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28th April 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Lin Schreiber
As a business woman, I take an annual retreat each December to reflect on the past year, review my three-year vision, and plan the coming year. It was my brilliant Virtual Assistant Donna Gunter who first turned me on t... Read >
Author: Lin Schreiber03rd February 2009
Many books about currency trading teach the good deals on forex market. However, experienced authors are the best to consult, if you are an amateur forex trader.
The following books on forex trading only cost $100 that can make the most out of your inv... Read >
Author: Timothy Stevens16th January 2009
WESTPAC has jumped on board the rapidly growing vanity phone number bandwagon just months after the industry was opened to competition. Some predictions suggest the embryonic industry could grow to be worth $100 million a year.
The bank has signed a de... Read >
Author: Rahul Rungta07th March 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Donna Gunter
Contrary to popular opinion, marketing by email newsletter is not yet dead, despite the pervasiveness of blogs and social networking. What I like best about ezines is that I have a list of people who like, know and trus... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter26th February 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Donna Gunter
One of the greatest pitfalls I've discovered as an online business owner is getting stuck in my own comfort zone. In this comfort zone I'm quite capable, comfortable, stress-free, and quite frankly, caught in a rut. Wh... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter14th February 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Donna Gunter
One of the income streams in my business comes from affiliate commissions, or money I make from the referral of another's products or services. Affiliate commissions are a very viable way to add another income stream to ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter07th February 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Donna Gunter
Every time you take your car in for an oil change, most shops give you a 15- or 30-point checkup when they change your oil to alert you to any other potential problems you might experience in the future. In the same way... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter19th January 2008
Copyright (c) 2008 Donna Gunter
Teleseminars, or workshops conducted over a teleconference line, are one of the easiest ways to grow a business and leverage your expertise online. However, when I speak to clients about using this marketing strategy, m... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter14th January 2008
There has been a fundamental shift in UK consumers’ attitudes to debt in a relatively short time which is putting many in danger of financial meltdown, according to research commissioned by Standard Life Bank.
The Personal Finance Research Centre u... Read >
Author: Andrew Regan14th November 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna GunterThis area of Texas seems to be inundated by various phone directories. At last count, I think we had 3 directories in addition to the one published by our local phone provider. I decided that I was tired of them taking up ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter05th November 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna GunterAfter many months of procrastination, I finally got around to adding a hover ad to my website. A hover ad is a type of pop-up ad that appears in your browser window from the side or top of the screen, or may just slowly flo... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter30th October 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna GunterOne of the biggest mistakes that I see service business owners make is taking on as a client anyone who has a 98.6 degree temperature who can pay them money. This is especially prevalent with new service business owners, as... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter19th October 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna GunterTime management advice is found in great abundance on the Internet. You can determine how to schedule your day, how to set your priorities, how to delegate, and how to tackle your to-do list.As a service business owner, you... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter10th October 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna GunterHow many hours have you spent this week with prospective clients who are great at draining your time and energy but can't seem to find the money or desire to hire you? I've had my weeks when the number is larger than I'd li... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter20th August 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Many times when you're starting out in business, or changing direction in business, you become overwhelmed with just where to start, or who you can contact for assistance. You have many contacts, have belonged to a numbe... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter10th August 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
One very common mistake that online service professionals make is providing endless information on their website, blog, or ezine without asking for anything in return (i.e. selling a product or service). Now, that doesn'... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter24th July 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Many business owners wrestle with this notion of "expertise", feeling certain that they don't know enough to be looked upon by anyone as an expert. I avoided that expert label as well for my first 5 or so years in busine... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter05th July 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
The Internet marketing industry and online business industry is fraught with fraud. There are more "get rich quick" schemes here than in almost any other industry. After all, who doesn't want to sit on home on his rear... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter01st July 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
How do you treat the people with whom you do business? Many times what we forget in this online world where so much of our customer service is automated is that, in the end, we're still doing business with other people.... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter26th June 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
There comes a time in every online business owner's life when you will seriously consider changing email newsletter providers. Making the decision to change your email newsletter service is never an easy one. In fact, I... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter15th June 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
At a conference I recently attended, I met many people and collected many business cards. As I perused the cards and spoke with the participants, it became glaringly obvious to me that many in this group:
a. did not... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter06th June 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Once you have several products or services that are selling quite well, your customer will begin to ask if you will permit others to use your product as the basis for training that they are doing. Or, if you are doing t... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter04th June 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Recently I had a conversation with a REALTOR who had paid a good chunk of change to Google for his Adwords campaign. His complaint? He got lots of traffic (and paid Google for lots of clicks) but none of them turned into... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter24th May 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
In the last few years, I have seen membership subscription websites take the Internet by storm. Most subscription sites offer their subscriptions for a fee; however, a handful offer their information for free to anyone w... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter21st May 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Being the Internet geek that I am, I spend lots of time online looking at websites and collateral materials of various kinds of businesses. Almost unfailingly what I notice is that if I compare all the marketing materia... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter17th May 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
With all the information online about tools and techniques available to help someone effective manage and run an online business, how do you ever decide which ones are truly useful to have in your business management too... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter03rd May 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Most online business owners are conducting fairly regular web searches. Typically the kind of information that they're seeking include local and national competitors, keyword research, and searches for resources for a p... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter26th April 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Google Alerts are a handy little email notification service provided by Google to let you know when new information in which you might be interested has been posted somewhere online and spidered by the Google searchbot. ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter05th April 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
A squeeze page is a stand-alone page that is typically used as a lead generation or landing page for a special offer or marketing campaign. It offers the visitor access to some piece of information in exchange for the vi... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter29th March 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Viral marketing can best be described as a marketing campaign that permits you to reach a large number of people quickly online, much in the same way a human cold virus might spread throughout an office complex. The onl... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter08th March 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Recently I had a conversation with a voiceover expert who had paid a good chunk of change to Google for his Adwords campaign. His complaint? He got lots of traffic (and paid Google for lots of clicks) but none of them ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter01st March 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Many times when a business owner picks a domain for her website, the domain name that is chosen and used is the name of the business that's already been established, or perhaps the owner's name is used. However, a perso... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter22nd February 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
How do you find your niche, target market, tarket, niche market, ideal client? Whatever you call it, you need to define it for yourself to be successful in business. Whatever you want to call it, the way I define thes... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter15th February 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
As someone who writes a new article each week and submits it to online article directories, the thought has occurred to me more than once that I should have my own article directory, as well. Your own article directory c... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter08th February 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
While I'm not completely averse to hard work, I see no need in working hard when I don't absolutely have to. One way that you can work a bit easier in your online business is to re-purpose any articles or content you're... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter25th January 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
Grand openings and ribbon cuttings don't have to be limited to businesses that have retail locations. If your "real estate" is your website and you work out of your home, this great public relations opportunity is avail... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter18th January 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Donna Gunter
The creation of your first info product is a huge first step toward implementing multiple streams of income in your business. It means that you have something to sell prospective customers to "size you up" as they consi... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter14th December 2006
Copyright (c) 2006 Donna Gunter
Pop up windows are the bane of existence for most of us who spend anytime online. I've been to some sites and had as many as 20 pop-ups annoy me while I was there until I activated the pop-up blocker on my browser. Why... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter17th November 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
In my experience, there is almost always something that holds an independent service professional back from either getting his/her business started or ramping it up to full capacity and keeping it there. I call it the "Fraud... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter15th November 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
If you dislike face-to-face networking as much as I do, perhaps networking online might be more your style. I'm still trying out some online networks like Ryze and Open BC, so the jury is still out on those. What's bringin... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter15th November 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Several years ago, in response to client requests for no-cost or low-cost marketing techniques, I coined the term "tightwad marketing". My definition of tightwad marketing is the art of doing more with less, or using your c... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter26th October 2006
Copyright (c) 2006 Donna Gunter
Many solo service professionals who are venturing online for the first time don't have a great of time or capital to invest in a website. Most want something quick, easy and simple at the beginning. The quickest type ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter12th October 2006
Copyright (c) 2006 Donna Gunter
Listening to podcasts isn't something I enjoy or take time for, quite frankly. I'm a visual learner and prefer to read something rather than listen to it, as I find reading a much quicker way to gather the info that I n... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter28th September 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
One of the primary issues about which my clients complain is that they never stop running their businesses. They say their day is an endless cycle of completing tasks for clients, having conversations with prospective clien... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter08th September 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
If you need money quickly or want a surefire way to increase your cashflow, it's time to throw a sale. Having a sale is especially easy to do if you've sell electronic information products (available as an online download), ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter07th September 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
What happens when your Internet marketing empire doesn't take off that quickly or isn't that profitable? Yyou feel like a miserable failure. So, then you invest more time and money to get more information, with similar res... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter20th July 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
If you're the owner of a small service business, having a solid Internet marketing plan in place can both increase your name and brand recognition locally in your geographic area, as well as expose you to a whole new set of ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter07th July 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
In the last year, I have seen membership subscription websites take the Internet by storm. Most subscription sites offer their subscriptions for a fee; however, a handful offer their information for free to anyone who will ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter07th July 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
When I mention writing articles as a way to establish your expertise online and increase traffic to your web site, my clients typically exclaim one of two things: 1. They remind me how much they hate to write; or 2. They ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter30th June 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to start all over again in your business and your life, knowing what you know now, but with a completely clean slate? I've often fantasized about going back to specific points in ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter22nd June 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Like anyone else who operates a small service business, your word is your bond with your clients. A client might tolerate a broken promise here and there for a very good reason, but if the broken promises continue, the clien... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter16th June 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Are you fishing where the fish are? This may seem to be a question with an obvious answer, but I'm constantly amazed at how many business owners are looking for their target market in all the wrong places. Worse yet is the... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter08th June 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
How do you know whom you can trust online? Which businesses are legit, and which ones are primed to rip you off? It can be tough these days determining which is which. With the advent of phishing and other online threats,... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter07th May 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Thanksgiving rolled around last year and I decided that I needed a break, so I decided to pay a visit to southern California. I've been entertaining this fantasy for the last few months that I'd like to move there in a coup... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter27th April 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
A friend of mine calls me the "Domain Queen", since at one time I owned around 50 domains. I've let many of them go (I own only 22 now) as my business has changed and developed, or I've just simply lost interest in the proj... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter08th April 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
In the past week or so, I've had three distinct occasions to speak with others about the joy of being self-employed and working from home. The first came about as a result of being interviewed by a newspaper reporter from B... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter28th March 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
One of my clients was asked, "How do you know when you need help?" at a presentation she conducted recently, and she wasn't sure how to respond, except perhaps to say, "Well, you'll just know!" As generic as that answer mig... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter21st March 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Websites of service companies seem to make some common website mistakes over and over again. Part of the function of your website is to establish a relationship with potential clients and get them into your marketing funnel... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter12th March 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Putting all of your eggs into one basket in your business is never a good idea. Diversity is key, which means that your revenue should come from a number of clients (not just two or three) and preferably should come from mu... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter24th February 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Making the decision to submit articles to build my website traffic has been one of the smartest online marketing decisions I've made recently. I've been publishing an email newsletter since 2001, but only started exploring... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter02nd February 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
Being the goal-driven woman that I am, failure has rarely been an option for me. In so many areas of my life, from deciding on where to go to college to obtaining scholarships to pay for college to determining what I wanted... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter02nd February 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
If you look at almost any issue of nationally published women's magazines, you'll find article upon article trying to convince the American public (and American women) that you can have it all -- a brilliant career/business ... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter13th January 2006
Copyright 2006 Donna Gunter
In 2003, I moved to Little Rock, AR, and I was amazed with how helpful my new property manager was. If you haven't moved recently, you may have forgotten all the joy associated with having to arrange to shut off your utiliti... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter01st January 2006
Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter
There's an often-quoted statistic that the fear of public speaking is right up there with the fear of death as the two events people most fear in their lives. However, as a business owner, I can guarantee you that public sp... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter01st January 2006
Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter
"There's no way I can hire anyone to do what I do. No one can do it as well as I can."
Do you resemble that remark? If so, you've got much in common with most other business owners in the world. We never think that any... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter30th November 2005
Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter
The notion of doing a business retreat for myself is very new, although not novel, as we used to conduct a retreat each year as a part of both the Student Affairs staff and the Residence Life staff at the college where I onc... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter14th November 2005
Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter
At almost every meeting I attend in my city, I get really positive feedback about my email newsletter, Work Smarter, Make More, http://www.worksmartermakemore.com . People generally tell me they love it, or they ask some que... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter09th November 2005
Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter
Most business owners hate the entire marketing process. I find marketing to be an energizing exercise to showcase my creativity, however, and enjoy it -- when I do it. However, I fall into the same trap as millions of other... Read >
Author: Donna Gunter
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