According to many market forecasts, 2004 is likely to be a buoyant year online. These are my top tips for making the most of it, and ensuring a happy, healthy and prosperous 2004. 1. Seek out new markets and niches, and make them work for you. This is a simple technique to find profitable niches for...

Want to provide great online customer support? Want to provide the kind of customer support that will grow your business, by building customer loyalty and satisfaction? It?s not as hard as it sounds! Just remember your ABC?s. A-Add value Don?t just do the bare minimum when it comes to providing c...

Do web surfers really bookmark websites anymore? A good friend and very successful marketer online recently said to me, "Ron, bookmarks are a complete waste of time." It was said so matter-of-factly, that we were off onto some other topic in the next breathe. A little later, as I was returning to ...

The product is about teaching your parrot how to talk. Now THAT is a niche! http://www.yourparrotwilltalk.com There are a few niche information products targeting pet owners. Creating a product for pet owners is a very sound idea. People ...

Conceptualize, Build and Publish a Web site - What`s required to get started All of us knowingly or unknowingly, use a standard decision making process in our day-to-day lives. The very first step of this process is to decide whether TO DO or NOT TO DO. If the choice is TO DO, we think of the variou...

You don`t win your Web site visitors` trust right away. It may take from 4-7 visits before they buy. You must always give them a reason to buy, and not offend them in any way because they will ricochet to other sites. Here`s some ways to get people to keep coming back to your site:

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Make your website pay?in millions Although opportunities were rare and far in between during the pre cyber era, Internet has transformed the entire scenario of making money. All you need is inclination, just like thousands of other smart people across the world. Hey, wait! You think this is another ...

The company that dominated dial-up Internet use is coming to grip with the future. As broadband use increases dramatically, AOL has watched subscriptions decline and advertising dollars move to Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Facing approaching irrelevance, AOL has decided to act. AOL Reinvents In an effor...

Okay, you have a domain name, layout and content. Now we get to a step that will go a long way to determining how the site will rank. Yes, we are going to focus on two infamous topics, meta tags and keyword density. Meta Tags Meta tags are html code blocks that ?tell? a search engine what is on a pa...

Most of you have seen those little buttons on websites labeled RSS or XML. If you are wondering what they are, RSS means Really Simple Syndication. Really simple because when you subscribe to a site that has this feature, you keep up-to-date with new information without having to check the site ever...

Well, the Internet access industry is starting to shake its way out. The much-anticipated consolidation of access providers is nearing its end. In broadband, this means that most users have little or no choice of providers. Though many of the changes have been hard on user choice, this is not necess...

Yes, it really happens. Now you might find it hard to believe but you will understand after I explain. Prior to late 2004, Google undisputedly ruled the search engine world. During the second half of the year things took a dramatic turn when Yahoo and MSN decided to challenge the Big G for some of t...

When you are involved in RSS everyday you get to see the fantastic opportunities RSS can bring to the web and how it can contribute to bettering the browsers experience and the webmasters bottom line. Unfortunately there is a dark side of RSS use. It continues to amaze me how some webmasters alway...

I will stress the importance of publishing your own newsletter. If you do it right, your newsletter will become a key component of your online marketing stategy. You can follow up your target audience by auto responder.

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The prevailing, generic internet marketing advice in vogue right now is that you need to syndicate your content. In other words, submit your articles to content directories and syndication hubs in order to win new traffic and links to your website. The problem is that most new online business owner...

USE STRUCTURE. Structure is all too often dismissed as a hindrance to creativity and, taken to the level of conformity it is, but up to a critical threshold it enhances creative output ? both in terms of the quality and size of the idea pool. ? Short term goals (incremental productivity) produce mo...

Why write an eBook? You want ongoing, lifelong multiple streams of income. You want to raise your credibility and trust ratings with clients or customers. You want to get your message out so the world can be a better place. You want to spend only a little time on it. (Would you be willing to spend 4...

If you can use more new customers... and I mean TONS of new sales, leads and profits, I`ve got great news for you. Now there are powerful, inexpensive ways to bring in all the business you`ll ever need. The kind business that will rocket your sales counter right off the charts! If you want more visi...

You`ve just finished congratulating your marketing team. After six months of concentrated effort you can now actually find your own company web site within the search engines. Everyone is busy handshaking and back patting when a voice from the back of the room rises above the din. "Yeah this is grea...

There are numerous choices when it comes to building web sites. One of the first choices you will have to make is whether to use an online or offline site builder. Site Builders Site builders can be divided into two categories, online and offline. An online site builder creates a web site with web f...

Getting your website listed in Google quickly simply requires that you know what Google is looking for and how to apply that to your site. Fortunately, what Google is looking for is pretty easy to understand and use in your marketing plan. Start with these suggestions as soon as possible so you will...