14th July 2008
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Whether you're building a website or a blogsite, the investment in a designer can be fairly significant. It's at this point that many service business owners decide to cut costs and have their 16-year old nephew desig...
10th July 2008
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There's no doubt about it -- keeping up with your marketing tasks can be overwhelming, whether you choose to market via networking, print advertising, or through a strategic set of online techniques. As I have a virtu...
26th June 2008
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I started submitting press releases in the 80s when I was a college student to help promote one of the many activities I coordinated as the vice president of service for a national service fraternity to which I belonge...
20th June 2008
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If I were starting my business today and was evaluating my website options, I would pick a blogsite over a stand-alone blog or a traditional website. What's a blogsite? I like to think of this as a blog/website hybri...
11th June 2008
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"No, I'm not ready to release my....(fill in the blank here with ezine, ecourse, ebook, blog, website, etc.) because it's not quite ready. I need to...(fill in with your excuse here: do more work on it....have it edi...
23rd May 2008
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One of the things I often notice on websites is that I'm not sure where to go or what to do when I arrive. There are those websites that are simply online brochures that tell me all about the features of a product or ...
20th May 2008
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While iPods and other mp3 players have taken the world by storm, I'm still a visual girl. For me, that means I'd much rather read something than listen to it. If it's a video of a software or service demo, I might be...
11th May 2008
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Whether you're a chiropractor, an exterminator, a carpet cleaner, or a professional organizer, you've amassed a great deal of information in your field or industry. You have two primary targets to whom you can market ...
07th May 2008
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Sometimes it pays to be a "Jill of all trades" when you're a service business owner, but ultimately you probably discover that there are some things you like to do for clients better than others. Figuring out what you ...
29th April 2008
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Do you know the open rate for your email newsletter? The open rate is the percentage of people who actually open and read your newsletter. Most better email distribution programs can give you fairly detailed statisti...
18th April 2008
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I love to write once and repurpose the articles I write into as many marketing opportunities as a I can that will reach the greatest number of people. While podcasting has always intrigued me, I never wanted to take t...
11th April 2008
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The best decision you can make as an online business owner is to decide to get out of your own way and begin to delegate those tasks which really don't require your time and attention. A simple way to do that is by hi...
07th April 2008
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I hear comments frequently that I appear to be "all over the place." Someone will search a topic and see an article I've written, and then follow a link to a teleclass I'm leading, read a press release I've submitted...
03rd April 2008
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Classified ads have been around as long as I can remember. Whether you're reading a newspaper or perusing the back of a magazine, you see classified ads. Before the advent of online marketing, placing classified ads i...
30th March 2008
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Before the advent of pencil and paper and writing, ancient peoples depended solely upon storytelling to pass along the history of their families and tribes from one generation to the next. Of course, it was an imperfec...
