I have to admit that the need for business cards for my online business didn’t occur to me until I had been in business for a couple of years. In my case, my business was completely online and didn’t really seep into my “real” life.

In fact, I was quietly building my online business and no one knew about it… until my mother in law found out. Read the rest of this entry

It’s probably one of the most burning questions that newbies have when it comes to starting out online – how to create a profitable business.  Everything seems so complicated in the beginning, but it’s really not that difficult.  In fact, the article below boils the entire process down and tells you how to create a profitable business in six easy steps.

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When you start a new online business and sell a product or service of your own, one of the things the experts often tell you that you need a merchant account to do business online.

Well, that’s simply not true.

While there are certain circumstances where a merchant account may be necessary, for the majority of online businesses, it’s just an unnecessary expense… especially when’ you’re first starting out.  I’m going to tell you why you don’t have to have a merchant account.

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According to the author of The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet Version 2009, the Latest Edition is everything you’d Expect From A Beginner’s Guide To Starting An Online Business with over 1,250 pages of detailed, moneymaking strategies and techniques have been carefully laid out in bite-sized, easy to grab-and-apply sections, making it dead-easy to determine what you need, apply it to your business, and move onto the NEXT step. Read the rest of this entry

Apparently a lot of big businesses hit by our economic downturn have turned to email marketing to try to make up some of their lost sales.

I read an article this morning that talks about a brick and mortar company that required it’s salespeople to acquire at least 25% of customers’ email addresses so that they could conduct email marketing.

When the salespeople couldn’t live up to the quotas, they began submitting made up email addresses… and you can guess what happened then.

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