Business Development Skills

Automated WordPress Plugin For Easy Backlinking – Digi Article Blaster

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I’ve just bought an automated WordPress plugin for easy backlinking it’s called Digi Article Blaster We all know getting backlinks is the best way to build traffic and make money, but how many of us actually put in the time we should be?  I know I don’t because the process of getting back-links is well frankly [...]

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A Free Alternative To Camtasia?

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I didn’t know that there was a FREE alternative to Camtasia … until today.  I regard Camtasia as possibly the most valuable piece of software on my computer.  It enables me to create and edit videos of my desktop so that I can make video presentations. Creating video products is highly lucrative and applicable to [...]

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A Brief Demo of Snagit

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This is a brief demo of ‘Snagit’ for Adam and the members of Consulting Classroom.  This tool is by Techsmith and cost £38.95 – expensive but very useful for manipulating images as you can see in my sidebar! Here is a short demo video: Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. Share on FacebookMarks [...]

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Applying The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to Offline Consulting

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Applying ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, a book written by Stephen Covey, to offline consulting is not difficult. First, let me remind you of what the ’7 Habits’ are: Be proactive Begin with the end in mind Put first things first Think win/win Seek first to understand, then be understood Synergise Sharpen the [...]

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Join Me In The Consulting Classroom

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I’ve joined Consulting Classroom.  This is a 30 minutes plus $1 a day investment that purports to show you how to build a 6 figure consulting business over 4 months. It is being run by two experienced consultants – Adam Nolan and Holly Cotter.  Although I have been consulting now for 10 years, I like [...]

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Ten Things I Learned From Bill Porter Review

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‘Ten Things I Learned From Bill Porter’ by Shelly Brady is a book that I have just finished reading.  I picked it up randomly in  the bookshop whilst I had my Christmas book vouchers burning a hole in my pocket. The book is essentially a short biography of Bill Porter, a door to door salesman.  [...]

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Why I Became A Business Marketing Consultant

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I thought that it might be useful to outline why I decided to become a business marketing consultant and to dedicate myself to helping local businesses to find more customers on the internet.  After all, when I left Banking in 2001 my aspirations did not lie in this direction.   My previous business experience was more [...]

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Google Web Page Ranking Problems

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There are some Google web page ranking problems in my family.  I noticed that my sister Saira is not using SEO to get web page ranking on her content at www.sairasalmon.co.uk and this same is probably true for my daughter Emma’s site www.mynaturalremedies.co.uk. I therefore quickly produced the following video about SEO and web page [...]

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Understanding The Google Web Page Ranking Algorithm

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High web page ranking on Google is critical to internet marketing.  If your content is not on page one of  Google then the number of people that view your page will be small and your valuable content almost totally loses its capacity to drive traffic to your website. If this is a problem for you, [...]

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Time Management For Internet Marketers

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Time management for internet marketers is a critical learning topic.  I can speak from personal experience when I say that this has been one of my biggest problems. I am highly motivated to succeed online and I am prepared to put in the graft but I can honestly say that I have struggled with time [...]

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What Makes A Hot Product?

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What is it that makes a hot product? This is a question that everyone in business needs to ask themselves.  Gary Halbert, the great copywriter, said that the number one question is ‘Is there a hungry market?’ Let’s assume that you have identified a ‘hungry market’.  Let’s also assume that you have identified a problem [...]

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How To Build Your First Email List Fast

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Want to know how to build your first email list fast?  I’ve secured the rights to a great little ebook written and published by a six-figure earner – Jason Fladlien. There is a modest investment required but I recommend that you do so because without a list you really don’t have an online business. The [...]

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How To Write Articles Quickly

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Ever wondered how to write articles quickly on any topic?  This article will give you some ideas on how to do this. I will break down the process for how to write articles quickly into 4 essential steps: Researching your article Using article templates Typing speed Conditioning yourself Researching Your Article I will outline two [...]

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A Few Time Management Tips

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Here are a few good time management tips that I have picked up along the way. The first thing to realise is that time = life.  Using your life up on work related tasks does not make sense if you can find a better way. One way to give meaning to your life is to [...]

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How To Publish Your eBook on Kindle

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If you want to know how to publish your ebook on Kindle, then this post will tell you how. First, let’s briefly cover why you should consider publishing on Kindle at all: The Kindle is part of the Amazon stable of products . As such the Kindle will give your book greater exposure than other [...]

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Creating Digital Products Quickly & Easily

Creating digital products is one of the pieces of the internet marketing puzzle that has held me back. I understand technically how this should be done but creating digital products that people will actually buy, well in my mind at least, that’s an altogether different proposition. I think my barrier is possibly a self limiting [...]

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How To Become An ‘Expert’

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Ever wondered how to become an ‘expert’ in any subject? Before I reveal how to become an expert in almost any subject, let’s just consider what an ‘expert’ is.  An expert is simply someone who knows a little bit more than his/her audience. An ‘expert’ is not someone who knows everything about a subject – [...]

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Internet Marketing Skills: Make $100 Per Day Within 30 Days

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To build my internet marketing skills, I’ve been listening to a series of interviews with top internet marketers who were set a challenge: – if you had very little money , no list and everything you currently have is taken away, how would you establish an income of $100 per day within 30 days? One [...]

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Social Media Marketing – Six Pillars of Success

Social media marketing is not easy to do well.  Katie Freiling seems to have an intuitive grasp of what it takes and I follow her blog closely at www.katiefreiling.com. She has recently hosted a webinar in which she sets out her six pillars for building a social media marketing empire. She has used these principles [...]

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Sales Persuasion from The Wolf Of Wall Street

Sales persuasion is an extremely difficult art.  Very few people possess these skills to a high degree. I recently stumbled across a character called Jordan Belfort who naturally excels in the art of sales persuasion.  He has generated literally hundreds millions of dollars through his ability to teach other people the art of sales persuasion [...]

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