The Internet is a powerful tool
for advertising, marketing, sales and support. To use it effectively, you must
have a professionally hosted site and your own domain name. Once you become
yourbusiness.com, you can compete with anyone. The size of your business does
not matter nearly as much as your hard work and dedication. Making good web pages
is not rocket science. Hire help with it if you must, but at least learn the
basics. Click on Web Hosting to get started. Compare
monthly rates, MBs of space, features and support. Choose wisely and you will not
regret it. 
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| Opportunities Abound on the internet.
You can and should add other sources of income to your site. It's best to choose ones
which complement your business. Sites like amazon.com, have affiliate programs, which
pay you for sending customers to them. Do as much or as little promotion as you want.
More effort, means a bigger payoff. You get paid a set amount or percentage per click-
through or sale. We have listed a number of good programs here.
Most will let you join for free. To get the most out of them, you may have to invest
some money as well as effort. We suggest you try one or more of them, and see what works
for you. Also, there are sites such as
Refer-It.com and Associate-It.com which
rate these programs and help you to choose among them.
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| VERY Important! At least
95% of people with websites are LOSING MONEY !
Will you be another one of them? Without the right tools and knowledge, the answer is...
YES! But you don't have to be a loser; you can just as easily be one of the
LUCKY 5% who are making a profit from this exploding
market. Read the next few paragraphs carefully! They contain pointers to the things you
need to succeed. Along with subscribing to and reading several
newsletters, they are the most important components of a successful business. DO read
newsletters or "e-zines"
that target your type of business, market and style. You will gain up-to-the-minute insights
into what is currently in demand and what techniques are performing well. You have to
constantly adjust your strategies to keep sales up! Conventional marketing methods are
HOPELESSLY inadequate on the Web. Web surfers have a very different perspective, and
you must understand this if you are to succeed.
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| Need Marketing advice? Sign up for Mark
Joyner's Free 5-Day Marketing Course at: www.jayde.com/freecourse.html
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| If you are thinking about starting
a business on the Internet or already have one, we highly recommend the Internet
Marketing Center at
www.MarketingTips.com. Corey Rudl, a man who has earned hundreds of thousands of
dollars with his online businesses, reveals his tips, tricks, and tools for online
entrepreneurs. It is a great resource. If you would like to read a personal interview
with this amazing entrepreneur, Click Here.
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| While it's true that the Internet
is a powerful advertising tool, never forget that until people see your site, they
don't know about your products, services, etc. Regardless of what you are selling, you
must have visitors. One excellent source of free
advertising is classified ad sites. There are currently over 7000 of them. But it
can take months of searching to find them all. You really don't have that much time
to spare, do you? Of course not. So do the smart thing and use a ready-made, often-
updated list of free ad sites. The best service is available from the
Online Classified Club. It is quite inexpensive, and the
time you save can be much better spent on your marketing efforts. |
| An EXTREMELY Valuable business tool
called Mailloop
is also available from the Internet Marketing Center. Spend your time marketing
and promoting your business, not doing the daily tasks! Get software that will do all
your "dirty work" for you. This software will automatically filter your email, run
your newsletters, import your leads or orders into a database, automatically email your
personalized customer database, take care of an unlimited amount of autoresponses, etc.
Click here
to learn more. |
| Some Newsgroups are good places to post
ads, but DO NOT post in places not intended for ads! Read the FAQs for a group and a few
dozen messages before you post anything. Once you find the right groups, you need to post
often, since many people only read the most recent posts. This can be very time-consuming,
unless you use an automated posting program. We recommend
Post Agent.
It is much less expensive than Mailloop, as it is designed to do just one job. However, it does that
one job very well. You can even try it out before you buy. The free version allows you to
send 15 times, then it expires. By then, you'll know if this is the one you need. Get your
copy Here.
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| Very few ordinary businesses(those with
actual stores) and virtually no online businesses survive without accepting credit cards.
It is a fact that 70-90% of online sales are by VISA and MasterCard. So your online business
simply must have a merchant account. You may apply for one online by following the Merchant
Accounts link Here or at
the top of the page. |
Humphrey Enterprises
Steve Humphrey,Webmaster Email the Webmaster
7311 Calibre Park Dr. #303, Durham, NC 27707
Tel: (919) 489-4083
Steve Humphrey,Webmaster Email the Webmaster
7311 Calibre Park Dr. #303, Durham, NC 27707
Tel: (919) 489-4083