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Pricing Your Products and Services for Ultimate Growth
March 30, 2007 - by Michael Fleischner - One of the most challenging things you can do as a marketing professional, entrepreneur, or business owner is to price your products appropriately. Often times, individuals have no real strategy for pricing products or understand the perceived value that pricing can create.
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How Can I Market With Articles If I Can't Write?
March 29, 2007 - by Bonnie Jo Davis - The shrewdest and most effective means of free advertising is through providing interesting and relevant information to your potential customers. You can do this easily by writing and distributing free reprint articles at various web sites around the 'net.
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Creating and Developing An Ezine - Steps to Consider, Strategies to Use
March 29, 2007 - by Theresa V. Wilson - You’ve investigated several Ezines and have even contributed quality articles. You want to start an e-zine of your own. Before you begin, let’s review how to “write your vision and make it plain”.
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Autoresponder – A Major Consideration in Building a List
March 29, 2007 - by John V. W. Howe - One of the first considerations in building a mailing list should be “how am I going to handle all those names that I will have in my list”. An autoresponder is the answer to this “nice to have” problem.
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Website Statistics for Site Analysis
March 29, 2007 - by Christine Anderssen - A couple of years ago it was very fashionable to have a 'Hit Counter' on your website. It supposedly showed the whole world how many 'hits' you've received to date. As with all trendy fashions, the Hit Counter as we knew it has seen its day. Today you run the risk of being labelled a newbie, or a hobby website owner if you have a hit counter on your website.
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From Motivation to Motive-Action
March 29, 2007 - by Denis Waitley - To be a player in the 21st Century you have to be willing to give more in service than you receive in payment. These are the new rules in the game of life. These are the actions you must take to be a leader and a winner in your personal and professional life. By mastering these profoundly simple action steps, you will be positioned to be a change master in the new century.
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Affiliate Marketing and the Ninety Five Percent
March 28, 2007 - by Daryl Campbell - Ninety five percent of all affiliate marketers do not make any money. Why? Because affiliate marketing is more than sending visitors to your main affiliate sign up page. It requires a lot of work to promote your services and/or products.
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Websites, Graphics and Thumbnails
March 28, 2007 - by Vickie J Scanlon - When constructing a website, everyone likes to see and use graphics. But images also bring slow load times. So how can you use images to not only bring aesthetic quality to your site, but also to enhance it for those who venture onto your site?
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How Podcasters Make Money
March 28, 2007 - by Sharon Housley - Podcasts started out as fun ways for ambitious garage DJs, independent musicians and talk show hosts, who had not ventured into radio broadcasting as a way to show their stuff and make a name for themselves. What started as a hobby for many, has turned into a lucrative profession for some.
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Tap Customer Referrals, The Hidden Gold Mine
March 27, 2007 - by Jim Degerstrom - This simple yet effective technique can boost your sales with very little effort. Learn what many small business owners have overlooked and how this easy referral system can help promote your business.
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Getting Support at Home For Your Home Based Business
March 27, 2007 - by Audrey Okaneko - I’ve been working at home well over 20 years now and I almost never meet a woman who is able to build and then maintain a home business with an unsupportive spouse.
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13 Tips to Maintaining and Growing a Feed Subscriber Base
March 27, 2007 - by Sharon Housley - You have an RSS feed and you have worked hard to get the word out. According to your logs you have subscribers! Now the hard part: how to retain the subscribers to your RSS feed. Follow these simple steps to insure that your subscriber base will grow.
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Why You Need to Visit WhoIs
March 23, 2007 - by Jim Degerstrom - Recent case studies of 5 small business owners who had their web sites disappear from the internet may be the subject of an upcoming eBook. The situation happens more frequently than some people realize, so the following advice is being released now. Free domain registration information is easily retrieved and should be reviewed by any site owner who is unfamiliar with the term "WhoIs".
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Business Advertising Ideas: Fax Machine Marketing
March 23, 2007 - by Writing From Home - With the wide spread dislike of telemarketers, many home-based and small business owners are hesitant about using their own phone for advertising. However, there is another powerful marketing tool they tend to overlook, their fax machine.
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13 Tips to Maintaing Feed Subscribers
March 21, 2007 - by Sharon Housley - You have an RSS feed and you have worked hard to get the word out. According to your logs you have subscribers! Now the hard part: how to retain the subscribers to your RSS feed. Follow these simple steps to insure that your subscriber base will grow.
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Stop Justifying Your Price and Start Touting Your Benefits
March 21, 2007 - by Yvonne Weld - Many business owners fall into the trap of justifying their price over and over. You need to stop doing that right now. When someone hesitates to sign on the dotted line or to purchase your product, do you look at that as a lost opportunity or a gained opportunity?
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Buying and Selling Tips for Ebay
March 21, 2007 - by Art Luff - A potential Ebay seller only needs a few simple things to put an item up for sale. If you're thinking about putting an item or items up for sale on Ebay or any other auction site here are several things you'll want to consider before you do.
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Want Website Traffic? Start A Free Blog!
March 20, 2007 - by Tammy Embrich - Blogging has become increasingly popular in the past couple of years. There are more and more blogs created everyday on a vast array of topics. Both personal and business.
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Marketing: What Works Best?
March 20, 2007 - by Dale King - Should you use a long headline or a short headline in your marketing materials? Which one really works best? Well, there are solid arguments for using both.
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Small Business and Branding: Why and How?
March 15, 2007 - by Ray Smith - When we speak of branding most of the time people try to relate it to big business house, however, the fact is that every business needs to establish their brand in order to survive the competition.
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What is Twitter?
March 15, 2007 - by Dale King - In case you haven't heard, there's a "red hot" new messaging service sweeping the planet called Twitter. What's Twitter?
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Work At Home Mom: Get The Right Attitude
March 15, 2007 - by Sara Mahen - The struggle it can be to be a WAHM.
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Ethical Considerations in Business
March 14, 2007 - by Frank C. Bucaro - Are you an ethical business person??
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Motivational Speaker--Ten Tips to Hire the Perfect Speaker for Your Next Event
March 13, 2007 - by Barbara Bartlein - You have the dates scheduled, the conference center reserved, and the agenda outlined; but now you need to book the speakers to make the event a success.
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Are You A Commodity?
March 13, 2007 - by Tessa Stowe - Do you find yourself competing on price? Do you often talk to a prospect, think you have made the sale and then they decide to shop around and buy based on price?
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How To Succeed With A Newsletter (err, e-zine)
March 12, 2007 - by Alyice Edrich - Owning a website is only half the battle when it comes to online marketing and advertising. Visitors need to see your services and/or products a minimum of seven times before they'll even consider purchasing your time, services, or products. But how do you keep visitors coming back to your website?
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How to Write Articles That Will Increase Traffic to Your Website
March 09, 2007 - by Donna Gunter - How can you write article that increase traffic to your website? Here are 10 strategies I am successfully using.
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Is Your Shopping Cart Software Easy To Use
March 09, 2007 - by Michael Moshkovich - Customers leave shopping carts before completing the purchase for a number of reasons. You yourself may have done that. Here are a few reasons that having a shopping cart that is easy to use can make or break the sale.
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Run Profitable Contests Using Autoresponders
March 08, 2007 - by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ -Running a contest for your e-zine subscribers or web site visitors is one way you can generate interest and give more exposure for products or services you want to promote.
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Design Your Own Newspaper Ads
March 07, 2007 - by Big Mike McDaniel - Many people in business lay-out (design) their own ads. That old adage "If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me" prevails. Do it yourself and you may get what you want.
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Achieving Your Goals Means Being Present in Your Current Reality
March 07, 2007 - by Gary De Rodriguez - The only reason you have not achieved your goals in the past is because somewhere along the way you lost your focus on them. Make this the year of your power and fulfillment where your heart opens, you contribute more, and you walk your road in a sacred way.
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Expired Domain Opportunities
March 06, 2007 - by Kevin Sinclair - What if you could recover existing web traffic that is currently being overlooked and basically being flushed down the drain?
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Podcasting Do's and Don'ts
March 06, 2007 - by Sharon Housley - Consider following these simple podcasting tips to get the most from your podcast and make it stand out from other podcasts in the crowd.
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Business/Product Publicity: Market To The Media First
March 02, 2007 - by Todd Brabender - As detailed as their marketing research might have been, very few business owners are as meticulous at determining their proper "media market" - that is, all those media outlets whose editorial profiles are a match to a product/business profile and would be appropriate for generating media exposure and publicity.
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10 Reasons Why Your Website is Leaking Money
March 01, 2007 - by Kristie Tamsevicius - If your visitor can't answer in about 5 seconds "What's in it for me," you've lost them. And with every lost visitor go lost profits. How can you be sure that your website isn't losing profits? Below are the top 10 reasons why your website is leaking money. See how your website measures up.
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Why Do Some Ebay Members Have Private Feedback?
March 01, 2007 - by Dan Thompson - The above reason for making feedback private seems reasonable enough, however how do you know the eBay member isn't making their feedback private for more sinister reasons?
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Taking Your Business to the Next Level – When is it Time to Move Out of Your Home?
March 01, 2007 - by Yvonne Weld - The best indicator you have a thriving business is that your home office is no longer the best alternative for your business.
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