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Your Blueprint For Success - Part 5

July 11, 2008 – 11:30 pm
Key #3: Increase Your “Lifetime Value” The third key to growing your business and making more money is to “increase your ‘lifetime value’ “. In other words, sell more to your existing customers. You’ve worked hard to get the customer, so make the most of it. You don’t want to merely make one sale to your customers, but rather multiple sales.

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Your Blueprint For Success - Part 4

July 10, 2008 – 11:23 pm
Key #2: Increase Your “Lead Conversion” A second key to business growth is to “increase your ‘lead conversion’ “.

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Your Blueprint For Success - Part 3

July 9, 2008 – 11:14 pm
I have my own checklist (which I’ll share with you in brief format in just a moment) filled with what I call “Day Specific Activities”.

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Your Blueprint For Success - Part 2

July 8, 2008 – 11:06 pm
This is Part 2 in a Series Now, I’m not one of those folks who says “here’s a problem, but I don’t have a solution.” I DO have a solution. And it’s fairly simple...

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Your Blueprint For Success - Part 1

July 8, 2008 – 1:06 am
This is Part One in a Series about starting an online business. Introduction: There’s an old saying that’s been around much longer than the Internet that really does have a wealth of truth to it. And that saying is simply this: “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.”

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Bulk Email Versus Opt-In Email

July 7, 2008 – 2:15 am
SPAM...Everyone is talking about it...And Most Everyone hates it. For those who don''t know what "Spam" is, it is the practice of sending email to thousands or millions of people who have not requested it or have never contacted your company before. I know you get "spammed"....Everyone does. Personally, I receive around 50 or so a day of these emails selling whatever product or service they have to offer. I delete most of them with barely a glance, yet they keep on coming. They are usually (Though not all of the time) poorly written and full of extremely hyped messages. One will be for bulk email products. The next might be for search engine submissions (I wonder why they have to bulk for it if they are so good at search engine submissions?). The list goes on and on. I get ads for dolls, cars, credit cards, merchant accounts, and more. We won''t ...

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Is your domain name taken?

July 6, 2008 – 11:04 am
By Chuck McCullough Have you tried to find a good domain name lately? If you have, chances are that you had some trouble finding one. Try to find a decent short name, and you're pretty much out of luck. There are entire companies dedicated to grabbing up anything that might possibly be worth something someday. So how can you hope to profit from all of this, especially with so much competition? First, stop spending every waking minute trying to grab the next loans.com, or business.com, or forsalebyowner.com. Trying to grab a name that will make you millions some day actually has a very small chance of actually working at this point. But, there is another way that you and I can profit by picking up a few names. One idea is to spend your time searching for ...

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Paid URL Inclusion

July 6, 2008 – 4:15 am
Advertising your services or products on the Internet is both extremely effective and extremely competitive. There are several ways to go about attracting traffic to your website; Pay-Per-Click is one of the options you can choose from, along with developing an SEO, or search engine optimization campaign. Both pay-per-click and SEO are targeted to get your website placed as close to the top of search engine results as possible. One of the differences is that it takes minutes to set up a pay-per-click campaign versus months for a good SEO campaign. Pay-Per-Click is a simple type of paid advertising that most search engines, including some of the largest ones, now offer. It requires a bid for a "per-click" basis, which translates to your company paying the bid amount every time the search engine directs a visitor to your site. There is the added bonus that when a per-click site sends your ...

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Introduction to Autoresponders

July 5, 2008 – 12:49 pm
If you''ve reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up with answering the mountain of emails that threatens to bury you alive every single day, you''re ready to learn about autoresponders. The bad news is that people expect prompt replies to their email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to work continual twenty-four hour shifts, or hire enough people to constantly monitor incoming emails (while they''re eating up your revenue), you have a problem. The good news is an autoresponder is an inexpensive - or even free - method of quickly responding to emails. What these programs do is automatically respond to incoming emails as soon as they are received. Emails are essential to your business for many different reasons. Most importantly, these invisible email voices give you their feedback about your website - for free! However, if you spend all your working hours answering these emails, how are ...

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Creative and Profitable Ways to Use Autoreponders

July 4, 2008 – 12:48 pm
An interested visitor who has been strolling through your site has finally come to just what she is looking for and is about to make a purchase. It''s a sunny afternoon, and her cat, who happens to be sitting on the moss under the visitor''s large fifty-year-old snow-rose bonsai tree, suddenly jumps down, and the priceless tree topples over. In the blink of an eye, your visitor exits your site, and your sale is dust - unless you have had the foresight to utilize an autoresponder that has captured her email address. If you have installed an autoresponder, you can then follow-up with her, and in all probability, make the sale when the poor woman has finished repotting her precious bonsai. Autoresponders are remarkable, versatile programs that do so much more than just automatically answer your email. Here are a few ideas that will help you to creatively and productively use your ...

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