How to Generate Leads Via the Internet

The following is a guest post by Lior Levin. Depending on your business, you may want to explore the possibility of generating new leads via the Web. This can be a very appealing solution for lead generation as it is low-cost, requires very little effort (beyond the initial setup) and can generate a large volume of highly-qualified leads. However, for those who are not experienced with creating sites on... read more

Top Recommended Tools To Manage A Money-Making Site Using WordPress

A question I often get asked is along the lines of: Donna, what would I need if I wanted to create a [fill in the blank] type of site, using WordPress to manage it? What tools would you recommend I use to make it quick, easy, and profitable, and how much will it cost me to get those tools? To be honest, it usually takes a lot of time to boil down the numerous questions into those two concise questions,... read more

Brilliant Landing Page Plugin for WordPress Increases Conversions

You’ve written great content, socialized it like crazy, guest posted, generated backlinks, promote awesome products, and you’re now tearing your hair out trying to figure out how to get your blog to make more money. Instead of spending all your time trying to get more and more traffic to your blog, spend a little time increasing conversions on the traffic you already receive. As @GrowMap... read more

FriendShuffle: StumbleUpon for Facebook and Twitter

This is a guest post by Lior Levin. Where most Web apps today are trying to be either the Twitter or the Facebook of their separate niche, Friendshuffle is out to be the StumbleUpon for Twitter and Facebook. The idea is fairly simple. When you visit Friendshuffle, you connect it with your Twitter and/or your Facebook account and Friendshuffle, with a UI very similar to StumbleUpon, lets you... read more

Why I’m Really Not A Blogger

Someone recently commented on a post that its topic was not “just for bloggers”. The implication was that I had posted the information just to bloggers, when in actuality I had not. I can only conclude that the commenter thinks of me as a blogger, and by extension, assumes that what I write about is “for bloggers”. Unless I specifically say that a post is “for bloggers”,... read more

Be Prepared For Down Times

In business, down times happen. Regardless of the reason, they happen. Maybe your sites are seasonal. Maybe your niche caters to a crowd that is more active during certain times of the year. Maybe your income is affected by economic shifts. Maybe your great search engine rankings disappear. Many things can cause a down time, but the reason matters less than the reality. Down times happen. Be prepared for... read more

Make Life Easier With Online Accounting Software

This is a guest post by James Hampton. Safety, First and Foremost Accounts can be a real problem for businesses but there is a solution on the market – online accounting software. There is a question however of how safe it is to do accounts on line? Well, the evidence suggests very safe indeed. By doing accounts online, there is less risk of things going wrong like computers crashing and losing... read more

Make The Hard Parts of Being A Solo eBusiness Owner Easier

I adore working from home. It’s the best decision I ever made in my career life. But I don’t love everything about it. What do I wish I didn’t have to do? Paperwork / Accounting / Taxes and all those things that are involved in all of that. Ugh. Ick. Blech. Those are things I put off as long as I can, and then I wish I’d kept up with it better because I end up being stuck with a... read more

Raven Tools Review

I’ve been hearing tons of great things about Raven internet marketing tools the last few months, so I finally decided to run their free trial and see why everyone was so crazy about it. So first, what do these tools do? Raven tools let you research, gather, organize, manage, track, report, and analyze most of the internet marketing tasks you probably already implement (or should implement). Some... read more

Traffic Piggybacking On Holidays And Special Events

We’ve entered that last quarter of the year once again, and that means it’s time to take advantage of holiday and special event traffic. Of course, this same strategy can be used throughout the year, but the effects are magnified for most people between October and December. How can you piggyback on these special searches that everyone is performing right now? Gather Relevant Special Search... read more