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6 Proven Ways to Fill Your Teleseminars
Teleseminars are a great way to make some quick cash, or give one of your current offerings a boost in sales. Of course, in order for that to happen, you need to fill them!
5 Simple Steps to Adding Offline Marketing to Your Online Business
Taking my struggling consulting business online and following the business model I now do turn everything around for me, financially and otherwise. So when I started hearing from my mentors that I might want to add some offline marketing tactics back into the mix, I was hesitant to say the least.
6 Ways to Optimize Your Opt in Page
Building a responsive, high-quality list of email subscribers is the key to leveraging your marketing time and increasing your income.
5 Simple Steps to a Website that Makes Sales
Is your website producing leads for you or is it just sitting out there in cyberpace looking pretty? Obviously, you want your website to work for you to generate leads and make sales, not just be a pretty brochure for your business.
5 Keys to a Viable Niche
Every niche has struggles and challenges. In order for you to build a viable business within that niche, they have to have problems that they really want solved. This article gives you 5 keys to look for to decide if a niche is a viable one for your business.
Your Personal Development Plan
The following article was excerpted and revised from my Polished, Planned and Prepared Program. This is one of my favorite parts of the program. I love defining goals because I know that the simple act of writing them down increases the likelihood of actually achieving them by 70%!
7 Quick Ways to Write Content For Your Ezine
Ever sit down to write an article for your ezine and be at a loss as to what to say? It happens to the best of us, so I thought I'd share some of the ways that I get unstuck when that happens to me.
5 Ways to Drive More Targeted Traffic to Your Website
Unfortunately, when it comes to your website, the 'if you build it, they will come' strategy just doesn't work. Fortunately, there are many ways to drive high-quality traffic to your website for little to no cost. The following 5 strategies will show you how:
How To Avoid Being Labeled a Spammer
If you're running an online business, you know that your list is your most important asset. And regardless of whether you're just starting out or not, if you lose a chunk of your subscribers because even just one of your emails gets flagged as spam, it's going to hurt your business.
Skip the Resolutions!
Did you take some time this past week to think about and perhaps even write down your resolutions for 2007? To be honest, I'm not exactly a fan of resolutions - really, what's so different about December 31 than January 1 that's going to make a dramatic difference in whether or not you keep your resolutions?
Measure Your Results for Faster, Easier and More Success
When I was studying for my MBA, my most challenging class was statistics. So imagine my pleasant surprise when I sat down to analyze the statistics of my business over the last 12 months and found myself engrossed, fascinated, excited and practically dancing for joy.
Joint Ventures 101
Do you know that one of the best ways to build a successful online business quickly is through joint ventures? I know this concept can bit a bit hard to grasp to those of us who like being a lone ranger (kind of one of the common traits of being an entrepreneur, right?). But I hope you'll join me as I more fully embrace the 'no one reaches success alone' philosophy myself.
Strapped for Cash? 7 Ways to Have a Sale Today
Want to encourage people on your email list to buy one (or more) of your products or programs sooner than later? Have a sale! This article gives you 7 ways that you can provide value to your potential clients/customers and still bring in a profit for you at the same time.
Keeping in Touch: 5 Alternatives to an Ezine
As an online business owner, you know you must stay in touch with your email list on a regular basis if you want to have a successful and sustainable business. Publishing an ezine is one of the most effective ways to do so, but sometimes that can feel overwhelming and cumbersome. This article gives you 5 alternatives to putting out an ezine.
Crown Yourself Queen
A key to building a successful and sustainable business is to do yourself the favor of crowning yourself queen (or king), and not to wait for someone else to give you the nod of validation. Being known and sought after as an expert will put you on the fast track to success.
What To Do When People Aren't Buying
Did you know that almost every person who visits your website will leave without buying? But there are things you can do to get the most from your website visitors that can make a big difference in your bottom line. I share four of them in this article.
Make Your Thank You Pages Do Double-Duty
There are a number of ways you can leverage the page your website visitors see after they sign up for your list or make a purchase. This article shares four ways to utilize this space to increase your marketing and sales without having to do more work.
3 Simple Steps to Fantastic Testimonials
You want your testimonials to be results-based so as to do the selling for you. This article will show you how.
Working on Yourself IS Working on Your Business
Being an entrepreneur isn't easy. Putting yourself out there in such a way opens you up to criticism, makes you confront your fears and forces you to recognize your limitations. But it also shows you how to harness your unique skills and gifts, teaches you delegation and discipline, and even patience and persistance.
5 Ideas for Writing Sales Pages That Sell
Whether you have a tiny list or thousands of people on it, you can still give all your sales communications - whether it's a long sales letter, sales copy for an ad, or short sales copy for the products page of your website - the feeling of being personal if you write it as if you were talking to a friend. THis article will show you how.
Your Marketing Pie: The Key to an Abundance of Clients and Customers
In the very beginning stages of building my business, my own coach at the time shared with me his version of how to best market a coaching business. He called it a Marketing Pie, and each slice of the pie represented one type of marketing tactic. His advice was to create something similar for my own business to keep a steady stream of clients and customers in my funnel.
Need Cash Quick? Have a Sale!
If you're feeling strapped for cash and you have at least one product or program to sell, consider having a sale to make some quick income - and make some sales you wouldn't have otherwise!
Asking: A Key to Your Business Success
Here are 5 easy ways that you can ask for the business that if you implement on a consistent basis will guarantee that your business - and your bottom line - will grow.
Guarantees: Why You Should Offer Them
There are many questions that often come up for new small business owners around offering guarantees - what kind, how long, am I risking too much by doing so, and even if they should offer them at all. This article tells you want you need to know about offeirng guarantees for your own offerings.
5 Ways to Turn a Holiday Lull to Your Advantage
You may be too busy during the holiday season to notice if your business is slowing down a bit, but in case you're not, there are several things you can do to use this time to your advantage as you head into the new year.

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