Archive for May, 2008...
Filed under Article Marketing, Marketing, Sales, Search Engine Optimization
By Titus Hoskins
It always surprises me how much money you can make by selling other people’s stuff on the Internet. The real numbers never truly hit you until you fill out your taxes. Eight years in and the numbers still shock me. Always.
More than the numbers, what really amazes me the most is the lifestyle one can achieve from online marketing. You can be your own boss, work your own hours, carry out your business from anywhere in the world you want to live. You can create automatic marketing systems that work 24/7/365 days of the year. Earn money even when you’re sleeping, vacationing or out enjoying a gourmet meal at your favorite restaurant. Total freedom.
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Filed under Article Marketing, Search Engine Optimization
By Hunter Waterhouse
Article marketing continues to be a proven method for generating traffic to our websites and developing good search placement, even after all of these years. I have been reading articles online since 1995, and I continue to read a few dozen articles per week on subjects that are dear to my heart.
Some Claim That Article Marketing Does Not Work
Now and again, I will read a thread in a forum somewhere where somebody claims that article marketing does not work.
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Filed under Starting a Home Based Business, Website
By Elizabeth Adams
There are many reasons why, each day, thousands of people are drawn to the idea of starting an online business:
* Existing business owners can increase their potential customers to include millions of internet users,
* Home-based entrepreneurs can cost-effectively advertise their products and services and build huge prospect lists, and
* All business owners can take advantage of online services that not only help to automate the sales process, but also develop lasting customer relations.
The complexity of starting an online business depends, to a large extent, on the degree to which off-the-shelf solutions are used to implement the sales process.
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Filed under Email Marketing, Marketing, contact management
By Bernadette Doyle
A few years ago, I met one of the best known ’sales experts’ in the UK. He had authored several books, and provided motivational training for blue-chip companies in a career spanning decades. If you’ve worked in the sales world for any time, you have almost certainly heard of him. Now in the ‘golden years’ of his career, he could sit back and let the opportunities come to him, couldn’t he? Actually no. “We never kept a database, Bernadette” he privately confessed to me.
So at great expense he had to hire and manage a sales team to set appointments for him. If he had cultivated a list over the years, he would have had prospective clients knocking on his door.
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