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Tell Site Visitors What To Do


Your site visitors make all the choices when it comes to browsing the Web.No other medium gives users, readers or customers such control over their own experience.

A Beginners Guide To Setting Up A Successful Online Store


A beginner's guide to setting up a successful online store Online selling is by no means a simple task. To sell products online not only requires making use of high end marketing strategies but also involves lots of planning.

Excuse Me, Are You Wasting Traffic?


The largest cost and concern of an internet business is customer acquisition; traffic. Both quantity and quality of traffic directly determines the succes of an internet business.

Ten Reasons Why Online Surveys Are The Future of Marketing


Customers are tough cookies. They're extremely media awareand increasingly cynical - it's a clever marketeer who canget under their skin.

What Does It Take to Make Money Online?


What a loaded question! Let's narrow that down a bit and take it from the perspective of someone who wants to work from home and make money online in a home business. That will make it an easier question to answer.

Succeed With Your Own Home Based Business


An internet business is by far the best way to support yourself if you just cannot stand working for others for less money than you need to survive. It's also the best way to get out of a good paying job that just takes up too much of your precious short life working for someone else.

How to Start a Business on the Internet


So you want to start a business? Good for you. Really, I mean that sincerely.

How Do You Make Money Online?


If you learn how other people make money online, I mean really study how it's done and ask a lot of questions, there is no reason in the world you cannot make money on the internet as well.How do people make money with websites? There are literally tens of thousands of things people make money on from the net.

Set Yourself Apart From The Ordinary


I have written at length about the need to anticipate your visitors' needs. I have talked about how the first screen of the homepage needs to connect immediately and directly with the task each visitor has on his or her mind.

Writing Web Pages: Get To The Meat Faster


Much of my consulting work comprises writing 'Outside Opinion' reports on the sites of large companies and organizations. Sometimes I review just a few pages, sometimes fifty or more.

Your Site is all Direct Marketing


This may not be a popular view, but I think writing a web site is very similar to writing a piece of direct mail. I'm not talking about smash-and-grab fliers.

Two Pillars of a Successful Web Site


For a web site to get close to fulfilling its potential, you need absolute clarity on two points. First, achieve clarity on what your site's core purpose is Is to provide information? Is it to complete direct sales? Is it to drive prospects to pick up the phone and call you? Is it to start a free trial? To register? The more companies I work with, especially larger ones, the more apparent it becomes to me that very few sites have absolute clarity of purpose.

The Top 10 E-Commerce Ways to Follow up with Clients - Part 2


Did you know that 80% of all sales are made after the 5th contact? The biggest mistake we make is not following up with our clients regularly. We not only lose the chance to offer other services and products, we lose the chance for satisfied clients' referrals.

The Top 10 E-Commerce Ways to Follow up with Clients - Part 1


Did you know that 80% of all sales are made after the 5th contact? The biggest mistake we make is not following up with our clients regularly. We not only lose the chance to offer other services and products, we lose the chance for satisfied clients' referrals.

How To Implement E-Business Solutions Successfully


Pitfalls of E-business solutions installation processA large distribution company has decided to use a new online supply chain management solution. The people - those who were supposed to use the system - were quite skeptic about the ability of the system, as they did not have enough knowledge and had very little or no training in using a similar system.


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