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How To Get Customers to Take Action

There’s a general cycle to internet business, a series of phases. The first phase is generally to drive traffic, increase awareness and build your subscriber or opt-in list. The second phase is to motivate subscribers to become customers. This is generally accomplished by offering entry level products like low cost reports and ebooks. However, once [...]

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Why Your Blog Isn’t Making Money

There could be many reasons why your blog isn’t making money. It could be that you started it yesterday and you only have one post (and that post starts with “Hello world! Welcome to WordPress.”). It could be that no one on the Internet can find your blog. It could be that everyone that visits [...]

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Inspiration and Ideas for Blog Posts

How do you get ideas and inspiration to write your blog? A lot of people jump into it and start writing with lots of enthusiasm, only to fizzle out down the road when they run into the inevitable “writers block.” Don’t wait to feel inspired. A lot of writers sit around and wait for inspiration. [...]

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How to Add Personality to your Blog

Personality is important for business growth. For most small businesses their personality is their brand – and it’s an incredible asset. Additionally, for internet marketing success building a community is essential. Building a community around a personality and a brand is much easier than drawing traffic and attention to a blog without any identifiable personality [...]

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8 Tips to Get More Blog Comments

Doesn’t it just bug you when you try to start a conversation and no one jumps in to help? That’s the way it is with blogging. You blog and blog and yet few, if any, people comment. It can make blogging feel like a futile effort. Well the truth of the matter is most of [...]

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Make Money by Blogging: Your Way Out

It’s like this fantasy world you live in – you’ve quit your job and are making money full time by blogging.  You’re making so much money, in fact, that you’ve bought a new house – helped your mom out of debt – and have employed your siblings just to keep up with everything you’re now [...]

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Home Business Advertising on a Limited Budget

Note: This is targeted towards readers who are trying to find out the basics of what they should be looking at in order to start advertising their new home business for free or on a limited budget. Intermediate to advanced readers should skip this one – or better yet, leave a comment with your own [...]

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Why Mommy Bloggers Have Become So Popular

When moms first began blogging, barely anyone took notice. Now, even the captains of industry are taking notice. What is it exactly that has made mommy bloggers so popular? Mom blogs have far reaching influence. Journaling was a way to relax and share stories. But, with the advent of social networking, moms began to connect [...]

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Bloggers: Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress

I was recently searching out a plugin for WordPress plugin that just allowed me to shorten or cloak URLs. I knew I could use this to manage all of my affiliate links in one place. I found a few plugins, which worked okay – but there was one major drawback… NONE of them listed the [...]

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Two Rules to Guarantee a Successful Small Business Blog

Two Rules to Guarantee a Successful Small Business Blog

Your friends, family, and colleagues have the best intentions when they say, “You should just start a blog” but they may not fully understand what it takes to create a successful blog. Small business owners need to understand that starting a blog is a lot like planting a garden, it requires a lot of work [...]

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