http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Copyright 2006 Richard Grady I launched a new website this week and one aspect of the launch has prompted me to write this article. The aspect of affiliates.... My new site, Simplywholesale, has an affiliate program and quite a few people have ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://pompyfzr.articlealley.com/a-tale-of-two-affiliates-922258.html 07th June 2009 Copyright (c) 2006 Richard Grady One of the downsides of living on the coast as I do is the winter. Whilst I get to see some of the best weather the UK has to offer, I also get to see the worst. We are not even close to the main winter months yet but... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/lets-make-some-money-95510.html 20th October 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady Recently, I wrote about how you need to put in a fair amount of hard work before your online business becomes successful - there is no such thing as an 'overnight success'. Despite this, setting up and running an Interne... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/how-much-easier-can-it-get-93135.html 06th October 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady Before the Internet came along, if you wanted to set up your own business it took a lot of money and an unbelievable amount of hard work. You would have to give up nearly everything and live hand-to-mouth for months and wo... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/how-much-effort-do-you-actually-think-you-need-to-put-in-86480.html 07th September 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady The problem with so many Internet businesses is that they are often run by just one person. But surely that's a good thing right? Well, it can be - it means that you have complete control over everything you are doing and... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/the-problem-with-many-internet-businesses-70267.html 06th July 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady It may seem obvious but if you offer your customers exceptional value for money, you will gain new customers AND retain existing ones. Unfortunately not everyone seems to realize this :-( I don't know whether it is just... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/gain-and-retain-customers-by-giving-exceptional-value-62896.html 16th June 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady I will be honest; the title of this article is slightly misleading. You see, in my opinion, the best traffic that money can buy actually doesn't cost anything - it's free! :-) I am talking of course about the magical tr... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/the-best-traffic-money-can-buy-59004.html 01st June 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady It is some time (a couple of years at least) since I did any selling on eBay (although I have used it quite a bit as a buyer) but this week I decided to list a few items that have been lying around the house for months. Ma... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/rediscovering-ebay-amp-amazon-50802.html 07th May 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady There was a thread on my forum this week in which a few members were discussing how many hours they spent working on their online businesses. A handful of members admitted to putting in over 40 hours per week working onl... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/is-internet-marketing-just-another-job-44986.html 20th April 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady Of course, there are many different factors that go into making an online business successful but there is one thing that is absolutely key if you want your Internet business to be a hit. If you remember this one thing, ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/one-of-the-key-ingredients-to-a-successful-online-business-42719.html 08th April 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady I started working online (on a part-time basis) almost 8 years ago. Amazing really as this means that I have spent nearly half of my working life involved in some form of Internet marketing. I was recalling to a friend r... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/how-things-change-39365.html 28th March 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady We all know that it is possible for an online business to generate significant income that, ultimately, can be earned with minimal input from the business owner. This is due to the fact that so many processes can be automa... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/is-it-me-or-is-the-internet-making-potential-entrepreneurs-lazy-31726.html 24th February 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady I built my first website approximately five years ago and since then, I have always designed and built my own sites. This process has served me very well and over the years, my web building skills have advanced considerabl... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/using-a-web-designer-instead-of-doing-it-yourself-29286.html 14th February 2006 Copyright 2006 Richard Grady I have recently changed the service which I use to send my email newsletter every couple of weeks. This has resulted in all of my subscribers having to re-confirm that they would like to continue receiving the newsletter. ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/why-i-chose-to-potentially-lose-up-to-80-of-my-newsletter-subscribers-27060.html 02nd February 2006 Copyright 2005 Richard Grady As most of you know, I have worked with wholesalers both on and offline for many years and a number of my websites are based around helping people find and trade with wholesale suppliers. I receive a fairly constant stre... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/buying-wholesale--a-few-dos-and-donts-17837.html 30th November 2005 Copyright 2005 Richard Grady I warn you now, I am in 'rant-mode' for this article! :-) It all started earlier in the week when a colleague posted a message on my forum relating to a refund request that he had received. In a nutshell, his customer h... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/do-you-want-it-all-for-free-17111.html 25th November 2005 Copyright 2005 Richard Grady I've written about customer service before but I want to touch on the subject again because this is such an important topic. In fact, getting the customer service aspect of your online (or offline) business right could mea... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/customer-service-is-key-16158.html 17th November 2005 Copyright 2005 Richard Grady As with so many things, the ideas that really 'work' on the Internet are often the most simple. In fact, they are often the ideas that most people would just discard as being too ridiculous to even try (this doesn't just a... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/a-million-dollars-in-4-months-14232.html 03rd November 2005 Copyright 2005 Richard Grady There are a couple of things I want to share with you this week, both based on my own experiences recently…. Keep a very close eye on your PPC advertising Over a year ago, I wrote a newsletter about how I had managed ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady2.articlealley.com/online-business-snippets-12901.html 21st October 2005 Holiday/vacation time but what about your online business? Copyright 2005 Richard Grady For many of us, it is time to start thinking about packing our suitcases and jetting off on our summer holidays/vacation. When I had a 'normal' job, this was a ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady4.articlealley.com/holidayvacation-time-but-what-about-your-online-business-11140.html 04th October 2005 Automating your customer support... Copyright 2005 Richard Grady My regular readers will know that one of the things I highly recommend doing with any online business is automating as many of your day to day tasks as possible. >From a personal po... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady5.articlealley.com/automating-your-customer-support-5673.html 19th August 2005 Be realistic when selling on eBay.... Copyright 2005 Richard Grady As some of you know, I spent many years buying and selling both on and offline and several of my products are based upon my own experience in this area. I know that the vast m... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady4.articlealley.com/be-realistic-when-selling-on-ebay-5303.html 17th August 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Welcome to the New Year everyone :-) So what do you want to achieve this year.....? - To start your own business? - To lose some weight? - To give up smoking? - To quit your job? - To spend more tim... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/what-do-you-want-to-achieve-in-2005-1065.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady One of the most common problems that people make when starting their online business is creating a website or product that people don't want. Sounds crazy doesn't it? But it's true. I have heard from several people in ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/dont-fall-into-this-trap-1064.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady When dealing with people/businesses on the Internet, it will benefit you to remember the following tips. They are all based on my own experiences but I am sure they apply to every online business: 1. When replying to e... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/email-etiquette-1063.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady There are many, many advantages to selling eBooks online, not least the fact that once the eBook is written, the sales and delivery process can be automated so that as the seller, there is literally nothing for you to do w... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/how-to-publish-an-ebook-without-writing-a-word-1062.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I have been working on the Internet since 1998 and I often get emails from people that think that working online is an 'easy ride' and won't involve them in much work. Don't get me wrong, working online doesn't have to be ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-internet-marketer-1061.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Before I expand on the above heading, I do have a slight confession to make - you will have to do 'some' work for this process to work but I promise it really isn't much and the long-term benefits can be absolutely incredi... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/how-to-increase-your-profits-by-40-or-more-with-n-1060.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Let's start at the beginning - why do you need a newsletter? Well of course, you don't NEED a newsletter BUT they can be very beneficial to your online business. A regular newsletter will do a couple of things; firstly... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/should-you-be-writing-a-newsletter-as-part-of-your-1059.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I am going to share a real secret with you this week. A secret that can be summarized in two words. A secret that ALL successful Internet marketers know and apply. A secret that really is the difference between the success... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/at-last-the-real-secret-of-internet-marketing-1058.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Several people have asked me about setting up a forum on their website recently, so I thought it might be helpful to cover this topic for the benefit of all my readers. But before I explain how to set up a forum, let m... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/forums--why-you-might-want-one-and-how-to-get-one-1057.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I get hundreds of emails per week and as you might expect, many of the emails contain similar questions. There are probably ten questions that I get asked most. I will save nine of them for another time as I want to talk a... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/cmon-rich-tell-me-what-to-do-1056.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady If you take a close look at this 'working online' business, you will see that it is quite simply a numbers game (this is actually the case with most if not all businesses). At the most basic level, building a successfu... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/the-internet--a-numbers-game-1055.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady The key to running a successful and efficient online business is to automate as much of your work as possible: Automate your order-taking process... Automate your payment methods (credit card/Paypal etc)... Aut... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/automate-automate-automate-1054.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I was fortunate enough to spend a weekend in Monte Carlo recently and being surrounded by the luxury yachts and other symbols of extreme wealth got me thinking about retirement :-) Ok, I know, I am far too young to ret... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/selling-your-online-business--something-to-think-1053.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady In my last newsletter I wrote about how your websites Alexa rating is not actually that important to the success of your online business. In this issue, I want to look at another popular statistic - Google Page Rank - and ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/google-page-rank--important-or-just-another-numbe-1052.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady As my regular readers will know, I often share my own online experiences in my articles in the hope that it will help some of you. As my regular readers also know, despite the fact that I have achieved a degree of success ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/a-five-minute-task-that-is-saving-me-750-a-month-1051.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady A discussion in my forum has prompted this newsletter as I think it is important for any online entrepreneur to understand how Alexa ratings work in order that they can understand why they may not be that important to the ... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/your-alexa-rating--is-it-really-that-important-1050.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady If you have spent any time at all studying Internet marketing, then you are bound to have come across the term 'viral marketing'. In fact, it is one of the first things that most people learn about when starting their Inte... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/viral-marketing-revisited-1049.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady We all know that the best way of getting quality, free traffic is by achieving a first page ranking on one of the main search engines. For the past few years, Google has held the position of being the most popular and prob... http://www.articlealley.com/http://richardgrady.articlealley.com/is-it-worth-chasing-search-engine-rankings-1048.html 14th January 2005