Online business systems and strategies for success.
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Do you want to make money online, but you’re not certain how? I’ll tell you one good way to get your readers to take the action you want them to. Use the how-to trick. How-to headlines immediately grab our attention. They dangle a promise: How to make more money, how to lose weight, how to [...]
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Why do the majority of home Internet businesses fail? They don’t apply the 3 Cs: Courtesy, Consistency and Credibility. 1. Be courteous. Make it a core part of your mission to be nice to people. Not just people you think will become your customers, but everybody. Even the cranky, bitchy ones. They’re just in a [...]
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On Saturdays the Ninja and I take time off from making money online to play music together in an art studio near us. (That’s right, we step away from our computers.) Our friend, artist Jonas Gerard, opens up his studio and invites visitors to come and watch him paint, and join him on a journey. [...]
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Like many people making money online, the Ninja runs on espresso. He likes it “black as midnight on a moonless night,” just like Agent Cooper. He can’t work without it, he tells me. I believe him. In the recent past, the Ninja’s habit was to leave the house for his morning cup. By the time [...]
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Making money online must seem, to some people, like an impossibility. Like falling in love with the right person. I was talking with a friend about it over the weekend. She told me she could never succeed in a web business because she can’t trust herself to be disciplined enough to work alone. It’s true, [...]
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Too many bloggers seem to wonder why they aren’t making money online. I think the solution is pretty simple. Give your readers something they value enough to pay you for. Simple, but not that easy, right? Some people seem to luck into a niche that needs filling. Over at Yaro’s blog, entrepreneur’s journey, there’s a [...]
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Part One It started with a pact. Or was it a dare? “I’ll make you a deal,” said the Code Warrior. “You write a book on how to start a housecleaning business, and I’ll figure out how to sell it online.” I scoffed. “I don’t know anybody making money online.” The Code Whisperer dived in [...]
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Just as I was getting ready to shut off the Mac last night and give my weary peepers a rest, I heard from a potential affiliate. He had accepted my offer to write an article for his website in exchange for a link. One catch: He wanted it a.s.a.p. 600-word articles are not brain surgery. [...]
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Well, not completely about free time, anyway. It’s more about what you choose to do with your free time. Speaking of which, like everyone’s doing these days, I’ve reconnected with old friends on Facebook. One of them says she’s got a couple of business ideas. She wants to know how I’m making money online. She’s [...]
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