by James Artre on August 24, 2010
Are you an online business owner who erroneously believes that you would make more money online if you could just get more traffic to your website? Unfortunately, this mindset could be the very reason you’re not making money online! Increasing traffic to your site doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll make money online, if it is going to do you any good, it has to be ‘targeted’ traffic.
What’s the difference, you ask? [click to continue…]
by James Artre on August 18, 2010
Everywhere I turn nowadays I hear more and more people talking about learning how to make money online, in particular, how to make money with blogs. Although the number of people using blogs to make money has skyrocketed over the past few years, the vast majority of them are failing miserably. If you’re one of them, here’s a way to make money with blogs in 7 easy steps: [click to continue…]
by James Artre on August 17, 2010
Nothing is more exciting than when an idea hits you that you know will absolutely, positively work. Most often they usually come to us when we least expect them. The difficult part, however, is taking those ideas and turning them into a workable action plan.
Here are a few pointers to help you turn your ideas into action… [click to continue…]
by James Artre on August 14, 2010
Now that you’ve begun writing articles and submitting them to the article directories, it’s time for you to start promoting them. Even though it’s a good thing that you’ve got your marketing articles scattered around the web for others to read, to get the most of out of your marketing efforts, you must also promote. There are five simple steps you can take to ensure you get more exposure for your articles: [click to continue…]
by James Artre on August 4, 2010
If you’ve wanted to make money with an online business, but found how to get started overwhelming, fear not! Starting and profiting from an online business is perhaps easier than you may think, it’s not a ‘walk-in-the-park’ mind you, but the processes are rather simple. If you’ve considered starting an online business, but just aren’t sure how to go about it, we discuss a few of the basics in this post! [click to continue…]
by James Artre on July 29, 2010
*Warning: This post may contain words or phrases offensive to some.*
I received this UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email, aka Spam) message at my inbox this morning; one of several that periodically manage to get past my security software, it doesn’t happen very often but occasionally one will slip thru. What I’d like for you to take from this post today is how NOT to do business online, as well as a few pointers of how to do business online.
Let’s roll… [click to continue…]
by James Artre on July 27, 2010
Writing and creating content for your website is perhaps the single most important marketing and business-building strategy available to online business owners. However, in addition to simply creating content, you want to have your articles read. Articles that are compelling pull the visitor into your website where they’ll continue to search for more valuable content. They will begin to not only remember your website as a source of good content but also as a reliable business.
Here are five top tips to get your articles read: [click to continue…]
by James Artre on July 27, 2010
To all writers and non-writers alike, now is the time to dig up those previously buried creative writing skills! Along with the communication technology explosion, not to mention what’s happening in the web 2.0 world, came the ever increasing demand for information-based marketing content. Which, by the way, is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. [click to continue…]
by James Artre on July 27, 2010
Now that you’ve got your blog up and running, it’s time to start making some money on the internet. All you’re missing now is traffic. No traffic = no money! And like most all of us using blogs to make money online, you’d probably like as much of your web site traffic to be free and not the paid stuff. [click to continue…]
by James Artre on July 19, 2010
Following is an excerpt from Dr. Russell Conwell’s book: Acres of Diamonds
My father kept a country store, and if there is any place under the stars where a man gets all sorts of experience in every kind of mercantile transactions, it is in the country store. I am not proud of my experience, but sometimes when my father was away he would leave me in charge of the store, thought fortunately for him that was not very often. But this did occur many times, friends: A man would come onto the store, and say to me, “Do you keep jack-knives?” “No we don’t keep jack-knives,” and I went off whistling a tune. What did I care about that man, anyhow? [click to continue…]
by James Artre on July 17, 2010
One day, many years ago when I was a young boy, my Grandmother told me a story of a lunch date she had with some of her closest friends. ”Aunt Florene”, as we called her growing up, although I don’t think we were actually related, was a sturdy built “blue-haired” woman of about 80 years old; a friend of my Grandmother’s from the Bomber Plant where they worked together here in Fort Worth during WWII was also at the luncheon. [click to continue…]