Archive for November, 2005

So is that niche you’re investigating really that hot?
Here’s a tool that let’s you know how a particular product is selling and has sold at Amazon.com
It’s great for checking trends and investigating if your niche is worth investing in. Crystal ball not included.
You can see what they’ve listed there or type in the URL of [...]

I once had a subscriber to my ezine
tell me she had a romance oriented site and she couldn’t get search engine traffic… I suppose it’s a niche that’s overworked by “other types” of sites. Hers was geared towards women and relationships, not … you know.
Today if she’d emailed I’d suggest she try to [...]

From Dan Poynter
The popularity of online radio programs and pod casts is growing daily and two mom writers have jumped on the bandwagon. Author Alana Morales joined forces with award winning author Paula Schmitt to create Mom Writer’s Talk Radio, which launched Friday, November 4th.
The show, which will feature mom authors and tips for moms [...]

Dan Poynter who’s been the prophet of self-publising for many years suggests these podcasts for help in your publising journey.
Dan Poynter brings you the latest news,views and updates on self-publishing. The program features call in questions answered by Dan, comments from other insightful publishing insiders, industry updates and Dan s pusblishing tip of the day.

If you’re trying to get something accomplishe.d, there’s nothing worse than having to deal with a voice mail tree that seemingly never ends.
My favorite trick is to wait till the end of the message and see if I hear “if you have a rotary dial phone, please hold for an operator…”
Then I know that [...]

Over breakfast the other day, SalesWarrior, threw out this gem:
You can’t sell friends!
If I want a friend, I’ll find them at home or on the golf course!
And I won’t be trying to sell them anything!
Sure, friends have bought from me, but I never tried to sell them. I don’t want my friends to think about [...]

I was at my local county’s leadership development class yesterday.
Our exercise was to create a “Simulated Society” and everyone was put into groups and random and they had to forge their own society for the day.
It’s like “Survivor” without the mud or foraging for food… and it’s just one day. No million dollars either.
Hopefully, people [...]

As I’ve been telling some of my friends, I’m engaging in a new venture for 2006.
I’m going to start working more with local businesses to help them get ahead of the Local Search trend that MSN, Yahoo, and Google are investing big money in…I’ll be working with the Scoop Network showing small business/home business folks [...]

James Jones talks about a source of auctionable or resellable goods that can be purchased at steep discounts that few of your competitors will bother to frequent.
Just about any city in United States there are storage facilities that are set-up so that people who have too much stuff in their house, or too much junk [...]

From EarlyToRise.com esine…
“In the early days of the Internet, [Ragan Communications'] strategy of free online content made sense. Internet users were a small percentage of the total population. Content providers needed to gain an understanding of online behavior. And the technology for restricting access was in the preliminary development.” So said a software specialist in [...]