If starting a business in the real world is not a cut throat enough activity for you, try engaging in an online business. With the boom of the World Wide Web, you will find yourself not only competing with established corporations but with quite a number of mom and pop online business owners like you as well. Try searching the web for a particular product or service with a search engine and you will end up with a list of web sites offering the same or similar products or services so long that your...

Search engine optimized (SEO) press releases are a new incarnation of a publicity tool that's been around for more than 100 years. Traditional press releases were originally used to create buzz, brand awareness and traffic for brick and mortar businesses. So they're geared toward capturing the attention of traditional media like newspapers, radio and television.

SEO press releases vs. traditional press releases
SEO PRs are meant to be distributed online. Although they can...

There is a Web site featuring home business opportunities has been around since 2007. A Internet Marketing System that is experiencing massive growth, gives members the ability to replicate what other successful entrepreneurs are doing in Internet marketing. It even offers Web sites ideas and help, qualifying filters and a high quality call center which increases the success rate for all members. People don't need a lot of marketing experience to make money online.

With a home base...

Let me preface by saying this article was written for phpLD directory owners, but it is definitely something anyone can use.

Whether your directory is a niche or not, my advice would be to find a "niche" on the web where there is an audience you can promote to. Just to give you an example, maybe you decide to become really active in a forum like Work at Home Mom (don't have to be a mom or even female). You have a signature link. You make friends with some members. You maybe...

Common or proper etiquette not only exists and is required in the real world. Even the cyber world has etiquette issues. Case in point would be related to search engine optimization. With a myriad of tips and strategies available out there utilized to optimize a website, there are those that are deemed as acceptable and those that are seen as cheating. Good practices are called white hat SEO while frowned at techniques are known as black hat SEO.

Black hat SEO

The term...