There are hundreds of thousands of online business owners today. This includes a lot of the bigger bricks and mortar commercial establishments that have branched out to claim their share of the online market as well. Most of these online businesses, however, are really small businesses that attempt to make money out of their home based business ideas. However small your home based business ideas are, you need to have a business plan and a marketing strategy. You have to know what you want to do,...

Article marketing may be a numbers game when it comes to writing a lot of material, but if you're on sites like EZA or GoArticles these sites respond really well to quality backlinks provided you've done your keyword research.

I've a number of articles on GoArticles for example that have gone to PR2 within 6 months with just one campaign of linking about 10 times from other article sites, HubPages and guestposting on blogs combined with one article posted from UAW. Of course I backlink...

The first experience I ever had with solo emails was not good.

I was following a tip from a marketing expert that said it was all that and more.

I found a ezine that fit the niche, found the ad sign up page and submitted my email to publish.

It was $57. for a solo ad. Then I started to feel queezy and tried to contact the owner of the ezine. And tried several times with different emails.

No reply, so I opened a dispute with paypal. Still no...

By Paul Barrs

There’s a challenge that we all must face as business owners, and that is to establish credibility in the eyes of our customers. Over the years this task has become increasingly difficult, and even more so for the small business owner as the giants of business seemingly overwhelms the airwaves with their almost unlimited advertising dollar.

What can we do?

We take them on at their own game, but put aside the old rules with which so many...

Many people look at article marketing as being the “easy” way to make it online. That all you have to do is write an article, when in fact there is much more to it then that.



Article marketing done right, takes consistancy, a regular output of articles and most of all, mass volume.


You may luck out and get that one article that drives traffic in droves and makes a bunch of sales, but the momentum won’t hold forever. You need to be consistantly...