2. September 2008

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Having a Plan B

Part of having a successful business means being able to always have a Plan B ready to go.  I think we may be on to Plan D already after last week. A big part of the BusinessToInvestment challenge is the websites.  And that means I rely heavily on Jorge’s crew at LatAmConnect .  Last week, [...]

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27. August 2008

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Lead Generation

One of my strategies has always been to build a database.  For every business activity - is this making money?  and if not, is this building my database? And to be honest, there is something rather nice to sit around with the “big boys” and talk about the size of my database.  So, there’s some ego [...]

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24. August 2008

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Following the Trail Before Me

Multiply Your Online Sales by 100 Times or More This Year I guess I’m on the theme of “trail” right now.  One of my best strategies has been to find people who are really successful at something and then figure out what they did.   Thanks to luckystar at TaxLoopholes’s First Class Lounge Forum, I found a book [...]

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3. September 2008

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Don’t Forget to Renew Your Domain Names!

We’ve had this conversation a few times as an aside at the TaxLoopholes First Class Lounge Forum.  I think it’s worth another reminder because I just saw a site make this fatal mistake. Don’t forget to renew your domain names!  I buy names and hold on to them for the “some day” future of creating websites [...]

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22. August 2008

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Industrial Age versus Information Age

My last post was about the disappearing middle class.  I’ve been thinking more about that concept.  In 1989, the Internet began.  I believe that’s also when the Berlin wall came down.   Most scholars say that the Information Age began in 1989, pointing to the beginning of the Internet. When economies move from one time to [...]

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20. August 2008

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Why We Have a Disappearing Middle Class

In the course of a week, I talk to clients and TaxLoopholes Community Members who struggle to make their businesses work and others who make $1 million or more (taxable income) per year.  I review tax returns for free for people who considering becoming clients.  The vast majority of the returns are from people who [...]

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19. August 2008

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Where Does Everyone Come From?

I’m set up with w3counter.com for stats.  I love looking at where people come from that visit my sites.  Here at B-I, the latest results (in order) are:  United States, Argentina (because of Jorge’s crew, I’m sure), Canada, United Kingdom, India and Australia. At DKTaxServices :  US, Argentina, UK, Canada, India, Jamaica and Egypt.   [...]

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18. August 2008

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Remember to Moderate Comments

I have just a couple of sites that I keep watch on, but I find that someone with moderator control needs to be regularly checking.   At the TaxLoopholes First Class Lounge Forum, largely because it’s a subscription based model, there isn’t that much moderation needed.  We don’t get hit with the spammers.  I did have [...]

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15. August 2008

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Conversion Stats Not Good

Well, out of the box, my site, www. HighTouchSystem .com is getting decent visits, but lousy conversion. We might have launched too early.  The sign up process is through a secure server, but the little lock symbol that we’re used to seeing only appears when you actually sign up.  Until then, it doesn’t look like it’s [...]

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