Category Archives: Online Business

Frustrating Your Customers

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Derrick

Terry Dean has a great 48-hour special on his blog. I would have bought it, but his shopping cart system wouldn’t accept any of the 3 credit cards I tried. He’s using NetOfficeTools, which I think is a private label … Continue reading →

Posted in Online Business | 3 Comments

Get traffic by joining the Bloglines Train

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Derrick

I love Bloglines. I’ve been using it for a few months now, and I find it quicker and easier than the feed aggregators I’ve experimented with in the past. I’ve also been seeing that other marketers are getting traffic from … Continue reading →

Posted in Traffic | 14 Comments

Top 5 Zero Cost Keyword Suggestion Tools

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Derrick

Here are some free tools for finding the frequency of searches for your keyword phrases. NicheBot Classic NicheBot Classic used to be just NicheBot, until NicheBot v2 was released. It offers quite a lot for a free tool. I use … Continue reading →

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Is Full Disclosure A Necessity?

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Derrick

There’s an interesting debate going on between Jeremy at Shoemoney.com and Rand over at SEOmoz.org about disclosure. It started with this post by Jeremy, where he says “When I read an affiliate marketers blog and I see links to anything … Continue reading →

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My Top 9 Plugins

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Derrick

I thought I’d do a list of the plug-ins I’m currently using on my blog. This list used to be much longer, but I’ve weeded out the ones which didn’t do anything sensible. Akismet If only I got one non-spam … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Online Business | 10 Comments

Escaping 9-5

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Derrick

I read Ed Zelinski’s book, The Joy Of Not Working, last year. The idea of not being tied to a five-day a week, eight-to-five job, submitting to someone else’s rules, really appealed to me. The vision of being able to … Continue reading →

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The BlogCatalog Mass Buzz Experiment

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Derrick

Blog communities have sprung up all over the Internet, it seems. If you look at my sidebar, you’ll see I have three widgets installed: BumpZee, MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. Mona Weathers over at iwebis is hosting a “Mass Buzz Experiment” to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Online Business, Traffic | 10 Comments

Top 5 Action Steps to Build an Online Business

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Derrick

Market Research Finding a market in which to operate is a vital step in the process. “Follow your passion” is good advice. However, you might prefer to start with a large market rather than a small one. The key is … Continue reading →

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Removing the “NoFollow” tag

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Derrick

I was going to do a long post explaining why you should remove the “NoFollow” tag from your blog, but other people have already done the job much better than I could. I like Fred W. Black’s explanation the best, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Online Business | 11 Comments

Questions for James Brausch