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Donna Gunter, author of Get More Clients Online: How to Get 95% of Your Clients from Internet Marketing, and founder of OnlineBizU.com, is an Internet Business Coach and Online Business Manager who helps overwhelmed independent service professionals automate their businesses, leverage their expertise online, and implement Internet marketing strategies that work for service businesses. Donna opened her first online business as an online business manager/virtual assistant in 1999 and successfully built this virtual ... [More]

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How to Become Your Industry's Leading Expert in 30 Days
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Many solo service professionals wonder how they will ever become known in their industry. How do you create trust and authenticity with your target market and be seen as a real, true expert rather than as a sham? One of the easiest and quickest ways to do this is by interviewing experts in your industry. Here are the 10 steps you can follow to help you become your industry's leading expert in 30 days by conducting expert interviews...

5 Secrets to Turbocharging Your Online Business With a Telesummit, Today!
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] A telesummit is a virtual online conference that offers a line-up of varied speakers over a period of time. The telesummit is usually organized by a theme or for a particular target market. The free "live" telesummit model is the one that I thinks offers the most possiblity for helping accelerate your business growth. Here are 5 secrets to turcharging your online business with a telesummit:

15 Powerful Ways to Promote Your Teleclass
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Teleclasses provide a platform for online service business owners to connect virtually with prospects around the world via a teleconference bridge line and share information with them. Many service professionals use paid or free teleseminars to grow their lists, establish their expertise, and deliver training and coaching programs. Here are 15 ways for you to promote your upcoming teleclass:

Ethical Bribes - 10 Most Effective Client Attraction Device Giveaways
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] One of the quickest ways to build your email marketing list is by creating an ethical bribe, or a client attraction device. This free giveaway serves to entice visitors to your site to sign up for your email list because they want to access your solution to their problem proffered in your email list opt-in box.

Top 10 Firefox Browser Plugins
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] About a year ago I fired Internet Explorer as my primary browser. Why? Because it crashed on me constantly and took forever at times to transition from one site to another. I've found the Firefox browser much more user friendly, especially given the number of plugins that have been developed for the browser.

7 Reasons Why an Online Business is the PERFECT Business For Introverts
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Introverts often take a beating in regular employment, as by-and-large they are an outnumbered minority. In many cases, entrepreneurship is the way that introverts choose to make a living, and the structure of how an online business is run offers some key advantages for introverts. Here are 7 reasons why an online business may be ideal for you:

Business Planning - 4 Steps to Creating Your Online Business Model Blueprint
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Your business model doesn't have to be at all complex, but should provide the guiding force for all that you do, like guiding you to the opportunities to accept, the joint ventures and strategic alliances to pursue, and the new ideas you should retain and develop. Here are the 4 steps I'm following as I redesign the blueprint for my online business model:

How to Use Your Ezine Thank You Page to Create a One Time Offer
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Many times, when you sign up for a free giveaway or purchase an item, you are taken to an OTO (One Time Offer) page, where you'll be given the opportunity to purchase a "never to be seen again, one time offer", which is a product that has been discounted for one time only during this one particular transaction. In this transaction scenario, you have two choices...

Twitter Marketing - How to Be Follow-Worthy on Twitter
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] I often get asked the question, "How do I get more followers on Twitter?" Many of my clients want to pay a sum of money for the latest scheme to get them 10,000 new followers in 24 hours or some such nonsense as that. As in all marketing strategies, it's not the number that counts. Rather, it's the quality in the numbers that really matters.

Top 8 Signs of ECommerce Fraud - How to Detect Fraudulent Credit Card Transactions
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] When you have an online component of your business, experiencing ecommerce fraud is becoming the rule rather than the exception. No longer is it a matter of "if" this will happen to you but "when" it will happen to you. I did some quick research and was astounded at the extent of fraudulent transactions, especially given the poor state of the current U.S. economy.

Twitter Marketing - 6 Steps For Creating a Viral Marketing Campaign With Twitter Hashtags
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Twitter helps you connect daily with a large number of your target market at no cost. How can you maximize other Twitter opportunities to help your market your business? The easiest way to do this is through a Twitter hashtag campaign.

Client Testimonial Tips - 10 Most Effective Questions For Take-Action Testimonials
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Client testimonials are a vital factor in establishing a relationship of trust with new visitors to your site. How do you go about getting testimonials that are compelling and make your visitors take action? Here are ten questions you can ask your clients to get results-oriented testimonials for your online business.

Ezine Marketing - How to Triple Your Ezine Opt-Ins With a Squeeze Page
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] A squeeze page is a landing page with one purpose -- convince the visitor to enter her name and email address to join your list and/or receive your giveaway. It's possible to create an effective squeeze page without harming your traffic volume or SEO efforts. Here are the 10 essential components you need to create an effective squeeze page for your ezine:

Internet Marketing - The #1 Marketing Mistake Made by 75% of Online Business Owners
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Every day, my inbox is filled with emails promoting yet another new marketing strategy or promising results that will cure all of my marketing ills. Most of the strategies are flash-in-the-pan - here today and gone tomorrow because the next new strategy has been discovered. A few newer strategies have proven to have staying power over time, like social networking, which took a long time to grow on me.

5 Best Strategies to Develop a Responsive Email List
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] Whether you have a 500-person list or a 5000-person list, the rate at which they respond to your offers ties directly in with how well they know, like and trust you and see you as the expert providing answers to the problems keeping them awake at night. Here are the 5 strategies you can employ to develop a responsive email list.

5 Secrets to Creating a Powerful Google Profile
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Media] When I want to check out a prospective client or vendor, I Google the person's name and see how well-known they are online and what they have to say. I've discovered that their social media profiles show up high in the search results. Google has started giving these well-known social networking sites a run for their money by creating their own online profile option.

7 Secrets to Successful Keyword Research
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] As people search for information online, they use keywords to find the information that they are seeking. In order to be found online by your target market, you need insight about the keywords they use to search for a business like yours. The quickest way to gain that insight is by conducting thorough keyword research campaign.

Social Networking - 10 Steps to Finding Your Target Market in Facebook
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Marketing on social networking sites can help you increase the size of your email list and help you grow your business. The key to success with social network marketing is making sure that members of your target market are in your network. Whether you're an experienced social networker or just a newbie, here are 10 secrets to growing your target market network in Facebook.

5 Most Effective Online Continuity Program Models
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Online business owners need to seriously think about changing their business model to include the concept of recurring revenue. This passive revenue model brings in regular recurring income on a weekly or monthly basis from the same customers. Here are the 5 most effective online continuity program models to consider for your online business.

3 Secrets to Avoiding Isolation as An Online Entrepreneur
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Working at home in your online business can be terribly isolating. Even though you may work alone, there's no reason you have to be isolated from the world. Here are 3 secrets to help you avoid isolation as you manage your online business:

8 Secrets to Fill Your Business in 60 Days
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Filling your business with prospects eager to buy is a daunting task for any online business owner. However, there is an easy-to-replicate system that, when followed exactly, will help you fill your business in 60 days.

How to Create Your Target Market Profile
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Once you have defined that target market, you're overwhelmed with all the details and facts you have collected and may have no idea about how to use this information. Creating your online marketing materials with one member of your target market in mind is often easier than by thinking of them all. To help you in this effort, create a target market profile.

Internet Security - 8 Proven Tactics to Eliminate Threats From Spam, Viruses, and Hackers
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] Online business owners face treacherous Internet security risks daily. Viruses, hackers, and spam await you at every turn. There are a number of precautions you can take to make yourself, your business and the visitors to your site as safe as possible. Here are 8 tactics proven to enhance your Internet security:

How to Differentiate Your Business With Authenticity
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Do you regularly incorporate your personality into your business so that your ideal clients are naturally drawn to you? Playing to your gifts and being who you are for a living is an extraordinarily rewarding way to run your business. Here's a unique way to make your business stand out in a crowd:

Joint Ventures - The 4 Secret Questions You MUST Answer Before Seeking Joint Venture Partners
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] Joint venture partnerships are a very effective way to rapidly increase your sales and grow your business. However, if done the wrong way, this strategy will blow up in your face. There are a few simple steps you should take BEFORE seeking out any joint venture partners or strategic alliances. Here are 4 secrets to success in your joint venture partnership request:

10 Best Strategies to Massively Increase Your Visibility Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Increasing online visibility is the goal of most online business owners. There are many options available to increase your visibility, but only a handful that are able to stand the test of time. Here are my 10 most effective strategies to massively increase your visibility online:

5 Secrets to Moving the Free Line With Your Client-Capturing Device
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Once upon a time, in the dark ages of Internet marketing (only about 10 years ago in Internet years), all an online business owner had to do was stick an email opt-in form on her site and request visitors to join her list. Simple, wasn't it?

Data Recovery - 10 Most Effective Computer Backup Tools
[Computers-and-Technology] How do you continue to work when your computer goes down? If you have a backup computer that's synchronized to your primary computer, it becomes much easier to move forward. However, if you don't and have to resort a new or borrowed computer while yours is being repaired, here are 10 computer backup tools to help you get back up and running quickly:

10 Steps to Testing the Viability of Your Online Business Idea That Won't Break the Bank
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Starting an online business is a very low-risk way to put your toe in the entrepreneurial pond because the start up costs are minimal. Despite these benefits, an online business is just like any other and needs to be researched before starting to determine if there's a need in the marketplace. How do you determine if your online business idea will sink or swim? Here are 10 steps you can take to test your idea without breaking the bank:

Search Engine Optimization - 11 Basic SEO Strategies For Beginners
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Search engine optimization is the process getting your website ready to be found in organic webs searches. Even a new business owner who creates and updates her own websites can implement some very basic SEO strategies to make her website appear higher in the organic rankings on certain keyword searches. Here are the 11 strategies that I regularly implement on my sites for better SEO positioning:

Social Networking - 7 Steps to More Traffic by Connecting and Repurposing Your Social Marketing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] I'm lazy by nature and like to do as little work as possible. Therefore, when I have the opportunity to automate tasks, I jump at it.

Is it Time to Quit, Or Are You Simply Afraid?
[Business:Management] As a business owner, you often want to give up on your business, especially when times get tough. When is the right time to quit, and when should you persevere? It's a matter of determining whether you're at a dead-end, or you're in a dip. Here's how you can make the distinction for yourself and decide upon your course of action.

10 Secrets to Using Twitter to Attract More Followers and Get More Clients
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Many small business owners create Twitter accounts solely for marketing their businesses., However, once they're signed up, they wonder, "What do I Twitter about? How do I market my business with this tool?" Here are 10 strategies that I use regularly to marketing my business and my expertise via Twitter.

Ezine Marketing - 4 Essential Components Required to Make More Sales From Your Email Newsletter
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ezine-Publishing] Marketing by email newsletter is not yet dead, despite the pervasiveness of blogs and social networking. Your email newsletter is one of the most effective marketing strategies at your disposal to develop the "like, know and trust" factor with your target market. Increase your sales with these 4 essential components that every email newsletter should contain.

Facebook in 15 Minutes a Day
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Social networking can take up your entire day, if you allow it. How can you possibly get any work done in your business or for your clients at this rate? You can actually handle most of your Facebook tasks in as little as 15 minutes per day. Here's what I do when I log into my account each morning:

My Top 7 Essential Twitter Tools
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] The microblogging platform, Twitter, and how Twitter has taken the online marketing world by storm. While Twitter is pretty easy to use, there's an overwhelming amount of tools, plug-ins and applications being developed to support it. How can you determine which ones will best support you in your use of Twitter? I've tried to sort though all of the junk, and come up with my 7 essential Twitter tools.

Leverage Your Expertise - Create a Fixed Term Membership Program
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] "Fixed term memberships" refer to a membership that consists of weekly content shared via autoresponder to paid members for a specified period of time. In many ways, a fixed term membership offers great advantages over a traditional subscription membership site. Here are 7 reasons why this business model makes sense for service business owners.

Client Attraction - 4 Deadly Mistakes to Avoid If You Want a Full Practice
[Business] Many independent service professionals insist that they want additional clients, but haven't really put the groundwork in place to accommodate them. Even though many of you say that you are, your words may give one message, but your actions give a completely different message. Here are 4 deadly mistakes you want to avoid if you want a full and thriving practice.

List Building - 7 Steps to Grow Your Email List With Twitter
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] Twitter is a microblogging platform that has taken the business world by storm. The purpose of Twitter is to post short updates (not to exceed 140 characters) about what you're doing at the moment, read the updates of others whom you're following, and comment and reply on what they're doing. As I became accustomed to posting regular updates, I began to wonder if I was missing a key business marketing strategy in the process.

Online Marketing to Prospects - 6 Secrets to Ensure Your Prospect Well Never Runs Dry
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Service business owners, once they become busy working with current clients, no longer make the time to market their businesses. It's only when business has dropped off that they frantically begin marketing their businesses again, More than 50% of service business owners experience this feast or famine scenario.

Elevator Pitch - 7 Steps to a Killer 30-Second Commercial That Works Every Time
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Even though your business may be completely Internet based, there are still numerous times when you need to give your elevator pitch (elevator speech), or your 30-second commercial that explains what you do and how you do it. Having a ready-made elevator pitch at your disposal continues to be an important online marketing tool that you need to continuously sharpen.

Pricing Strategies - How Much Do I Charge For My Service?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Determining what to charge your clients is often not as easy as you might think. After you determine your overhead and the rate you need to charge to meet you expenses and make a profit, you may end up with a price that you're not comfortable with charging. Here's how you can overcome your "emotional price point" barrier and run a profitable business.

5 Critical Questions to Ask BEFORE You Hire a Web Designer
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] The creation of your online presence can be a very expensive failure or a much-heralded success. Before hiring a website designer, make sure s/he answers these 5 critical questions to your satisfaction, and you'll be on the path to a profitable relationship with a talented professional who can help your online business grow.

Marketing Plan - How to Create an Internet Marketing Action Plan That Gets Results
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Keeping up with ongoing marketing tasks can be overwhelming. Many online business owners are so wrapped up in working on their business that they don't make time to work in the business, like performing regular marketing tasks. Consequently, they often experience slow times in their business because they begin to market themselves only when the prospect pool has dried up.

Press Releases - 10 New Rules to Get a Flood of Traffic From Online Publicity
[Business:PR] In today's marketing environment, submitting press releases online is a very viable strategy for attracting attention to your website and to your business. However, the strategy is very underutilized by online service businesses because many of us are still operating under the rules of traditional press releases. Many of the traditional rules of writing press releases no longer apply in today's Internet marketing age.

7 Reasons Blogsites Attract More Visitors and Help You Get More Clients Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] More and more online service business owners choosing blogsites over traditional websites. Some who have started with a traditional website have switched over to a blogsite in the last year. Here are 7 reasons why a blogsite attracts more visitors and helps you get more clients online than a traditional website.

How Perfectionism Kills the Online Entrepreneur
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] How many times have you failed to take action on releasing a new product or service because it wasn't perfect? Probably more times than you care to admit. The need for perfection is simply another excuse to procrastinate and take no action. Inaction is safe because you're not putting yourself out there to the world to face possible criticism.

Website Marketing - Dramatically Increase Your Conversions With A Clear Call To Action
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The design of many websites leaves the visitor at a loss about what to do next. Some sites make no request at all, while others try and send the visitor in too many directions at once. How do you get your visitor to stay on your site and convert to a prospect? By presenting one clear call to action on every page of your site.

5 Secrets To Selling More Teleclasses With Transcripts
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] While iPods and other mp3 players have taken the world by storm, many people still learn best visually. This means they would much rather read something than listen to it. The Internet now offers tons of learning by audio, with mp3 files of podcasts, teleclasses and webinars being the most popular. If you offer teleclasses or webinars as a part of your business model, here are 5 reasons you should offer transcripts with your teleclasses.

Create a Coaching Program for Your Multiple Steams of Income Funnel
[Home-Based-Business:Network-Marketing] Whatever your profession, you've amassed a great deal of information in your field or industry. There's an eager and willing audience who will gladly pay for your information and experience. One of the best ways to package and market what you have learned is through the addition of a coaching program to your product and service offerings.

Client Attraction - 6 Questions to Ask to Discover Your Brilliance
[Self-Improvement] 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 truly love to do in your work with your clients is key to your success -- and theirs.

Ezine Marketing - 5 Ways to Skyrocket Your Ezine Open Rate
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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.

7 Steps to Creating a Podcast from an Article
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Podcasting] Instead of reinventing the wheel by creating new content for a new marketing medium, the podcast, simply repurpose the material you've already created. While podcasting has always intrigued me, I never wanted to take the time to create additional content for an audience who prefers to listen to their information rather than read it.

Top Five Ways Your Virtual Assistant Can Help You Make More Money, Today
[Business:Outsourcing] The best decision you can make as an online business owner is to delegate those tasks which really don't require your time and attention. A simple way to do that is by hiring a virtual assistant. Whether you're just starting out or have been in business for awhile, the thought of bringing on a support team member can be daunting and you wonder how you'll pay for it.

Your Article Writing Campaign Timeline
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] How can you appear to be everywhere online? It's quite simple when you use this one proven strategy on a regular basis in your Internet marketing arsenal: article marketing. Here's how you can create an article marketing timeline to use every single time you create a new article.

Ezine Advertising - 10 Steps to Writing Powerful Ezine Ads to Grow Your List
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ezine-Publishing] Advertising in email newsletters with ads is one of the greatest adverting bargains available today. It can be a very effective strategy to help you grow your mailing list and drive traffic to your website. There are thousands of ezine publishers eagerly standing by to take your money for a classified ad in their publication.

Storytelling - A Powerful Marketing Strategy For Your Online Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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. You can create the same kind of connection to your customer base by telling your story or the story of a successful client. Stories help people create visual images of what you're trying to get across.

Comfort Zone Buster - 5 Ways to Re-Energize Your Online Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] One of the greatest pitfalls of online business owners is getting stuck in your own comfort zone. How would your life or business be different if you forced yourself out of your comfort zone? What is it that will make you move forward to get where you want to be? Here are 5 strategies that I use re-energize my online business when I get a bit too cozy in my comfort zone rut:

7 Strategies to Drive Local Traffic to Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] This 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 valuable shelf space, so I threw out all but one. Why? Because when I need a local product or service, I'm more inclined to find the local business online rather than referring to the local telephone directory.

Boost Your Online Profits with Affiliate Commissions
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] One viable income stream from you business can be income derived from affiliate commissions, or money made from the referral of another's products or services. To effectively utilize this strategy, you need to implement some stipulations outlining how you make affiliate referrals, and then pick the best method for displaying your affiliate links.

Your 7-Point Annual Website Tune-Up
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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 that your mechanic conducts a regular inspection of your automobile, you need to conduct an annual checkup of your website.

10 Essential Questions to Ask Your Target Market
[Business:Management] "My target market is everybody." Is this statement true for your business? If so, how is that working for you? My guess would be that it's not working at all. I shudder when a client tells me that their target market is everyone.

7 Steps to Creating Info-Packed Teleseminars From Your Articles
[Business:Sales-Teleselling] 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, many believe that they don't have enough content to create a powerful 45-60 minute teleseminar. Do you share that same belief?

The Secret of Customer Appreciation
[Business:Customer-Service] Typically during the months of November, December, and January, online business owners feel the urge to say "thank you" -- to their blog/ezine readers, to their clients and customers, and to their business colleagues. In recent years, this often means sending a mass email card to an email mailing list, which, if you're on the receiving end of such a missive, feels about as personal as junk mail addressed to "Occupant." Snail mail cards are not much better because the majority of those cards contain an imprinted greeting along with a business name and nothing else.

How to Sell and Market Your Ebook in 10 Easy Steps
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:E-Books] Electronic books, or ebooks, are one of the quickest ways to make yourself an infopreneur, or someone who makes money by selling information. As a service business owner, it's also a simple way to sell the information that you have spent countless hours amassing to all of those who want to buy what you know but who cannot afford to hire you as a service provider.

How to Write a Killer "How to" Article in 7 Easy Steps
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Writing and submitting articles to online article banks and directories is an effective strategy for growing your online presence and demonstrating your expertise. Use these 7 simple steps to get started!

Grow Your List With an Effective Client-Capturing Device
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Implement these 8 simple strategies to grow your list by ensuring your "client-capturing" device is effective!

How to Double Your Opt-Ins by Adding a Hover Ad to Your Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] After 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 float in front of the page you're viewing, or may suddenly pop in and bounce up and down for a bit.

Increase Your Profits by Waiting for the Right Client
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Don't just "settle" for any client; have patience and wait for that client who sparks your passion! One 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.

Master Time Management With One Question
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time 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.

How to Use Your Website to Disqualify Your Prospects
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] How 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 like to admit. Consequently, several years ago I implemented one strategy that has been my secret weapon in my client cultivation process - I use my website to disqualify as many prospects as I can.

Conducting Your Online Business Checkup
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Is your life exactly what you want right now? Use these simple 6 steps to evaluate your online business and develop an action plan to get where you want to be!

Just Sit There and Do Nothing
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Relaxing can be tough for a Type A personality, even on vacation. Sometimes, just sitting there and doing nothing brings the best rewards for your life and business.

How to Set Up an Online Affiliate Program to Sell Your Products and Services
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Generate sales with the magical efforts of an Affiliate Program for your products or service business. I consider Amazon to be the Internet pioneer for establishing affiliate programs.

How to Make Raving Fans of Your Clients (and Create Your Best Referral Partners)
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Word-of-mouth referral is one of the best strategies to employ to keep your service business full. The best way to manifest these referrals is by creating "cheerleader clients", or those clients who think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread and eagerly and enthusiastically tell everyone they meet about you and your services.

7 Steps to Make Your Website Your Client Attraction Magnet
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Turn your website into an attraction magnet with these 7 simple steps! When I started my online business in 1999, I had a website, but did very little with it, as it seemed impossible to get noticed by the search engines. My website simply served as my online brochure and I had no plan in place to drive any traffic there. Fast forward to 2007, and now almost all of my clients come to me from my website. In fact, my website has brought 5 clients to my door in the past week.

Have You Inventoried Your Intellectual Capital Recently?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Starting a new business or changing directions? Capitalize on an often forgotten resource by taking an Intellectual Capital inventory.

5 Essential Strategies to Make Online Selling Easier
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] "Sales mentality" is the key to converting web site traffic into sales, especially if you're an online service professional.

6 Secrets to Designing an Effective Website Opt-in Form
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The one asset that is considered to be the gold in your online business is your email list. The best way to get people on your list is to create an effective opt-in form on your website. An opt-in form is a sign up form on a website that asks for key pieces of info, like email address and name, for example, in return for sending the visitor something of value. Here are 6 secrets to help you design an effective op-in form for your site:.

10 Key Questions To Ask To Unlock Your Expertise
[Business] 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.Your knowledge, likes and dislikes, and life experiences are all valuable keys to help you unlock your expertise. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself to help you assess your expertise:

How to Grow Your List and Make More Sales with Your Signature Teleseminar
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Conducting teleseminars for other people releases you from the responsibilities of marketing and promotion and registration involved with sponsoring a teleseminar. You are able to present my expertise to my target market from the comfort of my own home office. How can you add a signature teleseminar to your marketing mix? Here's my 10-step process for creating and profiting from your own signature teleseminar-

6 Secrets to Online Business Building Success
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The Internet marketing industry and online business industry is fraught with fraud. Building a business online is neither easy or quick. It takes time and dedication to generate the kind of results you desire. Here are 6 lessons that I believe are the "real" secrets to successfully building an online business:

7 Golden Rules of Online Customer Service
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] 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. Do your customer service procedures create raving fans or send people away into the Internet black hole, never to be heard from again? To help you evaluate your online customer service, here are 7 standards you should consider-

7 Tips to Successfully Changing Your Email Newsletter Service Provider
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Switching your email newsletter list providers isn't easy, but sometimes it's the best move to make for your business. You'll create a smaller list of dedicated readers and open the door to add additional subscribers who are interested in what you have to offer. Here's 7 tips to make the changeover process easier for you:

2 Free Email Marketing Secrets That Will Drive Traffic to Your Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Using an email address that contains your domain name and appending an email signature to all of your email correspondence are two free, easy and effortless ways to promote yourself, your website, and your products or services. Here's how you can incorporate these strategies into your email marketing:

10 Questions to Ask Before Licensing Your Program
[Business] Licensing your programs or products is a great way to get the word out about what you do, and have others (your licensees) pay you for the privilege of distributing your info around the globe. Here are 10 questions to consider as you determine your licensing strategy:

How to Create a Unique Selling Proposition for Your Online Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] A Unique Selling Proposition is a slogan, thought, idea, and way of doing business that makes you unique, different and distinct from other businesses in your niche or in your industry. Here's how you create an effective USP for your online business.

20 Must-Have Tools to Automate an Online Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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 toolkit? Here's my listing of the 20 indispensable tools that I cannot live without:

7 Web Search Tips for Online Business Owners
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Most online business owners are conducting fairly regular web searches for local and national competitors, keyword research, and searches for resources for a particular topic. Web research doesn't have to be a time-consuming task. You can find exactly the information you seek by using a few simple shortcuts to get the best results.

How to Use Google Alerts to Boost Your Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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. It's a no-cost way for you to determine what's been written online about both you and your competition, as well as to track any number of other terms that will aid you in your market research efforts.

Rocks, Stones and Sand
[Self-Improvement] What are the 'big rocks' in your life - your children; your loved ones; your education; your dreams? Learning how to decipher what's important in life is a major personal development lesson. The parable in this story shows you the important of putting the "big rocks" first.

How to Generate More Leads With a Squeeze Page
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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 visitor's name and primary email address. Here's what you need to get started with your squeeze page-

Ask One Question to Drive Traffic to Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Creating a value-added option like permitting your visitors to ask an important question is a very simple, inexpensive way to drive traffic to your site and help you sell products and services, develop relationships, and develop your expertise. Here are 7 steps you can follow to create your own one-page question website.

How to Create Your First Blog
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Blogging has opened website creation to almost everyone, as it takes very little know-how to get a blog up and running. Every service business can benefit from blog technology. Few other marketing strategies provide the quick immediacy that blogging provides. Here are 10 simple steps you can follow to start blogging immediately:

3 Must-Have Website Features that Convert Visitors into Customers
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Instead of trying to immediately convert your website visitor into a paying customer, initiate a relationship with your visitor. This means that you have a strategy to move him through your like, know, and trust process so that he's well acquainted with you when he decides to he's ready to buy. What's the secret to this relationship-building strategy? It's a simple process of including 3 must-have visitor conversion features on your website.

What's Your "Talking Domain Name"?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Just because you might have a long business name or use your given name as your business name doesn't mean that you have to use either of those names when you tell others what you do. Pick a domain name that is shorter yet memorable that you can use with great success in your publicity efforts, or a "talking domain name". Below are 5 strategies for effectively picking out your "talking domain name".

How to Find Your Niche, Determine Your Ideal Client, and Target Your Market
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The more focused you can become in defining what you do and in describing the group who needs what you do, the more effective your marketing becomes. Weeding out all those prospects who don't fit your niche, target market, or ideal client profile will leave you with a much better qualified pool of prospective clients. Here are 7 questions for you to consider in determining your niche, describing your ideal client, and finding your target market.

How to Create and Profit From Your Own Article Directory
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The primary goal of Internet surfers is to find free valuable content that gives them a solution to a problem. An article directory is the perfect place to provide that relevant content, help you generate leads for your primary site, and make a few bucks from site advertising in the process. Here are the 10 steps you can follow to create your own article directory:

10 Ways to Re-purpose Your Content
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] One way that you can work a bit easier in your online business is to re-purpose any articles or content you've written. This philosophy of "write once, use endlessly" has help me immeasurably over the years to expand my marketing reach further than I ever thought possible without having to create massive amounts of new content all the time. Below are 10 methods I successfully use to recycle my articles:

Putting the "Authentic You" in Your Online Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Do your prospective clients get a true sense of you when they read your brochure, peruse your business card, stumble across your web site, read your blog, or listen to your podcast? As a service business owner, one of your most unique selling propositions is YOU. Here's how I learned to integrate my true self into my own online business.

How to Create a Virtual Grand Opening
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Grand openings are held to generate good will and begin relationships with business colleagues, current clients, and prospective customers. Now, as the owner of a virtual business, you can foster that same good will by sponsoring a virtual grand opening for your new business or new website and get your new venture in gear. Below are some ideas to spice up your virtual grand opening or ribbon cutting:

12 Steps to Creating Your First Info Product
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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 consider purchasing your services. It means that you can sell something 24-7 from your website that demonstrates your expertise. It means that you're well on your way to creating a passive revenue stream for your business.

How to Create Effective Autoresponders to Keep in Touch with Your Prospects
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Creating an effective series of autoresponders helps you begin to develop a relationship with prospective customers, showcase your expertise, and ultimately convert prospects into customers. The autoresponder enables you to send a personalized automated reply to customers via email 24/7 without any intervention on your part past the setup stage. Below I've listed the type of information you can include in your autoresponder series.

How Effective Use of Pop-up Technology Can Help You Get More Clients Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Using pop-ups is an Internet marketing strategy that is incredibly effective. Some people report as much as a 50% increase of signups to their mailing list, for example, when they use a pop-up ad. This combination of new pop-up technology, along with a bit of Internet marketing savvy, can help you harness the power of your website to create a sure-fire strategy that will convert visitors into customers.

How to Create an HTML Newsletter (Ezine)
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] An HTML newsletter that is published regularly is a great "stay-in-touch" marketing mechanism. Publishing your own HTML newsletter is not as tough as you might think. OUtlined below are 10 easy steps to get you ont he road to publishing your own HTML newsletter.

5 Internet Marketing Mindsets Required for Online Business Success
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Over time, independent service professionals become tired of trading time for money. They want to turn their website into a money-making machine but aren't sure how. There are 5 Internet marketing mindsets that are prerequisites for success in an online business.

10 Secrets to Asking for Effective Client Testimonials for Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Getting testimonials from happy clients helps you become more trustworthy in the eyes of your visitors. By implementing a testimonial request system and incorporating testimonials into both your online and offline marketing efforts, you'll create a two-fold effect of establishing credibility with new customers and inspiriting loyalty in current ones.

10 Steps to Researching Your Competition Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Regardless of what business you're in, you have competition, or other businesses who are clamoring for the same consumer dollars as you. Creating your competitive intelligence helps you stay one step ahead of your competitors. It's essential to have an up-to-date picture of your closest competitors and what they are doing so that your company is remaining competitive and a major player in your industry.

10 Conversation Starters for Introverts Who Want to Network Successfully
[Business] Networking as it's traditionally carried out is not the favorite activity of many introverts. What has made this process easier for me is that I find out as much as I can about the others with whom I speak by asking one of my 10 pre-designed questions, noted in this article.

How Solo Entrepreneurs Can Create Their First First Website for Under $100 Per Year
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Many solo service professionals don't have a great of time or capital to invest in a website. Most want something quick, easy and simple at the beginning. A brochure web site built by purchasing a hosting service that offers template-based website design will get you up and running quickly. Here's the process and technology needed to get you started on your first website:

7 Features of an Effective Email Signature That Gets Results
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] For online business owners, an email signature can be the least expensive yet most effective tool in your online business marketing toolkit. Why? Because it enables you to promote yourself and your business without any blatant advertising. In thie article you'll find 7 strategies for creating an effective email signature that will help you get clients online:

7 Steps to Creating Your Own Podcast
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Podcasting] Podcasting in an inexpensive marketing medium for solo service professionals that's taking the world by storm. Below are 7 steps to help you create a podcast to help you market your service business:

How to Write Articles That Will Increase Traffic to Your Website
[Writing-and-Speaking:Article-Marketing] Your target market needs your expertise. One of the quickest ways to demonstrate your expertise and increase traffic to your website is through writing articles. If you use the 10 strategies for article writing that I've outlined to write your articles, you'll start to see the traffic to your website increase in short order.

How to Create Your First One-Page Sales Web Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] One-page web sites (also called one-page sales letter web sites or mini web sites) have only one purpose - to sell a product. Completing a one page web site won't happen overnight. However, with a bit of research, great copywriting, and a marketing plan in place, a one-page web site can easily become a profit center for your business.

The Solo Entrepreneur's Success Secret: Planning Time for Business Development
[Business:Solo-Professionals] Planning time to work ON your business, rather than IN your business, is absolutely crucial to the future growth and development of your business. Below is a proven time management strategy that will get you out of the client service rut and enable you to create the kind of business you truly want.

How to Create Your Marketing Funnel Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Creating a marketing funnel in which members of your target market can buy your expertise at several different price points will increase your exposure to larger numbers of your target market, ultimately bringing you more clients willing to go through the marketing funnel experience.

How Self-Employed Professionals Can Defeat the "Fraud Factor"
[Business] 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 Factor". Below are 6 symptoms of the "Fraud Factor Syndrome" and how self-employed service business owners can defeat the "Fraud Factor".

Top 10 Ways to Have an Online Sale
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] If you need money quickly or want a surefire way to increase your cashflow, it's time to throw a sale.Take a look at what types of sales make sense for you, get out your calendar, and integrate them into your marketing plan. If you have a good sense of when cashflow is tight, a planned sale should significantly boost your revenue.

The Truth About Starting an Online Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] It is possible to make a decent living from online sources. However, to be successful, you'll need to do your research, be willing to invest your time, and persevere when the going gets tough. Here's my list of 10 things I wish I'd known about Internet marketing when I started my online business:

How to Get More Clients from Online Discussion Lists and Forums
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Forums] Becoming a regular participant in just a few relevant online discussion lists or forums can be a very effective way to get more clients online. Follow the list/forum rules, share what you know, have a great offer in your email signature, and watch the new visitors come to your web site, subscribe to your blog or email newsletter, and ultimately become new clients.

15 Proven Strategies to Grow Your List
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] Your email newsletter list is your gold mine because it's filled with subscribers who already know something about you. Growing your list takes time. Better to have well-qualified prospects on your list who are truly interested in what you offer than a large list of people who never read what you write. Here are 15 strategies I've used over the past 5 years to get subscribers to my email newsletter list:

7 Lessons in Successful Self-Employment from "Weeds"
[Business:Top7-or-10-Tips] The edgy Showtime television suburban satire, "Weeds", holds a whole host of lessons on business building for the self-employed. Wiidowed soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, agonizes how she'll support her family and discovers the lucrative income in being the local neighbor pot dealer. Watching her start and grow her business is like reading an entrepreneurial textbook on mistakes to avoid as a business owner.

10 Offline Tightwad Marketing Strategies to Help You Get More Clients
[Business:Marketing] Tightwad marketing is the art of doing more with less, or using your creativity instead of your checkbook to get the word out about your business. Even though the saying, "If you build it they will come" worked for Kevin Costner’s character in the movie, "Field of Dreams", life doesn't often imitate art.

10 Steps to Creating Your Internet Marketing Plan
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] 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 potential clients throughout the world. Here are 10 steps to creating a viable Internet Marketing Plan for your service business.

Top 10 Strategies to Creating an Article When You're Out of Ideas
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Clients often tell me that they lack a focus for their writing, or are at a loss for a topic for an article. I've come up with 10 strategies that I regularly use when I'm stuck that help me create a wonderful article for my ezine or website.

Using Membership Subscription Websites to Leverage Your Expertise Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] A membership subscription web site can be a phenomenal way to leverage your expertise and can grow to become a lucrative multiple profit center for your business. In order to be successful, you need to create your business plan for your site and do the research up front to determine if this strategy will be a viable profit center for your business and how you will integrate it into your current offerings.

How to Find Your Target Market Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Many business owners are looking for their target market in all the wrong places. Worse yet is the business owner whose target market is "everybody". Doing your target market research ahead of time will save you a great deal of grief and headache. There are seven great research tools I recommend that are available online for you to research your target market.

Top 7 Strategies to Build Trust in Your Online Service Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Giving your visitors confidence that they can trust what you do and say is one key to success in the online world. There are 7 prime strategies you can use to eliminate the barriers in doing business with you and set visitors on the path of getting to know, like, respect and trust you. .

How to Build Your Personal Marketing Swipe File
[Self-Improvement:Creativity] Don't try and keep all the info that you read in your head. Create your personal marketing swipe file and use 3 key orgaizationsal tools so that you can find these important references anytime you need them.

7 Signs That It's Time to Fire a Client
[Business] What happens to your business when you keep clients that are not a good fit? All of your time and energy is drained in serving these clients, you lose any enthusiasm you ever had for your business, and you no longer have the time or desire to go out and market yourself and continue to fill your client roster. Check your client roster against these 7 signs -- is it time for you to shake out your client roster?

How to Make More By Working Less
[Self-Improvement:Success] How often do you take a break? When you're stuck or feeling overwhelmed, do you continue to plug away, becoming increasingly frustrated and stuck and not accomplishing anything, and then become resentful? All work and no play makes Jane a dull girl. I've discovered that if you want to make more, you should work less.

7 Strategies to Choosing an Effective Domain Name
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Your domain name is the beginning of the establishment of your presence online, The process of picking the "right" domain name takes some time and thought so that the domain name serves you well into the future. Here are 7 strategies you can use to pick an effective domain name:

How to Put Your Needs First and Not Sweat the Small Stuff
[Self-Improvement] Most people spend too much time worrying about things that don't really matter. When their time is consumed by this, they have little time to spend on what does matter in their lives. Here's an engaging story about time management to help you get your needs met.

How to Leverage Your Expertise with Tips Booklets
[Business] If you've been thinking of writing a book, and feel that project to be overwhelming, a tips booklet can be the vehicle to become a published expert, instead. The publication of a tips booklet will help you promote your product or service, distribute value-added products, generate additional revenue, or become an established expert in your field.

How to Leverage Your Expertise with Teleclasses and Teleconferences
[Business:Sales-Teleselling] Teleclasses and teleconferences are a great way for people to get a "taste" of what you have to offer without any great expenditure. Many self-employed service professionals use free teleclasses as a marketing tool so that participants can get to know them, or as an introduction to a fee-based course/program that they're selling.

Top 10 Features of a Shopping Cart That Will Make You Money Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] A full-featured shopping cart program can make all the difference in helping you achieve your sales goals in your online business. I've come up with 10 essential features that your shopping cart should offer so help you make money online.

How to Sell Your Expertise Over and Over Again
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] If you're a service business owner, you have only so many hours in the day. Instead of trying to work with many clients one-on-one, replicate yourself and your knowledge by taking what you know and re-purpose and re-package it into into multiple profit centers.

Top 10 Reasons Submitting Articles Helps You Find Clients Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Are you spending too much money, time and energy in promoting your website and having lackluster results? Submitting articles is a low-cost way to increase the traffic to your website and enable you to find more clients online.

How to Maintain Your Business and Your Romantic Relationship without Losing Either
[Relationships] Being in love and running a business don't have to be mutually exclusive. Both endeavors are hard work, and if you forget that point, you can lose one or the other in a flash. Here are some things I've learned through the school of hard knocks that's helping me maintain this relationship, as well as run a business, without losing either.

Top Seven Strategies to Help You Market Your Local Business Online and Market Your Virtual Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Using the Internet to find local businesses has now become mainstream, and will only continue to grow as today's children and teens, who have been online almost all of their lives, become adults. If you have a brick-and-mortar business, you may be losing business if you don't have a website or your website doesn't contain enough information to help someone decide to do business with you.

Seven Strategies for Creating a Successful Mastermind Group
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Creating a mastermind group can dramatically leverage the success of each participant in such a group. Below are seven factors you need to consider when creating your own mastermind group.

Does Work/Life Balance Really Exist?
[Womens-Interests] If you look at almost any issue of nationally published women's magazines, you'll find article upon article trying to convince American women that they can have both a brilliant career/business and a marvelous family life and not suffer in the process. I'm not sure work/life balance is possible in the way that most women want it to be.

How to Turn Your Failure Into Success
[Self-Improvement:Success] Sometimes in life, the events that we look upon as failures are the gateways to our greatest successes.

Top 10 Ways to Market Your Website Offline
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] In our quest to have the best online presence, we often forget to use more traditional means to get the word out about our website. I've come up with 10 simple, off-line marketing strategies that will help you get your website noticed!

How to Provide Exceptional Solutions (Not Just Service) to Your Clients
[Business:Customer-Service] Your clients are busy. Anything you can do to save them money, time, or energy will engender their lifelong loyalty to you. Stretch a bit and begin to provide solutions to your clients rather than just your service, and they'll become your most vocal referral agents!

6 Secrets to Preventing Email Overload
[Communications] Email can be both a blessing and a curse. The immediacy of the communication provided by email is wonderful, but your workday can easily be spent trying to combat all of the spam and viruses that accompany your email. Here are 6 quick tips that I use to help me better manage my email.

How to Hire Some Help (a Virtual Assistant) and Give Yourself a Raise
[Business] Whether you're just starting out or have been in business for awhile, the thought of bringing on a support team member can be daunting, and you wonder, "How can I bring in someone else when it's just going to increase my expenses?" You need to make the shift to seeing this cost as an investment in your business, rather than as an expense.

How Public Speaking Can Help You Dramatically Increase Your Business
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Speaking to groups gives you the opportunity to reach out and touch potential clients who might otherwise never cross your path and for you to get them into your marketing funnel so that they can begin to get to know, like and respect you and will ultimately buy from you. Here are ten steps to help you begin your public speakingcareer so that you can dramatically increase your business.

Top 10 Ways to Make Your Website Sell 24/7
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Are you one of the last remaining business on Earth without a website? If so, you are leaving lots of money on the table! A successful website is simply more than a pretty brochure -- it's one that will bring you qualified leads and sales and help you increase your bottom line. Here are ten strategies you can employ to make your website a selling machine for your company.

Top Ten Ways to Get Qualified Clients from your Tradeshow Exhibit
[Business] Don't let your tradeshow experience break the bank in setup and materials fees, or in the time you and your employees invest in staffing the booth. There are ten steps you can take to ensure that your tradeshow experience is a resounding success and bring you many qualified leads.

7 Deadly Sins to Avoid When You're the Guest Speaker
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Speaking about what you do is an incredibly powerful way of marketing a service business. There are a few simple steps you can take and mistakes to avoid so that you have a memorable presentation that makes your audience eager to hear from you again and again.

How to Beat the Mid-Winter Blues When You're Self-Employed
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The winter months can be hard to bear, especially when you're self-employed. When chaos or the winter doldrums overtake your life, there are a number of steps you can take to bounce back from the mid-winter blues.

Top 10 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Retreat for Self-Employed Entrepreneurs
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] An Annual Business Retreat can be the most powerful thing you'll ever do for your business. Knowing where you're going and how Iyou're going to get there and developing the financial picture of that plan wasis incredibly empowering.

5 Secrets to Building Business Relationships When You're an Introvert
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] In any business marketing book or course, you'll hear that if you don't toot your own horn about your business, no one else will. So, what's an introverted business owner to do to get the word out about his/her business? You can refocus your marketing efforts to building relationships online.

5 Secrets to Creating an Email Newsletter That Gets Results
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] People have to know, like, trust and respect you before they'll decide to buy anything from you. The perfect way to begin a relationship with prospective clients is through your own email newsletter. Discover 5 secrets that I learned through the "school of hard knocks" that have helped successfully market my business through email newsletter publishing:

Top 10 Tools to TurboCharge Your Marketing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Millions of small business owners are so busy with clients that they often push aside all marketing tasks, citing a lack of time. To "get the most bang for the buck" out of your marketing activities, try these 10 tools that will help you turbocharge your marketing:

Top 10 Tools to TurboCharge Your Business Productivity
[Business:Productivity] As a small business owner, finding new technology or new services that help automate your business can make a tremendous difference in your time management and your productivity. How many more clients could you follow up with and add to your business if you freed up 30 minutes, 60 minutes, or as much as 2 hours a day?

10 Steps to Creating Your Smalll Business Disaster Plan
[Business:Top7-or-10-Tips] As a solopreneur, what can you do to make your business disaster-proof? We seem to have an increased number of natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, mud slides, ice storms, blizzards, etc. that can potentially permanently close your business. Here are my ten secrets gained from a recent hurricane evacuation that helped me get my business back up and running quickly.

The Heroic Entrepreneur: Profiting from Your Brilliance
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] If you look up the definition of hero in Webster's, you'll find a definition something like, 'A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed h...

Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Joining a Professional Association
[Business:Small-Business] Learn, before you leap into joining professional associations. There are 10 key elements to consider as your evaluate the fit of a particular association as a part of your overall marketing strategy and the target market of your business.