http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com Every time I speak about blogs and blogging, I get questions about what is a blog. From a business owner’s standpoint, a blog is almost a business journal. Your business blog is a tool that helps you keep your customers and web site visitors up to date ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_611314_13.html 28th August 2008 If you are like the majority of business owners I know, you are experiencing a slowdown in your business. And when business owners experience a slowdown, they start looking for alternative ways to market their business and getting clients. Some busine... http://www.a1articles.com/article_611312_50.html 28th August 2008 I am sure that you have heard that the best way to do business online is by creating different products, such as e-books, teleseminars, membership web sites, audio recordings and others and selling them. If you have created different products, you are now... http://www.a1articles.com/article_611311_105.html 28th August 2008 If you are having issues with getting clients for your business these days, you are not alone. Many business owners I know are reporting to me that it is much harder to get clients now that everyone is concerned about increasing prices and a downturn econ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_611310_36.html 28th August 2008 Many business owners have mentioned to me that the high price of gas and other products are putting a big dent into their business profits. I have been hearing that many coaches and consultants still have to travel to see their prospects and clients. When... http://www.a1articles.com/article_611309_15.html 28th August 2008 One things that many experts do is that they teach. Teaching a teleseminar in a subject that you know is one of the best ways to demonstrate your expertise to your potential clients and promote your business at the same time. Leading a teleseminar is a gr... http://www.a1articles.com/article_468498_50.html 05th February 2008 As you are reading this article, many potential clients visit service professionals' web sites. These potential clients are ready to buy products and services. However, they look around professionals' web sites and just leave without making a purchase. ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_468497_16.html 05th February 2008 Do you want to work less while making more money? Why did you start your business? Did you start your business to work with clients, make a good living and spend time with your friends and family? Instead, many service professionals work very long hour... http://www.a1articles.com/article_468495_36.html 05th February 2008 Here is an exercise I do with many coaches, when I start teaching them about marketing their coaching business online. I say: "Let's say you meet me somewhere, and I am in your target market. How are you going to try to turn me into a coaching client?" ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_468494_3.html 05th February 2008 The very first task that I work on with my clients is defining a target market (or niche) for their business. We do this first because everything you will need to do to make your business successful, including creating an effective web site, starting an e... http://www.a1articles.com/article_468493_15.html 05th February 2008 As an online business coach, I have helped many service business professionals market their services online and get more customers online. When we just start working together, many of my clients tell me that they can't get any service clients online. This... http://www.a1articles.com/article_209044_3.html 30th August 2007 Coaches, are you confused about how to price your e-books, teleseminars and other information products? Do you set a random price hoping that this turns out to be the "magical" price that your customers are willing to pay? If you answered yes to this ques... http://www.a1articles.com/article_209043_24.html 30th August 2007 If you run a coaching business and want to use the Internet to get clients, here is a question you should ask yourself: "What is your online marketing strategy?" If your online marketing strategy consists of doing a single marketing task every once in... http://www.a1articles.com/article_209042_18.html 30th August 2007 Are you a coach? Are you getting results from your coaching newsletter? By results I mean newsletter coaching clients, teleseminar participants and ebook buyers. Many coaches hire me because their online newsletter is not getting them clients and teles... http://www.a1articles.com/article_209040_12.html 30th August 2007 Have you written an ebook recently? Do you want to make more money with it? The best way to make more money with your ebook is by selling more copies of your ebook! If your ebook is not selling as well as you would like (or if it is not selling at all)... http://www.a1articles.com/article_209039_58.html 30th August 2007 I have heard this way too many times. I have heard it from every type of a coach. Many life, career and business coaches who have been in business for some time have told me that they are not actively marketing their business. When I ask why not, it seems... http://www.a1articles.com/article_170067_64.html 05th June 2007 Is your current business goal to get more one-on-one service clients for your business? Do you want to be able to have your perfect clients coming to you every single day? Many of my past and current one-on-one clients have bought my reports or listene... http://www.a1articles.com/article_170066_80.html 05th June 2007 Many coaches, consultants and other service business owners know that teaching teleseminars brings a lot of rewards to them and to their business. Their teleseminars bring in more clients, promote their expertise and help them differentiate themselves fro... http://www.a1articles.com/article_170064_50.html 05th June 2007 I have seen this happen time and time again. Coaches, consultants and other service business owners spend a lot of time and effort on getting traffic to their business web sites. They perform effective search engine optimization by researching online ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_170063_12.html 05th June 2007 Are you looking for more clients for your coaching, consulting or other service business? How much easier would your life be if your service customers were seeking you out instead of you looking for them? What if prospective service customers were contact... http://www.a1articles.com/article_170062_15.html 05th June 2007 What are your business fears? Are you afraid of being a successful business owner? Do you think that if you become successful, you will lose your authenticity? Are you afraid you do not know how to market your business? Are you afraid of bothering your po... http://www.a1articles.com/article_128473_3.html 12th February 2007 Do you like teaching? I do! I have been teaching others since I explained a math problem to classmates at my elementary school. Since then I have taught many subjects -- math, English, computer programming and more. Once I started my business, it didn't t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_128471_50.html 12th February 2007 Many business owners who struggle in their business tell me that they struggle because they get very inconsistent sales. They can get a new client once in a while, they sell an e-book or two every month, but they don't get anymore sales. Because they h... http://www.a1articles.com/article_128470_15.html 12th February 2007 Many times when I ask my clients what their biggest business asset is, they do not have the right answer. Some say it is their web site, the services they provide or the products that they sell. While all of these are important, your biggest asset is the... http://www.a1articles.com/article_128469_12.html 12th February 2007 Would you ever try to sell car insurance to people who don't have cars? Or how about selling meat to vegetarians? How about offering homeowners insurance to people who can't afford to buy a house? A business owner who knows marketing knows that doing a... http://www.a1articles.com/article_128468_62.html 12th February 2007 When we go to a doctor, take our favorite pet to a vet or hire someone to paint our house, we all want to deal with experts. We want to hire someone who has made a career out of helping people with the same issues as we have now. Thus, it is no wonder ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_101377_15.html 16th November 2006 Do you want to not be actively participating in day-to-day marketing activities? Do you want your target market to come to your web site and subscribe to your newsletter? Do you want qualified buyers to come to your web site, buy your product and do... http://www.a1articles.com/article_101376_3.html 16th November 2006 In the past issues we have discussed how passive income streams can help you make full time salary, without having to work full time. However, for your passive income streams strategy to be successful, you need one element to make that happen. This elemen... http://www.a1articles.com/article_101375_17.html 16th November 2006 Are your customers able to find you online using search engines? Many online business owners report to me that they could be found by searching search engines for combination of their last name + first name. While it is good that they can be found for the... http://www.a1articles.com/article_101374_62.html 16th November 2006 You just finished writing a new article that your target customers will love. Your introduction is strong, and keeps the readers wanting to read more, you provide a lot of useful tips in the article, and you end with an encouragement for the readers to us... http://www.a1articles.com/article_101373_50.html 16th November 2006 Many clients ask me how to drive more traffic to their blogs. By now you have probably heard that blogs are an excellent resource to get leads as well as clients for your business. The best way to do that is by creating search engine friendly blog posts t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_56243_13.html 22nd May 2006 Do you run an online clothing store? If you do, you know that the best way to make more money with the inventory that you have is by getting as many customers to the store as possible. Clothing is a seasonal business. People like to buy spring clothing in... http://www.a1articles.com/article_56242_34.html 22nd May 2006 It is very important to put a lot of thought into marketing your professional organizer business. Even if you are a great professional organizer you will not be able to get any clients if no one knows about you and your business. Marketing is the process ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_56240_3.html 22nd May 2006 If you run a real estate business, you are well aware of the importance of marketing. If your potential clients don't find you, they are likely to find your competitor and give their commissions to them. Internet marketing is an excellent solution for... http://www.a1articles.com/article_56239_33.html 22nd May 2006 If you want to make money online without having you own products, selling other people's products could be the ticket. Selling others products has many advantages. You do not have to spend time on creating the products, you do not have to set up a system ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_44077_63.html 14th April 2006 Many of my coaching clients are coaches themselves, and quite a few of them have asked me how to promote their coaching business online. Here is some of the information I have shared with them. Use these tips and ideas to promote your own coaching practic... http://www.a1articles.com/article_44074_15.html 14th April 2006 Virtual Assistants (or VAs) perform many different tasks for their clients. They do everything from proofreading to helping their clients provide great customer service to web site design and web site maintenance to setting up teleclasses and sending out ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_44073_80.html 14th April 2006 Have you written an e-book? An e-book is a digital document that can be sold online in a purely digital form. Thus, unlike with selling a physical product, the fulfillment of an e-book is done completely online. This is great for you, the author, since yo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_44071_3.html 14th April 2006 If you run an online store selling products, such as tools, jewelry, makeup, gifts, clothing, or any other products, you make more money when you sell more products. Since the objective of any business is to make money, online store owners know that the m... http://www.a1articles.com/article_44070_80.html 14th April 2006 One of the most popular questions I get when I speak about online marketing is how to drive more traffic to a web site. Eight different techniques for doing just that are outlined below. Save this article, and refer to it for additional ideas whenever you... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36686_15.html 16th March 2006 If you consider your web site a money pit, you are not alone. Quite a few business owners have told me that they have web sites because "everyone else has a web site", but they haven't gotten any business from their web site. None. Zero. Nada. Zip. Many o... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36684_3.html 16th March 2006 At a recent networking meeting Jana asked for a recommendation for a public speaking coach. She was starting to speak in front of audiences, and wanted to polish her presentation skills a bit. Before anyone else got a chance to reply, Elise jumped in to r... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36683_15.html 16th March 2006 Lately, I have been meeting many business owners who have questions about multiple and passive income streams. These are business owners just like you - coaches, web designers, consultants and other solo professionals. They charge a very nice hourly rate,... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36681_63.html 16th March 2006 Everyone knows what an article is, but how does an article help you promote your business? Here are seven reasons to write articles and use them to promote your business and get more clients online: 1. Promote Your Expertise Online. Writing articles re... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36680_3.html 16th March 2006 Have you just started blogging? Or have you been blogging for a while? As you may already know, a blog is an excellent tool to let the world know about your business or your product, to connect with potential customers and promote your expertise. But how ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36679_13.html 16th March 2006 If you stand in front of a store on a slow Sunday afternoon, you will notice the same thing happening over and over again. People will pass by and carefully examine the wares in prominently displayed in the windows. Perhaps they will mumble something abou... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36678_3.html 16th March 2006 I frequently tell my coaching clients about the importance of regularly updating web site content. Fresh content keeps customers coming back and gets indexed more frequently by search engines. Novelty spurs attention, whether human or technological. A few... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36677_3.html 16th March 2006 Have you heard stories about legendary online entrepreneurs who hit it big after getting a #1 rank in several popular search engines? You probably wondered what it would take for you to achieve that elusive #1 spot in the search engine result pages (SERPs... http://www.a1articles.com/article_36676_62.html 16th March 2006 We all have heard that search engines are the number one resource for consumers to research and buy products or services online. In fact, marketing studies have shown that over 70% of web surfers use search engines to locate online merchants. The ramifica... http://www.a1articles.com/article_26434_62.html 01st February 2006 Not long ago a blog was simply an online diary. Initially, people decided that blogging was describing, in excruciating detail, how their day went, what they had for dinner last night, and why they spent the whole weekend doing laundry. Since then, blo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_6922_13.html 29th August 2005