It’s time to switch things up a bit on makemoneywithyourideas.com. For the next few weeks I’ll be talking about website traffic; getting qualified and targeted visitors to your online business and a few tricks to website promotion. You know, whether you’re building your site for advertising revenue (you create content and your advertisers pay space to be ’seen’ on your content), you’re building your site for affiliate revenue (you promote other people’s products or services for a commission), or you’re building your site to make sales of your products...

Making IT Online is not as easy as it was just a few years ago. When I first began, back in 1996, you could just slap up a website, throw some traffic at it and start making sales. Of course it was also a lot more expensive to get started back then as well. Domain names were $35/year and hosting costs were out of this world. Back then I traded my website designer hours in exchange for hosting fees. Today however you can start your online business for less than $13! An $8 domain name and a $5/month hosting account and you’re set to go, get some content up and start selling! But with the lower...

Some would tell you that online promotion and marketing is easy, common sense, or that a successful online business can be established overnight. Others will tell you to buy their ebook or home study course where in 2 days, 3 audio files and 40 pages you can begin raking in big fat world wide web checks. Learn to Market and Promote in 40 Pages or Less – Ask Laura (July 20/06) “Ha!,” I say! Internet marketing, website promotion, online business building is indeed very easy – to those that know the game or have already established a presence. But to the un-initiated, the un-taught,...

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...

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...