Don't Waste Time Jumping From Idea to Idea. Maintain Focus and you will find yourself becoming much more successful earning a living online. So many people jump from project to project..idea to idea..program to program wasting time and money in the process. Focusing your energies on one solid plan is the only way you can use your time effectively. My first few years of Internet marketing were a series of seeking the "hot" new marketing or business product. I realized that slowly, I was ...
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As someone who earns their living entirely online, I considered myself the last person I ever thought would ask the question, "Do we really need the Internet?" However, the extended power outage of almost 4 days, ongoing loss of Internet access, combined with many other events surrounding the recent Hurricane Isabel caused me to reassess my priorities. When "high-tech" business gets into a head-on collision with a natural or man-made disaster, we all need to ask, "Do we really need the ...
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Right now, you could be involved in in the sale and distribution of child pornography and not know it. This is because two things you're familiar with - computer viruses and spam - are being used by criminals to involve you in their illegal activities. It's not surprising to anyone with an e-mail account to learn that spam has reached epidemic proportions. In fact, it's been reported that more spam was intercepted in July, 2003 than in all of 2002 combined, and accounts for 50% of all ...
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The advent of internet can be marked, when it was created nearly 25 years ago as a project of the US Department of Defense. Internet technology has changed the way in which business is being done today. It has turned the world into huge virtual market where the prospective customer can order and buy things of his choice sitting right in front of the computer terminal. This technology helps users to transact online. Hence from its workplace terminal itself user has access to the whole world. ...
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My marketing clients are always amazed at what happens when they write articles for the Internet. Their articles start turning up on websites, and their URLs start turning up on the search engines. It's a formula that really works and it's a win-win formula: they enjoy writing and helping others, they increase their knowledge as they write, the readers benefit, and the writers gain recognition. Almost overnight you can become #1, 3 and 8 on google in a category, and pop up also under amazing ...
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So what do these two things have in common? On the surface, not much. If your objective is to have a long and successful career with an online business, then sustaining business success is much the same as sustaining a long and successful marriage. Recently I attended the 50th wedding anniversary of my parents. As I listened to them answer questions about their life and marriage, and how they succeeded, I could see similar traits or characteristics with an online business. I've been married for ...
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I went and saw the new superhero movie 'Daredevil' this weekend, and for some reason it got me thinking about the Internet. This is probably a sign that I spend far too much time online--I can't even take in a flick without pondering on some aspect of cyberspace. But regardless of whether it's healthy or not, I decided to put my thoughts on paper and share them with anyone who is willing to read them. Hopefully, you are. For those of you who don't know, the superhero Daredevil is blind. But he ...
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How do you score on the Internet marketing Emotional Intelligence Test, i.e., are you marketing APPROPRIATELY t o who's REALLY on the Internet? EQ means, among other things, reality-testing and empathy. Remember that email rounding the Internet recently: "If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, this is what it would look like: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 North and South Americans, and 8 Africans. Seventy people would be non-white; 30 white. Seventy ...
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Have you ever received an email in which the formatting has been lost and all the lines run together? Did you try to decipher it? Not likely. Delete. Email recipients read with one finger on the delete key. One click and your email is gone. Internet users surf the Web with their finger poised on the mouse button. One click and they're gone. As a web site owner or ezine publisher, you must have good content, but to keep your customers from clicking away or hitting the delete key, you must strive ...
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There has been a rising trend in games, especially casino games and blackjack is fast becoming a preferred game among gamblers all over the world. There are plenty of gambling websites which allow users to indulge in an exciting game of online blackjack gambling. The fun part is that many of them allow players to play for free and thus those who are new to the game need not fear any monetary loss as there is no such risk involved.  Also these websites teach the amateurs everything about ...
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