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Two Important Business Lessons I Learned Today

It’s been another crazy, hectic day around here, dealing with the tree that fell on our house and trying to take care of business in between. I’m worn out and tired, so this will be rather short. I picked up two important business lessons today and wanted to jot them down quickly for my benefit [...]

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How To Come Up With Fresh Blog Post Ideas

Blogging about something you know a lot about or are passionate about is a lot of fun and at first the blog post ideas keep pouring out. But then, after you’ve been writing regularly for a few months, you’re starting to wonder… what should I blog about next? I still have those days. But I [...]

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Affiliate Marketing Goals For 2011

I love this time of the year. The holiday season is over, I had a nice break and now it’s time to take a look back at the year and more importantly start planning for the new one. Setting Goals For 2011 Take a moment to figure out what you want to accomplish this year [...]

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It Doesn’t Have To Be Perfect – Overcoming Procrastination

Do you ever come across a message and think “That’s just what I needed to hear right now”? I had one of those moments yesterday while eating dinner. We grabbed take-out Chinese. Below is a picture of my fortune cookie message: In case you can’t read it it says: “The smallest deed is better than [...]

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The More I Read The More I Write

I made an interesting observation the other day. The more I read, the more writing I get done. I’m not sure what is causing this correlation, but my best guess is that reading and writing stimulate similar areas of the brain – those dealing with the written words. What I’m reading doesn’t seem to make [...]

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Get More Productive With Chunking

Today I thought I’d share with you a little strategy that will allow you to get the various tasks associated with building and maintaining affiliate sites done faster. It’s called “Chunking”. The basic idea is that you break down the various things you need to get done into smaller, more manageable chunks. Let’s take a [...]

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How To Post Blog Content On A Regular Basis

I am sure you’ve noticed that this blog has tended to go through some periods of high activity (I’m blogging a lot – often daily) and then periods of almost complete silence – which isn’t a good thing. That’s what got me to thinking about how to post blog content on a regular basis and [...]

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Become A Better Marketer in 60 Seconds A Day

I woke up this morning to a nice little surprise… my picture, tip and most importantly link were at the top of a post on The Toilet Entrepreneur blog. If you are not familiar with Mike Michalowicz, he is a serial entrepreneur and author of the book The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (available on Amazon.com, and [...]

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Is It Time To Create Your First Own Product?

I just got back from an extended vacation with my family. It’s so nice to step back and recharge every once in a while. Thanks to my affiliate and other online income both my husband and I were able to take a week off and rent a beautiful house right on the beach. We flew [...]

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How Do I Backup My Computer and Other Online Business Saftey Advice

My online business almost suffered a major setback this past week. If you follow me on twitter ( http://twitter.com/susannemyers ) you know I’m working on another short report and I also tend to write a lot of my blog posts, articles etc in Word and save them on my main laptop. It’s a little over [...]

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