tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93428172009-09-27T10:27:48.632-07:00Abstracts and reprints of the articles published in my Internet Marketing Newsletter, <b>Profit Trails</b>. Articles cover topics of interest to people doing internet marketing, affiliate marketing, or network marketing, regardless of the product. Some are instructional, some inspirational, some are thought-provoking.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08934741587663521883noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9342817.post-1104904890076292752005-10-29T10:56:00.000-07:002005-10-30T12:22:19.790-07:00

Most webmasters understand, or soon learn, that having links to your site is essential to getting listed in the major search engines, and to getting traffic.In fact, it is said that several of the major search engines won't even spider a site until it has a minimum number of incoming links from other sites that are also spidered and ranked by the search engines.What many webmasters do *not* know,

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You can set yourself up to succeed in internet business, or to fail. The choice is yours ... We all need a little inspiration once in a while, and we all need to be reminded that achieving success is a process, not an event. It doesn't happen over night. Here are some ideas for improving your chances of success in online business. Have a plan, preferrably written. We all need to get organized,

Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08934741587663521883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9342817.post-1127375762400039802005-09-22T00:47:00.000-07:002005-09-22T00:57:26.160-07:00

I rarely write articles here specific to somebody else's products or websites, but in this case, I had to.Why? Simple. This website, and the related sales materials, are hands down some of the very best that I have seen in quite some time. This guy knows how to sell a product!Not only is the sales material and the whole approach absolutely first-rate, the product itself is one of my favorite

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Whether you consider yours a home based business or an internet business, the goal is profit, right? More profitable home businesses are what we all desire and strive for.What follows is a brief summary of some of the things that I've done recently to improve my own profitability. Chances are, you can do much the same.In going over things during tax season and assessing my online businesses, two

Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08934741587663521883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9342817.post-1113785558407755612005-04-17T17:47:00.000-07:002005-04-17T18:00:51.463-07:00

The internet has grown explosively in the ten or so years that it has been in widespread use,and internet marketing has grown along with it. Many factors contribute to making the internet the ideal business medium. Let's examine a few.Low Startup and Overhead Costs. Even as recently as five or six years ago, it could cost one hundred dollars or more to register a domain name, and a similar

Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08934741587663521883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9342817.post-1108587287803461152005-02-16T13:51:00.000-07:002005-02-16T13:57:26.893-07:00

In case you haven't heard, the net is buzzing with talk of blogging and RSS. Once the province strictly of people who got a kick out of publishing online diaries, and later of political and social commentarists, blogs and RSS are being adopted by the internet marketing community.This is the hot new trend for 2005. The word "blog" was actually the most searched for word of the year for 2004, and

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Learn from the experts. Watch not only what they do, but how they do it ... A while back, a friend of mine reluctantly went to a psychiatrist. Being very intellectual,and not really wanting to get involved in psychotherapy, my friend instead became engrossed in figuring out what the psychiatrist was doing during their sessions, and why, to the exclusion of hearing anything he had to say. While

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I'm just getting started with all this blogging and RSS, but I've quickly discovered what a wonderful outlet it is for online newsletter publishers and article writers. That will be the primary focus of this blog ... re-publishing some of my articles that have been gathering dust in the hinterlands of the net, and announcing the brand, spanking new ones as I write them. I usually come up with one

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