AmazonSmile = Helping you contribute to your favorite non-profit/charity
[caption id="attachment_8051" align="alignleft" width="126"] Courtesy of Amazon.com[/caption] Amazon's launched a new initiative:  AmazonSmile as a way to give 0.5% of your eligible purchases to your favorite charity as you shop... Read More
Booklets and Beyond – Making More Money Today Online and Offline
The following is a guest post from Paulette Ensign. Almost every week people ask my long-time colleague Paulette Ensign if “how-to” tips booklets are still viable as a product –... Read More
What a Burger Joint Can Teach You About Business
Some weeks are just full of learning opportunities and this is one of them! For me personally, while stuck on Martha’s Vineyard during this week’s blizzard, I learned how to... Read More
What It Takes to Deliver the Optimal Client Experience through Extreme Client Care™
At the end of the day what makes our businesses unique is that we’re running them. We create – whether by design or default – the experience each of our... Read More
Gmail’s new inbox makes it harder to reach your readers
It's happened again. . .Google, in this case with its Gmail email reader, has changed things up and they've done it automatically. While they claim they're changes "put you back in control",... Read More
How to Create Products for Passive Revenue When You’re Already Super Busy
  First, let me dispel the myth that "products" are only for service-based industries like coaching, information marketers and self-help gurus. That is SO not the case.  Every business, in... Read More
How to Create Products for Passive Revenue When You're Already Super Busy
  First, let me dispel the myth that "products" are only for service-based industries like coaching, information marketers and self-help gurus. That is SO not the case.  Every business, in... Read More
Opt-in Page Format Leaves Visitors Feeling Duped and How You Can Avoid It While Increasing Conversions
This morning, while on Facebook, I saw the following post and when I saw who posted it, I was interested (note that I crossed out identifying info and excluded the... Read More
The Shopping Cart Price Increase — a reality check
The shopping cart (whether you use 1shoppingcart, kickstartcart, autowebbusiness, etc. -- they're all the same) has announced a price increase on its Pro package which amounts to approximately 30%. And... Read More
Small Business Retreats: The 1st Step to Getting Off The Revenue Roller Coaster
Would you prefer to listen to this week's article? If so, just click the PLAY button above. Note: If you can't see the audio controls, you can click here to... Read More
When F-R-E-E Isn’t. . .
These days everyone and his sister is offering a FR*EE report, audio, ezine, teleclass, Facebook group, etc., all designed to get us *on the list* so we can be marketed... Read More
5 Strategies To Getting Your Money’s Worth At Seminars & Workshops
Would you prefer to LISTEN to this week's article? Turn up your speakers and click PLAY to hear my audio newsletter!(If you don't see the audio play button, Click here... Read More
Business Systems – the real way to create a lifestyle business
Goodness knows systems may not sound like the sexiest thing in your business – after all, marketing usually wins that title. Systems however, are what allow you to take time... Read More
2 FREE Visibility Tools for Your Business
It's almost impossible trying to keep up with everything you should know in your business, let alone all the places you're mentioned online. . .especially if you're doing any marketing... Read More
Gmail and Your HTML Newsletter
I wanted to make you aware of a recent problem with Google's gmail accounts. Take a look at the snapshot of my ezine from yesterday below - this was sent... Read More
Where do you go from here?
Click here to listen... Just yesterday I was talking with a new client who’s invested thousands of dollars on programs, plans and info products and came to me asking “What... Read More
7 + 1 Summer Resources To Keep/Get You on Track
Despite the rain, wind and chilling temperatures today, it's officially the first day of summer here in Massachusetts. As you prepare to have the kids home from school and determine your... Read More
[SmarTini Tip] Expert Credibility: How to let your clients give it to you
If you've been around the "online world" a while, you know that "content is king" -- after all, it's generally expected that you should: * publish a weekly/biweekly email newsletter... Read More