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“Features Tell, Benefits Sell” – A Marketing Guru Would Say, But Do They?
Here’s the main problem with benefits: they sound hyper-pitchy. But is pitchy bad? Not necessarily. If my only option to make money was to use pitchy messages then hell … no problem. However, even though the language of benefits works great for many marketers selling products online, it’s still not perfect for everything. Some products [...]
Online Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web Design
If you have an online business, or you’re planning to launch one, chances are that at some point you will be searching for a web designer to redesign your current site or create something completely new. A different path to choose is to buy a premium, out-of-the-box website template. Either way, no matter which path [...]
Online Business Models Explained: Subscriptions and Membership Programs
This series is slowly coming to its final episode, however this isn’t the one yet. So far we’ve been talking about things like: services and consulting, products, affiliate income, and advertising. These are all valid online business models. Today let’s focus on something that is not that obvious, but has been fairly popular lately nevertheless [...]
Upselling Like a BOSS – How to Pull the Trigger
Are you ready to bring a gun to a knife fight? Because, essentially, that’s what upselling is. For some people upselling is like generating free money, others don’t believe in the whole idea that much. My opinion is somewhere in between. I know that upselling can bring you some serious profits, but only if you [...]
Where to Get Backlinks to Your Site – Part 7 – Blog Comments and Forums
So far in this series we’ve talked about many different ways of getting backlinks to your site … the backbone of SEO. Depending on your personal preferences and your backend you can end up using some of them more than the others, and that’s okay. The task for you is to always select the ones [...]
Are You Doing the High Leverage Activities in Your Online Business?
This may be a shock for some people, but the fact is that not everything you do matters. I’m sorry to be the one to break it, but that’s just the way it is… We all like to be busy, well, maybe “like” is not the best word, but we surely feel like we “need” [...]
Online Business Models Explained: Advertising
This series is starting to get off the ground, so far there were three parts explaining the business models of: services and consulting, products, affiliate income. This time we’re going to discuss probably the most obvious model of them all – advertising. Why is it the most obvious? Well, chances are that if you say [...]
Where to Get Backlinks to Your Site – Part 6 – Social News Sites
(Note. This post contains a list of popular social news sites. In some scenarios, social news sites are great to get backlinks to your blog or website.) In the previous part we were discussing some popular social bookmarking sites. If I were to choose just a single biggest benefit of social bookmarking I would have [...]
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- Online Business Models Explained: Affiliate Income
- Where to Get Backlinks to Your Site – Part 5 – Social Bookmarking
- Online Business Models Explained: Products
- Online Business Models Explained: Services and Consulting
- Where to Get Backlinks to Your Site – Part 4 – Video Hosting Sites
- Beware of Quality Website Layouts! They Can Give Your Website a Head Start
- Where to Get Backlinks to Your Site – Part 3 – 6 Free Blog Sites
- Where to Get Backlinks to Your Site – Part 2 – 12 Web 2.0 Sites
- Where to Get Backlinks to Your Site – Part 1 – 30+ Article Directories
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- 16 Websites You Can Visit When You’re in a Hiring Mood + 1 Bonus
- How to Set Up an Online Business – Complete Beginner’s Guide
- Why Lightning Quick Ads are the Future of Internet Advertising
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