Clients, friends, subscribers and online readers are regularly sending me notices about new marketing products, tools, software, and automated website builders. Sometimes the creators or developers send me pre-launch products to assess as well. (If you’re a developer or programmer you can contact me for this service via the contact form.) This post in no way is meant to say these tools aren’t useful or helpful to your online business. Except when you are buying tools left and right, solutions and products in the hundreds of dollars monthly, and you haven’t made your first cent...

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...

This is funny, and made me feel a little ‘old’. The email author wants to promote free products, using a one page website (that is simply a subscribe here form) and use a feed to do so. Promoting A One Page Website with An RSS Feed – Ask Laura (October 22, 2005) Maam, is it possible to use rss feed to promote some freebies? My site is

One of my regular readers wrote about her troubles with getting indexed and included over at DMOZ. DMOZ is a great ’search directory’ to be listed in – it almost ensures 100% google inclusion! Can’t Get Listed on DMOZ – Ask Laura (December 2, 2004) Dear Laura: I don’t think this (has much to do with) you, but in case it does: I submitted my website