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...

On various websites, emails, blogs and by personal postal mail – associates, friends and strangers have written in. I’m compiling them here, as I rediscover them all. - hang on, more coming soon - On March 7, 2007 Henry said: “You are and will always be an inspiration to me. Being a single mom and able to overcome all those obstacles in life and become what you are today is something that I would like to emulate. I’ll work harder and double all my Internet marketing efforts. I’ll never stop until I succeed in this business.” On March 8, 2007 Paul said: “I...

Etailers Email – Ask Laura (06/19) Dear Laura, Well, to put it shortly, I’ve been busy. In the past few weeks I’ve managed to pick up 25 or so ebooks for $19.95 from ebay, and about 1000 templates for websites for $10. But, let’s not say that it may be wasted money, because the education that came with pouring over all the new information was well worth the cost. I’ve managed to aquire a few master resell rights and get myself onto about five different marketer newsletters….

Greetings! My name is Laura Childs and I’m creating this website as a means to an end. An end to: all the questions I get, both personally and in online email, on how to actually make money online with your own website, all the requests I receive for business, marketing and webmaster consultation (at free or low budget rates – honestly!), being upset about the hundreds of people I’ve heard from who spend thousands of dollars buying info-products online that didn’t get them any closer to their goal (because the entire business of starting, running and promoting an online...