Have you ever heard of these services called Amazon S3 and Dropbox? They are file storage services that are much more reliable than your computer's local hard drive. When you make a backup of your site you don't ever want to lose that backup. The real question is if your computer's hard drive crashes tomorrow will you lose anything? Will you lose months or years of old websites backups. The question should hopefully be no because hard drives crash, websites get bigger and you can easily restore...

You know that depending on your webhost you might not be able to actually backup your site. It's true. Many webhosts are simply not powerful enough to allow WordPress to back itself up because this involves backing up all the files, dumping the whole database and putting it all into one giant zip file. But luckily there are a few things to check about your webhost and you know in the next few minutes whether or not you are able to backup your site. If you aren't I would highly recommend you...

E-mail marketing is definitely not dead, and if you market to your prospects both before and after the sale, you will outsell the majority of your competition. I have one friend who is really strict about his follow-ups, and has 7 presale follow-ups for all products, plus 7 post sale e-mail follow-ups for all products. Although some of my products have no follow-up e-mails, one of them has 124 pre-sell e-mails that spends over two years convincing opt-in subscribers to buy a particular product....

If you go to just about any internet marketing forum you will find one or two posts from people asking how to get a quick 100 dollars. Not a thousand dollars or a million dollars, just 100 dollars. Getting a small amount of money first is a big deal. Heck, I spoke to a guy once who only made one dollar in his last six years online, and to that most people would say, "Great! You're doing better than most people out there." So how do you make an easy 100 dollars overnight, if you are determined...

My question for you today is: does your business run on clients or customers? The difference is that a customer is somebody who buys from you once, that is the only relationship you have with that person. This was my marketing strategy for years. Launch a product, they pay, and then I never speak to them again. You should not market that way. You need to blur the line between a client and a customer and never stop selling to them.

After people buy from you, get them on a mailing list...