What to Do When People Want Everything for Free: How to Politely Get Rid of Mooches

It’s a sticky situation. A prospect, a site visitor, or just a casual acquaintance asks for your help or advice on something. You gladly give it, thinking it’s a one-time “favor.” But instead of providing a little free advice, you’ve opened the door to an onslaught of mooching! Now, every time you check your email, you find question after question. What do you do?

Look For Your Niche Market in Places You Wouldn’t Expect

Anyone who has ever succeeded in doing business on the Internet has discovered the importance of finding their niche market. Finding your niche market means discovering which product or service to sell, and then locating the people that are interested in buying it. While finding your niche may be difficult at first, once you’ve found it and established a loyal base of customers, you’re definitely on your way to success.

Affiliate programs! What and How?

Now you start your own Affiliate Program. This is where the real money is. An affiliate program means that you pay other web sites for a defined product. This can be a percentage of the sale, a fixed amount per lead, a fee per visitor, or a combination thereof. With an affiliate program, you will really make money (if you have a worthwhile product or service and if you pay your affiliates generously).

Content: the Key to Increased Website Traffic

Everyone wants to have a lot of traffic to their website. In order to get this traffic many people try to work on their meta tags or even do tricks trying to get more visitors to their website. One of the simplest and most solid ways to increase the flow of traffic to your website is to offer more content. It has often been said that on the Internet, content is king. It is important to understand how more content can bring more visitors to your site and how to generate content that is related to your particular web site.

Your Odds of Getting Published

Most beginning writers are curious about their chances of ever seeing their work in print. Editors have told me that a mid- to large-sized publishing house gets upwards of 5000 unsolicited submissions a year. About 95% are rejected right off the bat (most get form letters, a few promising authors get personalized notes stating why the manuscript was rejected). Of the 5% left, some are queries for which the editors request entire manuscripts. Others are manuscripts submitted in their entirety, and these go on to the next stage of the acquisitions process (get passed around the editorial department, presented at editorial meetings, perhaps looked at by sales staff to get a sense of the market for the book). The end result is that 1-2% of unsolicited submissions are actually purchased for publication.

10 Deadly Marketing Mistakes that Can Kill Your Online Business

Small business owners sometimes lament over the fact that they don’t have a million-dollar marketing budget. While we’ve all thought about how much easier things would be if we had unlimited funds, it’s still possible to earn a decent profit with the right marketing plan. Thousands of home business owners can attest to their success at building a profitable business on a ‘shoestring’ budget.

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