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...

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

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...

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...