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 [...]

November 10, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: how to guides, marketing, sales, tips  12 Comments

Confessions of a Blogger.

At last my official blog website is actually finished. My intention of blogging for a living has become a reality.
Ok, what next?
The first thing I need to do is to go back over the archives and delete all my earlier muses.
In the early days, as is usual for blog virgins, my impression of a blog [...]

November 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Blogging, FrontPage, motivation, personal development, writing  3 Comments

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 [...]

November 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: FrontPage, how to guides, marketing, sales  3 Comments

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 [...]

November 9, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: how to guides, marketing, motivation, sales  One Comment

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 [...]

October 29, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: how to guides, marketing  5 Comments