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One Stop Web Support Newsletter #49 On the Way
The latest issue of One Stop Web Support Newsletter is scheduled to arrive Sunday, February 11, 2007.This newsletter contains:

1. Seven Steps to Starting a Successful Small Business Online -- Step 4 -- Planning a Business System That Gives You Steady Sales
2. Personal recommendations - Rich Schefren's Internet Business Manifesto
3. Special guest corner - thoughts from top marketers Take Charge of Your Time, Take Charge of Your Business - Budgeting Your Time to be More Successful By Chris Malta and Robin Cowie
4. Success quote by Napoleon Hill

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

Labels: business system, newsletter

Hot Offer for February 9
SiteBuildIt! Valentine's Day Special
I'll be blunt. Anybody looking to build a website for your business shouldn't look anywhere other than to SiteBuildIt as their tool of choice. Period.

I've found no single tool that better prepares and supports you in building an online business with:

• Hosting
• Site-building tools
• Search engine optimization
• Tracking
• Promotional tools

And there's much more but I'll let you check the three-minute video and links I've just placed on my site to show you what all it does.

Available on a limited-time special
What I really want you to know is that now is a great time to get your own SiteBuildIt! site. They're offering a special discount right now for Valentine's Day. Get one for yourself, another as a gift (or get a second one for yourself—they're not really going to check up on you!) and get $100 off your two sites.

I've done this is the past as gifts for my college-age kids. They've been building sites to pay for their college educations. That should give you an idea of how highly I think of SiteBuildIt!

That's my pick for this week.

Don't forget, too, to check out my ongoing offers page that lists some of the top offers that are still available from previous weeks. Check it out for some exceptional bargains that cost next to nothing.
Jeff

Labels: hot offers, internet marketing tools, SiteBuildIt

Confusion About SiteBuildIt!
I recently got a letter in which the writer expressed frustration when she visited the site of my favorite Internet business tool, SiteBuildIt! The writer found my response helpful so I thought I'd republish it here in case any of you have similarly felt overwhelmed trying to find out what built in design/sitebuilding/marketing tools SiteBuildIt! includes. Here was my response:

I understand what you mean about being confused about SiteBuildIt! They
sometimes tend to be a little wordy. I looked around for a page that simply
listed all the tools that SBI includes. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find any one
page that lists everything.

I have a partial list of the built-in tools in my review of SiteBuildIt if you’d like to look at that:

http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/tl-sitebuildit.htm

Like I say, the list in my review is an incomplete list, but it gives you an idea.
One thing that’s not included is a shopping cart, although that’s available as
an add-on for an extra cost. But brainstorming tools, monetization tools,
autoresponders, search engine optimization tools, blogging tools, pay-per-click
submission tools are all part of the flat fee, along with a lot of other tools.
I never can keep up with everything that it offers.

And SiteBuildIt has a history of responding to changes in the Internet marketplace without any extra fee. For example, when Google came out with Google SiteMaps as a way to get Google spidering more of people’s sites, SiteBuildIt immediately built in a tool to take advantage of this development.

I’m not as familiar with the other hosting companies you mentioned. I’m a little familiar with GoDaddy from buying some of my domains through them. I’ve never bought hosting from them, but their website building tools seemed limited to something where you could pick a template and plug in your content, but where you’re left on your own to figure out how to build a business out of the site you’ve
built.

I’m going to give you some links to SiteBuildIt pages that might help you with your questions.

But before I do, I want you to know something. I don’t recommend things I don’t personally believe in and I’ve bought SiteBuildIt sites for two of my kids who are either in college or preparing to start college. They’re building sites on special interests they have to help them pay for their college educations. So you can see what I think of SiteBuildIt.

OK, here are the links. The first one is to SiteBuildIt’s video tour. It’s about 30 minutes long, but it gives a pretty thorough look at how SiteBuildIt works and what’s included.

http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/sitesell-videotour

The second link takes you to a page where you can submit specific questions that
will be answered by a successful SBI owner.

http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/sitesell-question

Finally, this link will take you to a special tool that SiteSell created to help make
decisions of any kind where a comparison is involved. Ironically, the example
you can use to see how ChooseIt works deals specifically with hosting, but you
might want to bookmark it and use it in the future to help clarify any choices
you’re trying to make.

It’s a pretty useful tool if you’re willing to put a little thought into what things are most important to you about whatever decision you’re making. (I notice that 1and1 is one of the hosting companies they use in their example. Go ahead and plug your own numbers into ChooseIt based on your opinion of what 1and1 has to offer.)

http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/sitesell-chooseit

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

I hope this helps you, too.

Jeff

Labels: SiteBuildIt

Fear of Success
Fear of success? Who has that? Unfortunately, a lot of us do.

Ever make a dumb decision that set you back just as you were closing on some major goal? You likely were a victim of your own fear of success sabotaging you.

Ever find it hard to take action that you know will get you closer to your goal? There, too, you likely were done in by your own fear of success.

Funny thing, isn’t it? We all want to better ourselves, but at the same time we’re afraid to move beyond where we are. The familiar, old problems that we're used to are somehow more comfortable than the prospect of facing an unfamiliar new world into which the act of actually achieving our goals would thrust us.

Succeeding doesn't have to be so intimidating, though. I like what Jim Edwards says about it: “Succeeding simply puts you in a slightly more comfortable position and qualifies you to solve a different set of problems.”

The messages that were drilled into us from little on about who we are and where we fit into the world are not the final word on us. We get to put our input into that final word on us – if we choose to take positive action instead of giving in to that fear of success.
Jeff

Labels: mindset, motivation, successful business