Build Your Online Business with Free Tools?

Free tools can undermine credibility

Have you heard various online marketers and internet marketing gurus say that you can build your business with free tools? You don’t have to spend money to make money?

The Danger of the Free Tools Myth

A business builds a funnel that attracts high quality traffic. Making money is not the same as

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5 Mistakes While Finding Your Niche

Finding your niche includes narrowing your target market. [©ayzek at istockphoto.com]

Narrowing your target market is part of finding your niche. © ayzek at istockphoto.com

Finding your niche in business is fundamental to making a profit, but it is also fundamental in connecting with possible partners for joint ventures and other collaborations. Unfortunately, finding your niche is filled with pitfalls.

One of the first

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Plugin Security – Take it Seriously!

Plugin security is essential

If you are you using the WordPress platform, are you alert to plugin security?  How would you feel if you tried to access your site only to see the “white screen of death” or that parts of your blog were not functioning?

There can be many security issues with a website and that is certainly

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Internet Marketing Training | The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Internet Marketing Training Can be Frustrating

Two things happened to me this weekend that got me thinking about best types of internet marketing training.

I spent 17 years in the teaching business plus another 26 years in the training business — most of it training others how to train others. But, I’m a real person and I have my own

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How to Add Art in Your Marketing Projects | Free Webinar Series

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"ART" = Photos, Illustrations, Customized or Modified Pictures—-Can You Guess How This Picture was Created?

I am going to provide some free webinar training on how to add art (photos or illustrations) to your marketing projects (blog posts, blog header, eBook pages, eBook cover, Facebook Fan Page branding logo, etc).

Interested?

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Review of 3 Tools |MySpeed, TimeTrade, Titanpad

TitanPad

Face these problems?

You spends gobs of time watching videos.  You just want to get the meat and be done. You have been using GenBook, the appointment-making free software site; now it will cost you $180 a year.  Ouch! You want a simple whiteboard that your online group (maybe mastermind group or planning committee)

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Lessons on Online Collaboration from Our Local Schoolyard

Today I stood at the back of our local elementary school watching two completely different scenes. I was there to pick up my grandson and walk him home, but he saw a group of boys he knew on and around the play structure, and he wanted to stay and play with them.

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My Online Presence is Rooted in "7 Lies"

Part 1 Of a Series Review on Ann Sieg and Her Products

Ann Sieg's Book – Buzz and Controversy

My online “presence” (not counting my “PBET” train-the-trainer business web site) began as a result of reading an ebook about the 7 lies in network marketing during August of 2007. How did

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Taking Time to Tackle Twitter

I only communicate in 140 characters.  Who am I?  Intellectually stymied.  Just kidding!

Twitter seems so simple: communications are brief, setting up an account takes 5 minutes or less, and sending a message is simple enough. But what is it? Controversy!  It’s social media – so it’s not for business – yes it is

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