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Weekly Tips ================================ INSIDE THIS ISSUE 1) Monday Musings with Relationship
Marketing & eBay, Part Two 2) Newsletter Promotion: Increasing Subscribers 3) Building & Marketing Your Own Website
- Easy & Inexpensive! 4) FTP, Windows Commander Download & Tutorial View tips from past issues online at: http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com
Ebooks, Software, Design & Marketing Resources,
and more! ============================== 1) Monday Musings with ============================== - Relationship Marketing - When you conduct business offline, you have
the opportunity to establish a relationship with your client. Even little
things such as your tone of voice, facial expressions (a smile!) and a firm
handshake make a big difference in turning a Potential Client into
a Paying Client. Does conducting business online decrease your
chance to establish a trusting relationship with potential clients?
Absolutely not! Your main objective is to meet new potential
clients, and then to establish trust and credibility with those clients...
Consider the ways that you can make a positive impression on someone
that you meet through the internet. A few tips: 1) Take your time building your business! Spend
your advertising time and money carefully, and get to know your targeted
market. Find out who they are, where they are, what their general
and specific interests are, etc. 2) Become active in online communities such
as Email Discussion Groups, Message Boards, Forums and Chat Rooms (I recommend
scheduled, business related, targeted chats). Use your signature
file, but most important is to add value and content to the group by sharing
advice and resources, and asking questions of those who stand to offer
advice and resources to you. 3) Get personal! Include your photo in articles
that you publish, on your website and on your community profiles.
Post easy-to-find contact information on your website. Put some personality
into your emails! 4) Publish an e-Newsletter. Update your website
often. Stay in touch with your targeted market and your circle of
friends and business associates. Communication is the key - offer
content and be available! I recommend this article for further, more in-depth,
reading: 12 Common Mistakes in Email Marketing http://www.grokdotcom.com/12commonmistakesofemailmarketing.htm
- eBay, Part Two - Hear Lynn Terry live on Internet Talk Radio,
with Mary Goulet, host of the Entrepreneur Magazine Home Biz Show, http://www.MaryGoulet.net/homebiz.html
Tune in Wednesday to hear Part Two of the eBay
Series: Finding Products to Sell & Shipping Tips. If you missed Part
One, you can tune in to the Archive online at: http://www.WebServiceNetwork.com/ebay.htm Watch next Monday's edition of Self-Starters
Weekly Tips for an update to the growing list of eBay resources to help
you sell more, make more profit, and capitalize on the growing trend
of doing business at online auctions. =============================================== 2) Newsletter Promotion: Increasing Subscribers =============================================== Continuing on with the topic of Newsletter Promotion,
I have found and am reading an interesting little ebook. I have
made it available to you (at no cost) at the link below, and would like
to encourage you to check it out if you are publishing a newsletter or
ezine, or are considering it in the near future. You are also welcome
to brand it and offer it on your own site, or share it with friends and
business associates... "How To Instantly Increase Your Subscribers
by 700%!" Learn how to get the initial push in your quest for 20,000 ezine
subscribers and gain maximum exposure. Download this ebook, at no
cost to you, from: http://www.webservicenetwork.com/ebooks/newsletterpromote.exe
============================================================== 3) Building & Marketing Your Own Website
- Easy & Inexpensive! ============================================================== I'd like to introduce you to Site Build It!,
an innovative system by Ken Evoy. I first purchased MYSS! (*Make Your Site
Sell!) in 2001 and was VERY impressed... I think you'll find this to
be exactly what you are looking for if you are ready to develop your
Web Business on your own: http://buildit.sitesell.com/wsn.html
First, let me say that you wont find hosting
+ site development + marketing services *anywhere* at this price!
It's definitely worth checking out! To go straight to the Quick Tour Slide Show: http://quicktour.sitesell.com/wsn.html
Site Build It! (SBI!) is the only all-in-one
site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing system of software
tools. SBI! makes it easy for you to build a professional, popular,
and profitable business. This streamlined system of automated tools makes
it so simple... No HTML, FTP, CGI, graphic or programming skills
needed. No Search Engine expertise or consultants required. SBI! does all that for you. There is nothing
nearly as complete as Site Build It!'s total business-building approach.
Motivation is the only additional ingredient required. *note: For more information on Make Your Site
Sell!, click
here: http://myss.sitesell.com/wsn.html ============================================= 4) FTP, Windows Commander Download & Tutorial ============================================= FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is what we use
to transfer files from our hard drive to our web server (upload), or from
our web server to our hard drive (download). You can install the shareware
version of Windows Commander, a simple FTP program, from Tucows.com:
http://www.tucows.com/system/preview/195854.html Once you download and install the program, you
are ready to set up your FTP Connection: Open Windows Commander Click Net > FTP Connect (in the top menu
bar) Click the New Connection button (on the right) Fill out the form: Session: (ex: Web Service Network) Host Name: (ex: www.webservicenetwork.com) User Name: (your user name) Password: (your password) (You can leave the other fields blank) Then
click OK at the bottom. (You wont have to do that step anymore, except
to repeat it for any other web servers that you
have) Now you can double click on "Your Site
Name" in that screen (or when you go to Net > FTP Connect from the beginning),
or highlight it and click the "connect" button on the right.
This will connect you to your web server. Once you connect to the web server, you'll notice
that Windows Commander is separated into two panes - the left pane
being your web server, the right pane being your hard drive. Simply find the files or folders on your web
server, and/or on your hard drive, and you can "drag and drop"
files back and forth. It's that simple! ****************** It is my personal mission to bring you an assortment
of resources for your internet business each week in an easy-to-use
format. Most of the resources found in each issue are a result of
years of research that I have done for my own internet business and others,
and are shared with you with my positive recommendation. You can
view tips from past issues online at http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com.
As always, feel free to share this issue with your friends
or colleagues! ~ HAPPY
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