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Got Money?: Funding Options for Small Businesses

Small businesses have become America’s ventilator, pumping life into the economy by generating 64% of net new jobs over the past 15 years, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. As a result, it seems like the whole nation is chanting, “Long live the small business,” showing their faith by generously funding entrepreneurs. Here, we’ve […]

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Change Of Rules, Links “Do-Follow” After You Make 5 Comments

A few days back I told you how to increase traffic to your website using my blog. The 4 point plan was to exchange links with me, comment on my posts, link from a post of yours to mine and to follow me on Twitter. Many of you did these things and I greatly appreciate […]

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The Postcard Arrived…

Remember when I had Click2Mail send me a test postcard for ad campaign? I wrote about it here: Sending Postcards To Advertise Your Product Or Services. Well it finally showed up yesterday. It took a LONG time… …because of user error. My fault. I accidentally picked “standard mail” instead of “first class.” Instead of 4-5 […]

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Top 10 Email Subject Lines by Ken Mcarthur

I found this link this morning. Ken Mcarthur lists his best email subject lines (based on open rates) from 2008. It’s good to see people posting real data! He also writes quite a bit about how to evaluate statistics. All in all, a great post. Go check it out! http://theimpactfactor.com/blog/?p=220

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WordPress Link Directory

Tonight I was struck with an idea that involved easily adding reciprocal links between blogs. I decided to do a google search to see if I could find anything that had already been created. I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for, but it’s pretty close. A WordPress Link Directory. You can see an […]

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Perry Belcher’s Headline Writing Formula

Michel Fortin tipped me off to this awesome headline writing formula by Perry Belcher:

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Free Mind Mapping Tool

I downloaded this quite some time ago on a tip from a multivariate testing expert. I just started using it after I got back from the cruise, but it’s fantastic (and free). http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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3 Quick Ways To Judge Your New Product Idea

Raise your hand if you’ve ever come up with a product that was a dud… If you’ve ever created a product, there’s a good chance you’ve made one that couldn’t sell. People who are just beginning their business pursuits often forget to check if there’s a market for their “hot idea” before they create the […]

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Stat Counters And Their Hidden Gold

I’ve been watching my blogs web statistics lately. If you have a blog, I highly recommend doing that as well. Some things I’ve noticed… 1. This blog’s audience has grown every month since I started posting regularly in January. 2. There are a few topics my readers aren’t too interested in. I can tell, because […]

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How To Find JV Partners

Hi guys, A free gift for you today… In 2002 I set out to write an ebook based on this premise. I wanted to ask successful business people, if they lost their list and all their resources, how would they build up their business. Since then, that model for an ebook has been copied several […]

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