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by Raymond Johnston Jr. You have decided to start your own business on the internet. The first question is what do I do? What kind of service do I offer or what product do I sell. What field are you knowledgable in? What do you have to offer others? Am I qualified to help others? [...]

Today’s article is about why clients sometimes back out and what todo about it. Sometimes for whatever reason, a brand new client decidesto back out and not go forward in working with you even before you’ve startedto work together. So, here you’ve spent time marketing to that client,following up, cultivating the lead, successfully going through [...]

Even the most avid social sharers can sometimes run out of valuable things to say or share. Engaging in social media is a full-time conversation. Even with the constant flood of information and content and the constantly evolving nature of social media and social networks, you may find that you feel like you’ve said it [...]

by Raymond Johnston Jr. Would you like me to give you a formula for…success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure… You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all…You can be discouraged by failure – or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. [...]

by Raymond Johnston Jr. A while back my youngest son came to visit for a few days. He and his family arrived late one night and after visiting for a couple of hours, we all turned in. The next morning when he came down for his caffeine jump start, I was sitting at my desk [...]

Very little separates the authority niche marketer within a niche and everyone else. It is critical to establish a positive relationship with your niche’s general audience in order to be recognized as an authority. As anyone can set up a website or a blog you need to take a step further to become an authority. [...]

by Raymond Johnston Jr. Do you have what it takes to be an ezine publisher? Someone told me the other day that anyone could become a newsletter or ezine publisher. That put me into some deep thought about the situation. I decided that it was probably true that anyone could become a publisher of an [...]

In order to create an Internet marketing strategy which is both effective and efficient it is imperative to utilize a set of processes or systems. Not only does this make organization easier but it also allows you to test, tweak, and optimize each system. Regardless of what type of Internet marketing you prefer, there are [...]

The holiday season is in full swing, and you might be among those companies trying to cash in on the buying frenzy of customers. If not, then your IT firm might be more along the lines of supporting the operations of other businesses, ensuring that their systems is running smoothly and capable of handling the [...]

by Raymond Johnston Jr. There are many new traffic exchange sites that have popped up in the last few months. I personally use quite a few of them and generate an average of 200 hits a day from them. It is not something that happens overnight but if you start signing up some people in [...]