[wp_ad_camp_1] Some people start out online with a decent idea. You can build a “decent” business around a decent idea. I have a few ideas that I’ve built websites around that started out as decent ideas. Over time, I modified what I was doing and “decent” suddenly found itself upgraded to GOOD. I’ve found over…
[wp_ad_camp_1] Have you ever asked yourself, “Am I on the right road?” When you think about all the time and effort you put into something, you eventually have to ask yourself the question, “Is my investment in time, energy and money paying off?” Granted, there are ups and downs with everything. Going through difficulties in…
[wp_ad_camp_1] Is there really such a thing as a “right way” to build an online business? There are many ways that can be considered right. There is also about 10-times as many ways that can be considered wrong. It’s easy to tell if you’re doing things wrong. If you’re not making money, you’re doing something…
[wp_ad_camp_1] There’s a time for playing it safe. Now is probably not that time. I say this because over 47 million new websites appear online every year (as of 2009 statistics). Do the math. Over 128,000 new websites pop up EVERY DAY. The odds are pretty strong that some of them will pop up in…
[wp_ad_camp_1] The Internet has changed the way just about every industry and niche under the sun does business. It hasn’t changed “business” per se. It’s just changed HOW business is done. The age-old concepts and framework behind sales and marketing will never change. The psychology that powers the whole process will never change, either. What’s…
[wp_ad_camp_1] It happens to everyone. You’re excited about promoting a new product; you roll out your marketing campaign and… it flat-lines. In other cases, you’re using sales materials that have worked for years when suddenly… nothing. Sales/business comes to a stand-still. Whether you realize it or not, the world and the markets in it are…
Publicity is a changing game. There was a time when getting a write-up in the newspaper (local or otherwise) was similar to hitting the ball out of the park in the big game. In days of old, newspapers owned the local and national markets. That time has come and gone. The same was true of…
[wp_ad_camp_1] For the sake of simplicity, let’s say that there are only two types of people in the world. Smart people… and dumb people. In reality, we know there is a wide spectrum and varying levels or degrees of both. Just bringing this subject up reminds me of a story I heard several years ago…
There are a lot of ways to promote your business online. About twice as many as there were ten years ago. More choices are a good thing, right? Not really. The more choices people have, the less inclined they are to follow any single one through to its ultimate conclusion. It’s sort of like digging…
[wp_ad_camp_1] I was in a bookstore the other day and saw a copy of an old Opportunity Magazine I hadn’t read in years. I picked it up and browsed through it for a moment. Same old stories with different titles you might say. It was hard to believe that I was once an “opportunity junkie.”…