| 1471 | Tips on Avoiding Scams Preview: Tips on Avoiding Scams By Anna-Marie Stewart Venton One thing I think we ALL agree on: There are way too many scams out there. Both online and off. Things like: Email from a "millionaire who needs help transferring large sums of money" This is one of the most popular scams online today. How about the "You`ve won the lottery!!" mails? You know t... (more) Published By: Anna-Marie Stewart Venton Submitted: 01 May,2003 |
| 1472 | 5 Tips To Increase Your Website Traffic - For FREE! Preview: 5 Tips To Increase Your Website Traffic - For FREE! by Tony Newton (c) Tony Newton - All Right reserved Ahhh! The age old question, how can I increase the traffic to my website, without paying for advertising? Well, the sad fact is, they simply won't just turn up to your website, without you doing something to get them there! So, here are 5 fr... (more) Published By: Tony Newton Submitted: 02 May,2003 |
| 1473 | Candid Conservation Between Internet Millionaires Preview: I sat around in a hotel room chatting with two other *very* well-known internet marketers recently. We brainstormed and shared observations until three in the morning :-) I thought you might enjoy the simple yet profound insights and wisdom shared by these two multi-millionaires. Look for ways you can directly apply this knowledge to your business... (more) Published By: Willie Crawford Submitted: 02 May,2003 |
| 1474 | You Too Can Create Newsworthy Research Preview: Take a close look at the front section of specialized magazines, and you'll often find little articles highlighting results of some study or poll conducted by some private company or other. Research data is also often cited by general-interest publications like USA Today and network newscasts. You don't need a Fortune 500 sized budget to und... (more) Published By: Marcia Yudkin Submitted: 03 May,2003 |
| 1475 | Want to Play Hardball with the News Media? Preview: There comes a time in the life of almost every company when its honesty, its integrity and its health are threatened by attacks from the news media. Frequently, these attacks are well deserved. Example: Enron. All too often, these attacks are engineered by antagonists (usually plaintiff attorneys or issue-oriented activists) through all-too-will... (more) Published By: Rusty Cawley Submitted: 03 May,2003 |
| 1476 | Only You Can And DO Decide If You Will Succeed Preview: Sometimes it seems like identifying why some businesses succeed while others fail is impossible. After all, if you could readily identify why businesses end up in one category or the other, then it would also seem to be fairly simple to decide the fate of your business. The fact that many businesses - online and off-line - fail would suggest i... (more) Published By: Willie Crawford Submitted: 03 May,2003 |
| 1477 | Create a Powerful PR ‘Fact Sheet’ in Just Four Steps Preview: The right time to create a fact sheet is any time you need to spoon-feed a reporter on a complex subject. Reporters don’t mind thinking, they just don’t want to think too hard. They simply don’t have the time. They are writing history in a hurry. The accent is on “hurry.” PR Rainmakers recognize this and use it to their advantage. Creating a fa... (more) Published By: Rusty Cawley Submitted: 04 May,2003 |
| 1478 | The Ugly Side Of Internet Marketing, What The Gurus Won't Tell You! Preview: The Ugly Side Of Internet Marketing, What The Gurus Won't Tell You! By Al Martinovic Did that headline grab your attention? I have experimented with many different headlines on my sites and found that you can take the same sales letter yet your sales will increase or decrease depending on the headline you are using. That's nothing to sneeze at!... (more) Published By: Al Martinovic Submitted: 04 May,2003 |
| 1479 | 11 MONSTROUS Small Business Marketing Mistakes and How To Avoid Them Preview: MONSTROUS Marketing Mistake Number 1: Sinking a Fortune Into an Unproven Product Is your business idea built on market research or a hunch? Entrepreneurs often fall in love with their products or services before they determine if there's a real market, and they throw fistfuls of money into the venture. If you, your spouse, your uncle, and your ... (more) Published By: Susan Carter Submitted: 05 May,2003 |
| 1480 | What really works when trying to sell by email? Preview: I've been online over ten years now. I wrote one of the first books on Internet marketing back in 1995. While I started as an Internet skeptic, I now make 95% of my income from email alone. I've used email to sell well over one million dollars in e-books in the last 3 years. I've also used email to -- -- make $175,000 in one year teaching e-class... (more) Published By: Joe Vitale Submitted: 06 May,2003 |
| 1481 | How to Write an Attention-Grabbing Op-Ed in Five Steps Preview: There are few better ways to attract new clients and customers than by becoming known as an expert in your field. And the fastest way to establish your expertise is by writing op-eds for newspapers, magazines, trades and the Web. An “op-ed” gets its name from the fact that it usually appears on the page opposite from the publication’s editorial p... (more) Published By: Rusty Cawley Submitted: 06 May,2003 |
| 1482 | Tips are Perennially Tempting Preview: Techies love them. Young and old technology haters love them. Most importantly, editors love them. Tips -- neatly packaged, numbered nuggets of advice -- are always appealing to those whose job it is to fill up publications with entertaining and illuminating information. They can therefore represent a lucrative route to publicity for you o... (more) Published By: Marcia Yudkin Submitted: 07 May,2003 |
| 1483 | Are There Secrets to Gaining Media Coverage? Preview: Are there secrets to gaining media coverage or is it pure luck? It's a question that I am asked often while meeting with small-business owners who are seeking press attention for their companies or products. While luck certainly plays a part, the short answer to this question is "maybe." However with a little practice and skill, a small-business o... (more) Published By: Carolyn Moncel Submitted: 07 May,2003 |
| 1484 | What You Know Can Work Just As Well As Who You Know Preview: We all know the saying in business, "It's not what you know but who you know", right? This saying is definitely true when it comes to small business and on occasion, the same can be said in media relations. However, what you know can sometimes get you just as far - especially if you're trying to tell your story to the local press. Some time ago,... (more) Published By: Carolyn Moncel Submitted: 07 May,2003 |
| 1485 | All Hits Are Not Created Equal Preview: After all the debate over website design, shopping carts and credit card processors, every website owner eventually comes to the startling realization that they need one more thing to survive - website traffic! Without website traffic it's the same as building an expensive billboard and, instead of placing it alongside a busy highway, you hide it... (more) Published By: Jim Edwards Submitted: 08 May,2003 |
| 1486 | Dropped Jaw Syndrome, Your Fastest, Most Reliable Market Test Preview: Dropped Jaw Syndrome, Your Fastest, Most Reliable Market Test Dr. Lynella Grant Business owners should be more like doctors. Forget selling and start asking your customers where they hurt. Broken leg? Ulcer? Empty wallet? Don't sell, diagnose. And what are you as a doctor looking for? Well, of course: that ever-illusive, yet ever- profitable d... (more) Published By: Dr. Lynella Grant Submitted: 10 May,2003 |
| 1487 | Spoonfeed Your News to the Media Preview: Always remember: A journalist is nothing more than a professional undergraduate. He (or she) is always cramming for an upcoming exam. That "exam" is the next story he must produce for his newspaper, his TV station or his radio show. It is the job of the reporter to become an expert in your subject just long enough to produce the story. The repo... (more) Published By: Rusty Cawley Submitted: 11 May,2003 |
| 1488 | Isn't Anybody Gonna Answer That? Preview: How many times in a day, week, month . . . in your lifetime are you busy - doing anything - and the phone rings? Out of all those times the phone rings, how many times do you stop what you're doing to answer it? I'll bet it's a lot. 90%? 95%? I don't know for sure but I'm guessing it's up there. I know because I used to stop whatever I was doin... (more) Published By: Michael Ambrosio Submitted: 12 May,2003 |
| 1489 | Are You Backing Up Your BIGGEST Asset? Preview: Have you ever accidentally lost an important file on your computer? Perhaps your computer crashed (again) or your cat sauntered over a dooming sequence of keys. Remember that little pang in your stomach you felt when you realized that file was gone for good? OK, now imagine losing your entire e-zine subscriber list. Did that pang just get a bit... (more) Published By: Alexandria K. Brown Submitted: 13 May,2003 |
| 1490 | Get Inside the News Reporter's Head Preview: The first rule of PR Rainmaking is to approach reporters as customers. Find out what they want, then give it to them in a way that benefits you and your company. This requires us to learn how to think like a news reporter. For this journey, there may be no better guidebook than James B. Stewart’s “Follow the Story.” On first blush, this would a... (more) Published By: Rusty Cawley Submitted: 14 May,2003 |