Articles about Online Business
Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 1 of 2)
Online shopping continues to grow at leaps and bounds. Depending on who you ask, the numbers for increase in e-commerce have been consistently coming in at 20-30% year over year. These numbers pres...
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Pricing Your Products
In our scramble to find a way to offer the lowest prices on the Internet, we often overlook the basic steps that we should be taking BEFORE we even offer a product for sale. We also overlook somethin...
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The Ultimate Secret To Internet Success! (And It’s Not What You Think)
What I'm about to say may hurt your feelings, but it's time someone tells you the truth: If your website is not making money, it’s NOBODY'S FAULT BUT YOUR OWN! I'm warning you…this message is sharp a...
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10 Quick and Easy Steps To Building A HIGHLY Targeted And Responsive Opt-In List
We've all heard it that in order to stay in business online you need to build a Targeted 'Opt-In' list. Well... I truly have to agree with that simply because this is where you'll always have a consi...
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Evaluating Vendors of Ecommerce Fulfillment Services
Once your website has secured an order, you have to fulfill it. While the fulfillment of digital goods is usually handled online, the delivery of physical goods is handled in a "brick-and-mortar" wor...
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Make Your Child an Executive!
So you've decided to work from home, but you have one big problem....How do you juggle working from home and taking care of your child at the same time? At 16 months old my daughter is my executive...
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Internet Marketing Seminars: Prepare to Meet Your Mentor
During my early twenties, while stationed in the frigid northern Canadian town of Timmins, Ontario, I took a number of University of Waterloo correspondence courses, with the hope of earning my degre...
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New Google Adwords Policy Benefits Affiliates
Until recently, if you did a search on the term 'satellite dish' at Google, and then surveyed the URL's in the Adwords listings, you were bound to see that most of the ads linked to just one company....
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Internet Marketing: Going Nowhere Fast
How and why do you surf the 'Net? Do you turn on your computer, open your browser, then scratch your head and wonder, "Hmm? what I should look for today?" Hardly. I'll bet you dollars to donuts yo...
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What the Heck is RSS and How Will it Help Me?
RSS, RSS, RSS... you hear the constant chant, but who really knows what the heck RSS means? Although it originated in 1997, most folks still don't know how RSS works, and want to know 'What is RSS?'...
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How to Lose 14,000+ List Subscribers Overnight
I made a HUGE mistake with one of my subsciber lists just recently. You'd think after 6 successful years as an Internet marketer that I would know the formula by now. Here's the Tried-and-True Form...
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How I Boosted My Conversion Rate by 33% Overnight
Once upon a time, I used to work as an air traffic controller. As you might imagine, rapid technological advancement requires that controllers do a lot of reading to keep up with, and execute, proce...
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Color Me Blue
Chris, a new consulting client, asked me to help him increase sales on his affiliate marketing site. As he was describing his site and the problem, I thought, "This is going to be a quick fix." How...
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10 EXCELLENT Reasons to Start Your Own Discussion Forum
Riches, fame, glory ... OK, that's perhaps exaggerating somewhat, but running a successful forum can certainly make you very popular and bulk out the wallet considerably. Here are the ten best rea...
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Affiliates: 10 Ways to Improve Your Credibility and Conversions
Lack of consumer trust is still the biggest obstacle to online sales, and judging by the amount of spam and scams flying about in cyberspace, surfers are right to remain wary. Savvy online shoppers,...
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Affiliate Marketing is TOO Expensive
I received an email this week from a gentleman who asserted that affiliate marketing as a business simply wasn't for him. Why? Because it is too expensive! Huh? Too expensive? WHAT's too expensive...
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Do You Have a Wealthy Attitude?
Wealthy people are conniving, selfish, lazy monsters who will steal your last penny if you let them, or so that's what I was raised to believe. Fortunately, through my work and various associations,...
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OPT-in is NOT an OPTion
In the course of my Internet business consulting work, I am asked to review web sites and figure out why the sites aren't achieving sales. The webmasters of these sites have usually worked long and h...
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11 Ways to Quickly Build Your List
If you've been doing your homework, you know that your Internet business basically can't exist without a list of ezine subscribers. This is very much a case of 'the more, the merrier'. The more peop...
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Top 10 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer
Back when my online business consisted ONLY of affiliate sites, I had no need for a personal assistant. The sites were all in place, and my affiliated merchants handled everything related to orders....
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