I have read the article about the 30,000 visitors and no sales. I agree with you that targeting is an important point, and tracking where people leave, but it’s not the main reason why the site doesn’t sell.

(This article is a response to Tons Of Traffic And No Sales? — 3 Solutions from the 10-23-03 issue of WebProNews)

Although telemarketing calls should diminish, especially if you’ve registered for the national do-not-call list, scam artists are still out there hoping to con you out of your hard earned money. Scam artists don’t care about breaking telemarketing sales rules because most are fly-by-night operations that change names and locations quickly before they are caught by authorities.

How brave are you?

You need courage to submit your work to potential buyers, but you also need courage to get creative with your career. To get creative, you may need to break a few rules.

The statistics on small business failure are alarming.

Michael Gerber, author of “The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What To Do About It”, says that 40% of businesses fail in their first year. 80% fail within their first five years.

In the first part of this series, “Managing Up: Part 1 – How to Manage Your Image,” we described some simple steps you can follow to keep yourself seen in a positive light by your manager and other higher-ups in your company. These will improve your image and keep you in line for the next series of promotions.

I know the title is kind of absurd. I came up with it with Headline Creator Pro. What can I say? But it did give me the idea for this article and that was enough. It also contains a little bit of truth. But I will get to that later.

In our saga that began several weeks ago, we’re trying to create a firewall setup that allows no inbound access by default that can be modified remotely to allow a small window of inbound SSH connectivity. Remember that this machine must have no inbound TCP ports accessible to pass muster with the Windows-biased IT administrators, yet we want to allow inbound SSH dynamically when needed.[1]

There is no doubt that stock trading is getting very popular nowadays and it’s the preferred vehicle for most people to make money. Almost every household talks about it. Most of them enter the market now and then.

Marketing a business is like any game. If you know the rules you are much more likely to win. All to often small businesses spend their limited time and money on advertising, networking, making calls, mailings, meeting with prospects, yet only achieve middling results. The problem isn’t that they don’t know their business or provide high quality products and services, its that they don’t know the rules of the marketing game.

Someone sent me an email the other day. Supposedly General Colin Powell’s Rules for Success. Now, I don’t know whether they really are or not, but as I read them, I thought they really should be called “15 Rules For Success In Your Home Business”. So, here they are:

(My little diatribe below deals with the Idiot Rules as they apply to writers. If you’re an artist, designer or photographer, your trade has Idiot Rules too. Break them.)

I wrote this series of articles with just one objective in mind – to help you understand how to peel off the confusion, and carve out YOUR way to success.

Many of us are discouraged by the networking events that we go to. We feel swamped by people just looking to get money from us, and we rarely feel as though the event was worth our time.
Yet networking should be one of the best ways to bring in new business. The key is learning to network correctly.

Will you break some of the sacred top ten Web Design Rules for Success if you create clumpy clusters of yellow text parked on an orange background, surrounded by bouncing hippos or cattle wearing shoes? It depends.

So here you are! you’ve been surfing around the Internet for quite some time. Or you’re new and are thrilled by what it has to offer. You say to yourself “Hey! Look at all those people earning big money on the internet” and you decide you want to be a part of it.

Writing for the Web is not the same as writing for print. People read differently on the Web. They scan read-jumping quickly from one piece of content to the next. People are much more action-orientated on the Web. They get online to get something done. Words should always be driving actions.

An FCC official said yesterday the agency would take a close look at rules concerning tower construction and migratory birds.

Sendmail can be a little scary. If the 1,000+ page O’Reilly reference doesn’t give you pause, the cryptic configuration files probably will. But actually, if you can put up with a little pain to get by the basics, Sendmail really isn’t all that difficult. It is complicated, but a few “rules of the road” will allow you to understand it.

There are thousands of newsgroups and forums online. They provide a fascinating and useful insight into the minds and methods of others who share our interests. They also act as an amazing resource for finding out almost anything you need to know.

As a cadet reporter on the Kansas City Star, Ernest Hemingway was given a style sheet containing four basic rules:
1.. Use short sentences
2.. Use short first paragraphs
3.. Use vigorous English
4.. Be positive, not negative

Ok, so you’re growing the business but have you paid attention to its infrastructure and the extent to which it can support this growth? In today’s technically dependent work environment attention must be paid to the tools and glue that binds and keeps a business operation functioning efficiently while preventing it from falling apart under the pressure of expansion.

Personal computers have become to the office of today, what hand calculators were thirty years ago, you’ve got to have them. They are the tools for today’s highly efficient operation, permitting team members to organize, communicate, manipulate and produce a number of products efficiently to support the business.