Why You Should Create A Facebook Page For Your Business

Facebook is currently the second most popular website in the world, after Google. 50% of the 400 million account holders log in every day. Whatever business you’re in, many of your customers and potential customers are using Facebook, and it would be short-sighted to ignore it.

Here’s a short slide presententation I presented at a local Inner Circle meeting earlier this week:

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Make Money Online With Squidoo and Amazon.com

If you’re just getting started in the affiliate marketing business, you might want to check out what Tiffany Dow is doing. She’s written a free report and created some videos which explain a simple, workable plan to build a passive income stream over the course of this year. If you follow the plan diligently, there is very little chance [...] Continue Reading…

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Affiliate Marketing 8: WordPress Plugins

One of the strengths of WordPress is that it can be easily adapted to meet a wide range of different needs. As I write this, there are over 7800 plugs available in the WordPress Plugin Directory.

This is the “official” plugin repository, and there are probably another couple of thousand plugins available which are not listed here.

The plugins which are [...] Continue Reading…

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Make Money Online By Writing Product Reviews

Writing product reviews is a popular way to make money online. The process is straight forward:

1. Choose a product you feel comfortable promoting. There is a lot of rubbish out there, so it’s always best for choose something you’ve actually used yourself, and that you would be happy to recommend to your friends.

2. Create a web page or a [...] Continue Reading…

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JV Giveaways – One Of The Best Ways To Build Your List

If you haven’t heard that ‘the money’s in the list’, you’ve led a very sheltered life.

The very first Internet marketing course I bought told me to “Get their first name, last name and email address”. Of course, if I’d done that from day one, I’d be in the pound seats today!

From the very beginning, you should be getting [...] Continue Reading…

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Affiliate Marketing 7: WordPress Themes

Now that you have your WordPress blog installed, you’ll want to change the theme to one that’s a bit less bland than the default Kubrick theme.

Kubrick is not that bad, but it screams out, “Golly, I just didn’t have time to do any work on my site”.

For affiliate sites, you really want a theme that doesn’t get in [...] Continue Reading…

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Affiliate Marketing 6: Installing WordPress

Now that you’ve sorted out your domain name and hosting, and you’ve chosen a product to promote, you’ll need to create a website.

Actually, that’s not strictly true. You can sell affiliate products without having your own website. One way to do this is with (free or paid) online advertising. You would simply use your affiliate link in your advertisements, [...] Continue Reading…

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Affiliate Marketing 5: Choosing a Web Host

Choosing a web hosting company is one of the more important things you’ll have to do when you’re setting up an online business.

Not all hosting companies are created equal – there are vast differences in the areas that count, like service, performance, responsiveness and so on.

There are ways to make sure that you choose the right hosting company from [...] Continue Reading…

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The Really Simple Guide To Business Websites

I’ve just finished writing a short report, “The Really Simple Guide To Business Websites” You can download it absolutely free – you don’t even need to give me an email address.

It covers the basics you need to know about business websites – why you need one, a little about domain names and hosting, and some of the most serious [...] Continue Reading…

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Affiliate Marketing 4: Choosing A Domain Name

There are ways to make money as an affiliate without a website. However, having your own website (or a network of websites) is generally the best approach.

In this article we’ll take a look at choosing domain names. I’ll show you some of the resources I use.

It is fairly well accepted that the domain name has an effect on the [...] Continue Reading…

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