WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms on the web today for a lot of reasons. It is easy to use, open-source, affordable, and highly customizable. These great features have resulted in WordPress being the product of choice for 10s of millions of site owners all over the world. While the success of WordPress is a testament to its quality, it has also made … [Read more...]
How to Build an Ecommerce Website that People Trust – Infographic
You have an ecommerce website, but will that website convert visitors into paying customers? Did you know that the design of your ecommerce website could be costing you sales? An infographic from Kissmetrics provides a roadmap for a trustworthy ecommerce site, which is filled with useful information and many tips you might not have thought of before now. Check out the … [Read more...]
Top Five Online Business Opportunities for Women
Many women give up their careers after marriage so they can focus on managing the house and family. However, times have changed. Now, many women want to have it all – keep house, look after the children, and have a decent income – while staying at home. Indeed, women these days know what they want and go after it. They realize that they don’t need to be part of the corporate … [Read more...]
How I Got 10,000 Views To My Website And Built My Internet Business
When I was a teacher, it was hard for me to see a student fail. Not because it reflected on me as a teacher (it didn't) but because to see a child with so much potential waste it by not turning in homework or not showing up to class was heartbreaking. I had one student two years in a row because of this problem. He was extremely smart. When I found out he would be repeating … [Read more...]
Play Ball!
There is a theory out in the world of baseball that everything you need to know about life, you learn in the outfield. I think there is some truth to that. Baseball is a game of knowing when to swing, learning about the other team and waiting for the right time to steal the bases. Sounds an awful lot like business right? We all know that we have to be strategic and … [Read more...]
Do You Have a “Reputation?”
When I was growing up, we wanted to avoid being someone with a “reputation.” Today, we want a reputation, but we need it to be positive. However, maintaining one’s reputation is getting harder and harder. As social media and social networking sites continue to flourish, the power of the individual voice is growing greatly. We have to protect our reputations, and have … [Read more...]
How to Create a Squeeze Page that gets Strong Results
The Internet is saturated with content, sales pitches and products. As a result, you have to make your business standout from the rest of the businesses out there. Squeeze pages are one of the best ways to do this. They are mini web pages with opt in forms to catch the name and email addresses of prospects. They are used to build email subscriber lists. Your squeeze … [Read more...]
Juliet Was Wrong
Guest post by Jennifer Tanzi (learn more about Jennifer at the end of this post) Names matter … especially when it comes to your online business. High atop her balcony, the love-struck Juliet laments her lover’s problematic surname, declaring, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” While technically she’s right, you wouldn’t want to put Juliet in charge of your … [Read more...]
Twitter, is it really what it’s Cracked Up to be?
Microblogging, particularly Twitter has revolutionized communication between people as well as companies and their markets. At first I didn’t like Twitter. In fact I didn’t even know what it was or how it worked, nevertheless understood how it related to marketing. But now that I do understand how Twitter is used and that it is the hottest new craze in terms of strategic … [Read more...]
Building Clients Online
Monica Flores of A Successful Woman and SistersInBiz has a book coming out in January 2008 called A Successful Woman's Handbook: Fifty-one Ways to Build your Community of Clients Online. How Women are Using the Web to Grow their Business, Reach the Right Customers, and Make a Difference (ISBN 1434816273 / EAN13 9781434816276). The book is targeted to women in business and will … [Read more...]