Marketing Tips From the Pros ~

Marketing Articles and E-Books to Make You Rich
On this page, you'll find links to some articles from the minds of the marketing greats. Most of the articles and books on this page are free - but any one of them will make you thousands of dollars,...quickly.

The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet -
Learn from the best. The author, Corey Rudl gets over 4 million visitors to his websites yearly, does 5.2 million dollars in sales online each year (yes, that is $5,200,000), and personally makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from his online businesses ... all from his one small office. (And don't even ask how young he is!)

A surprising treasure -
Book (and/or tapes) by Rob Frankel about branding your site/business - "The Revenge of Brand X" - The reason it's surprising is that I thought it would be so much fluff. Instead, there are some really good tools and exercises to building name recognition and customer loyalty.


Collector's Marketing Resource Center - Talk about a clever niche! Jim Crawford has taken his passion, collecting, and turned it into the focus of his business. You can, too. Jim has excellent resources and articles to help you market or sell your collectibles. Now, this, is a great way to build a bome-based business. (P.S. Don't forget to tickle his beard..)

Now, combine Jim's marketing tips with this - EPage.com - your own auction and classified site - and see what happens. Brad Waller lets you not only buy and sell your own products, but also create more sites for your friends. You'll get a stream of commissions when they set up their sites, too.

But, before you're done, one of THE most important things you need to do is to optimize each page of your websites so the search engines can give it the highest possible ranking. Wouldn't it make your life so much easier if you knew which words, related to your site, were searched for most often? Well, Wordtracker provides exactly that kind of data. I've been hearing lots of good things about this.



Promotional Items ~

Discount Mouse Pads -
Mousepads for about $3.00 each, your business right there!

Imprint Store -
(yup, prices are good - $.58 for Post-It pads (500) 2.75"x3.25" Merchandise with your Logo!

NEBS.com -
Office supplies and imprinted forms, lots of marketing tools

MBA Game -
Education from MBAgames. Management training, personnel development, web-based training and business simulation games

Speed Greetings -
An idea I had many years ago, but my partner/client never implemented. It's still a good idea – personalized cards to clients.

Tiger Shirt -
Higher quality printed material – business-quality uniforms