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Here are my notes on this great article from Joe Vitale via NicheGeek 1. Does it reveal something that nobody knows? 2. Do you have the credentials to give you authority? (Or can you borrow someone’s credentials?) 3. Does your book have lots of engaging stories? The more the better. 4. Does the book challenge [...]

Do you need help keeping track of your inventory pricing on Amazon? Or finding great deals for items on your wishlist? Hoping the price will go down? Or Up? (If you’re selling) Here’s help. RSS feeds for Amazon.com products promise to be an amazing “Marketing Intelligence” tool for people selling books and other items on [...]

My Teens Make Money Blog using one of the new Blogger editable templates started getting traffic from Google within 10 days. It was started (first posts put up) on September 15th and started getting traffic Sunday evening the 24th. Here’s the proof… I turned the search results into a PDF file just in case something [...]

Here’s Ben Bleikamp’s take on it. There is a learning curve if you want to make money online. There is a learning curve for any job. Some require a college degree – that’s a 4 year learning curve and can cost as much as $150,000…maybe more. Lets not even think about graduate school. So what’s [...]

Have you ordered “Write an Article a Day the Easy Way and Writer’s Workshop yet?My advice is NOT to buy it under the following circumstances… 1. You can easily create new articles daily without breaking into a cold sweat. 2. You have a proven system for overcoming “writer’s block” 3. You have an article template [...]

From Paulette Ensign: Periodically the question pops up about distribution into grocery stores and drug stores.Today brought one of those emails. My response was this: Though you may envision your booklet there, it will not happen, nor, in fact do you really want it to happen. Those publications come from sources that distribute many titles, [...]

You’ve heard you need to ask for the order in a variety of ways. But how many ways can you do that and not repeat yourself? Here, experienced copywriter Galen Stilson shares 7 ways to ask for the money! By Galen Stilson via MelissaData.com Noted copywriter and consultant Galen Stilson shares his advice on how [...]

Is Google Checkout the worst nightmare Amazon.com can face? I doubt it. Not today at least. Google checkout will be focused on merchants with volume, not the ebayers using PayPal. So will it trounce Amazon.com because suddenly one zillion merchants searchable by Google’s vast technology can produce a better shopping experience with the same convenience [...]

Aspiring Financial Writers can earn big cash. Here’s a lead that crossed my desk from Dan Poynter of ParaPublising.com: BCC, Inc. (www.BCCResearch.com) is seeking seasoned market researchers/WRITERS who are capable of preparing complete, self-contained technical/economic market research reports discussing niches in most PHYSICAL or LIFE SCIENCE sectors of the economy including: biotechnology, chemicals, healthcare, technical [...]

The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that a Philadelphia Insurance Brokerage won an $18 million dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against a competitor and former employee. The former employee had taken proprietary sales manuals and copied them for his new company while removing language that mentioned his previous employer. He had also distributed the manual to all [...]