The emotional ups and downs were the biggest surprise for me. One day, we’d think of ourselves as the next Google and dream of buying islands; the next, we’d be pondering how to let our loved ones know of our utter failure; and on and on.
Internet Business
What Makes a Successful (Profitable) Web site?
Your website is not just an on-line brochure. Savvy internet searchers are looking for content-rich, professionally developed sites that offer them solutions to their business issues. On-line clients want useful, well organized, readily accessible information about your product or service…and they don’t want to spend a long time finding it.
Keeping Your Website Fresh and Relevant
Your website can be designed to be a stand alone sales site, or as an introduction to your business products and services. As a business owner, you must keep your focus on the needs of your potential clientele while developing your website and supporting marketing literature. When you approach business prospects, do you take the time to find out what their specific business needs are and incorporate that business intelligence into your web presence?
The End of Business as Usual
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual Pleiades Publishing Services clients and our Blog readers are primarily small and emerging business owners. A large number are home-based businesses enterprises. As a retired SBDC counselor and as a business blogger I often am asked to respond to variations of the following statement, “I’m just […]
Looking For a Hot Business Idea?
Let your passions guide you By Derek Gehl If you’ve been reading this Blog for a while, you know that one of the central tenets of the “IMC philosophy” is this: If you’re thinking about starting an online business, you should base that business on your own personal skills or interests. In my experience, people […]
How a single article can increase your web site traffic by 100% — or more!
How a single article can increase your web site traffic by 100% — or more! By Nicole Ephgrave A reader named Jerry recently wrote an email asking, “There is a lot of advice about the important of having good article content on a website. Other advice says to submit articles to sites like eZineArticles.com, and […]
eBay As Internet Business Strategy
How to use eBay to promote a “regular” Internet business By Jim Kobialko A lot of you wrote in with questions about eBay after the article I wrote in last week’s newsletter (titled “eBay or a ‘regular’ business — which is better?”) For example, a reader named Pearl asked, “How do you introduce your products […]
“Should I put all of my eggs into one web hosting basket?”
Editorial: “Should I put all of my eggs into one web hosting basket?” By Derek Gehl Derek: This week’s editorial was spurred by the following question sent in by one of my readers, Elizabeth: “What sort of web hosting package should I go with, one with a shopping cart or not?” My answer to this […]
Wild, Wild Net — Part Four The Joy of Passive Income Streams
Where paradigms shift and our heroine and her hero, master the joy of passive income streams WOW! Registration fee, two night stay at a Hobby Airport hotel, two days of “per diem road food”, two intense 10-hour days, seven hours drive time… around $500. Internet Marketing Center’s “Internet Wealth-Building Bootcamp” — PRICELESS!! I set my […]
Wild, Wild Net —Part 3 — Massive Passive Income
Monetization — Massive Passive Income Four months, almost to the day, since we completed the Millionaire Mind Intensive knowing that we would approach every aspect of our business differently, Nick and I are driving to Houston to attend a two-day “Internet Wealth-Building Boot Camp”. In homage to the Wild, Wild Net, we should slap a […]