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Do This And You’ll Never Have to Sell Again
Do you hate selling? Maybe you have a business that you love, work that you love to do, but the only thing that you hate is when it comes time to talk to someone about your business. Or maybe it’s the fear of actually having to close a sale that keeps you from starting your [...]
Continue reading...You’re a Better Salesperson Than You Think You Are
Saturday, December 20, 2008
There is one aspect to starting a business that will ring terror in the hearts of most people I know. Selling. Why can’t it be like in the movies - build it and they will come? So, people with no marketing and no selling experience jump into a new business venture and try to do [...]
Continue reading...Learning From the 300 Club
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The obscure reference in the title “300 Club” refers to something that probably only CPAs are going to recognize. In order to pass the CPA exam, you have to get a 75 or higher on 4 parts of the exam. You can pass one section at a time, provided you get a minimum score on [...]
Continue reading...Long Tail vs. Focus
Thursday, September 11, 2008
A friend of mine asked me a question a few days that keeps rattling around in my brain. I’ve talked on this blog and at the First Class Lounge Forum at TaxLoopholes about my million dollar mistake. Basically, I got caught up in the glamour of writing a book and doing interviews, that I let [...]
Continue reading...Is Affiliate Marketing Just an Accelerated Business Model?
Monday, September 8, 2008
One of the challenges that I hear again and again from my clients that are affiliate marketers is that as soon as everything is going great, the model changes. I’ve seen Google change the way they pay. And, they keep refining the model on how the use SEO. All designed to shut down many of [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Forget to Renew Your Domain Names!
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Following the Trail Before Me
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Leaving a Trail for the Future
Saturday, August 23, 2008
I was never one of those “Dear Diary” types, but I love to read memoirs. This blog, BusinessToInvestment, was set originally to be my notes for the journey for a million dollars in 2 years or less. It’s been almost 6 months now and we have a few websites making money, but by and large, [...]
Continue reading...Why We Have a Disappearing Middle Class
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Using Affiliate Marketers Tips to Grow Your Business
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
I was exchanging emails yesterday with RobF, an active contributor at the TaxLoopholes.com First Class Lounge forum. Rob is a copy writer (the guys who write sales letters and get paid $10,000+/letter) who turned into an affiliate marketer. He constantly wows us over at the forum with all the knowledge he has about buying traffic [...]
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