Part 1 of 7 Numbers to Know to Grow Your Business: Leads
Posted by Marty on Feb 5, 2010
How many leads did you get last month? I don’t mean visits to your website or even those that called you on the phone or submitted something to your contact us form. Those are just “suspects.” Then, if you’re lucky, some of them will turn into “prospects.” If you’re a good sales person, several of [...]
Read More Now About Part 1 of 7 Numbers to Know to Grow Your Business: LeadsStruggling Webmasters are Bringing Pain to their Clients
Posted by Marty on Jan 19, 2010
Apparently 2010 is not off to a good start for webmasters. Not since 1998 have I heard of so many webmasters baling from their client projects mid-way leaving their clients stranded without a completed website, or even worse, a completely “down” website.
Over the past two weeks alone, my company at HereNextYear that has worked with over [...]
Can Internet Taxation Kill the Internet?
Posted by Marty on Jan 15, 2010
If you are an affiliate marketer who lives in Rhode Island, and want to promote a book or other Amazon product on your website for commission, forget it. Amazon will not let you become an affiliate to sell their wares. Why? Because Rhode Island taxes the Internet.
This is the look of things to come I’m [...]
Accounting System Has a New Affiliate Program
Posted by Marty on Jan 8, 2010
Announcing the launch of Backroom Management’s Affiliate Program. This is a web-based accounting system that integrates G/L, job cost, time and billing, budgeting, financial analytics, break even calculators, financial statements, and even tracks your ongoing “conversion rate.”
What was that?
That’s right. An accounting system that uses a term we use in marketing and sales! What the [...]
Profit Again in 2010 Workshop
Posted by Marty on Jan 7, 2010
Using the Internet to grow your business has dramatically changed since the beginning of 2009. If you’ve been misled into thinking all it takes to be successful online today is getting a few hundred followers on Twitter, spending hours a day “Facebooking” or gaining top placement on Google for your book title or business name, [...]
Read More Now About Profit Again in 2010 WorkshopGet Started with Web Video at My New Website VideoCameraUser.com
Posted by Marty on Dec 30, 2009
It’s finally here! My new website at VideoCameraUser.com for those just getting started with web video launched last night. For the entire year of 2010 I’ve challenged myself to conceptalize, create, edit, produce and promote a web video every single day.
Quite a commitment there and I could only even expect myself (as unorganized and crazy [...]
Keep Your WordPress Plugins Current
Posted by Marty on Dec 12, 2009
Want to know what happens when you don’t keep your WordPress plugins current? I discovered what happens just a few minutes ago when I made a blog post and one of my team told me he saw the new post hit Twitter.
Of course, I have it setup so that my blog posts automatically turn into [...]
1ShoppingCart Review for 2010
Posted by Marty on Dec 12, 2009
I got an email from a good friend in the business a few days ago asking if 1ShoppingCart is still my favorite cart to use and I thought I would feature my answer here:
1ShoppingCart is still the favorite when these five pieces are needed in a single 3rd party managed system:
1. cart
2. affiliate program
3. auto-responders
4. [...]
Find Courage and Go For It!
Posted by Marty on Nov 23, 2009
“How Did You Do That! is that book—that book you’ve been looking for that could inspire you to change your own life. In this collection of amazing true stories you’ll find the courage to finally go for it and do that thing you’ve been yearning to do.”
Foreword by Mark Victor Hansen
There is power [...]
50 Ways to Kill a Perfectly Good Seminar
Posted by Marty on Nov 20, 2009
If you agree to speak at enough seminars, or attempt to start one and promote it yourself, the day will come when a seminar you are a part of fails completely and you’ve lost any investment you put into the event. You arrive and simply no one is there to fill the room.
Since the first [...]
