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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Networking is the Key to Your Online Success

Networking is the key to collaboration

Networking is the key to your success dear online marketer. I am talking about pretty much every kind of online marketer: local business marketer, affiliate marketer, professional coaching, consulting and other services marketer, network marketer, and retail or hard goods marketer.

I’m talking about the process of meeting and connecting with other entrepreneurs, not

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The Road to Collaboration Begins With Building Rapport

Building rapport is the road to collaboration

Many internet marketers want success so badly they skip right over building rapport with others. Yet how often have you heard that marketing is about relationships?  Instead, you see people detour to treasure hunting in the mountains of fast profits, bypassing the high way of building rapport. More specifically,…

They pitch in

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Networking at Live Events Requires Relational and Collaborative Skills

Last June I hosted a webinar and interviewed Ken McArthur and Michelle Donovan on how to network at live events.  I’ve been working on my networking skills since then — in fact I’ve attended three internet marketing live events since then, including

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No Excuses Summit Offers Another Networking Opportunity

The No Excuses Summit was the brainchild of Ferny Ceballos and Raymond Fong over at SEO Networker. It started out as an incentive for people that signed up for Mike Dillard’s new e-Magazine “What Works Now.” The spiel was – Buy the WWN subscription through us and we will give you a free ticket

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Mike Klingler and the Portland Live Event, June 26-27, 2010

The focus of the Portland Live Event in just a few weeks is the continued teaching of Mike Klingler’s Marketing Funnel Mastery program. The first lesson was taught online in Mid-May and the promise was to compact most of the rest of the course into the two day live conference in Portland.

I am

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Networking at an Internet Marketing Conference

I am heading to at least one “live event” during the next few weeks.  There are so many fabulous conferences, workshops, and seminars from which to choose! So many opportunities to learn to grow an online business!

Are you going to any of these internet marketing conferences? Mike Klingler’s “Marketing Funnel Mastery” Live Event

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Collaboration for the Heavy Lifting in Your Small Business

Collaboration Enables a Bigger Result

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Did you know that collaboration might be the answer to a challenging task in your small business? In the corporate world you might be able to delegate part of the task. What’s the answer if you are a lone entrepreneur? One possibility is outsourcing. The other, more fun solution, is collaboration

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Ferny Ceballos and His Pre-Collaboration Advice

You can collaborate with other marketers who are seemingly out of reach, like way more popular or influential than you are at this time.

Now before you get too excited, be sure you have the marketing basics, as for example explained by Mike Klingler. Don’t expect to collaborate when you have

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Collaboration Concepts for Home Business Entrepreneurs

This post was going to be called, “Renegade Live Event in Portland – Second Report.” In my first video report, I focused on Mike Klingler’s opening message on January 16 where, in part, he spoke of the importance of providing value.  Later that same day, Ann Sieg spoke about collaboration. I had

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