http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Welcome to the New Year everyone :-) So what do you want to achieve this year.....? - To start your own business? - To lose some weight? - To give up smoking? - To quit your job? - To spend more tim... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1065_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady One of the most common problems that people make when starting their online business is creating a website or product that people don't want. Sounds crazy doesn't it? But it's true. I have heard from several people in ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1064_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady When dealing with people/businesses on the Internet, it will benefit you to remember the following tips. They are all based on my own experiences but I am sure they apply to every online business: 1. When replying to e... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1063_3.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady There are many, many advantages to selling eBooks online, not least the fact that once the eBook is written, the sales and delivery process can be automated so that as the seller, there is literally nothing for you to do w... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1062_12.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I have been working on the Internet since 1998 and I often get emails from people that think that working online is an 'easy ride' and won't involve them in much work. Don't get me wrong, working online doesn't have to be ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1061_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Before I expand on the above heading, I do have a slight confession to make - you will have to do 'some' work for this process to work but I promise it really isn't much and the long-term benefits can be absolutely incredi... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1060_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Let's start at the beginning - why do you need a newsletter? Well of course, you don't NEED a newsletter BUT they can be very beneficial to your online business. A regular newsletter will do a couple of things; firstly... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1059_12.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I am going to share a real secret with you this week. A secret that can be summarized in two words. A secret that ALL successful Internet marketers know and apply. A secret that really is the difference between the success... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1058_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady Several people have asked me about setting up a forum on their website recently, so I thought it might be helpful to cover this topic for the benefit of all my readers. But before I explain how to set up a forum, let m... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1057_14.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I get hundreds of emails per week and as you might expect, many of the emails contain similar questions. There are probably ten questions that I get asked most. I will save nine of them for another time as I want to talk a... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1056_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady If you take a close look at this 'working online' business, you will see that it is quite simply a numbers game (this is actually the case with most if not all businesses). At the most basic level, building a successfu... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1055_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady The key to running a successful and efficient online business is to automate as much of your work as possible: Automate your order-taking process... Automate your payment methods (credit card/Paypal etc)... Aut... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1054_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady I was fortunate enough to spend a weekend in Monte Carlo recently and being surrounded by the luxury yachts and other symbols of extreme wealth got me thinking about retirement :-) Ok, I know, I am far too young to ret... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1053_15.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady In my last newsletter I wrote about how your websites Alexa rating is not actually that important to the success of your online business. In this issue, I want to look at another popular statistic - Google Page Rank - and ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1052_6.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady As my regular readers will know, I often share my own online experiences in my articles in the hope that it will help some of you. As my regular readers also know, despite the fact that I have achieved a degree of success ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1051_7.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady A discussion in my forum has prompted this newsletter as I think it is important for any online entrepreneur to understand how Alexa ratings work in order that they can understand why they may not be that important to the ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1050_6.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady If you have spent any time at all studying Internet marketing, then you are bound to have come across the term 'viral marketing'. In fact, it is one of the first things that most people learn about when starting their Inte... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1049_3.html 14th January 2005 Copyright © 2005 Richard Grady We all know that the best way of getting quality, free traffic is by achieving a first page ranking on one of the main search engines. For the past few years, Google has held the position of being the most popular and prob... http://www.a1articles.com/article_1048_6.html 14th January 2005