Saturday, September 20, 2008
One Stop Web Support Newsletter #74 Coming
The latest issue of my newsletter will arrive Sunday morning.
The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part I -- What article marketing can do for you
This week's Q & A is:
How do I use my knowledge and skills to build a profitable business?
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
The latest issue of my newsletter will arrive Sunday morning.
The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part I -- What article marketing can do for you
This week's Q & A is:
How do I use my knowledge and skills to build a profitable business?
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
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Hot Offers for September 19, 2008
I found a new case study on a 15-year-old girls who is making $900 a month, working 5-8 hours a month.
The case study lays out the exact strategies and tools she used. What makes it a hot deal, though, is that it invites you to use those same strategies and tools for a month for less than $5 and see if you can beat her.
The other two offers this week are free offers for selling your services online or for making money with blogs.
Here are three current ones I recommend:
Or click below to go straight to the offers:
Jeff
I found a new case study on a 15-year-old girls who is making $900 a month, working 5-8 hours a month.
The case study lays out the exact strategies and tools she used. What makes it a hot deal, though, is that it invites you to use those same strategies and tools for a month for less than $5 and see if you can beat her.
The other two offers this week are free offers for selling your services online or for making money with blogs.
Here are three current ones I recommend:
- Are you smarter than a 15-year-old case study
- FREE updated version of the classic Affiliate Masters Course
- New FREE ebook on how to make money with a blog
Or click below to go straight to the offers:
- Are you smarter than a 15-year-old case study
- Service Sellers Master Course
- Build a Business, NOT a Blog
Jeff
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Thursday Inspiration—What You Accept from Life
Here's a favorite quote from Somerset Maugham:
"It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it."
What are you currently willing to accept from yourself and from life?
Jeff
Here's a favorite quote from Somerset Maugham:
"It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it."
What are you currently willing to accept from yourself and from life?
Jeff
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
A Broken Bridge, My Close Call, and Your Business
A little over a year ago, shortly after 6 PM on August 1, 2007, I was on Interstate-35W in Minneapolis, my car climbing the backside of the Mississippi River bluff that led to the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi.
Suddenly, traffic ahead of me stopped. A dust cloud rose from the river side of the bluff.
Traffic stood motionless for several minutes. Finally, a man appeared over the top of the bluff.
A stunning realization
"Turn around!" he yelled. "Go back! The bridge is gone!"
That was the first I knew of the tragic I-35W bridge collapse. Thirteen people who were a half-mile ahead of me died in that collapse. Dozens more were injured. I consider myself lucky that I chose to grab a quick hamburger at a fast-food drive-thru on my way to that bridge, or I might have been among them.
After a couple months of cleanup, the rebuilding of that bridge began. Work progressed round the clock seven days a week to get that critical stretch of the Interstate system rebuilt as quickly as possible.
A bridge rebuilt
Thursday morning, September 18, 2008, at 5 AM, the bridge officially reopens -- three months ahead of schedule. I thought about getting up to be among the first cars across, but I've already had my sense of closure about my close call.
The first time I cross it, though, I'm sure it will be with a prayer of gratitude.
As much as the bridge reopening touches me personally, though, I can't help but share with you some business thoughts that watching the bridge being rebuilt brings to mind.
Yep, even in an event with deep personal meaning for me, I can't help but find some business lesson in it.
The kid in the movie "The Sixth Sense" saw dead people everywhere he went. I see business lessons.
How marketing is like bridge construction
Watching the bridge being rebuilt was instructive. For months upon months, nothing seemed to happen. Hordes of workers scurried everywhere, but no progress was evident.
Then, suddenly, it happened. It seemed like one day the two support columns rose out of the river like a plant growing in time-lapse photography. Boom! They were there.
Then each day the bridge grew out of them, their spans reaching toward each other with speed totally unexpected after the long months of no visible progress.
The months of effort spent laying foundations and making preparations seemed like nothing was happening. But once everything was in place, it was amazing how quickly progress flew.
It's much the same way with marketing. As much as people may hype up the "magic button" marketing solutions they try to sell, marketing is more like building that bridge than like pushing a magic button.
With any worthwhile marketing strategy I know, you see little to no results when you first start it. But once you get some momentum going with it, watch out! The speed at which results can grow can astonish you.
Be ready to put a lot of effort into your business with limited results at first. Build solid foundations. Work toward future growth instead of just quick fixes.
Foundations take time. Especially if you're building something you want to last.
Jeff
A little over a year ago, shortly after 6 PM on August 1, 2007, I was on Interstate-35W in Minneapolis, my car climbing the backside of the Mississippi River bluff that led to the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi.
Suddenly, traffic ahead of me stopped. A dust cloud rose from the river side of the bluff.
Traffic stood motionless for several minutes. Finally, a man appeared over the top of the bluff.
A stunning realization
"Turn around!" he yelled. "Go back! The bridge is gone!"
That was the first I knew of the tragic I-35W bridge collapse. Thirteen people who were a half-mile ahead of me died in that collapse. Dozens more were injured. I consider myself lucky that I chose to grab a quick hamburger at a fast-food drive-thru on my way to that bridge, or I might have been among them.
After a couple months of cleanup, the rebuilding of that bridge began. Work progressed round the clock seven days a week to get that critical stretch of the Interstate system rebuilt as quickly as possible.
A bridge rebuilt
Thursday morning, September 18, 2008, at 5 AM, the bridge officially reopens -- three months ahead of schedule. I thought about getting up to be among the first cars across, but I've already had my sense of closure about my close call.
The first time I cross it, though, I'm sure it will be with a prayer of gratitude.
As much as the bridge reopening touches me personally, though, I can't help but share with you some business thoughts that watching the bridge being rebuilt brings to mind.
Yep, even in an event with deep personal meaning for me, I can't help but find some business lesson in it.
The kid in the movie "The Sixth Sense" saw dead people everywhere he went. I see business lessons.
How marketing is like bridge construction
Watching the bridge being rebuilt was instructive. For months upon months, nothing seemed to happen. Hordes of workers scurried everywhere, but no progress was evident.
Then, suddenly, it happened. It seemed like one day the two support columns rose out of the river like a plant growing in time-lapse photography. Boom! They were there.
Then each day the bridge grew out of them, their spans reaching toward each other with speed totally unexpected after the long months of no visible progress.
The months of effort spent laying foundations and making preparations seemed like nothing was happening. But once everything was in place, it was amazing how quickly progress flew.
It's much the same way with marketing. As much as people may hype up the "magic button" marketing solutions they try to sell, marketing is more like building that bridge than like pushing a magic button.
With any worthwhile marketing strategy I know, you see little to no results when you first start it. But once you get some momentum going with it, watch out! The speed at which results can grow can astonish you.
Be ready to put a lot of effort into your business with limited results at first. Build solid foundations. Work toward future growth instead of just quick fixes.
Foundations take time. Especially if you're building something you want to last.
Jeff
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A Broken Wrist, a Bunch of Kettles, and a Marketing Lesson
I'm doing double duty right now. My wife is recovering from a broken wrist, so I'm serving as an extra hand for her.
One of the things I'm doing more of lately is cooking.
Now, I don't consider myself a dunce in the kitchen. I did all my own cooking before we were married and did pretty well for myself. I even take pride in the fact that on the rare occasions when I cooked a meal for our family, some of my old recipes found a place among our kids' favorite meals.
I've cooked very little over the years, though, because my wife loves to do the vast majority of the cooking and -- admittedly -- her skills far outshine mine. She is a genius in the kitchen. I'm just pretty good.
Well, with her limited to cooking with one hand, I've filled the breach. It's been a learning experience that goes beyond just cooking. I've even gotten a few good reminders from it about Internet marketing, too.
Usually, when I've filled in on a random meal, I've gone out and gotten the ingredients I was used to cooking with. What with me cooking on a regular basis, I've gone with the ingredients our kitchen is set up with -- in other words, I've gone with her ingredients.
As a result, I've thrown my usual requirement out the window that she stay out of the kitchen while I cook. She's a genius in the kitchen, but she's also very precise in her way of doing things.
In the past, I've asked her to leave the kitchen to me in order to avoid the following types of, ahem, discussions:
Or at least I tried to word it in that kind of gentle manner.
But with me cooking her recipes, I've let her teach me her way of doing everything.
I've experienced a certain amount of discomfort with learning a whole new set of cooking practices. But it keeps her feeling involved in the kitchen, which is a good thing for her morale right now.
And it has reminded me of an important truth about marketing.
You don't always have the luxury of doing everything exactly the way you've always done it. Just as I have had to learn new techniques to satisfy Joanne's precise way of doing things, I find lots of times in business where I have to try something totally different in order to get the results I need.
The discomfort that comes from learning something new is not a bad thing to be avoided.
It's called growth.
And when you do it, you become better able to tackle new challenges and achieve new heights.
I'll come out of this regular cooking duty under her guidance as a better cook with a broader range of experience. And when I tackle a new and unfamiliar challenge in marketing, I come out stronger and more seasoned.
You just have to be willing to try something new.
Jeff
I'm doing double duty right now. My wife is recovering from a broken wrist, so I'm serving as an extra hand for her.
One of the things I'm doing more of lately is cooking.
Now, I don't consider myself a dunce in the kitchen. I did all my own cooking before we were married and did pretty well for myself. I even take pride in the fact that on the rare occasions when I cooked a meal for our family, some of my old recipes found a place among our kids' favorite meals.
I've cooked very little over the years, though, because my wife loves to do the vast majority of the cooking and -- admittedly -- her skills far outshine mine. She is a genius in the kitchen. I'm just pretty good.
Well, with her limited to cooking with one hand, I've filled the breach. It's been a learning experience that goes beyond just cooking. I've even gotten a few good reminders from it about Internet marketing, too.
Usually, when I've filled in on a random meal, I've gone out and gotten the ingredients I was used to cooking with. What with me cooking on a regular basis, I've gone with the ingredients our kitchen is set up with -- in other words, I've gone with her ingredients.
As a result, I've thrown my usual requirement out the window that she stay out of the kitchen while I cook. She's a genius in the kitchen, but she's also very precise in her way of doing things.
In the past, I've asked her to leave the kitchen to me in order to avoid the following types of, ahem, discussions:
(Jeff grabs cover for the kettle)After about four corrections of what cover to use, what knife to use, and what part of the cheese grater to grate the cheese with, I've usually reminded her that I was cooking to give her a break from the kitchen and encouraged her to go off and relax while I fixed MY recipe the way I always had fixed it in the past.
Joanne: (grabs an absolutely identical cover) No, here. Use this one. I always use this cover with that kettle.
Jeff: What's the difference? They both look the same.
Joanne: This cover goes with this kettle. Your cover goes with the other one.
Jeff: How can you even tell the difference?
Joanne: This is the right one to use.
Or at least I tried to word it in that kind of gentle manner.
But with me cooking her recipes, I've let her teach me her way of doing everything.
I've experienced a certain amount of discomfort with learning a whole new set of cooking practices. But it keeps her feeling involved in the kitchen, which is a good thing for her morale right now.
And it has reminded me of an important truth about marketing.
You don't always have the luxury of doing everything exactly the way you've always done it. Just as I have had to learn new techniques to satisfy Joanne's precise way of doing things, I find lots of times in business where I have to try something totally different in order to get the results I need.
The discomfort that comes from learning something new is not a bad thing to be avoided.
It's called growth.
And when you do it, you become better able to tackle new challenges and achieve new heights.
I'll come out of this regular cooking duty under her guidance as a better cook with a broader range of experience. And when I tackle a new and unfamiliar challenge in marketing, I come out stronger and more seasoned.
You just have to be willing to try something new.
Jeff
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
One Stop Web Support Newsletter #73 Posted
The latest issue of my newsletter is now posted. You can see it here:
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletters/nl-2008-09-14.htm
The main article is:
The Reality of Starting a Business Online—expect to grow
This week's Q & A is:
What's the best thing for me to sell?
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
The latest issue of my newsletter is now posted. You can see it here:
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletters/nl-2008-09-14.htm
The main article is:
The Reality of Starting a Business Online—expect to grow
This week's Q & A is:
What's the best thing for me to sell?
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
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