Do You Twitter?

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If you have no idea what Twittering is, you probably are either new or you’ve been ignoring a lot going on. Twitter is a very popular microblogging site which allows you to post(tweet) 140 character ’slices’ of what your doing as often as you want. You follow other people who are twittering and people follow you. You can post about the mundane, the insane, the ups and the downs, the pain and the joy, whatever. The idea is to share and enjoy the interaction.

I didn’t get the whole Twitter thing when I first looked at it. Primary because, like Facebook, I couldn’t see how I could find the time to keep refreshing a website so I could see what other people were doing. Then I started to discover some of the Twitter tools that were available and started to understand the draw. -- read more

End of Hiatus - Happy Labour Day

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As you may have noticed, posting on It’s All About Money has been rather sporadic the last few months. That is about to change, but not today. Today is a holiday in Canada and the US - Labour Day. Today is also my birthday, how appropriate for 50 years ago today, my mother was in labour. I know, not the kind being celebrated today. -- read more

Search Provides Small Business Lessons

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Matt over at Small Business SEM has an interesting article about how the search industry can teach small business owners about marketing their business online. If you’re into online marketing, or trying to be, you are a small business person. That is something I tend to forget now and again because I don’t see my visitors like I would if I was meeting with clients at my offline work. -- read more

Thinking About Joining an Ad Network?

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Wendy Piersall over at eMoms at Home has posted an excellent article on the ups and downs of joining ad networks. If you are looking to monetize your website or blog with an advertising, don’t do so until you have read her piece. -- read more

Welcome to Chaos

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For over a year I’ve been wanting to create an online business that would allow me the freedom and security to work from home. I’ve read and researched until my eyeballs were ready to fall out of my head, I’ve made notes and took runs at applying processes until I’m confused which is which and it seems I don’t make any head way towards my goal. Sound familiar?

There is a lot to distract a person in life, especially online. Add to that an offline life… do we have them?… and distraction and chaos grows exponentially. I’ve been spending a bit more time looking at what I do and how. The results is downright scary. My lack of forward movement has less to do with finding the SECRET to great income online and more to do with managing time a whole lot better. -- read more

Turning Bitching Into Winning

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I was exploring the press releases over at PR Web the other day and followed a link to the site for This is True, a weekly newsletter of weird but true news items that has been publishing since 1994. I subscribed and then spent a bit of time exploring the site.

"Get Out of Hell Free" caught my eye in a graphic on the page. Curious, I took a look. It seems when you are writing about the weird, you tend to attract the weird. One of his stories prompted a reader to write to Randy Casselman, the owner and writer, that he was going to hell. He responded that the newsletter’s consulting minister liked the story to which she promptly replied that he was going to hell too. -- read more

Progress in Afghanistan

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In a media that is often pessimistic about the war in Afghanistan, it is refreshing to read some material which talks about some of the progress being made in that country. Rosie Dimanno is a Toronto Star reporter currently embedded with our troops in Afghanistan. In her column today she talks about the lack of support the Taliban have and how the security situation is improving.

Creating a Successful Site Review Blog

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Many People write blogs specifically to make money off of their content with ppc ads all optimized and such around their blog. Don’t get me wrong, this kind of thing works, and probably will not stop working for as long as the internet exists. Now there seems to be a new way to make money blogging.

Making Profits With Forums

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You just have to type in "forums" on your favorite search engine and see the result for yourself. It would give you some idea of the popularity of online forums. And it is not just about any specific forum. You type in "Business Forums", "Marketing Forums", "Network Marketing Forums" or any other variation and see thousands of results being displayed.

The Top 77 Blog Newbie Mistakes

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Josh over at Time for Blogging has an interesting post on the Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make. He’s compiled them from his experience and observations. Most of them are pretty self evident while some I’ve never really thought about. Of course, that is the easiest way of making mistakes, not thinking through your actions.

Why You’re Ebay Business Is Doomed If You Only Focus On The Lowest Price

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If you really want to become a successful eBay seller, meaning that you want eBay to be a real business for you instead of just a hobby or a way for you to clean the clutter out of your house, you’re going to need to make a shift in the way you sell on eBay.

Most people will sell anything on eBay that they can find as long it can make them money (and sometimes even if it won’t).

Making Copywriting And Seo Coexist

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When it comes to making sales on the Internet, it seems that copywriters and search engine optimization experts are always at odds with each other.

You see, one group wants the sales letter to be absolutely perfect to make maximum sales, and the other group wants the page to be optimized perfectly for the search engines to send free traffic their way.

Finding Your Marketing Niche

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I got an email from a customer recently with this comment:

“I can’t make any progress with my marketing until I know what my marketing niche is. Until I know who my ideal clients are going to be, I can’t start with my marketing, so I really can’t get any of your products until I’m clear about this.”

How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing Starting Without Any Money

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A lot of beginners who want to start making money on the Internet have limited resources.

Since I’ve been there too, I want to give you a quick guide to making money with affiliate marketing with almost no money. You could do this with nothing, but if you can come up with $20 (check couch cushions – or ask friends), then you can make money faster and set yourself up to succeed long term.

Your Article Resource Box | An Easy Money Making Idea

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If you know what article marketing is, then you know your article resource box is the place to make money. The catch is that you only have a small amount of space in which to entice the reader into further action. You must also abide by the submission guidelines of the article directory where you are submitting your article as you entice readers into action. There’s more than one easy money making idea to be taken advantage of with your article resource box.

How To Use Article Marketing To Increase Web Site Traffic For Free

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There are many ways to get traffic to your website, but if you know how to use article marketing to increase web site traffic for free then you should be on to a winner in the website traffic stakes.

You only have to consider what article marketing can do for you and it becomes a no brainer. It is such an obvious way to get traffic to your website that even if you cannot write for yourself, then you should employ an article ghostwriter. Just consider what even one article can do for your website, let alone dozens. Let’s have a look at what is involved in writing an article, and what benefits it can give you.

Resell Rights For Affiliate Marketers

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New and intermediate affiliate marketers! Here is something for you! You are free to sell popular software ebooks and video ebooks on the net!

There are many individuals online looking for products, information, software or ebooks to sell. Many are starting home businesses in order to bring in extra income. Often folks join affiliate programs expecting to make extra money, but they begin to realize that they do not control the product or income.

10 Tips To Getting Started With Google Adwords

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Online Advertising has rapidly grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, with Google’s recent $900 million deal to advertise on MySpace an example of it’s huge demand and popularity.

Pay per click (PPC) advertising is the most cost-effective form of advertising so it’s vitally important that all aspects of advertising campaigns are managed to achieve maximum return on investment (ROI). Google AdWords is the most popular method of PPC and is an excellent way of increasing targeted website traffic, providing the advertising costs can be justified by ensuring the clicks turn into sales.

Reviews Connect With Prospects

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Todd Wasserman over at Brandweek has an interesting piece today on a January survey by iProspect and Jupiter Research who polled 2223 respondents as a measure of social networking sites which they defined as sites where users post their own content.

It's All In the Response

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A recent email exchange I had has illustrated to me just how badly some firms deal with email correspondence. In my offline life I do some volunteer work. I’m currently serving as 1st Vice at the local Royal Canadian Legion. I emailed an area firm to ask some initial questions about the feasibility of changing the heating/cooling system from the present two systems into a unified system using geothermal energy.