Ok...Ok - I am a complete Newbie!!

Just an overworked/underpaid mother of 2 whose children are drowning in school debt.
I thought I could help them out if I found a nice little niche in online marketing, and threw them a couple of bucks each month to help them out. Right?? How hard could it be?

Oh brother.......but......

Little did I expect to get totally hooked!! I can't learn enough, find enough, or read enough about what it takes to get started....

Let's say you have a website, or have purchased one, and are seemingly stuck trying to figure out how to generate more money online. This is fundamentally about good marketing. Apply your creativity to achieve great results. Implement new methods to add more revenue, and drive those efforts daily to increase your profits.

I'm a big fan of Philip Kotler and I wanted to share some of the wisdom I've learned in my MBA program at Keller Graduate School of Management. In order for this...

I was thinking just recently that it is a great pity that so many people have difficulty seeing how to make money on the internet and end up thinking that it is all a scam.

It is a little like doing this:

1. You see an advertisement that shows people going for a wonderful vacation in Las Vegas in a certain model of car. You think, "Oh wow, I would love to go to Las Vegas!" So you buy the car.

2. You read the manual for your new car. Then you...

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It is doubtful that you will ever find a successful copywriter who does not have their own swipe file. As a copywriter, a swipe file is a list of stuff that you like from other copywriters: pieces of ads, hot phrases, even entire sales letters or web sites. Your swipe file is your stockpile of ideas for your next copywriting job.

Building up a swipe file is just as easy as it sounds. If you see something you like on a web site,...

The best businesses are out of personal interests and hobbies. A classic passion-turned-profit story is Microsoft. Bill Gates became one of the wealthiest when he developed the writing language or software of personal computers. Computers were his sole interests then.

Like Bill Gates, small and home businesses can also have the same fate. ChocolateFarm.com is one of them. The Colorado company sells chocolate online. The chocolate business was out of the joint hobbies of making chocolates...