I was sipping my morning “wake-cup” of coffee over the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle this weekend when I came across an article by staff writer John Batteiger referencing web sites useful to small business. Great, I thought, I’d love more of those valuable resources. Silly me.
The Story of the Hypnotic Writing Monkey
The world’s first Hypnotic Writer Author of “Hypnotic Writing” and “Advanced Hypnotic Writing”
10 Everlasting Profit Generators!
1. Sell an inexpensive product to sell an expensive product. If people like your inexpensive product, they’ll be persuaded to buy your expensive one.
Is Your Online Business Marketing Team Making Best Use of Its Consumer Information?
As of this month, I’ve spent almost four years online. In that time I’ve filled out hundreds of online forms at various business and consumer websites. Sometimes it was to register for access to the site, or to make a purchase, or just to get some really cool “free stuff.”
Site Analysis
In a previous article I introduced the problems of testing your site for missing links and images. A common problem often relates to seeing your web site from the inside out. In other words, things that appear to work for you may not work for your visitors. This is often caused by file references that point back to your computer. When you test, your browser can easily find these files because they are where they are supposed to be. Visitors not having access to your directories will see the typical missing image box.
The Millionaire’s Mentality
A friend of mine was given a million pounds ($1.4m) this week. He isn’t a millionaire though. For the last three years he has been Managing Director of a small company owned by a very rich man. The very rich man is a millionaire 250 times over and his wealth is growing faster than he can count it.
How to Build Your Mailing List and Stay Sane
It has become a mantra: start an e-zine, get yourself a mailing list, build a relationship with your readers – and sell, sell, sell!
Oh that it were that easy.
Is M-Commerce in our Immediate Future?
WAP (wireless application protocol) and other forms of m-commerce applications are being touted as the new revolutions in communications and e-commerce. The companies supporting it, however, are the same ones who brought us the Internet revolution; remember that? We were promised that e-commerce would dramatically change the way are we work, shop, and play. Has it? No. Will it? Possibly, but only when it is more convenient, efficient, and useful to shop the Internet than to use traditional means. This requires usability, reliability, and most of all, fast connections, to be better than what we are used to. If the Internet were as easy to surf as cable, for instance, e-commerce would be immensely more popular. However, developing the infrastructure to accomplish this is too costly and time consuming, as many upstart telecoms will attest to.
What’s *Writing* An Ebook REALLY *Worth*?
Part of my strategy for building my livelihood is to first write books but put them out in ebook form, and this then paves the way for me to bring it out in print form.
Invasion of the Amazons
The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned).