GETTING STARTED
ONLINE
DAY 1: Thinking of Starting a Business Online?
- Do You Have What It Takes
- He Who Hesitates May Be Lost
DAY 2: Defining Your Goals & Objectives
- Where to Begin
- Types of Goals
- Goal Setting Ground Rules
- Some Goal Setting Words of Wisdom
DAY 3: Computer & Internet Basics
- Basic Computer Requirements for Business Needs
- Internet Service Providers
- Basic Internet Terminology
- Business Building Software Essentials
DAY 4: Beating the Odds
- Key Ingredients to Success
- Education is the Master Key
DAY 5: Finding Your Niche
- Find a Marketable Product Related to Your Area of Interest
- Where and How to Look for New Business Ideas
- Existing/New - Products/Markets Paradigm
- Business Idea Comparison Worksheet
DAY 6: Deciding on a Business Concept
- Stand Out from the Crowd
- At a Loss for Inspiration
WEB BUSINESS BASICS
DAY 1: Planning Your Success
- 10 Step Guide to Creating a Successful Business Plan
DAY 2: Researching Your Market
- Exactly Who Will You Be Selling To?
- Defining Your Target Market
- Scope Out the Competition and Potential Alliances
DAY 3: Develop a Targeted Marketing Strategy
- Why Targeting Your Market Is So Important
- Focus Your Marketing Where It Matters
DAY 4: How Much Should You Charge?
- The Importance of Pricing Right
- Deciding on a General Price Level
- Price to Penetrate The Market
- Price to Skim = Premium Pricing
DAY 5: Key Marketing Strategies
- Your Unique Selling Proposition
- Proven Sales Strategies
- Build Multiple Streams of Income
DAY 6: MLM or Network Marketing Opportunities
- What to Look for in Choosing an MLM Venture
- What to Avoid When Joining an MLM Program
DAY 7: Web Success Pointers & Pitfalls
- Top 20 Business Success Tips
- Top 10 Ways to Ensure Failure
WHAT TO SELL
ONLINE?
DAY 1: Products vs. Services
- Buying & Selling Existing Products
- Selling the Products & Services of Others
- Providing & Selling Your Own Service
- Creating & Selling Your Own Product
DAY 2: Hard Goods vs. Software
- Selling Hardgoods
- Selling Software
- InfoProducts
DAY 3: What Are You Going To Sell?
- Start With What You Know
- Love Your Product
- Find a Hungry, Easy to Target Market
- 5 Point Product Checklist
DAY 4: Defining Your Product
- What Exactly Are You Selling?
- Positioning Your Product
- Some Truths About Branding
DAY 5: How to Differentiate Your Product or Service
- Multiple Streams of Income
- Why You Should Diversify
- Joint Venture Your Way to Success
DAY 6: Creating Your Own Automated Profit Centers
- Capitalizing on Net Auction Sites
THE INFOPRODUCT
SOLUTION
DAY 1: Info-Products - The Ultimate E-commerce Solution
- What Exactly Is an E-book?
- Why Information Products are a Good Choice
DAY 2: Writing An E-book
- What Are You Going To Write About?
- Winning Products Provide Solutions to Universal Problems
- Getting the Words Out
- Locating Free Content
DAY 3: 12 Full Proof E-book Idea Generation Strategies
DAY 4: Compiling An E-book
- Adobe Acrobat / PDF Compilers
- HTML Compilers
- E-book Cover Services
- Security Issues
DAY 5: Getting the Word Out - Promotional Tactics
- Create a Website Selling System
- Using E-books as Viral Marketing Lead Generators
- Copyright Protection
DAY 6: 15 Powerful Ways to Profit & Promote With Info-Products
AFFILIATE PROGRAM
SOLUTION
DAY 1: Affiliate Programs - The Simple Selling Solution
- What are Affiliate Programs?
- How Affiliate Programs Work
- Affiliate Tracking
DAY 2: Selecting Affiliate Programs
- Which Affiliate Programs are Best?
- Ten Things to Look for in an Affiliate Program
- Five Ways to Find Quality Affiliate Programs
DAY 3: Profiting Off Affiliate Programs
- What You Stand to Earn
- Go Ahead and Join the Programs
- 12 Ways to Make Money with Affiliate Programs
DAY 4: Long-term Affiliate Promotion Strategies
- Affiliate Mini-Sites vs. Theme-Based Content Sites
- Creating A Sustainable Revenue Stream
DAY 5: Starting Your Own Affiliate Program
- What Type of Program Do You Want to Set Up?
- Setting Up Duplicate or Mirror Sites
- Using Affiliate Tracking Software
- Using an Affiliate Network Service
PLANNING YOUR SITE
DAY 1: Make Your Website Worthy of Your Marketing Efforts
- Your Website Is Your Most Valuable Marketing Tool
- Create The Perfect Package For Your Product
- Define Your Primary Online Business Objective
Define the Personality of Your Website
DAY 2: Coming up With Winning Web Content
Content Really Counts
- Web Copy Authoring Courses & Resources
- The Search Engine Factor
- Theme-Based Mini-Affiliate Sites
DAY 3: Developing A Site Plan
- Create A Link Storyboard for Your Website
- Website Navigation Basics
DAY 4: Web Design Odds and Ends
- Do it Yourself of Have it Done for You
- Web Page Load Time
- Fonts & Formats
- Above all, Keep It Simple!
DAY 5: Top Ten Website Design Dos
DAY 6: Top Ten Website Design Don'ts
GETTING SETUP ONLINE
DAY 1: Your Own Domain Name - A Marketing Must
- Benefits of Having Your Own Domain Name
- Naming Your Business
- Choosing a Domain Name
- New Top Level Domain Names
DAY 2: Registering Your Domain
- How to Go About It
- Registering Multiple Domains
DAY 3: Introduction to Web Hosting
- Overview of Web Servers
- Hosting Service Options
DAY 4: Web Hosting Essentials
- Top Ten "Must Have" Features
- Secondary Factors to Consider
DAY 5: Keeping Costs Down & Sales Up By Staying Focused
- Targeted "Niche" Marketing
- How Much Space Do You Really Need?
- Mini-Affiliate or Full Throttle E-commerce?
DAY 6: Making Your Site a Fun Place to Hang Out
- Keep Your Site Active & Interactive
- Host a Discussion Group
- Provide Forms & Surveys
- Give It To 'Em For Free
- Games & Contests
DOING BUSINESS ONLINE
DAY 1: E-commerce Enabling Your Website
- Making It Easy For Customers to Pay Online
- Why You Must Accept Major Credit Cards
- Understanding the Basic Elements of E-commerce
DAY 2: Storefront Software
- What You Should Look for in Selecting Storefront Software
- Storefront Software Alternatives
DAY 3: Types of Credit Card Processing
- Deferred Processing
- Real-time Processing
DAY 4: Credit Card Payment Processing Options
- Getting A Merchant Account
- What’s It Going To Cost?
- Third Party Payment Processors
- Who Should Use What?
DAY 5: Other E-commerce Payment Options
- Accepting Checks Online
- Accepting Debit Cards Online
- Charge It to Their Phone Bill
- E-Wallets or Digital Cash
- Person-to-Person Email Payments
DAY 6: Order Fulfillment & Follow-up
- Hard Good Distribution Options
- Selecting Your Distribution Channel(s)
- Following Up on Shipments & Deliveries
DAY 7: Courting Your Customers - Part 1
- The Importance Of Great Customer Service & Support
- Let 'em Know Where to Find You
- Answer Questions Before They Arise
- Be Responsive & Stay in Touch!
DAY 8: Courting Your Customers - Part 2
- Give More Than You Get a.k.a. Value (or at least Perceived Value) Counts
- Don't Forget the Guarantee
- 10 Key Customer Considerations You May Be Neglecting
DAY 9: The Wonders of Automation
- Automate As Much of Your Business As Possible
- Using Automation To Enhance Your Customers' Shopping Experience
DAY 10: Simple Techniques to Double Your Sales
- Value-Ads
- Up-Sells
- Backend Sales
- Don't Leave Money on the Table
EVERYTHING EMAIL
DAY 1: Email Use & Abuse
- Direct Mail Marketing
- Email Etiquette
- If You Don't Give A Damn, Spam
- Signature Files & Other E-mail Essentials
- Setting Up Sig Files on Multiple E-mail Accounts
- E-mail Filters & Aliases
DAY 2: Opt-in Email Marketing
- Why You Need to Start Your Own Mailing List
- Building Your Opt-in Mailing List
- Setting Up an Opt-in Email System
- Getting the Word Out - Or Not
DAY 3: Autoresponders - An Online Marketers Best Friend
- What are Autoresponders?
- What to Look for in an Autoresponder Service
- E-mail Articles & Reports
- Consistent Follow-up is the Key to Success!
- Sequential Email Campaigns
DAY 4: Ezine Publishing & List Management
- Why You Should Publish an Ezine
- What to Consider Before Launching an Ezine
- List Management & Publishing Options
- Important Publishing Points to Remember
DAY 5: Ezine Advertising - The Bargain of the Millennium
- Why Ezine Advertising Works So Well
- Types of Ezine Ads
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Ezine Advertising
- Ezine Ad Swapping
DAY 6: Write Your Way to Fame & Fortune
- How To Go About Authoring
- Submitting Your Article For Publication
- Selling Subscriptions to Your Newsletter
- A Word About Viral Marketing
DAY 7: Newsgroups & Discussion Lists
- What Are Newsgroups?
- Participating in Newsgroups
- What Are Mailing Lists?
- Promoting Through Discussion Lists
TRAFFIC BUILDING
BASICS
DAY 1: Driving Targeted Traffic to Your Website
- What Exactly Are You Going To Promote?
- The "Promotional Mix"
- There's Traffic... and Then There's Traffic!
DAY 2: Automated Traffic Generators - Pop-Ups & Pop-Unders
- How They Work
- Important Points to Bear in Mind When Using - Pop-ups or Pop-unders
- Five Rules of Effective Pop-up Marketing
DAY 3: Building Link Popularity
- Some Links Are Better Than Others
- Themed Reciprocal Links
- General Guidelines for Requesting Reciprocal Links
- Other Ways To Get Linked
- Award Site Links
- Link Popularity Checking Services
DAY 4: Banner & Link Exchanges
- Banner Ad Pros & Cons
- How Much Do You Have to Pay?
- Banner/Link Exchanges
- Creating Banner Ads
DAY 5: Online Classified Advertising
- 10 Points to Remember When Posting Classified Ads
- Recommended Courses on Classified Ad Copywriting
- The Best Classified Ad Services
DAY 6: Media Publicity - Press Releases
- 5 Things You Must Do In Your Press Release
- Newsworthiness Is The Foundation
- Online Press Release Options
- How to Write a Press Release
- Sending Out Your Press Release
DAY 7: 15 Surefire Ways to Keep 'Em Coming Back
PLANNING YOUR
PROMOTION
DAY 1: Converting Visitors Into Customers
- What To Consider in Planning Your Advertising Campaign
- Website Metrics - The Foundation of Your Business
- Click-Through Ratio
- Customer Conversion (Sales-to-Visitors) Ratio
- Customer Acquisition Cost
- Secondary Subscriber Conversion Ratios
DAY 2: "Scientific" Game Plan for An Advertising System
- Rolling Out Your Product Scientifically
- Checklist of Ways to Generate Targeted Traffic
- "Scientific" Advertising Approach
- Determining the Lifetime Value of Your Customers
DAY 3: Create A Testing & Tracking System
- Test, Refine, Test, Refine & Test Again!
- Testing & Tracking Words of Wisdom
- There's Always Room For Improvement
DAY 4: Tracking Your Visitors Footsteps
- Why Bother With Website Tracking?
- Making Sense Out of Log Statistics
- Automate Your Stat Analysis
DAY 5: Planning Your Advertising Budget
- Types of Online Advertising
- How Much to Budget for Online Advertising
- Ways to Decrease Your Advertising Cost per Unit
DAY 6: Getting Your Sales Letter In Tip Top Shape
- 15 Ways to Increase Your Website's Conversion Rate
TOPPING THE LISTS
DAY 1: Some Search Engine Basics
- What Are Search Engines?
- How Do Search Engines Operate?
- Free Advertising - With a Catch!
- The Importance of Keywords & Keyword Phrases
DAY 2: Building Your All-Important Keyword List
- Keyword Selection
- Keyword Research Tools
- "Borrow" Keywords
- Secret to Search Engine Success
DAY 3: Keyword Tips, Tricks & Strategies
- A Word About Doorway Pages & Sites
- Other "Secret" Keyword Strategies
- Risky Keyword "Tricks"
- In the end, Content Counts the Most
DAY 4: Optimizing Your Web Pages For Best Results
- HTML and Meta Information
- Site and Page Titles
- META Description
- Keyword META Tags
- Location, Location, Location
- Keyword Density
DAY 5: Submitting Your Site To the Search Engines
- Registering Your Website
- Multi-Site Submission Services
- Sites That go The Extra Mile to Ensure Top Ranking
- Monitor Your Submissions and Rankings
- The Wave of the Future - Search Engine Trends
DAY 6: Submitting to the Top Search Services
- The "Big Eight" - Quick Facts & Submission Guidelines
DAY 7: Pay-Per-Click Search Services
- How They Work
- Keyword Bidding Strategy
- Prominent Newcomers to the Pay-Per-Click Arena
- Search Engine Sponsorship Programs
DAY 8: Directories, Guides & Other Listing Services
- Submitting to Lists & Directories
- Getting Listed in Web Guides
- Business Yellow Pages
- Announcement & What's New Sites
- Winning Awards
DAY 9: Yahoo Listing Secrets & Strategies
Yahoo! Ups the Ante One More Time...
- What To Do Before Submitting
- Strategies to Up the Odds During the Listing Process
- If All Else Fails, Go Local
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