Taking Your Business to Phase 2

This week I am going to give you a piece of very valuable advice. If you are in any line of business, this will apply to you. Since this newsletter is geared toward web entrepreneurs, then obviously this also applies to you. This situation is this: You have your own business. You are the only [...]

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Making Money with Blogs

Blogging started out as a fad. People come online, set up quick websites, and then start posting journal entries. It has taken some time to gain respect. Blogs that deal with news and politics have long been the brunt of jokes from the so-called “official media”. But, most of them will admit they visit blogs [...]

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Envision Your Ideal Scene

One of the big parts to starting and running your own business is to think ahead. In fact, one of the chief reasons for failure when doing your own business is losing grip on your original goals and instead being a day-to-day technician. When you start your business, you have high hopes and you are [...]

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Getting the Work Done - Time Management

Time management is a bit of an art, but it is something every webmaster has to be pretty good at. Let’s face it - running a website can and usually does take a lot of time. Most webmasters usually work full-time jobs at the same time, working on their websites at night or over the [...]

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Integrating a Website With Your Business

It has been one of my continual themes when talking with clients about their websites that their site needs to serve their business. When I work with a client, I look at their website as an extension of their business model. I take a look at their overall business and evaluate:

How do they make their [...]

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Really Communicate To Your Visitors

This article might be a bit different than you’ve come to expect from a webmaster-related article. The reason is that, in my opinion, it is a facet of the internet many people don’t really think about. And that is communication. But, by communication I mean more than just talking or writing. Read on…
What is Communication?
Communication [...]

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Time to Launch

There are two very distinct phases to a website: (1) Design and (2) Marketing. In my opinion, far too many people spend way too much time on #1 and not enough time on #2. That is easy to do. All of us want to have a website which looks great and functions the way we [...]

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Is There a Use for MySpace in Business?

Most of us who are not living under a rock have heard something about the Myspace buzz. It seems to be another internet revolution. The business side of this behemoth is something to behold. [...]

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Outflow Equals Inflow

There is a very simple formula which you should always remember when it comes to selling a product or service, or simply trying to get traffic to your website. That formula is:
Outflow = Inflow
Clarified, all this means that the amount of inflow you receive (traffic, sales, etc.) will be equal to the amount of outflow [...]

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From Paycheck to Entrepreneur

One of the most sought-after things for most beginning webmasters is to be able to move from a paycheck-to-paycheck job into an Entrepreneur position, working from home, with the website generating enough income to live from. Many people have done it, including myself. In my case, I began doing what I do while I was [...]

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