Joseph Ratliff

Long story short, because of a bad web hosting experience, the JosephRatliff.name blog has been laid to rest after 3 years of posting and over 600 articles.

Now, I have recently been posting and further developing my newest and more content-oriented blog The JosephRatliff.com Blog at http://josephratliff.com/blog .

Head on over there and take a look around, feel free to comment on any one post (or posts), and subscribe if you're interested in full-length articles delivered...

This post is going to be short...mainly offering something to think about.

As we head into the last quarter of 2009, I want you to think about how hard you've been working to build your online business, then...

I want you to think about if you've actually been creating an online business at all this year.

What do I mean?

Many aspiring (and even some seasoned) online business owners are just that...business owners. They own a high-paying...

Many of you are aware that Aweber allows you to place a simple line of Javascript code into your web pages to get your web subscription form to show in that location.

I am still seeing sites that are missing a critical opportunity.

Well guess what?

If the person viewing your opt-in area is using a browser with the JS turned off (Firefox commonly has this feature turned off)...then your form is nowhere to be found.

My guess is marketers...

We really believe in our products and services.

I mean, it’s very easy to convince ourselves and those close to us of the value lying within those products and services right?

But, when it comes to our “newbie” potential customers, it seems really easy to forget that they actually have to spend their hard earned money to gain access to that treasure-trove of information or valuable products you have waiting for them.

Right? (come on now, you know you...

A couple of things about Google Adwords that you might wish to use…

1) Target the merchant’s site for keywords. In the Google Adwords keyword tool, there is an option for putting in a website instead of listing words to gain keyword ideas from.

2) Remember this: Keywords –> Ads –> Landing Page (your blog or website).

The relationship between the three is important to Google…so therefore when you’re using Google Adwords, it should be important to...