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Need a Hand in Business? Walk through the Open Door!

If you're stuck, wondering which online-business-opportunity to research, which niche to start out in, which step to take first . . . here's a little help from - who else -- a kindergartener!

My niece Leah just turned 5 and is quite the little personality! She has adventures galore (er, so do we!). One thing Leah does that few folks do is take massive action.

During a dental visit this week, my brother asked Leah and her seven --year old sister to sit in the waiting room while he had a crown repaired.

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Lisa Preston, our official Email Marketing Expert

Many Internet marketing experts will tell you that the best way to find out what your customers want from you is to ask them. While that may be true, I believe that an even more accurate way is to just listen to what they're telling you, and to what they're asking you for.

To illustrate my point, I'll use a couple of examples from one of my own niches ... the recipe and cookbook niche. If you already have even a minor foothold in any niche, my experience should be somewhat instructive.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Build Your AutoResponder Subscriber Lists

More and more businesses are beginning to utilize the power of AutoResponder technology to assist with building their business.

AutoResponders can be used effectively in a number of ways:

* Building and managing a permission-based email list.
* Following up with targeted prospects.
* Keeping your message in front of existing customers.

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Brian Rooney, our official Autoresponders Expert

How to Find Profitable Products in Clickbank's Marketplace

Clickbank with its over 33.000+ products, build in affiliate handling and payouts, stable reputation and ultra easy usage is one of internet's top moneymaking sources among online affiliate marketers!

Finding a Profitable Product Navigating the maze of products on Clickbank to find one that will bring you sales and ultimately profit is not an easy task. The tool provided by Clickbank, the marketplace, is a clean and easy to use tool, but as most easy to use tools the marketplace falls short in a number of areas.

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Kenth Nasstrom, our official Affiliate Marketing Expert

How Not to Write a Press Release

Several years ago, when I was working for an agency, I was fired from an account. What that means is the client didn't want me writing for him anymore.

Another writer, a friend of mine, got the account and life went on.

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Michele PW, our official Advertising/Marketing Online Expert

Discover Who Is Responsible For The Life You Are Living

I want to ask you a very simple question. More importantly, I want you to take the time to answer it reflectively and honestly. Before I ask the question, however, take a moment and look at all aspects of your life. Look closely at your family, your relationships, your finances, your career, your spirituality and your happiness. Once you have taken a good, long look at your life, here is the question that I want to ask of you, "Why are you living the life that you are living right this very moment?"

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Jessica Swanson, our official Shoestring Marketing Expert

Crossing The Chasm To On-line Success

Bill Phillips, in his excellent book "Body for Life," likens making the life-style changes necessary to build a healthier body to crossing a deep, dark chasm. Before you cross this chasm, it often looks like a very daunting task. Once you get started, doing what you need to do soon becomes a habit that requires very little effort.

Building a successful on-line business also involves crossing a deep, dark chasm where you must make doing just a few things that you need to do regular "habits."

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

Boost Online Sales With The EMail Marketing Two-Step

I have been involved with online marketing for a number of years and while I won't tell you I've seen everything, I've seen enough to know that the vast majority of people and businesses trying to make money online are missing the boat in a big way.

The idea of being able to simply throw up a web site and start raking in the sales is simply nothing more than a myth. Usually, this myth is told by the company that is selling you on the idea of building a web site for your business.

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Brian Rooney, our official Autoresponders Expert

7 Benefits of using Newsletter Templates

Using newsletter templates is more than just, ”not spending the time to format your newsletter”. There are other benefits and here you have 7 of them.

1. Time saver. To get going make a quick visit to

http://www.free-newslettertemplates.com/newsletter_templates.html and grab some templates for free. You could then have a basic newsletter ready to send in no more then 10-15 minutes. The template will work as a guide, saving you up to hours of work.

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Kenth Nasstrom, our official Affiliate Marketing Expert

Are You Making These Press Release Mistakes?

You've done it. Gotten that press release written. Now you're ready to send it out to your carefully chosen list of media contacts.

But before you hit that "send" button, take a moment and run your press release through this checklist. Remember, you only have a few seconds to catch the attention of busy journalists and editors -- don't blow it over an easily corrected mistake.

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Michele PW, our official Advertising/Marketing Online Expert