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[2002-05-31] Overcoming Obstacles On Your Path To Success
Every great athlete, businessperson, or great individual had to stretch and reach for his or her goals. They know that obstacles are a part of the goal achievement process and so they focus on succeeding rather than on what may be keeping them from succeeding. It means overcoming hardships and setbacks, rather than giving up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. To do this you have got to be willing to take some calculated risks and be prepared to fall down from time to time.
[2002-05-29] Tips for Writing a Business Proposal
Business in the nineties means fierce competition, aggressive marketing and strategic alliances. The extent to which a business succeeds or fails often depends upon that business's ability to be awarded contracts or to attract other businesses into Joint Ventures or strategic alliances. To accomplish either one usually requires two key items: good ideas and the ability to present those good ideas in a superbly developed business proposal.
[2002-05-28] How to Improve Your Sales Copy to Get More Sales
A few small changes in your sales copy can produce a big increase the number of sales you get from your web pages and sales letters. Here are 12 simple things you can do to improve the effectiveness of your sales copy -- and increase your sales.
[2002-05-27] Power Your Profits With Price And Perception
People don't always buy based on the lowest price, but they do like to feel they're getting a good deal. If your aim is to give your customers value for their money... then your asking PRICE should represent the VALUE customers place on your product or service. If the price asked for doesn't feel right, in relation to the value delivered, customers are not going to buy.
[2002-05-23] Grabbing The Attention Of Your Target Market!
Whether through a simple introduction to a potential client or as a detailed promotional letter, e-mail is one of the fastest and best ways of grabbing the attention of your target market, if it's done responsibly. Sending unsolicited e-mail is not a good idea and usually brings with it unpleasant consequences. It is suggested that you do whatever you can to bring attention to your business by way of your web site, search engine placement, writing articles, publishing e-zines, sending out press releases and making offers at your site that encourage inquiries. The important point is to do whatever you can to build your own e-mail lists, which you can begin by promoting an e-zine, offering e-mail newsletters or writing an e-book.
[2002-05-23] 22 Ways To Increase The Pulling Power of Your Ads
If you're re-building an engine, doing your taxes or baking a cake, you follow a set process and everything happens in a certain order. It's the same with advertising.
[2002-05-23] An Almost Foolproof Way Of Increasing Your CONVERSIONS By Up to 800%
Statistics show that 80% of people purchase after the 5th contact yet 90% of sales people give up after the 2nd contact ... they're wasting thousands of dollars in sales opportunities.
[2002-05-21] Keep Customers Close And Competition Even Closer!
It's no secret that you should keep your customers close. But, you may not have heard that you should keep your competition even closer. You may have heard you should legally spy on your competition, but that's different than keeping them close.
[2002-05-21] How To Get Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of FREE Publicity
The first step to getting loads of free publicity for your business is to ask yourself - what's newsworthy?
What's newsworthy may depend on the particular media you are targeting. Metropolitan daily newspapers and television networks will be interested in a different type of news story to one that might interest a local radio station or suburban newspaper. Sometimes the same news story can be pitched differently to suit the different news organizations.
[2002-05-19] How to Generate Multiple Streams of Revenue from Your Online Business
The biggest mistake that people who run an online business make is to rely on only one product or service as their sole source of income.
[2002-05-18] Credit Cards Online - Where to Start?
Are you thinking of changing credit cards or looking for a new one? Where do you start to look when comparing credit cards? Let's talk about where we compare credit cards services and prices online.
[2002-05-18] The Dreaded "M" Word, and Why We Need to Do It
You offer a superior writing/editing service. You've written an awesome book. Your newsletter is arguably one of the best of its kind.
But if no one knows about it...if no one knows about *you*...
[2002-05-16] The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property
Three years ago I published a book of short stories in Israel. The publishing house belongs to Israel's leading (and exceedingly wealthy) newspaper. I signed a contract which stated that I am entitled to receive 8% of the income from the sales of the book after commissions payable to distributors, shops, etc. A few months later, I won the coveted Prize of the Ministry of Education (for short prose). The prize money (a few thousand DMs) was snatched by the publishing house on the legal grounds that all the money generated by the book belongs to them because they own the copyright.
[2002-05-16] How To Be Handsomely Rewarded in These Times of Astounding and Radical Change
Do you want to be rich? It sounds ridiculous. Of course you'd like to be rich, wouldn't everybody? But do you want to be really rich? Your words might say you do, but your thoughts and actions very often say something entirely different.
[2002-05-15] Selling Is Not A Dirty Word
Selling--a word that strikes terror in writers and professionals. We love to write. We love to coach. We love to speak. We hate to SELL. Maybe that's because we have the used car salesman or the vacuum sales person in mind. They annoyed us because they didn't listen, they pushed, and we felt attacked. We defended our position, and that's what we think others do when we share our talents.
[2002-05-15] Keyword killer Tips
Though there may be more than a thousand ways to generate traffic to your website, keywords are extremely critical to blasting your website into the limelight. Stats prove that almost 90% of targeted ready to buy traffic comes through search engines. So here are a few more killer tips that will have a dramatic impact on your e-business:
[2002-05-15] A Silly Question Worth Serious Thought - Do You Want To Be Rich?
That sounds ridiculous. Of course you'd like to be rich, wouldn't everybody? But do you really?
[2002-05-14] The Secret Of Illusional Marketing
You need two special ingredients to make this marketing strategy work successfully. You will need a product that your target audience will perceive as being extremely valuable and something that you can afford to giveaway.
[2002-05-14] Your Own Ezine? The Pros and Cons
No doubt about it--having one's own ezine is an excellent promotional tool. Whether you sell goods or services, publishing an ezine is perhaps one of the very best online ways to develop and maintain a potential, targeted customer base.
[2002-05-14] How To Market Your Business With Email
Email marketing has become a favored method of reaching consumers among U.S. businesses. In a survey by the Direct Marketing Association, two-thirds of companies say their sales increased in 2001 because of email marketing, and sixty-three percent credit email as the most effective way to retain customers.
[2002-05-13] Try it, You Might Like it.
Most of you know that although I am certified under Microsoft products, I am an advocate of Linux. Linux and the BSDs (that sounds like a bad rock band-- and here they are for your listening pleasure, Linux and the BSDs...) are consistently gaining ground in areas that have been dominated by proprietary operating systems. It is for this reason that I would like to make a suggestion. If you have no experience with Linux and/or BSD and you are serious about IT, now is the time to get some exposure to these alternative operating systems (OS).
[2002-05-13] E(merging) Books
A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging.
[2002-05-12] Quitting Your Job for a Home Based Business
Many of us who start a home business do so while we're still working another job. Our jobs provide us with money for living expenses - and, if we're lucky, for funding at least a portion of our business startup costs.
[2002-05-10] Marketing: A Battle Of Products Or A Battle Of Perceptions?
Marketing is not a battle of products; it's a battle of perceptions. It doesn't matter if you have best product or service; it's what people think that counts. That is not to say that you shouldn't have a good product or service - it is a prerequisite of doing business these days. Customers expect it.
[2002-05-10] When Clients Don't Pay, Pay Late...and Other Anomalies of Freelancing
It's something that freelance writers don't like to talk about or hear about, but it happens more often than we like to admit.
[2002-05-10] 50 Benefits Of Joint Venture Marketing!
What Is A Joint Venture?
A joint venture is an agreement in which two or more businesses work on a project for a set period of time. Joint ventures can be long-term, like promoting a product together, or some can be short-term, like bartering (trading) products and services. Joint venture ideas are virtually endless.
[2002-05-10] Market Your Book Through A Feature Story
Do you send out press releases? Have they brought you financial rewards?
If not, you may want to rethink how to write a good one--one that gets noticed, published, and most important, gets a feature story. If editors notice and love your press release, they will want to interview you for a feature story. A feature gets a lot more attention than a news release.
[2002-05-10] Ten Tips for Building an E-commerce Web Site
Want to sell your goods directly from your site? Here's 10 tips:
[2002-05-09] 7 Questions To Test The Loyalty Of A Real Estate Agent
Buying or selling a home can be especially difficult when dealing with an incompetent or disloyal real estate agent. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not out to knock realtors.
[2002-05-08] What Are You Afraid Of?
Have you ever wondered just what you are afraid of? What stops you from taking the next step forward that will keep you on the path of achieving your goals?
[2002-05-07] 3 Steps To Success!
Over the years I have visited numerous web sites, probably thousands upon thousands, and I am still amazed that people are not implementing the simplest of all marketing steps.
[2002-05-07] Internet Marketing in the Future
What is in store for the internet marketer of tomorrow? Will the increasing popularity of the internet benefit or hinder your efforts? How do I as a marketer take advantage of this popularity explosion? These are a few of the questions being asked by today's marketers.
[2002-05-06] I Want To Be...Somebody New
How You Think...Determines How You Act How you act....determines how others React to you.
[2002-05-06] The Truth About Online Content: It's Time for Writers to Take Back the Web!
Google.com, one of the web's hottest search engines, has indexed several billion of web pages to date*. The World Wide Web is officially gigantic, with hundreds of thousands of corporate, small business, and ecommerce websites vying for something more than just the "eyeballs" that web analysts hailed in the 1990's. In order to create success, websites are now searching for a steady, interactive audience. Why aren't they succeeding? Could it STILL have something to do with the content?
[2002-05-06] Web Writing's Evolution: The Web Content Market for Writers
When It All Began: The First Web Writings
While there weren't many online writers in the formative years of the web, if you were around then, you know what it was like.
[2002-05-06] Online Writing and Beyond: Writers Will Lead the Content Revolution
Introduction
It is often thrown around loosely on the web that "Content is king."
If content is king, then what is a content writer?
[2002-05-06] Freelance Writers: How to Partner with Your Competition
Freelance writing is an unstable occupation sometimes. We already have to struggle with dividing our time between marketing our skills, writing queries, and seeking out new clientele. Sometimes there's not enough time; sometimes there's not enough money.
[2002-05-05] Becoming an Online Word Compactor
Writing for online publication differs from writing for print. One difference is length; online pieces tend to be less than 1,000 words in length. Long text passages are difficult to read on-screen, so the key to writing successfully online is to become a "word compactor".
[2002-05-05] 10 Ways To Generate Astronomical Profits!
1. Sell a few back end products that are not related to your main product but are needed by all humans. Every customer that buys from you is human.
[2002-05-05] Can Your eBook Idea Survive The '5W' Acid Test?
If you've been cruising the Internet highway for any length of time, you've run across tons of ebooks. They've almost risen to mythical proportions as "the" vehicle for producing unlimited profits. Even with this flooding of the market, the door's still open IF you develop an ebook that's highly targeted, serves a 'want' and delivers quality content.
[2002-05-04] Self-Editing Your Writing
Much of what I do at my "day job" involves editing what others have written. Eliminating typos, repairing damaged grammar, replacing missing or misused punctuation--I relish editing, in a roll-up-my- shirtsleeves and rub-my-hands-together sort of way.
[2002-05-04] 10 Ways To Lose A Sale!
1. You don't make people feel safe when they order. Remind people that they are ordering through a secure server. Tell them you won't sell their e-mail address and all their information will be kept confidential.
[2002-05-03] The Most Powerful Marketing Method Ever Invented
I want to talk about one of the quickest and smartest ways I know of to make money both on and off the net. It is called Joint Venture Marketing. Some of you may already have experience with this marketing method while to others it may be completely foreign.
[2002-05-02] Get Serious.....Cuz It's Your Life!
I have highly recommended to the readers of my Prosperity e-zine that they subscribe to Frank Garon's newsletter in the past.
[2002-05-02] Use Tell-A-Friend To Increase Online Sales
One of the most successful ways of marketing in offline businesses is word-of-mouth advertising. Customers tell their friends about a business and up go the sales. There are no direct costs involved.
[2002-05-02] YOU are in control! YOU are responsible!
Do you ever think to yourself, "I can't do that?" Most likely, it is your present beliefs that may be causing you to doubt your own abilities. After all, the only thing that can ever stop you from doing or getting anything is a thought.
[2002-05-01] Health Insurance for the Self-Employed
"I've been considering quitting my full-time job and getting a part-time job that would pay the bills [so I can start a home business] ... The one biggie my full-time job provides me now is health insurance. If I was to get a part-time job, I'd probably have to pay for my own health insurance and I know that can be expensive."
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