…you’re leaving way too much money on the table! Most websites created or maintained by people who are new to online business are missing one important piece of the marketing puzzle. Namely, follow-up! Of course there are other reasons websites don’t maintain mailing lists, but usually it is a result of an entrepreneur without any marketing experience. Other reasons exist though (and I’m a perpetrator in this regard), even though I’ve been selling, promoting and marketing online for the last 10 years – you’ll still find many of my websites lack a subscription...

There will be quite a few of these question and answer series in the Ask Laura section of makemoneywithyourideas.com – I get a lot like the one that follows below. As you’ll see, there are many ways to build and promote a business online, even more ways to make money from your efforts. Your First Website – Ask Laura (August 24, 2005) Laura, I have been researching all the guru’s on the net trying to decide how I should go about starting a web project I have in mind. What bothers me is so many experts that give out different “solutions”. I guess in reality, there...

In September of 2004 I had hooked up with famous copywriter, author and internet marketer Joe Vitale. We launched a site with a report and tools on using RSS and Blogs to gain subscribers and website traffic. Nasty Emails in Your Inbox – Ask Laura ( October 11/04) Now there are a lot of people who have ‘issues’ with internet marketers. They think the all the gurus are scam artists and money grubbers. I’m not about to tell you that those types of gurus don’t exist (there are a number of them I keep at arm’s length), but I will promise you that Joe Vitale does...

Confused About Which You Should Use? – Ask Laura (12/22-23/04) A customer isn’t sure whether or not to use a blog or an rss feed for his marketing website. It takes some time to hash out the details on his target market, the website he wants to promote, his marketing objectives, and his available time. Hello Laura: I am looking for more enlightenment please! I have followed your advice and started an RSS feed. I followed it again and learned from Rick Butts on (using free) blogs (to gain rank and positioning). But now I am not sure when to use RSS or Blog and how best to tie the two...

Not Making Money Online – Ask Laura (06/06) Gerry is asking about a WordPress script that I promoted a few months back over at Smartzville – see the free how-to set up an online store with WordPress and merchant datafeed videos here – although I’ve had decent success with my online stores, a few others have not. The clues to the differences lie below… ********* Hi Laura I’ve had some WordPress Datafeed stores set up for over 2 months now and they haven’t been indexed by any search engines (although they have been visited). I thought these blogs were search...