your Dreams Not Your Nightmares
In 1999, when I set out to build my first website I knew very little about html and even less about planning websites. Like a lot of Newbies I just struggled along learning as I went. I also knew very little about running a home business on the net. It is quite different than running a bricks and mortar store in some ways. I had run several business but never an online one. This article comes out of my personal school of hard knocks.
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