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Exceptional Marketing

Shoestring marketers inherently understand that one of the main components in the success of their small business is how to position themselves as unique, remarkable and extraordinary. In today's vast ocean of millions of competing small businesses, you and your business will quickly drown if you remain ordinary. It is only the exceptional that survive.

However, the word "exceptional" can be incredibly intimidating for the small business owner. It conjures up images of superheroes and non-human strength. Be that as it may, it is not difficult to become exceptional in today's market. One of the most common dictionary definitions of the word exceptional is, "not conforming to a general rule or pattern." Basically, you don't want to be like everybody else.

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Jessica Swanson, our official Shoestring Marketing Expert

How To Easily Make More Affiliate Sales Using Audio

Making sales of any products is no more difficult than helping people conclude that what you have to offer is the ideal solution to a nagging, painful problem that they have.

One very effective method that I use to do this is to discuss the product with the person who knows it best - the product owners. You can do the same.

You merely need to arrange an interview with the product owner and record it. You can do this using any of dozens of free teleconferencing services, using a recording device hooked up to your phone, or as I often do, using Audio Acrobat at: http://williec.audioacrobat.com

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

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.

After a while, the dentist appeared at the doorway and said, "Brooke, it's your turn."

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Lisa Preston, our official Writing for Entrepreneurs Expert

What Marathons Can Teach You about Your Business, Part 1

I finished walking my first marathon in San Diego a week ago. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. But it was also an amazing accomplishment.

One thing that struck me while hoofing it toward the finish line was the similarities between running a business and running a marathon (or in my case, walking a marathon). I'll cover 5 altogether -- 2 this week and 3 next.

1. It's all about the mind. There was a quote posted around 18, 19 miles that said, "I run marathons because after mile 20, it's all about your mind." Or something like that. (My cognitive skills were fading at that point.)

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Michele PW, our official Advertising/Marketing Online Expert

What is an AutoResponder? Do I Really Need One?

Most people are familiar with autoresponders that send out those automated "I'm away" or "I'm on vacation" messages. In fact, most web hosting and email providers refer to these autoresponders as "away" or "vacation" settings within their email programs. These are good for a quick one shot automated reply to let someone know that you got their message or that you are away and will be returning to reply later.

Setting up these types of autoresponders is usually pretty straight forward. A quick glance through your email settings or your web hosting control panel are usually all that is required to activate them.

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Brian Rooney, our official Autoresponders Expert

The Marketing World Is Changing!

In the last five years marketing has changed tremendously. With the onset of the internet and now social media sites, the marketing world has literally turned upside down.

Interestingly enough, marketers were not the ones to initiate these changes. The change was set into motion by consumers.

Consumers became tired of aggressive, directive and interruptional marketing tactics. They became tired of companies telling them what to buy and how to spend. Consumers wanted to take part in the buying decision.

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Jessica Swanson, our official Shoestring Marketing Expert

How to Actually Make Money in Network Marketing

Most people that I know who are, or have been in network marketing, never seem to make a dime! Others (myself included) make a small fortune. If you're not doing VERY well with your business, and you're honestly putting in the effort, let me explain to you how to turn things around!

First of all, you need to make sure that you have the right product. That's the biggest mistake I see those who're failing make. At the same time, I see many marketing the same products that I do, not having the same success. So that's only one piece of the puzzle. Still, it's a very important piece of the puzzle.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

Membership Websites that Make $100,000 or More Every Month!

Besides selling products through eCommerce solutions (which can be highly effective and profitable), you can create extraordinary money making websites - these online money making applications can easily make you a six-figure income every month! The two eCommerce automated systems are membership/directory websites and eLearning websites.

Membership Websites as Online Money Making Systems for Generating Ongoing Revenue

Membership sites can be enormously profitable ventures. The source of revenue might be from the visitor who pays to access a membership directory, gains access to valuable resource information or subscribes to an online publication. Sometimes the visitor visits the site for free and searches for members within a directory who pay to be listed.

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Ruth Kuttler, our official E-Business Expert

Sources for Copyright Free Clip Art

Looking for places to find copyright free clip art for your business products or online ventures? Why pay for subscriptions to expensive clip-art sites when you can find thousands upon thousands of images for free use -- even commercial use? Uncovering these free images sounds like an easy task until you begin the search process. Let's look at some ways to find the exact copyright free graphic for your project.

Type in "free clip art" in a search engine, and you can come up with thousands of sites, some of which only point you to other sites and have no real clip art on them! Finding just what you need for a project can be frustrating!

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Lisa Preston, our official Writing for Entrepreneurs Expert