Where to Find a Cash Windfall of $10,000 to $1,000,000--You Never Knew..
There is a rather famous true story called “Acres of Diamonds”. It is about a successful farmer who risks everything searching the African continent for diamonds. Ultimately he dies sick and penniless, while the new owner of his farm uncovers on...

The Added Effectiveness of Promotional Products in Your Marketing Plan
Recently, I stopped by a new car wash in my town and while preparing to insert my six quarters into the machine to start the cleaning process, the owner came over to me and thanked me for stopping in. He also handed me a pen that had the name and...

Guide to a Profitable Marketing Mix
You may have heard the term Marketing Mix used in connection with marketing planning.Marketing Mix means the combination of promotions, products, places (distribution channels), and prices you chose for your business. Including both short term and...

Three Reasons To Host Your Own Teleconference
Top companies have been doing it for years. It enables their employees to "be there" without actually being there. Teleconferencing has been in existence for a number of years to help people to work at home and still be a major part of meetings....

PR: The Wildcard Marketing Strategy
What is the true purpose of public relations and how can it really help impact the growth of your small business? In order for the media to succeed, they need information that is both useful and entertaining for their readers. This is where you, the...

11 Steps to "Sticky" Web Site!
An attractive and user-friendly Web site is crucial to attracting prospects and holding their interest. Seems obvious, yet poor design and even more poorly written content clutter the Web. The basics of a good web site are simple. Generally, if...

10 Sure Fire Ways To Get More Ezine Subscribers
1. Place testimonials for your ezine on your site.Your testimonials will help you to increase your circulation by showing your visitors how your ezine has helped your subscribers.2. Give your visitors the chance to see what your ezine is all about...

Creating a Winning Logo
Creating a logo to get you noticed.When you’re branding a company with a name, a colour scheme and a logo the logo is often not given enough care and attention. It should follow the chosen colour scheme and reflect the business that your company is...

Book Club Sales -- Increasing the Odds
What is a book club sale? It is actually a rights sale or a licensing agreement: you are granting permission to a book club the right to “borrow” your work. You have written a book, and now you are allowing a book club to print and distribute your...

Wordtracker Wisdom: Common keyword questions and Answers
One of my favorite subjects to teach on at our live SEO Mastery Workshops is that of keyword research and the behavior of a specific target audience using my all time favorite research tool, Wordtracker. For those who have not heard of, Wordtracker...

50% of Yellow Page Directory Users are Looking for Just One Thing
Directory Users Seek Information about Location First People who open the Yellow Pages already have a desire to buy. That sets it apart from all other advertising media. For a brief time, the eager-to-buy directory user checks the competition, to...

20 Ideas for creating traffic rich, search engine friendly pages
Sometimes questions will arise around the subject of gateway information pages or doorway pages. People have heard that "doorway pages" are BAD and some have stated that search engines "hate doorway pages". For clarification on these type of...

Expose Yourself !
That's what you need to do, if you want to maximize the traffic to your website. You need to expose yourself to as many pairs of eyes as you possibly can. Paying for advertising is one way to accomplish that, but there are many other much more...

Planting Bare Root Roses
The following article was written by David G. Hallstrom for and originally published by National Realtors Directory.com. Planting Bare Root RosesBefore planting, the plants must be prepared. The following suggestions will help insure that your roses...

What A Newsletter Can Do For Your Business
Newsletters are often thought of as easy, do-it-yourself communications projects. The reality is different…and that can be discouraging. Developing a good newsletter concept can be difficult and time-consuming. It takes market intelligence -- and...

Does Your Message Pass the Test?
Develop an effective benefit message and you’re well on your way to building your company’s entire marketing program. After all, you need focus to create success. Without it you can wind up expending effort without getting the reward (income, that...

Are Your Emails Gettting Through?
If sending email to a mailing list is part of your markëting or business building strategy, you want to make sure your messages are reaching your audience. Are your readers getting your emails? Due to the proliferation of sp@m, ISPs (your web access...

The Mystery of the Magical Keyword Density Formula
Keyword density. When it comes to SEO copywriting, this has to be one of the most talked about subjects. Why? Because keywords are the very foundation of search engine copywriting. Without keywords we wouldn’t even have SEO copywriting. Because...

Reciprocal Linking Overload-Any old link back will do?
Are you attempting to become a Google junior by adding thousands of links on your site? Don’t bother, listen to these facts first.So you want to get a Google top page rank and get your site listed on the first page when an internet surfer types in...

Networked Markets Are Democratic, Structured Markets Are Republican.
Today I was checking out Michelle's A Small Victory. There are threads on self-publishing that mutated into a dispute about trolls, who was a troll, and whether linking to Little Green Footballs was as "un-nuanced" as linking to "Democratic...

Evangelicals Frustrated by Bush
From an article by Ralph Z. HallowTHE WASHINGTON TIMES"I'm not blaming the president, but religious conservatives have been doing politics for 25 years and, on every front, are worse off on things they care about," said Gary Bauer, president of...

Where's Your Focus, Money or Customer?
Is your website Really useful?I had a 'rep' in yesterday who was telling me he had a website, not realising I'm a man of many talents he was telling me about all the new companies he was working with and the great products he could offer and...

Demystifying The Radically Different Keyword Results Provided By Overt..
...because your online success depends on getting accurate keyword counts! Part 3 (Continued from Part 2. Contact Robin@SearchEngineWorkshops.com for the complete article.)Finally: Making sense of the numbers (here comes the shock). Ok, now that you...

Demystifying The Radically Different Keyword Results Provided By Overt..
...because your online success depends on getting accurate keyword counts! (Continued from Part 1. Contact Robin@SearchEngineWorkshops.com for the complete article.) Reason #2 - Duplicate Searches As you most certainly must know, Overture's...

Demystifying The Radically Different Keyword Results Provided By Overt..
...because your online success depends on getting accurate keyword counts! The root of all success in search engine marketing begins with keywords. Period. Get them wrong and virtually everything about your online endeavor will fail. Only by...