Archive for April, 2006

Suppose you’re selling or giving away a PDF file.
You want to use it as an incentive to give to folks but suddenly some nasty search engine robot finds it, indexes it, and it’s up on the web for people to read without responding to your offer.
How do you stop this?
Upload your pdf as a [...]

Do classified ads work?
The right ones targeted at the right people do…
Find a publication that reaches your niche market and check back issues of the publication.
The ads that keep appearing “work”.
Then find related publications for that niche.
If the same ad appears there…you’ve found an excellent example of classified ads that work.
If you’re running ads [...]

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:

Interview With Greg Hartnett of BOTW
The Affiliate site looks at Best of the Web, the the internet’s oldest web directory.

eBay Profit and Transactions
The eBay fee system can be very confusing for new [...]

If you send this message by email with your marketing message below, will people forward it?
Could you get people to visit your website?
Early tomorrow morning, a one-time event will take place. At two minutes and three seconds
after 1 a.m., the time and date will be:
01:02:03:04:05:06

From Derek Hillenbrand in Sales Tip Of The Week

1. Prepare, in advance, the questions you will ask.
2. Ask open-ended and indirect questions.
3. Ask need-development questions.
4. Ask questions that help you identify dominant needs.
5. Ask questions that help you pinpoint the dominant buying motivations.
6. Avoid offensive questions or asking questions in an insensitive way.
7. Start with [...]

Entrepreneurs between gigs are always looking for the next big thing… you only need to find your niche once to achieve your dreams after all.
But smart entrepreneurs also know that what is today heralded as the “next great thing” is not to be believed until there’s an actual foothold in the market to exploit.
So what [...]

Dogbert’s marketing plan DOES sell the Ebonian Mp3 player… but leaves the customers haunted by their guilty little secrets…

From Wendy Maynard via WonderWorkingWords.com
The Remarkable Power of Thank You!
An easy thing to forget in the midst of our frenzied lives is the simple act of saying “thank you.” Who has the time to slow down for such old-fashioned pleasantries? And yet, by incorporating a thank-you strategy into your marketing, I promise you’ll reap [...]

From my mailbox…
Dear Chuck,
Hello my name is R______. I am currently attending (a medical billing and coding school). Where I amstuding medical insurance, billing, and coding. I am really interested in the work from home and just have a few a questions.
1 How soon can you get started?
2 Do I have to travel anywhere?
3 [...]

Google is now selling ads on their maps…
From Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
When users search Google Local for types of businesses, they’ll see small icons along with the pinpoint showing where a business is located, and the pop-up marked as an advertisement. The Mountain View-based Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) said on its Web site that the [...]