6 steps closer to monetising your blog!

I’m often asked how to make money from Blogging. Not wanting to dampen enthusiasm, it’s not a get rich quick scheme. But it’s not impossible. To get you there you need to have these six crucial skills: 1. Patience 2. Resilience. 3. A great imagination. 4. Knowledge. 5. The discipline to learn. 6. Multiple Income streams? Why patience you say? If you do everything right. Join blogging forums, create...

Put a sandwich board out to drive traffic!

The content of your website tells your visitors all about you and your business; it is your shop window. The problem is that if your shop is on a back street and you have no passers by then you need to get people to take a detour down your street! It’s easy, you put a sandwich board out with key phrases to grab their attention? So what can you do to get people to come to you on the web? Good blogs and articles...

If you build a relationship – they will come!

How often have you received an e-mail or message saying – Hello, I am Joe Blogs and I am so excited to get to know you, why not pop over to my website and.…I know you have because I have, in fact I have probably been the guilty party. In fact I do believe that I have a direct message exactly like that set up to thank people who follow me on Twitter….damn! Phew! Just got back from Twitter and changed all my...

That call to action – your life’s blood!

You can have the best looking website in the world, the best products ever invented, the most eye catching advertisements and a service second to none but if you don’t tell your customers how to buy from you then all your hard work is wasted! If you want the reader to buy your product or take you up on your service, then tell him so, tell him what to do to pay now! Unless you enjoy entertaining your...

10 QUESTIONS: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? By John Assaraf

Do you have what it takes to be really successful? Have you ever thought about what you must be prepared to endure and do in order to be successful in business or your career? I think I have been asked at least 5,000 times what it really takes to be successful in business, so I jotted down 10 questions you can use to gauge whether you already have what it takes, or if you need to do a little “work” to get...

How and Why to Start a Membership Site.

People often ask me about the benefit of having  a membership site. I have 3 networking  membership sites that are free to join and are  self populating. Once set up, these sites tend to need very little administration but, although they do not generate any direct revenue apart from occasional affiliate earnings, they have immense value to me. Let’s take a look at my Women’s Peer Network, At the time...

How to market on Twitter 2

Thank you to all the people who have e-mailed me and commented on my websites about my first Twitter article. Here is a link to it, if you would like to read it again: http://patsutton.com/index.php/archives/154 I am so pleased that you all found it so useful. With that in mind I have decided to write a sequel by way of your questions answered, hope you find it just as useful? Here are some of the questions you have...

How to market on Twitter

I am not going to explain to you how to create an account, I am sure you are capable enough! Once the account is created with a nice profile and picture you can then start to add your “Tweets”. You are allowed up to 140 characters and it is advisable to keep the tweets as short as possible, I will explain why shortly. I know a lot of people use Twitter to talk about their latest night out or what they had for...

Do your potential customers forget about you?

Posted by Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) Your web business probably gets product inquiries from potential customers around the globe. Inquiries come via e-mail and your web site, and you try to send information to each hot prospect as quickly as you can. You know that you can drastically increase the likelihood of making a sale by satisfying each person’s need for information quickly! But, after you’ve delivered...

Email Newsletter Open Rates Need Improving?

Posted by Justin Premick Think you know the best day and time to send your email newsletter? Ever wonder if your fellow email marketers are all sending at the same time you do? Convinced your open rate is too low (or amazingly high)? Some recent statistics pulled from all AWeber users may help you answer these questions: What Kind of Open Rates Are People Getting? If you’re sending HTML emails, you probably use...