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7 Reasons Blogsites Attract More Visitors and Help You Get More Clients Online
By Donna Gunter · 15 years ago
If I were starting my business today and was evaluating my website options, I would pick a blogsite over a stand-alone blog or a traditional website. What's a blogsite? I like to think of this ...
Article Marketing: 15 Secrets to Repurposing Your Articles to Work for You Again and Again
By Donna Gunter · 16 years ago
My favorite Internet marketing strategy of all time is article marketing. It keys into one of my talents, writing, and I can use the articles I create time and time again for a multitude of ...
7 Tips to Successfully Changing Your Email Newsletter Service Provider
By Donna Gunter · 16 years ago
There comes a time in every online business owner's life when you will seriously consider changing email newsletter providers. Making the decision to change your email newsletter service is never an easy one. In fact, ...
3 Real Estate Web Site Features That Convert Visitors Into Customers
By Donna Gunter · 16 years ago
Recently I had a conversation with a REALTOR who had paid a good chunk of change to Google for his Adwords campaign. His complaint? He got lots of traffic (and paid Google for lots of ...
How to Create Your First Blog
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
I've been blogging now for about 2 years, and I'm amazed at the amount of traffic that I get from my blog and the number of people who tell me that they first heard about ...
3 Must-Have Website Features that Convert Visitors into Customers
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
Recently I had a conversation with a voiceover expert who had paid a good chunk of change to Google for his Adwords campaign. His complaint? He got lots of traffic (and paid Google for lots ...
How to Create an HTML Newsletter (Ezine)
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
I get many compliments on my newsletter, and every so often I'm asked how I create my email newsletter (Ezine). It's not as tough as you might think. In a nutshell, an HTML newsletter is ...
10 Secrets to Asking for Effective Client Testimonials for Your Website
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
I tend to be a skeptical consumer. I see so much marketing hype these days it's becoming more and more difficult to discern what's real and what's fabricated, and I've found that to be especially ...
How Solo Entrepreneurs Can Create Their First First Website for Under $100 Per Year
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
Many solo service professionals who are venturing online for the first time don't have a great of time or capital to invest in a website. Most want something quick, easy and simple at the beginning. ...
7 Features of an Effective Email Signature That Gets Results
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
How well is your email signature working for you? For most people who use email, an email signature is just a basic contact information signature file that they append to their emails without giving it ...
The Truth About Starting an Online Business
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
What happens when your Internet marketing empire doesn't take off that quickly or isn't that profitable? Yyou feel like a miserable failure. So, then you invest more time and money to get more information, with ...
How to Get More Clients from Online Discussion Lists and Forums
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
If you dislike face-to-face networking as much as I do, perhaps networking online might be more your style. I'm still trying out some online networks like Ryze and Open BC, so the jury is still ...
15 Proven Strategies to Grow Your List
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
I've been publishing an email newsletter since 2000, and have to admit I wasn't very attentive to the whole process at the beginning. Hindsight is 20/20, and I could kick myself for not taking this ...
7 Lessons in Successful Self-Employment from "Weeds"
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
I have a new love -- and it's not a man or a house or a car. It's an edgy Showtime television suburban satire, "Weeds", in which Mary Louise Parker plays a widowed soccer mom, ...
Top 10 Strategies to Creating an Article When You're Out of Ideas
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
When I mention writing articles as a way to establish your expertise online and increase traffic to your web site, my clients typically exclaim one of two things: 1. They remind me how much they ...
How to Find Your Target Market Online
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
Are you fishing where the fish are? This may seem to be a question with an obvious answer, but I'm constantly amazed at how many business owners are looking for their target market in all ...
How to Create Your First One-Page Sales Web Site
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
Most one-page web sites (also called one-page sales letter web sites or mini web sites) have only one purpose -- to sell a product. My conversion to the one-page web site strategy has been a ...
7 Strategies to Choosing an Effective Domain Name
By Donna Gunter · 17 years ago
A friend of mine calls me the "Domain Queen", since at one time I owned around 50 domains. I've let many of them go (I own only 22 now) as my business has changed and ...
7 Effective Strategies to Get More Clients Online
By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago
I've been in business now for 7 years as the owner of a virtual company. That means that roughly 97% of my clients have come to me with no face-to-face contact. I prefer to conduct ...
Successfully Self-Employed: How to Create a Lifestyle Rather Than Just a Living
By Donna Gunter · 18 years ago
In the past week or so, I've had three distinct occasions to speak with others about the joy of being self-employed and working from home. The first came about as a result of being interviewed ...