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Busting the 4 Most Common Copywriting Myths

Have an uncanny ability to spice any conversation with your storytelling skills or a sparkling power to bust out an A paper for a 400 level college course in 3 seconds flat? Well, copywriting may not necessarily be for you. Writing copy means the writer must follow directions – then ignore them as needed, all [...]

UPrinting.com: A Stand-Out Online Printing Service

This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% my own. As online entrepreneurs, it might seem as though you wouldn’t have much need for printed materials. Depending on your industry though, finding a good printer can become necessary more often than you might guess. For example, most everyone can benefit from networking and attending [...]

Money From Your RSS? A Feedburner Alternative Worth a Closer Look

This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% my own. Our relationship with RevResponse goes back to 2008, when we posted a review of their B2B Publisher Network. We like these guys, and we’re always interested in what they’re up to. So when we heard about a new product they’re rolling out that’s a [...]

11 Proven Keys for Getting Your Emails Read

You’ve read about the importance of having a strong email list, so you’ve worked hard to build up a big list, and you’re ready to start marketing to them. It’s wonderful if you can get your emails out to a broad audience, but there’s more to effective email marketing than just having a lot of [...]

How to not be Scammed by an SEO Firm

Many marketing companies (those you find online and those who call you unsolicited) claim that they can do search engine optimization (SEO) for your website. The fact that they can do something that sounds so complicated is already enticing. Before paying someone for SEO services, keep this in mind… Overpriced Services At its core, search [...]

How to Sell With Numbers

Just because consumers buy something, doesn’t mean that they are not profiting from their purchases. For example, someone who is considering buying an iPad looks at the benefits the iPad has to offer (wireless internet, gaming, easy to use interface, etc.) and decides that he or she would spend up to $800 for such a [...]

Will an Incubator Help Your Business Take Off? The Short Answer: It Depends.

It sounds like a match made in heaven. Entrepreneurs with good ideas but limited capital and experience meet an accelerator/incubator filled with low-cost space and startup services along with knowledgeable experts to mentor them through. Entrepreneurs get support and a community builds a stronger business environment and more jobs. It can work that way, but [...]

JoinUniverse.com: A Lesson in Flexibility

Determination is often a good thing, but if you’re so focused on executing your original vision that you fail to adjust your plans when necessary, it can mean failure in short order. So one of the most important traits an entrepreneur can have is flexibility. True flexibility means being able to quickly adapt to the [...]

6 Steps for Effective SEO Planning for Your Blog

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most important tool a blogger can use to generate visits to your site – and revenue to your bottom line. The best thing about optimizing your SEO is that it can come at no cost. If you’re trying to increase your traffic and revenue, it’s imperative to build a [...]

How is Gen-Y Using Facebook? Survey Results Might Surprise You

If you’re between the ages of 18 and 29, you’re part of “Gen-Y.” And as part of that generation, you make up a large part of the 750 million+ Facebook community. A new study, conducted by Millennial Branding, looked at more than 50 million Facebook data points from Identified.com, and the results were very interesting – to say the [...]

10 Reasons Every Small Business Needs to Brand with a Logo

Pretty much every marketing and business expert strongly encourages the owners of small businesses to “brand” their companies with a logo, as well as marketing materials that are consistent across all channels. But what’s the reason behind this advice? The bottom line is that a logo and consistent marketing materials can actually make a huge [...]

Optimize This! What You Need to Know About Search Engine Optimization

As an entrepreneur, you probably operate at lightning-fast speed. You’re trying to cram so many things into one day that you barely have time to breathe, let alone eat. In fact, you’re pretty sure you forgot to wear underwear last Wednesday. At some point, each entrepreneur comes to the realization that he/she doesn’t have the [...]

Pay Per Lead Affiliate Program by LeadsMarket.com – Review

This is a sponsored post for LeadsMarket.com. All opinions are 100% my own. As the writers of Blogtrepreneur.com and several other websites that are monetized through ads and affiliate programs, we are often asked for our opinions of various programs. Recently, we were referred to a pay-per-lead payday loan affiliate program, from LeadsMarket.com, and we [...]

Content Marketing vs. Link Building: 3 Steps for Taking the Right Approach

When people first step into the internet marketing business, they’re all too often confronted with a decision seen both immediate and essential. That decision, of course, is whether to focus on link building or content marketing to move their website up the search engine rankings and attract more customers. Content Marketing and Link building are [...]

The 4 Essentials Your Blog Theme Should Have

There has to be about a bazillion blog themes out there, ranging from free to several hundred dollars. So how do you choose the one that will work best for your blog? You could hire a designer to create a custom theme just for you, which can be pretty pricy, but a better solution for [...]

5 Tips for Making 2012 Your Entrepreneurial Year

If you’ve been thinking about starting a business, 2012 is a great year to make it happen. And if you’re already in business for yourself, you can make 2012 the year you take it to the next level. You might think that the economy being in the dumps will be an obstacle and make starting [...]

How to Make Prospects Forget that You’re Trying to Sell Them Something

“Hi Sir, we have looked at your website and want to know if you are interested in buying our $200 monthly SEO package.” I maintain websites for clients of mine and have received this call at least 20 times within the past 6 months. Needless, to say, these “SEO providers” have not gotten a single [...]

How to Not Fail as an Entrepreneur

Why do most entrepreneurs fail? Businesses fail everyday for a variety of reasons. They may have run out of money, may have underestimated the competition, may have not known how to operate efficiently, or may have had trouble keeping track of their accounting information. Most of these problems can be avoided if an entrepreneur does [...]

How to Make an AdWords Friendly Squeeze Page

“Sign up now to get your FREE money making success kit!” You’ll see less and less of these headlines on squeeze pages which attempt to gather emails through hype-like offers. Gone are the days of content-less squeeze pages, whose only options upon entering the landing page are the “sign up” and back button. If you [...]

High or Low – Which Posting Frequency Works Best?

How often should you post new content to your blog? Is there any such thing as posting too often? The blogging experts have varying opinions about what a blog’s posting frequency should be. A lot of it depends on the type of blog you have, the audience of your blog, and the actual content you’re [...]

What’s the Deal with QR Codes?

If you’ve been anywhere recently – online or in the real world – you’ve seen them around. They look kind of weird, and if you don’t know what they’re for, they make no sense. They are Quick Response (QR) Codes, and they’re quickly becoming a mainstay of marketers everywhere. If you have a business and [...]

How to Mind Read Your Sales Prospects

Have you ever been put off by a salesman who was too pushy, too animated, too boring, or too much of anything? What if that salesperson mirrored your own personality? Wouldn’t you be much more at ease with him and much more receptive to his messages? That is the goal of adaptive selling, in which [...]

Business Plans: How Much is Too Much Research?

By Ellen Arndt For the last five years, I’ve personally written and delivered over a thousand business plans, which means a thousand marketing strategies, a thousand competitive and market analyses, and a thousand executive summaries. It goes without saying that I know business plans better than most; in fact, I could easily write one in [...]

Blogtrepreneur Interview: Shahed Khan of Viatask.com

He’s impressive by just about any measure, but for a teen working on his first startup, Shahed Khan is worth taking a closer look at. Shahed is the founder of Viatask, an application that’s launching 11/22/2011 and has been called Craigslist for chores. There’s no doubt in my mind that his is a name we’ll [...]

How to Not Get Scammed on Flippa

The internet is the future and the reason that people go online is to browse content in the form of websites. Why not invest in websites? After all, a site bought off of Flippa.com for $10,000 may net a 10% returns for several years! Looking for sites to buy on Flippa may be fun and [...]

Social Networks: What are They Good For?

Does social media make you feel like you’re shouting in crowded room, yet no one seems to be paying attention? Perhaps it’s not you, but instead the medium. About a year ago I wanted to better understand (anecdotally) how people reacted to various social mediums. I posted the same message on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, [...]

What Makes Family Businesses Thrive? The Family Business Infographic

Is your family the type that’s close-knit and supportive? Or is the dynamic more like something out of a daytime soap opera? Even if it’s the former, and Thanksgiving dinners don’t ever result in bodily injury, that doesn’t mean you have what it takes to go into business as a family. Working with family can [...]

The Results Are In!

The results of the first ever Semi-Local Business Survey are in! Everyone who completed the survey really opened up and shared some great information, and we can’t wait to share all the rich details with you. Thanks to all who participated! Tomorrow we will be releasing the anonymous results to all the blogs who helped [...]

5 Ideas for Eliminating Startup Funk

Let’s get real – startups are not for the faint of heart. With any startup, there will be plenty of triumphs and challenges along the way. Your biggest challenge might be not being overly confident in successful times, and not becoming too despondent when facing setbacks. You’re bound to, at one time or another, get [...]

6 Keys for Branding Success

It’s very important to realize that your brand is one of the most important aspects of your business. It can differentiate between visitors and buyers, and can also be the determining factor for success or failure. As with any other project, there are several things to consider when building a successful brand for your company. [...]